Pandymonium
@pandymonium.bsky.social
anarchic, antifascist, aetiologist & agnostic atheist with eclectic inclinations
Chatbots replicate the same mechanisms as a psychic's con softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme...
The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models rep…
The new era of tech seems to be built on superstitious behaviour
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November 11, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Chatbots replicate the same mechanisms as a psychic's con softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme...
Well done, @nicboele.bsky.social, @sophiescamps.bsky.social, @zalisteggall.bsky.social, @katechaneymp.bsky.social, @allegraspender.bsky.social and Monique Ryan for standing up against Labor and their attempt to allow more destruction of Australia's environment by their mates. #AusVotes2028 #auspol
November 11, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Well done, @nicboele.bsky.social, @sophiescamps.bsky.social, @zalisteggall.bsky.social, @katechaneymp.bsky.social, @allegraspender.bsky.social and Monique Ryan for standing up against Labor and their attempt to allow more destruction of Australia's environment by their mates. #AusVotes2028 #auspol
Save the Date: 3 August 2026
Location: Sydney
Event: Alan Jones' hearing
Duration: 4 months
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Location: Sydney
Event: Alan Jones' hearing
Duration: 4 months
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Up to 139 witnesses expected to be involved in Alan Jones's hearing
A court hearing date to determine indecent assault charges against the veteran broadcaster has been set, with a Sydney court told up to 139 witnesses may be involved in the Crown's case.
www.abc.net.au
November 11, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Save the Date: 3 August 2026
Location: Sydney
Event: Alan Jones' hearing
Duration: 4 months
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Location: Sydney
Event: Alan Jones' hearing
Duration: 4 months
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
A recording of Laws asking a life-long sexual abuse victim if it was her fault should be played on a boombox outside his state funeral www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
John Laws asks sex abuse victim if it was her 'fault'
Radio broadcaster John Laws has asked a sexual abuse victim live on-air if she was 'provocative' and 'unattractive', sparking outrage over his sensitivity on the subject.
www.sbs.com.au
November 11, 2025 at 4:33 AM
A recording of Laws asking a life-long sexual abuse victim if it was her fault should be played on a boombox outside his state funeral www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
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Lest we forget as COP30 begins in the Amazon that just over a week ago tech behemoth Nvidia was selling AI for oil and gas expansion to Brazilian state-owned oil giant Petrobras....
Nvidia Flogged AI for Brazilian Oil and Gas on Eve of COP30
The tech giant was in Rio de Janeiro hawking AI software to fossil fuel firms just days before crucial climate crisis negotiations in the Amazon.
My reporting today @desmog.com
www.desmog.com/2025/11/07/n...
The tech giant was in Rio de Janeiro hawking AI software to fossil fuel firms just days before crucial climate crisis negotiations in the Amazon.
My reporting today @desmog.com
www.desmog.com/2025/11/07/n...
Nvidia Flogged AI for Brazilian Oil and Gas on Eve of COP30
As world leaders prepared to descend on the small city of Belém in the Brazilian Amazon for the COP30 climate summit, artificial intelligence (AI) chip-manufacturer Nvidia was instead peddling its ene...
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November 10, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Lest we forget as COP30 begins in the Amazon that just over a week ago tech behemoth Nvidia was selling AI for oil and gas expansion to Brazilian state-owned oil giant Petrobras....
People don't ever seem to ask themselves why old Parliament House in Canberra is now called 'The Museum of Australian Democracy'. It's because, like all museums, it's full of dead stuff. #WhitlamDismissal
November 11, 2025 at 4:09 AM
People don't ever seem to ask themselves why old Parliament House in Canberra is now called 'The Museum of Australian Democracy'. It's because, like all museums, it's full of dead stuff. #WhitlamDismissal
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Reach has apologised and will pay "substantial damages" to Bob Vylan frontman Pascal Robinson after the Manchester Evening News wrongly reported he had "performed Nazi salutes on stage" pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/new...
Manchester Evening News pays 'substantial damages' to Bob Vylan frontman
Reach to pay "substantial damages" to Bob Vylan frontman after Manchester Evening News wrongly reported he had "performed Nazi salutes on stage".
pressgazette.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Reach has apologised and will pay "substantial damages" to Bob Vylan frontman Pascal Robinson after the Manchester Evening News wrongly reported he had "performed Nazi salutes on stage" pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/new...
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I often shop online. Is there anything I can do about dodgy couriers?
I often shop online. Is there anything I can do about dodgy couriers?
When a product isn’t delivered within its timeframe, the retailer must provide a solution, Australian policy expert Kat George writes. But there are steps you can take with the courier too
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I often shop online and notice some courier companies create persistent problems for me. These include: couriers claiming to have attempted delivery on days when I have been working from home and know they didn’t bother to buzz my apartment; couriers failing to leave notice of attempted deliveries; lost packages; and in one instance, giving me conflicting information about the need to pay import duties, resulting in a time sensitive delivery being delayed.
