Let’s make sure the labelling debacle is the last time a health harming industry is allowed to set the conditions of their own regulation.

New alcohol labels should have been introduced today, but lobbyists derailed them - Alcohol Action Ireland

“Joe Lim estimates that 90 percent of what you see on the internet is advertising in disguise, and he should know”

The Feed Is Fake - Vulture

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Have a great day everyone. Remember that other people’s opinions of you are just fan theories.

Budget for a broken social contract

Greg Jericho on last night’s budget, and the kicking it gives to people with disabilities:

And so now we have a government saying those with disabilities need to be kicked off the NDIS because gas companies need their profits…

Most people know someone on the NDIS, and few would think they are rorting it. The problem, of course, is that the NDIS is a Productivity Commission idea, which believes the private sector delivers better efficiency than the public sector.

It never does. It always leads to profiteering and worse service and yet when you are beholden to neo-liberalism, what need have you for reality?…

Because people know with such things what happens is the shonks rort the system and get away with it, while those with disabilities need to endure the cuts because ‘spending is out of control’.

The hacker code of conduct will protect us:

“Instructure says the cybercriminals have returned the hacked personal data and offered assurance “that no Instructure customers will be extorted as a result of this incident.”"

For today’s icebreaker we’ll be sorting ourselves into budget winners and budget losers.

Hard to walk back the impact of this paper though…

Influential study touting ChatGPT in education retracted over red flags

>Australian universities and colleges have built a sophisticated global recruitment machine – particularly from developing nations – but it’s hard not to conclude they are doing the bare minimum when it comes to the welfare and wellbeing of the students they attract.

An important argument, powerfully put by Erin Longbottom. We have an obligation to do better, sectorally and personally.

Good morning

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I’m glad Webex exists because it’s a helpful reminder that there are worse options that I could be forced to use.

More on the Job Ready Graduates Program, a failed, deeply inequitable policy that needs immediate reform:

“The [2025] modelling… shows the number of students with debts over $50,000 has increased by 70%, and humanities students are set to pay off their debts into their 40s.”

One in four humanities students in Australia to take more than 25 years to pay off student loans, Treasury finds - The Guardian

When considering what’s the purpose of Anzac Day, we should pay as much attention to what people do as to what they say:

“…a number of crowd members booed loudly and repeatedly during an Acknowledgment of Country by Uncle Ray Minniecon…

“We have experienced this type of racism for over 200 years,” he told media after the service. “One of the questions that we have in our minds is: What crime did we commit to attract this kind of racism?””

Loud boos mar Anzac Day dawn services in Martin Place and Melbourne - SMH

I thought you’re not supposed to go to war with your own client states (he says nervously)

Could Trump withdraw US support for UK sovereignty of Falklands? - The Guardian

“…we have a choice about who we want to be as a society. For me, that choice is clear. I want to live in a country where people seeking safety are not treated as risks to be managed, but as people to be protected. Because safety should not come with conditions. And belonging should not depend on how we are described.”

Angus Taylor’s comments remind refugees like me that our belonging is conditional - Thouraya Lahmadi

One day, all this will be yours gestures at box

An open red Viennetta Silver Server box sits on a wooden sideboard beside a glass jug and a decorative teacup. Inside the box is a silver-coloured serving spoon designed for serving Viennetta, a layered frozen dessert. It was widely marketed in the ‘80s and ‘90s as a slightly fancy dessert for family dinners and special occasions.An open red Viennetta Silver Server box sits on a wooden sideboard beside a glass jug and a decorative teacup. Inside the box is a silver-coloured serving spoon designed for serving Viennetta, a layered frozen dessert. It was widely marketed in the ‘80s and ‘90s as a slightly fancy dessert for family dinners and special occasions.

Turmoil has engulfed the [update]. The taxation of trade routes to [insert] is in dispute. Hoping to resolve the matter with a blockade of deadly battleships, the greedy [update] has stopped all shipping to [insert name].

Trump has said the US will begin a blockade of the strait of Hormuz

Good morning

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World held hostage by reliance on fossil fuels, Christiana Figueres warns – and climate health impacts are ‘mother of all injustices’ - The Guardian

In March, research published in the international science journal Nature found that ocean levels had been underestimated due to inaccurate modelling. In some areas of the global south, including south-east Asia and the Indo-Pacific, they may be 100cm to 150cm higher than previously thought.

Instead of disrupting art, illustration, graphic design, education, journalism, copywriting, marketing, translation, software development, legal services, accounting, voice acting, and music production, why don’t overconfident technology midwits disrupt PRINTERS

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