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davidpeetz.bsky.social
Researcher, FASSA. Employment relations; labour markets; economics; pol science; gender; climate & finance; science; birdies. Carmichael Fellow at Centre for Future Work, Australia Institute, but views mine. Meanjin (Brisbane) & Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland).
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Young men. smdh.

submitted 21 hours ago • 24 comments

As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity. TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄

submitted 1 day ago • 206 comments

"Many American scientific institutions are engaged in anticipatory obedience of the Trump administration’s demands that diversity and anti-discrimination programs be abolished, or climate change stop being mentioned. Many even go beyond what is explicitly sought." theconversation.com/two-in-five-...

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

"'The kind of propaganda and disinformation that we see now is not particularly new & not dependent on the internet,' said Benjamin Carter Hett, a historian of World War II at Hunter College. Exactly the same kind of thing happened in the very diverse & lively German press of the 1920s and 1930s.'"

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

"Mr. Trump would tell aides that 'as long as you keep repeating something, it doesn’t matter what you say.' And that trickled down to the staff. 'Casual dishonesty filtered through the White House as though it were in the air-conditioning system.' www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/u...

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

Hard to classify Trump's performance at CPAC along that continuum: Quite the dose of Hitler but also so much Mussolini-drenched-in-Caligula. Either way, satire is dead. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

But...but...Australia will always be able to rely on the US...they have always been our closest allies...it's such a valuable friendship...they're so trustworthy...they're practically gifting us those submarines...

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

"The Reserve’s boffins, however, have been so busy with their maths and modelling that they haven’t noticed how much the world has changed." www.brisbanetimes.com.au/business/the...

submitted 22 hours ago • 2 comments

Gregg is a former Marine and Forest Service ranger. He's saved the lives of hikers dangling off a cliff or going through cardiac arrest, and he's bravely fought forest fires to save small rural towns. 100% of his salary is paid by WA state. Elon fired him. Share his story.

submitted 1 day ago • 498 comments

Among those who reported experiencing harassment, women were affected almost twice as much as men by non-sexual forms of personal harassment. theconversation.com/two-in-five-...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I'll say it again purging the highest ranks of the military and replacing them with retired loyalists is what you do directly before you deeploy the military against the domestic population and our allies abroad.

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

More anticipatory obedience from a once-proud sector.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

"The traitor".

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

The J6 Prison Choir "is comprised of men previously imprisoned for their involvement in the January 6th United States Capitol attack". It "will soon perform at the Kennedy Center", now that Trump has sacked the board and installed himself as chair.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Neoliberalism is dead. So why haven’t Australia’s leaders got the message? | John Quiggin www.theguardian.com/...

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Intimidation and harassment of scientists has devastating effects. Yet these can be avoided. theconversation.com/two-in-five-...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

OMG. This is actually in the official Whitehouse Twitter/X account. I thought it was photoshopped. Trump really is broadcasting that he sees himself as a king. Kings don't face elections. But in other OECD countries, kings have no role in policy or govt action. x.com/WhiteHouse/s...

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

So many faces to eat, so few leopards…. Soon they’ll all need Ozempic :)

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

🧵Who is opposing the Trump administration? I analysed 76 actions of the administration since inauguration and then searched for *meaningful* opposition to each. I grouped the types of opposition and considered what we can learn from both them & actions where opposition has been lacking 1/24

submitted 7 days ago • 89 comments

Hard to imagine a greater act of incompetence in government, anywhere, this century. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

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submitted 6 days ago • 31 comments

"Suspended" in the USA: a children's book about "a girl who dislikes her freckles but learns to live with them". www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

This would have been stunning even in the Soviet Union.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Do not fly in the US.

submitted 6 days ago • 57 comments

I suspect this overstates L/NP seats & understates ALP, as I don't see how this MRP model accounts for the sophomore effect. It seems unlikely to me that L/NP would pick up more seats than a straight pendulum would predict, when many would be held by sophomores. Eh, @peterbrent.bsky.social ?

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

1. A common mistake is to look for ideological consistency on the far right, and to become confused when some of the things it claims to stand for sound positive and even progressive. Here’s a thread on how to understand this. 🧵

submitted 9 days ago • 41 comments

First Dog again recognises the importance and intelligence of birds, as do some Viennese scientists.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

From two great artists: Art Spiegelman, the creator of the stunning graphic novel about the Holocaust, "Maus", and Joe Sacco, creator of "Palestine".

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments