How the internet became enshittified – and how we might be able to deshittify it
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How the internet became enshittified – and how we might be able to deshittify it
The internet offered a world of connection and cooperation. What we got was a world of ruthless monopolies and oligarchs.
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December 5, 2025 at 11:51 PM
How the internet became enshittified – and how we might be able to deshittify it
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As music festival season ramps up, artists can help shine a light on an ‘invisible’ workforce
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As music festival season ramps up, artists can help shine a light on an ‘invisible’ workforce
The music industry relies on a huge, highly skilled workforce. But it’s often undervalued.
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December 3, 2025 at 11:09 PM
As music festival season ramps up, artists can help shine a light on an ‘invisible’ workforce
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Extraordinary. And extraordinarily worrying.
Keir Starmer Machine Ran a Secret Campaign to Demonetize Breitbart News and Other Opposition Outlets open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...
Keir Starmer Machine Ran a Secret Campaign to Demonetize Breitbart News and Other Opposition Outlets open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...
Keir Starmer Machine Ran a Secret Campaign to Demonetize Breitbart News and Other Opposition Outlets
Starmer’s current chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, served as the head of a machine that targeted media outlets on the left and right, foreshadowing the UK’s crackdown on dissent.
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December 3, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Extraordinary. And extraordinarily worrying.
Keir Starmer Machine Ran a Secret Campaign to Demonetize Breitbart News and Other Opposition Outlets open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...
Keir Starmer Machine Ran a Secret Campaign to Demonetize Breitbart News and Other Opposition Outlets open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...
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This is an absolutely amazing piece of work - the ABC spent five years (!) working on this interactive feature that brings together First Nations oral histories spanning 65,000 years
www.abc.net.au/news/deeptim...
www.abc.net.au/news/deeptim...
Australia is seen as a young country — but do you really know its ancient story?
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' story goes way, way back… take an awe-inspiring journey into Deep Time.
www.abc.net.au
October 19, 2025 at 11:34 PM
This is an absolutely amazing piece of work - the ABC spent five years (!) working on this interactive feature that brings together First Nations oral histories spanning 65,000 years
www.abc.net.au/news/deeptim...
www.abc.net.au/news/deeptim...
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NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.
My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:
Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?
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My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:
Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?
t.co/BUTtpK9C4S
October 12, 2025 at 11:29 AM
NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.
My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:
Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?
t.co/BUTtpK9C4S
My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:
Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?
t.co/BUTtpK9C4S
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NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites
The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war
The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war
October 8, 2025 at 4:58 PM
NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites
The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war
The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war
And? What's the point of making this comparison exactly? Is this meant to be proof that Trump is better than Biden re: Gaza? Complete bollocks! He just wants his real estate development as soon as he can get it. At best they are as bad as each other.
“Israel must immediately stop the bombing of Gaza” — Biden never made this simple demand, despite 15 months of relentless Israeli slaughter of Palestinians during his presidency
October 4, 2025 at 8:32 AM
And? What's the point of making this comparison exactly? Is this meant to be proof that Trump is better than Biden re: Gaza? Complete bollocks! He just wants his real estate development as soon as he can get it. At best they are as bad as each other.
Good from the abc... even though they've played their role in boosting so much of the misinformation they refer to.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
Trump-style 'climate hoax' playbook spreads to Australia
US researchers have tracked how dark money funds a tangled web of climate denial think tanks with vested interests in slowing climate action. And Australia is not immune.
www.abc.net.au
September 28, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Good from the abc... even though they've played their role in boosting so much of the misinformation they refer to.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
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I am perhaps warier of "shame overreach" than the author, but this, by @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social, is a thing of beauty. It should be read and shared widely
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
www.bostonreview.net
September 23, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I am perhaps warier of "shame overreach" than the author, but this, by @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social, is a thing of beauty. It should be read and shared widely
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
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CNN has confirmed that Steve Witkoff, President Trump’s special envoy, has delivered Russia’s Order of Courage to CIA Deputy Director Juliane Gallina, whose son received the medal after dying in Ukraine while fighting alongside Russian invasion forces. meduza.io/en/news/2025...
