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rachelwithers.bsky.social
Oh yes, kindergartens, those incubators of hate.

Imagine if the same approach was considered to address all forms of bigotry, or violence against women, or any of the issues that are genuinely rampant among the population.
December 18, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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wes.readonlymemo.com
And there's a whole article you can read after the headline, too! Here it is.

Sharing links to writing you appreciate really does make a huge difference even for publications of our size.
Microsoft's head of AI doesn't understand why people don't like AI, and I don't understand why he doesn't understand because it's pretty obvious
Is it really "mindblowing" that people are skeptical of software that consistently doesn't do the things we're told it can do?
www.pcgamer.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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rodcampbell.bsky.social
Important piece on how Aus gets it wrong on jobs.

"for every entry-level job advertised in Australia, there are 39 people on JobSeeker competing for it. Last year it was 33. The year before that, 26."

Anglicare boss Kasy Chambers on @thepointau.bsky.social

thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
We're having the wrong conversation about unemployment
The point.com.au
thepoint.com.au
November 20, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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rodcampbell.bsky.social
Cracking piece on Albo/Murray Watt's terrible env law proposals.

@richarddenniss.bsky.social in @thepointau.bsky.social today...

thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
How many extra possums does it take to compensate for a dead platypus?
That’s the kind of calculation a bureaucrat would literally have to make under Environment Minister Murray Watt’s new ‘environmental laws’.
thepoint.com.au
November 18, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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milokei.bsky.social
The moral repugnance of conditional unemployment benefits had been with us for a very long time. Here however is conclusive evidence of unlawful practices to keep punishing those receiving benefits.

This is after a RC into #RoboDebt. Breathtakingly savage. #Auspol #ALP
jeremypoxon.bsky.social Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · Nov 16
NEW: I have obtained, under FOI, a secret Department report that initially recommended the Targeted Compliance Framework - aka, the unlawful "mutual obligations" scheme

It reveals that, like Robodebt, they recklessly built this thing to punish "entitled" frauds who never existed
"Other job seekers who fail to meet their requirements are not interested in finding work, either because they have other sources of undeclared income or because they see their payments as an entitlement for which they should not have to do anything in return. For these job seekers, strong penalties are required to send a clear message that those who are unwilling to meet their mutual obligation requirements will not receive income support. Based on these findings, a new compliance system is proposed that will address the weaknesses of the current model and deliver the objectives of this review. This new framework will include: • Greater autonomy and emphasis on personal responsibility for most job seekers. • Better identification of factors impacting job seeker capability before penalties are applied. • Targeting of significantly tougher compliance penalties at job seekers who have demonstrated they are not genuine in meeting their requirements. • Greater simplicity through more consistency in the design and application of compliance rules for different types of failures Recommendation 1: Targeted Compliance Framework The new approach will be based around a targeted compliance framework which consists of two phases – a personal responsibility phase for the majority of job seekers who generally meet their requirements and an intensive compliance phase which will apply strong penalties to persistently non-compliant job seekers. The system will be bolstered by new technologies to assist job seekers in monitoring their requirements, and multiple interventions to identify when factors impacting the job seekers ability to comply or inappropriate requirements may be preventing a genuine job seeker from meeting their requirements."
November 17, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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jeremypoxon.bsky.social
The ideological commitment to punishing welfare recipients is a true sickness

Here, the Department endorses the use of payment suspensions to get victims of domestic violence to disclose their circumstances

There is a word for using punishment to extract information out of people: torture
"Key observations from jobactive sites Non-Attendance Report (NAR) - Payment suspension All providers believe the NAR (suspending income support payments until the job seeker contacts the provider and attends a re-engagement appointment) is an extremely effective tool. Some providers used this process as a means of getting the job seeker to disclose personal issues preventing their compliance and employment (eg; domestic violence). Discretion There are varied work practices from one site to the next (even within the same organisation) regarding the use of discretion and whether it is recorded in the department’s IT system. It is common practice to exercise discretion when a job seeker misses their first appointment, as the employment consultant does not have any detailed background on the job seeker prior to meeting them. One of the larger providers visited has a company-wide policy of simply rescheduling missed appointments when exercising discretion and not recording DNAD. Case studies have also shown that the discretion is often the default when the compliance framework cannot be used. It is therefore likely that the department’s data on the use of discretion understates its true application."
November 17, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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jeremypoxon.bsky.social
This report is a masterclass of maladministration, contempt for the law, ideological malice - and plain stupidity

