Scoop: The AI music generator Suno was hacked. Hacker shared source code that shows how the tool was made and part of the music and podcasts that were scraped to create it. Decades worth of music, lyrics, and podcasts from YouTube, Deezer, Genius & more www.404media.co/hack-reveals...

I hate how big companies just don't want anyone to own anything ever again. They'd rent food to us if they could

oh he on DRUGS drugs

Nina Zeelen@ninazeelen.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Palantir CEO Alex Karp couldn’t stay seated in his chair as he proudly stated: 'We kill people sometimes', while speaking to shareholders. (Feb 2026)

The call for a plebiscite on a 25% gas export tax has over 41,000 signatures. Will you help @australiainstitute.org.au get to 50K?

A National Plebiscite for a 25% Gas Export Tax

Voters across the political spectrum support a 25% tax on gas exports. So, let's put it to the people. Join the call for a national plebiscite and let Australians decide.

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Someone has been projecting images all over D.C. “It’s swampier than ever.” The Kennedy Center one is pretty hilarious. 😂😂😂

Exciting updates for LGBTQIA+ TTRPG players in Naarm/Melbourne: @melbqueerttrpgs.bsky.social is going to be at PortPlay with locally-made TTRPGs for sale and a meet-up ahoy! ALSO other updates!!! Available by kissing your screen with your thumb right here 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 #QueerTTRPG #QueerJoy #Naarm #LGBTQIA

Melb Queer TTRPGs@melbqueerttrpgs.bsky.social · 5mo ago

News, upcoming events, and behind the scenes at Melb Queer TTRPG Community - all in our latest newsletter. www.melbqueerttrpgs.com/news/april-2...

Just 1 example of the kind of thing unis are getting for their massive spend on consultants. ANU spent $6k on a "non-significant meeting" with a reputation management firm at which apparently no one took a note. That's more than a tutor gets for a semester's work thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

ANU spent $6k on a 'non-significant' meeting. Then why do they pay tutors even less for a semester?

Last year the Australian National University (ANU) was getting some bad press, so they engaged a company called Bastion Reputation to help with the media fallout from restructures and the heavily crit...

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With demise of Black & Write Fellowships, an invaluable pathway to publishing has been lost for First Nations writers. Replacement program will still create opportunities for First Nations editors, but writer element to be determined by funded industry partner/s. www.slq.qld.gov.au/about/news-a...

The fed gov is running a hearing on their arts and philanthropy inquiry today, but they're looking in the wrong place. Philanthropy is a tiny part of overall arts funding and won't help big problems like the post-covid arts recovery. Employment is still way down compared w the rest of the economy

The Arts are in crisis

Employment in the Arts and Entertainment sector took almost five times as long to return to pre-COVID levels as the rest of the economy

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Huge news: Jürgen Habermas was actually still alive until very recently!

We are all watching the US government use AI for their war propaganda, doing military deals directly with some of the largest AI companies. AI is not neutral. Now is not the time to make AI slop for your linkedin post 🫠

Love seeing the work Decoloyarns does out in the blue sky 🦅

AusSTS@aussts.bsky.social · 6mo ago

A wonderful write up from the AusSTS2024 team reflecting on decolonial practices in conference organising: What would it look like to run a genuinely decolonial event? Is it possible to run a genuinely decolonial event at a settler institution? decoloyarns.org/2025/08/11/h...

It's been a joy to contribute to Constellations/Not Writers Week. Over 100 speakers, 50 events, 20 locations around Adelaide & regional SA locations. Put together by community, bookshops, libraries and SA literature & publishing sector - in under 5 weeks with no prior budget. This is people power! >

Magda posted that she's done with chemotherapy and is in remission 😭 amazing news to kick off mardi gras weekend 😭

📯📯📯Lightbulb Improv are doing a 10 year reunion show! March 26 cast & alum are travelling from around the world & the territory for one night at Smiths Alternative in #Canberra I’ll see you from the stage & the hugs after - it’s going to be epic Tix: www.smithsalternative.com/events/ten-y...

Ten Years With Lightbulb Improv

Thursday March 26, 7pm - 9pm | Lightbulb is turning 10 and you're invited! Back in 2016, Lightbulb set foot for the first time on the Smith's Alternative stage, bringing their high-energy antics and c...

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Last year icon @ashtafelix.bsky.social asked if I’d join the journey of making @melbqueerttrpgs.bsky.social eligible for support to make more opportunities happen for the Queer TTRPG community in Naarm & surrounds. I said yes! And we’re INCORPORATED NOW BABY! Cool shit ahoy! #ttrpg #queergaming

Melb Queer TTRPGs@melbqueerttrpgs.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Big news! The Melb Queer TTRPG Community is now an Incorporated Association!

Don't forget!!!!! tomorrow is for whimsy and joy

Rad news that Meanjin is returning to Yagara Country. What a great transit for this journal. Keen to see First Peoples at the helm, moving the body of the journal as is needed! Can’t wait to subscribe to this next chapter. www.qut.edu.au/about/meanjin

QUT - Meanjin

QUT will be the new custodian of Meanjin, Australia's most eminent literary journal, bringing the publication back to Brisbane for the first time in 80 years.

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I'm as glad as the next person that Meanjin will get a new home, but can we please stop with the knee-jerk cancellations and just have some continuity please? Thinking reinstatement of Sabsabi, re-issuing of the invite for Abdel-Fattah and now this. www.qut.edu.au/about/meanjin

QUT - Meanjin

QUT will be the new custodian of Meanjin, Australia's most eminent literary journal, bringing the publication back to Brisbane for the first time in 80 years.

qut.edu.au

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

‘Man calls neo-nazi a racist’ is quite possibly the loosest excuse to platform a nazi and pass it off as news that I have ever seen.

“There were roughly 500 police deployed at Town Hall and an estimated 3,000 across the CBD. This scale was not accidental. It was a show of force. Police created the disorder they later claimed to suppress. This tactic is known. It is taught. It is deliberate.” michaelwest.com.au/this-was-pla...

This was planned. And Chris Minns owns it. - Michael West

NSW Police have assaulted dozens of peace protestors who gathered to protest the visit by Israeli president Isaac Herzog to Australia.

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Book now! Free event in Adelaide events.humanitix.com/rivers-of-re...

If protests didn't work, then governments wouldn't try to ban them. thepoint.com.au/news/260209-...

To be clear: if protests didn't work, governments wouldn't try to ban them

Today we will find out the ruling from the NSW Supreme Court on whether the planned protest in Sydney’s CBD against Israeli President Isaac Herzog can go ahead legally.

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What does an "artless country" look like? Attacks on unis and artists have immediate impact—and a long tail. Disturbing new research by the excellent Profs Sandra Gattenhof and John Nicholas Saunders, my former National Advocates for Arts Education colleagues: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Australia in danger of becoming an ‘artless country’ as enrolments in creative courses collapse

Research suggests surging costs under Morrison government’s job-ready graduate scheme and axing of dozens of subjects largely to blame

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Labor sending out a fundraising email today to stop one nation when the two major parties have created the condition for ON’s rise

Max Berger@maxberger.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Donald Trump didn't break the political system on his own. Our broken political system is why we have Trump.

Fun Thursday reminder: book in to get your moles checked. We need you here with us. When there are so many ways to die, I’d hate for you to leave this mortal plane because of a freaky mole.

Anyone got a spare free/cheap mid to large venue in Adelaide that's not totally booked out during Festival/Fringe season? Just need it for one day, for an Aboriginal-led writers event. Promise to take good care of it

a man and a woman are sitting in a kitchen and the man is holding a can of beer .

Alt: Husband and wife, and son are in a kitchen. Father says to his son tell 'em their dreaming

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Feel like a man throwing a homemade IED into a large crowd at an invasion day rally should be bigger news

A good week to remember our country has also detained children as young as two for being refugees