Mastodawn

Fan of the @oaf which is enabling me to try to get details out of the ACMA about their decisions about Kyle Sandilands and Jackie "O" Henderson.

I can't help but think that, 60 days later, they're colluding with ARN to deliberately string me along... they seem to have bought themselves another 60 days to drag their feet before replying. Seems to me that they get to give ARN two sets of review periods, and we'll be in July before my March request is acted upon. Any Freedom of Information lawyers in the house?

#auslaw #AusPol #AusGov #foi

https://www.righttoknow.org.au/request/request_for_documents_relating_t_3

skua 1h ago

DrALJONES 2h ago

"We oppose genocide so we support Palestine Action"

"We oppose genocide, & therefore we support whatever nonviolent action might be required to stop it & to shut down the UK-based weapons manufacturers that are helping to enable it."

"We support Palestine Action, & we call on all people of conscience & goodwill to join us in doing so."

3 May letter to British government officials from UK Law profs

https://statecrime.org/2026/05/03/we-oppose-genocide-so-we-support-palestine-action/

#UKPol #USPol #EUPol #Palestine #PalestineAction #GazaGenocide .

We oppose genocide so we support Palestine Action

UK law professors declare support for Palestine Action in this open letter opposing genocide and defending the right to nonviolent protest.

skua 2h ago

Aral Balkan 3h ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@IndyMediaAus/116526133479141253

And even this ignores the elephant in the room: That it is Israeli policy to willfully conflate being Jewish with being a Zionist.

Israel is making Jewish people everywhere unsafe by doing this. And it’s on purpose.

The truth is not every Jew is a Zionist and not every Zionist is a Jew.

(Although Zionists will be the first to label any Jew who isn’t a Zionist a “bad Jew” or, as we’ve seen repeatedly, even an “antisemite”. Wait a minute, is Zionism itself antisemitic? Well, duh… does the Pope shit in the Vatican?)

skua 2h ago

Cory Doctorow 19h ago

Dawkins extending more humanity to a language model than he does toward Muslims or trans people is hardly a surprise based on his personal and political views. https://flux.community/matthew-sheffield/2026/05/richard-dawkins-and-the-claude-delusion/

Richard Dawkins and the Claude Delusion - Flux

Flux

skua 2h ago

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Jonathan May 29, 2025

Every stated principle is a lie. It's all pure unadulterated hypocrisy.

The Republican party stands for nothing but dirty tricks, steal the money, and kick you in the teeth.

They want to keep people stupid, poor, and mad.

skua 2h ago

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Jonathan 1d ago

From a different story but from same event at which Trump spoke:

" “I mean, you get a guy who gets in there, he’s got a good line of crap. He gets in, and all of a sudden, you’re stuck with a man who’s a moron,” Trump said. “This is not good" "

skua 2h ago

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Jonathan 11h ago

Oh this is a _defensive war_ of Choosing to Attack Iran for No Real Reason Other Than to Distract from the Epstein Files and Because Netanyahu Asked Nicely*

...

(Full name: *and Thereby Roiling the Global Energy Markets, Causing Inflation, and Killing People Who Can't Afford Food)

skua 3h ago

Mastodon Migration 1d ago

AI Free Label for Software, Writing, Art and Music Free of AI Generated Content

Last week we had a Fedi Hive Mind collaboration to come up with a label for AI Free content. This is the result of that effort.

Download the ZIP file including the original ODG graphics file and multiple PNG image file resolutions.

ZIP: https://drive.proton.me/urls/K0M4DNQR5G#wAB43eU9zHM5

Follow @AIFree for all AI Free graphics and related posts.

Special thanks to @BoneHouseWasps for the graphics work!

https://mstdn.social/@AIFree/116518630216163799

#AIFree

skua 3h ago

Got onto the Instance Timeline by mistake.

A flood of Gemini AI promoters had me blocking, blocking, blocking.

Then I realised ... hmmm - at least My Timeline looks good.

Though I'll still do a quick search for "Google Home’s Gemini AI can handle more complicated requests" and sanction promoters.

#AIBubble #AIInfluencers #AISlop

skua 3h ago

tools for commensality 🧿1d ago

Nancy Fraser: "'Gaza’, I’ve suggested here, signals many things, but not least the crisis of the West’s moral order. If it now bids to replace ‘Auschwitz’ as the reigning symbol for human atrocity, might ‘Gaza’ also contain the principle of hope—of solidarity and social justice, self-determination and reconstruction, repair and care for the planet?"

https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii158/articles/nancy-fraser-gaza-as-world-event

Nancy Fraser, Gaza as World Event, NLR 158, March–April 2026

The global reverberations of Israel’s destruction of Gaza, understood as world event—an epochal turning point which serves to reveal the changing nature of the times. Philosophical, political and personal reflections on the rise of a new philosemitic McCarthyism in Germany and the US.

New Left Review

Interest 1	The purposes of commercialised aged care. And the cultural pressures against humane alternatives.
Interest 2	Abundance/scarcity tension and how that relates to purpose and meaning.
Interest 3	Ritual, spectacle and consuming.
Interest 4	Grounded science / junk science. No-holds-barred science and rational, collegial science as well.