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James Clark
@jamesclark.bsky.social
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I work in and write about, the climate crisis, big tech, organising and politics. New website with links to said writing coming eventually.

I make music too https://savoyager.bandcamp.com

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Labor giving a $45m loan to KKR is just something else.
December 8, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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I am begging journalists to stop writing puff pieces like this while Labor gives the fossil fuel industry everything they want
September 15, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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What does that even mean?
A building with the sign: Laundromat & Dry Cleaning. Environmentally fresh alternative.
September 13, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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News Corp commentators would nuke Fitzroy if they could
Screenshot of a facebook comment: "Can we send all the inner city people to live there instead?"
September 11, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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The comments are very much picking up what News Corp are putting down.
September 11, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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Ah, News Corp running a story about NEOM to dog whistle about 15 minute city conspiracy theories and promote the idea that reducing car use and cutting emissions is somehow tied to slavery. Cool and normal.
Screenshot of a facebook post from News.com.au. Caption: Imagine a car-free, zero-emission metropolis where workers are treated like slaves in the name of trillion-dollar ambition. It’s real. Image: An satellite photo of NEOM port with the text "21,000 DEAD: CITY'S $13 TRILLION NIGHTMARE"
September 11, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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The speed and scale of investment in “AI” is mind boggling. After being told for decades that a rapid transition to clean energy is “expensive” and “unrealistic”, watching this play out is like living in a fever dream
September 1, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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I think 'Digital Sovereignty' is a great concept to work with, and it's all really well laid out by @ceciliarikap.bsky.social here. We can take control of technology and get it working for us and make our lives better, but we need to fight big tech for real techwontsave.us/episode/290_...
August 27, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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Rebuild The Public Service (?) No(,) more consultants(!)
August 25, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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5. AI dominating discussions AI was a major topic of conversation. “Something that was really positive, where there was a lot of agreement, was the sense that we do need to help the Australian community skill-up in terms of its confidence in using AI,” the independent MP Allegra Spender said. Barney Glover, the commissioner of Jobs and Skills Australia, recently described AI as a “foundational skill” that needed to be taught in schools. The JSA in a major report found that clerical roles were among a number of white collar occupations threatened by AI, but that the technology was more likely to augment jobs, rather than replace them. The transformative technology is sure to also loom large on day two of the roundtable, which will focus on productivity.
August 20, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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Anthony Albanese is a despicable grub who never deserves to know peace again. The audacity to compare protesting against a genocide to cheering for a football team…
One of the things I'm trying to do and I wish everybody in the parliament was trying to do but I don't need that has been the case is to have social inclusion here as well because if there is two things I'm confident of, it is one that most Australians who don't follow this on a day-to-day basis, who don't think this is like fighting for a team in a game, that what they want us for, innocent lives to not be lost.
July 30, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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I released some music today. It'd be really cool if you listened to it gyro.to/IcyPeaks
July 8, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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The ALP using the spectre of Trump to scare people into voting for them and then immediately supporting Trump’s illegal war is just so very them
Headline reading: PM backs Iran strikes but declines to say whether Australia was given prior warning by US Picture of Anthony Albanese
June 23, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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Or to put it more succinctly
I feel like I’m taking crazy pills!
June 20, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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There is nothing Labor aren't willing to hand over to big business
Lee Hickin Executive Director, Australian National AI Centre Lee Hickin leads the Australian National AI Centre (NAIC), with a mission to enable and support Australian industry and society as it adopts and accelerates through AI technology and services. Lee has over 30 years’ experience in the technology industry in technical, sales and business development roles. Before joining the federal government, Lee was the CTO for Microsoft ANZ and led the Asia region for Microsoft’s global Responsible AI team. Lee has worked across the UK, Asia and Australia. In addition to his time at Microsoft, Lee led the Internet of Things team for Amazon Web Services in Asia Pacific. He was also a CISSP security architect with RSA Security and worked at Tivoli and IBM as a software engineer. During his time in industry, Lee has supported governments around the world as an independent contributor. This includes having been a member of the Singapore AI-Verify Board and a founding member of the NSW AI Assurance Committee. Lee has a Bachelor of Science (Honors) in Business and Information Technology from Bournemouth University.
