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AI & the end of originality & critical thinking. 'The danger is not that AI will fail us, but that people will accept the mediocrity of its outputs as the norm.. losing the depth, nuance and intellectual richness that define exceptional human work' #auspol consortiumnews.com/2025/06/04/a...

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youtu.be/SIgJ5KhlzVc?... The Donnas “ it’s on the rocks “ is the song for today !

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With Trump and Musk falling out…will Trump send ICE to deport Musk and those white South African farmers!?

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www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j... I had lots of their records back in the early 1980s…we used to call it “music for the hard of hearing 🧏‍♀️ “

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www.smh.com.au/culture/book... Such a nasty ,clickbait headline …these subeditors are woeful

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June 3 On this day (1992) the High Court overturned the legal fiction of terra nullius, recognising the special relationship Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander peoples have with the land, & paving the way for Native Title. Today we remember a great Australian #MaboDay #IndigenousGrapevine #auspol

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The Spiders — Day Tripper [Japan, pop rock] (68) Joe Cocker, please step aside. Richie Havens, please sit down. Noel and Liam, please get outta here and bicker somewhere else. Elton, stage left (Happy birthday, though!). This https://redd.it/ttqsd2 https://youtu.be/4sJEQ2JtOtI

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Yet more evidence that people who talk incessantly about their "high IQ" are pretty much guaranteed to be racist reactionaries, who spout the same recycled ideas about racial hierarchy, equality, and democracy that Citizens' Council members did in the 1950s. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Farmers plant riparian landscape in bid to save Victoria's Hopkins River www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

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A beautiful sunrise for the first day of winter in the Perth Hills. We are now moving into the season of Makaru, the coldest and wettest time of the year 📍 Kalamunda National Park 📅 1 June 2025 #wildoz #sunrise #winter

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As today is World Parrot Day I’m bringing back to the timeline my favourite rendition of Whole Lotta Rosie by Tico (parrot) and Frank (non-parrot) of Tico and the Man (a truly great squawk n' roll band)

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An excellent resource of rare visual and audio files of women artists and writers in concrete, visual and sound poetry, from the mid 40s through 2008. (from the monoskop blog. monoskop.org/Women_in_con...

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It’s #WorldParrotDay!🦜🌎 The ~400 types of parrots worldwide are each unique – whether soaring over the rainforests, perching in mountainous habitats, or moving in the underbrush.🌿 But parrots are one of the most threatened groups of birds on Earth. Find out more👉 www.birdlife.org/news/2025/03...

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Good pick up by Michelle. The NACC needs to be transparent in how it is going to re-run the Robodebt investigation. It appears the NACC has learnt nothing from its disastrous previous handling of the case.

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Mask 😷 up everyone! #Aushealth

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Heads up to those who love seeing the Aurora. Keep your eyes on the skies the next few nights

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Deregulation. Privatization. Tax cuts. Free trade. Stagnant pay for most. A soaring stock market for the top. That’s the legacy of neoliberalism. Don’t buy revisionist attempts to rehabilitate it. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-tragic-history-of-neoliberalism

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I am really wondering what the @climatecouncils.bsky.social and @jimchalmers.bsky.social Think the Watt decision has done to investment & support for AUSTRALIAN critical metals mining and #renewable #energy technology companies on #ASX is anyone watching? #auspol

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tallyroom.aec.gov.au/HouseDivisio... Back to one vote in my electorate of Bradfield 😱!

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