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bestqualitycrab.bsky.social
Interesting thread on how the impact of AI on the job market is both terrible (creative industries are hit hardest) and negligible (overall AI is not creating employment efficiencies).
bcmerchant.bsky.social Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 2d
How is AI *really* impacting jobs?

Henley Chiu, the CTO of Revealera, a jobs data analysis firm, analyzed 180 million jobs listings in 2024 and 2025, in an effort to find out. Chiu found an:

-8% drop in all jobs postings
-~30% drop in art, photography, writing jobs
-22% drop in journalism jobs
What’s really going on with AI and jobs?
Record-breaking layoff reports, Amazon's mass firings, and a slump in entry level employment. Is AI behind it all?
www.bloodinthemachine.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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stephencollins.bsky.social
Every ad now
[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.] JANET: Ugh... LIZ: What's up? JANET: I am so bored of cooking peas! LIZ: Have you tried... AI peas? JANET: AI peas? LIZ: They're peas with AI! [Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI]. LIZ: Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas JANET: What LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines] Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas? [Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it] LIZ: Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine [Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas] LIZ: With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas! JANET: What LIZ: Shut up LIZ: Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow From opening the bag of peas to boiling the peas to eating the peas To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means. JANET: Is it really necessary to- LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]: THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET [Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan: AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas. [Ends]
November 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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melissaterras.bsky.social
We are featured in over 50 news outlets today: PhD student David Mahoney's research using web archives, @archive.org, to measure historic website emissions, offering a new method and open-source code for analysing & highlighting online environmental impact. www.energylivenews.com/2025/11/11/c...
COP websites emit 10 times more carbon than average webpages - Energy Live News
COP conference websites emit more carbon per page view than typical webpages
www.energylivenews.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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crobertcargill.bsky.social
She's absolutely right. As a producer with several films in development with female directors, I can say it is an absolute uphill battle to get execs to fund their projects. Great scripts are sitting on shelves while a generation of our most talented women sit idle.

www.avclub.com/kristen-stew...
Kristen Stewart declares "state of emergency" over gender inequality in film
Kristen Stewart declares "state of emergency" over gender inequality in film
www.avclub.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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timhitchcock.bsky.social
Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/
London Lives
www.londonlives.org
November 5, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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grogsgamut.bsky.social
🎵 "Every woman, every man
Join the canavan climate trust
(Stand up) stand up, stand up" 🎵
strangerous.bsky.social stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 12d
Simon Holmes à Court has launched a new fundraiser - ‘The Canavan Climate Trust’ - by cataloguing all the “climate-denying” nonsense from the Nats over the last few weeks, & “every dollar donated” is going to be put towards Ads highlighting their “most unhinged comments”👏💥 #Abc
November 3, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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proton.me
Last chance to turn it off.

On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.

To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
October 31, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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spalm.bsky.social
The road to Nat zero.
sbsaustralia.nzcow.com SBS Australia (unofficial) @sbsaustralia.nzcow.com · 13d
📢 The Nationals have formally walked away from support of Australia's net zero emissions by 2050 policy after a party room meeting in Canberra. The decision sets up a potential showdown with their coalition partner the Liberals, who are also reviewing their approach to climate change after their…
Nationals ditch net zero as Liberals ponder their own climate policy
www.sbs.com.au
November 2, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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tedpavlic.bsky.social
This reads like an April Fool's joke. The first author in this "Sh-index" doesn't even get full credit for the paper. It's bad enough negotiating author order without these weightings!

"Google Scholar tool gives extra credit to first and last authors"
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
October 27, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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jonbois.bsky.social
i see you're doing something online that you have effortlessly done 100,000 times. would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? w
October 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM
bestqualitycrab.bsky.social
Love your work @quinnanya.me !!!
October 20, 2025 at 2:14 PM
bestqualitycrab.bsky.social
Following this thread 🧵
miaout.bsky.social mia ridge @miaout.bsky.social · 26d
Great start to #KnowledgeIsHuman by Jimmy Wales: open knowledge is essential infrastructure. Every layer of knowledge in ecosystem is grounded in human effort - creating; sharing; synthesising; remixing; reusing. GLAMs, BBC, Wikimedia and us - we can all contribute

wikimedia.org.uk/wp/wp-conten...
Jimmy Wales on stage at the British Library conference centre
October 20, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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spalm.bsky.social
In a normal world: "Australia prepares for H5 strain of bird flu".
In ABC-brane land:
October 19, 2025 at 9:20 PM
bestqualitycrab.bsky.social
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medievaliste.bsky.social Gillian Gower, PhD @medievaliste.bsky.social · Oct 11
Either universities are private businesses that get to set their own priorities or they’re public goods that are obligated to serve everyone. You can’t have it both ways.
October 11, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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grogsgamut.bsky.social
It's good that the govt is rolling out a robotax scheme to get old debts from individuals, that should fix things....

