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Dumping Arrernte Senator Liddle from the Indigenous portfolio for Julian Leeser is a shameful move.
Kerrynne understands the realities mob face, is hardworking and across the detail.
This is just hollow politics and Leeser will be useless.
All I can say: Fantastic. Great move. Well done, Angus.
Kerrynne understands the realities mob face, is hardworking and across the detail.
This is just hollow politics and Leeser will be useless.
All I can say: Fantastic. Great move. Well done, Angus.
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price promoted back to shadow cabinet, Kerrynne Liddle removed
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has been elevated to the shadow cabinet, less than six months after being removed from the frontbench over controversial comments about the Indian diaspora.However, South Aust...
nit.com.au
February 18, 2026 at 2:47 AM
Dumping Arrernte Senator Liddle from the Indigenous portfolio for Julian Leeser is a shameful move.
Kerrynne understands the realities mob face, is hardworking and across the detail.
This is just hollow politics and Leeser will be useless.
All I can say: Fantastic. Great move. Well done, Angus.
Kerrynne understands the realities mob face, is hardworking and across the detail.
This is just hollow politics and Leeser will be useless.
All I can say: Fantastic. Great move. Well done, Angus.
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Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
February 15, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
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Have you ever wanted to make a submission to a parliamentary inquiry?
It's very simple but there are things you can do to make your submission more effective.
On @thepointau.bsky.social -- thepoint.com.au/explainers/2...
It's very simple but there are things you can do to make your submission more effective.
On @thepointau.bsky.social -- thepoint.com.au/explainers/2...
How to make a submission to a parliamentary inquiry
Making a submission to a parliamentary inquiry is much more straightforward that you may think and is a great way to participate in our democracy. Here is a handy guide of what you need to know to mak...
thepoint.com.au
February 17, 2026 at 11:28 PM
Have you ever wanted to make a submission to a parliamentary inquiry?
It's very simple but there are things you can do to make your submission more effective.
On @thepointau.bsky.social -- thepoint.com.au/explainers/2...
It's very simple but there are things you can do to make your submission more effective.
On @thepointau.bsky.social -- thepoint.com.au/explainers/2...
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nil impact no use case fortune.com/2026/02/17/a...
Thousands of CEOs just admitted AI had no impact on employment or productivity—and it has economists resurrecting a paradox from 40 years ago | Fortune
In the 1980s, economist Robert Solow made an observation that reminded economists of today’s AI boom: “You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.”
fortune.com
February 18, 2026 at 12:02 AM
nil impact no use case fortune.com/2026/02/17/a...
Reposted by Oscar James
Probably the most straightforward example of government censorship of the broadcast news in my lifetime?
They must really be scared of Talarico talking about genuine Christianity
www.usatoday.com/story/entert...
They must really be scared of Talarico talking about genuine Christianity
www.usatoday.com/story/entert...
Colbert slams CBS for canning interview with Trump critic
Stephen Colbert, whose "Late Show" is ending this year, wasted no time laying into CBS over a canned James Talarico interview: "FCC you."
www.usatoday.com
February 17, 2026 at 1:26 PM
Probably the most straightforward example of government censorship of the broadcast news in my lifetime?
They must really be scared of Talarico talking about genuine Christianity
www.usatoday.com/story/entert...
They must really be scared of Talarico talking about genuine Christianity
www.usatoday.com/story/entert...
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It’s so hard to have a reasonable conversation about AI, because people refuse to see the massive upsides of job elimination, higher electrical bills, hard drive shortages, poisoning black people in Memphis, and an economy where a handful of pedos with bad hair control your life
February 17, 2026 at 5:48 PM
It’s so hard to have a reasonable conversation about AI, because people refuse to see the massive upsides of job elimination, higher electrical bills, hard drive shortages, poisoning black people in Memphis, and an economy where a handful of pedos with bad hair control your life
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Sort of a reverse Turing test. www.forbes.com/sites/ronsch...
February 17, 2026 at 6:14 PM
Sort of a reverse Turing test. www.forbes.com/sites/ronsch...
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Print is a rent strike.
It’s going to sound quaint, but the best way to resist an AI takeover of the humanities is to assign physical books, sit around, read them, and argue about ideas. Academic has become such a competitive arena, that we ourselves are trained to look for the winning angle, instead of the best education.
February 17, 2026 at 9:29 PM
Print is a rent strike.
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I've worried a little bit about the intersection of surveillance technology, anticipatory policing algorithms, AI target identification and moral fading since I read this www.thecairoreview.com/essays/gaza-...
