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Jon Dee (JonDee.com) @jondeeoz.bsky.social · 12h

NSW police wrongly categorised a “significant” number of incidents as antisemitic.

Anti-Palestinian graffiti and verbal abuse of pro-Palestine protestors was incorrectly recorded as antisemitism in figures the government cited to defend restrictions on protests.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

NSW police wrongly categorise ‘significant’ number of incidents as antisemitic

Anti-Palestinian graffiti and verbal abuse of pro-Palestine protestors incorrectly recorded as antisemitism in figures government cited to defend restrictions on protests

www.theguardian.com

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 7d

Right wing think tank (AEI) employee Roger Pielke Jr. has formed a cozy relationship with the Murdoch media as he spreads climate disinformation in Australia.

It's right out of #ScienceUnderSiege (and yes, Roger is prominently mentioned in the book): www.theguardian.com/environment/...

News Corp embraces fantasy genre by turning climate crisis into ‘laughable’ science fiction | Temperature Check

The National Climate Risk Assessment is attacked in the Daily Telegraph, while wind turbines became a frightening obstacle for firefighting planes and solar panels a source of mountains of landfill wa...

www.theguardian.com

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 1d

Update: www.eenews.net/articles/cli...
#RogerPielkeJr #ScienceUnderSiege

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Jon Dee (JonDee.com) @jondeeoz.bsky.social · 1d

The Whitehouse Christmas decorations are up early this year…

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UNRWA @unrwa.org · 3d

#Gaza’s war: 2 years too long.

🔴 Famine confirmed in Gaza governorate
🔴 455 malnutrition-related deaths
🔴 Almost all cropland damaged, inaccessible, or both

The State of Israel has banned UNRWA from bringing in aid for over 7 months.

UNRWA response: www.unrwa.org/resources/fa...

#UNRWAworks

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Katherine @wordwatcher.bsky.social · 1d

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 1d

So late to this, but this @bloomberg.com piece on the impact of sudden surges in power demand from new data centres on local electricity prices is really, really good - lots of original analysis.

So many still shrug this off as a non-issue. Tell it to these ppl

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

a chart shwoing price impacts near data centres

a photograph of a man sitting on some stairs o nthe street

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Jon Dee (JonDee.com) @jondeeoz.bsky.social · 1d

If you only watch Fox News, you’d have no idea that this is all lies.

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Jon Dee (JonDee.com) @jondeeoz.bsky.social · 4d

What happened to Google’s “Don’t Be Evil” motto?

Google is taking millions from Netanyahu’s Govt to promote lies about Greta Thunberg’s peaceful flotilla mission.

Search the flotilla on Google and you’ll see Israel’s paid propaganda first.

Bing and DuckDuckGo are not promoting this propaganda.

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Renew Economy @reneweconomy.com.au · 3d

Reposit Power boss Dean Spaccavento says battery rebate scheme is “excellent in its scope,” but weak regulation and vague technical standards, mean only a few batteries will help stabilise the grid.

reneweconomy.com.au

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Jon Dee (JonDee.com) @jondeeoz.bsky.social · 3d

Reading this post about Anne Frank reminds me that someone I know (who’s ten years younger than me) had a Dad who met Hitler.

We are in danger of repeating history.

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 4d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 4d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 4d

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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorn...

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Jon Dee (JonDee.com) @jondeeoz.bsky.social · 4d

What happened to Google’s “Don’t Be Evil” motto?

Google is taking millions from Netanyahu’s Govt to promote lies about Greta Thunberg’s peaceful flotilla mission.

Search the flotilla on Google and you’ll see Israel’s paid propaganda first.

Bing and DuckDuckGo are not promoting this propaganda.

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Lizzy Schofield @musictplove.bsky.social · 6d

Chilling doesn’t begin to describe what is happening there

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 6d

Everyone is trying to have a normal Saturday night and the president's top advisor is on X announcing that civil war is necessary

@StephenM on X: Legal insurrection. The President is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, not an Oregon judge. Portland and Oregon law enforcement, at the direction of local leaders, have refused to aid ICE officers facing relentless terrorist assault and threats to life. (There are more local law enforcement officers in Oregon than there are guns and badges in the FBI nationwide). This is an organized terrorist attack on the federal government and its officers, and the deployment of troops is an absolute necessity to defend our personnel, our laws, our government, public order and the Republic itself.

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Daniel Connerton @lordnad.bsky.social · 6d

@govpritzker.illinois.gov

37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois.

This is assault.

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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 6d

#BREAKING 🚨 Deloitte to refund government, admits using AI in $440k report into mutual obligations issues.

Fake quotes from Federal Court case that ended Robodebt deleted from new report in Friday DEWR dump.

📰 AFR

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HEADLINE: Deloitte to refund government, admits AI errors in $440k report

Deloitte Australia will issue a partial refund to the federal government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a $440,000 report littered with errors including three nonexistent academic references and a made-up quote from a Federal Court judgement.

