Four months ago, top scientists published a report showing that Himalayan glaciers are losing ice at double the rate since 2000, with some glaciers losing a third of their area in just three decades. "This isn’t a distant problem; it’s a crisis unfolding in real-time," they said. We were warned.

Creatives sound alarm on copyright as Pocock calls $50bn datacentre proposal ‘ultimate dirty deal’

Creatives sound alarm on copyright as Pocock calls $50bn datacentre proposal ‘ultimate dirty deal’

Proposal has been put to cabinet to allow AI companies to mine content, in exchange for investment and $350m fund to compensate artists, sources say Creatives are demanding fresh assurances from the Albanese government that it won’t water down copyright laws under a potential deal with tech giants to attract more than $50bn worth of datacentre investment in exchange for a $350m-a-year fund for artists. Guardian Australia has been told an industry proposal has been presented to cabinet that would grant AI companies special exemptions to mine creative content. Continue reading...

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As tech companies rush to build big A.I. data centers, some residents who live near them say a constant low-frequency vibration that can also be physically felt is ruining their health and homes.

The Cloud Has Sound: The Unrelenting and Unseen Cost of the A.I. Boom

As tech giants rush to build big data centers, some residents who live near them say a constant low-frequency vibration is ruining their health and homes.

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One of my favorite Cabo Verde facts is that it has a genre of music that arose after an abandoned ship washed up in 1968, carrying hundreds of keyboards and synths

How a mysterious ghost ship brought cosmic disco to Cape Verde

A new compilation documents the strange history of the African country’s groove-laden sound, formed following the discovery of a boatload of synths

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After three Indonesian peacekeepers were killed in Lebanon earlier this week, more have been injured today.

Amnesty International has warned that the World Cup, spread across three North American countries, risks becoming a ‘stage for repression’

Amnesty International warns Fifa World Cup risks becoming ‘stage for repression’

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Watching ABC Insiders (so you don’t have to) but it’s a perfect illustration of the vacancy of Australian politics. Interviewing Barnaby Joyce in a big hat and then Matthew Knott and Jane Norman trying to explain energy policy. It’s embarrassing

'It exploded before anyone thought to check whether the database was properly secured.'

Exposed Moltbook Database Let Anyone Take Control of Any AI Agent on the Site

'It exploded before anyone thought to check whether the database was properly secured.'

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how do we value once utopian artefacts of now-rare vinyl classics that'll fetch price$$ at auction @marcuskelson.bsky.social ?

"Silicon Valley hated governments, rules and regulations. It believed if you were rich, you were smart. It thought people could be, and indeed should be, programmed just like a computer. 'Techno-libertarianism' had no time for the messy realities of being human." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...

The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley

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Systemic failures of financial institutions &markets enable corruption #kleptocracy checked by journalism says Nobel laureate #JosephStiglitz, amid info integrity attacks via #AI... belies society's financialisation woes & looming shadow banking collapse? not detailed enough here @gijn.org #gijc25?

2 #gijc25 💥 rake over #AI empires & power, malevolent goldrush that dismantles society via unaccountable #broligarchy hyping 'heaven'/ #dystopia - "scale boggles the mind" of data centres' fossil fuelled blackholes a la openAi etc trillion$ claims #climateemergency #democracy @karenhao.bsky.social

theatricality and info integrity in the era of chaotic powerplays & inequality chasms overlooked as JoKukathas Kurosawa'a Rashomon to think in journalistic terms, investigating beliefs where flooding the zone with shit now commonplace #GIJC25

Good pts re: authenticity premium/hunger of audiences; persuasive voicings that are popular not deceptively populist, diversity of hidden songs & liminal moments amid corporate algorithms; from distant China autocrats to intimate pandemic subjects & brazen scamsters #gijc25 @suelinwong.bsky.social

A Nobel Laureate in my hometown reminds us in a bracing morning of the stakes today for our communities ... where info warfare & info integrity is core as the enshittification of civilisation is fuelled by broligarchs et al #trust #democracy #journalism #gijc25 @mariaressa.bsky.social

saturday retail: a box for auction from a busted shop, iphone cases for #heaven well wrapped

new digital caste to suit newly financialised economy: 'Scamming became the new farming. The fathers try a different crop every season; the sons, a different con.' #latecapitalism www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

‘Scamming became the new farming’: inside India’s cybercrime villages

The long read: How did an obscure district in a neglected state become India’s byword for digital deceit?

