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This year's Aurealis Awards ceremony will take place online at 4:00pm (AEST) TODAY, Sunday 4 May, 2025. If you would like to be in the room where it happens, we encourage finalists, friends, family and fans to join the fun in the Zoom Meeting: us02web.zoom.us/j/8458866602.... #AurealisAwards

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Good riddance you racist fkn goon

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The Coalition plans to cut $33.2m from national arts funding (which funds all forms of art, music, literature across Australia & supports Australians on the global stage) and "redirect" it to a single project in a contested inner Melbourne seat www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Alan Lamb: Singing In And With The Air Alan Lamb passed away on the 19th of April, 2025, at 81. He is one of Australia’s most important sound artists, and a key member of Perth, Fremantle and Dwellingup artists communities in Western Australia. He is considered one of the founders of ‘dark…

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The 'Crips for eSims for Gaza Bundle' is now live! Over 200 videogames, TTRPGs, zines, books, soundtracks, and asset packs for just $16 USD - the current base price for a 3GB eSim. itch.io/b/2965/crips... (You'll find Quite Contrary and A Train Ride Home in the bundle as well!)

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Emails! In the Recession

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Re-upping this blog post, because it took me freakin' ages to write. What do we talk about when we talk about AI? Is it a field of technology or an extractive social process that makes a few people rich and powerful? And why is it so hard to define? www.careful.industries/blog/2025-4-...

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This piece is a bit bleak, but it's a banger. If we are to meet our critical moment in history, we need to reckon with the reality that we are not up against adversaries we have seen before. We are up against end times fascism. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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Some thoughts on generative AI, the propaganda that supports it, why we need human art, and how we fight back, "It's The People, Stupid (Human Art in a Company World)": nappertime.com/its-the-peop...

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wrote an essay on being a tropical technologist, live on a solar-powered server.. 𖤓°⋆ through the pisonet, the air conditioner, the data center, and the POGO — an archipelago's constant repair, reclaiming, and remaking with and of climate ourshiver.com#tropicsessay (up when the sun is out in sf)

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Love this. In his “I Agree” installation Dima Yarovinsky-Yahel took the content from terms of service statements for companies like Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Tinder and printed them out on A4 paper with a standard font size for legal contracts to demonstrate the length of these agreements.

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this piece by danah boyd captures the dangers of effective altruism so succiently rationalism without heart will ALWAYS lead to fascism www.zephoria.org/thoughts/arc...

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Please think of the Metaverse and NFTs any time someone spruiks the inevitability of generative AI.

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«All of this work suggests that under the hood, today’s AIs are overly complicated, patched-together Rube Goldberg machines full of ad-hoc solutions for answering our prompts.» In other words, AI is a «gimmick» in the sense of Sianne Ngai – it's «doing too much and yet also not enough work» 1/

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“The conditions for such a dystopia have been falling into place slowly over time, waiting for the right authoritarian to come along and use it to crack down on American privacy and freedom.” www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

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The booing at ANZAC Day and comments against Welcomes has been disgusting. There has always been an undercurrent of racism in this country but the referendum has emboldened racists and white supremacists, and given many more white "allies" permission to be quiet www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

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Currently listening: room40.bandcamp.com/album/archiv...

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Thinking about the ongoing damage the Saturday Paper is doing by refusing to report or allow comment on Palestine - when you see how thoroughly it covers other crucial topics, you get a sense of the scale of the suppression. What makes silencing so pernicious is the way it works below the waterline.

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YouTube's CEO personally lobbied the communications minister less than two days before the platform was given an exemption from the under 16s social media ban, documents I obtained reveal. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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This whole wave of generative AI is anti-human, anti-labor and ESPECIALLY indifferent to the value of marginalised workers.

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This week’s column is on AI slop and the aestheticisation of fascism. Happy Easter! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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“If I die, I want a loud death. I don’t want to be just breaking news, or a number in a group, I want a death that the world will hear, an impact that will remain through time, and a timeless image that cannot be buried by time or place.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

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The hatred against trans women probably makes me as sad as anything else happening in this world. Have never encountered a transphobe who doesn’t also reveal their homophobia and racism with the slightest scratch. Transphobes devote their lives to hatred. My contempt for them is total.

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Labor axed cashless debit card... and renamed it the SmartCard. Almost 30k people on compulsory income control at end of its term, Indue receiving another $21m, consultations reject "humiliating" and "suffocating" policy. Dutton could do what he wanted. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic...

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Our secret plot has finally been revealed: Ariel Bogle and I have written a book: 'CONSPIRACY NATION: Exposing the dangerous world of Australian conspiracy theories' We have a lot to share about what we uncovered, but for now you can pre-order it here: bio.to/ConspiracyNation

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The 2024 Aurealis Awards shortlist is out today and I'm stoked to share THE STATION (New Australian Fiction 2024) is a finalist for Best Science Fiction Short Story. This is my first time on the shortlist and it's exactly the kind of encouragement I need rn ✨ aurealisawards.org/2025/04/15/2...

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I can't stop listening to Arpy: intlanthem.bandcamp.com/track/arpy

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Just finished watching this 2 hour doco on getting 16-player Faceball 2000 up and running, which features some excellent hardware troubleshooting (including fan favourite "off-by-one" errors) but most delightfully showcases the community-building power of esoteric games.

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