Gaza: Israel’s AI Human Laboratory
Israel’s use of artificial intelligence has wreaked horrific destruction on Gaza; this technology will likely be sold across the globe in the near future
www.thecairoreview.com
February 17, 2026 at 10:30 AM
I've worried a little bit about the intersection of surveillance technology, anticipatory policing algorithms, AI target identification and moral fading since I read this www.thecairoreview.com/essays/gaza-...
Reposted by Oscar James
very good explanation of why not to feed images into an image generator, especially when memorializing children after a devastating tragedy.
better not to use image generators at all.
better not to use image generators at all.
The Tumbler Ridge newspaper puts it better than I could
February 17, 2026 at 2:52 AM
very good explanation of why not to feed images into an image generator, especially when memorializing children after a devastating tragedy.
better not to use image generators at all.
better not to use image generators at all.
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Ben Goertzel, popularizer of the term AGI and creator of the Sophia robot, congratulating Jeffrey Epstein the day after Epstein was released from prison.
Goertzel is mentioned in the files nearly 800 times, including well after the Miami Herald investigation in 2018.
Goertzel is mentioned in the files nearly 800 times, including well after the Miami Herald investigation in 2018.
February 17, 2026 at 5:45 AM
Ben Goertzel, popularizer of the term AGI and creator of the Sophia robot, congratulating Jeffrey Epstein the day after Epstein was released from prison.
Goertzel is mentioned in the files nearly 800 times, including well after the Miami Herald investigation in 2018.
Goertzel is mentioned in the files nearly 800 times, including well after the Miami Herald investigation in 2018.
Reposted by Oscar James
Liam Alexander Hall is the Perth bomber. This attack is a consequence of the anti-Aboriginal racism incited by The Voice process, which the ALP never confronted, and the racist anti-Voice campaign by Advance Australia and Atlas Network. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
Man who allegedly threw homemade bomb in Invasion Day rally crowd named
The man accused of throwing a bomb at Invasion Day protesters in an alleged terrorism act attack in Perth can be named as Liam Alexander Hall.
www.abc.net.au
February 17, 2026 at 6:58 AM
Liam Alexander Hall is the Perth bomber. This attack is a consequence of the anti-Aboriginal racism incited by The Voice process, which the ALP never confronted, and the racist anti-Voice campaign by Advance Australia and Atlas Network. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
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Up to 500 workers at Crown Casino in Melbourne stopped work twice in four days to demand a fair deal.
Crown Casino workers need to go all in to call management’s bluff – Solidarity Online
Up to 500 workers at Crown Casino in Melbourne stopped work twice in four days to demand a fair deal.
solidarity.net.au
February 17, 2026 at 8:43 AM
Up to 500 workers at Crown Casino in Melbourne stopped work twice in four days to demand a fair deal.
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I see David Runciman, the 4th Viscount of Doxford, has not withdrawn from Schloss Elmau Symposion w 'reactionary fascist' (JD Vance) Curtis Yarvin
(Lea Ypi & Quinn Slobodian have)
guess British aristocracy is used to rubbing elbows w and normalising fascists
www.schloss-elmau.de/kultur/sympo...
(Lea Ypi & Quinn Slobodian have)
guess British aristocracy is used to rubbing elbows w and normalising fascists
www.schloss-elmau.de/kultur/sympo...
Politische Debatten
Politische Debatten und Symposien über die Freiheit und ihre Feinde
www.schloss-elmau.de
February 17, 2026 at 9:29 AM
I see David Runciman, the 4th Viscount of Doxford, has not withdrawn from Schloss Elmau Symposion w 'reactionary fascist' (JD Vance) Curtis Yarvin
(Lea Ypi & Quinn Slobodian have)
guess British aristocracy is used to rubbing elbows w and normalising fascists
www.schloss-elmau.de/kultur/sympo...
(Lea Ypi & Quinn Slobodian have)
guess British aristocracy is used to rubbing elbows w and normalising fascists
www.schloss-elmau.de/kultur/sympo...
Reposted by Oscar James
At the end of this week, Anthony Albanese will become Australia's longest serving prime minister since John Howard. He's on track to rival Fraser and Hawke in time in the top job. But to leave what legacy?
“If Orwell wrote 1984 by following the threads of what politicians were sewing in 1948, then the ‘social cohesion’ our leaders are threading now are only forming a tighter net to trap us all,” writes @amyremeikis.bsky.social.
Read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/46H1NSI
Read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/46H1NSI
February 17, 2026 at 1:25 AM
At the end of this week, Anthony Albanese will become Australia's longest serving prime minister since John Howard. He's on track to rival Fraser and Hawke in time in the top job. But to leave what legacy?
