Natasha In Oz
@natashainoz.bsky.social
Educator📚 Love my fam🫶🏻 Traveller✈️ Foodie🍲 Feminist🙋🏻 #GoPies 🖤🤍
Non-consensual surveillance should not be normalised. Sign this petition asking #Kmart to withdraw the product. petitions.getup.org.au/petitions/de... @getup.org.au
Demand Kmart take the Anko surveillance glasses off the shelf
Camera glasses are moving quickly into the mainstream. Meta has sold more than 7 million pairs and hired Kylie Jenner to sell more. At $89, against several hundred dollars for the Meta version, the te...
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www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... Kmart has sold out of Anko-branded $89 camera glasses across Australia, which a digital rights expert says presents a “privacy nightmare” as people face being filmed without their consent.
Kmart sells out of low-cost rival to Meta camera glasses across Australia amid warnings of ‘privacy nightmare’
Expert says people face being filmed without their consent as $89 Anko smartglasses sell out in stores and online
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Snapchat has joined the likes of YouTube, LinkedIn and Substack in a growing effort to combat #AISlop such as fake writing, images and videos that are entirely created by artificial intelligence (AI) tools. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Snapchat joins other platforms in the fight against 'AI slop'
Snapchat, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Substack are trying to combat the proliferation of fake AI content.
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At astonishing speed, our rights are being cancelled, worldwide. In the UK, the prosecution of Rajiv Menon KC is the latest example of blatant authoritarianism. Why? Because this is what billionaires and corporations demand. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Think our basic rights are safe? In the age of oligarchs and corporate lobbying, think again | George Monbiot
The global assault on our freedoms is coming ever closer to home. Just look at the sinister prosecution of UK lawyer Rajiv Menon, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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In April, the Starmer government passed an Act of Parliament enabling the police to shut down any protest they deem to have a “cumulative” impact on the community. The only protests that have ever succeeded are those with a cumulative impact. Effective protest is now illegal.
God damn I’m not looking forward to this…
Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS@euanritchie.bsky.social · 6d agoH5N1 (bird flu) is now spreading through resident Australian wildlife. Why have the full details of federal, state, and territory risk assessments and response plans _still_ not been released to the public? Are the plans adequate? Full statement - australianmammals.org.au/files/1608_b...
Segal proposes antisemitism taskforce for health sector, education down to preschool Stephanie Tran reports. Read it here: https://michaelwest.com.au/segal-proposes-antisemitism-taskforce-for-health-sector-education-down-to-preschool/
The National Centre for Education Against Antisemitism...is a private sector entity registered on 2 June 2026 directors with links to ECAJ and 5A
The non-publication order of the high-profile man in the Cairns case remains in place while the justice considers the arguments of the media's legal team & that of the police's legal team. #qldpol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...
Judge reserves decision in unmasking high-profile man in alleged extortion case
MM's name has been suppressed by a Cairns court since late May, although he was not the direct target of the alleged threat.
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Trump's Medicaid work requirements are putting even terminally ill patients through bureaucratic nightmares to keep their health insurance — all to fund even more tax cuts for the wealthy.
The National Centre for Education Against Antisemitism : * Jillian Segal (or successor as Special Envoy) is written into the company's constitution as an observer. Other interesting snippets: * One director be appointed by Robert Goot * One director be appointed by Sydney Jewish Museum
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?
Richard Duncan alleges Michael Lambie proposed using employee tips to “ensure accountability” for breakages. Duncan thought the proposal to use staff tips to help cover the cost of broken glasses would breach workplace laws. Months later Duncan was made redundant. www.theage.com.au/business/wor...
Celebrity chef’s tip-tax ‘plan’ for broken glasses heads to court
Celebrity chef Michael Lambie is locked in a court fight with a former manager at his fine-dining restaurant.
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A small act of kindness toward someone vulnerable just went viral, proof that you do not need grand gestures to make a real difference. Sharing food, helping a hurt animal, aiding a stranger, this is
McCarthyism has returned to the United States – and this time it’s even more dangerous www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
McCarthyism has returned to the United States – and this time it’s even more dangerous | Judith Levine
Trump’s campaign of repression echoes the red scare. But now the government has bigger ambitions and more powerful tools
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What do food manufacturers know about children’s brains, and how to entice them? What do they know about how to include just enough sugar, or the perfect amount of crunchiness, so people can’t stop eating #ultraprocessedfoods? www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/o...
