US leads record global surge in gas-fired power driven by AI demands, with big costs for the climate Projects this year expected to triple global gas capacity, forecast finds, as concerns grow over impacts on planet

I really never thought we’d be this stupid, all in the name of becoming more stupid.

AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.

“How lucky we are to be alive right now! Yes, things are weird. But what do you expect? You are swimming in the primordial soup of machine cognition. There are bound to be growing pains and collateral damage.”
Speaking as “collateral damage”, @cwarzel.bsky.social nails it. #ai

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen.

By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

NSW police doing their level best to cause violence “…something something public safety…” ahem, 250k of us walked the same bridge in 2000 on Sorry Day. Somehow in 2025 this is all unprecedented and dangerous?

This is the entire point of the "it's complicated" line of hasbara/Western journalism. It is an intellectual off-ramp for further thought. And so many of us take it. It is a state-sanctioned excuse not to think at all. Because as soon as you actually do, the whole picture unravels

Proud of Sydney. Filthy weather, in a more conservative state. 90,000 for Gaza is spectacular. 🙌🙌🙌

Consciousness 3 // Sleep Please listen in headphones. A series of short spatial compositions, binaural headphone experiences, exploring consciousness (direction: inwards). Sleep. When…

Consciousness 3 // Sleep…….It’s taken me a while to get to sleep…

The third in a seven part series of short binaural films, exploring consciousness, spatial sound knitting. For headphones.

#soundart #binaural #shortfilm #consciousness

“Ms Segal is a lawyer and yet has attempted to provide a report to Australians and our Australian institutions about how we should live our lives and what we may or may not say and even, how we may say it, without a scintilla of evidence provided to back it up. We just have to take her word for it.”

… with five more to come, in their own good time …

LISA GREENAWAY || LAPKAT Lisa Greenaway, sound artist, producer, radio maker, DJ, spoken word and poetry specialist, linguist. Sound design for installation and theatre. As DJ LAPKAT, Lisa creates lyrical, kinetic mixes of gl...

The original video binaural works are at lapkat.com

REVERB

REVERB is an immersive sound and light installation showcasing works from 18 local and inter/national artists. More at abbotsfordconvent.com.au/event/reverb

Lisa Greenaway (LAPKAT) Consciousness soundwork at Abbotsford Convent 7-12 July

Lisa Greenaway (LAPKAT) Consciousness soundwork at Abbotsford Convent 7-12 July

Lisa Greenaway (LAPKAT) Consciousness soundwork at Abbotsford Convent 7-12 July

Lisa Greenaway (LAPKAT) Consciousness soundwork at Abbotsford Convent 7-12 July

Playing at Abbotsford Convent until 12 July, a little immersion into the first two states of consciousness… alongside 17 other wonderful sound artists vibrating the winter air.

Creative Australia's cowardice on Sabsabi can't be erased Creative Australia will send Khaled Sabsabi to the Venice Biennale after all. The review into the decision reveals cowardice and incompetence.

Spot on from @beneltham.bsky.social in @crikey.com.au.

Creative Australia's crisis management may have been substandard but the real issue was its staggering lack of judgement and courage, an unforgivable absence for which no-one has been held accountable.

www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/03/c...

I think it’s more that the majority of the electorate don’t understand or even know what Labor is doing.

SIGN NOW: REJECT AUSTRALIA’S BIGGEST FOSSIL FUEL PROJECT! Sign the petition: REJECT AUSTRALIA’S BIGGEST FOSSIL FUEL PROJECT!

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The Murujuga rock art is one of Australia's most priceless heritage sites.

And it's being slowly destroyed.

If Environment Minister Murray Watt approves the 50 year extension to the North West Shelf, it will be a death sentence for Murujuga.

#savemurujuga #auspol @elinorjohnstonleek.bsky.social

Should we stop calling it nuclear and start calling uranium mining? Surely that’s what Gina’s interest is.

The Nationals
A constellation of clowns looking for a circus
Totally delusional
# auspol

Well, it’s illegal to lock asylum seekers in gulags as well but Australia’s been doing that a long time, so no I don’t think that would change things.

Disturbing. Something that’s not talked about enough re AI chatbots - they can be manipulated at source. “Instructed to accept as real.” So anyone using them for information is also being manipulated. Thats a lot of power to wield.

“decided to leave”

Front Groups working with Zionist actors are promoting Islamophobia Australian front groups have been working to promote the idea that the Greens make many cultural identities less safe. It's - loosely - part of a global Islamophobia industry.

I went further on the global Islamophobia context in the revised version of the piece on Zionist activity by front groups in the recent Australian election. The network of networks is illustrative. It’s not just Atlas in any of this rw weirdness but a collation. open.substack.com/pub/lucyham2...

Shout out to all the background actors, worth watching one time each (it took me five watches to realise there's someone hanging)

Also, still deliciously relevant. 😆 #auspol

Listening to Ted O’Brien this morning I was wondering if he’s studied John Howard’s speaking style. The vocal fry, the oddly paced pauses that serve to distract from the bullshit he’s spinning by appearing authoritative (without being).
So, this tracks ⬇️
#auspol

This is not a war.

We’ve been hearing for months and months that it’s “about to be, about to be,” but it’s been now for a while. There’s no more hospitals. No more food. No more water. No more compassion. It’s now. And we all watched it happen. #palestine #gaza

All of this has happened before. All of this will happen again.