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Books read each month in 2025
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I don’t know man if capitalism has just resulted in a small network of pedophiles destroying all life on earth then perhaps we should consider that it is a complete and utter failure as a system
December 16, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I don’t know man if capitalism has just resulted in a small network of pedophiles destroying all life on earth then perhaps we should consider that it is a complete and utter failure as a system
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Will NSW Labor be the first to introduce armed IDF troops to enforce social cohesion in Australia?
#auspol
#auspol
We should be deeply alarmed that the Premier is talking about permanently arming the “Community Security Group”, a Mossad-linked Zionist organisation that runs paramilitary training camps in Israel. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
December 28, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Will NSW Labor be the first to introduce armed IDF troops to enforce social cohesion in Australia?
#auspol
#auspol
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SUVs and big Utes "are 44 per cent more likely to kill an adult pedestrian or cyclist in a crash compared with a sedan, and 82 per cent more likely to kill a child" www.theage.com.au/national/vic...
Pedestrian fatalities reach 17-year-high. This trend could be why
Fifty-one pedestrians had been killed on the state’s roads this year as of Saturday – the most in any calendar year since 2008.
www.theage.com.au
December 27, 2025 at 9:30 PM
SUVs and big Utes "are 44 per cent more likely to kill an adult pedestrian or cyclist in a crash compared with a sedan, and 82 per cent more likely to kill a child" www.theage.com.au/national/vic...
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I wrote about the Bondi shooting and the narratives that were immediately launched in the aftermath. open.substack.com/pub/sakr/p/g...
Globalise the Intifada
Mass murder, mass media, mass hysteria
open.substack.com
December 26, 2025 at 5:18 AM
I wrote about the Bondi shooting and the narratives that were immediately launched in the aftermath. open.substack.com/pub/sakr/p/g...
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MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.
MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing
There’s a stark difference in success rates between companies that purchase AI tools from vendors and those that build them internally.
fortune.com
August 20, 2025 at 4:52 AM
MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.
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With limited resources, Palestinians in Gaza and in exile are funding community reconstruction efforts amid the absence of international aid. “We have to keep trying to help Gaza rise again,” an organizer with the Sameer Project tells Mondoweiss.
mondoweiss.net/2025/12/gaza...
#Palestine #Israel
mondoweiss.net/2025/12/gaza...
#Palestine #Israel
Gazans are taking matters into their own hands by launching community reconstruction efforts
With limited resources, Palestinians in Gaza and in exile are funding community reconstruction efforts amid the absence of international aid. “We have to keep trying to help Gaza rise again,” an organizer...
mondoweiss.net
December 24, 2025 at 10:00 PM
With limited resources, Palestinians in Gaza and in exile are funding community reconstruction efforts amid the absence of international aid. “We have to keep trying to help Gaza rise again,” an organizer with the Sameer Project tells Mondoweiss.
mondoweiss.net/2025/12/gaza...
#Palestine #Israel
mondoweiss.net/2025/12/gaza...
#Palestine #Israel
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New 'street gang' laws set to allow control orders on children for association alone.
These new harsh laws targeting children are also condemned.
Check out these and more at: https:// radfaction.com.au/resources/
#abolition #acab #humanrights
These new harsh laws targeting children are also condemned.
Check out these and more at: https:// radfaction.com.au/resources/
#abolition #acab #humanrights
December 24, 2025 at 5:14 AM
New 'street gang' laws set to allow control orders on children for association alone.
These new harsh laws targeting children are also condemned.
Check out these and more at: https:// radfaction.com.au/resources/
#abolition #acab #humanrights
These new harsh laws targeting children are also condemned.
Check out these and more at: https:// radfaction.com.au/resources/
#abolition #acab #humanrights
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Israel admitted it bombed a wedding in Gaza and killed 7 but nobody in the UK or Australia or anywhere else will clamor to ban the phrase "Israel has a right to defend itself"— again I have to wonder why.
December 21, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Israel admitted it bombed a wedding in Gaza and killed 7 but nobody in the UK or Australia or anywhere else will clamor to ban the phrase "Israel has a right to defend itself"— again I have to wonder why.
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Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group.
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
December 23, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group.
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look at how little effort it takes for someone on the conservative grievance circuit to destroy a life
millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on
but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get
millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on
but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get
Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.
December 23, 2025 at 5:53 PM
look at how little effort it takes for someone on the conservative grievance circuit to destroy a life
millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on
but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get
millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on
but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get
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I find it sooooooooooo weird people are upset "Albo" was booed, and not that his government is eroding our democratic rights to appease the extremist genocidaires that booed him.
Big picture. Focus on our democracy and rights, not the pride/image of an individual politician.
Big picture. Focus on our democracy and rights, not the pride/image of an individual politician.
December 22, 2025 at 9:41 PM
I find it sooooooooooo weird people are upset "Albo" was booed, and not that his government is eroding our democratic rights to appease the extremist genocidaires that booed him.
Big picture. Focus on our democracy and rights, not the pride/image of an individual politician.
Big picture. Focus on our democracy and rights, not the pride/image of an individual politician.
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I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.
December 23, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.
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People give to charities out of altruism. Learning that a charity has quietly scored, ranked or behaviourally targeted donors can undermine the meaning of giving itself.
I’m a data scientist. Even I was surprised about how charities are using AI to ‘predict’ how Australians will act
www.crikey.com.au
December 22, 2025 at 3:32 AM
People give to charities out of altruism. Learning that a charity has quietly scored, ranked or behaviourally targeted donors can undermine the meaning of giving itself.
