Donna Wileman
@wellreadtoo.bsky.social
Enjoy all things beautiful and wonderful - nature books music. Tolerate politics because it affects us all - Australia and globally.
Sorry I’m late I saw a dog!
Sorry I’m late I saw a dog!
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Shein is a human rights and environmental abomination.
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Shein is a human rights and environmental abomination.
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Great piece on why politicians lie and how the media falls for it. The right have been doing this to undermine climate action for decades!
This is all so predictable and boring - so why does it keep happening?
www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...
www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...
Facts among the first casualties in war against renewable energy
Opponents to climate action are deliberately using details out of context, and have done so countless times in the past.
www.thenewdaily.com.au
November 20, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Great piece on why politicians lie and how the media falls for it. The right have been doing this to undermine climate action for decades!
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Royce Kurmelovs is one of our best indie journalists. He is on the ground in Belem reporting on Australia’s reasonably pathetic efforts at COP reneweconomy.com.au/after-a-delu...
reneweconomy.com.au
November 19, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Royce Kurmelovs is one of our best indie journalists. He is on the ground in Belem reporting on Australia’s reasonably pathetic efforts at COP reneweconomy.com.au/after-a-delu...
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Save the CSIRO
Our national science & research agency is now facing more job cuts than under Tony Abbott
Call on the Albanese Govt to fund the scientists & research we need to tackle big issues we face from climate to food security and everything in between
www.davidpocock.com.au/save_our_csiro
Our national science & research agency is now facing more job cuts than under Tony Abbott
Call on the Albanese Govt to fund the scientists & research we need to tackle big issues we face from climate to food security and everything in between
www.davidpocock.com.au/save_our_csiro
November 19, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Save the CSIRO
Our national science & research agency is now facing more job cuts than under Tony Abbott
Call on the Albanese Govt to fund the scientists & research we need to tackle big issues we face from climate to food security and everything in between
www.davidpocock.com.au/save_our_csiro
Our national science & research agency is now facing more job cuts than under Tony Abbott
Call on the Albanese Govt to fund the scientists & research we need to tackle big issues we face from climate to food security and everything in between
www.davidpocock.com.au/save_our_csiro
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A reminder that crypto mining continues to be one of the world's most severe wastes of energy and one of the most shockingly pointless causes of environmental harm
Like generative ML, you have to burn more energy for every new dollar of profit. Death spiral ensues
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Like generative ML, you have to burn more energy for every new dollar of profit. Death spiral ensues
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
November 19, 2025 at 10:55 AM
A reminder that crypto mining continues to be one of the world's most severe wastes of energy and one of the most shockingly pointless causes of environmental harm
Like generative ML, you have to burn more energy for every new dollar of profit. Death spiral ensues
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Like generative ML, you have to burn more energy for every new dollar of profit. Death spiral ensues
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
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I'm loving Ed Unleashed
‘Pry open the jaws of Treasury’ to fund CSIRO amid hundreds of job losses, Labor MP Ed Husic tells own party
‘Pry open the jaws of Treasury’ to fund CSIRO amid hundreds of job losses, Labor MP Ed Husic tells own party
Husic, who oversaw CSIRO cuts as the former science minister, said some in government see scientific agency funding as a ‘cost’ not an ‘investment’
Ed Husic has challenged his own government to “pry open the jaws of Treasury” to boost funding for Australia’s national scientific agency after it announced up to 350 research jobs would be cut to deal with an imminent budgetary cliff.
The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) announced on Wednesday it would look to cut between 300 and 350 research unit roles as part of efforts to narrow its research scope and address an ageing property portfolio in need of urgent modernisation. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:51 AM
I'm loving Ed Unleashed
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The last time I wrote about this I copped the biggest whinge fest from the then (Labor) minister’s office about how they weren’t cutting the budget lol
That's more than 1,100 jobs lost at the CSIRO over the last two years.
"Combined, the staff association estimates that equates to cutting the agency’s size by a third."
This is more cuts to the CSIRO than was attempted by the Abbott government.
www.smh.com.au/national/csi...
"Combined, the staff association estimates that equates to cutting the agency’s size by a third."
This is more cuts to the CSIRO than was attempted by the Abbott government.
www.smh.com.au/national/csi...
CSIRO to slash hundreds of jobs in cost-saving drive
The staff association at the nation’s leading scientific research organisation says the latest round of cuts marks “a sad day for publicly funded science”.
www.smh.com.au
November 18, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The last time I wrote about this I copped the biggest whinge fest from the then (Labor) minister’s office about how they weren’t cutting the budget lol
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When times are financially tough, the public turns to #libraries to help meet their social, intellectual and cultural connections. theconversation.com/australias-p...
Australia’s public libraries are thriving as the cost of living rises. We can’t afford to lose them
A new report shows that visits to Australian public libraries are up 10% – though funding is down. They provide everything from books and internet to help with CVs.
theconversation.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:33 AM
When times are financially tough, the public turns to #libraries to help meet their social, intellectual and cultural connections. theconversation.com/australias-p...
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Shutting down sustainable industry to protect a filthy one
Lobster fishery off Bruny Island in TAS closed on eve of the opening of fishing season due to antibiotic use by the salmon farms.
No indication of how long for. Must be a devastating blow for fishermen approaching Xmas.
No indication of how long for. Must be a devastating blow for fishermen approaching Xmas.
