Dr Kim Stewart
@drkimscrolls.bsky.social
Social worker, community radio trainer, anti-fascism, academic UniSQ. Living on stolen Yagera land, Tulmur. Projects I'm involved in with peeps with disability. https://crisponairblog.wordpress.com/
Come on #Ipswich get behind the free shop! #CostOfLiving #Homelessness #Community www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Government threatens to shut down 'illegal' street charity
Queensland's transport department has threatened to penalise residents who set up street-side charity cupboards without filling in the requisite paperwork.
www.abc.net.au
November 27, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Come on #Ipswich get behind the free shop! #CostOfLiving #Homelessness #Community www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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Plibersek is burying herself in this portfolio. Although it really brings out her true colours.
Today @tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social succeeded in establishing new powers to cancel Centrelink payments before conviction.
Thanks @senatorthorpe.bsky.social @andrewwilkiemp.bsky.social @davidpocock.bsky.social @pennyallmanpayne.com for trying to stop this dangerous law.
Thanks @senatorthorpe.bsky.social @andrewwilkiemp.bsky.social @davidpocock.bsky.social @pennyallmanpayne.com for trying to stop this dangerous law.
Shame Labor shame: New powers to cancel Centrelink payments before conviction pass the senate
Welfare recipients have a right to be treated equally under the law, and should not be subject to punishment before having access to legal advice for any reason, ever.
apcentre.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Plibersek is burying herself in this portfolio. Although it really brings out her true colours.
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The federal government will expand a "lifeline" service for survivors of sexual violence, which advocates say is fully booked.
More sexual violence survivors will get legal, financial help in expanded national pilot
The federal government will expand a "lifeline" service for survivors of sexual violence, which advocates say is fully booked.
www.abc.net.au
November 26, 2025 at 2:18 AM
The federal government will expand a "lifeline" service for survivors of sexual violence, which advocates say is fully booked.
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“Big Tech is actively promoting the integration of generative AI across all sectors of life—public & private, personal & professional—with little regard for whether we can sustain the infrastructure behind this,” says @jillmcardle.bsky.social in new @reset.org.
🗞️ en.reset.org/the-new-oil-...
🗞️ en.reset.org/the-new-oil-...
“The New Oil”: How Data Centres Threaten Climate Protection—And What We Can Do About It
Data centres threaten the energy transition, drain water resources and harm human health. Can we slow their growth before it's too late?
en.reset.org
November 21, 2025 at 9:01 AM
“Big Tech is actively promoting the integration of generative AI across all sectors of life—public & private, personal & professional—with little regard for whether we can sustain the infrastructure behind this,” says @jillmcardle.bsky.social in new @reset.org.
🗞️ en.reset.org/the-new-oil-...
🗞️ en.reset.org/the-new-oil-...
Lol. You can trust AI. So they tell us...
I asked grok who was the better role model for humanity, Jesus Christ or Elon Musk. GUESS WHAT.
November 21, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Lol. You can trust AI. So they tell us...
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A Long-footed Frog (Cyclorana longipes), one of many, many frogs we encountered at Bullo River Station last week after some of the first big rains if the season.
#WildOz
#WildOz
November 20, 2025 at 12:26 PM
A Long-footed Frog (Cyclorana longipes), one of many, many frogs we encountered at Bullo River Station last week after some of the first big rains if the season.
#WildOz
#WildOz
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Ecuador just delivered a stunning WIN for the planet!
Voters kept the constitution that made it the first country to recognize nature’s rights - protections that have stopped mining, defended forests, and saved endangered species.
A clear stand that nature is worth defending.
Voters kept the constitution that made it the first country to recognize nature’s rights - protections that have stopped mining, defended forests, and saved endangered species.
A clear stand that nature is worth defending.
November 19, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Ecuador just delivered a stunning WIN for the planet!
Voters kept the constitution that made it the first country to recognize nature’s rights - protections that have stopped mining, defended forests, and saved endangered species.
A clear stand that nature is worth defending.
Voters kept the constitution that made it the first country to recognize nature’s rights - protections that have stopped mining, defended forests, and saved endangered species.
A clear stand that nature is worth defending.