Opinion | This Teen Took on a $10 Trillion Industry. We Might All Be Healthier Because of Him. (Gift Article)
A teenager’s lawsuit against the food industry shows us the path to a better food system.
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Despite hundreds of contaminated food products being detected at the border each year, including rice containing arsenic & cheese contaminated with listeria, only a fraction of imported food is inspected, & testing for dangerous contaminants has declined since 2019. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...
From eggs to seafood to spices and spirits, testing reveals truth behind labels
A Four Corners investigation has uncovered products whose labels did not match independent scientific testing, raising serious questions about the integrity of Australia's food supply.
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So much impunity for racist behaviour in politics & society, it's great to see some accountability‼️ "Today is a win for every single person who has been made to feel that their belonging in this country is conditional. Hate speech is not free speech, & the federal court has reaffirmed that today."
Pauline Hanson loses bid to overturn Mehreen Faruqi racial discrimination finding
Judges find in Faruqi’s favour after One Nation leader launched an appeal against judgement she had breached Racial Discrimination Act
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Secret briefing to Premier Jacinta Allan reveals senior advisers sought to warn her in June 2023 that the Big Build she was overseeing was being taken over by the CFMEU, & this could cause blowouts, &, bikies & criminals had infiltrated taxpayer-funded projects. www.theage.com.au/national/vic...
Bombshell briefing reveals top officials’ CFMEU warning to Allan
Four of Jacinta Allan’s top advisers authored a ministerial briefing warning of union misconduct and criminal infiltration on the Big Build long before the scandal broke.
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Victorian apartment buyers are forking out a “Gatto tax” as plastering, precast and other businesses allegedly pay gangland figure Mick Gatto for #CFMEU-backed, privileged access to the state’s high-rise housing sector. www.theage.com.au/national/vic...
‘Gatto tax’: How plastering company payments to underworld figure hurt buyers
Victorian apartment buyers are forking out a “Gatto tax” as plastering, precast and other businesses allegedly pay gangland figure Mick Gatto for CFMEU-backed, privileged access to the high-rise housi...
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Companies have started incorporating “adversarial patterns” in their garments – carefully designed arrangements of shapes, colours and repeated motifs said to exploit weaknesses in some computer vision systems. #AI www.theguardian.com/fashion/2026...
‘Adversarial clothing’: are garments designed to confuse facial recognition systems about to go mainstream?
Designers say that as well as offering a degree of protection from surveillance, their clothes make a powerful fashion statement about the importance of privacy
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If information and advice about anything is available to all, the most important skills will be discernment, critical analysis and interpersonal relations. People who read books – particularly dense or difficult ones – may become an elite class. #AI www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
Egalitarianism faces a new threat, and it may be too late to stop it
With artificial intelligence invading every aspect of our lives, the only guiding political principle now is that nothing is certain.
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Trump is going to corrupt the midterms anyway he can
#Lime has made roughly $2.5 million while the Yarra City Council didn’t see a cent mayor Stephen Jolly said. There were e-bikes littered “all over the joint”, while the company relied on concerns about climate change as a smokescreen for its lax behaviour. www.theage.com.au/national/vic...
‘Taking the mickey’: Inner-city council tears up e-bike deal
Yarra City Council claimed e-bike operator Lime is “taking the mickey” out of ratepayers by failing to punish illegal parking, footpath riding, and drunk users.
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This statement alone is cause to remove the POTUS. The President swears to uphold our Constitution. An honest & strong Congress would have removed him when he said “l don’t know”.
In what an anti-corruption expert described as a blatant conflict of interest, Mathew Quinlan, a general superintendent on Big Build sites, encouraged subcontractors on govt worksites to use a firm called Salus Workwear without revealing he owned half the company. www.theage.com.au/national/eve...
Everyone eats: Top contractor’s secret Big Build clothing side hustle
A high-ranking superintendent on major infrastructure projects used his position to push a workwear brand he secretly co-owned, sparking an internal corporate probe.
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Cosy (corrupt?) relationship between politicians, big media & corporate advertisers exposed. @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social FOIs SA Premier Peter Malinauskas & Newscorp @thetiser.bsky.social #auspol michaelwest.com.au/back-scratch...
Back-Scratching. Premier Malinauskus’ love-in with Newscorp exposed - Michael West
Rex Patrick FOIs expose the cosy relationship between SA Premier Peter Malinauskas and Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, and its large advertisers
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