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  Albanese #auspol open to “changing copyright laws in a bid to attract AI investment in Australia. #ai #technology #crime #copyright I’m so angry. Legalising theft. Never ever talking about how indiscriminate use of AI & #tech is destroying our environment & climate. #environment #climatechange #energy #water #fossilfuels #australia https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-20/albanese-visits-apple-hq-urges-us-china-deal-on-ai/107173474

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  #australia #usa #capitalism shameful values “Australians on jobseeker are up to 10 times more likely to die than those not on welfare support” “Currently, jobseeker payments are almost 1/2 the poverty line – roughly $300 a week less than what would be needed for a single person to be right on the poverty line” https://www.theguardian.com/business/grogonomics/2026/sep/17/australians-jobseeker-dying-in-poverty

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  Two perspectives 1/2 first “concessions that the Greens secured were meaningful, decreasing the amount of logging that could occur outside the park boundaries & enshrining the commitment of NSW Labor not to sell the credits to fossil fuel companies in federal law. #nature #trees #climatechange #australia Labor admitted for the first time that coal & gas should be treated differently, turn off the tap for the coal & gas industry.’” https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/lots-of-hu...

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  The industry minister, Tim Ayres said there was nothing inconsistent about pursuing renewable advantages while backing coal exports, telling the Newcastle Herald it was "not some sort of moral competition". #climatechange #environment #pollution #australia IT IS absolutely 💯 a moral & existential ISSUE https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/australia-fossil-fuel-subsidy-renewables-cop31-b3020908.html

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  https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/environment/2026/07/18/how-trump-linked-company-exploiting-data-centre-beetaloo #australia #ai #tech NT government pushes to make the Beetaloo ‘the data centre capital of the globe’ via a Trump-linked resources company. Yet another climate & environment disaster - if 100% reliance on gas = 4 million tonnes of carbon dioxide pa + the area has a number of threatened species & is a freaking semi-desert (high heat, water poor) Greens &am...

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  The #australia #victoria govt is about to create a new panel with power over public land, but no duty to protect nature. Why do we have to fight to protect our environment over and over again? #environment #capitalism #nature #auspol https://vnpa.org.au/dont-erode-protections-for-our-parks/#msdynmkt_trackingcontext=63529f76-f986-4a35-a158-626597230200&msdynmkt_prefill=mktprf35bbb9b9bb0e431e983d73410a2bf7a6eoprf

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  #auspol is regulating data centres so they are required to run on renewable energy & not use public water? Yeah. Nah. The lies 🤦🏻‍♀️ #ai #datacenters #emissions #energy #water #environment #climatechange https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbU2AvbjCpk/

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  RE: https://aus.social/@ApaulD/117001683091404867 🤦🏻‍♀️ https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jul/29/queensland-northern-territory-reject-ai-datacentre-renewable-energy #auspol #technology #ai #politics #pollution

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  @juicemedia update on obscene inequality & humanity’s gentle slide back into feudalism #technology #ai #billionaires #taxtherich “the underlying problem are these billionaire shitc*nts” https://youtu.be/mBW9QCVDSjY Follow BeyondBillionaires_au@mastodon.social

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  How would Mark Zuckerberg survive? #billionaires #taxtherich Or Gina Reinhart? They’d still have the money to buy our system #politics #democracy http://youtube.com/post/UgkxGfYPDYHhOgCO_ti0SuAEO9TEcAZWeDAB

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  “the Albanese government has defended the fact that its so-called safeguard mechanism policy allows new gas & coal mines to proceed as long as they buy some carbon offsets…Now a state Labor premier is saying that he wouldn’t be willing to sell carbon offsets to coal or gas projects because he concedes it is scientifically meaningless to pretend you can offset fossil fuel expansion’s harm to the climate by not chopping down a tree…an extraordinary admission” #auspol #energy #environment #...

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  ‘The world has changed’: Fight to bring back a carbon price. https://www.afr.com/policy/energy-and-climate/the-world-has-changed-fight-to-bring-back-a-carbon-price-20260723-p60hyd (and stop exporting our emissions) #australia #climatechange #politics https://archive.md/nLaRs

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  Literally not one word about WHY 10s of thousands of people flee Morocco. #politics #war #climatechange #food underlying drivers of regional migration across North Africa: state violence, poverty, climate change effects - drought, floods, storms, food insecurity https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/31/ceuta-spain-morocco-border-deaths

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  It’s called ‘taking the piss’. #billionaires #taxtherich #australia We need a 50% tax on ALL fossil fuels exports. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/aug/01/adani-to-pay-no-company-tax-despite-1bn-revenue-from-queensland-coalmine

