Peter Murphy
@peterkmurphy.bsky.social
Programming, teaching, programming again; unsuccessful Greens state election candidate. Likes to play bass guitar. View on AI is "Butlerian Jihad".
"All of the toys also weighed in on other topics that parents might prefer to talk with their kids about first before the AI toy does," PIRG noted," ... "Those topics included religion, along with sex and "the glory of dying in battle in Norse Mythology." www.theregister.com/2025/11/13/a...
November 19, 2025 at 12:57 PM
"All of the toys also weighed in on other topics that parents might prefer to talk with their kids about first before the AI toy does," PIRG noted," ... "Those topics included religion, along with sex and "the glory of dying in battle in Norse Mythology." www.theregister.com/2025/11/13/a...
Nup to that. Lots of countries acquired female leaders, many with cultures far, far more conservative than the US. (Like Mexico, a little late for this 2024 map.)
But then, when political campaigns go bad, it's so much easier to blame the electorate instead.
brilliantmaps.com/female-led-c...
But then, when political campaigns go bad, it's so much easier to blame the electorate instead.
brilliantmaps.com/female-led-c...
November 16, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Nup to that. Lots of countries acquired female leaders, many with cultures far, far more conservative than the US. (Like Mexico, a little late for this 2024 map.)
But then, when political campaigns go bad, it's so much easier to blame the electorate instead.
brilliantmaps.com/female-led-c...
But then, when political campaigns go bad, it's so much easier to blame the electorate instead.
brilliantmaps.com/female-led-c...
Even at the "as seen on the 7:30 Report"-levels of shitty for-profit RTO I worked at a decade back, they had the good graces to sack a department head for hitting on students. The same should have happened to Larry Summers.
What makes Harvard different?
What makes Harvard different?
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Even at the "as seen on the 7:30 Report"-levels of shitty for-profit RTO I worked at a decade back, they had the good graces to sack a department head for hitting on students. The same should have happened to Larry Summers.
What makes Harvard different?
What makes Harvard different?
I think @pollytics.bsky.social would enjoy this. Also relevant to Australia.
New Substack: chrisdillow.substack.com/p/on-incompe... Parts of the Labour party and BBC simply don't know what their jobs should be.
On incompetence
Much of our political culture is fundamentally incompetent.
chrisdillow.substack.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:58 AM
I think @pollytics.bsky.social would enjoy this. Also relevant to Australia.
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Never smile with a pedophile
November 13, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Never smile with a pedophile
It's amazing (and a little bloody scary) how Canada, and in particular, my former home province of BC, does State Capture as well as Australia and all its states on the opposite side of the Pacific. LNG giveaways, stamping on Indigenous groups, the works.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt6H...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt6H...
Honest Government Ad | Watch out, Canada
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
www.youtube.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:12 AM
It's amazing (and a little bloody scary) how Canada, and in particular, my former home province of BC, does State Capture as well as Australia and all its states on the opposite side of the Pacific. LNG giveaways, stamping on Indigenous groups, the works.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt6H...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt6H...
Sometimes, it's as simple as "Those who work forces are the same who burn crosses". www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
What we just witnessed was state-sanctioned Nazism
What on earth did the NSW Police think a rally organised by the National Socialist Network would be about?
www.smh.com.au
November 11, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Sometimes, it's as simple as "Those who work forces are the same who burn crosses". www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
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MPs: kids have to get off phones! It's destroying attention spans and they don't listen to others.
MPs: oh, our Leader was making a point? Missed it, on my phone checking socials/watching tractor porn.
MPs: oh, our Leader was making a point? Missed it, on my phone checking socials/watching tractor porn.
November 4, 2025 at 5:47 AM
MPs: kids have to get off phones! It's destroying attention spans and they don't listen to others.
MPs: oh, our Leader was making a point? Missed it, on my phone checking socials/watching tractor porn.
MPs: oh, our Leader was making a point? Missed it, on my phone checking socials/watching tractor porn.
Mount Gambier's equivalent to the Gävle Goat.
A 19-year-old woman appears in court via telephone accused of damaging Mount Gambier's Cast in Blue sculpture, which has drawn criticism for its cost and appearance.
Woman in court for putting googly eyes on controversial 'Blue Blob' sculpture
A 19-year-old woman appears in court via telephone accused of damaging Mount Gambier's Cast in Blue sculpture, which has drawn criticism for its cost and appearance.
www.abc.net.au
November 4, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Mount Gambier's equivalent to the Gävle Goat.
