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Dr Alan Nixon @alangnixon.bsky.social · 3h

#TheNerdReich

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

oh this guy is delusional delusional

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 6h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

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Dr Alan Nixon @alangnixon.bsky.social · 3h

International #Fascism - #Tactics in action.

Any Wilders and Orban connections in your work @lucyham.bsky.social? Feels right 😁

Gillian de Nooijer @gilliandn.bsky.social · 21d

Oh yeah, btw Orban is now also about to designate leftwing antifascist 'antifa' as a 'terrorist' organisation.

Following Trump Republicans and Dutch rightwing political parties (like his friend Wilders). apnews.com/article/hung...

Dr Alan Nixon @alangnixon.bsky.social · 3h

#TheNerdReich

Center For Humane Technology @humanetech.bsky.social · 5d

CHT co-founder Tristan Harris returns to "The Daily Show" for an incisive conversation about the reckless AI path we're on, driven by the race to achieve market dominance: "This is an insane way to roll out a technology."

Check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=675d_6WGPbo

Tristan Harris – The Dangers of Unregulated AI on Humanity & the Workforce | The Daily Show

YouTube video by The Daily Show

www.youtube.com

Dr Alan Nixon @alangnixon.bsky.social · 3h

#NeoLiberalism and #TheNerdReich in #Education.

James Boxall @jamesgis.bsky.social · 5h

I still find it amazing how "we" in education think we can harness this technology while keeping the power of the creators and rationale for design under "our" control.

How's that worked out for us so far?

Center For Humane Technology @humanetech.bsky.social · 5d

CHT co-founder Tristan Harris returns to "The Daily Show" for an incisive conversation about the reckless AI path we're on, driven by the race to achieve market dominance: "This is an insane way to roll out a technology."

Check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=675d_6WGPbo

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Dr Alan Nixon @alangnixon.bsky.social · 3h

#Fascism and #Eugenics, #USA.

Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 5h

The thing is: if you study what I study, this makes complete sense. Many eugenicists of the early 20th C. wanted the “right” people to have more babies! Limit or prohibit contraception to ensure more of the “right” babies, and use targeted sterilizations to ensure fewer of the “wrong” babies.

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 15h

Ah yes, cutting teen pregnancy prevention while ending federal right to an abortion…

Dr Alan Nixon @alangnixon.bsky.social · 3h

#TheNerdReich

Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 5h

So thankful that dudes without game now have the option of driving all of our energy bills up to come up with devastating lines like it was nice to meet you

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 10h

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Dr Alan Nixon @alangnixon.bsky.social · 3h

#RealHeroes

Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 5h

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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Dr Alan Nixon @alangnixon.bsky.social · 3h

#ClimateReality #Data #Ice #Canada #Arctic

Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 5h

Temperatures were warmer than 5°C above the 1981-2010 average in September 2025 across northern Canada and into the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. The southern route of the Northwest Passage was ice-free and open for transit this past melt season.

Data freely available from doi.org/10.24381/cds...

Regional map of the Canadian Arctic showing September 2025 temperature anomalies. Most areas are warmer than average northeast of Hudson Bay. Anomalies are calculated to a 1981-2010 baseline with red being warmer than average, and blue being colder than average.

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Dr Alan Nixon @alangnixon.bsky.social · 3h

#Tactics of #Fascism, #USA.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5h

The people who want violent protests to happen are Trump, Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, Pete Hegseth, Tom Homan, and other senior appointees in his admin. They are doing everything they possibly can to provoke people to violence and it is obvious that is what they hope for daily.

Dr Alan Nixon @alangnixon.bsky.social · 3h

#NeoLiberalism become #Fascism and #Oligarchy - #Ideology - #AtlasNetwork.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 5h

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Dr Alan Nixon @alangnixon.bsky.social · 3h

The #LNP are such #FascistFluffers and #Genocide supporters, #auspol - #Insiders #ABC interviewing more irrelevant politicians.

Dr Alan Nixon @alangnixon.bsky.social · 5h

youtu.be/pJ0vH4-3Z78?...

Kookaburra Bird Killing Its Prey Raw Footage | Ballarat | Victoria | Australia

YouTube video by Melbourne Music Diaries

youtu.be

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Dr Alan Nixon @alangnixon.bsky.social · 5h

Kookaburras have a similar diet but are a smaller bird. They use branches and rocks to bash the lizards and snakes. Makes quite a sound, especially on my wooden compost box. Being smaller they sit on branches and hold the prey, but it's very similar.

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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 6h

Links between #NZpol and #Auspol with #AtlasNetwork partners in the 1990s

research-repository.griffith.edu.au/server/api/c...

Some MPS: www.herinst.org/BusinessMana...

GRIFFITH
LILI GRIVERSITY
Think Tanks, Economic Liberalism and Industrial Relations
Author
Murray, Georgina
Published
2004
Conference Title
AIRAANZ Conference 2004
Rights statement
© 2004 Association of Industrial Relations Academics Australia & New Zealand. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Use hypertext link for access to publisher's website.
Downloaded from
http://hdl.handle.net/10072/1964
Link to published version
http://www.airaanz.org/2004-conference-main.html
Griffith Research Online https://research-repository.griffith.edu.au

Another unambiguously dry think tank was the Melbourne University based Tasman Institute, given its charter in 1958 and closing down its policy arm in
1998, it now runs as the consultancy based Tasman Asia Pacific. This is still headed by former Melbourne University economics professor Dr. Michael Porter, formerly a founding member of the centre for Policy Studies. Dr. Porter spread
spread his free market institute arguments for a minimalist government economic role into many different national contexts including New Zealand. In 1998 the New Zealand

Business Roundtable (NZBR) released
Conservation
Strategies for
New
Zealand,
a report undertaken by the
Tasman
Institute
informing
New
Zealanders
Another
example of
Tasman's strategic influence was their Project Victoria study, which argued for
"the large scale sell off of state assets and a new right orientation (for) the public service, [and]
served
as
manifesto for the revolution brought
about by Premier Jeff Kennett
and
treasurer Alan Stockdale"
(Da
Silva
1996).
All of the larger well-funded think tanks are in an excellent position to influence public opinion.
The IPA pamphlets -
Facts - have a reputed print-run of 58,000 sending it to 12,000 schools, 475 companies and 2,000 individuals (Moore and Carpenter, 1987). The IPA, the CIS and CEDA a large membership networks that total 7,278 people.
Funding
Australian think tank budgets can be as high as
$5 million for BCA. (By
comparison the Brookings

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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 6h

newleftreview.org/issues/i203/...

NEW LEFT REVIEW
RADHIKA DESAI
SECOND-HAND
DEALERS IN IDEAS:
THINK-TANKS AND THATCHERITE
HEGEMONY

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Dr Alan Nixon @alangnixon.bsky.social · 5h

#ClimateCriminals.

Renew Economy @reneweconomy.com.au · 2d

Queensland LNP scraps coal closure timelines, delays Borumba pumped hydro, scales back Copperstring link, supports gas and offers tiny morsel to renewables.

reneweconomy.com.au

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · Mar 8

Let's learn about the Seriemas, family Cariamidae.

This red-legged Seriema named Kevin is demonstrating how he prevents his food from wriggling as he swallows it, as captured by @witmerlab.bsky.social during a visit to the Columbus Zoo in 2019.

Native to South America, they have famous cousins...

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Dr Alan Nixon @alangnixon.bsky.social · 5h

#RealVillains - #WarCrimes and #Genocide.

Zeteo @zeteo.com · 4d

“Tony Blair should be heading to The Hague, not to Gaza.”

@mehdirhasan.bsky.social explains why Tony Blair should be on trial for war crimes in Iraq, instead of planning to destroy Gaza further with Trump on ‘Piers Morgan Uncensored.’

Read Mehdi’s article on Tony Blair: zeteo.com/p/tony-blair...

Dr Alan Nixon @alangnixon.bsky.social · 5h

#RealHeroes.

YourAnonRiots 🐈️🏴🇵🇸🇲🇲🦋 @youranonriots.bsky.social · 5h

Francesca Albanese is 100% Right

Anonymous Stand With Francesca Albanese
#FreePalestine

Dr Alan Nixon @alangnixon.bsky.social · 5h

#ClimateCriminals are just like other criminals. They are doing something that endangers the future of society. Something scientifically shown to do so in this case.

There will be #ClimateTrials.

Prof Ray Wills @profraywills.futuresmart.com.au · 8h

Imagine a government had legislated for
return of asbestos use
or
removing speed limits
or
unregulated pollution (well, I guess they are)
or
some other unmitigated, MAGA-lite harmful nonsense

Renew Economy @reneweconomy.com.au · 2d

Queensland LNP scraps coal closure timelines, delays Borumba pumped hydro, scales back Copperstring link, supports gas and offers tiny morsel to renewables.

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Lilly @lillyull.bsky.social · 17h

www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/austral...

Australian Politicians Ignore Israel’s Brutality Against Our Citizens

Australian politicians are more than happy to give the Israeli state a free pass when it comes to illegally detaining and brutalising our citizens.

www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 6h

Congratulations! You are still a university

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

Page One in Boston.

@bostonglobe.com

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Dr Alan Nixon @alangnixon.bsky.social · 6h

#RealHeroes

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 18h

Portland 🔥

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Dr Alan Nixon @alangnixon.bsky.social · 6h

#Tactics against #Fascism and #TheNerdReich - #KillTheirInfluence.

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 6h

this is a great piece and it absolutely sucks that the outlet went for the ambiguous headline rather.

The idea that you can remain on X and "influence opinion" is equally true for creating a new Stormfront account, or a 4Chan account, or a TruthSocial account.

Our job is to kills its influence.

Did the centre-left bit of UK politics Twitter make an error in decamping en masse to I Can’t Believe It’s Not Twitter? The old site, now remade as X, remains significantly larger than the new, and much of the political class have failed to make the jump. Did those of us who went let our desire for a comforting liberal bubble undermine our actual influence?

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

The story of social media in the last few years is not one of a self-righteous liberal flounce, but of fragmentation: network effects are a thing, and if most of the people you like to talk to switch platforms, there feels little point in remaining behind. If we have lost influence, that’s at least partly down to the government’s reluctance to use its convening power to reshape the information environment, and its odd commitment to a site owned by someone who wants Keir Starmer in prison.

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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 4d

Nobel Prize for Climate Tech. Should actually be a category going forward. But this'll do for today (gift link) - www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Chemistry Nobel Given for Molecules That Aid Carbon Capture

Scientists from Japan, the UK and Jordan were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for creating molecular constructions with potential to help combat climate change.

www.bloomberg.com

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