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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 13h

Marina Hyde nails the AI bosses' brazen theft of work that legally belongs to its creators. The tech bros say their industry will collapse without stealing our stuff - it's that valuable. But also so unimportant & worthless they won't pay for it or ask consent.
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It’s Sam Altman: the man who stole the rights from copyright. If he’s the future, can we go backwards? | Marina Hyde

His AI video generator Sora 2 has been reviled for pinching the work of others. One giant leap for Sam: for everyone else, not so much, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

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Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 1d

Kidnapped in international waters, extraordinary rendition to a genocidal state, and then imprisoned indefinitely.

You'd think this would trigger the immediate expulsion of the Israeli Ambassador for these inexcusable actions against an Australian citizen.

Dave Earley @earleyedition.bsky.social · 1d

An Australian woman who has not agreed to sign a waiver acknowledging she sought to 'illegally break Israel’s naval blockade' on Gaza will be “indefinitely detained” in Israel’s Ketziot prison unless she agrees to sign the waiver.

Australian woman on pro-Palestinian aid flotilla will be ‘indefinitely detained’ by Israel unless she signs waiver

Madeleine Habib, who captained the Conscience ship, was arrested by Israeli forces on 8 October and detained in Israel’s Ketziot prison

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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 1d

I want to go back in time and box the ears of the GP who told my friend she was making up 'chronic fatigue syndrome' and just wanted attention. I wanted to do it then, too. I'll still want to do it in 10 years time.

Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 1d

Female First: 'Scientists create first accurate blood test for chronic fatigue syndrome'

'The test..showed 92% sensitivity and 98% specificity. The team examined 47 patients with severe ME/CFS and compared results to 61 healthy individuals.'

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Scientists create first accurate blood test for chronic fatigue syndrome

Scientists say they have developed the worlds first accurate blood test to diagnose myalgic encephalomyelitis, also known as chronic fatigue syndrome MECFS.

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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 1d

Former English MP & expenses enthusiast multisquillionaire lobbyist leads by example to paid burglary advocates and burglars now gearing for mass protests if they are not legally allowed to burglarise hither & yon, on the grounds that they would quite like to profit from stolen goods so there.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 1d

How very Pocockian. The only parliamentarian to have captained an elite national sports team got expelled from the parliamentary sports club for expressing principles about the sinister cavortings of the gambling industry.

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 1d

Former Wallabies star David Pocock booted from parliamentary sports club

Exclusive: Senator accused of bringing social club into disrepute after raising concerns about its association with betting lobby Independent ACT senator David Pocock – a former Wallabies captain – been banned from attending parliament house’s social sports club after raising concern about its sponsorship by the gambling industry. The former rugby star was on Thursday night told he was no longer welcome at Australian Parliament Sports Club events, and accused of politicising the organisation. He has been removed from group chats discussing its events. Continue reading...

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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 1d

Look at their dear, brave Antifa faces.

Snark. @snark66.bsky.social · 1d

My Grandma. Who ended up marrying my Grandpa. He spent a bit of time in Tobruk.

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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 1d

Jess, only straight men can do things & their girlfriends can only be denouncing, devious decorations - for example women can't be fighters or artists, spies or pilots or inventors or scientists because of the ovary's clitoris in their placenta.

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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 1d

Given that almost everyone I suggested is dead, I feel that 'making sense of it' was not quite my central thrust, but thanks for your thoughts.

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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 1d

Is it Jessica Mitford? Ilsa in Casablanca? Ruth Draper? All the girls and women from the French, Dutch, Belgian, and Polish WW2 Resistance in case they had a boyfriend? Mrs Stalin? The possibilities are senseless.

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 2d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 1d

Can we please have a government run along the principles of whatever a Pocock person says?

Barbara Pocock @barbarapocock.bsky.social · 1d

How we ‘fess up when we mess up shows who we are. Pay it all back Deloitte. And apologise. Give yrsrlf some procurement teeth Labor: the capability to ban for poor behaviour, commensurate with the misdemeanour, up to 5 yrs.