Reposted by Oscar James
U.S. car dealers deserve every humiliation
I mean whatcouldgowrong with americans constantly putting the worst business people imaginable in washington? Oh maybe america's economy is destroyed so bad that the few things america still did went out the window too? www.thedrive.com/news/u-s-dea...
U.S. Dealers In Full Panic Mode After Canada Green-Lights Chinese Cars
NADA CEO on Chinese cars coming to America: "It’s bad for our industry, it’s bad for our country, it’s bad for consumers."
www.thedrive.com
February 16, 2026 at 7:03 PM
U.S. car dealers deserve every humiliation
Reposted by Oscar James
February 16, 2026 at 10:18 PM
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![[Obviously I'm being sarcastic. This was where we were headed from the moment he picked his HHS Secretary]
Vaccine Makers Pull Back on Investment and Innovation Amid Trump Policies
The Trump administration's dismantling of
longstanding federal support for vaccines has "sent a chill through the entire industry," one scientist said.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:dtgy62tymnpbnzozbpgnov56/bafkreib64kadx4263akbem5bvrkovll5br3hbov6praeuzphhbhokckkda@jpeg)
February 16, 2026 at 10:36 PM
Reposted by Oscar James
Every four years we debate the deontological versus consequentialist moral implications of voter behavior :)
February 16, 2026 at 10:38 PM
Every four years we debate the deontological versus consequentialist moral implications of voter behavior :)
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!!!
“Each person who visits the President’s House and does not learn of the realities of founding-era slavery receives a false account of this country’s history.” — U.S. District Judge Cynthia M. Rufe
🔗 www.inquirer.com/news/philade...
🔗 www.inquirer.com/news/philade...
February 17, 2026 at 12:40 AM
!!!
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What are these societies white men have for centuries called “great civilizations“ worth if those civilizations do nothing to protect their own children from predation, trafficking, and violence?
The only things these men are ever willing to protect are whiteness, privilege, and the almighty dollar.
The only things these men are ever willing to protect are whiteness, privilege, and the almighty dollar.
Incredible. We got to "Is a pedophile island really all that bad?" five times faster than I thought.
Noah Rothman on the Epstein files: "It is a witch hunt. It‘s a moral panic."
February 17, 2026 at 12:15 AM
What are these societies white men have for centuries called “great civilizations“ worth if those civilizations do nothing to protect their own children from predation, trafficking, and violence?
The only things these men are ever willing to protect are whiteness, privilege, and the almighty dollar.
The only things these men are ever willing to protect are whiteness, privilege, and the almighty dollar.
Reposted by Oscar James
This is beautiful: science.anu.edu.au/news-events/...
The unexpected poetry of PhD acknowledgements
After reading hundreds and hundreds of PhD theses, we accidentally discovered how to write the perfect PhD acknowledgement: it's a kind of poetry.
science.anu.edu.au
February 17, 2026 at 12:22 AM
This is beautiful: science.anu.edu.au/news-events/...
Reposted by Oscar James
Putin has been the greatest gift China could have asked for. Leveraging Russia's economy, accelerating Russian decline (and potentially Russian grip on parts of north Asia), turning Moscow dependent on remaining in Beijing's good graces... It's like Xi has pocketed Putin, with little effort.
February 16, 2026 at 11:27 PM
Putin has been the greatest gift China could have asked for. Leveraging Russia's economy, accelerating Russian decline (and potentially Russian grip on parts of north Asia), turning Moscow dependent on remaining in Beijing's good graces... It's like Xi has pocketed Putin, with little effort.
Reposted by Oscar James
Not a single strategic goal has been met. Russia's losing a Vietnam's worth of soldiers every few months. The economy is sprinting toward stagnation, while Moscow is turning more and more every month into a Chinese vassal—all while the Kremlin's allies topple elsewhere.
Staggering historic failure.
Staggering historic failure.
February 16, 2026 at 10:44 PM
Not a single strategic goal has been met. Russia's losing a Vietnam's worth of soldiers every few months. The economy is sprinting toward stagnation, while Moscow is turning more and more every month into a Chinese vassal—all while the Kremlin's allies topple elsewhere.
Staggering historic failure.
Staggering historic failure.
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“I’m stepping down to spend more time avoiding consequences.”
Billionaire Hyatt Hotels chairman Thomas Pritzker announced he is retiring following emails showing his relationship with sex predator Jeffrey Epstein
Hyatt Chairman Pritzker leaves board over Epstein ties
The 75-year-old billionaire heir said he would not seek reelection to the board at the annual stockholder meeting.
www.cnbc.com
February 16, 2026 at 11:18 PM
“I’m stepping down to spend more time avoiding consequences.”