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Human Guinea Pig AU
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Retired SAP BASIS dude.
Australia.
Time Magazine Person of the year 2006.
Tested to meet and exceed ISO 3533 standards.
He / Him.

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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
I'm not sure it's in the self interest of America's tech bro billionaires to suggest that we bring back public executions to punish the most destructive people in our society.
gilduran.com Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 1h
A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.

“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.

This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:

www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
www.thenerdreich.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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vermontgmg.bsky.social
It’s weird that news organizations like the BBC are covering this as if it’s a real thing with a real process behind it—and not clearly some nakedly invented “participation trophy” by a corrupt organization to curry favor with a corrupt and easily manipulated man-child. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
Donald Trump: US president named inaugural Fifa Peace Prize winner
US President Donald Trump receives the inaugural Fifa Peace Prize before the draw for the 2026 Fifa World Cup.
www.bbc.com
December 6, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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edeggans.bsky.social
Here's a better headline for Axios: "How Trump has normalized racism and racist slurs." Why can't some journalists just call a thing what it is? https://loom.ly/hiKWr58
How Trump flipped America's race conversation
Language that once was disqualifying is now a fixture of national political discourse.
www.axios.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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lisazed.bsky.social
Taxpayers treated like mugs for a Big Sport stadium stitch-up — while Tasmanians don’t matter at all!
Tasmanian MPs will blow $1.1B on a stadium that will return less than 1/2 that in benefits, in a state with urgent health & education needs.
It’s testament to the malignant power of
1/...
#auspol
Taxpayers treated like mugs for a Big Sport stadium stitch-up — while Tasmanians don't matter at all
Tasmanian politicians are going to blow $1.1 billion on a stadium that will return less than half that in benefits, in a state with urgent health and education needs. It's testament to the malignant p...
www.crikey.com.au
December 6, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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3wombats.bsky.social
theaimn.net/democracy-wa...
DEMOCRACY WATCH AU: Goldstein 2025 - When Citizens Document the Truth, Democracy Can Fight Back
The Evidence Scorecard: How systematic intimidation won by 175 votes and what we must do to ensure it never works again. By Sue Barrett Disclaimer: This analysis moves beyond opinion by applying estab...
theaimn.net
December 6, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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brionykidd.bsky.social
Okay, so these people are evil. Inserting gambling everywhere possible is also evil as it leads to addiction and poverty and, as we see, encourages a callous and disconnected relationship with the world.
#auspol
December 6, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
So the boat wasn’t even heading to 🇺🇸

www.cnn.com/2025/12/05/p...
December 5, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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joshuajfriedman.com
Frank Gehry, 1929–2025 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/a...
Screenshot from The Onion, originally published October 9, 2002. Headline: Frank Gehry No Longer Allowed To Make Sandwiches for Grandkids Below it, a photo of a plate with multiple deconstructed sandwiches balanced precariously, vaguely resembling a Frank Gehry building.
December 5, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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scalzi.com
Inasmuch as I explicitly model my starship names in the Interdependency series on what Iain Banks was doing in The Culture, my presence in this headline is superfluous; nevertheless I will take it

www.geeknative.com/216328/a-spa...
A Spaceship Name Generator inspired by The Culture and John Scalzi
Need a starship name with a personality? Our generator creates names inspired by Iain M. Banks and John Scalzi, moving beyond standard military tropes.
www.geeknative.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:34 PM
martin-english.com
US President receives Participant Trophy
December 6, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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jackjenkins.me
Note: Fox ran a segment on the Chicago ICE Nativity, which is at the church of a pastor who recently went viral for being arrested while protesting ICE.

That pastor told me the church has since seen an influx of volatile messages.

“There’s been some suggestions that I should kill myself,” he said.
jackjenkins.me Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d
In Chicago, a Nativity scene features a zip-tied baby Jesus and Roman centurions in "ICE" vests.

Near Boston, Mary, Joseph, and Jesus are absent from a Nativity scene, replaced with a sign reading "ICE was here."

It's all part of growing religious blowback to ICE. religionnews.com/2025/12/05/i...
ICE Nativity scenes: Churches reimagine Christmas story amid deportations
(RNS) — 'We know that Jesus was born into a Roman imperial occupation, and pretty much immediately becomes a refugee in Egypt, has to flee and faces political violence,' the Rev. Michael Woolf said.
religionnews.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
The Roberts Six have thoroughly politicized the Court and turned it into a reliable arm of the RNC.