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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 1d

That's right. A lady's whole body is a placenta and at 30 weeks of pregnancy her arm is already growing to be the same length as a giraffe's leg, so she can use it to get the baby out at 60 weeks if she doesn't have health insurance. #American #UpTheDuff

Bella Allen @msbellaf.bsky.social · 1d

RFK medical book

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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 1d

I would say RFKJnr and the rest of the Trump henchfawners are as stupid as rocks but TBH there's probably a piece of extruded granite made into a kitchen bench somewhere that understands more about pregnancy & medicine.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

"Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman eight months pregnant—she is an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School—and she is saying 'eff Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta."

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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 1d

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."

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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 1d

Oooh, yes. I do like a woman who goes orf like a Catherine Wheel.

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STEAMLORD @exoplanetdinosaur.bsky.social · 2d

A pox on all politicians who upheld this genocide. May your withered souls never know peace. May the images of the horrors visited upon the Palestinians people haunt you day and night, infest your dreams. May you never know peace and joy ever again

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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 3d

As an extremist anti-gay Catholic time-travelled from the distant past of the ALP , surely he won't object to an independent check of his phone history?

stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 3d

David Pocock asks Don Farrell some serious questions about why the govt has not implemented an important recommendation from the #RobodebtRC.
Farrell caught playing on his phone, not even paying attention.🙄 Pocock hasn’t the patience to try again & moves on. #Estimates

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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 3d

Just watched an Insta excerpt of a podcast interview with a man who says he 'got very close to doing the wrong thing' then says it's not in his nature to want 'younger, smarter, hotter, whatever' than his wife and oh. my. lordy. the comments section.

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The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 3d

Wombats’ whiskery noses help them snuffle for food, navigate burrows and sense friend or foe.

Whiskers for warrens: why wombats have such whiskery snouts

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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 4d

The disrespect to Sarah Krasnostein & Chloe Hooper! Literary version of Daily Mail celeb culture. 'Helen flaunted her semi-colons during Brunswick fashion week'. (Alt faulty: Guardian headline says 'Mushroom murders inspire new book by Helen Garner'.) www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

Erin Patterson mushroom murders inspire new book by Helen Garner

Co-written with Chloe Hooper and Sarah Krasnostein, The Mushroom Tapes is inspired by their experience attending the headline-grabbing trial earlier this year

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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 4d

All patients have a right to know if someone calling themselves a surgeon doesn't have a medical degree, and podiatrists don't. Turf war maybe, but people shouldn't be misled into being operated on by people without a medical degree or extra surgical qualifications, then shocked when they find out.

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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 5d

WTF. You shouldn't be allowed to do surgery at all without BEING a surgeon. One of these 'surgical podiatrists' tried to make a very elderly relative living alone with dementia agree to expensive surgery on both feet at the same time. (She just needed orthotics). www.theage.com.au/healthcare/s...

Podiatric surgeons to be stripped of title amid confusion

Health ministers have agreed to force podiatric surgeons to rename after a review found widespread confusion over their ability to perform invasive foot surgery without a medical degree.

www.theage.com.au

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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 5d

These arseholes steal your stuff and then tell you to 'opt out' of being burgled. 'Promises more granular control'? (What even is the point of words?) Promises a gravel sandwich, more like. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

OpenAI promises more ‘granular control’ to copyright owners after Sora 2 generates videos of popular characters

Company behind the AI video app says it will work with rights holders to ‘block characters from Sora at their request’

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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 5d

Lordy, I know. Good on you. Very difficult not to just go and live in a backyard cubby with skinks at the mo. Choice made easier by not having a backyard cubby. (Where the skinks are is anyone's guess.)

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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 5d

Not my intention to diminish culpability, I assure you - IMO dog's breakfast-y, when it comes to describing research, is the equivalent of a gauntlet slap to the face. I'd also like people to read the Australian report itself as it lays out its case brilliantly.

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