@sasansandy.bsky.social
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I have no doubt that most of the rats who flee the Coalition in this term will be fleeing because they think it isn't culture-warry enough and these people will infest and overwhelm any alternative that looks like getting traction.
December 14, 2025 at 3:12 AM
I have no doubt that most of the rats who flee the Coalition in this term will be fleeing because they think it isn't culture-warry enough and these people will infest and overwhelm any alternative that looks like getting traction.
I recently read Edward Said's 'The Question of Palestine' originally published in 1979. In it he proposed a potential future, sadly the shallowness of our thought and understanding failed to appreciate an alternative.
Thanks for your analysis.
Thanks for your analysis.
I’ve removed the paywall on this essay about the unhinged Zionist rubbish recently spouted by Christos Tsiolkas. sakr.substack.com/p/christos-t...
Christos Tsiolkas Is Switched Off In the Genocide
Amid the massacres, he moans
sakr.substack.com
December 13, 2025 at 7:29 AM
I recently read Edward Said's 'The Question of Palestine' originally published in 1979. In it he proposed a potential future, sadly the shallowness of our thought and understanding failed to appreciate an alternative.
Thanks for your analysis.
Thanks for your analysis.
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In 1984, Frankie Goes to Hollywood released a reverent nativity song with no irony and found something modern Christianity often misses – Christmas as myth, not argument, writes Adrian Rosenfeldt. #Christmas #Mythos #PopularCulture #MusicAndMeaning #FaithAndArt
Frankie Goes to Bethlehem: myth, music and the power of love
In 1984, Frankie Goes to Hollywood released a reverent nativity ballad that revealed how myth, music and Christmas still speak beyond belief.
johnmenadue.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:15 PM
In 1984, Frankie Goes to Hollywood released a reverent nativity song with no irony and found something modern Christianity often misses – Christmas as myth, not argument, writes Adrian Rosenfeldt. #Christmas #Mythos #PopularCulture #MusicAndMeaning #FaithAndArt
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You'd normally have to go to the coincidence factory to see a coincidence that perfect.
Scoop: the pro-teen social media ban lobby group 36 Months was funded & co-staffed by its co-founder's ad production firm that was simultaneously making gambling ads
The federal government has ignored calls for a gambling ad ban while pursuing the social media ban.
www.crikey.com.au/20...
The federal government has ignored calls for a gambling ad ban while pursuing the social media ban.
www.crikey.com.au/20...
December 12, 2025 at 7:53 AM
You'd normally have to go to the coincidence factory to see a coincidence that perfect.
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Stealworkers
Time Magazine person of the year is a bunch of ai slop peddlers. I've got a very specific beef with how this trash billionaire mouthpiece rag is stealing the valor of real American heroes to promote these rapacious techbro douchebags.
December 12, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Stealworkers
On-line gambling... truly and absolutely disappointing.
Creeps
Creeps
The @cameronwilson.bsky.social / @crikey.com.au coverage of the wildly vested interests behind Australia's teen social media ban has been amazing
www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/12/p...
www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/11/3...
www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/12/p...
www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/11/3...
Teen social media ban lobby group 36 Months funded and co-staffed by firm making gambling ads
The revelation comes as the government is expected to abandon plans for an online gambling ad ban, using the teen social media ban as cover.
www.crikey.com.au
December 12, 2025 at 11:31 AM
On-line gambling... truly and absolutely disappointing.
Creeps
Creeps
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What's lacking is 'the will to implement safety by design'
Australia’s under-16 social media ban is a landmark moment – but access bans alone won’t stop online harm. Evidence shows safety-by-design and a legal digital duty of care are what really protect children, writes Joel Scanlan.
#OnlineSafety #ChildProtection #DigitalPolicy #TechAccountability #AusPol
#OnlineSafety #ChildProtection #DigitalPolicy #TechAccountability #AusPol
Beyond the under-16 ban: online safety must be built in, not bolted on
As Australia’s under-16 social media ban comes into force, blocking access alone won’t stop online harm. Real protection depends on safety-by-design and a legal digital duty of care built into platforms themselves.
johnmenadue.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:48 PM
What's lacking is 'the will to implement safety by design'
Excellent indeed
Analogies to nuclear and Santa prescient
Analogies to nuclear and Santa prescient
Excellent piece by old mate Peter Lewis. He calmly and clearly calls ‘shenanigans’ on all the magical thinking and chicanery around AI. Well worth five minutes of your time. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Albanese is taking away social media for children but hanging out mistletoe for AI. It’s magical thinking | Peter Lewis
The PM won big by convincing us we could avoid the madness of Donald Trump’s new world order but Labor’s feeble AI plan embeds Australia deeply in its orbit
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Excellent indeed
Analogies to nuclear and Santa prescient
Analogies to nuclear and Santa prescient
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the campaign against Wells is specifically designed to remind Albanese not to try anything opposed by corporates like murdoch (including the ABC).
