Beck Wise
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Labor: *approves another new coalmine*
Wrap of #Heatwave Maximums for 30 Jan 2026.
SA 50.0 °C Port Augusta 2:43pm
NSW 48.1 °C Smithville 3:32pm
Qld 47.3 °C Ballera 1:59pm
Vic 45.6 °C Mildura 6:01pm
ACT 40.4 °C Tuggeranong 4:12 pm
Tomorrow conditions will start to retract then ease on Sunday
SA 50.0 °C Port Augusta 2:43pm
NSW 48.1 °C Smithville 3:32pm
Qld 47.3 °C Ballera 1:59pm
Vic 45.6 °C Mildura 6:01pm
ACT 40.4 °C Tuggeranong 4:12 pm
Tomorrow conditions will start to retract then ease on Sunday
January 30, 2026 at 8:09 AM
Labor: *approves another new coalmine*
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"Our standing rule is: If one of us brings up using GenAI in any of our work, then it's safe to assume we've been assimilated by The Thing and should be burned alive by Kurt Russell," said a game design consultant in the US.
Over 50% of game developers now think generative AI is bad for the industry, a dramatic increase from just 2 years ago: 'I'd rather quit the industry than use generative AI'
The latest GDC survey also found that managers are more likely to use generative AI than their employees.
www.pcgamer.com
January 29, 2026 at 11:45 PM
"Our standing rule is: If one of us brings up using GenAI in any of our work, then it's safe to assume we've been assimilated by The Thing and should be burned alive by Kurt Russell," said a game design consultant in the US.
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Fair pay. Better universities.
University staff need fair pay that keeps up with the cost of living. Food, rent, and bills haven’t stopped rising and neither should your pay. Hard work, sacrifice, and increased productivity should be recognised.
Join today: nteu.au/join
University staff need fair pay that keeps up with the cost of living. Food, rent, and bills haven’t stopped rising and neither should your pay. Hard work, sacrifice, and increased productivity should be recognised.
Join today: nteu.au/join
January 30, 2026 at 5:49 AM
Fair pay. Better universities.
University staff need fair pay that keeps up with the cost of living. Food, rent, and bills haven’t stopped rising and neither should your pay. Hard work, sacrifice, and increased productivity should be recognised.
Join today: nteu.au/join
University staff need fair pay that keeps up with the cost of living. Food, rent, and bills haven’t stopped rising and neither should your pay. Hard work, sacrifice, and increased productivity should be recognised.
Join today: nteu.au/join
Two disabled kids in this family, as plans to further cut disability support are outlined in the news today
WA Police are investigating a suspected murder-suicide in suburban Perth after finding two teenage boys and two adults dead in a home in Mosman Park.
Live: Four people dead after 'devastating tragedy' in Perth's Mosman Park
WA Police are investigating a suspected murder-suicide in suburban Perth after finding two teenage boys and two adults dead in a home in Mosman Park.
www.abc.net.au
January 30, 2026 at 7:50 AM
Two disabled kids in this family, as plans to further cut disability support are outlined in the news today
This is eugenics and you only have to scroll up three posts to the article documenting the murder-suicide of a family with two disabled kids if you want to see how
Families frayed by NDIS cuts are bracing for even more change ahead of a year that's set to reshape the scheme into something more sustainable, write Nas Campanella and Evan Young.
Families frayed by NDIS cuts brace for more change ahead of defining year
Families frayed by NDIS cuts are bracing for even more change ahead of a year that's set to reshape the scheme into something more sustainable, write Nas Campanella and Evan Young.
www.abc.net.au
January 30, 2026 at 7:46 AM
This is eugenics and you only have to scroll up three posts to the article documenting the murder-suicide of a family with two disabled kids if you want to see how
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If anyone likes working with webtexts and doing digital rhetoric stuff, Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy is hiring assistant editors.
kairos.technorhetoric.net/30.2/logging...
kairos.technorhetoric.net/30.2/logging...
Issue 30.2 - Logging On (Spring 2026) - Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy.
Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy is the premier online, peer-reviewed journal in computers and writing.
kairos.technorhetoric.net
January 29, 2026 at 10:53 PM
If anyone likes working with webtexts and doing digital rhetoric stuff, Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy is hiring assistant editors.
kairos.technorhetoric.net/30.2/logging...
kairos.technorhetoric.net/30.2/logging...
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This is the problem with Assisted Dying policies that are implemented without sufficient policies to ensure a right to care or a dignified life.
A Canadian man waited a year for treatment for end of life care only to get denied.
His MAiD approval happened in two weeks.
That’s eugenics.
A Canadian man waited a year for treatment for end of life care only to get denied.
His MAiD approval happened in two weeks.