Democrats should have no reservations about calling them out for it, demanding resignations from these bought-off hacks and running on a promise to enact sweeping reforms.
December 5, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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pbump.com
And there's the motive.
Pipe bomb suspect told FBI he believed 2020 election conspiracy theories
The suspect has been cooperating with the FBI, according to sources, and is expected to make his first court appearance on Friday.
www.nbcnews.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Multiple sources confirm the Albanese government has pushed lobbyists and industry groups to use encrypted messages and verbal briefings when proposing policy ideas, to avoid FOI and disclosure requirements. Read more: satpa.pe/h3OmIrz
December 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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edzitron.com
February 2022
www.wheresyoured.at/mark-zuckerb...
Mark Zuckerberg Is A Liar, And He's Lying To You About The Metaverse
December 5, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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edzitron.com
This is the conclusion, which I'm pulling out from behind the paywall because it'll probably be a free newsletter or podcast one day. I think the AI era is a reckoning for the tech industry, one where consumers finally realize they're being abused.
And I fundamentally believe the generative AI era is one where the tech industry has gone too far. Regular people are furious about AI - they hate it, it upsets them, it’s revolting, in part because of what it does, in part because it’s being forced upon them everywhere. It feels like the final insult from a tech industry that fundamentally turned on the customer, the ugliest form of the Rot Economy that defied consumers’ wants and needs in favor of what would inspire a market disconnected from any real value creation. They’ve watched the tech industry spend 10 years making its products worse as a means of expressing growth, and then crested that era by adding the world’s least-reliable, most-annoying software in ways that have become all but unavoidable. Technology is no longer synonymous with progress, but with a kind of parasitic gaslighting that tells us that if we don’t pray at the feet of whoever “the geniuses” are at any given time that we’re morons, that we’ll get replaced, that we’ll be poor, jobless, ignorant or unworthy of having any part of the future. The products being made by the tech industry no longer feel like they’re made for any living human being, but the abstraction of a person created in the mind of a product manager in Palo Alto or a venture capitalist that hasn’t set foot in a city in a decade. These people believe that the best products at the ones that must be forced upon users, who in turn will adapt to how the product works versus making products that solve a problem that a customer already has. Silicon Valley no longer leads us - it attacks us with ideas until we either give in or are tricked into engaging with Copilot on Word or Gemini on Google Docs or accidentally brush an AI button or because our bosses tell us “you need to be AI-first” without knowing what the fuck that means. The tech industry is well-known for finding ways to keep people on platforms, but has never had to face an era where it had to get people to come bac…
December 5, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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drewmagary.bsky.social
Seven years ago today www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/663641...
The Night the Lights Went Out by Drew Magary: 9780593232712 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A fascinating, darkly funny comeback story of learning to live with a broken mind after a near-fatal traumatic brain injury—from the acclaimed author of The Hike “Drew Magary has produced...
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December 5, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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earleyedition.bsky.social
With dozens of new investments in datacentres in Sydney and Melbourne, water demand to service datacentres in Sydney alone is forecast to be larger than the volume of Canberra’s total drinking water within the next decade. buff.ly/1IFyQ9J
Thirsty work: how the rise of massive datacentres strains Australia’s drinking water supply
The demand for use in cooling in Sydney alone is expected to exceed the volume of Canberra’s total drinking water within the next decade
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December 5, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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coupdegraz7.bsky.social
#auspol #robodebt
December 5, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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milokei.bsky.social
Tim 'I'm the real victim here' Wilson quite happy to conduct his Goldstein campaign like the bombing of Dresden. No safe space, no quarter given, ruthlessly attack. Charming.

Perhaps worse is the murky influence of '3rd party' outfits like Advance. This is how democracy is undermined.

