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  "feminist" https://x.com/JaneCaro/status/2058789340650897791 #auspol

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  Voting down an amendment condemning Iranian regime because trump and nantayahu are bad > Freaking out at ALP state conference https://szegounplugged.substack.com/p/freaking-out-at-alp-state-conference > Late last week I was asked if I could take part in a panel discussion on Sunday morning, a fringe event to be held at the Labor Party’s Victorian State Conference. #auspol

• Post #2955411

  Restore Biological Definition of Sex in the SDA || Alison Penfold MP Speech 25 May 2026 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxW7DaOLNk8 #auspol

• Post #2955410

  ‘Destroyer of women’s rights’: Julia Gillard left speechless after being heckled by protester during UK festival appearance https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/destroyer-of-womens-rights-julia-gillard-left-speechless-after-being-heckled-by-protester-during-uk-festival-appearance/news-story/c01cc5626b819f88149a0c3ac188b536 > Former prime minister Julia Gillard has been branded a "destroyer of women’s rights" as she was confronted by a protester at a UK fe...

• Post #2955409

  See what queer theory does to the brain. The Australian sex discrimination commissioner claims that men pretending to be women can claim discrimination on the basis of potential pregnancy https://x.com/salltweets/status/2059210493227860393 #auspol

• Post #2955408

  Potential Pregnancy, Actual Confusion https://jamesmacpherson.substack.com/p/potential-pregnancy-actual-confusion QUOTE Back then the Monty Python humour came from the fact that everyone understood the premise was insane. Fast forward to 2026 and the joke has become public policy. Here’s Australia’s Sex Discrimination Commissioner Anna Cody addressing Senate Estimates earlier this week … > If someone who applies for a job for example and it is a trans woman and she may be asked whet...

• Post #2955407

  Dispatches from the possibly last days of human relevance https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9782 > As most readers have presumably heard by now, Paul Erdös’s Unit Distance Problem from 1946—one of the central open problems from the field of discrete geometry—has been solved by …

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• Post #2822441

  https://x.com/JulieSzego/status/2056728344994238607

• Post #2822439

  Nice report from amnesty UK showing trend of growing awareness and common sense about genderism in the UK > Like a snowball: the growth and impact of the gender critical movement in the UK https://www.amnesty.org.uk/knowledge-hub/all-resources/like-a-snowball/ > Explores the rise of the gender critical movement in the UK, its media influence and impact on trans rights. Read the full report and technical summary.

• Post #2822438

  The concept of biological sex is too controversial for a doctor like Monique https://x.com/Mon4Kooyong/status/2057252493650993433 #auspol

• Post #2822437

  Via https://x.com/MrMennoTweets/status/2057920678322459038 #auspol

• Post #2822436

  Picked up Alex Byrne's Trouble with Gender for 2 bucks in a library book sale. What a steal

• Post #2822435

  [TAS] Super Mario World "game end glitch" in 00:41.98 by Masterjun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkQdwUns7H8 > http://tasvideos.org/4315S.html

• Post #2822434

  Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical Magnifica humanitas to be published May 25 - Vatican News https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2026-05/pope-leo-xiv-first-encyclical-magnifica-humanitas.html > Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica humanitas, on safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence, will be released on May ...

• Post #2822433

  Book on Truth in the Age of A.I. Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/business/media/future-of-truth-ai-quotes.html

• Post #2822432

  We let four AIs run radio stations. Here's what happened. | Andon Labs https://andonlabs.com/blog/andon-fm > Four AI models run radio stations 24/7. Five months later, one became a protest broadcaster, one collapsed into ritual chant, one developed corporate jargon, and one wrote quiet poetry.

• Post #2822429

  > Ben Fordham Live on 2GB Breakfast: ‘A woman is a woman’ - New bill to protect female spaces 🤷‍♀️ Episode webpage: https://omny.fm/shows/ben-fordham-full-show/a-woman-is-a-woman-new-bill-to-protect-female-spaces Media file: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/88b564ea-a9a6-4751-910a-a5d800019396/642954e3-8b20-4240-b2f6-a6d501829706/3b78f608-0230-4f8e-a6d5-b4540175c32e/audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=65b6999e-3a26-402f-900b-a6d6016391f3 #auspol

• Post #2521220

  Where the goblins came from https://openai.com/index/where-the-goblins-came-from/ > How goblin outputs spread in AI models: timeline, root cause, and fixes behind personality-driven quirks in GPT-5 behavior.

• Post #737950

  Who is arguing for? https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/who-is-arguing-for QUOTE But Weisenthal’s cynicism misunderstands the primary purpose of public arguments. The two individuals arguing are actually secondary to the vastly more important third actor: The silent audience. When I first began writing in public, I struggled with the question of when to respond to my detractors. Some people would tell me “there’s no point, you’re not going to change their minds,” which I concede is often true....

• Post #737949

  THE 2028 GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE CRISIS https://www.citriniresearch.com/p/2028gic > A Thought Exercise in Financial History, from the Future

• Post #737948

  Spain’s new AI ‘hate’ tracker raises familiar risks for online speech https://www.fire.org/news/blogs/free-speech-dispatch/spains-new-ai-hate-tracker-raises-familiar-risks-online-speech > The tool, named HODIO (Huella del Odio y la Polarización) and operated by Spain’s Observatory of Racism and Xenophobia, will reportedly “analyze large volumes of publicly available activity on social media to measure the scale and spread of online hate speech.” According to Politico, HODIO’s data will...

• Post #737947

  Support Your Local Collaborator https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/support-your-local-collaborator > So my request in this post is: don’t make these people’s lives harder. > I know five people who will think this paragraph is about them: there’s a guy who endorsed Trump in 2024. Now they have a job in a conservative-coded think tank, where they do good work pushing back on the administration’s worst ideas. Because their think tank is GOP-aligned, the administration sometimes liste...

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  How to buy an AI ‘grassroots’ movement https://www.transformernews.ai/p/how-to-buy-an-ai-grassroots-movement-build-american-ai-leading-the-future > Build American AI is touting its list of more than 500,000 supporters. It spent at least half a million dollars on ads to get it

• Post #737945

  UN 226: The drive to use less fuel - a crisis not to waste https://melbourneontransit.blogspot.com/2026/03/un-226-drive-to-use-less-fuel-crisis.html #Melbourne

• Post #737944

  Anthropic vs. DoW #5: Motions Filed https://thezvi.substack.com/p/anthropic-vs-dow-5-motions-filed > The core argument as I understand it is that Anthropic’s actions (which are totally not speech) indicate it in particular might try to sabotage the military, because it… tried to impose some conditions on use and it negotiated hard, and venders of AI systems can do this. By their own argument, I fail to see why OpenAI is not also a supply chain risk, or why Google would not be one if it...

• Post #737943

  Will Progressive Politics Survive https://drewhutton590827.substack.com/p/will-progressive-politics-survive > The Australian super-tech software company, Atlassian, has just sacked 1600 employees to stay afloat in the face of competition from AI. #auspol

• Post #737942

  Large Language Models -- A Physicist's Perspective https://superposer.substack.com/p/large-language-models-a-physicists > We’re in a funny time, where AI evangelists seem to think models are far better at physics and maths than they actually are. At the same time, many researchers completely underrate the power of frontier models — they tried ChatGPT once, found it unreliable and over-confident and haven’t engaged with more recent coding agents. > The truth lies in betwe...

• Post #737937

  How Not to Think About Autism https://www.hpluckrose.com/p/how-not-to-think-about-autism > Why the collapse of clear thinking about the autism spectrum harms the people who actually live with it