Human Guinea Pig AU

So Trump tries to appeal suspension ofUSMNT star Folarin Balogunto rep Team USA, turns out he's a birthright citizen ... www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/b...

Thread. Appropriately enraged. PS. Sarah Wynn-Williams’ book Careless People is well worth reading.

Teaching / Training people. Also, the one thing learnt in IT in general is that it's about PEOPLE, not THINGS. 🧵 #AI

#AusPol 🧵

@AusPol "If this makes you think the RBA always acts firstly in the interests of companies not workers, you are getting warm." Via grogsgamut.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

The latest tax stats show 90 millionaires paid no tax (1 poor sucker got their total income from $1m to below $18,200, but still had to pay... err $769 in tax) thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...

#AusPol #PHON Calling people names just entrechs their existing opinions. You need to point to the effects of the PHON policies, to actively engage peoples's concerns and answer them, to persuade them (ie questions like "do you want that aide at the nursing home, that your mum likes, deported ?")

Lovely to see white, able bodied, cishet men speaking out publicly against a fascist dictator. (Such an Aussie approach to the problem 😄.)

After this 100% wrong AI summary, I pledged some money to Wikipedia. I think we should all do that. It might be the answer. Imagine if it vanished cos more people wanted to invest in the planet-burning lying plagiarism machine than in crowd-sourced open access information.

Next ON policy just dropped. #Auspol.

#AI "The am dash ... feels less like a design stunt and more like a cultural correction, giving writers a way to plant a flag in the soil of their own ideas." www.remorandom.com/p/em-dash www.theamdash.com

#MiddleEast

#AusPol #AukUS If Port Kembla becomes a US Submarine base, what do we lose ? (Archive Link) archive.md/https://www....

Man Who Supports One Nation and Socceroos Suffers Mental Breakdown After Former Refugee Scores World Cup Goal

Joining a big crowd here outside Bisalloy in the Illawarra to picket this site and stop steel exports that are being used to facilitate land theft and genocide - come down for an AUKUS teach in at 9pm ✊

Maybe phones are NOT rewiring their brains ... "There is very little, if any, causal research in the early years. Almost everything is correlational." www.theregister.com/personal-tec...

A lot of people are deliberately confusing anti-semitism with anti-Zionism. 🧵

#BlackCaps Kane Williamson retires from International Cricket. He will be missed ... www.bhaskarenglish.in/sports/crick...

David Hockney, the artist whose brightly colored renditions of California would go on to make him one of the most celebrated artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, died on June 12, his publicist Erica Bolton said in a statement. He was 88 reut.rs/4e5R6xd

#AI and lawyers... www.loweringthebar.net/2026/06/its-...

SpaceX goes public today. There’s been a lot of chatter about the largest IPO in stock market history that will likely make Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire. Here's what I think you should know about it... 🧵

SpaceX goes public tomorrow. A wonderful moment for cynical shills and Patagonia gargoyles to roll in the filth of the dodgiest company to list since Enron. This is the last exit route for capital for a minute. A big win for horrible people, but a brief one before a dark era for Silicon Valley

There is too much focus on Musk and too little focus on how British politics and media have created the conditions for the pogroms in Belfast. Yes, Musk and X should face consequences but it‘s too easy the externalize the reasons for an empowered far right.

"An administration lawyer told the judges in the second-most-powerful court in the country that no court can stop a president who moves fast enough from destroying the White House or the Statue of Liberty." newrepublic.com/article/2115...

OPINION: Homophobia Isn't The Only Thing Keeping Footy Players In The Closet 🏈🏈 I have written a new opinion article, published in the Star Observer today, about gay elite footy players coming out and the pressures facing them. Full article here: www.starobserver.com.au/opinion/opin...

I can’t find the bit where we analyse >$200K income support for the racism party. It is higher than every bracket between $45K and $200K why would we skip over wealthy racists? They have far more power than people on <$45K demosau.com/news/who-are...

I've been on the waiting list to have my prostate lasered out SO long, they've started asking me if I still want to be on the list... But when the new Stadiums arrives and Marinus Link powers all those AI data centers we're paying for, I'll be really happy.

"The only reason to have an LLM emit sentences like “I understand” is to make it more appealing than a search engine and increase the likelihood that a user will return; that is, it’s another way of maximizing customer engagement." #AI Archive Link archive.md/https://www....

Jools Topp: Aotearoa loses an iconic artist and activist https://www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1455/culture/jools-topp-aotearoa-loses-iconic-artist-and-activist #Auspol

By the way I just came out of Backrooms and thought it was extremely cool

This should be the point that Reform is visible as the new BNP and everyone who isn’t a racist drops it like a hot potato

Hi @squigglyrick.bsky.social So sorry to hear about Jack. He knew he was loved. rick-morton.ghost.io/goodbye-jack/

The dumb-tech revolution is happening. 99% of the CEO class still huffing the AI hype glue off a cliff, but anyone reading the room knows no one wants an AI surveillance fridge and there’s a huge opening right now for offline products that just fucking work (bonus points for chunky physical buttons)

To the People’s Republic of Treacle Mine Road... Truth! Justice! Freedom! Reasonably priced Love! and a Hard-Boiled Egg! #Glorious25th

The paperback version of LLOYD MCNEIL'S LAST RIDE is out today. It is a good book that I am proud of, and I think if you have not read it, you would like it. You can buy it wherever books are sold, and also here: www.harpercollins.com/products/llo...

The Arlington National Cemetery Memorial apparently has deleted references and information on everyone interred there who wasn’t a white straight man from their database - attempting to sweep their existence under the rug. My thoughts on this obscenity cannot legally be shared on this platform.

20 years ago today, Pet Shop Boys released their album, Fundamental. Songs include "Indefinite Leave to Remain", "I'm With Stupid" (about the UK/US "special relationship"), and "Integral" (about ID cards). 20 years later and they could re-release it without much change. 1/4

New blog entry: The Enshittification of History: www.antipope.org/charlie/blog...

#AusPol "If we can all agree to call misinformation by its normal name – lies – then Pauline Hanson lies."

I’m not sure why this isn’t being mentioned more, but: IRS policy for 50 years has been that the sitting president & VP get audited every year, in an effort to reassure the public they’re not corruptly abusing the office to enrich themselves.

can you share this for me . im in it youtu.be/VsbUzvuVx-8?...

Unfortunately, I dont think this was done on purpose (as some kind of meta-joke). Just another case of #AI #Psychosis

Old review of @scalzi.com book, Fuzzy Nation - via @doctorow.pluralistic.net As it says, a masterful, likable reboot of one of the great sf classics. memex.craphound.com/2011/05/16/s...