#Auspol
While there was a clear rise in hostility at booths around the country, Goldstein seems to have reached another level, with almost an entire day of hearings put aside for Daniel campaigners, who say they faced aggression that left them afraid to wear their t-shirts or travel alone in public (police, in fact, advised them to travel in groups). Submission 108, which came from a collective of Daniel volunteers, described various examples of being screamed at and threatened, with letters distributed to supporters’ letterboxes accusing them of antisemitism and saying they were “no longer welcome in this neighbourhood”. Much of this aggressive behaviour is ascribed to volunteers for third-party organisations, including Repeal the Teal, the Teals Revealed and Advance, all of whom were present on booths advocating for voters to put Daniel last. But various submissions say campaigners often swapped between third-party and Liberal shirts, with one individual photographed in each. A number of Daniel volunteers who identify as Jewish say they faced particularly horrific abuse from third-party group J-United, whose volunteers regularly accused them of being “self-hating Jews”. Daniel campaign analyst and rabbi Yaron Gottleib, who also appeared at the November 12 hearing, collated a survey of harrowing experiences (submission 104), with one Jewish teal supporter told he was “a kapo of the antisemite”, while another had his small business threatened for putting up a campaign poster. The evidence of Daniel’s son Arkin (21:30 in the hearing recording, transcript here) was also harrowing, describing the “intimidation and abuse” that became part of everyday life for the Daniel-Reid family, from tailgating to doxxing to being told by one campaigner that “your mum is a bitch”. As Arkin told the inquiry, Wilson never condemned what was happening to his opponent, going so far as to accuse Daniel of “using” the doxxing incident “for political gain”. Daniel did not herself give evidence at the hearing, but tells Crikey: “The campaign was divisive and toxic and it shouldn’t be this way. I hope the Liberal Party takes a good hard look at itself and its tactics. No candidate or community member should feel intimidated when engaging with the election process.”
December 5, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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proftimstephens.bsky.social
“In his speech Tony Abbott said conservative parties should adopt the Trump position that “there is no climate crisis” and abandon the pursuit of net zero emissions.”

It’s 2025 and Abbott, Australia’s worst ever PM,
is still waging a culture war against physics.

www.smh.com.au/world/north-...
It’s your own fault you are losing, Abbott tells world’s conservatives
The former prime minister also met privately with US Vice President J.D. Vance during his trip to Washington.
www.smh.com.au
December 5, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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3wombats.bsky.social
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How Australia Can Smash Monetary Myths
By Denis Hay   Description: Smash Monetary Myths Think Australia must “live within its means”? Discover how monetary myths block progress – and how truth could unlock a fairer economy for all. 🎧 Prefe...
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December 5, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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alisru.bsky.social
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The message is a chilling effect; exposing the nexus between powerful corporate interests and organized crime carries the risk of extreme personal violence, a risk that the state may be unable to prevent.
#auspol
The Coronation and the Fire: An Investigation into Jordan Shanks, Political Power, and Organised Crime in New South Wales
An investigation into the firebombing of Jordan Shanks' home and its connection to political power and organised crime in NSW.
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December 5, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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stilgherrian.com
NEW NEWSLETTER: “The Weekly Cybers #96” buttondown.com/stilgherrian...

Australia gets a National AI Plan without safety “guardrails”, the social media age restrictions are just five days away, the government is to target “dark patterns”, and much more.
The Weekly Cybers #96
Australia gets a National AI Plan without safety “guardrails”, the social media age restrictions are just five days away, the government is to target “dark patterns”, and much more.
buttondown.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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ketanjoshi.co
HEY FRIENDS!! Did you know that Australia - #2 in the world for data centre investment - is now formally missing its climate targets thanks in large part to the resulting surge in power demand?

It's massive news - @crikey.com.au let me NERD OUT to explain why:

www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/04/d...
Artificial intelligence and data centres Australia is building domestic capabilities in artificial intelligence. Home chevron_right Do business with Australia chevron_right Explore a sector chevron_right Technology chevron_right AI and data centres On this page Helping to power digital transformation Australian AI Industry Capability Report Why buy Australian AI Why invest in Australia Strategic location as a data centre hub Australia emerges as an AI powerhouse How we can help Success stories Incentives, grants and support Snapshot - Data centres Snapshot - Artificial Intelligence Strategic direction Industry and research ecosystem How Austrade can help Helping to power digital transformation Australia is becoming a regional data centre hub, and a global leader for artificial intelligence (AI). We are helping to power digital transformation in the Asia Pacific and the adoption of artificial intelligence technologies scross broad sectors. Our economy hosts an outsized AI industry, including over 1,100 private AI companies. Adoption of AI is strong across society, with over 400 public firms developing or deploying AI solutions. Our vibrant AI ecosystem and proximity to Asia means we are becoming a service provider for the region, with AI-related patents quadrupling over the past decade. Sydney and Melbourne are both top-ten data centre markets in the Asia-Pacific region. Australia’s abundance of renewable energy resources means we are a great location for regional, green data centres. This includes supplying Asia via subsea cables. Australia aims to become a global leader in developing and adopting trusted, secure and responsible artificial intelligence, led by the National Artificial Intelligence Centre. Australian AI Industry Capability Report Unlocking potential with Australian AI, an industry capability report on Australia’s capabilities and expertise in artificial intelligence, highlights the achievements of Australian companies in the growing sector. Austra…
December 4, 2025 at 11:19 PM