Three lions held at the Tokyo Zoo have died from heat stroke. Four lions remain so ill that they're unable to stand. The average heat index in Tokyo in July was 110°. And we are in just 1.4C of global heating. We are on track for 3C in my kid's lifetime. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/w...

"worker-driven automation improves quality, while capital-driven automation improves throughput"

Tom Quinn@tomquinn.bsky.social · 43m ago

"I remember the dotcom era, when the business press was full of articles about the conflict between CEOs and a new workforce that demanded the right to use the web on the job. Today, the business press is full of articles about the conflict between the workforce and CEOs who demand that they use AI"

"I remember the dotcom era, when the business press was full of articles about the conflict between CEOs and a new workforce that demanded the right to use the web on the job. Today, the business press is full of articles about the conflict between the workforce and CEOs who demand that they use AI"

Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...

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That horrible video of a Ukrainian vegetable-seller being stalked by a Russian drone is just one example among many, many thousands of recent incidents where combatants used small drones to kill and terrorize obvious civilians. We have to do more to protect these people - and here’s some ways how:

What Can We Do About Drone Attacks on Civilians? Some Thoughts

Lately, I've been spending a lot of time analyzing, reporting on, and researching the horrifying global uptick in the use of small, cheap, short-range drones to intentionally target and kill civilians...

little-flying-robots.ghost.io

media when maga wins an election: we must travel the country and speak to these voters and extend empathy to them and give credence to their bigotry and false beliefs media when the left wins an election: is this the end of the american experiment

Israeli forces have launched a large-scale military operation in Qalandiya camp, surrounding the area from all entrances with a heavy military presence, including armed troops and bulldozers. During the raid, Israeli forces stormed homes, assaulted residents and journalists, and carried out arrests

Aboriginal people testify to experiencing significant increases in racism since 2023. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...

When this photo was posted online the racist commentary began

A national inquiry into racism, hate and violence towards First Nations people has come to Hobart to hear from the state's Aboriginal groups and people with lived experience of racism.

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I'm the first person to post about this on social media. There has been no media coverage yet. DEWR themselves have not posted about it on their social media, despite making other posts today. This is a highly consequential decision of government that will affect many recipients. Not good enough.

Tom Studans@maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 23h ago

#BREAKING 🚨 The new DEWR Secretary announced they'll seek to resume suspending or cancelling welfare payments on October 26 in respect of: • Refusal or failure to accept an offer of suitable work • Failure to 'reconnect' with a provider within 4 weeks www.dewr.gov.au/assuring-int...

Lowest Rhine summer flow on record (~125 years). (* The seasonal low flow is generally in late summer - early autumn. Gather may be some rare very low flows in winter, presumably freeze related.)

Daan van den Broek@daanvandenbroek.com · 7d ago

The Rhine’s discharge keeps setting new summer record lows. And we’re still only in July.

‘It's sad that Indonesia, Malaysia, PNG are our closest neighbours, but Australians seem to know so little about them. I'm trying to show those threads of connection and flows between different parts of this region, because we are part of this region.’ Look forward to reading, it sounds fantastic.

ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 15h ago

Omar Musa wins 2026 Miles Franklin Literary Award for Heart of Darkness 'critique', Fierceland

It’s just war crimes all the way down at this point.

The New Arab@thenewarab.bsky.social · 14h ago

Israeli forces used small aircraft to cross the border and spray high concentrations of the herbicide glyphosate over farmland in southern Syria and Lebanon, a new report has revealed. According to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, the spraying halted the growth of several crops

Take abortions: fake abortion clinics - where pregnant women are bullied or tricked out of the abortions they're seeking - buy Google ads against the names of *real* abortion clinics. Google makes millions sending abortion-seekers to fake abortion providers: pluralistic.net/2023/06/15/p... 36/

The richest person in the world, an avowed white supremacist, today again posted "the next step is getting rid of 'source code' entirely and just making an efficient binary directly with AI" because he has no idea how anything works, not even the basics of industries he is in.

Our oil and gas belong to Australians, and we're losing as much as $50 million a day in tax revenue. It's time the government secured a fair return on our finite national resources. We have a real problem when even Donald Trump can see it, but our PM can't.

Multinational oil giants like Shell, BP, and Saudi Aramco raking in massive wartime windfalls - and Woodside has announced an extra $6 billion in revenue in just three months off the back of war in the Middle East.

