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Top Gun. Accidental at first, but now it’s a commitment

Major data breach as up to 3,000 flood victims' details loaded to ChatGPT The NSW Reconstruction Authority says the breach occurred in March and involved the personal data of applicants to the Northern Rivers Resilient Homes Program.

Breach? Sounds like people gave their data to the government on a promise of disaster support, the government gave their data and our money to a contractor on a promise of service provision, and the contractor gave their data to a tech business on a promise of slop.

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More funds announced to keep Bedford afloat as hunt for buyer continues Australia's second-largest disability employment provider Bedford will be kept afloat by a $4.4 million federal government funding injection as it seeks a buyer for the embattled business.

research I did with Inclusion Australia a couple of years ago, with expertise from Prof Erin Wilson, found that sheltered workshops were often not financially sustainable and disabled people paid the price

but more subsidies for the same model, I guess

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Thankyou, this is exactly what I loved about Mickey 17. Bong Joon Ho is such a great communicator, and never hesitates to spell things out.

Next month in Melbourne, Russ Weakley and I are running a workshop on mobile accessibility testing at A11y Camp. We'd love to have you to join us. Workshop details: a11ycamp.com.au/workshops/ and tickets at events.humanitix.com/a11y-camp-au... #a11y

fingers crossed!

So many women have been talking, writing and warning people of the dangerous ideologies and biases of tech in Silicon Valley, for decades, and it’s so infuriating that so many men (not OP here) just flat out ignore it and act surprised at the technofascists infecting it now

I've chipped in a bit to the GoFundMe. Thankyou for bringing our attention to Borsook and her excellent work!

Hell yeah. When I was temporarily living by myself, I made a rule that I would never cook dinner 2 days in a row. Leftovers, extras frozen, purchased prepped meals, girl dinner, whatever it took. It's bad enough that we need to eat more than once a day, having to cook many times in a row is awful.

When 90s albums get reissued, instead of deluxe expanded editions they should do versions cut down to a nice tight 40 minutes or so

This is on iOS Safari. Leaves me stuck at Step 6 of the instructions

I used the tool and downloaded my statement as a PDF. But now I can't get back to the Make A Submission link without generating a statement again. Going back in the browser just sends me to the start state.

Prescient!

A little background to this story: earlier this year something kept cropping up in the reporting I was doing on renewable energy -- the spectacle of recently elected centre-right governments in Queensland and, to a lesser extent, the Northern Territory acting in ways to strand renewables assets.

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Everyday Australians shouldn't be forced to foot the bill from increasingly frequent and severe climate disasters.

We need a climate disaster levy on fossil fuel exports now. #auspol

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community little library box but it's various sauces

Who is this noodle? Other than a generic Business Idiot?

What a great post, and a lovely testament to the power of sharing your skills and knowledge. This is how we build a better world.

Oh excellent, thankyou!

Which makes me worry a little that other places had them too but it didn’t escape the local news sphere

Well, not a correction but an addition really

One minor correction: Perth had one of these too. They were chanting white supremacy slogans in front of London Court, in the mall and on St George’s Terrace. I know we’re far away but the problem extends out here too.

It's raining again. In a nice way, not a hectic way.

amazing flexibility, I'm jealous

The level of lead in the blood of almost half (49%) of children under five and more than three-quarters of Indigenous children (76%) in the town remained elevated. Mining operations were the “leading source” of environmental exposure in the western NSW town

I see you've got Caddies at the Perth one. He's been saying the post & boast laws are like Nazi Germany for a few months now.

This is good stuff, thankyou. Although ACA and the Daily Mail will probably be thrilled to discover they're making things worse. Why wait for newsworthy stuff to happen when you can rile up violent men?

How mainstream media and politicians fuelled Australia's biggest far-right rally Six takeaways from the March for Australia and why it should be a wake-up call.

It would be a massive mistake for progressive folk to convince themselves the March for Australia was a bust, or can safely be ridiculed.

It was an alarming escalation of far-right action, and we need to reckon with it.

More thoughts (un-paywalled) here:

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