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Gonna be extremely petty for a moment: I am glad to stand in solidarity with my colleagues in mathematics against the tyranny of AI slop, but I have to ask: where the fuck were most of y’all when the humanities were first on the block to be sacrificed to the machine devils?
I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.
“wealth has its own deranging effects. It almost inevitably turns you into a supremacist” @naomiaklein.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...
Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’
She’s tackled neoliberalism and the digital world, now the writer and activist is taking on tech billionaires. She explains how the super-rich are capitalising on climate and financial chaos in pursui...
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A campaign for *MSF* to be banned as a terrorist group (on the paper thin basis of claims about 2 past employees) is the product of the UK Govt being willing to divorce any meaningful conception of societal threat from its use of proscription powers. Govt needs to wake up to the madness of this:
As the Ebola outbreak in DRC continues to spread, what does 'solidarity' mean in concrete (not aspirational) terms? journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
JUST IN: 🇮🇷🇦🇪 Iranian President meets Abu Dhabi Crown Prince in New Delhi.
I'm talking at the Royal Institution a week today. There are still some tickets left. Come and find out what you're missing.
You don't know what you're m ss ng: The hidden data shaping our behaviour | Royal Institution
Mathematician and author Kit Yates returns to the Ri to explore how our understanding of reality is shaped b
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World-first trial on Phillip Island discovers floating wetlands can cut emissions
World-first trial finds floating wetlands can cut greenhouse gas emissions
A floating garden of native plants in Victoria's east cuts a wastewater lagoon's emissions by about 30 per cent, with researchers now testing the approach on farm dams.
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Zionist Federation of Australia discontinues lawsuit against Mary Kostakidis over Hezbollah social media posts
Antisemitism lawsuit dropped against former SBS newsreader
The racial discrimination case was launched in 2025 over social media posts about the Israel-Gaza war.
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On this day 12th September 1940 four teenagers, following their dog, discovered the Lascaux cave paintings. Artist: John Kenney
A fishing crew in Alaska's Bering Sea rescued a teenager who clung to a capsized boat for roughly two days in the frigid waters.
15-year-old rescued after clinging to capsized boat for days in Alaska's Bering Sea
A fishing crew in Alaska’s Bering Sea rescued a teenager who clung to a capsized boat for roughly two days in the frigid waters.
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Just quietly, it is *absurd* that anyone outside the United States should be paying withholding tax on their Anthropic payouts. A foreign company steals from us, then their foreign government takes a percentage of our compensation. I believe they'll also pay by cheque, like it's 1987. Ugh.
Commentary: The AfD is surging in Germany, but Takaichi is keeping Japan's far right at bay.
Why the far right isn’t winning elections in Japan
At the very least, there is little sense of crisis that such a phenomenon might occur in Japan anytime soon.
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Stop saying 'a(not)<sic>i agents'. Open a(not)i - so Bret, Greg and Sarah attacked RubyGems.
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · yesterdayOpenAI agents attacked software service RubyGems before Hugging Face hack
JUST IN: 🇮🇱🇬🇧 Israel expels British military team that was monitoring West Bank settler violence and sharing intelligence with the US.
Australian-first water recycling technology goes live in regional NSW
Australian-first water recycling tech switched on in regional NSW
A new water recycling plant in Central NSW can process '16 times' more efficiently than existing systems, its inventor says.
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UK’s Parliamentary Science Committee called company’s presence ‘an unacceptable point of weakness’. France, Netherlands, Spain, Denmark and Germany’s military all moved to reduce or refuse business with Palantir. Switzerland had been refusing for years. #auspol michaelwest.com.au/the-global-r...
The global reckoning over Palantir and Cellebrite - and the country that never asked - Michael West
A rash of European countries have cut contracts with surveillance group Palantir. Australia has had no inquiry, nor explained the risks.
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Case found in northwestern province of South-Ubangi bordering the Central African Republic and Congo-Brazzaville.
Ebola case detected in seventh DR Congo province
Case found in northwestern province of South-Ubangi bordering the Central African Republic and Congo-Brazzaville.
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Download Hundreds of Issues of Jugend, Germany’s Pioneering Art Nouveau Magazine (1896–1940)
Download Hundreds of Issues of Jugend, Germany’s Pioneering Art Nouveau Magazine (1896–1940)
It’s an ungainly word for English speakers, which is maybe why we do not hear it often: Gleichschaltung. Yet the concept remains central for a clear view of what happened to Germany in the 1930s.
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"I had a sikh friend & I remember how how instantly the racism started & how scared she was. & then someone killed a sikh community leader near us" bsky.app/profile/cyan... bsky.app/profile/ianb...
Ian Boudreau@ianboudreau.com · yesterdayPretending the days after Sept. 11, 2001 were some kind of gauzy Hallmark special when we came together as a country is nauseating and ahistorical. The country went completely insane and has not recovered
I salute #MaryKostakidis' intellectual #courage, integrity and resilence: she won the case and we also won the right to speak out against #Israel's #genocide
Balcony solar to become legal in Australia. Here's how plug-in systems work
Being a renter, Jenny missed out on solar boon but that is about to change
Australia readies to lift a ban on plug-in solar, unlocking access to the technology for millions of apartment dwellers and renters for the first time.
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The Kostakidis lawsuit backdown is instructive because it shows that, when people of good will are prepared to stand up for their beliefs and refuse to be intimidated, they can win
KPMG holds $437 mil worth of active contracts with Labor - including 28 Defence contracts worth $303.8 mil - despite the fallout over KPMG’s integrity, ethics & leadership failures. Despite all the lessons of the Big 4 scandals Labor’s response has been woefully inadequate.
