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interesting tidbit from Anthropic's public filings: Australia is one of three countries (Canada and US) where it leases data centres. The docs say it plans to expand to more -- but this shows how Australia is one of the top destinations for frontier labs looking abroad

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I’m really keen on this term. Chrapitalism Christian (crappy?) Capitalism Read this guy and his chef’s kiss riff.

Ode to the joyous looks of their professional stupidity

Palantir is committing atrocities in Iran. More atrocities, killing children in Gaza. In the USA, Palantir AI surveillance finds targets for the notorious ICE squads. Do we want our Westpac banking data fed into that? #auspol

#StopIsrael #IsraelisADeathCult #IsraeliButchers #internationalinterventionNOW #SanctionIsraelNow #ExpelIsraeliAmbassador

Congratulations to every political journalist in the country this week for writing the exact same piece of shit article 👏

An Australian Democracy Network report finds that the protest permission frameworks that require organisers to notify authorities of demonstrations act as "de facto authorisation systems" that illegitimately burden the basic right 👇 www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/requiri...

Arsonist complaining about the heat

"Country speaks and these people heard her... and it's not just mob, you know... and there's a place for everyone, especially when they walk in respect of the Djab Wurrung [The people of that land] and our place of belonging. That's what I tell the farmers..." youtu.be/tIlItTlvobI?...

Update: his local council have moved quickly, police were able to get video footage of the attack from a local Salvos shop, the dogs are unregistered & have been picked up to be euthanised. He has decided to pursue charges against the owner, who fled the scene.

"Philosopher Achille Mbembe's idea of necropolitics is the conception of a politics defined by who is free to be killed. It enabled colonisers to steal land and resources without imagining they were taking from, or killing, actual people" @lucyham.bsky.social lucyham29.substack.com/p/the-shot-h...

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10.... Meanwhile the NT gov have moved FNP seeking dialysis in Darwin 100ks south to a town with no services or amenities and NO TRANSPORT. There will be blood on their hands.

The government speaks about closing the gap. What about building a bridge? @gurridyula.bsky.social is a truth teller who speaks his mind with clarity. Full clip: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtMa...

Every time I am approached by a potential MA or PhD student I take it as part of my responsibility to tell them there is no functioning academic job market in Australian philosophy and there hasn’t been one in more than a decade.

She’s right. 🤷‍♀️ I can’t argue with any of it.

Much of the intl reporting on the French protests has been doing my head in. Especially the Australian tendency to miss the point. So I was glad to write about what I saw firsthand at Place de la République last weekend. And have my photo published, too. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/2026/10...

Great to see the Oz taking a week off from attacking women and progressives to mourn the attack on a progressive woman

Silence of the seals The majority of harbour seal pups at the Tees Estuary are dying, year on year. Why you aren’t being told what’s going on northeastbylines.co.uk/news/environ...

British-supplied RapidRanger SAM systems are beginning to arrive in Ukrainian service, with one seen here already sporting multiple drone kills.

On Monday, Judge Scott Nash ordered that NSW police provide the documents, which would include communications between police, the premier, other NSW cabinet ministers and their staff. The papers would also cover directions by senior police to officers.

Cancellations for people who fail to reconnect with employment services within four weeks are set to resume on October 26. Read the full piece on The Point: https://sbrew.link/PpyjPUed

3 from 3 now with the datacentres I reported on in May cancelled or delayed. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Angine De Poitrine! Amazingly good. How can just two people make so much sound?!?!

"The “statistial significance” of this model is overwhelming, i.e. we can resoundingly reject the hypothesis that global average SST has warmed at the same rate for the last several decades. It’s a lot faster now (about 0.3°C/dec) than it was before 2012 (less than 0.1°C/dec)."

If only the information that flowed from our government was as fresh, quick-moving and clear as the water flowing past my latest #WorkFromHome office. #FOI Yarrangobilly River, Snowy Mountains, NSW.

Corporate forces are bankrolling One Nation's surge, and the payoff could be $219m in public funding if current support levels remain. www.deepcutnews.com/p/the-corpor...

No matter the motivations of what has happened in Wangaratta, there are certain commentators and politicians that I don’t want to hear a peep out of right now.

The latest update to region Nino 3.4 sea surface temperatures is not only a new record daily High, but also a new record anomaly, now 3.46 C above the 1991 to 2020 Baseline.

Last week, the punk and new wave legends announced their 12th studio album, which will be called 'High Noon.'

"One Nation is commonly referred to as an anti-establishment populist party, but in reality it looks more like a clutch of mining and corporate lobbies in a trenchcoat."

One Nation has been spending a lot of money lately. I took a look at what we know, and what we don't, about where it is coming from and who is involved for @deepcutnews.bsky.social.

Stay tuned for my essay, Fractured, coming in February 2027 through Monash University Press. That will be more on the ideas and politics, however.

Helen Haines was the only MP who would give me an interview when I was a student journalist. She had zero reason too, it was for university assignments only a marker would read, but it highlighted her kindness and decency to take the time to do so. Really hope she's okay. #auspol #ausnews

Says the media outlet who has been platforming MAGA wannabe, Hanson, non stop and who drove the most deranged personal attacks on VIC premier, Andrews, 24/7 for years Pushing populism and confected outrage for profit has dire consequences

How's the being today?

Shorter Greg Sheridan: the French riots were caused by faith and also by the absence of faith.

I saw the part of the video where ON mock Jacqui Lambie and her health condition (pelvic floor prolapse). It is absolutely disgusting. Every politician should call this vile video out. Pauline Hanson needs to step up and apologise and have the video removed from all platforms.

If you have some time to read this weekend, keep an eye on where our radicalising right-wing players are networking, at home and overseas. It’s disturbing. #Auspol lucyham29.substack.com/p/conference...