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'It's so dystopian' | AI streaming fraud is on the rise. This Grammy nominee is fighting back www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06... #DumbTech #Spotify #dystopia

"brain privacy" | Sydney team develop AI model to identify thoughts from brainwaves www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06... #DumbTech #AIslop

Poem (Don’t Look) | Harold Pinter

“the tech assumed..." | Download festival rockers told to take off smartwatches after moshpits spark emergency alerts www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j... #DumbTech #Download

"a pioneer of advanced studio techniques" | Brian Wilson, Leader of the Beach Boys and Pop Genius, Dies at 82 www.billboard.com/music/music-... #RIP

Thank you for Talkin' to me Africa youtu.be/_ppAPO-DIHo

"the 1971 masterpiece There’s a Riot Goin’ On" | Sly Stone, Legendary Funk Musician, Dies at 82 pitchfork.com/news/sly-sto... #Funk #Soul #RIP

RIP Edmund White

Why Do All These Homosexuals Keep Sucking My Cock? theonion.com/why-do-...

Happy Fragile Straight Man Month!

"a major influence" | Edmund White, novelist and great chronicler of gay life, dies aged 85 www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j... #LGBTIQ #RIP

“AI utopia” | Google working on AI email tool that can ‘answer in your style’ www.theguardian.com/technology/2... #DeepMind #KillAI #Google

#Tiananmen

1999 song “What’s He Building?” by Tom Waits. From the LP Mule Variations, which won a Grammy award for Best Contemporary Folk Album. m.youtube.com/watch?v=04qP...

"It creates a fake world — a fake history." | Leaked files reveal how China is using AI to erase the history of the Tiananmen Square massacre www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06... #DeepSeek #AI #CCP #China

‘we’re screwed’ | Salman Rushdie says AI won’t threaten authors until it can make people laugh www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j... #AIslop #ChatGPT #AI #books

Anthropic's AI exhibits risky tactics, per researchers https://www.axios.com/2025/05/23/anthropic-ai-deception-risk #axios #news #usnews

"I’m in the suburbs, and happy.” | Robert Forster: ‘You improve as a person as you get older. I think that’s a fact’ www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle... #Gobetweens #Brisbane

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 1958 Mao Zedong starts the "Great Leap Forward" movement in China, kills between 23 and 55 million Chinese citizens due to famine and forced labor #CCP #China #XIJinping

"it's just not environmentally tenable," | Anohni mourns the Great Barrier Reef in her Sydney Opera House shows www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05... #ExtinctionRebellion #ClimateChange

A thousand Dreams within me softly burn Arthur Rimbaud

Make a note of everyone that is fighting for you tonight and those who aren’t.

“a coordinated smear campaign” | Kneecap’s Mo Chara charged with terror offence www.nme.com/news/music/k... #HipHop