Crayfish Closure Follows Salmon Antibiotic Deployment - Tasmanian Times
The commercial rock lobster fishery south of the D'Entrecasteaux Channel is now closed effective 15 November 2025
tasmaniantimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Shutting down sustainable industry to protect a filthy one
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Academics and students fought for 5 years against research sponsorship at Monash University from oil and gas company Woodside. This week, we forced Australia’s largest university to abandon its greenwashing contract www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Woodside Energy’s partnership with Monash University to end after protests by staff and students
Under the deal, Woodside paid Monash University $43m over seven years and company was given naming rights to building on one of the Melbourne campuses
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Academics and students fought for 5 years against research sponsorship at Monash University from oil and gas company Woodside. This week, we forced Australia’s largest university to abandon its greenwashing contract www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Sarah Kendzior is suspended from bsky for reasons unknown. Wtf?
November 11, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Sarah Kendzior is suspended from bsky for reasons unknown. Wtf?
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aurora popping off in hobart tasmania
November 12, 2025 at 11:08 AM
aurora popping off in hobart tasmania
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The UK is the perfect example of too many profoundly stupid, lazy people in politics. They have 5 year terms, and the political class complain that they need 6 to do anything. They have 4 years remaining before an election and they're already shitting the bed about leadership
November 12, 2025 at 10:47 AM
The UK is the perfect example of too many profoundly stupid, lazy people in politics. They have 5 year terms, and the political class complain that they need 6 to do anything. They have 4 years remaining before an election and they're already shitting the bed about leadership
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This is a good lesson for Australia. If you can't do anything in a 3 year term, you can't do it in 4, or apparently 5. The problem is not the term length, the problem is the culture and incompetence of the politics of the people who rise to the top in our parties.
November 12, 2025 at 10:50 AM
This is a good lesson for Australia. If you can't do anything in a 3 year term, you can't do it in 4, or apparently 5. The problem is not the term length, the problem is the culture and incompetence of the politics of the people who rise to the top in our parties.
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Could be the start of something
Japanese giant SoftBank said Tuesday it has sold its entire stake in tech giant Nvidia for $5.83 billion.
Click here to read more: https://cnb.cx/49LCIs8
Click here to read more: https://cnb.cx/49LCIs8
November 11, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Could be the start of something
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Our debut on The Point
Copyright is dead. When it comes to AI my property has been stolen all the same
The point.com.au
thepoint.com.au
November 10, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Our debut on The Point
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To quote the description of this excellent video by @acollierastro.bsky.social: "AI tools are helpful and cool as long as you know their limitations. AI doesn’t exist. There is no fidelity in AI. AI should not be used to make decisions."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUrO...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUrO...
AI does not exist but it will ruin everything anyway
YouTube video by Angela Collier
www.youtube.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:14 AM
To quote the description of this excellent video by @acollierastro.bsky.social: "AI tools are helpful and cool as long as you know their limitations. AI doesn’t exist. There is no fidelity in AI. AI should not be used to make decisions."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUrO...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUrO...
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Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared
Google Scholar Is Doomed
Academia built entire careers on a free Google service with zero guarantees. What could go wrong?
hannahshelley.neocities.org
August 13, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared
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The fact that 30% of our stock market is wrapped up in “help-kids-kill-themselves” technology seems to be an important datapoint in the evolution of late stage capitalism.
ChatGPT advised a suicidal young woman on how to take her own life, telling her "If you choose death, I'm with you - till the end, without judging."
I wanted ChatGPT to help me. So why did it advise me how to kill myself?
ChatGPT wrote a woman a suicide note and another AI chatbot role-played sexual acts with children, BBC finds.
www.bbc.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:20 AM
The fact that 30% of our stock market is wrapped up in “help-kids-kill-themselves” technology seems to be an important datapoint in the evolution of late stage capitalism.
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It appears the Liberals / Nationals "problem" with science goes far deeper than just unprofessional MPs failing to grasp climate reality.
Many MPs/exMPs/party hacks are literally part of the fossil fuels scam lying to the public. Help us complete a list...
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Many MPs/exMPs/party hacks are literally part of the fossil fuels scam lying to the public. Help us complete a list...
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November 8, 2025 at 3:54 AM
It appears the Liberals / Nationals "problem" with science goes far deeper than just unprofessional MPs failing to grasp climate reality.
Many MPs/exMPs/party hacks are literally part of the fossil fuels scam lying to the public. Help us complete a list...
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Many MPs/exMPs/party hacks are literally part of the fossil fuels scam lying to the public. Help us complete a list...
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Every time the government says it just can’t fix the housing crisis, point them to Austria & this article. It’s being fixed in other wealthy countries all over the world. Tks @abcnews #auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
A city with few home owners and happy tenants has lessons for Australia
Experts say the government should be looking to examples in countries where more social and affordable housing options are being developed.
www.abc.net.au
November 8, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Every time the government says it just can’t fix the housing crisis, point them to Austria & this article. It’s being fixed in other wealthy countries all over the world. Tks @abcnews #auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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People complaining about Socialism always use Capitalism as the example.
November 5, 2025 at 11:16 PM
People complaining about Socialism always use Capitalism as the example.
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OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar said the market is overly wary about AI's potential: “I don’t think there’s enough exuberance about AI"
OpenAI CFO Says Bubble-Wary Market Needs More AI ‘Exuberance’
OpenAI Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar suggested the market is overly focused on anxiety about a possible bubble in the artificial intelligence sector and should muster more “exuberance” about the technology’s potential.
bloom.bg
November 6, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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