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Traditional and indie authors are flooding #WritersTok with videos of them editing their manuscripts to refute accusations of generative AI use—and bring readers into their very human process.

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I don’t think there’s a single serious critic who says AI’s not useful? The concerns I see are about content rights, worker impacts, environmental effects, epistemological threats, or media manipulation. But that’s all predicated on the idea that it does work, often too well for people to manage…

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My Meanjin debut!!! On Australia’s national security (lol), but from an unusual angle but also the most “imminent threat” that I think Australians should care when looking at China through their security lens: meanjin.com.au/essays/safeg...

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The chiefs of AGL and EnergyAustralia say consumer energy resources are key to bringing down electricity prices, but only if orchestrated — by them.

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The winners of the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prizes were announced tonight, and it was truly an honor to judge the nonfiction category, whose winner was Ahn Duong for his extraordinary memoir Dear Da-Lê.

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America is one of those countries where if you host a global sporting event, inclusive messages have to be censored to so as not to anger the central government. In this case the message is “racism is bad” www.nytimes.com/athletic/643...

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"If we are to have derisking for capital, why not for labor too?" Broadly excellent on the Abundance kerfuffle, by @briancallaci.bsky.social jacobin.com/2025/06/abun... ht @besttrousers.bsky.social

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America's descent into suppression of dissent 🧵 I've been tracking Trump's actions since Jan and have included 93 actions that I consider to suppress dissent. They fall into 4 domains and their use is quite different over time. 1/16

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Killer cop Zachary Rolfe promoted for $10k speaking gigs — and may be writing a book www.crikey.com.au/2025/06/17/z...

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Australia accused by international climate group of being “two-faced” in pushing to host COP31 in 2026 while also approving massive new oil, gas and coal projects

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Another great Media Watch. www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/e...

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New on The Guardian: Top 10 Things To Do During Nuclear Winter

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But does the US have the military capacity to fight a war on two fronts: Los Angeles and Tehran?

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This is a real photograph

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Taking a moment to get my head around the concept of “boastful, even by LinkedIn standards”

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My latest in @crikey.com.au. I trawl through Tim Wilson MP’s LinkedIn profile, which is hilariously boastful, even by LinkedIn standards. While in the #auspol wilderness, he started a PhD at RMIT Blockchain Hub—which employs several former IPA researchers… www.crikey.com.au/2025/06/16/t...

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It drives me a bit nuts that the left is just as bad for spouting misinformation and disinformation as the right. Just because "the good guys" are being economical with the actualite (at best) doesn't make it ok. This is a good delve into Curtis's latest nonsense.

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Speaking of generous souls, covid lockdown in Tasmania started a couple of months after we moved into our current space and things were going quite well but then obviously it dropped off a cliff. Our cat got run over just after it started so it was a fairly grim period.

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the Star Tribune's writeup of the Boelter charges is a lot more provocative than the charging document itself

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Fantastic tip from the AFR, I was thinking about what to do with half a mill of spare cash just the other day

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🚨 ASIC is investigasting the ASX, saying it will look into "governance, capability and risk management frameworks and practices across the group" 🚨 asic.gov.au/about-asic/n...

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Ori Goldberg: "There is no doubt that Netanyahu planned the strike on Iran for years, waiting for just the right time." www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

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The same people claiming the destruction buildings at the Esfahan UCF are a major blow to Iran's nuclear program were very recently warning that Iran may have a covert conversion facility. I wish we held diplomatic solutions to the same low standards we use for military strikes.

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The owner of Twitter sends out 100 right wing propaganda tweets every single day and the algorithm is set up so that every single person on Twitter has to see every single one of these tweets. Now here’s another piece about Blue Sky’s ideological diversity problem.

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Melbourne writer Alistair Kitchen was detained for 12 hours at Los Angeles International Airport, had his phone seized and was "interrogated" about his views on the conflict in the Middle East.

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Hi everyone I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing

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Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop! Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels

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This is everywhere. Every academic institution I know is held together by some exhausted woman in her early 40's who waits until the old white male professors have finished their vague rants and says, "alright, so concretely can I propose the following next steps..." She makes half their salary.

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My favorite #Wisconsin #NoKings sign/flag from today. #wipolitics

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Albo is in Seattle at the moment, he just gave a speech to a business innovation summit praising Amazon for setting up $20b in new data centres in Australia. I’m just posting this without comment, I have no snark left to give

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Fragments and stars.🐚✨️

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Get off Xitter. (I did on Election Day, after 15 years and sizable audience. Have never looked back.)

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If you're up early, I'll be talking about politics and this weeks events with the fine people at #SundayShot and @mariecolemanao.bsky.social in about 30 minutes. Trouble starts at 9am AEST. Link below for live show.

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So important. This is America. Freedom, equality, democracy, human rights are not and never have been dictated by polling approval.

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The definition is hard to pin down but before the George Floyd protests brought 15-20m people into the streets over the summer of 2020, the largest “single-day protest” in American history was generally agreed to be the Women’s March on Jan 21, 2017. Between 3.2-5.2m. Today seems bigger than that.

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Posted up at a local bar for a sammy and a beer while I file my story about today's protests. but here's a story y'all might appreciate. While I was there I saw and older gentleman with this sign.

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You have to respect the sheer economics professor of this

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"What Israel is doing in the Gaza Strip is not happening because of Ben-Gvir and Smotrich. They aren’t even the main culprits. Blaming them and only them is self-righteousness and hypocrisy." - Gideon Levy #StopIsrael johnmenadue.com/post/2025/06...

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A piece on working on a project for the Yoorrook Justice Commission in its final months.

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