Belinda Barnet
@manjusrii.bsky.social
Snr Lecturer digital media Swinburne Uni, chicken whisperer, researcher. Smells books. Maybe we can build a new thing here 🌱 The Upside Down: https://twitter.com/manjusrii
Echo the Australian magpie annoying a tuxedo cat named Gilbert in Thames, New Zealand. The pair are known to be friends, though the magpie is often described as an annoying sibling that frequently pushes limits. They are part of a group called "Tuxedoes Unite" located in Karangahake, New Zealand.
Sarah Hanson-Young tears into ACMA following their Senate evidence, saying they’re an “absolute lapdog” for the gambling industry. “I don’t know what those people do”🔥
“We must protect political debate by stopping any protesters and media who present things that make us look bad.” chaser.com.au/national/pol...
Media outlets should all stand together in opposition to this: boycott the conference altogether. The ban will grow to include you one day if you don’t cut it at the root
“…Adani will pay no company tax despite generating almost $1bn in revenue from coal mining in Queensland over the past year www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Adani to pay no company tax despite $1bn revenue from Queensland coalmine
Indian conglomerate offsets earnings from Carmichael mine to report $340.6m loss, after promising billions in taxes and royalties
theguardian.com
Ok that was a bit of a let down. I was expecting it to be loud and serious but I literally missed it #ausalert
Hope all Melb drivers with their phones connected to car audio and driving/navigating along happily today on freeways etc are ready for the AusAlert test. Not startled I mean. Stay safe xx
Remarkable camera angle of President Trump as he listens to Wall Street Journal reporters receiving an award for their investigation into Trump’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein — which they pursued despite Trump’s threats and lawsuit.
In our era, digital platforms like Facebook have become public infrastructure: they are crucial to the functioning of many businesses as well as containing years of memories, photos and personal information for millions of Australians. Where do we go if something goes wrong?
“The discovery of layers of grass ash stretching back 25,000 years suggests that a cave in south-eastern Australia was home to elaborate rituals for over 1000 generations of Indigenous inhabitants. www.newscientist.com/article/2580...
Magic rituals took place in an Australian cave for 25,000 years | New Scientist
Preserved plant cells show that grasses were brought into Cloggs cave in Australia and burnt over many millennia, revealing the ancient origins of rituals practised by the GunaiKurnai people
newscientist.com
This week: Pauline Hanson describes domestic violence as a “two way street”. Also this week:
It would seem you’ve got the attention of the Crown Prosecution Service now.
Before Hanson or her staff take a swipe at the ABC for this headline, look at the photos. It’s not an exaggeration.
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 3w agoPauline Hanson delivers CPAC London speech to mostly empty seats
Malcolm Turnbull on News Corp (at the launch event for Andrew Dodd & Matthew Ricketson’s Getting Murdoched): www.theage.com.au/business/com...
We need to do far more to combat antisemitism. We definitely do. But I feel like the IHRA are not helping and arguably making it *worse* by conflating antisemitism with criticism of the Israeli government. This organisation should be clearly delineating the distinction between the two
I feel like the *entire regional train network of Victoria* should have a plan B for when Telstra goes down
The shadow minister for communications doing “test calls” to 000 during an outage is the very definition of unhelpful.
Well done to Microsoft for prioritising fact-checked and *reliable* information in Copilot outputs. It’ll mean the AI itself is trained on premium journalism too. Good news for Nine too, obviously, but it shows Microsoft values verified information www.theage.com.au/business/com...
Microsoft agrees to pay Nine for journalism in major AI deal
Nine has signed a major deal with Microsoft that will assure people who use the tech giant’s Copilot chatbot access to original, trusted journalism.
theage.com.au
It’s so important that we don’t offer AI companies exemptions from copyright law here. “My books that I’ve lived off for 30 years, have all been hoovered up in many editions, in many countries, in many languages by big tech, broken down for parts” -Anna Funder www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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
theguardian.com
Imagine deploying the national guard, federal police, security towers, fencing and AI-powered cameras with intrusion detection to “protect” a reflecting pool. To protect what is essentially a mirror.
@dorianlynskey.bsky.social reviews the withering critique of Big Tech by @doctorow.pluralistic.net. AI is a "remarkable new technology rolled out in the most reckless, self-serving way one could imagine, by the worst people, for the worst reasons."
The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI by Cory Doctorow review – the real price of artificial intelligence
A vivid and entertaining polemnic on the economics of the tech revolution, filled with righteous ire
theguardian.com
The debate about what Pauline Hanson means by “monoculture” is disingenuous. We all know what she means because she told us in her maiden speech to parliament in 1996.
Is anyone trying to fact check the figures Hanson is giving in support of her anti-immigrant rhetoric
This is good news for the UK. Although the ban has been implemented reluctantly and in an arguably ineffective way by the platforms here, it has encouraged long-term changes by the platforms to protect kids. This wouldn’t have happened without the ban. www.bbc.com/news/article...
UK social media ban: Questions remain on how it will work
The BBC's technology editor Zoe Kleinman on the big changes coming down the line for young people online.
bbc.com
The Strait of Hormuz was both open and toll-free before Trump entered this conflict. How exactly is this a “win”? Serious question.