The Department unshakably believes there are frauds in their system, but can't provide any actual evidence because they [checks notes] don't interact enough with people in the system
"Key observations from DHS sites Persistent non-compliance There was broad agreement from DHS staff that there is a small group of persistently non-compliant job seekers, who knew the compliance system well and were used to cycling through Comprehensive Compliance Assessments (CCAs). Many in this group learned to live with the application of three failures before undertaking another CCA in effect receiving an ongoing reduced payment without meeting their full requirements. While in some instances, these job seekers were cancelled from payment as they were judged to be non-genuine job seekers, DHS staff cited cancellation as ineffective because there is no payment preclusion period for non-genuine job seekers. Payment can be re-granted very shortly after cancellation, without the need to serve any (non-standard) waiting period or prove that they are looking for work at the point of claim. Cancelling payment was also cited as often problematic as the current compliance model does not provide for a cancellation penalty as a direct outcome of a failure. Unless the job seeker states they have no intention of complying with requirements at all, the case for cancellation thus requires PST staff to clearly demonstrate how the job seeker’s actions showed they were non-genuine. DHS staff stated that often they may not have had enough dealings with a particular job seeker to determine if they are a non-genuine. Some staff considered that providers should be making this decision due to this difficulty rather than DHS which would require providers to be delegated to make this decision."
November 17, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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durlauf.bsky.social
5/ Please do not suggest that there is any sense in which Summers contributions are unique or essential, that is simply nonsense. It is not how social science works, with exceptions too rare to disprove a general rule.
November 15, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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davemilbo.bsky.social
Anyone else noticed how Nazi rallies get the go-ahead fairly easily from state governments, then the horrified public reaction is weaponised to pass anti-protest laws, which are then used to quash anti-genocide dissent and justify police assaults on small brown women? You picking up on this, too??
November 13, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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ingridm.bsky.social
do you view this group as dangerous extremists? We need to judge it on the behaviour of the group says Lanyon. We have to take it on a case by case basis he says. He says it was “peaceful”.

What a coinkidink that police doing nothing results in no “clashes” with nazis at a nazi rally.
November 9, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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ingridm.bsky.social
the ABC is now headlining Rivchyn upping support for more police powers to stop nazi rallies that police choose not to stop. They keep calling the nazi rally a protest, a lie. Police exercising discretionary powers to not criminalise whites is routine policing practice, yet media can not report it.
November 8, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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ingridm.bsky.social
if everyone committing acts punishable by five years imprisonment were seen as having mere lapses of judgement, we could defund the police.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
Premier knows he's taking a risk with new police commissioner
For newly-announced Police Commissioner Mal Lanyon, Wednesday morning would have been both one of his proudest moments, and his most uncomfortable.
www.abc.net.au
September 24, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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skasaha.bsky.social
A threat to arbitrarily revoke support is a threat to starve the most vulnerable. She is infinitely more violent than those she demeans.
November 6, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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@tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social has been on Sky News to finally respond to the below groups who have asked her to hear our concerns about the separation of powers, due process and unintended consequences.

She has dismissed these concerns in the vilest way possible.
Australia Institute Live — Daily Updates
Stay updated with the latest from The Australia Institute.
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November 6, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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maximumwelfare.bsky.social
Egregious defamation of social services/disability/community legal sectors, advocates & crossbench on Sky News by Social Sevices Minister @tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social, accusing us ALL of supporting rape, murder & child abuse.

Labor's amendments supported by:

- Police Federation of Aus
- Coalition
JAYES: Who's saying that? MINISTER PLIBERSEK: To support them while they're on the run from the law. Yes, absolutely, there are senators- JAYES: There are senators who want the taxpayer to pay for fugitives on the run? MINISTER PLIBERSEK: To subsidise, yes, yes. This is the madness- JAYES: Who are they? MINISTER PLIBERSEK: -and the debate that we're facing at the moment, and people- JAYES: Who are these people? MINISTER PLIBERSEK: Well, you know, people can gave a look at that. Well, Senator Thorpe is one example and we've got, I mean, it's certainly a debate worth watching. We've got people in the community who are saying that people who are on the run for crimes like rape and murder and child abuse should continue to receive those payments to maintain them while they're on the run. It's madness.
November 6, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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davidshoebridge.bsky.social
This announcement leaves so many unanswered questions:
- Why is Brereton still a Major-General in the ADF?
- What happens to all the defence referrals he has been working on, and making decisions on, until now?
- Why is he paid over $800k a year not to work on defence referrals?
October 31, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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davidshoebridge.bsky.social
BREAKING: NACC Commissioner finally bows to public pressure and steps aside from all defence-related corruption referrals.