Trying to resolve these problems often takes multiple phone calls and a lot of waiting on hold. The shipping and courier companies always pass the buck back to the retailer when something goes wrong. This doesn’t seem fair since it’s the courier, not the retailer, who is at fault. Beyond complaining to the retailer, is there any way to hold a shipping company to account for their terrible customer service?
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November 10, 2025 at 2:05 PM
I often shop online. Is there anything I can do about dodgy couriers?
Now do it for domestic landlords who allow their grafting agents to treat their tenants like shit. #NSWVotes2027
NSW shop landlords could be jailed for allowing tenants to sell illicit tobacco and vapes under new laws
NSW shop landlords could be jailed for allowing tenants to sell illicit tobacco and vapes under new laws
Laws being introduced to state parliament will allow fines up to $165,000 a year in prison, or both for owners of commercial premises
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Landlords who knowingly allow their tenants to sell illicit tobacco and illegal vapes could be fined up to $165,000, sentenced to up to a year in prison or both, under legislation planned by the New South Wales government.
The changes, expected to be introduced to state parliament this week, would create an offence for commercial landlords who do not notify authorities or take steps to evict a tenant running illicit tobacco and vaping businesses from their premises. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Now do it for domestic landlords who allow their grafting agents to treat their tenants like shit. #NSWVotes2027
📢 Neo-Nazis are on a recruitment drive in a bid to register as a mainstream political party, and they believe a NSW upper house position could be their best bet.
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Nazis who rallied at parliament want to enter politics. They think NSW is their best shot
www.smh.com.au
November 11, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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Ring’s new facial recognition feature provides regulators a clear opportunity to step up to investigate, protect people’s privacy, and test the strength of their laws. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
The Legal Case Against Ring’s Face Recognition Feature
Many biometric privacy laws across the country are clear: Companies need your affirmative consent before running face recognition on you.
www.eff.org
November 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Ring’s new facial recognition feature provides regulators a clear opportunity to step up to investigate, protect people’s privacy, and test the strength of their laws. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Will Brereton be presiding when these allegations of rorting, graft and bikie gangs infiltrating critical border security operations are referred to the NACC? If so, what conclusion can be drawn about Labor's claims about corruption? www.theage.com.au/politics/fed... #AusVotes2028 #auspol
‘Dirty deals’: Nauru rorting, bikie gang allegations to be referred to NACC
Allegations of rorting, graft and bikie gangs infiltrating critical border security operations are set to be referred to the national anti-corruption watchdog.
www.theage.com.au
November 11, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Will Brereton be presiding when these allegations of rorting, graft and bikie gangs infiltrating critical border security operations are referred to the NACC? If so, what conclusion can be drawn about Labor's claims about corruption? www.theage.com.au/politics/fed... #AusVotes2028 #auspol
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An awful, awful example of what happens when you use AI scribe systems in healthcare without any meaningful form of redress for their erroneous output.
Setting a "compliance" policy that doesn't allow clinical staff to change AI generated fields without intervention is definitely a money decision.
Setting a "compliance" policy that doesn't allow clinical staff to change AI generated fields without intervention is definitely a money decision.
a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,
November 10, 2025 at 7:41 PM
An awful, awful example of what happens when you use AI scribe systems in healthcare without any meaningful form of redress for their erroneous output.
Setting a "compliance" policy that doesn't allow clinical staff to change AI generated fields without intervention is definitely a money decision.
Setting a "compliance" policy that doesn't allow clinical staff to change AI generated fields without intervention is definitely a money decision.
How would the major players look back on the dismissal 50 years later? | Fiona Katauskas
How would the major players look back on the dismissal 50 years later? | Fiona Katauskas
Heaven knows
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November 10, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Good observation of what’s now in place in Australian 2 Party system of our so called democracy. Albo is putting nails in the coffin of democracy. #auspol @jimchalmers.bsky.social
George Monbiot captures predatory/warlord capitalism that’s been put in place. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
George Monbiot captures predatory/warlord capitalism that’s been put in place. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Brexit stems from a civil war in capitalism – we are all just collateral damage | George Monbiot
To one sort of capitalist, the insecurity and chaos that Brexit will bring is horrifying. To the other, it is highly profitable
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November 10, 2025 at 11:48 PM
The govt is spending billions to keep 100 asylum seekers on Nauru, a nation of 12 000 people the size of Tullamarine airport. Reports implicating the Finks bikie gang in those deals are deeply concerning. Public servants have risked their livelihoods to speak out.