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A horrendous report on ABC radio from a Brisbane doctor doing a second tour in Gaza with Medecins sans Frontières. She says the ceasefire is in name only, the genocide continues and the deprivation of basic food, shelter and resources means even the injured haven’t what the need to heal.
November 18, 2025 at 7:31 AM
A horrendous report on ABC radio from a Brisbane doctor doing a second tour in Gaza with Medecins sans Frontières. She says the ceasefire is in name only, the genocide continues and the deprivation of basic food, shelter and resources means even the injured haven’t what the need to heal.
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Relying on algorithms to assist NDIS support planning can cause significant harm to people living with disability, says Dr Georgia van Toorn from UNSW’s School of Social Sciences www.unsw.edu.au/arts-design-...
Automating NDIS support planning can dehumanise and harm people living with disability
www.unsw.edu.au
November 18, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Relying on algorithms to assist NDIS support planning can cause significant harm to people living with disability, says Dr Georgia van Toorn from UNSW’s School of Social Sciences www.unsw.edu.au/arts-design-...
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Internet Archive Hits One Trillion Web Pages
Internet Archive Hits One Trillion Web Pages
Hackaday Article
hackaday.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Internet Archive Hits One Trillion Web Pages
"A study by AI watchdog group the Center for Countering Digital Hate found that half of AI chatbots’ answers to vulnerable teens were dangerous. They gave teens plans to use drugs, develop eating disorders and commit suicide." #SocialWork #Psychology #AcademicBluesky www.usatoday.com/story/nlette...
I started using AI. It still makes me nervous.
I look forward to a world where AI does the tasks I hate (hello, cleaning!). But I have not been surprised to see that there are downsides to ChatGPT.
www.usatoday.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:13 PM
"A study by AI watchdog group the Center for Countering Digital Hate found that half of AI chatbots’ answers to vulnerable teens were dangerous. They gave teens plans to use drugs, develop eating disorders and commit suicide." #SocialWork #Psychology #AcademicBluesky www.usatoday.com/story/nlette...
Not an export to be proud of #AusPol
Labor in Britain has announced attacks on rights for asylum seekers - this is all grounded in Australian Labor’s awful and cruel policies here - deportation powers, detention, removing support and deliberate cruelty. michaelwest.com.au/britain-anno...
Britain announces massive asylum policy overhaul - Michael West
Sweeping changes have been announced to Britain's controversial asylum system as polls show immigration has overtaken the economy as voters' top concern.
michaelwest.com.au
November 16, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Not an export to be proud of #AusPol
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“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
www.project-syndicate.org
November 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM
“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”
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frogmouth chicks are so cute
November 15, 2025 at 2:05 PM
frogmouth chicks are so cute
ChatGPT as a therapist has caused suicides. If Chat with Jesus is a literal thing programmed on the Bible, could be trouble.
The app Text With Jesus uses artificial intelligence and chatbots to offer spiritual guidance to users who are looking to connect with a higher power: on.nbc10.com/7XM8xrf
People can text with Jesus on a controversial new app. How does it work?
Artificial intelligence app Text With Jesus lets users chat with biblical figures and it is raising debate over faith and technology.
on.nbc10.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:31 AM
ChatGPT as a therapist has caused suicides. If Chat with Jesus is a literal thing programmed on the Bible, could be trouble.
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ai in education causes huge increases in workload for no increase in pay. It dramatically lowers our productivity for our employers and gives it to the pervert billionaire sector. Time for being an academic instead goes to ai guidelines, ai interviews, ai detection and referral, ai this, ai that.
Can I quietly ask we stop talking about what "AI" *could* do in education and identify instead what's actually happening with AI in education? I'll start...
November 15, 2025 at 12:46 AM
ai in education causes huge increases in workload for no increase in pay. It dramatically lowers our productivity for our employers and gives it to the pervert billionaire sector. Time for being an academic instead goes to ai guidelines, ai interviews, ai detection and referral, ai this, ai that.
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it is US billionaires who decided to swap out a liveable planet for slop machines.
Chinese and EU emissions were more or less flat in 2025 (Chinese emissions may have actually declined slightly, but its too early to know for sure: www.carbonbrief.org/...).
