Doctor Nurse

Doctor Nurse

@mattnurse.com

Science communication researcher at the Australian National University - investigating false misinformation about real biosecurity threats. https://researchportalplus.anu.edu.au/en/persons/matt-nurse

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The United States is prepared for the thing it initiated. Amazing scenes.

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Financial Times, citing the US ambassador to the United Nations: The United States is prepared for a long-term confrontation with Iran.

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Bwahahahahahahahaha ASD put out a Critical Alert about PHP but you can't visit the page because you get a 503 error.

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AFR covering Victorian politics via commentary from a bloke from Perth about his kid encountering a pothole.

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A record-breaking UK summer may be shifting climate attitudes. 62% now say extreme heat is the most pressing climate impact, up from 36% in October 2024. Concern about wildfires has soared from 13% to 47%. But still little change in behaviour… theconversation.com/did-the-hot-...

theconversation.comDid the hot summer make more people worry about climate change? Here’s what the latest indications showAround 65% of the British public are now concerned about climate change.

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If nothing else AI is making clear that there are people all around us for whom writing, art, and music are not communion with another mind, but just - wallpaper. Just pleasant things to look at. They think AI is conscious because they have no actual grasp of what it is to encounter another mind.

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Europeans waking up to discover that the FBI has apparently relaxed its hiring standards on bestiality

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FBI director Kash Patel claimed to US senators that the removal of a bar on hiring people who had engaged in bestiality was aimed at protecting sexual assault survivors. www.wired.com/story/the-fb...

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Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

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Wild pivot from Jane Hume on News Breakfast to go from selling the policy of putting people in jail for a year for burning the flag to saying legislation regulating opt in or opt out of algorithms may impinge freedom of speech

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“Kamala Harris will get the US into World War III, and our sons and daughters will end up fighting a war in a country you’ve never heard of.” - Donald Trump 👇

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‘Scary’: how misinformation and AI hallucinations are infiltrating Australia’s parliament - Guardian analysis reveals that dozens of policy submissions from across the political spectrum incorrectly summarise real research and invent or wrongly cite sources www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

theguardian.com‘Scary’: how misinformation and AI hallucinations are infiltrating Australia’s parliamentExclusive: Guardian analysis reveals that dozens of policy submissions from across the political spectrum incorrectly summarise real research and invent or wrongly cite sources

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People on this very site were telling me just last week that I'm mad, as the Federal government's datacenter policy was pro-gas. Having a reality based community is more important than your partisan based identity folks. That way is Maga. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...

abc.net.auCommonwealth says it will block gas-fired data centresThe NT government has rejected a federal plan to mandate the use of renewables for new large-scale data centres, but the Commonwealth says it will block proposals that rely on gas.

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Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface

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I have criticized the left for diversity statements and pronouns. But I have also criticized President Trump for killing civilians, raping women, and running a massive crypto scam. It's what makes me a neutral, balanced columnist.

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Hello, I am a TV weatherman in Punxsutawney, PA, and every morning at exactly 6 am my alarm clock blares out “I’ve Got You Babe.” And now the rest of the world is stuck in this endless loop as well.

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Pre internet I once drove half an hour home to get a dictionary to prove to my work colleague that the word gullible was in the dictionary. I was literally 2 mins away, on the way back, when it dawned on me.