here's a full breakdown of what's going on & where we're at www.liberalcurrents.com/the-end-of-t...
The End of Trans Rights in the UK Is the Start of Democratic Collapse
It's never just one minority.
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Jak
@jaksays.bsky.social
Brit in Australia with family in the US. Cat hostage. Anti-assholes. Does not speak kindly of right wing nut jobs. Knows a lot about tech. Old enough to not care about your sheetposting, will block trolls, sov citizens and Zionists on sight. :)
Not gonna lie, I remain delighted that Bluesky management hates that the platform was immediately co-opted by artists and queers.
There is an online Change petition to remove Jillian Segal from Public Office. I encourage you to read the petition and, if you agree, sign it. #auspol #JillianSegal #Zionism c.org/MVKC5GGRFb
Sign the Petition
We Demand Accountability: Remove Jillian Segal from Public Office
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The thing separating this chilling extremist overreach from McCarthyism is that McCarthyism wasn't straight-up foreign interference to blatently protect an external genocidal state
stranger@strangerous.bsky.social · 6d agoJillian Segal says her plan is to expand IHRA training “at scale” — to all govt depts & all businesses in the country — & be driven by a new taxpayer funded body - which she reveals is already in the works.😳 What the hell is going on?
It is genuinely bizarre that we’ve become acclimatized to right wingers throwing a tantrum every time a black person (particularly a black woman) is cast in something, but are also supposed to pretend that this is not racism but related to some other substantive concern.
I am being held in SHU, the highest level of security which exists. No commissary. No visits. No contact with the outside world. My neighbour is a cannibal who screams throughout the night.
Private Eye tells me that How Green Was My Valley is one of Andy Burnham’s favourite books. Oh dear. I write a PhD on 1930s Welsh mining novels, including a whole chapter on Llewellyn’s work. I even read the terrible sequels. It really, really isn’t a story of working-class solidarity etc.
There are people who support arresting Benjamin Netanyahu for the war crimes he was charged with by the ICC and then they are those who support the genocide in Gaza & ethnic cleansing of Christians and Muslims in the West Bank, Israel and Gaza. That is the divide we are seeing.
Child throws caution on the Santa story but sees promise in Tooth Fairy
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
AI advice made people three times less accurate but twice as confident: "Some participants who would have answered correctly on their own asked the AI and became wrong." Superpersuasion by dull tone has punch. I still suspect this is the same psych mechanism that reduces belief in conspiracies.
AI advice made people three times less accurate but twice as confident, researchers found
A study found that access to AI advice collapsed people's willingness to say "I don't know" from 44% to 3%, while accuracy dropped from 27% to 9%.
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One interesting thing about this controversy is that there's nothing stopping all these whiners from making their own adaptation of The Odyssey. (thread)
yeah we’re gonna have to ban prediction markets
People are making wildfire bets on prediction markets. Experts say it could lead to disaster | CNN
As the catastrophic Los Angeles wildfires raged last year, people placed bets on how how many acres the fires would consume, which locations they would reach and when they would be contained.
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I browsed the IMDb reviews for The Odyssey. Opinion is spit pretty evenly: 10/10, a masterpiece Or 1/10, because casting a Black woman and a trans man has destroyed 3,000 years of Western culture. Anti-woke people really are joyless pricks. (I haven’t seen it yet.)
Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*
Reminder to all media, "Trump to lie for 90 minutes" is not news, and not something anyone should be broadcasting or repeating
I will not be listening to opinions on gender and biology from those who think women originated from a rib cage…
New: The false material and bad-faith arguments presented by Jillian Segal against the ABC and SBS draw attention to deeper flaws in the royal commission
A Nadir for the Royal Commission
How it became a platform for Jillian Segal's attack on the public broadcasters
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“greater clarity and speed for (data centre) approvals, and a streamlined process for verifying compliance” sounds a lot like waving through the worst shit imaginable in return for baubles
Anthony Albanese maps out AI future with new national framework
Labor will develop a new national framework in response to artificial intelligence as it seeks to address the technology’s growing economic and social impacts.
abc.net.au
This why the US can't fight an asymmetrical war. Our weapons are insanely expensive because they represent political subsidies to defense contractors, which in turn become jobs necessary to keep our population employed. Everyone else's weapons are shit they threw together just to stay alive.
After losing about $1 billion in Reaper drones over Iran, the US wants a disposable alternative
The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), the Pentagon organization that pulls commercial tech into the military, has opened submissions for a project called Massed Modular Aircraft (MMA).
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