Apparently threat of extinction by computer is more scary than threat of extinction by destroyed climate & environment (air water food). Go figure. #ai #tech #politics #australia www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Australia has done precious little to prepare for the dangers of AI. Where is brilliant leadership when you need it? | Zoe Daniel

Australia faces stark choices about the most significant technological development since the splitting of the atom in the 1930s

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Watch this 👀

Twitter Exile@twitter-exile.bsky.social · 3mo ago

#PeteWhishWilson Nobody is talking about this... We all need to wake up to this! The rise of #OneNation is so off the charts it defies usual political explanations. #Greens won't let this potential foreign interference slide by unchecked. Nothing less than our democracy is at stake. #AUSPOL

When society knowingly puts people in a "position that they inevitably meet a too early and an unnatural death…when it deprives thousands of the necessaries of life… knows that these thousands of victims must perish, and yet permits these conditions to remain"—it's social murder

Social Murder — the structural violence of capitalism

Why the deaths capitalism causes are not accidents but social murder — the mechanism behind the body count.

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Greg Jericho@grogsgamut.bsky.social · 4d ago

"Can someone explain why – in an economy in which the central bank has decided we need almost 700,000 people to be unemployed – those people live in such dreadful poverty that it can make you up to 10 times more likely to die in the prime of your life?" www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

While we all frantically tried to frame every single piece of climate advocacy as if it's there to reduce power bills, on the grounds of centrist hand-wringing that we're not meant to mention human safety and life and health because it's just not what ppl care about (which is wrong)

Fri 18 Sep For SHAME‼️ Since 2020, Australia's subsidies for fossil fuels have totalled nearly 6 times the amount of aid given to Pacific neighbours - Minister Talia, Tuvalu There is no version of reduced emissions while extraction [of oil, coal & gas] continues - Minister Regenvanu, Vanuatu

Yung En Chee@yungenchee.bsky.social · last wk.

Fri 11 Sep Labor & nature market-friendly ENGOs celebrate successful standover that's delivered the fossil fuel-perpetuating Improved Native Forest Mgt ACCU method Govts remain in the grip of fossil fuels while forests around the 🌏 are already showing pervasive 📈 tree mortality fr climate warming

It is obvious that politicians of our political duopoly no longer even pretend to listen to the electorate. This will only be stopped by voting all the involved parties out of power. Vote Independent or Green.

It's not often you see a petition with more than one million supporters humanstatement.org #ai #technology #tech #humanrights

The Pro-Human AI Declaration

A declaration for keeping humans in charge of artificial intelligence, and the people and organisations who have endorsed it.

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HEY EVERYONE - NEW REPORT!!! NVIDIA is the largest company by market cap on the planet. But it hides key climate data, while claiming AI is going to be a 'net benefit' for climate. We (8 groups) put together the first ever broad critique of NVIDIA's climate record: ketanjoshi.co/2026/09/16/n...

They stole/steal all available content regardless. But there must be a legal loophole that people are using to fight back. I’m hoping the bullying tactics have lost weight. I mean, now that Trump has splattered tariffs indiscriminately anyway, the threat is meaningless. #ai #technology #usa

ApaulD@apauld.bsky.social · 3d ago

my head is exploding 🤯 1. #usa have weapons in space 2. #labor #auspol is facing pressure from big tech to make it legal for “AI companies to get unrestricted access to everything Australians create online by default” #ai #technology #australia fk them www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

my head is exploding 🤯 1. #usa have weapons in space 2. #labor #auspol is facing pressure from big tech to make it legal for “AI companies to get unrestricted access to everything Australians create online by default” #ai #technology #australia fk them www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Everything Australians put online could be scraped for AI under proposed new rules. How will you be affected?

The Albanese government is considering reforms that give US big tech unrestricted access to Australian content

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Lithium batteries are a stepping stone. Sodium Ion batteries are the more ecologically sustainable next step. #energy #technology #sustainability #climatechange www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/12/1... archive.li/zXExw

Sodium-ion batteries: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2026

A cheaper, safer, and more abundant alternative to lithium is finally making its way into cars—and the grid.

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"[One study] covered one billion offset credits...and found that less than 16% would be verifiably real." "So 85% of offset credits don't pass the first hurdle. They're not real." - University of Melbourne Senior Research Fellow Dr Kate Dooley at today's #ClimateIntegrity Summit 2026

do it do it do it 💪 #australia #auspol proposal: – let people switch off the algorithm that decides what they see & instead let them decide themselves #tech #politics pushback immediate❗️cos the algorithm is worth $$$billions+effective tool for political manipulation act.getup.org.au/act/take-bac...

Angertainment: the outrage machine behind the far right

Webinar with Ed Coper, author of Angertainment, on how the far right has gamed social media and how we can fight back. Thursday 17 September, 6pm.

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"If we had started this transition 40 years ago, maybe there was room for these delaying, slower tactics to reduce emissions." "Carbon offsets should be the last option." The Hon Senator Rosa Galvez at today's #ClimateIntegrity Summit 2026 @senrosagalvez.bsky.social

Leaderlike. My @smh cartoon.

Why had he lived so long among those who were not kind?

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.

www.theguardian.com/environment/... #climatechange #climate #capitalism #justice It’s not ‘the world’. It’s obscenely wealthy people & corporations working to lock in obscene inequality.

