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I think the fundamental gap here is that non-creative people think that creative people make things for the end product, when in fact it’s the act of creation and not the end point that makes it worthwhile.
I have grown to believe that excessive wealth does something to your brain that is analogous to a serious head injury
December 15, 2025 at 6:26 AM
I think the fundamental gap here is that non-creative people think that creative people make things for the end product, when in fact it’s the act of creation and not the end point that makes it worthwhile.
Reposted by Katherine Lu
Because if there's one thing we learned from Robodebt...wait, no sorry, turns out we learned nothing from Robodebt
EXCLUSIVE: Funding and support plans for national disability insurance scheme participants will be generated by a computer program and staff will have no discretion to amend them, under a major overhaul of the NDIS to be rolled out next year, @australia.theguardian.com can reveal.
December 3, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Because if there's one thing we learned from Robodebt...wait, no sorry, turns out we learned nothing from Robodebt
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So ... a dangerous abuser accuses his partner or ex-partner of a violent crime (this is common) & get the cops to charge her, usual delays until it's dropped/heard and now the govt will cut off the accused's entitlements, making her - & her children - wholly dependent on her abuser? Get out of it.
New: 100+ legal experts, welfare groups & academics demand the Minister bin an amendment, allowing police to cancel welfare payments for people who have not been found guilty of any crime
@tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social is trying to ram this amendment through today
Read more: archive.is/UHu9J
@tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social is trying to ram this amendment through today
Read more: archive.is/UHu9J
November 24, 2025 at 7:28 AM
So ... a dangerous abuser accuses his partner or ex-partner of a violent crime (this is common) & get the cops to charge her, usual delays until it's dropped/heard and now the govt will cut off the accused's entitlements, making her - & her children - wholly dependent on her abuser? Get out of it.
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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
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“it is just the same with the housing shortage. The growth of the big modern cities gives the land in certain areas, particularly in those which are centrally situated, an artificial and often colossally increasing value” - Engels, 1872
November 3, 2025 at 9:07 AM
“it is just the same with the housing shortage. The growth of the big modern cities gives the land in certain areas, particularly in those which are centrally situated, an artificial and often colossally increasing value” - Engels, 1872
Reposted by Katherine Lu
Good morning beautiful people! If you’re in Sydney or Melbourne, PARA is looking for furniture donations for Palestinian refugees. If you don’t have any furniture to donate, they have options to purchase items for the families directly. See below, poke me if you have questions.
November 2, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Good morning beautiful people! If you’re in Sydney or Melbourne, PARA is looking for furniture donations for Palestinian refugees. If you don’t have any furniture to donate, they have options to purchase items for the families directly. See below, poke me if you have questions.
Reposted by Katherine Lu
Again, this precise use case is why these systems exist-to proliferate people’s racist (transphobic, misogynistic…) imaginary at scale. This should not be seen as a “misuse” but rather the product being used exactly as intended.
Racist Influencers Using OpenAI's Sora to Make it Look Like Poor People Are Selling Food Stamps for Cash
Folks looking for evidence of SNAP recipients as welfare queens have no shortage of AI generated schlock to use as justification.
futurism.com
November 2, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Again, this precise use case is why these systems exist-to proliferate people’s racist (transphobic, misogynistic…) imaginary at scale. This should not be seen as a “misuse” but rather the product being used exactly as intended.
Reposted by Katherine Lu
It's worth checking out the amazing 49-year-old 24-year-olds that make up the staff at the architecture firm that designed the Big Box King's Throne Room where the East Wing was. The firm changed their website to be landing-page-only, but the Archive still has it:
web.archive.org/web/20250419...
web.archive.org/web/20250419...
October 22, 2025 at 11:19 PM
It's worth checking out the amazing 49-year-old 24-year-olds that make up the staff at the architecture firm that designed the Big Box King's Throne Room where the East Wing was. The firm changed their website to be landing-page-only, but the Archive still has it:
web.archive.org/web/20250419...
web.archive.org/web/20250419...
Reposted by Katherine Lu
Oh look, there are renderings. The Versailles jokes make themselves. Also, this architecture firm should be laughed out of existence.
October 21, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Oh look, there are renderings. The Versailles jokes make themselves. Also, this architecture firm should be laughed out of existence.
Reposted by Katherine Lu
I’m opening a movie theater in which I show recently released films that I ripped from the internet but the studios are welcome to opt out if they wish.
Exclusive: OpenAI is planning to release a new version of its Sora video generator, which creates videos featuring copyrighted material unless copyright holders opt out of having their work appear.
OpenAI’s New Sora Video Generator to Require Copyright Holders to Opt Out
Executives at the startup notified talent agencies and studios over the last week.
on.wsj.com
September 30, 2025 at 1:48 AM
I’m opening a movie theater in which I show recently released films that I ripped from the internet but the studios are welcome to opt out if they wish.
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The entire point of writing is discovery. You don’t know what you don’t know. And if you approach it from a point of view of efficiency and optimization (to no end) you never will.
June 21, 2025 at 8:19 PM
The entire point of writing is discovery. You don’t know what you don’t know. And if you approach it from a point of view of efficiency and optimization (to no end) you never will.
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I know everyone is consumed with other news, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration says that IUDs and the Pill are actually abortions.
Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...
Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...
September 12, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I know everyone is consumed with other news, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration says that IUDs and the Pill are actually abortions.
Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...
Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...
Reposted by Katherine Lu
Polish painter Nespoon creates street art with lace patterns #WomensArt
September 8, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Polish painter Nespoon creates street art with lace patterns #WomensArt
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The Death of Meanjin. a couple of thoughts. open.substack.com/pub/greenwor...
