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The failures of US tech platforms to prevent misinformation and "dark ads" during their own elections should serve as a clear warning to Australia that industry self-regulation is not an option.

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I think we are, in everyday life, starting to see those people who went and watched star wars and supported Luke and the rebels and those who supported Palpatine and the Empire.

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The media has focused more on polling in the past 2 days than it has on policy for the entire past 3 years. Journalists get incredibly excited about the horse race. Means they don't have to do any work.

submitted 9 days ago • 41 comments

Musk’s DOGE seeks access to personal taxpayer data, raising alarm at IRS www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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You can lure him with a bottle of Bundy if you're desperate

submitted 13 days ago • 60 comments

Law enforcement exercising their official duties in public do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy. This includes ICE agents. As long as you are not interfering with their duties, you generally have a right to record them on duty.

submitted 13 days ago • 11 comments

Google claims they removed several events from Google Calendar because maintaining their presence wasn't "sustainable"—but critics are crying foul.

submitted 13 days ago • 878 comments

A teen-founded lobby group backed by Dick Smith has ramped up its social media advertising spend in the first month of 2025, targeting middle-aged men in Queensland

submitted 20 days ago • 5 comments

Missed this. This should be advertised relentlessly in Dickson. Best explainer around. @thejuicemedia.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBqV...

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Stumped linguists have reached out to Pauline Hanson for help thanks to her fluency in racist nonsense. chaser.com.au/world/countr...

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submitted 15 days ago • 7 comments

DeepSeek banned at NBN, ABC, AusPost ia.acs.org.au/article/2025...

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

Actually Buttrose reformed the complaints process in response to pressure from News Corp to remove its independence, and make it directly report to the board - ie. herself. Appalling change, and mainly done it seems to give her more power to cave to right-wing attacks on the ABC.

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Opinion | Walking away with a battle-tested blueprint that could see him succeed in the upcoming election? This surely surpassed Peter Dutton's wildest dreams, writes Benjamin Abbatangelo.

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Everyone should watch this video. This is why it doesn’t matter how much avocado toast you give up, you’ll never be able to save up for a house like Dutton did at 19, and this analyst has the numbers to prove it! Have transcribed the main bits coz it cannot be overstated vt.tiktok.com/ZS6EYvNMf/

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments

This is VERY good news. Love bookshop.org and all the stuff they do! www.salon.com/2025/01/28/b...

submitted 21 days ago • 508 comments

www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09...

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see this is what happens when you pretend to be religious but don't actually know how the story ends

submitted 22 days ago • 108 comments

LOL

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

This. The way it was supposed to work is locally elected MPs coming together to work for the Australian people as a whole. Not a parties agenda

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Fascinating that no one has enumerated the list of felonies that Apartheid Clyde and his non-government friends may be guilty of, simply based on his public confessions over the last week

submitted 22 days ago • 8 comments

Unbelievable. Except it's not, though, is it? In fact, it happens all the fucking time. Zionists don't like it when you mention the fact Israel is committing genocide in Palestine, and everyone's petrified of upsetting them. Because this sort of thing happens. Solidarity, Peter

submitted 23 days ago • 14 comments

Some Jews in Melbourne claimed Lalor’s voice made them feel unsafe & triggered them, after he posted on SM about Gaza. So he got the boot. This has to stop. www.smh.com.au/sport/cricke...

submitted 22 days ago • 13 comments

There is this animal fable I've thought about the last couple of weeks:- The Scorpion and the Frog. I think it's particularly relevant to the people who've started drowning the last couple of weeks by carrying that scorpion.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Any countries whose scientific research funding bodies are NOT currently under siege by their own national leadership would do very well announcing investments in bringing in foreign research talent right now

submitted 22 days ago • 64 comments

Almost three months later, NDIS crabwalks away from its knowingly false application of “28 day” evidence timeframes on eligibility reassessments. What’s missing here is any admission of wrongdoing. I have much, much more to disclose on this soon.

submitted 23 days ago • 10 comments

Guess what? We’re still here. 😂 People are asking what they can do: 1) Keep calling your electeds! 2) If you’re local to DC, come protest at OPM & the Old Executive Bldg, where word has it Musk works out of. (haven’t confirmed that) Just stay on public sidewalks and be kind to federal employees.

submitted 23 days ago • 98 comments

My latest article for The Shot. Please join me as we mercilessly mock Queen Gina, patron saint of global warming, and her merry gang of sycophants at something called National Mining Day . . . or as Gina would say, National Mahning Day. #drillbabydrill theshot.net.au/uncategorize...

submitted 26 days ago • 143 comments

Someone, who used to know better, told me today that it’s patriotic to support the president even if you don’t always agree. This is the excuse being used by many to explain their acquiescence. Actually, this is what a patriot is: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/u...

submitted 23 days ago • 780 comments

Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"

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You are going to need a lot more protests, demonstrations and displays of dissent before anything's going to happen. On the deportations and everything else.

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Nearly 250,000 people in Berlin showed up to protest fascism and the Musk backed AfD party.

submitted 23 days ago • 507 comments

Anyone looking to move from Goodreads (for obvious reasons) I've just found The Storygraph. Excellent so far

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Albanese ‘spooked’ into ditching national environment watchdog – for a second time, critics say

submitted 24 days ago • 25 comments

That's just unacceptable. Australian security agencies need to take control of this situation pretty damned quick. (It's probably already too late.) #auspol

submitted 24 days ago • 3 comments

The USA is no longer a reliable trusted ally. Australia needs to scrap #AUKUS and #ANZUS. If our defense depends on protection by our nuclear armed "ally", we no longer have that guarantee. We are now effectively on our own. #auspol #USPolitics #Trump

submitted 24 days ago • 6 comments

Obsessed with this advice from the CIA on how to undermine fascists.

submitted 24 days ago • 3 comments

If you have emergency access to a petabyte of storage please contact this user on Twitter. It's public-interest I've discussed with them and been shown what appears to be a real need. x.com/noumenonsec/...

submitted 24 days ago • 21 comments

So where are the protests? Where are the demonstrations? Where are the real world responses ?

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Peter Dutton has Campbell Newman's axe ready to go but he's not going to tell us what he's cutting until he's made PM. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

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