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What constitutes a danger to our social cohesion is diametrically opposite to what trump imagines. We will not bend to his attempts to export authoritarianism to our shores. Ever.
Trump wants Australian data on migrant crime. This will only scapegoat vulnerable people
The Trump administration claims “mass migration” is a threat to “Western civilisation”. But research shows migrants don’t commit crimes at disproportionate rates.
theconversation.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:38 AM
What constitutes a danger to our social cohesion is diametrically opposite to what trump imagines. We will not bend to his attempts to export authoritarianism to our shores. Ever.
...meanwhile, trump courts the female vote.
No-one said he was smart...
No-one said he was smart...
An Insult Is a Confession: Notes on Journalism in the Time of Trump
There's been a lot of fuss about Trump recently calling female journalists "stupid" and "piggy" though there's nothing really new about his misogyny toward that sub-population (I am so old I remember ...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:21 PM
...meanwhile, trump courts the female vote.
No-one said he was smart...
No-one said he was smart...
Many people who voted for AOC also voted for Trump. Many people who wanted Sanders refused to vote for Clinton.
End of story.
End of story.
Newsom, AOC, Harris? Potential Democratic contenders for 2028 run
Would-be contenders include governors, senators, members of Congress and the former vice-president
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Many people who voted for AOC also voted for Trump. Many people who wanted Sanders refused to vote for Clinton.
End of story.
End of story.
The case for regulating the idiot savant tech brotherhood by two pioneering researchers in the field. A book that is a must read for everyone with the capacity for critical thought.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AryU...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AryU...
[215] If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All E. Yudkowsky N. Soares
YouTube video by Branches of Philosophy Podcast
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November 28, 2025 at 2:29 AM
The case for regulating the idiot savant tech brotherhood by two pioneering researchers in the field. A book that is a must read for everyone with the capacity for critical thought.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AryU...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AryU...
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A wedding video which has gone viral in Iran has highlighted the country’s inequality and exposed hypocrisy at the core of the ruling regime.
Leaked wedding video lays bare luxurious lives of Iran’s political elite and highlights hypocrisy of Islamic Republic
A wedding video which has gone viral in Iran has highlighted the country’s inequality and exposed hypocrisy at the core of the ruling regime.
tcnv.link
November 27, 2025 at 8:29 PM
A wedding video which has gone viral in Iran has highlighted the country’s inequality and exposed hypocrisy at the core of the ruling regime.
What is 'Conceptional Stretching' & why is it so important to understand - and resist - in this time of pervasive doublespeak & AI confabulation.
From “woke” to “traumatic”: How useful terms become empty buzzwords
When a word comes to mean everything, it means nothing.
bigthinkmedia.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:03 PM
What is 'Conceptional Stretching' & why is it so important to understand - and resist - in this time of pervasive doublespeak & AI confabulation.
Whilst good food rots in the fields for lack of someone to harvest it, 47 million U.S. citizens don't have enough to eat.
As US hunger rises, Trump administration’s ‘efficiency’ goals cause massive food waste
Despite the administration’s claim of streamlining the government to make its operations more efficient, a range of recent federal policies have, in fact, exacerbated food wastage.
theconversation.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Whilst good food rots in the fields for lack of someone to harvest it, 47 million U.S. citizens don't have enough to eat.
People are beyond weary of corporate sponsored politicians who do nothing more than throw the scraps of capitalism to wage earners.
People want people focused politicians. Why is this a message that Democrats are incapable of hearing?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
People want people focused politicians. Why is this a message that Democrats are incapable of hearing?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
How an ‘unknown’ organizer became Seattle’s next mayor: ‘People want to see themselves reflected in office’
Katie Wilson’s rise from transit campaigner to city hall shows how trust, volunteers and years of organizing overcame big-money politics
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:44 PM
People are beyond weary of corporate sponsored politicians who do nothing more than throw the scraps of capitalism to wage earners.
People want people focused politicians. Why is this a message that Democrats are incapable of hearing?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
People want people focused politicians. Why is this a message that Democrats are incapable of hearing?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The dumbass tech brotherhood is just inviting responsible nation states to ban under 16-18y.o's from accessing social media and ChatGPT from using their perniciously addictive & deeply flawed technology.
ChatGPT firm blames boy’s suicide on ‘misuse’ of its technology
OpenAI responds to lawsuit claiming its chatbot encouraged California teenager to kill himself
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:25 PM
The dumbass tech brotherhood is just inviting responsible nation states to ban under 16-18y.o's from accessing social media and ChatGPT from using their perniciously addictive & deeply flawed technology.
