Hel in a hand basket
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Still sad that I didn’t grow to 5’7” so that I had the opportunity to join the Rockettes. Book trade chica. Trying to understand this world and how to make things better for people. Maybe making Kate Bush and Dolly Parton world leaders would work
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This! For any art to have meaning to humans it takes a human
actually good music mashups are, after all, done by *people*. they put work into it and find songs that will complement each other. you can't just get a computer to smash two random songs into the same track and get something decent out of it.
November 13, 2025 at 9:13 AM
This! For any art to have meaning to humans it takes a human
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BIG UPDATE! Alex Volvach, a National Socialist Network member who attended the rally at NSW Parliament, has a police-issued license allowing him to install and maintain security devices and has held contracts with the NSW Education Department. Click the link below for the updated story.
November 13, 2025 at 4:50 AM
BIG UPDATE! Alex Volvach, a National Socialist Network member who attended the rally at NSW Parliament, has a police-issued license allowing him to install and maintain security devices and has held contracts with the NSW Education Department. Click the link below for the updated story.
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Wild VEC political party name change alert
November 12, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Wild VEC political party name change alert
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Each time I see a proudly flown Union Jack or St George's flag, I see, as well as aggression, ignorance & self-delusion. People telling themselves a tale about a make-believe past whose sporadic positive aspects weren't what the tellers believe. Squalid fingernails clinging to an idiot's fairy tale.
November 12, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Each time I see a proudly flown Union Jack or St George's flag, I see, as well as aggression, ignorance & self-delusion. People telling themselves a tale about a make-believe past whose sporadic positive aspects weren't what the tellers believe. Squalid fingernails clinging to an idiot's fairy tale.
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With the caveat that it's impossible to know what is really happening from such a short story, this is clearly a terrible idea www.theguardian.com/education/20...
All schools in England to be given AI-generated pupil attendance targets
Unions decry move, saying it will put more pressure on headteachers without tackling absence from classrooms
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:46 AM
With the caveat that it's impossible to know what is really happening from such a short story, this is clearly a terrible idea www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Like, omg, the US company I work for requires me to use a VPN, this is bonkers
The British government admits it is now monitoring VPNs use by UK residents. Regulator Ofcom has contracted with an AI-powered surveillance service to detect the number of citizens using VPNs to evade the Online Safety Act.
The UK tech minister has said a VPN ban is on the table.
The UK tech minister has said a VPN ban is on the table.
Exclusive: Ofcom is monitoring VPNs following Online Safety Act. Here's how
Ignoring VPNs risks creating ineffective laws, but tracking them threatens people's privacy
www.techradar.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Like, omg, the US company I work for requires me to use a VPN, this is bonkers
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Be nice if you held Labor to account for bagging net zero in actions by approving in 2 years 38 new fossil fuel projects and tripling Australia's emissions with no stoppage in sight. There are 80 more submissions for fossil fuels and I think they will approve them all.
'The Liberal party’s betrayal of younger voters on net zero isn’t just a moral failure – it’s electoral stupidity" - Intifar Chowdhury
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Liberal party’s betrayal of younger voters on net zero isn’t just a moral failure – it’s electoral stupidity | Intifar Chowdhury
For a Coalition desperate to prove it can govern again, ignoring millennials and gen Z is a curious kind of strategy
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Be nice if you held Labor to account for bagging net zero in actions by approving in 2 years 38 new fossil fuel projects and tripling Australia's emissions with no stoppage in sight. There are 80 more submissions for fossil fuels and I think they will approve them all.
Employers saying that entry level jobs needed a university degree, and a devaluation of the arts
How did Australian universities go from free education to $50,000 arts degrees in 50 years?
By Prof George Williams
"New students will b saddled w/ the consequences of Job Ready Graduates for the long term. Every day we delay a fix is a bad day for...students"
theconversation.com/how-did-aust...
By Prof George Williams
"New students will b saddled w/ the consequences of Job Ready Graduates for the long term. Every day we delay a fix is a bad day for...students"
theconversation.com/how-did-aust...
How did Australian universities go from free education to $50,000 arts degrees in 50 years?
Thanks to the Job Ready Graduates scheme, an arts degree today will cost over $50,000. How have five decades of government policy taken us from free education to this?
theconversation.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Employers saying that entry level jobs needed a university degree, and a devaluation of the arts
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"A court in Munich has ruled that OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT violated German copyright laws by using hits from top-selling musicians to train its language models in what creative industry advocates described as a landmark European ruling" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
ChatGPT violated copyright law by ‘learning’ from song lyrics, German court rules
OpenAI ordered to pay undisclosed damages for training its language models on artists’ work without permission
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:19 AM
"A court in Munich has ruled that OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT violated German copyright laws by using hits from top-selling musicians to train its language models in what creative industry advocates described as a landmark European ruling" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Did fear of jail time stop Adrian Bayley murdering Jill Meagher? No it didn’t. Multiple state governments trying to turn Australia into a Dickensian prison hulk are doing so because they will not face the reality of how people got there. Safe and secure housing, access to medical care NOW
November 12, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Did fear of jail time stop Adrian Bayley murdering Jill Meagher? No it didn’t. Multiple state governments trying to turn Australia into a Dickensian prison hulk are doing so because they will not face the reality of how people got there. Safe and secure housing, access to medical care NOW
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Getting pretty sick of state governments trying to get “tough on crime” and ramp up the number of kids in detention when they also treat them like this.