June 16, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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Odd story. Buried under the lead about Albo's evangelism for neoliberalism is this story about the Australian govt collaborating with Amazon to build massive new surveillance infrastructure in Melbourne www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
The prime minister will visit technology giant Amazon’s Seattle headquarters on Sunday, on his way to talks with world leaders in Alberta next week, a trip he hopes will include his first face-to-face meeting with the US president. Amazon and the federal government are building new top-secret data centres in Melbourne, set to allow the country’s military and intelligence agencies to collaborate with overseas partners on highly secured networks. o far the Amazon project, dubbed the Top Secret Cloud, will see the federal government fund construction of new data centre facilities and pay for their use. Additional investments are expected, as Albanese called the deal a demonstration of joint Australian-US ties. The world’s largest cloud computing company, Amazon already has significant deals to provide national security systems in the US and United Kingdom. The data centres provide access to Amazon cloud products as well as critical backup capabilities for an outage event taking government servers offline. Albanese is expected to meet with executives from companies including BHP, Diraq, Trellis Health, Airwallex and Anthropic while in the US.
June 16, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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Big tech's vision for the future is nakedly fascist and AI is at the centre of their strategy. I reckon there's actually a disturbing lack of negativity about it, to be quite frank.
‘Too much negativity’ around artificial intelligence, head of National AI Centre says The head of Australia’s National AI Centre (NAIC) says there’s too much “negativity and fear” around the emerging technology. Lee Hickin took to LinkedIn a month after taking up the new role. He said it was his ambition to “build confidence” in the reality of what AI can deliver, adding there was such a proliferation of “opinions” it had become “very hard to determine what is real, both in terms of the potential and the risk”. I am by no means diminishing the very real considerations we need to take account of in the deployment of AI – but it’s my sense that much of the potential good that AI might bring to our industry and society is being held back because we are filling the discourse with negativity, fear and a vision of AI that overplays the fear. I joined the NAIC because I believe we have a great opportunity ahead of us and I believe AI will be a force multiplier in the future my children will inherit.
June 16, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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*chef kiss*
What Albo, Wong, 90% of parliament, 99% of Australia's media etc. are counting on is that their championing of the New Holocaust will not be forgiven (as forgiveness requires acknowledging it) but forgotten entirely. I think, knowing how this country operates, that that's not unlikely. But I myself refuse to let my memory lapse. I will stalk these dogs for the rest of my days. Whenever I alluded to them, I will allude to them as happy clappers for mass death and annihilation. What are their legacies otherwise, besides deeply mediocre avatars for a deeply mediocre country that ducks behind that mediocrity and cowers whenever it is asked to hold itself accountable for anything? That burning girl was burned by Albo. That starving grandfather was starved by Albo. That journalist's family, purposefully targeted and blown to smithereens, was done so by Albo. Every murder scene in Gaza has his finger print on it. Yes, there are countless more at the scene also, but his is amongst them, another hand curled round the innocents' throat, and I, for one, think that will be worth remembering forever.
June 12, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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Since the referendum there has been a well organised attack on Welcome To Countries as a way to drive Aboriginal people out of public life. It's gaining traction in high places now. I'm not seeing much in the way of organised pushback against this assault from the right
(screenshot from The Guardian Australia's election live blog) Dutton: welcome to country ceremonies shouldn’t be held at Anzac dawn ceremonies Dutton is then asked whether Anzac dawn ceremonies are “significant” enough to hold welcome to country ceremonies. Dutton says “no”. No. It is ultimately for the organisers of the events, and they can make the decision based on their membership and what their board wants to do … Anzac Day is about our veterans, about 103,000 Australians who have died in the service of our country. I think if you are listening to their sentiment, and we are respectful of that sentiment on Anzac Day, I think the majority view would be that they don’t want it on that day.
April 28, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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Hard to think of a media organisation that's done more to whip up the culture war over Welcome To Countries than the Daily Mail. Yet have the nerve to fein outrage when their culture war finds voice in the real world. Fuck these tabloid arseholes
April 25, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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And just because I have a long memory
The worst people you know
December 15, 2024 at 10:11 AM
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Cursed job opportunities
December 13, 2024 at 6:02 AM
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This story from Sept contained an interesting tidbit. The mining billionaires are genuinely worried about The Greens having balance of power and they're gonna pull out all the stops. I'd say that's a pretty good sign they are doing things right tbh
December 2, 2024 at 10:02 PM
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Big business clearly see The Greens as a threat and are willing to spend big to try slowing them down this election. Advance have set up a shell page and already spent $7,000 in Victoria in 2 weeks. Lots of ads with small variations. Expect that spend to rocket up once they get the formula right
December 2, 2024 at 10:02 PM
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December 2, 2024 at 10:57 AM