When some white rich fuck creates machinery that is manufactured to steal the work of millions of people for profit, they're spoken of glowingly by the media.
When the mere accusation of plagiarism, no matter how questionable, occurs on a relatively micro-scale and it involves a black person, the media's knives automatically come out.
Hold those two things in comparison.
OpenAI effectively acknowledged today that it knows which features and attributes cause brain rot, addiction, and attachment — and that it knows how to turn them off.
https://www.machinesociety.ai/p/openai-built-a-safer-chatgpt-but
In world where AI can fake anything how can we be sure of any of it real and the truth
The actual epistemic crisis @pluralistic
https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/20/epistemic-void/
The Scramble for Africa. Most of the continent was colonised by 7 western cultured countries & plundered for its resources with profit flowing into Europe. In 2026 it continues with unsafe work practices, no mining support infrastructure, no unions, etc.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-20/central-african-republic-mine-collapse-death-toll-rises/107059706
“I’ve spent my life fighting to end native forest logging, including from the impacts of climate change. Like many, I locked onto bulldozers, I took the fight into the courts as a lawyer of our movement, and now Labor is trying to hand our precious public forests from one exploiter, the loggers, to the next exploiter, the climate polluters.”
#nature #forest #ecology #auspol
Lindenmayer says: “If it stays in place, governments can earn money protecting forests rather than lose money cutting them down. If it gets knocked on the head, it’s bad for biodiversity, it’s bad for the climate, it’s bad for fire, bad for the economy…it’s bad for the poor old, long-suffering Australian taxpayer.”
#climatechange #climatecrisis #thelivingworld
https://www.smh.com.au/national/defeat-from-the-jaws-of-victory-civil-war-inside-the-environment-movement-20260806-p60lz4.html
Just Finished: Wake in Fright by Kenneth Cook. Australian Outback Gothic, and a great one. A teacher gets stuck a couple days in a mining town and it nearly undoes him. From blackout to blackout. Horrific, funny, oddly fond of the place it's damning. Highly recommend. #bookstodon #wakeinfright #australianliterature
Australia's grid emissions are falling *way* slower than previous grid operator scenarios laid out. Fossil fuel elimination and climate action are the reasons the 'energy transition' exists: if coal plants are being extended, then something is going *very very* wrong.
ketanjoshi.co/2026/08/14/p...
A greenwashed, fast-tracked and faux-regulated data centre boom will only worsen this problem. And this is a problem with real, physical consequences (no matter how hard you ignore it).
A point I frequently make when talking about chatbots is that their output only seems to make sense because we are making sense of it. And worse, we can only do that sense-making by projecting a mind behind the text, something we do reflexively.
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I have to set the record straight here.
I am not advocating for the #AUKUS Agreement, not Tier one and only selectively so for Tier Two. Nor am I advocating against it either.
I acknowledge that I do not have the information to do either and satify myself that whatever choice I make or opinion I offer I do so grounded in knowledge and nor heresay or based on some emotional response to issues bordering (near and far, and even some too far to be relevent) to the matter.
Having tooted this, from now on, I will only participate or comment on toots which are based on known facts about AUKUS and let all other opinions and rants slide. I’m done with totting logical comments that are then ignored or misunderstood in subsequent posts.
Sometimes I am led to think that people will believe whatever they have set their mind to believe in spite of evidence, facts or logic. No offence meant, it’s just an observation. And, yes, peeps are entitled to their opinion whatever happens. Perhaps that’s the hardest lesson to learn. I know, I learn it every day even as my mind screems when those opinions appear irrational.
Good night and good luck to you all.
/retires for the night/
It's money-printing time again!
2 weeks ago Treasury sold EUR to buy JPY in an attempt to protect against Japan selling Treasuries to sustain the Yen -- stability which lasted roughly 24 hours, as I recall. And now this.
Is that a whiff of panic I sense over at 1500 Penn. Ave?
ping @ChrisMayLA6
EU leaders rally behind International Criminal Court after fresh US sanctions
EU leaders have thrown their support behind the Hague-based International Criminal Court after US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced new sanctions on senior figures investigating alleged Israeli war crimes.
I missed this when it came out. Tony Harris was the Auditor-General who first blew the whistle on bogus Public-Private Partnerships back in the 1990s. https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/healthcare/healthscope-s-ills-point-to-unhealthy-connection-between-public-patients-and-private-profit-20250527-p5m2ki.html
Four Russian was crimes I have seen documented in the past 24 hours — the Nürnberg trials after this war will certainly be long.
Picture : In Kherson, a Russian drone operator attacked an ambulance.
Picture 2: In Kherson another Russian drone operator attacked a city bus full of civilians, killing 4 and wounding 5 people.
Picture 3: Also in Kherson, a Russian drone was used to attack a civilian car.
Picture 4: Russia hit the police station of Zhytomyr with a cruise missile.
L'éboulement d'une mine fait plus d'une centaine de morts à la frontière entre le Cameroun et la RCA
(Meriem AMELLAL)
Treaty with First Peoples is something for all Victorians to be proud of. But right now, Treaty is under threat. The Liberal and National Parties, along with One Nation, have pledged to rip up Treaty if elected this November. It's a shameful betrayal of Aboriginal communities.
Head along to this Town Hall meeting in Hawthorn to hear about how you can help celebrate and defend Treaty: https://events.humanitix.com/defend-treaty-town-hall
State of silence. It's a repeat of the Newman government's gag order of NGOs. Queensland LNP governments can't stand criticism. The penalty for speaking out is funding cuts. Queenslanders are expected to be grateful, obedient & praise the Crisafulli government. #qldpol
WHy is it that with *Every* iOS update on my iPad I have issues, unresolved until a minor update (bug fix) is issued?
Why is it that I’m getting the feeling that I’m going to be **Forced** to update my iPad with the next iOS update because it is already complaining about lack of space which I guess is the precussor to the all too familiar: ‘ your iPad is no longer compatible with the new OS update — been there before and I’m damned if I’m going to buy another device with built-in redundency.
F*&% #Apple. f*&^ #TechBros I’m done with the lot of them.
#FOSS #Linux #AlternativeDevices #Enshitification #GateKeeping #TaxTheRich #Antifa #GriftingMF #NoMoreBillionaires #MakeBillionairesMillionairesNow #Revolution #Resistence #EndNeoLiberalism #VoteGreen #VoteIND #BoycottTheUS and any other hashtags that expresses my rage atm….
This morning in Kherson, russia attacked a bus with a drone, killing four people and injuring five. Another drone struck a car, wounding a man. Another killed a woman as she was walking down the street.
All of this happened in a single morning, in a single Ukrainian city.