"The Courier-Mail recently invited its 750,000 Facebook followers to vote on whether “disabled kids belong in mainstream schools” using emoji reactions." That's an absolute "banality of evil" sentence, and everybody involved should be shamed and shunned.
From: www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/31/n...
From: www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/31/n...
November 1, 2025 at 12:46 AM
"The Courier-Mail recently invited its 750,000 Facebook followers to vote on whether “disabled kids belong in mainstream schools” using emoji reactions." That's an absolute "banality of evil" sentence, and everybody involved should be shamed and shunned.
From: www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/31/n...
From: www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/31/n...
Think of this as an argument for a maximum wage for public servants. Beyond a certain amount, would the government get better outcomes from the extra cash per privileged worker? I doesn't look like it.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/o...
ABC executive who sacked Antoinette Lattouf paid $836,000 for eight-month employment, annual report shows
Chris Oliver-Taylor’s remuneration exceeded by former managing director David Anderson’s $1.2m package, broadcaster says
www.theguardian.com
October 31, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Think of this as an argument for a maximum wage for public servants. Beyond a certain amount, would the government get better outcomes from the extra cash per privileged worker? I doesn't look like it.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/o...
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If royalty can be revoked from one of them then it can be revoked from all of them. The magic birthright bollocks is officially no longer an excuse. Get the fucking lot of them down the job centre for an assessment.
October 30, 2025 at 10:46 PM
If royalty can be revoked from one of them then it can be revoked from all of them. The magic birthright bollocks is officially no longer an excuse. Get the fucking lot of them down the job centre for an assessment.
My name is Ozymandias of King of Kings, the latest and tastiest Yum Cha restaurant in the heart of the CBD. Open for lunch and dinner seven days a week. Look on my menu, ye mighty, and salivate! (Charges for BYO corkage apply.)
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings, and I can see your house from here
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings, I live on the second floor, I live upstairs from you, yes I think you’ve seen me before
October 30, 2025 at 11:08 AM
My name is Ozymandias of King of Kings, the latest and tastiest Yum Cha restaurant in the heart of the CBD. Open for lunch and dinner seven days a week. Look on my menu, ye mighty, and salivate! (Charges for BYO corkage apply.)
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Exclusive from my colleague Anton Nilsson:
Ecuador's armed forces are using rocket launchers to attack illegal miners operating at a site licensed to a subsidiary of Gina Rinehart's Hancock Prospecting
www.crikey.com.au/20...
Ecuador's armed forces are using rocket launchers to attack illegal miners operating at a site licensed to a subsidiary of Gina Rinehart's Hancock Prospecting
www.crikey.com.au/20...
October 27, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Exclusive from my colleague Anton Nilsson:
Ecuador's armed forces are using rocket launchers to attack illegal miners operating at a site licensed to a subsidiary of Gina Rinehart's Hancock Prospecting
www.crikey.com.au/20...
Ecuador's armed forces are using rocket launchers to attack illegal miners operating at a site licensed to a subsidiary of Gina Rinehart's Hancock Prospecting
www.crikey.com.au/20...
I believe there are people that would ace a Chotiner interview: explain things clearly the first time, be able to handle follow up questions, and never be evasive. The reader would think "They know what they're doing".
This is the opposite.
There's so many people like that in politics, alas.
This is the opposite.
There's so many people like that in politics, alas.
October 27, 2025 at 9:54 PM
I believe there are people that would ace a Chotiner interview: explain things clearly the first time, be able to handle follow up questions, and never be evasive. The reader would think "They know what they're doing".
This is the opposite.
There's so many people like that in politics, alas.
This is the opposite.
There's so many people like that in politics, alas.
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I entirely forgot that I made this anti-ASMR video (Sound warning headphones users)
October 27, 2025 at 2:03 AM
I entirely forgot that I made this anti-ASMR video (Sound warning headphones users)
Reposted by Peter Murphy
we have invented omelas from the story don't invent omelas
October 26, 2025 at 10:31 PM
we have invented omelas from the story don't invent omelas
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Anti-renewables group uses AI in inquiry submissions
‘The citations are totally misleading’
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ0s... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251023-ant... - podcast
time: 6 min 11 sec
we're back baybee
‘The citations are totally misleading’
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ0s... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251023-ant... - podcast
time: 6 min 11 sec
we're back baybee
October 23, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Meanwhile, the organisation I work for is discussing how to go from a five-day working week to a four-day working week with no drop in productivity OR pay.
