Rafiq
@rafiqcopeland.bsky.social
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Our new ASPI report 'The Party’s AI' is out now. It shows how China’s LLMs, vision models and “AI+” governance architecture are hard-coding censorship and control into the future of AI.
www.aspi.org.au/repo...
www.aspi.org.au/repo...
December 2, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Our new ASPI report 'The Party’s AI' is out now. It shows how China’s LLMs, vision models and “AI+” governance architecture are hard-coding censorship and control into the future of AI.
www.aspi.org.au/repo...
www.aspi.org.au/repo...
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And congrats to Michael Koziol for writing this advert for Woodside
Excellent article for reminding everyone why new gas fields need to be banned and gas companies need to be taxed out of existence.
www.smh.com.au/world/north-...
www.smh.com.au/world/north-...
Trump wants to ‘drill, baby, drill’. This Australian giant is happy to help
Oil and gas giant Woodside is expanding in the US under its American chief executive. Over brunch in New York, Meg O’Neill explains why she thinks the climate conversation has fundamentally changed.
www.smh.com.au
December 2, 2025 at 3:32 AM
And congrats to Michael Koziol for writing this advert for Woodside
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This seems like a version of hell
Tomorrow Grimes will DJ a livestream of immortality influencer Bryan Johnson tripping on shrooms to determine its effect on longevity. Mr. Beast and the CEO of Salesforce will be there too.
Grimes DJing Immortality Influencer's Shroom Trip With Special Guest Mr. Beast
Grimes is a fan of Bryan Johnson, the multimillionaire and immortality influencer who spends his time trying to fight death. He is perhaps best known for undergoing plasma transfusions with donations ...
stereogum.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:17 AM
This seems like a version of hell
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‼️ Brilliant, brilliant work by my @qutdmrc.bsky.social colleagues @kimosman.bsky.social, Lynrose Genon, and @dezuanni.bsky.social. Asking _actual_ young people about the #SocialMediaBan, rather than their ignorant parents or ill-advised politicians ? Who knew ! 🔥
‘Make the platforms safer’: what young people really think about the social media ban
The responses reveal a much more nuanced picture of the relationship between young Australians and social media than the public debate suggests.
theconversation.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:40 AM
‼️ Brilliant, brilliant work by my @qutdmrc.bsky.social colleagues @kimosman.bsky.social, Lynrose Genon, and @dezuanni.bsky.social. Asking _actual_ young people about the #SocialMediaBan, rather than their ignorant parents or ill-advised politicians ? Who knew ! 🔥
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The benefits of #GenAI for media should not be ignored. Framing it as a fix for society’s information challenges? Even worse.
Our Senior Technical Advisor on why these technologies disrupt global & local information ecosystems ⬇️
🔗 bit.ly/4inZd90
#ArtificialIntelligence #Journalism #TechForGood
Our Senior Technical Advisor on why these technologies disrupt global & local information ecosystems ⬇️
🔗 bit.ly/4inZd90
#ArtificialIntelligence #Journalism #TechForGood
AI and Synthetic Media are Harming Our Information Ecosystems More Than They Are Benefitting Them - Information Saves Lives | Internews
By Rafiq Copeland, Senior Technical Advisor at Internews At Internews, we think a lot about information ecosystems. Far beyond just traditional news media, these relational webs of actors and infrastr...
internews.org
November 26, 2025 at 11:00 AM
The benefits of #GenAI for media should not be ignored. Framing it as a fix for society’s information challenges? Even worse.
Our Senior Technical Advisor on why these technologies disrupt global & local information ecosystems ⬇️
🔗 bit.ly/4inZd90
#ArtificialIntelligence #Journalism #TechForGood
Our Senior Technical Advisor on why these technologies disrupt global & local information ecosystems ⬇️
🔗 bit.ly/4inZd90
#ArtificialIntelligence #Journalism #TechForGood
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good summary of where AI is at, lol
November 30, 2025 at 11:13 PM
good summary of where AI is at, lol
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This is your periodic reminder that Google continues to provide single-sign on services to several of the most popular AI nudifiers.
Clothoff has been used to create non consensual deepfake nudes in schools around the world.
Clothoff has been used to create non consensual deepfake nudes in schools around the world.
November 29, 2025 at 8:34 PM
This is your periodic reminder that Google continues to provide single-sign on services to several of the most popular AI nudifiers.
Clothoff has been used to create non consensual deepfake nudes in schools around the world.
Clothoff has been used to create non consensual deepfake nudes in schools around the world.
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What a great headline
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
What a great headline
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Which means within the last month Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam and the Philippines have all had devastating flooding of varying degrees. Climate change an obvious, enormous factor here but so is a total lack of implementation of environmental regulations. Which STINKS!