A new version of the report for the Department of Workplace Relations (DEWR) was quietly uploaded to the department’s website on Friday, ahead of a long weekend across much of Australia. It features more than a dozen deletions of nonexistent references and footnotes, a rewritten reference list, and corrections to multiple typographic errors.

(photo of Deloitte Australia HQ) Deloitte Australia has made almost $25 million worth of deals with the Department of Workplace Relations since 2021. Photographer Dion Georgopoulos

The first version of the report, about the IT system used to automate penalties in the welfare system such as pauses on the dole, was published in July. Less than a month later, Deloitte was forced to investigate the report after University of Sydney academic Dr Christopher Rudge highlighted multiple errors in the document.

At the time, Rudge speculated that the errors may have been caused by what is known as “hallucinations” by generative AI. This is where the technology responds to user queries by inventing references and quotes. Deloitte declined to comment.

The incident is embarrassing for Deloitte as it earns a growing part of its $US70.5 billion ($107 billion) in annual global revenue by providing advice and training clients and executives about AI. The firm also boasts about its widespread use of the technology within its global operations, while emphasising the need to always have humans review any output of AI.

SUBHEADING: Deleted references, footnotes

The revised report has deleted a dozen references to two nonexistent reports by Professor Lisa Burton Crawford, a law professor at the University of Sydney, that were included in the first version. Two references to a nonexistent report by Professor Björn Regnell, of Lund University in Sweden, were also deleted in the new report.

Also deleted was a made up reference to a court decision in a leading robo-debt case, Deanna Amato v Commonwealth.

The new report has also deleted a reference to “Justice Davis” (a misspelling of Justice Jennifer Davies) and the made-up quote from the nonexistent paragraphs 25 and 26 in the judgement: “The burden rests on the decision-maker to be satisfied on the evidence that the debt is owed. A person’s statutory entitlements cannot lawfully be reduced based on an assumption unsupported by evidence.”

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Dagens ETC @etc.se · 6d

En statsminister kan inte tycka att svenska medborgare får ”skylla sig själva” när de fängslas och förnedras av Israel, skriver Annie Croona.

Skamligt att Kristersson inte kan stå upp för fängslade aktivister

En statsminister kan inte tycka att svenska medborgare får ”skylla sig själva” när de fängslas och förnedras av Israel.

www.etc.se

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Jon Dee (JonDee.com) @jondeeoz.bsky.social · 6d

I worry that America is going the way of Germany in the thirties.

ICE is also clearly trying to provoke a violent response from the public.

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Jon Dee (JonDee.com) @jondeeoz.bsky.social · 6d

I hope Greta is okay. She is an inspiring young woman.

The Israeli military are denying that they’re mistreating her. But they’ve told so many blatant lies that it’s impossible to believe them anymore.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags

Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

www.theguardian.com

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6d

Jesus Christ. DHS has held this guy in the hospital handcuffed to a bed and under constant guard for over a MONTH without ANY warrant or even ANY steps taken towards putting him into the removal system!

Petitioner’s counsel has requested documentation of a judicial warrant for his arrest, any charging documents, or other authority supporting his detention. See Santiago Decl. ¶¶ 18–20. ICE has provided no response. Id. To date, ICE has not placed Petitioner in removal proceedings, charged him with violating immigration law, set bond, issued a Notice to Appear, or otherwise processed him. See Pet. ¶¶ 16, 49. In Respondent’s Opposition brief, the government states “ICE intends to take further action consistent with the laws prescribed under the Immigration and Nationality Act (“INA”) once Petitioner is released from medical care and it can conduct the examination as [prescribed] in 8 C.F.R § 287.3.” Opp. at 4. Neither Petitioner nor Respondents have provided the Court with information about Petitioner’s citizenship, whether he has violated any law or regulation, or any information that would suggest that Petitioner is a flight risk.

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Jon Dee (JonDee.com) @jondeeoz.bsky.social · 6d

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 6d

Feels even more relevant now

old tweet: "But to your larger point, yes—the fact that our media can be bought by agenda-drive plutocrats is fundamentally problematic. The founding fathers didn’t foresee that."

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Jon Dee (JonDee.com) @jondeeoz.bsky.social · 6d

What’s happening in Chicago needs more media coverage.

With this level of aggression towards civilians, are they trying to provoke the local population into responding with the kind of violence that Trump is falsely claiming is taking place in these cities?

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Body slamming, teargas and pepper balls: viral videos show Ice using extreme force in Chicago

A facility in Broadview, a mostly Black suburb, has become the site of escalation and ‘targeted attacks’ on protesters

www.theguardian.com

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Jon Dee (JonDee.com) @jondeeoz.bsky.social · 7d

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières just had their 14th member of staff killed by Israeli occupation forces.

Israel deserves to be fully sanctioned. Netanyahu’s Govt make apartheid South Africa look like a benign state.

www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/msf-d...

MSF denounces killing of 14th staff member in Gaza

Medical staff were hit by Israeli forces while wearing their MSF vests and waiting for a bus to go to work at a hospital.

www.doctorswithoutborders.org

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