It's like at its heart, "grind culture" is malevolent, mediocre management that can't imagine "employee burnout" is a thing. Fuck that.
It's like at its heart, "grind culture" is malevolent, mediocre management that can't imagine "employee burnout" is a thing. Fuck that.
The grind culture that birthed many Big Tech companies from Google to Amazon is back.
As the AI race heats up, startups are promoting hardcore cultures like “996,” or working 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week.
As the AI race heats up, startups are promoting hardcore cultures like “996,” or working 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week.
Why these companies insist on a 72-hour work week
Start-ups are promoting hardcore cultures such as “996,” meaning working from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. six days a week, as they race to compete in AI.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 20, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Meanwhile, the organisation I work for is discussing how to go from a five-day working week to a four-day working week with no drop in productivity OR pay.
It's like at its heart, "grind culture" is malevolent, mediocre management that can't imagine "employee burnout" is a thing. Fuck that.
It's like at its heart, "grind culture" is malevolent, mediocre management that can't imagine "employee burnout" is a thing. Fuck that.
"Great Replacement Theory" folk really are the dumbest and most fearful people in existence. They make anti-vax people look erudite and sophisticated. This is from the comments on Tom Tanuki's blog.
![Title: Tom Tanuki's post
(Comments listed below. If name tagged, I mark it with square brackets.)
Nicholas Wragg: It's interesting that you're specifically focused on "no White Australia" - does that mean you want White people eradicated or made into an extreme minority?
It seems weird that you'd hate your own ethnic group.
Peter Murphy: [Nicholas Wragg] "White Australia" means how people used the term at the beginning of Federation: an Australia _exclusively_ for white people. That's a pretty shit idea.
Nicholas Wragg: [Peter Murphy] I know what that's about, however that finished a long time ago and these protestors are protesting something from the "present day".
Their goal is to make sure that there is no country in the entire world where White people are a majority, there's why there is incessant mass immigration from the third world and government programs to subsidise the breeding activities of the new arrivals, also whilst providing free housing and taxing the White/remainder of the population to pay for it. White people are paying for their own replacement in Ireland, France, Germany, England, Canada, Norway, Belgium (where 88% of young people in Brussels do not have a Belgian background), Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Scotland, Australia, New Zealand, USA.... I could keep listing Western countries, but would you get the point?
Do you think it's a good idea to ensure that Whites are made into an extreme minority? How do you think that would go for them once that happens? Do you think that others would be as accommodating as the White people are? If so, I've got a harbour bridge to sell you...
Peter Murphy: [Nicholas Wragg] That's quite the fantasy you are telling yourself there - just like Lord of the Rings or the Narnia books, except far less believable.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:izbz6zp4cru6i6nt6sav5fbt/bafkreibdrrjvh4pg4gn4phwqu4m6kgqqopxnygecddkqza6ox2qmbyhocm@jpeg)
October 20, 2025 at 8:18 AM
"Great Replacement Theory" folk really are the dumbest and most fearful people in existence. They make anti-vax people look erudite and sophisticated. This is from the comments on Tom Tanuki's blog.
Who's solving the Louvre robbery?
Right answers only
Right answers only
October 20, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Who's solving the Louvre robbery?
Right answers only
Right answers only
I never saw Guillermo del Toro's "Pinocchio" until last night, and it's great. Imagine a flick where they work in poop jokes roasting Benito Mussolini into the original story.
Thinking of all the "No Kings" rallies happening in the States. This goes out to them.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMWz...
Thinking of all the "No Kings" rallies happening in the States. This goes out to them.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMWz...
Pinocchio's "Big Baby Il Duce March" Full Song | Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
YouTube video by Screen Riot Movie Clips
www.youtube.com
October 19, 2025 at 3:19 AM
I never saw Guillermo del Toro's "Pinocchio" until last night, and it's great. Imagine a flick where they work in poop jokes roasting Benito Mussolini into the original story.
Thinking of all the "No Kings" rallies happening in the States. This goes out to them.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMWz...
Thinking of all the "No Kings" rallies happening in the States. This goes out to them.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMWz...