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Dr Ingrid M @ingridm.bsky.social · Jul 30

if everyone before the courts was shown the same leniency as killer cops, we could shut down all the prisons.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

Former cop who tasered 95yo woman avoids jail after appeal

An appeal against the non-custodial sentence handed to a former NSW police officer who tasered a 95-year-old woman in a nursing home has been dismissed.

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Dr Ingrid M @ingridm.bsky.social · 2h

yup. And too many execs panicked and demanded we “lean into” the most anti-education invention in the history of humanity.

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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 3h

Next month, the world's lesser bureaucrats will again make their annual pilgrimage to fancy hotels in an exotic place, to share platitudes and make vapid promises ... this time in Belém, Brazil, on the Baia de Marajó, actually an abandoned mouth of the Amazon.

www.google.com/maps/place/B...

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Dr Ingrid M @ingridm.bsky.social · 3h

I now allocate a tutorial to critical ai literacy, in the weeks before a major essay is due. Most students know the slop is slop, and quickly learn it is planet-boiling slop. If unis can not educate students about ai what the fuck is the point is my view.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

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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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 3h

Thirty years of concentrated international effort and cooperation has now had this much effect on "the great moral, economic and social challenge of our time" (Rudd, 2007):

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Sarah Kay (she/her) @k-interarma.bsky.social · 16h

The Guardian has published the names of the 18,457 children killed in Gaza. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 18h

Not one government has told Israel to stop kidnapping their citizens in international waters and let them bring baby formula to starving babies. What a shameful time to be alive

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 18h

Israel intercepts another Gaza aid flotilla amid criticism over treatment of activists

Israeli foreign ministry confirms interception and says those on board will be deported A new Gaza-bound aid flotilla has been intercepted by the Israeli army, days after the detention of activists on board vessels bound for the war-torn territory caused international outrage and widespread protests. The Israeli military was jamming signals with at least two boats being boarded, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition said on Instagram. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Ingrid M @ingridm.bsky.social · 15h

“potential” lol the purpose is data extraction to be used for corrupting collective human knowledge, and memory.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. Never before has so much money been spent so rapidly on a technology that, for all its potential, remains largely unproven ..”

@bloomberg.com $NVDA
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Dr Ingrid M @ingridm.bsky.social · 17h

haha yup my oldest was with the grand folk and my younger two born 99 and 01.

Dr Ingrid M @ingridm.bsky.social · 17h

welp. Looks like another profit-seeking evidence-free insurance industry push to me.

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Andrew Elder @awelder.bsky.social · 17h

Rupert Murdoch has met every Australian Prime Minister since Billy Hughes

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Dr Ingrid M @ingridm.bsky.social · 17h

I have never seen or experienced anything like it. The only time my feet left the ground and was literally carried by the crowd movement. A gentle sway, for the record.

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Dr Ingrid M @ingridm.bsky.social · 17h

older as in 30 years older tho??

Dr Ingrid M @ingridm.bsky.social · 17h

it was massive. Yothu Yindi were the headliners - it would have been more over the whole day I reckon.

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 18h

*glances over at my son who is currently using social media to chat with biologists on Bluesky and iNaturalist* tortured, eh?

I think News Corp Australia is terrified of what social media has done to its users profit margin and all it can do is pathetically invoke moral panic. The kids don’t care

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 18h

News Corp Australia chair says social media platforms are ‘true monsters’ and ‘torment our children’

Michael Miller also says media must unite against second ‘big steal’ by tech companies seeking changes to copyright law to access content for free * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Social media is to blame for social cohesion issues across the globe, News Corp Australia’s executive chair, Michael Miller, has said, as he calls for media to present a united front against the platforms and AI companies seeking content for free. Miller told the Melbourne Press Club on Wednesday social media was rife with “misinformation, disinformation [and] the rabbit holes [that] they drag you down. Continue reading...

