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Jennifer Mills

@jennifermills.net.au

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Writer, reader. On Kaurna land. SALVAGE out now! 🌏🪂✨

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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · Aug 18

Always cool to chat with the book show on ABC RN. Listen in if you want some laughs about billionaires leaving the planet so the rest of us can deal with the climate crisis, I write fiction I swear 🌏🪂💥

#salvage

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Gary Shteyngart, Jennifer Mills and Rhett Davis ask what's next - ABC listen

Russian born US writer Gary Shteyngart imagines a future America with strong parallels to Russia in Vera, or Faith, Adelaide based author Jennifer Mills' latest novel Salvage rockets into space after ...

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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 5d

Omg!

Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 5d

Happy with today’s haul from the record fair

Bikini Kill - Bruce Springsteen - Sister Rosetta Tharpe - PJ Harvey records

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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 6d

Common brushtail. They’re nocturnal but this one was awake at noon and very curious about humans

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 7d

#OtD 4 Oct 1936 the Battle of Cable St took place when Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists tried to march through East London. They were met by over 100k local workers who fought the blackshirts and the police protecting them, stopping the march workingclasshistory.com/2020/02/17/e...

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 7d

Hmm. With solar energy, the big explosions take place 93 million miles away

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 7d

A fireball lit up the sky across the Los Angeles area on Thursday night after an explosion at a Chevron refinery in El Segundo, alarming nearby residents who said it felt like an earthquake. The cause of the explosion was not clear. No injuries were reported. nyti.ms/42pPCaW

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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 7d

When the National Press Club is opposed to hearing from journalists

Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 7d

What an incredible act of cowardice by the National Press Club.
WTF.

The National Press Club of Australia, caving to the Israeli lobby, Cancels My Talk on Our Betrayal of Palestinian Journalists

The National Press Club of Australia cancelled my talk on how the media, by amplifying Israeli lies, have betrayed Palestinian journalists, 278 of whom have been assassinated by Israel.

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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 7d

Legit Possum Park possum

A somewhat insouciant possum walks along a railing in fromt of a river, trees and a city in background

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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 7d

Farewell comrade 🐾

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ACLU @aclu.org · 8d

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 11d

“AI-made material is itself a waste product: flimsy, shoddy, disposable, a single-use plastic of the mind.”
More of this. More resistance

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Large Language Muddle | The Editors

The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 11d

So this is a very, very desperate move - a very silly app of generative AI slop that will be incredibly expensive for OpenAI to run, and on top of it, they're requiring rights holders to *opt out* once they see violations. You can't do it in advance. They're washed, and trying everything to survive.

OpenAI's New Sora Video Generator to Require Copyright Holders to Opt Out
Executives at the startup notified talent agencies and studios over the last week

OpenAI doesn't plan to accept a blanket opt-out across all of an artist or studio's work, the people familiar with the new Sora tool said. Instead, it sent some talent agencies a link to report violations that they or their clients discover.
"If there are folks that do not want to be part of this ecosystem, we can work with them," Varun Shetty, VP of media partnerships at OpenAI, said of guardrails the company built into its image generation tool.
OpenAI released the initial version of Sora last December, allowing users to create high-definition video clips from text prompts.

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Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · 11d

First Nations Australians launch class action against the Community Development Program

The class action alleges the program Work for the Dole racially discriminated against thousands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in remote Australia.

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Class action against Work for the Dole alleges racial discrimination

A class action on behalf of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people alleges a Commonwealth Work for the Dole scheme was tougher on remote participants than on jobseekers in cities.

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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 11d

Here’s the petition to mandate propeller guards in the dolphin sanctuary: chng.it/rfcxN9DsFk

This campaign needs you now

Require propeller guards for boats in Port River Dolphin Sanctuary

chng.it

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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 11d

Like many I am heartbroken by the loss of Rocket, a familiar sight on my morning walks over the last few years. You enchanted us all. RIP young friend 🐬 www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

'A huge amount of sadness': Orphaned dolphin killed in Adelaide's Port River

The "completely preventable" death of a three-year-old dolphin in Adelaide's Port River has prompted new calls for mandatory propeller guards on boats entering the sanctuary.

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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 15d

Very useful book for thinking about what “AI” is selling, and arguing against the hype. Highly recommend! thecon.ai

THE AI CON

How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want

thecon.ai

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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 16d

List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours with no prep.

1. Narrative structure
2. The social functions of dystopia
3. Capitalism

Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 16d

List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours with no prep.

(I'd like a blackboard though)

1) Space archaeology
2) Cultural heritage management
3) Stone tools
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Lars Fischer @fischblog.bsky.social · 16d

List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours with no prep.

(What people actually mean is giving a professional lecture about it. Just saying)

1) Chemistry & Physics of Whisky
2) Infectious diseases
3) origin of life / chemical evolution

Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 16d

Every single step of this Slingsby project has been such fun - i’m thrilled Pink Shorts are doing the book!

Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 16d

Full disclosure i think economic measures of the value of creative work are bit silly and reductive. But they sometimes help us talk to politicians about the real, unmeasurable value of that work

Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 16d

Let’s give it all away to AI scrapers!

Creative sector made up 2.5% of Australia's GDP in 2023/24, delivering $67bn to economy

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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 17d

“AI” automation is going to play out SO WELL

Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 17d

All the trigger warnings apply to
#ThePeopleVSRobodebt. True Australian horror.

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 17d

It was only because of the social media campaign that the looping effect of pressure was built thru the voice of people telling their stories. Justice was never ensured. It should not be taken for granted and the work that it took should not be underestimated

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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 17d

A lot of people worked for years to expose the scandal of Robodebt. But the big lie of ‘mutual obligation’ is still official policy in Australia. Until we treat people seeking help with respect, this stuff will continue

Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 17d

Ok. #PeoplevsRobodebt is on national TV

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 17d

MEDIA RELEASE: SA Premier spreads gas industry misinformation

Premier Peter Malinauskas told an event sponsored by the gas lobby that a new gas project in Narrabri, NSW, is needed to firm up SA's electricity supply.

Our research, using the government’s own data, proves this is simply not true.

SA Premier spreads gas industry misinformation

South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas has told an event sponsored by the gas lobby that a new gas project in Narrabri, NSW, is needed to firm up his state's electricity supply.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 17d

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."

me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually

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How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review

Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.

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