So of the top 30 biggest spenders of family reunion entitlements, Anika Wells is 28th
And within that top 30 most are from non-East Coast state which means airfares will cost more
The entire ‘scandal’ is bullshit
And within that top 30 most are from non-East Coast state which means airfares will cost more
The entire ‘scandal’ is bullshit
December 10, 2025 at 9:14 AM
the campaign against Wells is specifically designed to remind Albanese not to try anything opposed by corporates like murdoch (including the ABC).
And then there's also on-line gambling!
Hypocrites.....
Hypocrites.....
Just a reminder the media org that has been trumpeting that it cares about kids and their futures and wants social media banned is the same that worldwide has been running climate change disinformation and lies, ensuring the kids will live in a worse world
The November monthly temperatures have been released and 2025 looks set to be the 2nd hottest year on record.
Remember when warming apparently stopped in 1997?
That is more than 0.5C ago.
Remember when warming apparently stopped in 1997?
That is more than 0.5C ago.
December 10, 2025 at 9:07 AM
And then there's also on-line gambling!
Hypocrites.....
Hypocrites.....
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Because too much liability? Doesn't seem to trouble the existing operators. Anyway, as public utilities they could be granted a degree of legislated immunity, if that is really necessary.
Because too complex to implement? Nonsense. There is existing, mature open-source software available.
Because too complex to implement? Nonsense. There is existing, mature open-source software available.
December 10, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Because too much liability? Doesn't seem to trouble the existing operators. Anyway, as public utilities they could be granted a degree of legislated immunity, if that is really necessary.
Because too complex to implement? Nonsense. There is existing, mature open-source software available.
Because too complex to implement? Nonsense. There is existing, mature open-source software available.
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Absolutely stunning to see Australia's teen social media ban rushed through while every single government, educational institution and probably a huge number of parents are frantically force-injecting chatbot slop into the mind of every single child in the country without a second's hesitation
‘I feel it’s a friend’: quarter of teenagers turn to AI chatbots for mental health support www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
‘I feel it’s a friend’: quarter of teenagers turn to AI chatbots for mental health support
Experts warn of dangers as England and Wales study shows 13- to 17-year-olds consulting AI amid long waiting lists for services
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Absolutely stunning to see Australia's teen social media ban rushed through while every single government, educational institution and probably a huge number of parents are frantically force-injecting chatbot slop into the mind of every single child in the country without a second's hesitation
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In a time when governments need to learn, they continually demonstrate that they have learned exactly nothing. Government is about being the custodian of the well-being of 26 million people - this is not custodianship, it's incompetence bordering on negligence.
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 5:17 AM
In a time when governments need to learn, they continually demonstrate that they have learned exactly nothing. Government is about being the custodian of the well-being of 26 million people - this is not custodianship, it's incompetence bordering on negligence.
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Labor's stacked committee just recommended passing their FOI destruction bill - despite overwhelming evidence AGAINST it.
Greens, Coalition, Lambie AND Pocock all filed dissenting reports. When everyone else says no, maybe listen?
Greens, Coalition, Lambie AND Pocock all filed dissenting reports. When everyone else says no, maybe listen?
December 3, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Labor's stacked committee just recommended passing their FOI destruction bill - despite overwhelming evidence AGAINST it.
Greens, Coalition, Lambie AND Pocock all filed dissenting reports. When everyone else says no, maybe listen?
Greens, Coalition, Lambie AND Pocock all filed dissenting reports. When everyone else says no, maybe listen?
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We know FOI is broken: late responses, heavy redactions, missing documents. Labor's bill fixes none of this and would make many aspects worse.
