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Rob Hobson

@themelancholicskr.bsky.social

Surviving the proto-apocalypse. Ink still runs in my veins 📸🗞🌏 Views are my own, reposts ≠ endorsement. Match reports & articles: cricketfj.com Blog: melancholicseeker.blogspot.com Muck Rack: https://muckrack.com/robert-hobson-2

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The Saturday Paper@thesaturdaypaper.com.au · yesterday

Junior doctors work well beyond their rostered hours to treat patients, writes Hayden Stephens. Likewise, casual academics are required to work without proper recognition and pay. This unpaid labour is often treated as incidental. In reality, it is anything but. trib.al/OS1EzXy

How hospitals and unis normalised wage theft

Australia’s hospitals and universities do very different work, but they share a growing problem: they routinely fail to recognise the hours worked by the people who keep them running.

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Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 7d ago

AI is being used to... -Facilitate online scams -Process health insurance claims, leading to wrongful denials -Price gouge customers via surveillance pricing -Set higher car insurance premiums using personal data The dangers of AI aren’t in some far-off future. They're already here.

Jim Pembroke@jimpembroke.bsky.social · last wk.

A great argument for taxing corporate profits sufficiently, so companies contribute when the govt underpins their losses. Shoebridge and the Greens should be all over this story. Better economically grounded argument than simply calling Bell Bay "corporate welfare." #auspol

Dana Bergstrom@danambergstrom.bsky.social · last wk.

More corporate welfare - almost covers the salary of the entire workforce for 5 years. RIO says thanks! Meanwhile accessibility section of Dept of Ed jobs slashed, TMAG and herbarium jobs slashed. Oh & a single 18yr Tassie boy given $120k contract to play in Tassie AFL team. Make it make sense 🤷🏻‍♀️

Rob Hobson@themelancholicskr.bsky.social · 2w ago

#mytwocents So basically an 'honour among thieves' agreement - eff the world, just don't threaten my racket and profits, no? #AI #regulation #news #oligarchy #corruption #cronyism

AFP News Agency@en.afp.com · 2w ago

🇺🇸 Trump says AI bosses sign 'morally binding' accord to self-regulate US President Donald Trump says the tech executives gathered at the White House to discuss regulating AI have signed a "morally binding" commitment to build adequate safeguards on the fast-moving technology.

The Associated Press@apnews.com · 2w ago

Artificial intelligence is turbocharging scams in unimaginable ways, as millions of Americans report being targeted and victims of AI scams. Take this AP quiz and test if you know how to spot what's real and what's AI.

Could you spot an AI-powered scam? See if you can tell what’s real.

Artificial intelligence is turbocharging scams in ways unimaginable just a few years ago. Ninety-eight percent of Americans say they have been targeted by scammers — many on a daily basis — according to a poll conducted by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

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AFP News Agency@en.afp.com · 2w ago

🇫🇷 🇻🇦 Pope Leo has arrived in the French border city of Metz to speak on the future of Europe, giving a distinctly political dimension to a landmark visit to France that has sparked scenes of spiritual jubilation. ➡️ u.afp.com/S9A5

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Shooti@bambooshooti.bsky.social · 2w ago

#ResistanceRoots Johnny Appleseed was born on this day in 1774 in Leominster, Province of Massachusetts Bay. He was a real person, and he planted a lot of apple trees, but he mainly sold them to make hard cider. He was also a pacifist, altruistic, revered nature and respected Indigenous tribes. /1

Johnny Appleseed. The romanticized image of Johnny Appleseed handing out sweet, shiny apples for children to bite into is a myth popularized much later. In the 1800s, the American frontier ran on alcohol. Water supplies weren’t safe to drink. Because fermenting killed off pathogens, hard cider became the primary daily beverage for entire families — even children. The average frontier settler drank 10.5 ounces of hard cider per day. Because Appleseed refused to graft trees due to his religious beliefs, his apples were genetically unpredictable, small and bitter. Known as “spitters” because you’d spit them out if you tried to eat them raw, these tart apples were perfect for pressing into hard cider. Resourceful frontier families used them for other staples as well, including apple butter, applesauce and livestock feed, and used a process called “freeze distillation” to make applejack. Note, however, that Appleseed rarely sold apples. He sold the young saplings and the land itself.
AFP News Agency@en.afp.com · 2w ago

🇨🇭 The Swiss voted Sunday on a much-debated proposal to tighten their country's cherished neutrality, with polls indicating most would reject the initiative championed by the hard-right and dubbed "pro-Russian" by opponents. ➡️ u.afp.com/S9Y5

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Barbara Pocock@barbarapocock.bsky.social · 2w ago

We have a system that tackles inflation by suppressing the household income of workers while protecting housing wealth & corporate profits. Until the concentration of wealth in the country is confronted, working people will keep paying the price.

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