“If the modern Australian nation wants to rebuild the social cohesion we enjoyed here before the boats, it needs to acknowledge where it all started to unravel – with the failure of the British crown to negotiate Treaty. Or to put it in simpler terms – no justice, no peace.”
Yeah cause it’s the kind of thing you propose building to appease the ego of a narcissistic leader whose army just got its asked kicked by a Black military general (Touissant L’Overture) and Black enslaved people who ran your troops off their island.
It’s a monument to ego and defeat. Perfect.
The Guardian documented quadruple-tap by Israeli forces in southern Lebanon. Three waves of ambulances were struck. Paramedics came for the injured. They were struck. Backup crews arrived. They were struck too
In six weeks of war, Israel has killed at least 91 medical workers.
I’m struggling to find an appropriate way to express my contempt for these kinds of ridiculous appeals to a highly subjective Arcadian vision of society as it was perceived to exist around the time that the person speaking was twelve years old and I really wish people would stop doing this
more than 70% of incarcerated children and young people in NSW are presumptively innocent (locked up “on remand”). More than half of all incarcerated children, on any given night, in every jurisdiction, are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
content warning - precise and devastating account of the huge number of abusers who target children.
I've basically stopped pitching stories on when people are caught using AI in Australian courts now but a site that is tracking them says there are at least 73.
www.theguardian.com/law/2026/apr...
“Why aren’t you protesting the republicans”
One thing I'm seeing proposed more and more as a prophylaxis against another Trump is to ban felons from holding public office.
And this might be an unpopular opinion, but I *hate* that plan.
Here's why.
It will be extremely funny if Vance manages to get himself excommunicated before his book on becoming a Catholic releases.
Doe had broken up with the user in 2024, and he used ChatGPT to process the split, according to emails and communications cited in the lawsuit. Rather than push back on his one-sided account, it repeatedly cast him as rational and wronged, and her as manipulative and unstable. He then took these AI-generated conclusions off the screen and into the real world, using them to stalk and harass her. This manifested in several AI-generated, clinical-looking psychological reports that he distributed to her family, friends, and employer.
![For months, her then-fiancé and partner of several years had been fixating on her and their relationship with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. In mid-2024, she explained, they’d hit a rough patch as a couple; in response, he turned to ChatGPT, which he’d previously used for general business-related tasks, for “therapy.”
Before she knew it, she recalled, he was spending hours each day talking with the bot, funneling everything she said or did into the model and propounding on pseudo-psychiatric theories about her mental health and behavior. He started to bombard the woman with screenshots of his ChatGPT interactions and copy-pasted AI-generated text, in which the chatbot can be seen armchair-diagnosing her with personality disorders and insisting that she was concealing her real feelings and behavior through coded language. The bot often laced its so-called analyses with flowery spiritual jargon, accusing the woman of engaging in manipulative “rituals.”
Trying to communicate with her fiancé was like walking on “ChatGPT eggshells,” the woman recalled. No matter what she tried, ChatGPT would “twist it.”
“He would send [screenshots] to me from ChatGPT, and be like, ‘Why does it say this? Why would it say this about you, if this is not true?'” she recounted. “And it was just awful, awful things.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fhnih5ovyd5w5pch254ordo2/bafkreidy34if6qaoxglmgyuqzd45qrtblapduetgu6y3m4vwuto6etcmem)
For months, her then-fiancé and partner of several years had been fixating on her and their relationship with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. In mid-2024, she explained, they’d hit a rough patch as a couple; in response, he turned to ChatGPT, which he’d previously used for general business-related tasks, for “therapy.” Before she knew it, she recalled, he was spending hours each day talking with the bot, funneling everything she said or did into the model and propounding on pseudo-psychiatric theories about her mental health and behavior. He started to bombard the woman with screenshots of his ChatGPT interactions and copy-pasted AI-generated text, in which the chatbot can be seen armchair-diagnosing her with personality disorders and insisting that she was concealing her real feelings and behavior through coded language. The bot often laced its so-called analyses with flowery spiritual jargon, accusing the woman of engaging in manipulative “rituals.” Trying to communicate with her fiancé was like walking on “ChatGPT eggshells,” the woman recalled. No matter what she tried, ChatGPT would “twist it.” “He would send [screenshots] to me from ChatGPT, and be like, ‘Why does it say this? Why would it say this about you, if this is not true?'” she recounted. “And it was just awful, awful things.”