‘Dirty deals’: Nauru rorting, bikie gang allegations to be referred to NACC
Allegations of rorting, graft and bikie gangs infiltrating critical border security operations are set to be referred to the national anti-corruption watchdog.
www.theage.com.au
November 10, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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The West will pause at 11am today for a minute's silence.
Red poppies and "lest we forget" for people who died in long ago wars.
Meanwhile, Western-backed Israel continues to bomb the people of Gaza.
#RemembranceDay #November11 #SanctionIsrael #AusPol
www.middleeasteye.net/news/genocid...
Red poppies and "lest we forget" for people who died in long ago wars.
Meanwhile, Western-backed Israel continues to bomb the people of Gaza.
#RemembranceDay #November11 #SanctionIsrael #AusPol
www.middleeasteye.net/news/genocid...
'Genocide stopped only in media': Gaza endures daily bombings a month into truce
Palestinians say that Israel's war continues amid daily killings, home demolitions, threatening drone broadcasts, and a ban on essential supplies
www.middleeasteye.net
November 10, 2025 at 9:08 PM
The West will pause at 11am today for a minute's silence.
Red poppies and "lest we forget" for people who died in long ago wars.
Meanwhile, Western-backed Israel continues to bomb the people of Gaza.
#RemembranceDay #November11 #SanctionIsrael #AusPol
www.middleeasteye.net/news/genocid...
Red poppies and "lest we forget" for people who died in long ago wars.
Meanwhile, Western-backed Israel continues to bomb the people of Gaza.
#RemembranceDay #November11 #SanctionIsrael #AusPol
www.middleeasteye.net/news/genocid...
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It's funny how hard we have to work to convince the world that uncontrolle data centre expansion is a climate risk when there's a fossil gas power station called the EXXONMOBIL POWER PLANT being built explicitly to power a data centre
Not enough people know about Homer City. The single largest fossil fuel plant that's being built *explicitly* to power a data centre.
This isn't a future projection, or some hollow marketing. This is physical stuff happening right now.
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This isn't a future projection, or some hollow marketing. This is physical stuff happening right now.
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November 10, 2025 at 8:17 PM
It's funny how hard we have to work to convince the world that uncontrolle data centre expansion is a climate risk when there's a fossil gas power station called the EXXONMOBIL POWER PLANT being built explicitly to power a data centre
I'm delighted to be guest interviewee on 7News' The Issue discussing the dismissal of the Whitlam govt & the secret correspondence btwn Kerr and the Queen. Thank you Tim Lester! #auspol www.youtube.com/watch?v=AH_W...
The Whitlam dismissal and secret royal correspondence | THE ISSUE
YouTube video by 7NEWS Australia
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November 10, 2025 at 10:45 PM
#WhitlamDismissal A View From the Rose Garden thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
The Whitlam Sacking: A View from the Rose Garden
The point.com.au
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November 10, 2025 at 10:37 PM
#WhitlamDismissal A View From the Rose Garden thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Gough dreamed of a country that never was, and asked why not? #WhitlamDismissal thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Gough dreamed of a country that never was, and asked why not?
The point.com.au
thepoint.com.au
November 10, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Gough dreamed of a country that never was, and asked why not? #WhitlamDismissal thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
"Whitlam was a rarity in modern Labor leaders in that he was not afraid of power. Not of it and crucially, not of using it." @amyremeikis.bsky.social
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thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Whitlam’s legacy is one of possibility and hope. He showed us what a brave, grown up Australia could look like.
Whitlam showed us what a brave, grown up Australia could look like. And 50 years later, you have to wonder – is it even possible to make Australia brave again?
thepoint.com.au
November 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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humbly proposing that vape pens are quietly one of the most evil inventions in the past 25 years and that everyone involved should be tried at the hague
November 10, 2025 at 5:47 AM
humbly proposing that vape pens are quietly one of the most evil inventions in the past 25 years and that everyone involved should be tried at the hague
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I got addicted to nicotine last year via vaping (I have now quit) and it is craaaaaazy how much nicotine vaping puts into your system. I ran the math and soon after starting I was getting the equivalent of two packs of cigarettes a day.
genuine advice from a bitch who has helped like a Bunch of people reduce or fully quit nicotine
swapping from cigs to vapes full on almost never works for reducing your nicotine intake in my experience. every time ive seen it attempted the intake either stays static or increases actually
swapping from cigs to vapes full on almost never works for reducing your nicotine intake in my experience. every time ive seen it attempted the intake either stays static or increases actually
humbly proposing that vape pens are quietly one of the most evil inventions in the past 25 years and that everyone involved should be tried at the hague
November 10, 2025 at 6:52 PM
I got addicted to nicotine last year via vaping (I have now quit) and it is craaaaaazy how much nicotine vaping puts into your system. I ran the math and soon after starting I was getting the equivalent of two packs of cigarettes a day.
50 years since the Dismissal.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
November 10, 2025 at 10:26 PM