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The Surrender Summit: Trump Sends His Son-in-Law to Lose a War ‘Vance brought his wife. Not a deputy secretary. Not a general. Not even a halfway competent mid-level State Department lifer who at least knows what the Strait of Hormuz is on a map. He brought Usha. His wife. To a war negotiation. The most consequential diplomatic moment since the end of the Cold War and JD thought, yeah, I’ll make a long weekend of it, bring the missus, see Pakistan. Pakistan received the Iranians with their Foreign Minister, their Army Chief, their National Assembly Speaker, and their Interior Minister all standing on the tarmac in full ceremonial dress. America sent the guy who wrote a book about how sad it is to be from Ohio. And then there’s Jared Kushner. Jared fucking Kushner. A man whose entire qualification for any of this is that he married into the right family, which, by the way, is also his business model, his foreign policy experience, and apparently now his military strategy. Jared has the energy of a guy who’s never been told no in his life because everyone around him was either paid not to or too scared to. He walked into the Middle East peace process last time and achieved absolutely nothing except making himself several hundred million dollars richer. So naturally Donald called him again. Jared Kushner at peace talks is like bringing your plumber to do brain surgery because he’s good with pipes and you trust him.’ ifloz.substack.com/p/the-surrende…

“If it’s already happening now, then what does a future that is two or three degrees warmer hold?” Australian researchers have found that extreme heat mortality is "seriously underreported” theguardian.com/environment/20…

When the Iran war started and fuel prices went up, Labor ministers were telling the Parliament and public that the ACCC was cracking down on fuel price gouging. But the ACCC wasn’t, because it couldn’t. The Govt knew it but were engaging in deceit. #auspol michaelwest.com.au/fuel-price-gou…

🦔A researcher invented a fake eye condition called bixonimania, uploaded two obviously fraudulent papers about it to an academic server, and watched major AI systems present it as real medicine within weeks. The fake papers thanked Starfleet Academy, cited funding from the Professor Sideshow Bob Foundation and the University of Fellowship of the Ring, and stated mid-paper that the entire thing was made up. Google's Gemini told users it was caused by blue light. Perplexity cited its prevalence at one in 90,000 people. ChatGPT advised users whether their symptoms matched. The fake research was then cited in a peer-reviewed journal that only retracted it after Nature contacted the publisher. My Take The researcher made the papers as obviously fake as possible on purpose. The AI systems didn't catch it. Neither did the human researchers who cited it in real journals, which means people are feeding AI-generated references into their work without reading what they're actually citing. I've covered the FDA using AI for drug review, the NYC hospital CEO ready to replace radiologists, and ChatGPT Health launching this year. All of that is happening in the same environment where a condition funded by a Simpsons character and endorsed by the crew of the Enterprise was being presented as emerging medical consensus. The people making these deployment decisions seem to believe the pipeline from research to AI to patient is more supervised than it actually is. This experiment suggests it isn't supervised much at all. Hedgie🤗 nature.com/articles/d4158…

When did disagreeing with someone become grounds for destroying their life's work? The Grace Tame Foundation is closing. Not because protecting children stopped mattering. Because a small, powerful, organised group pressured sponsors and event bookers until the funding collapsed. No court. No law broken. No democratic process. That is not a debate. That is a veto. Grace Tame is still standing. Her foundation isn't. We should all be asking why. Debate is democratic. Defunding is not. Know the difference. Cowardice dressed as conviction fools no one. Read the full piece and decide for yourself. 👇 open.substack.com/pub/suebarrett… #auspol @deniseshrivell @aaronsmith @TheNoisyTrunk

I was taught to speak up about injustice. Thank you to Caitlin Cassidy and The Guardian for taking me on a walk and giving me the opportunity to shine a light on the glaring injustice in how we fund public and private schools. theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/n…

Mr Pezzullo was scratching Mr Briggs' back (with info) while Briggs was scratching Pezzullo's back (with influence). Yet Pezzullo didn't declare a conflict-of-interest when Home Affairs was considering a contract it gave to Briggs🤦‍♂️. #breach #auspol michaelwest.com.au/mike-pezzullo-…

@MrRexPatrick @ScoMo30 @AlboMP Hi @MrRexPatrick - a gentle reminder that we are still 'during' Covid. The emergency phase was ended by the WHO but they continue to advise that the Pandemic is still ongoing and Covid is constantly circulating. The risk of Long Covid increases with every infection.

During COVID @ScoMo30 set up National Cabinet and made everything about it secret. I challenged that secrecy, and won. @AlboMP is now trying to re-establish secrecy over National Cabinet as this gun control #FOI request response shows. #SecrecyAddict #RightToKnow #Fight #auspol

Sam Altman is the most dangerous man in Silicon Valley right now. The board that fired him? Replaced. The safety team that questioned his priorities? Dissolved. The nonprofit structure that was supposed to keep mission above profit? Restructured. The employees who wanted to speak out? Silenced – or bought out.

The arts sector in Australia is in crisis, and the federal government thinks encouraging more philanthropy is the answer. But donations from the rich won't fill the gap left by chronic government underfunding. @Skyelark0 #auspol

Oh my 🤦‍♂️. #auspol

The narcissism of theocrats is off the scale.

BREAKING: The Iranian National Security Council: "Within a few hours, if the firing does not stop in southern Lebanon, the air and missile unit will bomb Tel Aviv.."

Ditto the Australian public.

Alleged to have committed war crimes in Afghanistan, tonight Ben Robert-Smith might spend his 1st night behind bars. Found guilty of truth telling, Afghan war crimes whistleblower David McBride is spending his 693rd night behind bars. 1/2 #contrast #auspol theguardian.com/australia-news…

In @nytopinion JD Vance’s choice to stand with Tucker Carlson at an event this Saturday is “a stark reminder of where power resides in the Make America Great Again movement, and where it will likely stay in the years to come,” writes Jason Zengerle. nyti.ms/3MTYGg4

Donald, there’s only one appropriate punishment for Australia - cancel #AUKUS (please)! #auspol

@lesstenny I am from the 60s & 70s. The huge divides between rich & poor. The destruction of public services replaced by for profit &user pays gouging. The denial of climate change. The appalling descent of the US into decadence and corruption. Plus the never ending wars in the Middle East