Witkoff delivers Russia’s Order of Courage to CIA Deputy Director Juliane Gallina, whose son died in Ukraine fighting to advance Moscow’s invasion — CNN — Meduza
Steve Witkoff, President Trump’s special envoy, has delivered Russia’s Order of Courage to CIA Deputy Director Juliane Gallina. CNN reported the news, citing a senior White House official. The medal…
meduza.io
August 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM
CNN has confirmed that Steve Witkoff, President Trump’s special envoy, has delivered Russia’s Order of Courage to CIA Deputy Director Juliane Gallina, whose son received the medal after dying in Ukraine while fighting alongside Russian invasion forces. meduza.io/en/news/2025...
The headline is quite misleading.
This is an interesting interview, and interesting and probably appropriate use of AI. Still not sure if I like it though.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
This is an interesting interview, and interesting and probably appropriate use of AI. Still not sure if I like it though.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
Author Rie Qudan: Why I used ChatGPT to write my prize-winning novel
Sympathy Tower Tokyo attracted controversy for being partly written using AI. Does its author think the technology could write a better novel than a human?
www.theguardian.com
August 19, 2025 at 12:22 PM
The headline is quite misleading.
This is an interesting interview, and interesting and probably appropriate use of AI. Still not sure if I like it though.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
This is an interesting interview, and interesting and probably appropriate use of AI. Still not sure if I like it though.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
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Trump’s response to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen about returning Ukrainian children from Russia was, uh, something else.
August 18, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Trump’s response to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen about returning Ukrainian children from Russia was, uh, something else.
Hard/impossible to fathom how Segal is still the antisemitism special envoy.
The husband of antisemitism special envoy Jillian Segal has donated to Advance. Here’s what the group’s all about.
Right-wing political group Advance is in the headlines. What is it and what does it stand for?
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July 16, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Hard/impossible to fathom how Segal is still the antisemitism special envoy.
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People think money has ruined football but the sight of a rapist dictator standing next to a corrupt football official in front of a big gold trophy at a competition bankrolled by Saudi Arabia reminds me the game still belongs to us.
July 14, 2025 at 6:40 AM
People think money has ruined football but the sight of a rapist dictator standing next to a corrupt football official in front of a big gold trophy at a competition bankrolled by Saudi Arabia reminds me the game still belongs to us.
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I think we need to stop obsessing over the mushroom murders and turn our attention to the NT coroner’s inquest report into the police shooting and death of Kumanjayi Walker by policeman Zach Rolfe
July 8, 2025 at 6:47 AM
I think we need to stop obsessing over the mushroom murders and turn our attention to the NT coroner’s inquest report into the police shooting and death of Kumanjayi Walker by policeman Zach Rolfe
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Waiting for news outlets and reporters to acknowledge that maybe, just maybe, reporting Trump's social media posts on foreign policy without confirmation is deeply irresponsible and an embarrassing failure of journalism.
June 24, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Waiting for news outlets and reporters to acknowledge that maybe, just maybe, reporting Trump's social media posts on foreign policy without confirmation is deeply irresponsible and an embarrassing failure of journalism.
Occasionally this govt. gets things right.
It took more than a century, but women are taking charge of Australia’s economy – here’s why it matters theconversation.com/it-took-more...
It took more than a century, but women are taking charge of Australia’s economy – here’s why it matters theconversation.com/it-took-more...
It took more than a century, but women are taking charge of Australia’s economy – here’s why it matters
For the first time, women lead Australia’s key economic institutions. The moment matters because research shows women think about the economy differently from men.
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June 13, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Occasionally this govt. gets things right.
It took more than a century, but women are taking charge of Australia’s economy – here’s why it matters theconversation.com/it-took-more...
It took more than a century, but women are taking charge of Australia’s economy – here’s why it matters theconversation.com/it-took-more...
Amazing how these myths started spreading when legacy car manufacturers realised the threat from China...
9 myths about electric vehicles have taken hold. A new study shows how many people fall for them theconversation.com/9-myths-abou...
9 myths about electric vehicles have taken hold. A new study shows how many people fall for them theconversation.com/9-myths-abou...
9 myths about electric vehicles have taken hold. A new study shows how many people fall for them
From fires to carbon emissions and electromagnetic fields, misinformation about electric vehicles is rife – and widely believed.
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June 11, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Amazing how these myths started spreading when legacy car manufacturers realised the threat from China...
9 myths about electric vehicles have taken hold. A new study shows how many people fall for them theconversation.com/9-myths-abou...
9 myths about electric vehicles have taken hold. A new study shows how many people fall for them theconversation.com/9-myths-abou...
BREAKING: The “Most Beautiful Bunny” competition is officially over.
The award goes to…The HOLLAND LOP.
No need for votes. No need for debate.
It’s already been declared.
#BunnyRoyalty
The award goes to…The HOLLAND LOP.
No need for votes. No need for debate.
It’s already been declared.
#BunnyRoyalty
May 30, 2025 at 7:24 AM
I'd hate to see anyone in power panicking...
(Seriously, why the fuck isn't EVERYBODY panicking?)
UNESCO expresses ‘utmost concern’ at the state of the Great Barrier Reef theconversation.com/unesco-expre...
(Seriously, why the fuck isn't EVERYBODY panicking?)
UNESCO expresses ‘utmost concern’ at the state of the Great Barrier Reef theconversation.com/unesco-expre...
UNESCO expresses ‘utmost concern’ at the state of the Great Barrier Reef
UNESCO’s comments confirm what experts already know: despite substantial money and effort, threats to the Great Barrier Reef aren’t going away.
theconversation.com
May 30, 2025 at 1:03 AM
I'd hate to see anyone in power panicking...
(Seriously, why the fuck isn't EVERYBODY panicking?)
UNESCO expresses ‘utmost concern’ at the state of the Great Barrier Reef theconversation.com/unesco-expre...
(Seriously, why the fuck isn't EVERYBODY panicking?)
UNESCO expresses ‘utmost concern’ at the state of the Great Barrier Reef theconversation.com/unesco-expre...
Researchers created a chatbot to help teach a university law class – but the AI kept messing up
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Researchers created a chatbot to help teach a university law class – but the AI kept messing up
Researchers developed an educational chatbot to help law students and save time. But the AI kept giving inaccurate, misleading and even incorrect feedback.
theconversation.com
May 30, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Researchers created a chatbot to help teach a university law class – but the AI kept messing up
theconversation.com/researchers-...
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Five out of five experts agree the coalition is lying about energy bill costs... yet this is the headline three days out from an election. Expect better from The Conversation.
Would the Coalition lower energy bills by more than Labor? We asked 5 experts theconversation.com/would-the-co...
Would the Coalition lower energy bills by more than Labor? We asked 5 experts theconversation.com/would-the-co...
Would the Coalition lower energy bills by more than Labor? We asked 5 experts
Both Labor and the Coalition say their energy policies are the best way to bring household power costs down – but which side is right?
theconversation.com
May 1, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Five out of five experts agree the coalition is lying about energy bill costs... yet this is the headline three days out from an election. Expect better from The Conversation.
Would the Coalition lower energy bills by more than Labor? We asked 5 experts theconversation.com/would-the-co...
Would the Coalition lower energy bills by more than Labor? We asked 5 experts theconversation.com/would-the-co...
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Man, this is a pretty fucking gross move from Amazon, huh? Good on @bookshop.org for not mincing words, though:
April 25, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Man, this is a pretty fucking gross move from Amazon, huh? Good on @bookshop.org for not mincing words, though: