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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 7h

It's good that the govt is rolling out a robotax scheme to get old debts from individuals, that should fix things....

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Tables showing from 2013-14 to 2023-24 Santos Ltd had $46.7bn in revenue and paid $0 tax

Year Total income ($m) Taxable income ($m) Tax payable ($m)
2014-15 $3,389.4 $0.0 $0.0
2015-16 $3,476.0 $0.0 $0.0
2016-17 $3,715.3 $0.0 $0.0
2017-18 $3,498.0 $0.0 $0.0
2018-19 $4,360.6 $8.3 $0.0
2019-20 $5,013.9 $29.0 $0.0
2020-21 $4,070.3 $68.8 $0.0
2021-22 $4,746.0 $74.1 $0.0
2022-23 $6,257.4 $19.8 $0.0
2023-24 $8,210.3 $21.2 $0.0
Total $46,737.3 $221.2 $0.0

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 9h

man Australian universities are really just collapsing like a dying star hey

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University caught out using AI to wrongly accuse students of cheating with AI

An Australian university has accused thousands of its students of cheating with artificial intelligence. The problem? Many have done nothing wrong.

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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 4h

Here is a current DIRECTOR within the Department effectively blowing the whistle to Deloitte that the system doesn't demonstrate "natural justice"

The Robodebt vibes here are off the charts and I'm begging media to cover this

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Hannah Shelley, MLIS (Metadata, Lattes & Impostor Syndrome) @hannahshelley.bsky.social · 6h

Asking residents for permission would 'kill' the burglary industry

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.

buff.ly

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David @daverino.bsky.social · 6h

A classic example of what @anna-orridge.bsky.social refers to as a “lolsob” moment.

“A major Australian university used artificial intelligence technology to accuse about 6,000 students of academic misconduct last year…many of the students had done nothing wrong”
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University caught out using AI to wrongly accuse students of cheating with AI

An Australian university has accused thousands of its students of cheating with artificial intelligence. The problem? Many have done nothing wrong.

www.abc.net.au

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bestqualitycrab @bestqualitycrab.bsky.social · 9h

IKR. Its like they think adding clever wordplay to the corpspeak will somehow distract us but it only piles on the pain…

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bestqualitycrab @bestqualitycrab.bsky.social · 1d

And create a punnish on-brand title to hide the punishment

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Stuart Palmer @spalm.bsky.social · 1d

I can report that universities would happily develop the recipe for Soylent Green if somebody pays them. For some extra cash, they will also optimise the production process for you.

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bestqualitycrab @bestqualitycrab.bsky.social · 2d

I must see this sheep film!

Silent London @silentlondon.bsky.social · 2d

Day three of Le Giornate del Cinema Muto was packed with Drama with a capital D. For Diva. silentlondon.co.uk/2025/10/06/l...

Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 2025: Pordenone Post No 3

Monday finished with a zinger. I mean a Zingari. Italia Almirante Manzini wowed the Verdi as Wilejka, a heavy-lidded beauty with great hair, but in this case as a heavy-lidded beautiful Gypsy sheph…

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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 2d

De Brouwer made the exact same argument two years ago after the Robodebt Royal Commission report was delivered. This is how I treated it in Mean Streak: "Grow up."

Screenshot of the book Mean Streak by Rick Morton. The text reads:

for the past decade and half, when conclusive certificates were
discontinued, is counterproductive to the Parliament’s intent.
‘When it comes to deliberative material, FoI does not ensure
transparency (because advice is not being written) and it
undermines integrity (because advice is not being written).’
So officials don’t put things in writing because they might get
released under Freedom of Information laws, therefore the FoI
laws aren’t working?
Grow up.
De Brouwer is not alone in his views. Former secretaries have
been doing the rounds making exactly these kinds of noises, as if
the outcome of poor professional behaviour is the result of some
law and not … poor professional behaviour.

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bestqualitycrab @bestqualitycrab.bsky.social · 3d

You cannot make this stuff up! Consultant advising on the error-riddled use of automated decision making in welfare governance uses AI to write its error-riddled report to government.

Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 3d

#BREAKING 🚨 Deloitte to refund government, admits using AI in $440k report into mutual obligations issues.

Fake quotes from Federal Court case that ended Robodebt deleted from new report in Friday DEWR dump.

📰 AFR

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HEADLINE: Deloitte to refund government, admits AI errors in $440k report

Deloitte Australia will issue a partial refund to the federal government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a $440,000 report littered with errors including three nonexistent academic references and a made-up quote from a Federal Court judgement.

A new version of the report for the Department of Workplace Relations (DEWR) was quietly uploaded to the department’s website on Friday, ahead of a long weekend across much of Australia. It features more than a dozen deletions of nonexistent references and footnotes, a rewritten reference list, and corrections to multiple typographic errors.

