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Even one lawyer blindly citing AI-hallucinated case law can risk sullying the reputation of an entire nationwide firm.

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Guardian Australia’s wonderful Indigenous affairs editor, Lorena Allam, is leaving the media. She spoke to Reged Ahmad on the Full Story about the state of the relationship between white and Indigenous Australians (going backwards) and the role of the media. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/f...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

NSW coal has a bigger global climate impact than…France! The numbers shocked me too #auspol #nsw reneweconomy.com.au/nsw-has-coal...

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Did you know the most powerful force for climate action is LOVE—for our children, their future, and the world they’ll inherit? That's right! Research shows this message moves hearts 12x more than jobs and 2x more than extreme weather. Source: potentialenergycoalition.org/guides-and-r...

submitted 13 days ago • 25 comments

Amidst all the criticism of the ABC, a reminder of why the public broadcaster is essential: a very good story by Wimmera ABC journo Julia Bergin on electoral office rorts lets by MP Anne Webster. Local regional media would be too sacred to touch this story www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

submitted 15 days ago • 30 comments

"Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them" - Janus Rose @janus.bsky.social www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Oh joy, watching the ABC's flagship current affairs show where Sarah Ferguson ask s"Is there any proportion of the Palestinian people in Gaza who would welcome the chance to be relocated?" How about no, because there is no such thing an ok proportion of ethnic cleansing? #730

submitted 21 days ago • 91 comments

I attempt a very rough historical materialist breakdown of the tech ascendancy:— www.unpopularfront.news/p/what-happe...

submitted 23 days ago • 25 comments

I got such strange looks from people for being a Lucy Letby truther. Now look: “In summary, ladies and gentlemen, we did not find any murders." www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

submitted 23 days ago • 14 comments

Interesting essay by George Woods on environmentalism in Australia.

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

while what is happening in America is horrifying, the lacklustre state of Australian political discourse ahead of this election leaves me concerned there is going to be an active search for like-for-like USA comparisons rather than actual discussion about AU's specific problems (and opportunities).

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

‘Either we exploit our fossil fuel reserves and the planet burns, or we don't and some of the reserves are left in economic limbo.’ @brettchristophers.bsky.social on stranded assets, net zero and climate ‘overshoot’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

this story. this is getting far too little attention. oh my. oh my word.

submitted 24 days ago • 3 comments

yknow, something that bothers me about the outcry to all this “delete federal agency” stuff is that they very much did similar stuff under trump 1.0 the blm was moved to a remote town in colorado the usda’s research arm was gutted this isn’t new. we had the context years ago. with much less rage

submitted 24 days ago • 6 comments

There are literally not enough journalists employed in the US to cover the bad shit that is happening right now. We are now going to experience the social consequences of a weakened news industry--which are the same as the benefits of a weakened news industry, to those who weakened it.

submitted 25 days ago • 329 comments

by way of explanation, my feed got way too clogged last time, so here I am, starting again 🫠

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