November 29, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Which means within the last month Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam and the Philippines have all had devastating flooding of varying degrees. Climate change an obvious, enormous factor here but so is a total lack of implementation of environmental regulations. Which STINKS!
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Premium: This is The Hater's Guide To NVIDIA: A 14k word guide to how NVIDIA makes its money, how millions of Blackwell GPUs have been sold with nowhere for them to be installed, and how NVIDIA's future relies on companies raising hundreds of billions in debt.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...
www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...
The Hater's Guide To NVIDIA
This piece has a generous 3000+ word introduction, because I want as many people to understand NVIDIA as possible. The (thousands of) words after the premium break get into arduous detail, but I’ve wr...
www.wheresyoured.at
November 24, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Premium: This is The Hater's Guide To NVIDIA: A 14k word guide to how NVIDIA makes its money, how millions of Blackwell GPUs have been sold with nowhere for them to be installed, and how NVIDIA's future relies on companies raising hundreds of billions in debt.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...
www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...
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Incredible headline.
Elon Musk Could 'Drink Piss Better Than Any Human in History,' Grok Says
Grok has been reprogrammed to say Musk is better than everyone at everything, including blowjobs, piss drinking, playing quarterback, conquering Europe, etc.
www.404media.co
November 20, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Incredible headline.
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In 2022, archaeologists at @uni-kiel.de's @neolithicbodies.bsky.social found 34 decapitated skeletons piled in a space the size of a parking spot. In the 3 years since, they’ve found 50 more. The mass grave is evidence for the collapse of the 1st pan-European culture 7,000 years ago. @science.org 🏺💀
Headless bodies hint at why Europe’s first farmers vanished
Wave of mass brutality accompanied the collapse of the first pan-European culture
www.science.org
November 20, 2025 at 7:17 PM
In 2022, archaeologists at @uni-kiel.de's @neolithicbodies.bsky.social found 34 decapitated skeletons piled in a space the size of a parking spot. In the 3 years since, they’ve found 50 more. The mass grave is evidence for the collapse of the 1st pan-European culture 7,000 years ago. @science.org 🏺💀
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It was a three-man team that took the Grok hardpoint that day, and two of us were just there to guard the poet.Whistler was a sonnet slinger fresh from the Guatemalan meter wars, still waking up with the taste of a bloody metonym on his tongue.
November 20, 2025 at 8:29 PM
It was a three-man team that took the Grok hardpoint that day, and two of us were just there to guard the poet.Whistler was a sonnet slinger fresh from the Guatemalan meter wars, still waking up with the taste of a bloody metonym on his tongue.
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The Australian Government for the past five years has been pushing weapons sales into the UAE at an astonishing scale. This is the result. Australia tying itself to more appalling war crimes, now in Sudan.
November 15, 2025 at 9:50 PM
The Australian Government for the past five years has been pushing weapons sales into the UAE at an astonishing scale. This is the result. Australia tying itself to more appalling war crimes, now in Sudan.
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I spent 8 months waiting for an FOI from the NDIA on how they're using AI.
This is what I found.
Machine learning is used in developing draft plans for participants.
Robodebt concerns loom large over the Copilot trial, but staff reported favourably on it.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
This is what I found.
Machine learning is used in developing draft plans for participants.
Robodebt concerns loom large over the Copilot trial, but staff reported favourably on it.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Government using machine learning to help create draft plans for NDIS participants, documents reveal
Exclusive: NDIA defines machine learning as a subset of AI that uses algorithms to learn from data and make decisions or predictions
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:12 PM
I spent 8 months waiting for an FOI from the NDIA on how they're using AI.
This is what I found.
Machine learning is used in developing draft plans for participants.
Robodebt concerns loom large over the Copilot trial, but staff reported favourably on it.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
This is what I found.
Machine learning is used in developing draft plans for participants.
Robodebt concerns loom large over the Copilot trial, but staff reported favourably on it.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Some astonishing details in here. It’s like reading a recipe for pure corruption.
"The money has and must be going somewhere". Has Australia been played by Nauru for a cool $2B?
Human rights lawyer @alisonbattisson.bsky.social finds blacked out FOIs and no trust deed for asylum seekers deal #auspol
michaelwest.com.au/no-trust-dee...
Human rights lawyer @alisonbattisson.bsky.social finds blacked out FOIs and no trust deed for asylum seekers deal #auspol
michaelwest.com.au/no-trust-dee...
No trust deed. Billions of tax dollars to be spent without oversight by Nauru - Michael West
The Labor Government's deal with Nauru to resettle unwanted refugees will cost Australian taxpayers billions, spent on who knows what.
michaelwest.com.au
November 11, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Some astonishing details in here. It’s like reading a recipe for pure corruption.
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One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
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Corruption watchdog being watched by its watchdog again.