US emissions increases drove much of the increase in global emissions in 2025.
US emissions increases drove much of the increase in global emissions in 2025.
November 13, 2025 at 8:27 AM
it is US billionaires who decided to swap out a liveable planet for slop machines.
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Queensland's youth detention system was already overwhelmed before the election of David Crisafulli but his law changes mean more kids are destined for them. Youth Justice Minister Laura Gerber denies the report's findings of poor conditions & practices. #qldpol
November 12, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Queensland's youth detention system was already overwhelmed before the election of David Crisafulli but his law changes mean more kids are destined for them. Youth Justice Minister Laura Gerber denies the report's findings of poor conditions & practices. #qldpol
The 50 years of 4ZZZ celebration will this Saturday feat. a panel on activism @4zzzradio.bsky.social with #Disability advocate Belle Behan talking about Only Human. ❤️ Vent Space, 1:30-2:30, 23 Glenelg St, South Brisbane. Also see the poster exhibition of 50 years of #4ZZZ #CommunityRadio
November 12, 2025 at 10:16 AM
The 50 years of 4ZZZ celebration will this Saturday feat. a panel on activism @4zzzradio.bsky.social with #Disability advocate Belle Behan talking about Only Human. ❤️ Vent Space, 1:30-2:30, 23 Glenelg St, South Brisbane. Also see the poster exhibition of 50 years of #4ZZZ #CommunityRadio
Beyond time to declare Nazism a terrorist organisation #AusPol
'Eltis said the party’s constitution was fully drafted and one plank of its policy platform was the mass deportation of people of Jewish faith.'
www.theage.com.au/national/nsw...
www.theage.com.au/national/nsw...
Far-right figure who visited ‘motherland’ Germany is close to forming national party
Sydney man Jack Eltis said the National Socialist Network “was about 90 per cent” of the way to forming state and national parties.
www.theage.com.au
November 12, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Beyond time to declare Nazism a terrorist organisation #AusPol
Clear which governments don't care about poverty here.
Gough raised unemployment benefits to their highest level relative to poverty - then Fraser (and his treasurer John Howard) fucked it up as soon as they could.
Hawke/Keating repaired some of the damage... then Howard fucked it up for good
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Hawke/Keating repaired some of the damage... then Howard fucked it up for good
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
November 11, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Clear which governments don't care about poverty here.
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November 6, 2025 at 1:44 PM
This is a hard read. AI Chatbots can't be tweaked to have empathy or even understand what they are saying. They should be banned just like hard drugs are. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
edition.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:38 AM
This is a hard read. AI Chatbots can't be tweaked to have empathy or even understand what they are saying. They should be banned just like hard drugs are. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
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❤️ COVID infection poses a higher heart risk in children than vaccination, according to the largest study of its kind involving 14 million kids in England. Read more - www.thelancet.com/jo...
#COVID19 #Vaccines #HeartHealth #ChildHealth #Research
#COVID19 #Vaccines #HeartHealth #ChildHealth #Research
November 5, 2025 at 9:24 PM
❤️ COVID infection poses a higher heart risk in children than vaccination, according to the largest study of its kind involving 14 million kids in England. Read more - www.thelancet.com/jo...
#COVID19 #Vaccines #HeartHealth #ChildHealth #Research
#COVID19 #Vaccines #HeartHealth #ChildHealth #Research
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OpenAI pirated large numbers of books and used them to train models.
OpenAI then deleted the dataset with the pirated books, and employees sent each other messages about doing so.
A lawsuit could now force the company to pay $150,000 per book, adding up to billions in damages.
OpenAI then deleted the dataset with the pirated books, and employees sent each other messages about doing so.
A lawsuit could now force the company to pay $150,000 per book, adding up to billions in damages.
November 4, 2025 at 3:30 PM
OpenAI pirated large numbers of books and used them to train models.
OpenAI then deleted the dataset with the pirated books, and employees sent each other messages about doing so.
A lawsuit could now force the company to pay $150,000 per book, adding up to billions in damages.
OpenAI then deleted the dataset with the pirated books, and employees sent each other messages about doing so.
A lawsuit could now force the company to pay $150,000 per book, adding up to billions in damages.