This is a major-general backdown from Commissioner Brereton who, up until now, tried to stare down the growing public revolt over the conflicts of interest.
October 31, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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deepcutnews.bsky.social
The Carlton Blues are facing a backlash from their fanbase in Melbourne's north after firing the club mascot for refusing to participate in a pro-Israel fundraiser

www.deepcutnews.com/p/im-disgust...
'I'm disgusted' – Carlton fans in Melbourne's north feel betrayed after mascot's sacking
AFL club faces backlash from supporters after firing its mascot for refusing to participate in a pro-Israel fundraiser.
www.deepcutnews.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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davemilbo.bsky.social
The government sending their "we're not complicit, but..." talking points to APAN is fucking hilarious

www.deepcutnews.com/p/exclusive-...
Exclusive: Australian government’s full talking points on Gaza accidentally sent to Palestinian advocacy group
Government notes reveal they won’t back Gaza hospital proposed by Dr Mohammed Mustafa
www.deepcutnews.com
October 26, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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grogsgamut.bsky.social
One reason the RBA kept rates steady in Sept was they said the bulk of employment growth was coming from the market sector.. Only problem was that is *completely* wrong.

My article for @thepointau.bsky.social
thepoint.com.au/news/251024-...
RBA makes a major mistake on the job numbers
When the Reserve Bank decided not to cut interest rates at the end of September, numerous reasons were given, but one stands out because it appears to be completely wrong.
thepoint.com.au
October 24, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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slackbastard.bsky.social
8/ Anyway, who knows why nazis feel comfortable jackbooting around Naarm ...
July 2015. A senior VIC policeman and a United Patriots Front fanboy clasp hands outside VIC state parliament after another successful Islamophobic rally, while another fanboy in obligatory speed-dealer sunnies clenches his fist & smiles at the camera.
October 21, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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awelder.bsky.social
The Eureka Stockade didn't take place in Melbourne and was put down by armed forces dispatched from Melbourne. Same with the Kelly Gang. Melbourne, dishing it out and not coping with being on the receiving end
October 21, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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wolvendamien.bsky.social
We. Told. You. So. But also, that "May Rely" in the significance section ( 👇🏾 ) is *way* too… let's go with "generous;" lexical associations and statistical priors are what these systems are literally made of, and all that they do. Literally. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Screenshot of text reading: Significance Large Language Models (LLMs) are used in evaluative tasks across domains. Yet, what appears as alignment with human or expert judgments may conceal a deeper shift in how “judgment” itself is operationalized. Using news outlets as a controlled benchmark, we compare six LLMs to expert ratings and human evaluations under an identical, structured framework. While models often match expert outputs, our results suggest that they may rely on lexical associations and statistical priors rather than contextual reasoning or normative criteria. We term this divergence epistemia: the illusion of knowledge emerging when surface plausibility replaces verification. Our findings suggest not only performance asymmetries but also a shift in the heuristics underlying evaluative processes, raising fundamental questions about delegating judgment to LLMs.
October 17, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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nickfeik.bsky.social
Perhaps worse than the lack of action has been the NACC’s missteps. The public needs to see results or resignations.

New piece, unpaywalled-
Does the NACC have any hope of regaining public trust?
The NACC has over two hundred employees and an annual budget of over $60m, but has yet to land a single major finding from over 5,000 referrals.
open.substack.com
October 17, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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maximumwelfare.bsky.social
Horse race analysis from Narnia. Jim Chalmers is not a master communicator. Tony Burke is not a master tactician or he wouldn't get rinsed in the High Court once a quarter. There is not a single current member of the Australian Parliament who is fit to lead the Labor Party, let alone the country.
October 16, 2025 at 11:18 PM