A test for Labor who shouldn't forget that they bled votes to minor parties & the Teals in the last election too. Just because the Liberals are destined for obscurity, doesn't mean that they should become complacent. A multi-polar political system AKA the norm in much of Europe is possible.
Australia politics live: Andrew Wilkie moves motion on gambling ad free vote saying parliament ‘paralysed’ despite support for action
Follow the latest updates
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:46 AM
A test for Labor who shouldn't forget that they bled votes to minor parties & the Teals in the last election too. Just because the Liberals are destined for obscurity, doesn't mean that they should become complacent. A multi-polar political system AKA the norm in much of Europe is possible.
Gig workers are workers. Plain & simple. The noxious fallacy that people who are not on a payroll are not deserving of fair pay & conditions needs to be addressed.
Why big business doesn't get that poor people don't buy anything more than bare essentials. Capitalism benefits all with fairness.
Why big business doesn't get that poor people don't buy anything more than bare essentials. Capitalism benefits all with fairness.
November 25, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Gig workers are workers. Plain & simple. The noxious fallacy that people who are not on a payroll are not deserving of fair pay & conditions needs to be addressed.
Why big business doesn't get that poor people don't buy anything more than bare essentials. Capitalism benefits all with fairness.
Why big business doesn't get that poor people don't buy anything more than bare essentials. Capitalism benefits all with fairness.
An insight into a future under Vance. A complete severance of co-operative mutual defense relations with Europe.
Meanwhile, BRICS nations are becoming more enmeshed militarily via the hostilities in Ukraine. Nth. Korea's military are getting on the ground training. China/Taiwan plan is firming.
Meanwhile, BRICS nations are becoming more enmeshed militarily via the hostilities in Ukraine. Nth. Korea's military are getting on the ground training. China/Taiwan plan is firming.
Surprise envoy pushing Ukraine ‘peace’ plan belies Vance influence on US policy
Army secretary Daniel Driscoll presented a Russian wishlist, highlighting differences with the administration
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:26 PM
An insight into a future under Vance. A complete severance of co-operative mutual defense relations with Europe.
Meanwhile, BRICS nations are becoming more enmeshed militarily via the hostilities in Ukraine. Nth. Korea's military are getting on the ground training. China/Taiwan plan is firming.
Meanwhile, BRICS nations are becoming more enmeshed militarily via the hostilities in Ukraine. Nth. Korea's military are getting on the ground training. China/Taiwan plan is firming.
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Julie Inman Grant has been asked to testify to Congress. It’s a sign of an increasing US preoccupation with online censorship.
What does the US Congress want with Australia’s eSafety commissioner?
theconversation.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Julie Inman Grant has been asked to testify to Congress. It’s a sign of an increasing US preoccupation with online censorship.
China is rapidly transitioning to renewables & creating new tech to sell to the world. Europe & Australasia are doing likewise.
Are we seeing the new most relevant centers of power for the future taking shape?
The future is green.
Are we seeing the new most relevant centers of power for the future taking shape?
The future is green.
We delivered a clear message at Cop30: the delayers and defeatists are losing the climate fight | Ed Miliband
For all its flaws, the Brazil conference underlined the wish by a global majority for clean energy and climate action – and the UK will keep leading the way, says Ed Miliband, secretary of state for e...
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:23 PM
China is rapidly transitioning to renewables & creating new tech to sell to the world. Europe & Australasia are doing likewise.
Are we seeing the new most relevant centers of power for the future taking shape?
The future is green.
Are we seeing the new most relevant centers of power for the future taking shape?
The future is green.
Trump's 'no peace' plan is a complete green light to Putin to finish the job. Unconditional surrender by Europe in other words.
There is another choice.
There is another choice.
European countries propose radically different Ukraine peace plan to US
Document omits some of Washington’s pro-Russia points and calls for Kyiv’s sovereignty to be respected
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Trump's 'no peace' plan is a complete green light to Putin to finish the job. Unconditional surrender by Europe in other words.
There is another choice.
There is another choice.
Two of my favourite public intellectuals. A lovely Sunday read.
In Honor of Joanna Macy, 1929-2025
I write while staying in one of the great forests of British Columbia, a forest in which the inextricability of life from death is gorgeously evident. Several kinds of fern spring from this soil, some...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Two of my favourite public intellectuals. A lovely Sunday read.
"When the people making AI seem trustworthy are the ones who trust it the least, it shows that incentives for speed are overtaking safety, experts say."
Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI
When the people making AI seem trustworthy are the ones who trust it the least, it shows that incentives for speed are overtaking safety, experts say
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:19 PM
"When the people making AI seem trustworthy are the ones who trust it the least, it shows that incentives for speed are overtaking safety, experts say."