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A gentle reminder that the genocide and illegal activity by Israel in Palestine continues barely untroubled by a "ceasefire"
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Israel approves 19 new settlements in occupied West Bank
Far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said the move was about blocking the establishment of a Palestinian state.
www.bbc.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:41 AM
A gentle reminder that the genocide and illegal activity by Israel in Palestine continues barely untroubled by a "ceasefire"
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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So as everyone kind of knew, when Chris Minns talked about cracking down on protests and gatherings, he really meant specifically pro-Palestine and anti-mass-murder protests: racist, white nationalist protests (probably attended by neo-nazi anti-semites) are completely fucking fine
December 21, 2025 at 8:12 AM
So as everyone kind of knew, when Chris Minns talked about cracking down on protests and gatherings, he really meant specifically pro-Palestine and anti-mass-murder protests: racist, white nationalist protests (probably attended by neo-nazi anti-semites) are completely fucking fine
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"The irreparable damages caused by solitary confinement are unjustifiable, and have led the Union Nations to consider solitary torture ... But this overwhelming research is often ignored in jails and prisons, where solitary confinement is frequently used as a 'solution' to nearly every problem."
December 14, 2025 at 5:47 AM
"The irreparable damages caused by solitary confinement are unjustifiable, and have led the Union Nations to consider solitary torture ... But this overwhelming research is often ignored in jails and prisons, where solitary confinement is frequently used as a 'solution' to nearly every problem."
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It is bizarre how much the news cycle about Bondi is focusing on the Gaza protests, despite no clear link between them and the attack, and how little it’s talking about ISIS, the terrorist group whose flag the terrorists had in their car.
December 18, 2025 at 2:07 AM
It is bizarre how much the news cycle about Bondi is focusing on the Gaza protests, despite no clear link between them and the attack, and how little it’s talking about ISIS, the terrorist group whose flag the terrorists had in their car.
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I originally wrote this piece for Bitch Media in 2017. Given *looks around* everything happening with GLP-1s and the re-rise of diet culture, I updated the story to reflect on our current moment.
There is also no paywall on our Bitch reprints, so get into it ⬇️
There is also no paywall on our Bitch reprints, so get into it ⬇️
Today with our last post of the year: @freeblackgirl.bsky.social on the fragility of body positivity, and what happens when a radical movement gets co-opted.
The Fragility of Body Positivity
How a radical movement lost its way.
www.theflytrapmedia.com
December 20, 2025 at 5:26 AM
I originally wrote this piece for Bitch Media in 2017. Given *looks around* everything happening with GLP-1s and the re-rise of diet culture, I updated the story to reflect on our current moment.
There is also no paywall on our Bitch reprints, so get into it ⬇️
There is also no paywall on our Bitch reprints, so get into it ⬇️
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Shocking to blame Gaza protesters (which include his own MPs), but even more disturbing is the rationale for protest repression.
It isn’t about risk at the event. It’s that expressing contentious political views might vaguely undermine community harmony.
The problem is political expression itself.
It isn’t about risk at the event. It’s that expressing contentious political views might vaguely undermine community harmony.
The problem is political expression itself.
December 20, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Shocking to blame Gaza protesters (which include his own MPs), but even more disturbing is the rationale for protest repression.
It isn’t about risk at the event. It’s that expressing contentious political views might vaguely undermine community harmony.
The problem is political expression itself.
It isn’t about risk at the event. It’s that expressing contentious political views might vaguely undermine community harmony.
The problem is political expression itself.
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Officials in Tennessee aren't just banning books, they're now demanding information on who checked out contested (largely LGBTQ+) books, including names, addresses, and "household composition."
A librarian who was given the directive has come forward asking for whistleblower protections.
A librarian who was given the directive has come forward asking for whistleblower protections.
Tennessee whistleblower says library board chair sought private data as part of state's book purge
A First Amendment expert told The Advocate that there are "huge" legal implications stemming from the situation.
www.advocate.com
December 17, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Officials in Tennessee aren't just banning books, they're now demanding information on who checked out contested (largely LGBTQ+) books, including names, addresses, and "household composition."
A librarian who was given the directive has come forward asking for whistleblower protections.
A librarian who was given the directive has come forward asking for whistleblower protections.
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The key thing to understand is that he has been trying to do this all along. It is not new. He in fact did this with the Dural caravan fake bomb nonsense, hyping it up as terrorism in order to pass new rushed laws when he and authorities knew from the outset that it was staged. He is not fit to lead
“The premier and his government are using a moment of anger and grief to rush through new laws that attack our democratic rights. This is a despicable display of political opportunism that undermines our democracy”
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
The NSW premier’s outrageous rhetoric on peaceful protests sows division in our community. It’s unbecoming of his office | Timothy Roberts
The antisemitic attack in Bondi was an act of hate-fuelled violence. Rushing through regressive laws in such distressing times is poor leadership – and dangerous
www.theguardian.com
December 20, 2025 at 5:57 AM
The key thing to understand is that he has been trying to do this all along. It is not new. He in fact did this with the Dural caravan fake bomb nonsense, hyping it up as terrorism in order to pass new rushed laws when he and authorities knew from the outset that it was staged. He is not fit to lead
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Ouch. Difficult to say "Our previous CEO was protecting a sexual predator" more explicitly than this.
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
December 20, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Ouch. Difficult to say "Our previous CEO was protecting a sexual predator" more explicitly than this.
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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Yeah, making it illegal to protest a genocide is going to help 🙄
NSW to effectively ban protests for up to three months as premier links Gaza rallies to Bondi terror attack
Chris Minns says state ‘can’t risk another mass demonstration on that scale in NSW [because] the implications can be seen, in my view, on Sunday’
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Yeah, making it illegal to protest a genocide is going to help 🙄