(photo of Deloitte Australia HQ) Deloitte Australia has made almost $25 million worth of deals with the Department of Workplace Relations since 2021. Photographer Dion Georgopoulos

The first version of the report, about the IT system used to automate penalties in the welfare system such as pauses on the dole, was published in July. Less than a month later, Deloitte was forced to investigate the report after University of Sydney academic Dr Christopher Rudge highlighted multiple errors in the document.

At the time, Rudge speculated that the errors may have been caused by what is known as “hallucinations” by generative AI. This is where the technology responds to user queries by inventing references and quotes. Deloitte declined to comment.

The incident is embarrassing for Deloitte as it earns a growing part of its $US70.5 billion ($107 billion) in annual global revenue by providing advice and training clients and executives about AI. The firm also boasts about its widespread use of the technology within its global operations, while emphasising the need to always have humans review any output of AI.

SUBHEADING: Deleted references, footnotes

The revised report has deleted a dozen references to two nonexistent reports by Professor Lisa Burton Crawford, a law professor at the University of Sydney, that were included in the first version. Two references to a nonexistent report by Professor Björn Regnell, of Lund University in Sweden, were also deleted in the new report.

Also deleted was a made up reference to a court decision in a leading robo-debt case, Deanna Amato v Commonwealth.

The new report has also deleted a reference to “Justice Davis” (a misspelling of Justice Jennifer Davies) and the made-up quote from the nonexistent paragraphs 25 and 26 in the judgement: “The burden rests on the decision-maker to be satisfied on the evidence that the debt is owed. A person’s statutory entitlements cannot lawfully be reduced based on an assumption unsupported by evidence.”

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 5d

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

Sky News @news.sky.com · 5d

Woman named as new Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first

Bishop of London Dame Sarah Mullally, a former nurse, has been named as the next Archbishop of Canterbury - the first time a woman has been appointed to the role in the Church of England's history.

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Wouldn’t it be great if we ran out of hate @wnhy.bsky.social · 6d

Cancun and eastern Mexico fight a Caribbean #algae invasion

Tons of brown Sargassum algae threaten tourism and the environment. Scientists and residents of the region are feverishly seeking solutions as the plague grows.

#algalbloom
not just SA #auspol

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Cancun and eastern Mexico fight a Caribbean algae invasion – DW – 10/01/2025

The beaches of Cancun seem dreamy — but looks can be deceiving: Tons of brown Sargassum algae threaten tourism and the environment. Scientists and residents of the region are feverishly seeking soluti...

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Drop Bear @drop-bear.bsky.social · 6d

"In August, Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Board reported it had received 245 US refugee claims in the first six months of 2025, which was more than in any full year since 2019. Ireland has similarly recorded a sharp rise in asylum applications from US citizens ..."

#USpol
#AusPol
#Trump

At least 29 Americans have sought asylum in Australia since second Trump presidency began

Applications from US citizens make up less than 1% of monthly applications but have risen steadily since Trump’s inauguration

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ACLU @aclu.org · 6d

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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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 6d

People keep imagining that these systems can be made hallucination-free. But they aren’t really designed to distinguish fact from fiction. Essentially they’re just stimulus-response loops full of calcium ions.

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bestqualitycrab @bestqualitycrab.bsky.social · 8d

Anja Kaspersen and Kobi Liens likened AI to micro-plastics a few years ago. Still holds.

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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 8d

Andrew Ng: "AI is the new electricity!"

Cory Doctorow: "AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations."

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 9d

"Why would it bow to antidemocratic pressures by placing a professor on leave without their request, consent, or involvement? That any university would do this is beyond comprehension and is cause for alarm about the future of academic freedom in Canada."

What Happened to the University’s Commitment to Free Expression? Charley Kirk, uAlberta, and Me | Centre for Free Expression

I was shocked when the University of Alberta administration informed me, one of its law professors, that I was being placed on non-disciplinary leave for my social media comments in the wake of Charli...

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bestqualitycrab @bestqualitycrab.bsky.social · 9d

We just call this crack cheese in our house.

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bestqualitycrab @bestqualitycrab.bsky.social · 9d

Cheese

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bestqualitycrab @bestqualitycrab.bsky.social · 13d

Actual dollars

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bestqualitycrab @bestqualitycrab.bsky.social · 14d

Slashing HASS and climate change research while funding the cricket team playing an abridged format of the game does more than just add spinners to the spin. It signals an unapologetic over-emphasis on efficiency and facile spectacle above the value of long form commitment. It is unconscionable

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bestqualitycrab @bestqualitycrab.bsky.social · 14d

Always useful to understand an institution's priorities. Cricket versus The Humanities - in December 2024, Flinders University announced itself as the new “Principal Partner” of the
Adelaide Strikers Big Bash League team.

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 15d

Few scandals better illustrate the cost of government secrecy than robodebt.

But the newly proposed FOI bill will make it harder for the public to scrutinise the government and easier for secrecy to prevail

www.canberratimes.com.au/story/907156...

Australia's FOI system is broken, but proposed reforms miss the mark

This proposed bill risks doubling down on the very problems it should be fixing.

www.canberratimes.com.au

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