Harry T Knowles
@selden45.bsky.social
Retired academic historian of business and labour, very ordinary guitarist who loves jazz rock and blues and my kelpie. Mid coast NSW 🇦🇺
“(I’m not exaggerating. It took me five minutes to set up a commercial AI chatbot to review the world’s news, pick an event, create a contradictory account, and generate an entire news website with several articles written about it…)”
This should make life easy🙄
www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/16/e...
This should make life easy🙄
www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/16/e...
Bondi lie peddled by Elon Musk's AI chatbot shows the future of our AI-poisoned information ecosystem
In the hours after the Bondi Beach mass shooting, AI misinformation began to eat its own tail, with Musk's X bot absorbing and regurgitating AI-generated lies in record time.
www.crikey.com.au
December 17, 2025 at 12:37 AM
“(I’m not exaggerating. It took me five minutes to set up a commercial AI chatbot to review the world’s news, pick an event, create a contradictory account, and generate an entire news website with several articles written about it…)”
This should make life easy🙄
www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/16/e...
This should make life easy🙄
www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/16/e...
Well said. Deserves to be widely read and absorbed.
September 21, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Well said. Deserves to be widely read and absorbed.
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This needs to be all over the news, radio, & social media. Truly something worth caring about and such obvious nepotism/corruption is something that can collectively unite (and ignite) a country in righteous fury.
#auspol #Danby #NT
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
#auspol #Danby #NT
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
NT prosecutors file appeal against fatal hit-and-run driver's sentence
The NT's Director of Public Prosecutions has filed an appeal against the sentence of hit-and-run driver Jake Danby, who killed one Aboriginal man and injured another.
www.abc.net.au
September 19, 2025 at 1:39 AM
This needs to be all over the news, radio, & social media. Truly something worth caring about and such obvious nepotism/corruption is something that can collectively unite (and ignite) a country in righteous fury.
#auspol #Danby #NT
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
#auspol #Danby #NT
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
Sign the petition calling for a National Firearms Register – a reform first pledged in 1996 that is critical to preventing future tragedies in Australia.
nb.australiainstitute.org.au/australia_ne...
nb.australiainstitute.org.au/australia_ne...
✍️ PETITION: Australia Needs a National Firearms Register
Our research has revealed there are now more licenced firearms in Australia than before the 1996 Port Arthur massacre. ✍️ Add your name to call on the Federal Government to urgently establish a Nation...
nb.australiainstitute.org.au
September 10, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Sign the petition calling for a National Firearms Register – a reform first pledged in 1996 that is critical to preventing future tragedies in Australia.
nb.australiainstitute.org.au/australia_ne...
nb.australiainstitute.org.au/australia_ne...
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/07... %26 Irritations
Can things get much worse in our universities? As a one time contributor to the ADB proposed staff reductions appalls me.
Can things get much worse in our universities? As a one time contributor to the ADB proposed staff reductions appalls me.
Change proposals risk relegating ANU to middle-ranking regional uni
Well known historian and long-time ANU staff member, Frank Bongiorno, says he has never seen, such a lack of vision, such a vacuum of ideas, such general disorganisation, nor such cavalier decision-ma...
johnmenadue.com
July 24, 2025 at 2:05 AM
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/07... %26 Irritations
Can things get much worse in our universities? As a one time contributor to the ADB proposed staff reductions appalls me.
Can things get much worse in our universities? As a one time contributor to the ADB proposed staff reductions appalls me.
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I taught 125 students last semester in Sin City? A History of Sydney @sydney.edu.au . My colleague, James Findley, taught far more in introductory Australian history. Semester 2 I'm coordinating a course with 328+ students. I don't know why our numbers are growing in History at Usyd, but they are.
July 21, 2025 at 10:39 AM
I taught 125 students last semester in Sin City? A History of Sydney @sydney.edu.au . My colleague, James Findley, taught far more in introductory Australian history. Semester 2 I'm coordinating a course with 328+ students. I don't know why our numbers are growing in History at Usyd, but they are.
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/ju...
Justice for Kumanjayi White
Warlpiri people and supporters are mobilising for justice and for systemic change in response to the horrific death in custody of Kumanjayi White. These immediate demands stem from deep grievances abo...
www.megaphone.org.au
June 23, 2025 at 2:51 AM
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/ju...
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The Nazis called this Nacht und Nebel, “Night and Fog.” It was adopted as a deliberate, conscious policy in late 1941 to terrorise occupied populations.
June 20, 2025 at 8:31 AM
The Nazis called this Nacht und Nebel, “Night and Fog.” It was adopted as a deliberate, conscious policy in late 1941 to terrorise occupied populations.
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/ho...
Homes For All
All the evidence from experts is clear. We need to:
• Massively increase the supply of housing;
• Boost social housing;
• Scale back negative gearing and reassess tax breaks for wealthy landlords;
• D...
www.megaphone.org.au
June 11, 2025 at 12:04 PM
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/ho...
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June 9, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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A gas exploration drilling rig has appeared within sight of one of Australia’s most loved natural wonders, the 12 Apostles.
We don’t need to turn our iconic natural wonders into gas fields. We need to prioritise Australians over exports.
@emmashortis.bsky.social went to take a look ⤵️
We don’t need to turn our iconic natural wonders into gas fields. We need to prioritise Australians over exports.
@emmashortis.bsky.social went to take a look ⤵️
There's a huge new gas rig looming over our 12 Apostles
YouTube video by The Australia Institute
youtu.be
May 12, 2025 at 6:58 AM
A gas exploration drilling rig has appeared within sight of one of Australia’s most loved natural wonders, the 12 Apostles.
We don’t need to turn our iconic natural wonders into gas fields. We need to prioritise Australians over exports.
@emmashortis.bsky.social went to take a look ⤵️
We don’t need to turn our iconic natural wonders into gas fields. We need to prioritise Australians over exports.
@emmashortis.bsky.social went to take a look ⤵️
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A spokesperson for the UN warned that regimes such as Russia could use footage of the debate to bore prisoners to death.
Albanese/Dutton Debate Declared a ‘Form of Torture’ Under United Nations Human Rights Charter — The Shovel
A spokesperson for the UN warned that regimes such as Russia could use footage of the debate to bore prisoners to death.
theshovel.com.au
April 8, 2025 at 11:42 PM
A spokesperson for the UN warned that regimes such as Russia could use footage of the debate to bore prisoners to death.
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The Prime Minister wants to introduce new laws to let destructive salmon corporations bypass environmental protections. I've signed the @australiainstitute.org.au petition to protect the Maugean skate - will you join me?
nb.australiainstitute.org.au/end_salmon_f...
nb.australiainstitute.org.au/end_salmon_f...
End salmon farming in Macquarie Harbour—protect the skate
nb.australiainstitute.org.au
March 19, 2025 at 6:48 AM
The Prime Minister wants to introduce new laws to let destructive salmon corporations bypass environmental protections. I've signed the @australiainstitute.org.au petition to protect the Maugean skate - will you join me?
nb.australiainstitute.org.au/end_salmon_f...
nb.australiainstitute.org.au/end_salmon_f...
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I just signed @australiainstitute.org.au's petition: End salmon farming in Macquarie Harbour—protect the skate. Will you join me? nb.australiainstitute.org.au/end_salmon_f...
End salmon farming in Macquarie Harbour—protect the skate
nb.australiainstitute.org.au
February 27, 2025 at 4:10 AM
I just signed @australiainstitute.org.au's petition: End salmon farming in Macquarie Harbour—protect the skate. Will you join me? nb.australiainstitute.org.au/end_salmon_f...
@vodafone-australia.bsky.social. I live in Corlette NSW. Still no mobile phone service since 15 Jan. outage. When will this be fixed.
January 16, 2025 at 10:10 PM
@vodafone-australia.bsky.social. I live in Corlette NSW. Still no mobile phone service since 15 Jan. outage. When will this be fixed.
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Love this.
January 11, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Love this.
