Greg Jericho

Greg Jericho

@grogsgamut.bsky.social

Chief Economist at @australiainstitute.org.au Columnist on economics and politics for Guardian Australia. Dollars & Sense podcast https://australiainstitute.org.au/news/category/podcasts/dollars-sense/

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Segal has admitted, after Shoebridge got it out of her, that she has put in a submission for the Duty of Care legislation seeking to add provisions to limit the reach of anonymous accounts on social media (among other things).

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Shoebridge also revealed that the CEO of CAM Sacha Roytman “previously headed the IDF social media unit” He also asked why she is the co-host, which she denied Shoebridge then asks why she’s listed as co-host on their website, to which she says she’ll take it on notice to check

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David Shoebridge calls out Jillian Segal after she admits she failed due diligence with CAM—hosts of the antisemitism summit she’s speaking at—as Shoebridge reveals CAM awarded a racist US Republican who called for Gaza to "overflow with blood” Who is she partnering with? 🚩

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Shoebridge rips into Jillian Segal over her false claims at the antisemitism RC on the Gaza death toll & asks what she has to say now that the UN has called her out Segal says her role is to give views of the Jewish community Shoebridge “Your role is to give truthful evidence”💥

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South Africa, sent in, and they cruise to 50 for no loss of wickets. Well-played, selectors!

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We keep telling the government - we don't want automated robo-debt, or data centres everywhere, or aged-care assessment by algorithm, or non-professional NDIS decisions. Employ real people. Pay real wages. Fix hospitals & schools. Tax the squillionaires & giant companies. Can't be any clearer.

Penny Allman-Payne@pennyallmanpayne.com

Older people have been saying this for months. Labor's automation of aged care assessments has been a disaster, under-assessing need and priority, denying care and driving up waitlists. It's past time to bin the whole thing and put humans back in charge of decision-making.

If the Dems win the House and Senate, Trump is going lash out violently towards people (and countries) He is so sure of both his popularity and his ability to rig the vote. If that fails, his anger and frustration (and anger about his frustration) will be total

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "The world is falling apart"

Sounds like they should only be available by prescription. Would end worries about perverts using them. Not great for Meta’s profits so you won’t see that being suggested.

ABC News Bot (unofficial)@abcnewsbot.bsky.social

The tenor of the public debate around smart glasses has concerned members of the disability community, who say the devices give them more independence.

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As I predicted a while ago, the media response to this is blaming the "fractious debate" and putting all responsibility on the community's tone, rather than the design choices and priorities of the corporation designing invasively, creepy products mostly used for abusive behaviours

ABC News Bot (unofficial)@abcnewsbot.bsky.social

The tenor of the public debate around smart glasses has concerned members of the disability community, who say the devices give them more independence.

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this went nuts on Threads too, except there, people in the replies asking Meta AI to explain it to them

Racist dipshit who you just know at least once a day thinks about drinking his own piss for the special nutrients he believes it must contain.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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"Independents seeking to break into parliament for the first time would have been the biggest losers. Nicolette Boele’s successful 2025 campaign ... $746,000 worse off if the new rules had applied." @paulkarp.bsky.social @politico.com has the court docs. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

politico.comAustralia’s new electoral laws hand $25M windfall to major parties over independentsDonation law reform aimed to take big money out of politics, but new figures reveal parties will rake in millions more.

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Under constitutional challenge, Albanese Govt has revealed just how much Labor and Liberal could benefit from their election law re-write last year: "Labor a total of $15.4 million better off and the Liberals $9.4 million ahead” if donors split $ between state branches to avoid the caps.

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📰 Why Anthropic’s IPO Prospectus Is Missing So Many Key Figures Anthropic’s S-1 filing is hundreds of pages long—and it leaves out quite a few financial details. “Anthropic owes investors more... Source: Wired | Read story 💬 How do you see this impacting users? #TechBluesky #Anthropic #Figures

wired.comWhy Anthropic’s IPO Prospectus Is Missing So Many Key FiguresAnthropic’s S-1 filing is hundreds of pages long—and it leaves out quite a few financial details. “Anthropic owes investors more...

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Climate disaster keeps disastering: Satellite monitoring has detected massive plumes of methane pouring from Chevron's Gorgon LNG plant in Western Australia. (This is the one connected to the world’s biggest carbon capture and storage project WHIICH IS ALSO FAILING) www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

abc.net.auUN sends warning as satellite detects greenhouse gas plumes over Gorgon plantSatellite monitoring has detected huge plumes of methane above one of Australia's largest gas complexes, triggering a United Nations alert and enquiries by state authorities.

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"If Wilson is genuinely concerned with fighting antisemitism, she should explain why her party has not ruled out doing preference deals with One Nation, which has run holocaust deniers for Parliament and has extensive links to neo-nazis and white supremacists.” 💥🎯👏👏👏 #springst #auspol

Jewish Council of Australia@jewishcouncilau.bsky.social

We condemn the political threats made by Opposition Leader Jess Wilson on Sunday and reject her misleading connection between protest of Israel’s genocide and the horrific Bondi attack. Protesting a livestreamed genocide is not antisemitic. Our release: www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2026/10/jewi...

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Marissa Mayer was pulling down about $60m a year as CEO at Yahoo, presumably for the type of blue-sky thinking that translates to struggling to be able name even three traits of your own child

David Gura@davidgura.bsky.social

cool, cool

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Congrats to Lula on overcoming Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump to defeat Hospital Pervert Jr., even as his opposition literally blocked off roads and turned off bus service during election day. Fascists are scary but they are always, 100% of the time, ultimately gigantic fucking losers.

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Shoebridge shreds NACC CEO Philip Reed after FOI reveals another conflict of interest breach where he let the new Acting Dep Commissioner improperly sit on a panel—a day after new rules were set Reed says it wasn’t his job to call it out as he was “not chairing the meeting”🤦‍♂️ffs

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Trump is smearing Ilhan Omar in speeches all over the country now because he is an Islamophobic bigot and he thinks that’s a winning message for Republicans

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BRENNAN: The DOJ lawsuit demands the Alaska result not be certified if voters are confused. The confusion is defined as Sen. Sullivan not winning. BLANCHE: That's not what it says BRENNAN: I'm quoting from it. You are telling them not to certify it. What right does the federal govt have?

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I think about this a bit when AI companies say that they support changes to copyright in Australia that would require anyone who didn't want their content fed into AI to put a "pls don't scrape" notice on their site as though that will stop it...

Greg Jericho@grogsgamut.bsky.social

"Anthropic model accessed voter information" Yes the info is publicly available (for a fee) but "the model bypassed a paywall in accessing the information, according to Georgia officials and Anthropic." www.axios.com/2026/10/25/a...

"... said a senior Coalition strategist, who spoke on condition of anonymity."" Seriously why the f*ck should you grant a *strategist* anonymity?? FFS (Phil Coorey the culprit this time)

Greg Jericho@grogsgamut.bsky.social

“Several MPs, who did not want to be identified” If you took out all the anonymous quotes in a Paul Sakkal article you’d be left with just his bio line.

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In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

How about just pay fucking tax.

AFP News Agency@en.afp.com

From Carnegie to Claude: AI wealth could reshape philanthropy. Anthropic says it will commit 5% of its shares to a new Anthropic Public Benefit Fund, a stake that could be worth around $100 billion if the company reaches the $2 trillion valuation expected at its stock market debut u.afp.com/SyJB

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