There's only a few random's who are still climate deniers so why is it taking so long to reach an effective resolution in endless annual COP meetings?
Humans, eh? Doesn't this picture say it all...
Humans, eh? Doesn't this picture say it all...
End of fossil fuel era inches closer as Cop30 deal agreed after bitter standoff
Wealthy countries should triple funds for countries to tackle climate impacts, but deforestation and critical minerals blocked from final deal
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:19 PM
There's only a few random's who are still climate deniers so why is it taking so long to reach an effective resolution in endless annual COP meetings?
Humans, eh? Doesn't this picture say it all...
Humans, eh? Doesn't this picture say it all...
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More fossil fuel lobbyists are coming to global climate talks to push for favourable outcomes. Now their role is in the spotlight.
👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/brazil-...
👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/brazil-...
November 19, 2025 at 8:55 PM
More fossil fuel lobbyists are coming to global climate talks to push for favourable outcomes. Now their role is in the spotlight.
👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/brazil-...
👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/brazil-...
"...the digital world reflects profound power imbalances in knowledge, and how this is amplified by generative AI (GenAI). The early internet was dominated by the English language and western institutions leaving whole worlds of human knowledge and experience undigitised.
What AI doesn’t know: we could be creating a global ‘knowledge collapse’ | Deepak Varuvel Dennison
The long read: As GenAI becomes the primary way to find information, local and traditional wisdom is being lost. And we are only beginning to realise what we’re missing
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:06 PM
"...the digital world reflects profound power imbalances in knowledge, and how this is amplified by generative AI (GenAI). The early internet was dominated by the English language and western institutions leaving whole worlds of human knowledge and experience undigitised.
As ever, it is the usual suspects who want to sabotage these initiatives for establishing a sovereign state for Palestinians. Self-determination is an inalienable right that the Israeli's vehemently insist upon for themselves. And rightly so. No less should be afforded to the Palestinian people.
UN security council votes to endorse Donald Trump’s Gaza plan
The resolution, which includes references to an independent Palestine, was passed by a vote of 13-0 with China and Russia abstaining
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:53 AM
As ever, it is the usual suspects who want to sabotage these initiatives for establishing a sovereign state for Palestinians. Self-determination is an inalienable right that the Israeli's vehemently insist upon for themselves. And rightly so. No less should be afforded to the Palestinian people.
It's new, isn't it? Say, a decade old. That automatic pondering on what Machiavellian reasoning is behind any generous/humanist impulse by the trump regime. There isn't even a split second of delay. Straight to - 'what does he get from this?'.
My guess is Islamophobic threat for rare earth grift.
My guess is Islamophobic threat for rare earth grift.
Nicki Minaj to spotlight plight of Nigerian Christians in UN speech arranged by White House
Rapper to give address on Tuesday after supporting Trump’s post condemning Nigerian government
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:53 PM
It's new, isn't it? Say, a decade old. That automatic pondering on what Machiavellian reasoning is behind any generous/humanist impulse by the trump regime. There isn't even a split second of delay. Straight to - 'what does he get from this?'.
My guess is Islamophobic threat for rare earth grift.
My guess is Islamophobic threat for rare earth grift.
If anyone still holds the illusion that Putin will stop at Ukraine, they should start to pay attention to all the ways he utilises hybrid warfare methods on all his neighbours and beyond.
In short, Putin must lose and lose bigly.
In short, Putin must lose and lose bigly.
Poland railway blast was unprecedented act of sabotage, says Donald Tusk
Polish PM vows to ‘catch the perpetrators, regardless of who their backers are’ after blast on track used for deliveries to Ukraine
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:59 PM
If anyone still holds the illusion that Putin will stop at Ukraine, they should start to pay attention to all the ways he utilises hybrid warfare methods on all his neighbours and beyond.
In short, Putin must lose and lose bigly.
In short, Putin must lose and lose bigly.
Climate change is existential for many Pacific nations.
Ignoring the science is deeply shameful.
Ignoring the science is deeply shameful.
South Pacific nation of Tuvalu rebukes Trump’s ‘shameful disregard’ at Cop30
Minister from islands facing extinction is one of few delegates directly calling out Trump’s climate policies
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Climate change is existential for many Pacific nations.
Ignoring the science is deeply shameful.
Ignoring the science is deeply shameful.
Authoritarians only respect strength. New P.M. Sanae Takaichi is shaping up to be a bold leader. Someone to watch.
China and Japan in escalating spat over Taiwan: What to know
Japanese PM Sanae Takaichi had suggested Tokyo could take military action if Beijing attacked Taiwan.
www.bbc.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Authoritarians only respect strength. New P.M. Sanae Takaichi is shaping up to be a bold leader. Someone to watch.