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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 2h

I continue to be baffled by professionals in the environment & sustainability space who uncritically welcome genAI flogs & tools

Why do they not know what the iNaturalist user community knows? Why do they not share the ethos of the iNaturalist community?

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 3h

Another killer episode in @amywestervelt.bsky.social's @drilledmedia.bsky.social series on the World of Obstruction

@geoffdembicki.bsky.social, Kert Davies of @climateintegrity.org & @krekberg.bsky.social discuss why & how the fossil fuel industry's been so effective at sabotaging climate action

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 4h

Minns govt making misleading the public a bit of a habit...

Bad habit

Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 1d

@suehigginson.bsky.social: “The govt has told the parliament that Icac helped shape these reforms, but Icac has confirmed that it was never asked to review or comment on the bill."

"Higginson said Icac had confirmed it had not been asked for advice on controversial Targeted Assessment Development"

Minister urged to release advice amid concern overhaul of NSW housing laws may lead to coalmine approvals

Greens MP Sue Higginson says Icac confirmed to her it had not reviewed the bill, but had given general advice on some elements of it

www.theguardian.com

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 4h

Minns govt making misleading the public a bit of a habit...

Bad habit

Deepcut News @deepcutnews.bsky.social · 12h

NSW premier Chris Minns had Australia believe antisemitic hate was running rampant. Police data has shown that claim to be grossly exaggerated.

www.deepcutnews.com/p/chris-minn...

Chris Minns exaggerated the scale of antisemitism in NSW – and won't apologise

The NSW premier had Australia believe antisemitic hate was running rampant. Police data has shown that to be false.

www.deepcutnews.com

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 7h

Emergency appeal - “The Sudan Solidarity Collective is doing a big fundraising push to support our partners in El Fashir to support food distribution, evacuation and medications.”

#KeepEyesOnSudan

www.sudansolidarity.com

Home - Sudan Solidarity Collective

Solidarity with Sudan! Support the Emergency Response Rooms doing life saving work in Sudan by donating to the Sudan Solidarity Fund. Workshops4Sudan is a new fundraising initiative of the Sudan Solid...

www.sudansolidarity.com

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BSonblast @bsonblast.bsky.social · 6h

I made this video 4 days ago.

As of today, Elfashir has completely run out of food, and the earthen barriers RSF have been building around the city are now complete.

Oh, and RSF drones struck a town in Khartoum State and another in Northern State.

In case anyone gaf.

#KeepEyesOnSudan

Butterfly LaChoi @butterflylachoi.bsky.social · 7h

@bsonblast.bsky.social with a weekly report on the state of Sudan.

I’m so glad she’s doing this, because mainstream media doesn’t seem to give a fuck 🫠 people need to know!

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 5h

'@3crmelbourne.bsky.social is an apartheid-free zone.'

'3CR AFZ Declaration

3CR Community Radio, as a grassroots community broadcaster, declares our station as an Apartheid Free Zone (AFZ). In doing so, we affirm our support for and commitment to the growing international movement for Palestinian rights and for freedom, justice and equality for all.

We commit to respecting the principles of the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. We will work to help dismantle Israel’s genocidal, settler-colonial apartheid regime starting with a firm, public rejection of complicity with it from our place here on stolen Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung land.'

'We also commit to respecting the guidelines of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI). Inspired by the South African anti-apartheid movement, PACBI urges international cultural workers and cultural organizations, including unions and associations, to boycott apartheid Israel and work towards the cancellation of events, activities, agreements, or projects involving Israel, its lobby groups, or its complicit cultural institutions.

Israel’s media and cultural institutions are part and parcel of the ideological and institutional scaffolding of its regime of occupation, settler-colonialism and apartheid against the Palestinian people. These institutions are clearly implicated, through their silence or active participation, in supporting, justifying and whitewashing Israel’s occupation and systematic denial of Palestinian rights.

As an AFZ:
● We don’t have financial or professional relations with complicit Israeli institutions and corporations.
● We don’t have financial or professional relations with international institutions or corporations complicit in Israel's genocidal, apartheid, and settler colonial regime.
● We strive to end complicity with Israel’s regime of oppression by supporting BDS campaigning.
● We respect the PACBI guidelines and do not participate in or promote any activity/project/event that pinkwashes, greenwashes or otherwise whitewashes or legitimizes Israeli apartheid.
● We reject funding and any form of sponsorship from the Israeli government, complicit Israeli institutions, or Israeli lobby groups for the development of our social activities and projects.
● We respect the Palestinian consensus-based anti-normalization guidelines.