Time to abandon this hubris-driven attack on transparency and start again. This is the Greens recommendation in our dissenting report
Time to abandon this hubris-driven attack on transparency and start again. This is the Greens recommendation in our dissenting report
December 3, 2025 at 4:29 AM
We know FOI is broken: late responses, heavy redactions, missing documents. Labor's bill fixes none of this and would make many aspects worse.
Time to abandon this hubris-driven attack on transparency and start again. This is the Greens recommendation in our dissenting report
Time to abandon this hubris-driven attack on transparency and start again. This is the Greens recommendation in our dissenting report
Gorgeous day, young man just delivered 20 bales of lucerne hay to help the garden over summer. We chatted as he unloaded. He spoke lovingly of grandparents recently passed. Young people are our future.
December 3, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Gorgeous day, young man just delivered 20 bales of lucerne hay to help the garden over summer. We chatted as he unloaded. He spoke lovingly of grandparents recently passed. Young people are our future.
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Useful thread.
Let's say, extremely hypothetically, this social media age ban works. Under-16s are effectively blocked from mainstream social media platforms. What happens?
They'll look for non-mainstream platforms. Spoiler: it could get quite bad.
Thread.
They'll look for non-mainstream platforms. Spoiler: it could get quite bad.
Thread.
Okay, so now it’s law but we still don’t know how we’re going to do it or where we’re going to do it or who will be responsible for doing it or who will (I hope) be stopping it from becoming yet another mass privacy invasion by the social media platforms. Great. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
December 3, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Useful thread.
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Australia’s response to Gaza isn’t ignorance – it’s deliberate forgetting. Silence becomes strategy when truth threatens power, writes Jaron Sutton. #Gaza #HumanRights #Australia #Genocide #PoliticalSilence #InternationalLaw
The politics of forgetting: Australia, Gaza and moral silence
From the “Great Australian Silence” to Gaza, deliberate forgetting has long provided political cover for injustice. Silence, not ignorance, is the problem.
johnmenadue.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Australia’s response to Gaza isn’t ignorance – it’s deliberate forgetting. Silence becomes strategy when truth threatens power, writes Jaron Sutton. #Gaza #HumanRights #Australia #Genocide #PoliticalSilence #InternationalLaw
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Yesterday a discussion on the ABC about house sharing for older Aussies..."Could this be a solution to our housing crisis?"
I sent a text in. To their credit, they read it - "We're literally going to explore every Mickey Mouse idea EXCEPT neg. gearing & property hoarding, aren't we?"
I sent a text in. To their credit, they read it - "We're literally going to explore every Mickey Mouse idea EXCEPT neg. gearing & property hoarding, aren't we?"
December 2, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Yesterday a discussion on the ABC about house sharing for older Aussies..."Could this be a solution to our housing crisis?"
I sent a text in. To their credit, they read it - "We're literally going to explore every Mickey Mouse idea EXCEPT neg. gearing & property hoarding, aren't we?"
I sent a text in. To their credit, they read it - "We're literally going to explore every Mickey Mouse idea EXCEPT neg. gearing & property hoarding, aren't we?"
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David Pop in Canberra Times
December 2, 2025 at 8:37 AM
David Pop in Canberra Times
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Really nice to chat to @petrastock.bsky.social about what data centres are doing to Australia's climate ambitions!! More on this from me coming very soon!!!
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
December 2, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Really nice to chat to @petrastock.bsky.social about what data centres are doing to Australia's climate ambitions!! More on this from me coming very soon!!!
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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New preprint! @marentierra.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I have been working on what CAIL means to showcase & propagate the idea of thinking very differently to tech industry norms on "artificial intelligence"
Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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December 2, 2025 at 6:58 AM
New preprint! @marentierra.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I have been working on what CAIL means to showcase & propagate the idea of thinking very differently to tech industry norms on "artificial intelligence"
Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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"Watch what Trump's inner cohort -- in particular, Kushner -- wants to do to Ukraine and what they want to do to Gaza, because it indicates what they want to do to the world at large."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jymh...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jymh...
Trump Ties to Russian Mob, Sarah Kendzior
YouTube video by The Mark Thompson Show
www.youtube.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:40 PM
"Watch what Trump's inner cohort -- in particular, Kushner -- wants to do to Ukraine and what they want to do to Gaza, because it indicates what they want to do to the world at large."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jymh...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jymh...
Sigh....
December 2, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Sigh....