Shortly after moving out, the former fiancé began to publish multiple videos and images a day on social media accusing the woman of an array of alleged abuses — the same bizarre ideas he’d fixated on so extensively with ChatGPT. In some videos, he stares into the camera, reading from seemingly AI-generated scripts; others feature ChatGPT-generated text overlaid on spiritual or sci-fi-esque graphics. In multiple posts, he describes stabbing the woman. In another, he discusses surveilling her. (The posts, which we’ve reviewed, are intensely disturbing; we’re not quoting directly from them or the man’s ChatGPT transcripts due to concern for the woman’s privacy and safety.) The ex-fiancé also published revenge porn of the woman on social media, shared her full name and other personal information, and doxxed the names and ages of her teenage children from a previous marriage. He created a new TikTok dedicated to harassing content — complete with its own hashtag — and followed the woman’s family, friends, and neighbors, as well as other teens from her kids’ high school. “I’ve lived in this small town my entire life,” said the woman. “I couldn’t leave my house for months… people were messaging me all over my social media, like, ‘Are you safe? Are your kids safe? What is happening right now?'”
A woman sued OpenAI last week alleging that ChatGPT reinforced the obsessive, violent delusions of her stalker (her ex-boyfriend.)
This woman's claims (as detailed by TechCrunch, left) are chillingly similar to those of a completely different woman whose story Futurism reported on in Feb (right):
imagine joining a religion and then five years later criticizing the leader of that religion, who has dedicated his whole life to that religion, and who that religion says is infallible, about said religion
Unambiguous evil.
Chart showing gas exports and PRRT: 2014-15: Exports $16.9bn PRRT $1.9bn 2024-25: Exports $64.6bn PRRT $1.4bn
Just in case you're wondering why the gas industry hates the idea of a 25% gas export tax and wants to keep the PRRT
Something really weird to me is how in Australia, One Nation is surging in popularity, despite that party being the most aggressive supporter of the exact attacks that are driving up domestic fossil fuel prices to crippling levels
my explanatory theory: ON supporters are there just for the racism
this is why there’s been mass revolt and opposition to data centers being built in communities. it is genuinely a health hazard to live this close to something emitting this much sound. these need to stop being built
Tech companies hate news and journalism, just like they hate climate action and renewable energy. Any impression otherwise has been a carefully curated con.
futurism.com/future-socie...
Anyway I hope everyone is saving some of this energy from demanding due process for Eric Swalwell to demand due process for the several hundred thousand people in jails in the United States because they can't afford bail for their nonviolent crime charges despite never being convicted of anything.
It's actually not the job of survivors to protect society from future assaults. In fact, that's supposed the job of the carceral system we love so much.
Yet somehow they rarely, if ever actually do that. And rather than blaming the system, we say it's the fault of the survivors.
🤔
Few things are dumber than saying “innocent until proven guilty” in order to shut down discourse. It’s a technical legal standard, not something civilians have to abide by, short of brushing against libel. We know for a fact that Trump was guilty of all the stuff he was indicted for, e.g.
It's not punishment to say that someone with power who has abused that power doesn't get to get more power. That's a consequence. Some of you are truly ridiculous.
The problem with the NDIS - and there is a problem - is the same one Australia always faces. If you let small businesses exploit the public purse, they'll exploit it mercilessly (remember pink batts or any one of a 100 such programs). The key is in the system design, not the auditing of it.
Would be a truly horrific move
"Cut the NDIS, but not for people I know"
Jimmy taking the Nancy Reagan approach.
#auspol
I was talking to a private wealth manager the other day and she was telling me that she's been feeding her private data into Claude for help writing memos to clients
I go, "You know that's a two-way mirror and they can see all the stuff you're putting in there, right?"
She goes, "Huh, I guess so…"
Exclusive: Nine has told its editorial staff — which includes The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and the Australian Financial Review — that their use of AI must improve and that usage will be monitored.
www.crikey.com.au/2026/04/09/n...
Israel called today's operations in Lebanon ETERNAL DARKNESS and we are still being told that this fascist nation can be reasoned with.
This is just a fact: either Israel is stopped or expect the war to continue and expand. Those are the options.
At least 260 journalists have been killed in Gaza since October 2023, according to the CPJ, and a further 14 in Lebanon as per the UN.
They're not just numbers — they were someone's whole world.
The CPJ has called for international authorities to investigate each killing as a war crime.
