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Author: UNIVERSAL PREDATOR paperback & ebook available worldwide https://books2read.com/universal-predator Universal Medicine cult buster {Benhayon v Rockett (No 8) [2019] NSWSC 169}

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Esther Rockett 🚀 @estherrockett.bsky.social · Aug 24

Cookers were an inevitable offshoot of the New Age, but before cookers were a heap of twisted pseudo-spiritual cults like Universal Medicine. This is me reading my memoir 'Universal Predator' about the time its leader, Serge Benhayon, took me to court for defamation #cults youtu.be/mcqETL6UlA0...

Universal Predator - Esther Rockett reads the first 2 chapters of her memoir

YouTube video by Esther Rockett

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Esther Rockett 🚀 @estherrockett.bsky.social · 2h

Off topic, it’s great to see you here

Esther Rockett 🚀 @estherrockett.bsky.social · 3h

Wikipedia v 4Chan
Unreal

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🔥🎾🔥 www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

De Minaur reaches 2025 milestone, into Shanghai Masters last eight

Alex de Minaur wins 50 matches in a season for the first time in his career as he reaches the quarterfinals at the Shanghai Masters.

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Esther Rockett 🚀 @estherrockett.bsky.social · 8h

Yesterday it was the class action against unlawful conduct. Two public institutions breaking the law! 🤯 bsky.app/profile/esth...

Esther Rockett 🚀 @estherrockett.bsky.social · 1d

Universities in Australia ‘are required to have their courses accredited where it is necessary for graduates to be able to work.’
God knows how this happened. Students racked up $45k in HECS debt and ended up with no qualification www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Careers in limbo after graduates discover university courses were never accredited

Students have been left with HECS debts and careers that are "non-existent" after completing degrees that were not accredited. Class actions have been launched against two Australian universities.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

People need to be able to say rude things about a guy who regularly talked about Black people like we aren't human, and the fact that Bsky seems more protective of a dead white man's memory than of living Black people's connection to community is a profoud, grotesque statement

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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 10h

Each day the upper management of different unis seemingly find new ways to disappoint those of us working at universities. I love what I do, it breaks my heart what's been allowed to happen to unis in recent decades. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10... Robodebt for university academic integrity? WT!

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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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Furious Dove @random7890123456.bsky.social · 18h

Gift article.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Civil Rights Lawyer Bryan Stevenson on How America’s Story Should Be Told

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Michael J @michaeljongen.bsky.social · 1d

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

A long read

The Pushkin job: unmasking the thieves behind an international rare books heist

The long read: Between 2022 and 2023, as many as 170 rare and valuable editions of Russian classics were stolen from libraries across Europe. Were the thieves merely low-level opportunists, or were bi...

www.theguardian.com

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 1d

The Kneecap movie is terrific! A 24 Hour Party People for Belfast. All three guys in the group are fantastic as themselves, to the point where I was like "okay, that guy has to be an actual actor"

Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 1d

our day will come

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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 2d

Started listening to excellent “The Last Invention” and the debate among AI experts over threat of super-intelligence. Am struck by the recurring presumption that AI will seek to dominate, when that tendency in some humans was likely forged by evolutionary pressures not central to AI development.

EP 1: Ready Or Not

Podcast Episode · The Last Invention · S1 E1 · 35m

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Esther Rockett 🚀 @estherrockett.bsky.social · 20h

BBC: “Developing countries, especially China, led the clean energy charge but richer nations including the US and EU relied more than before on planet-warming fossil fuels for electricity generation.
China remains way ahead…adding more solar and wind capacity than the rest of the world combined.”

Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity — BBC News

Developing countries lead the historic clean energy charge but the US and EU rely more on fossil fuels than before, a think tank study shows.

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Esther Rockett 🚀 @estherrockett.bsky.social · 1d

Unfortunate this technology was misnamed ‘intelligence’. People insist on anthropomorphising it based on wild, quasi-religious speculation on what aggregation software is capable of. It’s producing junk right now and that’s likely to get worse as human operators understand it less and less

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Doctor WTF @hippopeteamus.bsky.social · 1d

40 years ago?

Gigz @andrewgigacz.bsky.social · 1d

A subscription to The Age now comes with free castigation.

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Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 1d

Reminder: Never travel out of the country with your main cell phone (or without backing it up and then doing a factory reset) or laptop.

CBP agents are effectively Redcoats and they WILL delight in reminding you that they owe you no rights.