World must reject climate culture wars or face economic ruin, says UN’s Stiell

Warning by United Nations climate chief comes as EU data shows August 2026 was joint hottest month ever

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great speech by Cory Doctorow: “Repeal worldwide laws against reverse engineering & modification” that prevent tech independence & improvements in other countries (the #usa threatened countries with tariffs if they didn’t enact them) #ai #technology #usa #enshittification youtu.be/azJia30ulng

The internet needs to be rebuilt | Cory Doctorow on Big Tech and Trump's tariffs

YouTube video by The Institute of Art and Ideas

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Offset shills: "a strong ACCU market w increasing prices over time [..] Investors & landholders need confidence there will be demand in the future" But "The only reason a country needs to create more ‘carbon offsets’ is because it expects to fail to decarbonise." (👀@louisemorris.bsky.social 👇)

Yung En Chee@yungenchee.bsky.social · 4w ago

"The only reason a country needs to create more ‘carbon offsets’ is because it expects to fail to decarbonise." "Whatever the paperwork calls it, an offset is a corporation saying we’re going to keep polluting, & we’re paying someone else for the permission slip." I urge you to read the full piece

Every government we get fails repeatedly to take minimal steps to protect our environment & climate #australia #auspol #capitalism #environment #climatechange #nature It’s disgraceful. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Labor ditches new packaging laws to cut plastic waste, sparking unprecedented ‘scale and breadth of outrage’

Federal environment department tells industry representatives the government does not want to ‘exacerbate cost of living pressures’

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Thinking again about this paper on 'Pervasive increase in tree mortality across the Australian continent' as Labor gets their way with the INFM method for fossil fuel-perpetuating carbon offsets/ACCUs (doesn't matter that these ACCUs can't be sold to Coal+Gas corps, still going to big emitters)

Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment@westsyduhie.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Australia’s trees are dying faster — not from fire, but from the stress of a warming, drying climate, weakening their role as vital carbon sinks. 🔗 theconversation.com/yes-forest-t... @bmedlyn.bsky.social @westernsydneyu.bsky.social @profchoat.bsky.social

Two kinds of political leaders: those who put their heads in the sand & deny there’s a problem, and the ones who accept the science and the need for action. Then don’t do enough to fix it. #auspol #politics #climate performative leadership www.smh.com.au/business/the... archive.md/HZC4n

It’s easy to blame politicians for our grumpiness. It’s also valid

We’re often angry, sceptical and pessimistic about how our nation is being run. But right now, the research suggests, we’re despairing.

smh.com.au

I'm told voters don't care about Victoria's Treaty I refuse to accept that I've chipped in to Common Threads' independent election scorecards to give voters clear, accessible information about where parties & candidates stand on Treaty, First Nations justice, equity & inclusion Join me if you can

Vic election: Scorecards

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Yung En Chee@yungenchee.bsky.social · 3mo ago

What we already know is a Jess Wilson-led Liberal Party will scrap Victoria's Treaty process that's been 10 years in the making & ongoing That's sufficient information to take a decision Will public institutions, civic orgs & leaders committed to Walking with First Nations honour their commitment❓️

And the argument that we need #technology sovereignty? #ai #datacenters #australia Rubbish. GreenSquare data centres, the company behind the #melbourne data centres has been bought by SWISS OWNED Partners Group. greensquaredc.com/news/partner...

Partners Group to acquire Australian data centre provider, GreenSquareDC — GreenSquare

Partners Group, one of the largest firms in the global private markets industry, acting on behalf of its clients, has agreed to acquire GreenSquare Data Centres (“GreenSquareDC” or “the Company”), a d...

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What do they think might be behind negative “public sentiment”? #ai #technology #protest “GreenSquare will store about 4 million litres of fuel in 16 tanks to power backup generators” Congrats to the fossil fuel industry Tough sht to planet & people #climate www.theage.com.au/politics/vic...

Proposed $1.5b suburban data centre will use more power than a regional city

A $1.47b Spotswood data centre to draw as much power as a regional city triggers pushback, as the state warns the tech industry community sentiment is changing.

theage.com.au

Industry response to the recent successful blockade of power infrastructure…”GreenSquare wants to connect the 240-megawatt facility to the electrical grid via an underground connection to avoid the street-level battles” #ai #technology #protest www.theage.com.au/politics/vic...

Proposed $1.5b suburban data centre will use more power than a regional city

A $1.47b Spotswood data centre to draw as much power as a regional city triggers pushback, as the state warns the tech industry community sentiment is changing.

theage.com.au

“Neither company is acting responsibly…They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives” #ai #technology www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...

Anthropic researcher says some developers believe AI 'could kill us all'

A researcher for AI developer Anthropic has quit the company and is one of a growing number of AI experts to call on the industry to slow down.

abc.net.au

#auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...

$40b data centre land granted to firm where NT minister's relative works

The NT deputy chief minister has been spruiking a gas company granted rights to 185 hectares of government land to build a data centre, despite his sister-in-law working for the firm.

abc.net.au

Over 100,000 people have signed our petition for a gas tax plebiscite! 🥳 That's more than can fit in the MCG! 😮 @rodcampbell.bsky.social #auspol