Somehow still getting worse
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Pauline Hanson’s One Nation banks millions in public funding. Where does all the money go? Exclusive: Former candidates accuse party of enriching itself at their expense, while insiders lift veil on chaos in Brisbane HQ – and staffers’ contempt for rank-and-file members

Some of the best journalism on party finance and organisational structure I've seen in a long time. Much of it aligning with a known pattern over decades, but still interesting to see - and adds to my suspicion of PHON as a lasting force.
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a chart showing 3 msft gas data centres vs countries

a chart showing 3 msft gas data centres vs countries

New @stand.earth: Microsoft's 3 new gas data centres will

- Increase Microsoft's emissions 160%

- Have higher emissions than power sectors of each of Greece, Ireland, Sri Lanka, NZ etc...

- Have higher emissions than pwr sector of 15 lowest-emitting countries combined

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WaPo website replaced search with AI and it's going great

Platforming landlords: A critical trend analysis of rental housing technology in Australia and beyond - Samantha Floreani, Jathan Sadowski, 2026 This article advances a critical analysis of digital technologies in rental housing by drawing out five trends in the Australian ‘RentTech’ market and placing t...

Really happy to see this new article out now with @floreani.bsky.social. We offer an in-depth analysis of major trends in RentTech / Landlord Tech markets and show how they are shaping the financialisation of housing, assetisation of data, and moral economic evaluation of renters.

and yet university administrators will find any way possible to do exactly this, from sneaking it in under 'work integrated learning' through to 'authentic assessment' - and now 'AI skills' (which weirdly never can be listed or defined)

This is one of the worst things I have ever read and I study frontier genocide as a profession.

Orbán's best bet for regime survival — for returning to power — wasn't staging a doomed January 6-style putsch in the face of overwhelming defeat.

It was retreating, and doing everything he can to preserve regime elements that would allow for a return to competitive authoritarianism in the future.

The Orbánist is deeply entrenched across the Hungarian government: courts, bureaucracy, regulators, tax agencies, even cultural organizations were all part of it.

If Magyar does not use his power to enact sweeping constitution changes, much of that system could survive.

Under such conditions, the competitive authoritarian has two choices. They can retreat to a harder authoritarianism — annulling election and deploying security forces to control dissent.

But if they don't have the repressive capacity to do that, they have to concede electoral defeat.

consultants, leadership coaches, ed tech, AI 'solutions' - they seem to fall for all of them

Something quite astonishing to see unfold over the last few years is just how easily senior university execs can be swindled by people and groups they should absolutely see coming a mile away
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Analysis Finds That Google's AI Overviews Are Providing Misinformation at a Scale Possibly Unprecedented in the History of Human Civilization A new analysis commissioned by The New York Times suggests that Google's AI Overviews are wrong an astonishing percentage of the time.

Google’s AI Overviews are providing “tens of millions of wrong answers … every hour — and hundreds of thousands every minute.”

wow, i love the AI future!

That is one hell of a change in NYT headline

Student claiming RMIT is ‘complicit in genocide’ in social media post faces misconduct action Student accused of sharing a video of the university’s defence and aerospace research centre with the RMIT Students for Palestine Instagram account

Yet more institutional overreach from an Australian university: a student up for misconduct for recording a video critical of RMIT’s involvement in armaments research www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I really thought this was so common as to be typical, but I guess not! I genuinely cannot imagine owning a phone in any other way.

Plus I've found people generally get used to be come to respect you not being immediately contactable 24/7.

Meanwhile my university has bought licenses for CoPilot.
Is a technology that "is for entertainment purposes only, which can make mistakes, which may not work as intended and cannot be relied on for important advice and has to be used at our own risk" so essential?

A 1.4% levy on the gambling industry could compensate the media for ALL revenue lost from a potential gambling advertising ban.

Australians lose more money gambling than any other country. It's time for our government to act.

@amyremeikis.bsky.social #auspol

For every $100 in data centres, $80 leaves Australia almost immediately

📢 Data centres are the infrastructure boom of the decade. But how much of the investment actually stays in the country?

It’s arguably less a war than it is just a string of war crimes

One Nation candidate published antisemitic, racist and homophobic posts A One Nation candidate in the South Australian election was accused of domestic abuse, bullying and harassment, while another made racist, antisemitic and homophobic social media posts, raising fresh ...

and some more

in an ideal world you might have the media informing the electorate about unhinged and reprehensible candidates *before* an election, but here we are

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

There we go - not surprised to see this kind of discussion emerging

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I could only listen to parts of it because it was just nauseating propaganda from a genocidal regime.

He should be sent back to Tel Aviv via a stay in The Hague

Israel passes bill mandating death penalty for Palestinians convicted of terror The Bill's Wording Creates a Distinction Designating It Almost Exclusively for Palestinian Terror, While the Ideological Burden of Proof It Sets Is Expected to Make Its Application to Jewish Nationali...

The Knesset passed a bill today mandating the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of terror - but not for Jews.

There is a word for a legal system where different legal standards apply to different categories of people.
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Congrats on Donald Trump for inventing the first Pyrrhic Loss

As universities cut courses, spending on consultants and contractors nears $2b Consultancies have been accused of infiltrating universities and wasting scarce public funds on questionable advice about cutting courses and jobs.

Australia's universities are spending $1.8 billion a year on external consultants and contractors, while slashing courses and jobs, with students, staff and taxpayers left shortchanged.
Watch ABC Four Corners tonight.
#HigherEducation #auspol #AcademicSky #HigherEd
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Koutsantonis on election night: Labor won't be arrogant on the back of a landslide election win

Koutsantonis just days later:

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Outrageous that an artist in Australia, who makes a living from his creative output, can be threatened with arrest and imprisonment for using a phrase with - at best - contested meaning.
This is normal under authoritarian regimes.

The Press Club cancelled Pulitzer winner Chris Hedges after he submitted a speech on the killing of Palestinian journalists, then booked Israel's ambassador instead.

If you wonder why media reporting on Gaza genocide has been so disappointing this is what they think is normal.

Charts showing since the USA and Israel started bombing Iran the ASX200 is down 8.5%, but Santos is up 20%, Ampol is up 22% and Woodside is up a stonking 26%

I know you will be worried about Santos and Woodside and Ampol, so let's check in with how they're going

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