3CR recognizes that struggles for Indigenous sovereignty and for racial, gender, disability, climate and economic justice and self-determination are all deeply interconnected. We can only gain strength and power from mutual support and solidarity.'

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 5h

Spotted in the wild—Advance, the movement of rich people masquerading as regular people, works overtime on 'being real'

Excerpt from Advance's submission to the Senate Select Committee on Information Integrity on Climate Change & Energy (available here www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStor...)

Attachment C
What ADVANCE means to its supporters. In their own words.
The following is a sample of responses from ADVANCE supporters when asked "What does
ADVANCE mean to you?" Some responses have been edited for spelling and punctuation but are otherwise reproduced exactly as they were written in the survey.

"A voice for the silent majority." Michael

"A voice for a normal person to question major parties on their policies." Bridget

"A proper voice to real people." Ben

"Advance is doing more to help Australians; especially upholding our values, than the major parties are doing." Greg

"They represent Hope. Our current politicians are weak and have no convictions beyond winning an election." Sandra

"[ADVANCE] stands for everyday Australians & giving the people the power to live in prosperity." Colleen

"Advance cares about the Australian people & the future of this country." Teresa

"A strong voice from every day Australians." Ralph

"Hope for a better, safer, more successful Australia." Lucille

"Hope." Keith

"A voice for what l believe in. One person cannot make a significant difference. A group of us can." Brian

"It is the only chance for true representation for many of us." Michael

"Advance is the revolt of ordinary Australians against the elites." Crispin

"Advance means supporting sane common sense policies with Australian families being supported and creating a national Patriotic identity and vision." Marc

"Fairness, common sense, practical solutions, one nation, one flag, true conservatism and family core values." Renee

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 5h

Scientific American earning the ratio it deserves for it's utterly shit take

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 2d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 6h

the truth is that gambling companies like Sportsbet are a relevant industry for students doing an IT degree (I have friends that went that way, at least for a time)

it's interesting that Sportsbet is on the nose but not weapons manufacturers or fossil fuel corps...

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 6h

What next? @monashuniversity.bsky.social will let a fossil fuel corp sponsor an entire university building creating an unmissable presence on campus⁉️

oh wait...

Crikey @crikey.com.au · 7h

Exclusive | Sportsbet has given a guest lecture at Monash University, sparking a faculty review after the university admitted an error of judgement. @daanysaeed.bsky.social reports.

Sportsbet guest lecturer at Monash university seminar prompts faculty review

Monash University has barred Sportsbet from providing industry presenters to masters students after acknowledging the guest lecture spot was an error in judgement.

www.crikey.com.au

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Daryl Maguire’s tractor @daryltractor.bsky.social · 8h

“Twelve Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have died in custody in NSW so far in 2025 – the highest number ever recorded in a single year, with more than two months remaining in the calendar,” O’Sullivan wrote.

“This is a profoundly distressing milestone.“

Voices of Wentworth @voicesofwentworth.bsky.social · 9h

“The state’s top coroner has taken the rare step of issuing an open letter after NSW reached the “profoundly distressing milestone” of recording the highest-ever number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander deaths in custody in a single year”

www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
#auspol

Coroner’s extraordinary public letter after shock number of deaths

The state’s top coroner has issued a rare statement after NSW reached a “profoundly distressing milestone”.

www.smh.com.au

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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 9h

So glad to see the future of relationships is wanking alone to prompts from a chatbot that will raise your electricity and water prices send all your private responses to Sam Altman for unsafekeeping

The Verge @theverge.com · 16h

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

buff.ly

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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 10h

I didn't intend to write this today

On the sick lie of sick people in a sick culture, that violence and military might can bring peace and harmony

On Trump in Israel

On the wisdom of dissenting Jews, Arendt and Butler

On the necessity of grief

in-between-days.ghost.io/bombs-for-pe...

