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Poorly designed campaign finance laws weaken our democracy The High Court’s ruling on Victoria’s electoral laws shows how poorly designed campaign finance rules can undermine both fairness and the reforms they were meant to achieve.

Poorly designed campaign finance laws weaken our democracy johnmenadue.com/post/2026/04/poorly-desi... #Auspol

The Free Speech Coalition is serious about starting an adult industry credit union. Part of this is being able to show regulators that enough people would use it, so please fill out this form if you're interested!
(Yes, credit unions can issue credit cards!)
www.freespeechcoalition.com/survey

a 4 panel comic with someone kneeling at a table. the thought bubble says 'I gotta stop sitting like this, I'm gonna fuck up my feet' they sit regularly and then grimace

The Trump EPA Official in Charge of Methane Regulations Helped Write an Oil Industry Argument Against Those Rules Before becoming a top official at the Environmental Protection Agency, Aaron Szabo was a lobbyist for the oil and gas industry. Metadata shows he helped draft a trade group’s 2022 letter to the EPA ob...

Before becoming a top official at the Environmental Protection Agency, Aaron Szabo was a lobbyist for the oil and gas industry.

Metadata shows he helped draft a trade group’s 2022 letter to the EPA objecting to controls on methane emissions.

By @alexcuadros.bsky.social

it’s a great day for transphobes to eat shit

For at least 7 years, a well funded goal of the Zionist area of Jewish and Hebrew studies at Sydney Uni has been to silence staff and students who see Israel as a occupier and BDS supporters -

A clown in 4 parts meme Text: Give us your ID, it's just for adult sites Okay, now give us your ID for "dangerous content" Posting? You better have ID Your online Burger King order is on hold. Please provide valid ID to access your fries

And it doesn't even protect children.

Art will make your big brain big big bigger

Poll: should Britain rejoin the European Union? Current status shows 85% yes.

I don’t typically share dailymail links but this one has a poll you might want to vote on.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Hey @australianlabor.bsky.social when do we follow? #auspol

Idaho Lawmakers Pass Resolution Supporting Wildlife Crossings and Habitat Connectivity In 2025, Idaho was the nation’s second-fastest growing state by population percentage. More people mean more drivers on the road, which, in a state rich in iconic wildlife such as mule deer, elk, and moose, also means a greater risk of collisions between vehicles and wildlife as these animals migrate between their habitats.

A conservative Idaho legislature just voted unanimously to protect wildlife corridors. Why? Because deer-car collisions cost the state $150M/year. When protecting nature saves money, politics stops mattering.🦌 #WildlifeCrossings #EcoEconomy
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Scientists just discovered 5.6 million bees under a New York State cemetery This whopping bee aggregation is one of the largest and oldest ever recorded, according to a new study

Scientists just discovered 5.6 million bees under a New York cemetery www.scientificamerican.com/article/scie...

I started out frustrated with people in this app repeating misinformation that Indigenous People receive reparations, only to discover google search has literally nothing but blatantly AI written articles peddling racist hallucinations. Folks, Native Nations do not receive reparations.

AI learns language from skewed sources. That could change how we humans speak – and think | Bruce Schneier Large language models aren’t trained on real-life conversations. As we encounter their language, it could affect our own

Oh:

A 2022 study found that children in households that used voice commands with tools like Siri and Alexa became curt when speaking with humans, often calling out “Hey, do X” and expecting obedience, especially from anyone whose voice resembled the default-female electronic voices.

i'm not researchers but i confidently predict ppl who offload onto ai are going to get early onset dementia

Behind the coal miner v BHP - 20,000 miners and a bunch of giant mining corporations - Michael West Why is one of the world’s largest mining companies fighting so hard to shut down the case of a single injured worker? BHP v Simon Turner

Behind the coal miner v BHP – 20,000 miners and a bunch of giant mining corporations michaelwest.com.au/behind-the-lone-coal-min... #Auspol

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.”

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):

Australia’s 000 failures: Why your phone may fail to call Triple Zero The regulatory and industry failures behind Australia’s Triple Zero outages were not only foreseen, they are entirely rectifiable.

Australia’s 000 failures: Why your phone may fail to call Triple Zero independentaustralia.net/business/business-displa... #Auspol

For Australia’s Christo-fascists and Orban fans, no more “jolly holidays by the Danube working for some of the global Right’s worst ‘intellectuals’.” 💥🎯😆 #auspol

I love that this week has been proof that private security forces, bodyguards, security infrastructure, and proofing against worker sabotage are highly expensive…

But fire remains cheap.

It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...

EXTREMELY CORRECT and why I'm celebrating

What happens to Britain's radical right if Orbán loses? Inside the money, power and patronage connecting Hungary and the British right

As Hungary votes, would recommend this piece about how Viktor Orban has used public money to bankroll an international ultraconservative network - including Roger Scruton cafes and €10k a month for failed Reform candidate Matt Goodwin

democracyforsale.substack.com/p/orbans-brits

"Humans won't work unless they're forced to" is a myth for stupid people. If you're paying attention, humanity loves to do the job... they just don't like to be exploited and abused just to survive, the 2 tools people THINK you need to inflict upon humans to make them work.

- The last pope
- Orbán’s political career
Whom will JD Vance help next?

And a huge congratulations to the people of Hungary.

Data centers are on the ballot in 2026 — and just failed the first… A Wisconsin city voted to add new hurdles to data center development in response to unwanted construction, and more communities could soon follow suit.

Voters in Festus MO, a Republican stronghold, just ousted every incumbent council member in response to a data center approval. "Data center opposition is on the rise in every nook and cranny of the country — and it may have a massive influence on more than just local elections this November."

Zeteo: Meet the Jewish "Troublemakers' Who Zionists Hated: The Radical, Unknown History of the Bund

Look out for interviews, articles with Molly Crabapple this week. This artist has just written a book about the history of the Jewish Bund. Very moving in its detail about these stalwart supporters of Jewish/labour rights & anti zio.

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