“unequivocally and forcefully signaled Israel's implicit refusal to halt its strikes in Gaza as a condition for launching the framework (…). It also made clear that Israel refuses to withdraw from the current "yellow line" – meaning it would not pull back from more than 60 % of the Gaza Strip”.

Rima I Anabtawi@rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 15h ago

How Netanyahu convinced Trump's Board of Peace to rewrite its deal with Hamas www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

From me. Almost 400 native Australian bird and mammal species have been assessed as being at a high risk – or worse – from the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus, a federal government assessment has revealed.

Penguins and dolphins among nearly 400 Australian species under threat from bird flu as ‘true extent of disaster’ revealed

Assessment of more than 2,000 native species warns nearly one in five at high risk of deadly H5N1, including parrots, fur seals and quolls

theguardian.com

"The systematic removal of rubble at this pace conceals the evidence of appalling crimes Israel committed in Gaza, especially those related to genocide, such as summary executions and killing unarmed civilians,”

Israel accused of erasing evidence in Gaza

A new human rights report accuses Israeli forces and contractors of removing and crushing Gaza’s rubble before investigators can examine possible evidence of genocide, mass graves and unlawful killing...

pearlsandirritations.com

Under Labor’s funding plan, public schools won’t get their 100% SRS funding until 2034. And even then it’ll be conditional and full of loopholes. Meanwhile, the richest and most privileged private schools in the country are awash with public cash. It doesn’t pass the pub test.

The haters said that Trump couldn’t get a Gaza deal to work. Honestly, great call by the haters.

The Associated Press@apnews.com · yesterday

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will not withdraw from Gaza until Hamas has been completely disarmed.

As well as Elbit Systems, "companies such as Thales and BAE Systems, have also participated in the attempted extermination of the Palestinian people. This reveals the staggering level of assistance so-called ‘Israel’ has received from Western nations." #GazaGenocide

The Canary@thecanaryuk.bsky.social · yesterday

Ireland's Israel-free jet sparked media outrage, but boycotting the genocidal settler-colony means accepting sacrifice.

Heatwaves reaching the upper thermal limits of mammals Poor lions, poor residents of Tokyo And yes, we should be worried and yes we know what to collectively do

Sanho Tree@sanho.bsky.social · yesterday

“Three female lions died of suspected heatstroke at Tokyo's Tama Zoo, ​the first heat-related deaths among the facility's lion ‌population in its 62-year history. The lions, aged 3, 11 and 15 and all born in the zoo, showed signs of severe dehydration ​and multiple organ failure in post-mortem exams”

Basically, the US arrayed 100 tankers and 100s of strike fighters and even flew B-1s out of the UK in order to hit a very limited selection of targets in coastal Iran, to essentially 0 strategic effect and arguably 0 tactical effect either.

Doing an Iran War roundup and dear reader it is so fucking wild that statements from the President of the United States of America are effectively ignorable because they have a demonstrated un-relationship with reality

Funeral rites have begun for the bodies of 122 Gazans whose remains were retrieved in recent days from beneath several homes belonging to the Abu Sharia - Al-Husayna clan in the Sabra area southeast of Gaza City, one year after the strikes that buried them in the rubble.

Alero@aleroetie.bsky.social · 2d ago

Preparations are underway in Gaza for the mass funeral of 112 Palestinians from the Abu Sharia and Al-Hasayna families after their bodies were recovered from the site of one of the massacres carried out by the Israeli occupation.

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Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · 2d ago

With the US strategic defeat by Iran, what are the long held assumptions that must be revised? "All the foundations of the unipolar world have vanished. " @policytensor sums up what we have learned since February. Hard to disagree with any of them.

You know how every clean energy stat has China having dominance while the rest of the world is playing little league. Its the same with AI and US. "The State of Virginia alone has more data centers than China." -@songpinganq

Funny how no one calls this "overcapacity" @katemac.bsky.social @aldasky.bsky.social @edwardongwesojr.com US Data Center capex boom of many trillions over a decade + global dominance at about 80% of global AI investments is analagous to China's enormous Green boom + 70-80% global dominance.

Story here from late 2025 about Mozambique youth protests that, despite imprisonments and beatings, won some concessions from the govt and developed a grassroots infrastructure wagingnonviolence.org/2025/09/moza...

Meet the youth-led pro-democracy movement making gains in Mozambique

Mozambique’s autocratic regime is slowly relenting in response to steady community organizing for accountability after fraudulent elections.

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Residents of Gaza gathered for the mass funeral of 112 members of the Abu Sharia and al-Hasayna families, who were among 308 others killed by Israeli strikes since Nov 2023. 🧵