Bombs for peace and other lies

A shaky ceasefire holds in Israel-Palestine. And yes, thank whatever or whoever, this is cause for some hope and some celebration. Fewer people are dying today. This is good. But I am filled with gr...

in-between-days.ghost.io

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 12h

Critical AI Literacy Symposium, with Dagmar Monett, @lucyavraamidou.bsky.social & Miquel Pérez Torres, Linda Mannila, and @olivia.science

🎬 Video recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxyg...

📢 Symposium website: www.ru.nl/en/about-us/...

🤔 Critical AI Literacy website: www.ru.nl/en/research/...

Critical AI Literacy: Empowering people to resist hype and harms in the age of AI -- Symposium 2025

YouTube video by Iris van Rooij

www.youtube.com

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 10h

AI's inability to do citation is a known problem. Nicely demonstrated in the 6 Mar 2025 @towcenter.bsky.social @columjournreview.bsky.social piece about freely available published news articles

Is Deloitte ignorant of the problem? Or just indifferent to it?

AI Search Has A Citation Problem

We Compared Eight AI Search Engines. They’re All Bad at Citing News.

www.cjr.org

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 10h

AI's inability to do citation is a known problem. Nicely demonstrated in the 6 Mar 2025 @towcenter.bsky.social @columjournreview.bsky.social piece about freely available published news articles

Is Deloitte ignorant of the problem? Or just indifferent to it?

AI Search Has A Citation Problem

We Compared Eight AI Search Engines. They’re All Bad at Citing News.

www.cjr.org

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 10h

"Officials from the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations, while unhappy about the use of AI and errors in the original report, told a Senate estimates hearing last week the recommendations in the Deloitte report had not changed and would be taken up by the department."

JFC🤯🤬

Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · 13h

Wow.
"The corrected version of a Deloitte report to the Albanese government reissued by the big consulting firm after it was found to include AI-generated mistakes contains new citation errors and other flaws in referencing the academic work it relies on"

www.afr.com/politics/fed...

More errors, ‘irrelevant citations’ in Deloitte’s revised AI report

Academics question how AI-generated “gobbledegook” can be justified after the fact by irrelevant citations, as the big four firm republishes its welfare report.

www.afr.com

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Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · 13h

Wow.
"The corrected version of a Deloitte report to the Albanese government reissued by the big consulting firm after it was found to include AI-generated mistakes contains new citation errors and other flaws in referencing the academic work it relies on"

www.afr.com/politics/fed...

More errors, ‘irrelevant citations’ in Deloitte’s revised AI report

Academics question how AI-generated “gobbledegook” can be justified after the fact by irrelevant citations, as the big four firm republishes its welfare report.

www.afr.com

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Deepcut News @deepcutnews.bsky.social · 12h

NSW premier Chris Minns had Australia believe antisemitic hate was running rampant. Police data has shown that claim to be grossly exaggerated.

www.deepcutnews.com/p/chris-minn...

Chris Minns exaggerated the scale of antisemitism in NSW – and won't apologise

The NSW premier had Australia believe antisemitic hate was running rampant. Police data has shown that to be false.

www.deepcutnews.com

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 1d

Proposed changes would:
⚠️give the NSW planning minister "new powers to divert any new project through a streamlined development pathway"
⚠️mean Targeted Assessment Development (TAD) projects "would be expressly prohibited from considering a range of environmental and public interest impacts"🤯 2/

'Deceitful' planning laws bypass environment, corruption safeguards, experts say

There are growing fears that a major overhaul of planning laws promoted to fast-track housing development will bypass environmental protections and remove safeguards against corruption.

www.abc.net.au

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 13h

i don't have the words to emphasise how seriously bad things are gonna get

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The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 12h

Barak was an Aboriginal leader who witnessed the signing of the controversial 1835 Batman Treaty. He made many works during his life, but many are unaccounted for. 👉 theconversation.com/william...

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Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀 @mackayim.bsky.social · 13h

In the 'very unsurprising' category today...

Major study finds tooth decay in Queensland children has declined since water fluoridation expanded.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Water fluoridation leading to lower rates of tooth decay in children, study finds

The findings are released as more Queensland councils opt out of water fluoridation and amid rising rates of misinformation.

www.abc.net.au

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 12h

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