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  If you can, before this SUNDAY please make a submission opposing the HVO Continuation which is the largest coal mine ever considered under NSW planning law. Submissions are very easy to make and it doesn’t matter if you don’t live in NSW. Lock The Gate have provided an easy guide and links to the submission page. https://www.lockthegate.org.au/hvo_ipc_submissions #australia #politics #coal #environment

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  “destructive scanning” – buying physical books, slicing off the spines to more efficiently scan the pages, then pulping the remains…understood to be widespread among generative AI companies. #ai #technology “If it’s a book that has that storytelling element to it, or it’s a one-off, it’s horrific.” https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/02/australian-book-sellers-alarm-destruction-rare-titles-ai-supply-chain

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  Hannah Arendt always an inspiration. The antidote to totalitarianism #democracy #politics #oligarchy #technology So let me name the soil that all of this grows in. One word: loneliness. And I mean something exact by it - not solitude, which is being alone with yourself and and your thinking, something every good mind needs. Loneliness is the opposite. It is being deserted by everyone, including finally yourself - cut off so completely that you lose even the inner companion that thinking prov...

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  You know how tech people said store your data in the “cloud”? And you know that oh so convenient Chat GPT? That so-called “cloud” is actually a great big warehouse full of computers storing our files and powering all of that AI. Using a shit load of energy & water, & emitting noise #ai #pollution #energy #water #environment #climatechange

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  RE: https://mastodonapp.uk/@MartMichaelis/116671448480100602 And yet “Australia’s rise as a household energy powerhouse has done nothing to change its ongoing support for fossil fuel expansion. It remains a world-leading exporter of coal and gas, with the Albanese government having approved 36 polluting developments since its election four years ago” #climatechange #climate

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  Introducing Murdoch Mark 2. #media Australia’s richest person, Gina, just bought herself a political party (one nation). Now she’s setting herself up to control information & disinformation. #australia #politics #auspol #democracy The Heritage Foundation / Atlas Network playbook. #AtlasNetwork She’s a multi-billionaire. She can afford it. #taxtherich https://theconversation.com/gina-rinehart-and-southern-cross-austereo-what-do-billionaire-media-buyouts-mean-for-democracy-283971

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  RE: https://aus.social/@mojo/116672950519580558 “At the root of all our problems stands one travesty: politicians surrender to the super rich” George Monbiot

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  Sick of billionaires wrecking the joint? #justice #billionaires #taxtherich They blame migrants. So you don’t blame millionaires. #politics #auspol Join us at www.beyondbillionaires.org

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  We have the solutions. They include a hefty tax on billionaires. #justice #billionaires #taxtherich https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/04/world-inequality-lab-equality-academics-planetary-survival

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  Fortescue Mining accepts more than $300 million in this Commonwealth subsidy annually and nothing precludes the miner from refusing it. #australia #auspol #mining Forrest calls publicly for its abolition safe in the knowledge that will never happen. It’s the perfect scenario. He gets to be the green messiah in his cream linen suit & he gets to keep the money, too. #tax #taxtherich Not unlike Twiggy calling Woodside’s Scarborough project “a carbon bomb” while he’s building… *checks n...

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  We need an un-compromised state premier who supports policy that will mean we live within planetary boundaries, who prioritises social & environmental good for the 99%. #auspol #elections #climatechange #environment Oh hang on, there’s a whole party that does that 🤦🏻‍♀️ https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jun/06/jacinta-allan-leadership-spill-rumours-victorian-labor-election

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  rising sea level impact right now in Nigeria #climatechange Australia’s population majority lives along its shores It will happen here #australia https://youtube.com/shorts/hqBP6BOJlEI

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  Local artist Light Guerrilla projected "TAX THE RICH" on the side of Mark Zuckerberg's boat while it was docked at Seattle's Lake Union. 👏 Let’s do this to our billionaires. And politicians #australia #protest #billionaires #taxtherich

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  billionaires imploding economies #economy #billionaires #ai #tech “concern that expected wild rises in prices in AI stocks is likely to cause a stampede, so much money into ever fewer billionaires, that US and world economy at risk of implosion” Let’s have a citizens’ assembly on data centres. #australia #democracy #citizensassemblies https://youtu.be/Gq4v_TRb2eU

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  billionaires imploding economies #economy #billionaires #ai #tech “concern that expected wild rises in prices in AI stocks is likely to cause a stampede, so much money into ever fewer billionaires, that US and world economy at risk of implosion” Let’s have a citizens’ assembly on data centres. #australia #democracy #citizensassemblies https://youtu.be/Gq4v_TRb2eU

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  Billionaire owners & corporations can afford to clean up pollution. And pay compensation for their appalling climate pollution. We shouldn’t have to do this. Why doesn’t our government make them. #auspol #pollution #billionaires #taxtherich #australia #taxwealthnotwork