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Dr Ingrid M @ingridm.bsky.social · 18h

last gig I went to there was Dan Sultan and Jem Casser Daley and could easily vouch a crowd of 6,000 people. Also at HomeGround - Dancestry a few years back when Yothu Yindi played I’d estimate closer to 20,000 people.

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Stilgherrian @stilgherrian.com · 20h

I think @drspacejunk.bsky.social will enjoy this one.

Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 1d

How many trillions of dollars have been invested into this technology so far?

Google search for "austria hungary in space"

Google excitedly tells you about the 1889 orbital flight, and that by 1908 there was a Mars research output with 30 people.

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Dr Ingrid M @ingridm.bsky.social · 18h

hearing the Opera House forecourt has a limit of 6,000 people and can say as someone who was at Farewell to the World in ‘96 and Gravity Stairs in 2024 lmao what the fuck are they talking about🤡

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Alex Shevrin Venet @asv.bsky.social · 1d

wowwww this is incredibly beautiful. tagging some friends who will love this: @ladyofsardines.bsky.social @heymrsbond.com @marcusluther.bsky.social

therumpus.net/2025/10/02/h...

Human Error Is the Point: On Teaching College During the Rise of AI - The Rumpus

My syllabus is a mess of half-remembered intentions. I re-use icebreakers that I know don’t work. I forget to grade the first assignment until Week Four. I write emails that begin with “So sorry for t...

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Victor Sojo @victorsojo.bsky.social · 1d

HR representatives say the AI is a ‘natural fit’ for the Partner role. “It ticks all the boxes,” a People & Culture spokesperson said. “It lacks personality, it bills relentlessly, and it even refers to staff as ‘resources’ without hesitation. It’s basically born for leadership.”

The Shovel @theshovel.bsky.social · 1d

The AI has already started making its presence felt on the executive team, sending out a 500-word email about “leveraging holistic verticals for client-centric uplift” that no one has fully read but everyone agreed “sounded important.”

theshovel.com.au/2025/10/07/a...

AI That Generated Fabricated Deloitte Report Promoted to Partner — The Shovel

Deloitte has promoted the artificial intelligence system responsible for fabricating a government report, citing “unparalleled efficiency, strategic vision, and the ability to work weekends without co...

theshovel.com.au

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Dr Ingrid M @ingridm.bsky.social · 1d

lmaoo we need to mock the slop relentlessly 😂

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Dr Ingrid M @ingridm.bsky.social · 1d

happy birthday to your nan who will probably outlive us all❤️💪🏼

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wombatpunch.bsky.social @wombatpunch.bsky.social · 1d

To the surprise of no-one, the National Press Club wasn't expecting anyone to actually investigate.

Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 1d

~ ermahgerd ~

Seems v much like the NPC was not truthful about its cancellation of Hedges' scheduled appearance on OCT 20.

'Statement on Cancellation of Chris Hedges’ confirmed appearance at the National Press Club of Australia'

www.afopa.com.au/blog/2025/10...

Statement on Cancellation of Chris Hedges’ confirmed appearance at the National Press Club of Australia — Australian Friends of Palestine Association

AFOPA is responding to the Statement published on 4 October 2025 by the National Press Club of Australia ( NPC) in relation to their cancellation of Chris Hedges’ confirmed appearance at the National ...

www.afopa.com.au

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Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · 2d

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 2d

If you only knew how much of tech's energy is devoted to building better tools for abusers

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2d

“…that Sora is being used for stalking and harassment will likely not be an edge case, because deepfaking yourself and others into videos is one of its core selling points.”

Far from an edge case, it’s the primary use case.

Stalker Already Using OpenAI's Sora 2 to Harass Victim

A journalist claims that her stalker used Sora 2, the latest video app from OpenAI, to churn out videos of her.

futurism.com

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Dr Ingrid M @ingridm.bsky.social · 1d

perhaps we should give everyone’s data directly to techbros instead of paying the shonky middlemen to do it.

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