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better than Ponzi... "The awkward reality may be that if ChatGPT admitted 'I don’t know' too often, then users would simply seek answers elsewhere. That could be a serious problem for a company that is still trying to grow its user base and achieve profitability." www.science.org/content/arti...

AI hallucinates because it’s trained to fake answers it doesn’t know

Teaching chatbots to say “I don’t know” could curb hallucinations. It could also break AI’s business model

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Devil's in the lopsided details: "The benefits to 4 SEAsian nations were less clear.. failed to negotiate a lower tariff rate than 19-20% initially imposed... only about $1b of exports to the US, or 0.2% of Malaysia’s GDP, would receive a zero tariff rate." www.businesstimes.com.sg/internationa...

Trump’s newest trade deals give US an edge over South-east Asia

Asean is now a larger supplier of goods to the America than China Read more at The Business Times.

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another win? "This was, in retrospect, the Decade of the Hawks, the Washington-based China experts who forcefully made the case for confrontation...including China experts and Washington policy hands who have never set foot in the Middle Kingdom — shaped US policy." www.semafor.com/article/10/2...

Trump is poised to end Washington’s decade of the China Hawks

A decade of tough US policy toward China ends with a whimper.

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older #asean democrat &chair #AnwarIbrahim welcomes youngest democracy #timorleste in, while rakyat rally against older democracy's crumbling literally &figuratively amid genocide; its leader jigs 2 KL warmth,centring #pmx skills in historic week of superpower talks www.facebook.com/reel/7970968...

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Trump, Anwar arrive at KL Convention Centre in 'The Beast' - https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2025/10/26/trump-anwar-arrive-at-kl-convention-centre-in-039the-beast039

breaking the silence: multigenerational Aboriginal Chinese families up north with poignant stories contesting colonial #auspol frameworks, the stolen generation finding chinese refuge from white colonialists, and some still living with traumas of White Aust Policy in their family legacies

hearing legendary #HenryReynolds, 87, lucidly sketching out Cairns, Darwin, "multicultural Chinese towns" until WW2, & "Aboriginal people preferred working for Chinese, shared food, kitchens... a profound difference that the Chinese took responsibility for their children as part of new families.."

This is a great, detailed piece of work. There is really no secret here: OpenAI fully intend to use fossil gas to power their data centres. All the crap about fusion, dyson spheres etc is misdirection. This is what they're *actually* doing: www.desmog.com/2025/10/13/o...

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As I reported earlier today for DeSmog, they're not hiding their intentions... www.desmog.com/2025/10/13/o...

good points @mikeyslezak.bsky.social re: press freedom &false equivalences, breaking silence over #Gaza in #auspol newsrooms, targeted killings of journos & newsrooms jobs, power(points) barely scrutinised ... & industry implosion reveals fragmented startups? @withmeaa.bsky.social @MediaDiverseAU

'peacemaker-in-chief': "The White House is conditioning Trump’s attendance at the Oct. 26-28 ASEAN meeting on the Malaysian government agreeing to allow Trump to preside over a ceremonial signing of a peace deal between Cambodia and Thailand on the summit sidelines" www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Trump seeks peace ceremony spotlight at ASEAN summit

Trump wants to preside over a Thailand-Cambodia peace deal ceremony — and Chinese officials aren’t welcome.

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out at last: #OmarMusa Borneo novel, so fine & authentic, his imposter-syndrome musing may be book's patriarch too, always a step ahead of stifling post-colonial legacies. In uncertain nations, everyone's cosplaying, imposters abound because the feels triumph, the vibe swamps inconvenient facts...

birthdaydrinks: unraveling authenticity in desperately ambitious era of influencers, sophistry, genocide & that climate emergency, in handy stroll w. #markmordue

showmanship... or just learning from seAsia 🙃 “Trump is knocking off one by one all the late-night TV show hosts, but at the same time the actual ownership of the networks is changing as well ... There’s a sort of conservativisation taking place of big US media.” www.smh.com.au/business/com...

How Trump’s billionaire mate is reshaping America

Larry Ellison has long been overshadowed by tech luminaries such as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk. Not any more.

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like an ersatz outake from a Godfather movie, or nusantara nous... "We can do this the easy way or the hard way.. These companies can find ways to change conduct and take actions on Kimmel, or there’s going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.” www.smh.com.au/world/north-...

Jimmy Kimmel show pulled by ABC in the US over Charlie Kirk assassination remarks

President Donald Trump celebrated after the Disney-owned network said it would stop airing the veteran late-night comic’s show.

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