Do we not have a federal government that ensures basic human rights for children?
Do we not have a federal government that ensures basic human rights for children?
Children and young people at Adelaide's only youth detention centre are being held to the floor in a restraint technique that "may constitute a breach of human rights and clinical best practice", according to a report tabled in parliament.
Report reveals SA youth detainees 'routinely' physically restrained
Children and young people at Adelaide's only youth detention centre are being held to the floor in a restraint technique that "may constitute a breach of human rights and clinical best practice", according to a report tabled in parliament.
www.abc.net.au
November 12, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Getting pretty sick of state governments trying to get “tough on crime” and ramp up the number of kids in detention when they also treat them like this.
Do we not have a federal government that ensures basic human rights for children?
Do we not have a federal government that ensures basic human rights for children?
And I will say it again. Jane Hume on News Breakfast last week actually tried to say renewables harm the environment. They don’t effing care about renewables, only fossil fuels cos of their mates
The Libs are counting on the idea that they just need to bombard Australians with enough propaganda suggesting renewables cause high power prices, then they can retake power.
Things are going to get pretty nasty I suspect.
Things are going to get pretty nasty I suspect.
November 12, 2025 at 7:51 AM
And I will say it again. Jane Hume on News Breakfast last week actually tried to say renewables harm the environment. They don’t effing care about renewables, only fossil fuels cos of their mates
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going to be awesome to be 15 years old in victoria, where you won't be allowed to watch youtube but will be allowed to go to prison for a thousand years
November 12, 2025 at 7:09 AM
going to be awesome to be 15 years old in victoria, where you won't be allowed to watch youtube but will be allowed to go to prison for a thousand years
The passive “suggests”. What the eff is happening to state governments that they prioritise incarceration over housing and making lives better. The carceral system is wayyyy more expensive than providing an actual social safety net
The Inspector of Detention Services suggests separation rooms at youth detention centres — which have sometimes been found to lack basic amenities — are inhumane.
Rooms in Qld youth detention centres 'soiled with urine', inspector says
The Inspector of Detention Services suggests separation rooms at youth detention centres — which have sometimes been found to lack basic amenities — are inhumane.
www.abc.net.au
November 12, 2025 at 7:37 AM
The passive “suggests”. What the eff is happening to state governments that they prioritise incarceration over housing and making lives better. The carceral system is wayyyy more expensive than providing an actual social safety net
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Get Yer Yia-Yia's Out!
November 12, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Get Yer Yia-Yia's Out!
Oh goodness. Just once I want to see this. The last big one could only make out vague colour
November 12, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Oh goodness. Just once I want to see this. The last big one could only make out vague colour
Or, make access to swimming lessons cheap/free for all citizens. Increase public comms about the dangers, and do it in many languages. It’s like we’ve learnt nothing from the early days of Covid. And if it’s flooded, forget it.
November 12, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Or, make access to swimming lessons cheap/free for all citizens. Increase public comms about the dangers, and do it in many languages. It’s like we’ve learnt nothing from the early days of Covid. And if it’s flooded, forget it.
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In an Australia first, I used FOI to get the AI chat logs of Australia's top national security bureaucrat.
They show how he used Microsoft Copilot to ghostwrite speeches and messages to colleagues.
This comes as the government looks to push AI use in the public service.
www.crikey.com.au/20...
They show how he used Microsoft Copilot to ghostwrite speeches and messages to colleagues.
This comes as the government looks to push AI use in the public service.
www.crikey.com.au/20...
November 12, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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So the Spirit of Tasmania is supposed to be part of the National Highway. In what realm is it serving anyone anymore?
I’m sure it’s all perfectly fine and doesn’t explain a great deal of this gigantic ongoing fuckup. pulsetasmania.com.au/news/spirit-...
Spirit of Tasmania operator was insolvent, Auditor-General says as board hits back
He made the finding after going through the ferry operator’s accounts…
pulsetasmania.com.au
November 11, 2025 at 9:54 AM
So the Spirit of Tasmania is supposed to be part of the National Highway. In what realm is it serving anyone anymore?
I’ve turned off all the news. Now watching Koyaanisqatsi
November 11, 2025 at 9:52 AM
I’ve turned off all the news. Now watching Koyaanisqatsi
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UK government project using AI to find benefit fraud resulted in:
- A 46% false fraud rate
- Anguish for families who were wrongly accused of fraud and had benefits stopped
- Months of additional work for government, setting up a hotline, correcting false fraud
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
- A 46% false fraud rate
- Anguish for families who were wrongly accused of fraud and had benefits stopped
- Months of additional work for government, setting up a hotline, correcting false fraud
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
HMRC trial of child benefit crackdown wrongly suspected fraud in 46% of cases
Exclusive: Almost half of families flagged as emigrants based on Home Office travel data were still living in UK
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:11 PM
UK government project using AI to find benefit fraud resulted in:
- A 46% false fraud rate
- Anguish for families who were wrongly accused of fraud and had benefits stopped
- Months of additional work for government, setting up a hotline, correcting false fraud
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
- A 46% false fraud rate
- Anguish for families who were wrongly accused of fraud and had benefits stopped
- Months of additional work for government, setting up a hotline, correcting false fraud
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...