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Tables showing from 2013-14 to 2023-24 Santos Ltd had $46.7bn in revenue and paid $0 tax Year Total income ($m) Taxable income ($m) Tax payable ($m) 2014-15 $3,389.4 $0.0 $0.0 2015-16 $3,476.0 $0.0 $0.0 2016-17 $3,715.3 $0.0 $0.0 2017-18 $3,498.0 $0.0 $0.0 2018-19 $4,360.6 $8.3 $0.0 2019-20 $5,013.9 $29.0 $0.0 2020-21 $4,070.3 $68.8 $0.0 2021-22 $4,746.0 $74.1 $0.0 2022-23 $6,257.4 $19.8 $0.0 2023-24 $8,210.3 $21.2 $0.0 Total $46,737.3 $221.2 $0.0
October 8, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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ketanjoshi.co
man Australian universities are really just collapsing like a dying star hey

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
University caught out using AI to wrongly accuse students of cheating with AI
An Australian university has accused thousands of its students of cheating with artificial intelligence. The problem? Many have done nothing wrong.
www.abc.net.au
October 8, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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jeremypoxon.bsky.social
Here is a current DIRECTOR within the Department effectively blowing the whistle to Deloitte that the system doesn't demonstrate "natural justice"

The Robodebt vibes here are off the charts and I'm begging media to cover this
October 9, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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hannahshelley.bsky.social
Asking residents for permission would 'kill' the burglary industry
October 8, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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daverino.bsky.social
A classic example of what @anna-orridge.bsky.social refers to as a “lolsob” moment.

“A major Australian university used artificial intelligence technology to accuse about 6,000 students of academic misconduct last year…many of the students had done nothing wrong”
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
University caught out using AI to wrongly accuse students of cheating with AI
An Australian university has accused thousands of its students of cheating with artificial intelligence. The problem? Many have done nothing wrong.
www.abc.net.au
October 8, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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spalm.bsky.social
I can report that universities would happily develop the recipe for Soylent Green if somebody pays them. For some extra cash, they will also optimise the production process for you.
October 8, 2025 at 1:16 AM
bestqualitycrab.bsky.social
I must see this sheep film!
October 6, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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squigglyrick.bsky.social
De Brouwer made the exact same argument two years ago after the Robodebt Royal Commission report was delivered. This is how I treated it in Mean Streak: "Grow up."
Screenshot of the book Mean Streak by Rick Morton. The text reads: for the past decade and half, when conclusive certificates were discontinued, is counterproductive to the Parliament’s intent. ‘When it comes to deliberative material, FoI does not ensure transparency (because advice is not being written) and it undermines integrity (because advice is not being written).’ So officials don’t put things in writing because they might get released under Freedom of Information laws, therefore the FoI laws aren’t working? Grow up. De Brouwer is not alone in his views. Former secretaries have been doing the rounds making exactly these kinds of noises, as if the outcome of poor professional behaviour is the result of some law and not … poor professional behaviour.
October 6, 2025 at 8:54 AM
bestqualitycrab.bsky.social
You cannot make this stuff up! Consultant advising on the error-riddled use of automated decision making in welfare governance uses AI to write its error-riddled report to government.
maximumwelfare.bsky.social Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · Oct 5
#BREAKING 🚨 Deloitte to refund government, admits using AI in $440k report into mutual obligations issues.

Fake quotes from Federal Court case that ended Robodebt deleted from new report in Friday DEWR dump.

📰 AFR

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HEADLINE: Deloitte to refund government, admits AI errors in $440k report Deloitte Australia will issue a partial refund to the federal government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a $440,000 report littered with errors including three nonexistent academic references and a made-up quote from a Federal Court judgement. A new version of the report for the Department of Workplace Relations (DEWR) was quietly uploaded to the department’s website on Friday, ahead of a long weekend across much of Australia. It features more than a dozen deletions of nonexistent references and footnotes, a rewritten reference list, and corrections to multiple typographic errors. (photo of Deloitte Australia HQ) Deloitte Australia has made almost $25 million worth of deals with the Department of Workplace Relations since 2021. Photographer Dion Georgopoulos The first version of the report, about the IT system used to automate penalties in the welfare system such as pauses on the dole, was published in July. Less than a month later, Deloitte was forced to investigate the report after University of Sydney academic Dr Christopher Rudge highlighted multiple errors in the document. At the time, Rudge speculated that the errors may have been caused by what is known as “hallucinations” by generative AI. This is where the technology responds to user queries by inventing references and quotes. Deloitte declined to comment. The incident is embarrassing for Deloitte as it earns a growing part of its $US70.5 billion ($107 billion) in annual global revenue by providing advice and training clients and executives about AI. The firm also boasts about its widespread use of the technology within its global operations, while emphasising the need to always have humans review any output of AI. SUBHEADING: Deleted references, footnotes The revised report has deleted a dozen references to two nonexistent reports by Professor Lisa Burton Crawford, a law professor at the University of Sydney, that were included in the first version. Two references to a nonexistent report by Professor Björn Regnell, of Lund University in Sweden, were also deleted in the new report. Also deleted was a made up reference to a court decision in a leading robo-debt case, Deanna Amato v Commonwealth. The new report has also deleted a reference to “Justice Davis” (a misspelling of Justice Jennifer Davies) and the made-up quote from the nonexistent paragraphs 25 and 26 in the judgement: “The burden rests on the decision-maker to be satisfied on the evidence that the debt is owed. A person’s statutory entitlements cannot lawfully be reduced based on an assumption unsupported by evidence.”
October 5, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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katie0martin.ft.com
Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment
October 3, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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wnhy.bsky.social
Cancun and eastern Mexico fight a Caribbean #algae invasion

Tons of brown Sargassum algae threaten tourism and the environment. Scientists and residents of the region are feverishly seeking solutions as the plague grows.

#algalbloom
not just SA #auspol

www.dw.com/en/cancun-an...
Cancun and eastern Mexico fight a Caribbean algae invasion – DW – 10/01/2025
The beaches of Cancun seem dreamy — but looks can be deceiving: Tons of brown Sargassum algae threaten tourism and the environment. Scientists and residents of the region are feverishly seeking soluti...
www.dw.com
October 2, 2025 at 11:25 AM