Dr Elen Shute

What dudes!

Careers in limbo after graduates discover university courses were never accredited Students have been left with HECS debts and careers that are "non-existent" after completing degrees that were not accredited. Class actions have been launched against two Australian universities.

Yet again a failure of quasi-NGO university education for which minister Clare takes no responsibility

A burrow somewhere is missing its weasel.

Not a single Greta hater could do what she has done, face what she's faced, bear abuse and humiliation at the hands of the most psychotic and genocidal army. They haven't an ounce of her bravery and that's what drives them crazy. Free Greta, free Palestine🇵🇸

The normalisation of Trump's America, and our relationship with it, is very worrying.

Hedges Report: NPC Australia caves to Israel Lobby, cancels talk on our betrayal of Palestinian journalists The National Press Club of Australia cancelled my talk on how the media, by amplifying Israeli lies, have betrayed Palestinian journalists, 278 of whom have been assassinated by Israel.

"I, along with every other reporter I know who has worked in Gaza ... have reported a reality in Gaza that bears no resemblance to how it is portrayed by Israeli politicians, its military and many media outlets that serve as Israel’s echo chamber."

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It's really quite simple: We need hope, not more of the same Politics is not complicated. And anyone who pretends it is, has the luxury of not having spent their lives beholden to it.

"It truly isn’t complicated and never has been. If governments ensure people’s basic needs are guaranteed and affordable – then hope doesn’t seem so hopeless."

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How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

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To be fair he used to seem serious about solving the world’s big problems - before he went all jackboot.

Of London. They have standards, it’s just that they have decided (twice) that Musk hasn’t breached them.

When the National Press Club is opposed to hearing from journalists

‘It proves this can be done’: Berlin the blueprint to bring goshawks to UK cities Conservationist plans release of 15 each of the apex predators sourced as chicks into Chester and London

More ill thought out 'conservation' translocations 🌍
www.theguardian.com/environment/... - so much to unpack here #Ornithology #UKBirding 🧵

I wonder go how far his “language of violence” would have to go before the Royal Society would find it unacceptable? Have they got a red line, or is the marketplace of ideas a complete free-for-all?

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The myth of 'social cohesion' - do as they say, not as they do - The Shot There’s an established principle in law: he who comes looking for equity must come with clean hands. The clean hands...

Here's @ronnisalt.bsky.social

'The myth of ‘social cohesion’ – do as they say, not as they do'

Blood moon?

One quiet change is about to let you export much more solar It doesn’t sound big. But this humble new set of rules will make it possible for many Australian households to export a lot more solar – and help the power grid .

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"The flotilla, which was carrying symbolic humanitarian aid..."

Try telling a malnourished baby that the infant formula they are drinking is symbolic. If 40-odd aid boats were sent by governments rather than civilians, the aid they were carrying would never be diminished like this.

Just read a bit about him on Wikipedia. Imprisoning your own son for making peace with your enemies is quite the dick move, but yeah, for the times maybe that wasn't too exceptional. Maybe it was the combo of that, imprisoning his brother, and the beheadings that earned him his nickname.

Are you directly descended or can you disown him on a side-branch?

Gosh, he must have been proper bad!

NSW’s fast-track planning laws could allow mines to be approved without environmental assessment Environmental assessments could go out the window for mining projects, windfarms and other developments, green groups say

There’s some pretty alarming stuff happening in NSW right now with big changes to the planning laws being rushed through Parliament.

The proposed amendments create major corruption risks and should be closely reviewed by ICAC.

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“One wonders how any crony capitalist deal with Trump to hand him access to our critical minerals […] would sit with section 92.3 of the Criminal Code, which deals with people who recklessly prejudice Australia’s national security in collaboration with a foreign party.”

There are spontaneous protests throughout Italy for Gaza happening right now. This is in addition to calls for a general strike this Friday by the country's largest union (see above in thread)

Here Napoli/Naples

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Don't mistake a mild manner for centrism. Or banality for harmlessness.

I no longer know what's for real and what's deep satire. Cutting up citrus fruit is patriotic - the odds are 50:50 really.

I AM an AI bot. Walking the walk.

Might put in a research grant application to do it with geometric morphometrics so it’s more sciency.

Hollywood is in a flap! AI ‘actors’ are ‘trained’ on real actors who will never be paid for it | First Dog on the Moon Soon we won’t be able to tell the difference. That still won’t make it OK

Artificial Intelligence - is it good? Nobody knows but I laughed at this cartoon (which I did myself no robots) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

IN FULL: Ben Saul and Chris Sidoti address Press Club on Palestine recognition | ABC NEWS YouTube video by ABC News (Australia)

Compulsory viewing. #auspol #NPC #ChrisSidoti #BenSaul #GazaGenocide
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