- Outer suburban Brisbane voters could be Queensland’s new ‘silent majority’ ↗︎ « This is going to be one to watch for signalling the federal election. Working “crime” into the title and slug is always artfully shitty behaviour by the ABC. —
- Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source ↗︎ « Fuck off venture capitalist bros. Leave the brilliant open source software alone. Ugh. —
- US to probe Tesla’s ‘Full Self-Driving’ system after pedestrian killed in low visibility conditions ↗︎ « Remember when they argued that they could do all the self driving shit without LIDAR because their cameras were so good? Yeah more horse shit from Elon. —
- Labor retains power in ACT election despite negative swing ↗︎ « Very troubling. The ACT is our most left leaning voting populous. Yes both Labor and Liberal are fascist, but let’s not start barracking for the hard fascists??? —
- Bandai Namco reportedly tries to bore staff into quitting, skirting Japan’s labor laws ↗︎ « They’re literally doing solitary confinement, psychological warfare, and other military tactics to break workers spirits. Just what in the shit. —
- Tucker Carlson Funded by Russia’s RT, Justin Trudeau Says ↗︎ « I’m not even sure where to begin with this. Tucker has always been an absolute piece of shit. Social media should never be trusted, and foreign state actors that want to pull people into divisive, genocidal and xenophobic rhetorics need to go to hell. —
- Is gas worse for the climate than coal? Landmark study sets off political, industry firestorm ↗︎ « It’s at least equally as bad — and it’s still subsidised for builders to install in this backwards country. Everything should be electric and have a minimum solar/wind install. But hey, gotta hand out those government dollars to lobbyists. —
- A South Australian Handmaid’s Tale: Inside the room where a Trumpian abortion bill was narrowly defeated ↗︎ « It’s happening here, and we need to be vigilant — the rising ultra right need to be stopped. Also great article by former colleagues! —
- Amazon cloud boss says employees unhappy with 5-day office mandate can leave ↗︎ « And leaving is what we should be doing. Alongside forming unions and pushing for fairer conditions. We all saw how much work can be done remote — and that should always be a choice the worker makes, not the capitalist. —
- Labour just oversaw a £1.3 BILLION SELL-OFF of NHS services to a private equity firm ↗︎ « Labour there Labor here, terrible neoliberal shitbags the lot of them. —
- Big Tech is Trying to Burn Privacy to the Ground–And They’re Using Big Tobacco’s Strategy to Do It ↗︎ « The reason, naturally, is money and hegemonic enforcement. We need this to be stopped - write to your politicians. —
- Google Chrome’s uBlock Origin phaseout has begun ↗︎ « If you’re a Chrome user, do yourself a favour and become a Firefox (or Zen Browser, librewolf, etc) user instead. Not only does Chrome now stop you from blocking ads to make the internet tolerable, it has for a long time told Google everything you’re doing online - even in private browsing. Yeah, that’s why the haemorrhoid ads are following you (lol idk, but you get the idea). —
- Quantitative susceptibility mapping at 7 T in COVID-19: brainstem effects and outcome associations ↗︎ « So, yeah, it causes brain damage (in some cases). But you know, “get back to work proles”. —
- Global water crisis leaves half of world food production at risk in next 25 years ↗︎ « Not surprising but still terrifying. We need action *now* not tomorrow, not “by 2030”. Now. —
- Age Verification Threatens Everyone’s Speech and Privacy ↗︎ « Same for the Australian verification bs. Won’t stop kids going on social media, will ensure everything done online is intimately traceable to a real human (rather than just a relatively concrete idea of a human, I guess). —