Eric Brakey
@Eric8rekey
I was detained by Border Patrol and Customs for 90 minutes coming
back from a @RoyalCa ribbean cruise today in Florida.
After they rifled through all my belongings, read my personal joumal, and
confiscated rny phone and computer, I had to explain to them that the
aFreeStateNH is a non-violent, peaceful libertarian movernent that
builds community, culture and political change.
We were invited to New Hampshire in the early 2000s bythe Govemor
of the state. We reject violence as a path to creating change.
In detail, I had to explain the nature of the Defend the Guard rnovernent
and assure them that I was not part of a violent extremist group seeking
to raise a militia for insurrection against the government.
At one point during my detention, I asked for clarification on what rights I
had here as a US. citizen and was told that they did not næd a warrant
for anything in my possession, including all my elæ•tronic devices.
They eventually let me gu
Truth be told, I am shaken up and in shock right now.
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Esther Rockett 🚀 @estherrockett.bsky.social · 1d

Hope so but with our luck, they’ll go all in and over invest right before the bust 🙄

Esther Rockett 🚀 @estherrockett.bsky.social · 1d

Not just underperforming but swallowing revenue and tanking major companies like Adobe and Microsoft. Trust the Australian government to be about six years behind in its grasp of technology bsky.app/profile/futu...

Futurism @futurism.com · 8d

"The results haven’t lived up to the hype."

AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds

The AI industry's claims about AI coding assistants boosting productivity significantly appear to be massively overblown, per a new report.

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Esther Rockett 🚀 @estherrockett.bsky.social · 1d

Eg. The companies seeing benefits in AI adoption are those servicing the AI data centre boom bsky.app/profile/keta...

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 15d

"The FT sought to categorise the expected positive benefits of the technology. Most of the anticipated benefits, such as increased productivity, were vaguely stated and harder to categorise than the risks"

www.ft.com/content/e93e...

(note: Entergy is the fossil fuel company supplying Meta)

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While non-tech companies are upbeat about AI, their filings suggest less clear upsides. During an earnings call in February, Coca-Cola was excited about the technology — even though the key use was in the production of a TV commercial.

The FT sought to categorise the expected positive benefits of the technology. Most of the anticipated benefits, such as increased productivity, were vaguely stated and harder to categorise than the risks.

Companies anticipated being able to optimise workflows through automation, and hope to achieve market differentiation through their use of AI. Some hoped to be able to use the technology to improve the personalisation of their products.

Filings do reveal that the companies able to give clear AI upsides include those that serve the rising AI-driven data centre boom. Energy companies First Solar and Entergy cited AI as a demand driver.

Freeport-McMoran, which has a stockpile of copper, stated that “data centres and artificial intelligence developments” would support the metal’s price. The company also said the technology can help with material characterisation and mineral extraction.

Equipment manufacturer Caterpillar reported that its energy business was benefiting from supporting “data centre growth related to cloud computing and generative artificial intelligence”.

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Esther Rockett 🚀 @estherrockett.bsky.social · 1d

Immaculately timed to coincide with all the press around the AI bubble and how companies are finding AI is grossly underperforming and is largely despised by the staff expected to use

CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 1d

Scoop: OpenAI has signed its first ever Australia government contract, quietly inking a deal with Treasury amid the ChatGPT-maker's charm offensive on policymakers.

This modest contract is an ideal foothold into future, more lucrative deals, according to one firm's analysis.
www.crikey.com.au/20...

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 2d

Here is how I appealed the suspension. It took them about an hour to respond. All in all I was down for about 4 hours.

Hello, I have been suspended for a post accusing me of threatening violence. If you look at the thread the post is part of, 1 am describing the evangelical belief system about the rapture, which includes the mass murder of Jews.
I, a Jew, was not making threats against Jews.
I, a Jew, was educating about the dangers that the evangelical community poses to Jews in order to *protect us*
This is obviously and clearly not a threat or an excuse for suspension.
Please reinstate my account.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 1d

A someone who has written extensively about the eugenic roots that permeates those who claim to be building so-called artificial general intelligence, I'm here to tell you to please NOT compare criticism against corporations claiming to build a machine god, with eugenics. The audacity.

if you're writing a sentence that sounds like eugenics but you go "oh that's fine to say because it's not a real person" (whatever that means) you may want to consider what made you okay with saying that.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 1d

Bsky C-Suite: Hire communications professionals because you DO run a social platform and your users WILL demand to hear from you, and you DO need help crafting that.

Obviously.

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 1d

According to Keir Starmer’s Labour party, these two elderly men and women in wheelchairs are terrorists because they hold signs that read “I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action”

This is not satire. At least 1,500 people have been arrested in the past few weeks.

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Esther Rockett 🚀 @estherrockett.bsky.social · 1d

Be interesting to survey one of the Australian anti-immigration rallies to find out the ratio of marchers with convictions or under AVOs

elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 1d

A large number of far right actors who have been arrested, including leaders of these rallies, have convictions of domestic and/or sexual abuse, including of children. This is something that ought to be front and center whenever these people are talked about.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 1d

google wants to introduce errors into my spreadsheets and attribute them to me

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