That’s eugenics.
A man waits nearly a year for regulated psilocybin therapy to ease end-of-life distress and is denied.
He applies for MAiD and is approved in 3 weeks.
Bureaucracy moves fast when it wants to.
He applies for MAiD and is approved in 3 weeks.
Bureaucracy moves fast when it wants to.
January 29, 2026 at 9:21 PM
This is the problem with Assisted Dying policies that are implemented without sufficient policies to ensure a right to care or a dignified life.
A Canadian man waited a year for treatment for end of life care only to get denied.
His MAiD approval happened in two weeks.
That’s eugenics.
A Canadian man waited a year for treatment for end of life care only to get denied.
His MAiD approval happened in two weeks.
That’s eugenics.
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by popular request i have turned the meme into a blog post, which explains how it works, links to the template file and includes a selection of examples from the thread
#KirbyFraming
#KirbyFraming
January 29, 2026 at 6:25 AM
by popular request i have turned the meme into a blog post, which explains how it works, links to the template file and includes a selection of examples from the thread
#KirbyFraming
#KirbyFraming
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REP. OMAR after being attacked with liquid: “We will continue! These fucking assholes are not gonna get away with this! Here is the reality people like this ugly man don’t understand — we are Minnesota Strong. We’ll stay resilient in the face of whatever they might throw at us.”
January 28, 2026 at 1:47 AM
REP. OMAR after being attacked with liquid: “We will continue! These fucking assholes are not gonna get away with this! Here is the reality people like this ugly man don’t understand — we are Minnesota Strong. We’ll stay resilient in the face of whatever they might throw at us.”
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This is literally a terrorist attack and I found out via a parody newspaper
January 28, 2026 at 7:12 AM
This is literally a terrorist attack and I found out via a parody newspaper
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Just started doing new data analysis and I know I keep saying this, but: I really, really don't think people appreciate how much this moral panic was a deliberate and extremely expensive invention.
January 28, 2026 at 3:12 AM
Just started doing new data analysis and I know I keep saying this, but: I really, really don't think people appreciate how much this moral panic was a deliberate and extremely expensive invention.
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Qld Health Minister Tim Nicholls is ignoring his own report.
He couldn't make the facts fit his ideology. Now he's just ignoring them.
He couldn't make the facts fit his ideology. Now he's just ignoring them.
January 28, 2026 at 6:00 AM
Qld Health Minister Tim Nicholls is ignoring his own report.
He couldn't make the facts fit his ideology. Now he's just ignoring them.
He couldn't make the facts fit his ideology. Now he's just ignoring them.
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If you want to learn more about the UTS Too Hot to Work Project, go to our website: toohottowork.org
Too Hot To Work – How workers experience heat stress
toohottowork.org
January 27, 2026 at 10:02 PM
If you want to learn more about the UTS Too Hot to Work Project, go to our website: toohottowork.org
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Just talked a student through the bitter disappointment of realizing they probably won’t be able toaccess state archives in India for their dissertation. Some thoughts on how to handle this. 1) as an Indian, I have been hustling my way into archives my whole career so relativize the experience.
January 27, 2026 at 9:22 PM
Just talked a student through the bitter disappointment of realizing they probably won’t be able toaccess state archives in India for their dissertation. Some thoughts on how to handle this. 1) as an Indian, I have been hustling my way into archives my whole career so relativize the experience.
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“The French government announced that it will stop using American video conferencing platforms such as Microsoft Teams and Zoom, and replace them with Visio, a French platform.”
Zoom Is the First Casualty in France's War on American Big Tech
Homebrewed video conferencing may not be a moonshot, but you gotta start somewhere.
gizmodo.com
January 27, 2026 at 8:34 PM
“The French government announced that it will stop using American video conferencing platforms such as Microsoft Teams and Zoom, and replace them with Visio, a French platform.”
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You’d think an attempted bombing of an event with 2,000 attendees on the shores of mainland Australia would get a breaking news alert and statement from the Prime Minister of the country.
But it’s blackfullas and people who associate with them, that’s fine.
But it’s blackfullas and people who associate with them, that’s fine.
January 27, 2026 at 10:17 AM
You’d think an attempted bombing of an event with 2,000 attendees on the shores of mainland Australia would get a breaking news alert and statement from the Prime Minister of the country.
But it’s blackfullas and people who associate with them, that’s fine.
But it’s blackfullas and people who associate with them, that’s fine.
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"The reason these aspects of our jobs have been so challenging to automate is that they rely on something even more precious than our time: namely, our capacity for scientific decision-making. It is worth considering what we lose when we cede that—and our agency—to machines."
January 27, 2026 at 4:22 AM
"The reason these aspects of our jobs have been so challenging to automate is that they rely on something even more precious than our time: namely, our capacity for scientific decision-making. It is worth considering what we lose when we cede that—and our agency—to machines."
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Invasion Day in Perth was targeted with a homemade explosive device yesterday. Aboriginal communities are under threat from neo-Nazis, racists and white supremacists. Yet politicians don't write special laws to combat hatred and violence against them. thewest.com.au/news/perth/i...
Cops say potential explosive device thrown into Oz Day crowd
WA Police are investigating what they’ve called a ‘very, very serious’ incident at Perth’s Invasion Day rally in which a potential explosive device was thrown into a crowd.
thewest.com.au
January 26, 2026 at 10:42 PM
Invasion Day in Perth was targeted with a homemade explosive device yesterday. Aboriginal communities are under threat from neo-Nazis, racists and white supremacists. Yet politicians don't write special laws to combat hatred and violence against them. thewest.com.au/news/perth/i...
"An object" = a fragment bomb wrapped in a sock with cartoon characters on it, thrown into an Indigenous event and a crowd that included kids
WA Police have released CCTV that shows a man, dressed in black and wearing a black face mask, running through the crowd after throwing an object from a shopping centre balcony.
Video shows man throwing explosive device into Perth Invasion Day crowd
WA Police have released CCTV that shows a man, dressed in black and wearing a black face mask, running through the crowd after throwing an object from a shopping centre balcony.
www.abc.net.au
January 27, 2026 at 9:47 AM
"An object" = a fragment bomb wrapped in a sock with cartoon characters on it, thrown into an Indigenous event and a crowd that included kids
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can’t see federal Labor politicians dressed in the colours of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags to express their solidarity and collective outrage at this terrifying attack at a First Nations event.
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
Device allegedly thrown into Invasion Day crowd designed to 'explode on impact', say police
A 31-year-old man is charged with making explosives in suspicious circumstances after a device was allegedly thrown into a crowd of hundreds of people attending an Invasion Day rally in central Perth ...
www.abc.net.au
January 27, 2026 at 9:26 AM
can’t see federal Labor politicians dressed in the colours of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags to express their solidarity and collective outrage at this terrifying attack at a First Nations event.
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
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Close to 50 degrees today but oil and gas companies AND THE GOVERNMENT say move along, nothing to see here
January 27, 2026 at 7:18 AM
Close to 50 degrees today but oil and gas companies AND THE GOVERNMENT say move along, nothing to see here
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Australia’s heatwaves are getting deadlier – and renters are paying the price | Maiy Azize
Australia’s heatwaves are getting deadlier – and renters are paying the price | Maiy Azize
Some are trapped in a vicious cycle: rising rents, rising energy bills and falling standards. But this is not inevitable
Australians are struggling through one of the most brutal heatwaves and hottest summers on record. Day after day, temperatures into the high 30s are turning homes into ovens, workplaces into hazards, and everyday tasks into endurance tests.
All of us are feeling it. But spare a thought for the millions of renters trying to survive this heat in homes that were never designed to cope with it. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2026 at 3:11 AM
Australia’s heatwaves are getting deadlier – and renters are paying the price | Maiy Azize
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the thing that jumps out across multiple agencies is how they think the *mechanics* of *writing regulations* is the difficult task to be solved and that the content of the regulation is easy. it's almost as wrong as you can possibly be
January 26, 2026 at 9:30 PM
the thing that jumps out across multiple agencies is how they think the *mechanics* of *writing regulations* is the difficult task to be solved and that the content of the regulation is easy. it's almost as wrong as you can possibly be
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Advocacy org Sweltering Cities wants you to send them pics of what extreme heat really looks like: you and your pets trying to keep cool; hot streets, bus or tram stops; closed businesses; or other visual markers of heat. DM them the pics on IG or email them to info at sweltering cities dot org
Aussie media do not represent fatal level heatwave with stories about people flocking to the beach challenge
January 26, 2026 at 8:55 AM
Advocacy org Sweltering Cities wants you to send them pics of what extreme heat really looks like: you and your pets trying to keep cool; hot streets, bus or tram stops; closed businesses; or other visual markers of heat. DM them the pics on IG or email them to info at sweltering cities dot org
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NO PRIDE IN GENOCIDE
the travelling crochet, from invasion day Naarm 2025 to invasion day Warrane 2026
the travelling crochet, from invasion day Naarm 2025 to invasion day Warrane 2026
January 26, 2026 at 5:56 AM
NO PRIDE IN GENOCIDE
the travelling crochet, from invasion day Naarm 2025 to invasion day Warrane 2026
the travelling crochet, from invasion day Naarm 2025 to invasion day Warrane 2026