The Death of Meanjin
Price of everything, value of nothing dept.
open.substack.com
September 5, 2025 at 10:17 AM
The Death of Meanjin. a couple of thoughts. open.substack.com/pub/greenwor...
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Wow check out this real picture of Sydney harbour that UTS used on their website trying to attract international students
web.archive.org/web/20250616...
web.archive.org/web/20250616...
August 18, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Wow check out this real picture of Sydney harbour that UTS used on their website trying to attract international students
web.archive.org/web/20250616...
web.archive.org/web/20250616...
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I know so many women of all ages who need iron transfusions and some who can’t get them because they cost hundreds and hundreds of dollars; such long waitlists; no Medicare rebates. This is a medical scandal. The misdiagnosis story is shocking. www.smh.com.au/national/gas...
Gaslit, dismissed and treated as hypochondriacs: The gender divide in iron deficiency
Ignored by doctors for years, Abigail almost died, with one doctor in the end saying she had the blood count of a shark attack or car crash victim.
www.smh.com.au
August 16, 2025 at 4:47 AM
I know so many women of all ages who need iron transfusions and some who can’t get them because they cost hundreds and hundreds of dollars; such long waitlists; no Medicare rebates. This is a medical scandal. The misdiagnosis story is shocking. www.smh.com.au/national/gas...
Reposted by Katherine Lu
“Tech companies have devalued the work of creative industries for years. The latest iteration of this is their insistence the AI models they plan to make lots of money from need the labour of all of human creation for free in perpetuity.”
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Australia’s potential surrender of creative content to tech giants for free is shocking. Labor must decide where it stands | Josh Taylor
The Productivity Commission appears to have bought into tech companies’ brazen arguments – and caught the Australian government off-guard
www.theguardian.com
August 6, 2025 at 9:57 AM
“Tech companies have devalued the work of creative industries for years. The latest iteration of this is their insistence the AI models they plan to make lots of money from need the labour of all of human creation for free in perpetuity.”
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Reposted by Katherine Lu
This article raises an issue about the AI boom that I haven't seen much comment on.
More AI means more data centres.
In some cases, they'll go on land that could be used for housing.
For example, this one will go on land approved for 1400 new apartments: www.realcommercial.com.au/news/macquar...
More AI means more data centres.
In some cases, they'll go on land that could be used for housing.
For example, this one will go on land approved for 1400 new apartments: www.realcommercial.com.au/news/macquar...
Macquarie Technology forks out $240m to pick up data centre site from Holdmark
Macquarie Technology Group has picked up a Sydney site approved for 1400 apartments with plans to turn the property into a major data centre.
www.realcommercial.com.au
August 4, 2025 at 12:37 AM
This article raises an issue about the AI boom that I haven't seen much comment on.
More AI means more data centres.
In some cases, they'll go on land that could be used for housing.
For example, this one will go on land approved for 1400 new apartments: www.realcommercial.com.au/news/macquar...
More AI means more data centres.
In some cases, they'll go on land that could be used for housing.
For example, this one will go on land approved for 1400 new apartments: www.realcommercial.com.au/news/macquar...
Reposted by Katherine Lu
Apparently a completely peaceful march across Sydney Harbour Bridge today was extremely perilous.
Yet somehow fewer people (i.e. nobody) died today than when NSW Police were asked to assist with a 95-year-old nursing home resident behaving erratically.
Yet somehow fewer people (i.e. nobody) died today than when NSW Police were asked to assist with a 95-year-old nursing home resident behaving erratically.
Never change Australian coppers www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
August 3, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Apparently a completely peaceful march across Sydney Harbour Bridge today was extremely perilous.
Yet somehow fewer people (i.e. nobody) died today than when NSW Police were asked to assist with a 95-year-old nursing home resident behaving erratically.
Yet somehow fewer people (i.e. nobody) died today than when NSW Police were asked to assist with a 95-year-old nursing home resident behaving erratically.
Reposted by Katherine Lu
Spotify Publishes AI-Generated Songs From Dead Artists Without Permission
🔗 www.404media.co/spotify-publ...
🔗 www.404media.co/spotify-publ...
Spotify Publishes AI-Generated Songs From Dead Artists Without Permission
"They could fix this problem. One of their talented software engineers could stop this fraudulent practice in its tracks, if they had the will to do so."
www.404media.co
July 22, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Spotify Publishes AI-Generated Songs From Dead Artists Without Permission
🔗 www.404media.co/spotify-publ...
🔗 www.404media.co/spotify-publ...
Reposted by Katherine Lu
somewhere, Antoinette Lattouf has just put her arm through a wall
#BREAKING 🚨 The ABC says it is "deeply concerned" about the health of its freelance journalists in Gaza, amid what the UN has called "catastrophic hunger"
The national broadcaster has also called on Israel to allow international journalists to report independently from Gaza
The national broadcaster has also called on Israel to allow international journalists to report independently from Gaza
July 31, 2025 at 3:57 AM
somewhere, Antoinette Lattouf has just put her arm through a wall
Reposted by Katherine Lu
Reposted by Katherine Lu
Study finds A.I. LLMs advise women to ask for lower salaries than men. When prompted w/ a user profile of same education, experience & job role, differing only by gender, ChatGPT advised the female applicant to request $280K salary; Male applicant=$400K.
thenextweb.com/news/chatgpt...
thenextweb.com/news/chatgpt...
ChatGPT advises women to ask for lower salaries, study finds
A new study has found that large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT consistently advise women to ask for lower salaries than men.
thenextweb.com
July 20, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Study finds A.I. LLMs advise women to ask for lower salaries than men. When prompted w/ a user profile of same education, experience & job role, differing only by gender, ChatGPT advised the female applicant to request $280K salary; Male applicant=$400K.
thenextweb.com/news/chatgpt...
thenextweb.com/news/chatgpt...