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Short break ↙︎ — posted 18/04/25, tagged as

mind reader will be on a short holiday until next week. Rest assured more terrifying links collected from across my favourite websites will be back in your RSSosphere soon — and I am midway through brewing some cracking dispatches too. Stay rebellious.
Discord Begins Testing Facial Scans for Age Verification ↗︎
↳ It’s really getting ridiculously invasive. You name it and they are trying to invade your privacy with it. — added 2:21pm on 18/04/25 ❧
‘Predicted Chinese’, ‘predicted Jewish’: Liberals accidentally leave voter-tracking data exposed ↗︎
↳ A touch of racial profiling for your Friday. — added 12:05pm on 18/04/25 ❧
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The Call to Execute Luigi Mangione Is Indefensible ↗︎
↳ A good take. — added 6:35pm on 17/04/25 ❧
Dutton and Albanese dodge difficult questions in second leaders debate ↗︎
↳ It feels to me that we’re in our commit to absolutely nothing era. Fight over identity territory that has no basis in policy or government and then keep the populace lallygagging about ceaselessly divisive nonsense. Pretend you can’t see the genocides, coal mines, and human rights atrocities our government is supporting. — added 10:22am on 17/04/25 ❧
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Europeans have been told to pack survival kits. Should Aussies do it too? ↗︎
↳ Just a bit of fear. — added 1:28pm on 16/04/25 ❧
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DeepSeek and chip bans have supercharged AI innovation in China ↗︎
↳ It’ll be good if this continues to create more environmentally friendly systems. Right now the environmental cost of AI far outweighs the pros. — added 8:43pm on 15/04/25 ❧
Three nightmare Trump scenarios we should be planning for ↗︎
↳ Instead we’ve got two major parties vying for Trump’s affections. Vote green. — added 8:42pm on 15/04/25 ❧
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For the First Time, Artificial Intelligence is Being Used at a Nuclear Power Plant ↗︎
↳ Oh, no worries, what could possibly … hallucinate? — added 6:01pm on 14/04/25 ❧
The Method in the Far Right’s Madness ↗︎
↳ The same racist, sexist and anti-queer bullshit they’ve been using for years. And yes, western science still calls a lot of it science. — added 9:35am on 14/04/25 ❧
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Leaked Data Reveals Massive Israeli Campaign to Remove Pro-Palestine Posts on Facebook and Instagram ↗︎
↳ The use of social media for the promulgation of hegemonic views is so immediately concerning because it’s “social” media. Both artefact and product of civil society. — added 4:00pm on 13/04/25 ❧
The Kids Are Leaning Right: How the Manosphere Is Shaping Voters ↗︎
↳ Strong left wing leadership is urgently needed. — added 10:18am on 13/04/25 ❧
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US Consumer Sentiment Plummets to Second-Lowest Level in Over 75 Years ↗︎
↳ Yeah but voting Republican for the economy, hey? Same way voting for the Liberals and Dutton absolutely will not help in Australia. — added 8:58am on 12/04/25 ❧
Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre set for most substantial water fill in at least 15 years ↗︎
↳ The knock on effects of climate change are so substantial. The dominoes of flooding, etc are so under accounted for. — added 7:42am on 12/04/25 ❧
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White House Confirms Trump Is Exploring Ways To ‘Deport’ U.S. Citizens ↗︎
↳ Offshore detention? Of your own citizens? What an amazing person he is. — added 2:05pm on 11/04/25 ❧