Would be good if they investigated corruption as much as they investigate their own conduct imo
Would be good if they investigated corruption as much as they investigate their own conduct imo
Anti-corruption commission watchdog inquiring into NACC chief Brereton
The inspector of the National Anti-Corruption Commission is inquiring into the agency's head, Paul Brereton, in relation to several complaints including from a former employee.
www.abc.net.au
November 8, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Corruption watchdog being watched by its watchdog again.
Would be good if they investigated corruption as much as they investigate their own conduct imo
Would be good if they investigated corruption as much as they investigate their own conduct imo
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“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”
Yale lab reports mass killings in Sudan, calls for student activism
The Humanitarian Research Lab was told this week that over 10,000 people in Sudan were killed within three days.
yaledailynews.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:02 PM
“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”
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Fighters from the Rapid Support Forces have filmed themselves committing mass killings in Darfur’s El Fasher – even as their leaders sat in US-sponsored peace talks.
The city’s fall marks a new horror in Sudan’s war, reports journalist and human rights defender Ahmed Gouja. ⬇️
The city’s fall marks a new horror in Sudan’s war, reports journalist and human rights defender Ahmed Gouja. ⬇️
An atrocity foretold: How the RSF siege of El Fasher turned into genocidal slaughter
Communication networks are down but a deluge of shocking videos point to mass killings on a devastating scale.
buff.ly
October 31, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Fighters from the Rapid Support Forces have filmed themselves committing mass killings in Darfur’s El Fasher – even as their leaders sat in US-sponsored peace talks.
The city’s fall marks a new horror in Sudan’s war, reports journalist and human rights defender Ahmed Gouja. ⬇️
The city’s fall marks a new horror in Sudan’s war, reports journalist and human rights defender Ahmed Gouja. ⬇️
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We need to talk about Sudan.
After more than 18 months of an inhumane siege and starvation in El Fasher, the RSF militia are committing mass killings of civilians on an unimaginable scale.
There is so much blood it can be seen from space.
After more than 18 months of an inhumane siege and starvation in El Fasher, the RSF militia are committing mass killings of civilians on an unimaginable scale.
There is so much blood it can be seen from space.
October 31, 2025 at 1:07 AM
We need to talk about Sudan.
After more than 18 months of an inhumane siege and starvation in El Fasher, the RSF militia are committing mass killings of civilians on an unimaginable scale.
There is so much blood it can be seen from space.
After more than 18 months of an inhumane siege and starvation in El Fasher, the RSF militia are committing mass killings of civilians on an unimaginable scale.
There is so much blood it can be seen from space.
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'"No child is safe," said UNICEF chief Catherine Russell. "While the full scale of the impact remains unclear... estimated 130,000 children in El Fasher are at a high risk of grave rights violations, with reports of abduction, killing & maiming, and sexual violence."'
allafrica.com/stories/2025...
allafrica.com/stories/2025...
Sudan: Reported Massacre At Hospital in Sudan's El Fasher Leaves 460 Dead
Horrific stories of mass-atrocities committed by the RSF militia continue to emerge, along with the tens of thousands of civilians who have fled the North Darfur city of El Fasher in Sudan.
allafrica.com
October 30, 2025 at 11:15 AM
'"No child is safe," said UNICEF chief Catherine Russell. "While the full scale of the impact remains unclear... estimated 130,000 children in El Fasher are at a high risk of grave rights violations, with reports of abduction, killing & maiming, and sexual violence."'
allafrica.com/stories/2025...
allafrica.com/stories/2025...
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📢 Media outlets in Thailand and Indonesia: EJN is offering €8,000 grants to support media programming initiatives that cover corporate greenwashing, climate action & innovation as an opportunity for growth, challenges enforcing ESG frameworks, and more. Apply by November 10: https://loom.ly/ku88IRM
October 13, 2025 at 11:13 AM
📢 Media outlets in Thailand and Indonesia: EJN is offering €8,000 grants to support media programming initiatives that cover corporate greenwashing, climate action & innovation as an opportunity for growth, challenges enforcing ESG frameworks, and more. Apply by November 10: https://loom.ly/ku88IRM
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these are not "AI clips of European cities changed by migration", these are constructed videos designed to propagate a certain worldview - designed by the people this subhead describes as "seizing on" them
In an AI-generated, dystopian vision of the British capital, a video shows Big Ben smouldering above piles of rubbish and London crowds dressed in traditional Islamic garb.
Far-right leaders are seizing on such AI clips of European cities changed by migration to promote racist views
u.afp.com/Smz4
Far-right leaders are seizing on such AI clips of European cities changed by migration to promote racist views
u.afp.com/Smz4
October 13, 2025 at 7:55 AM
these are not "AI clips of European cities changed by migration", these are constructed videos designed to propagate a certain worldview - designed by the people this subhead describes as "seizing on" them