Tania Lou Smith
@tlousmith.bsky.social
Wow realised I know of 4 people who have been made redundant this past fortnight. Aged between 20 - 60 years. In banking, retail, care sector and a non profit.
October 4, 2026 at 6:57 AM
Wow realised I know of 4 people who have been made redundant this past fortnight. Aged between 20 - 60 years. In banking, retail, care sector and a non profit.
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Saw your man pushing a boulder up the hill. He looked tired
September 26, 2026 at 3:49 AM
Saw your man pushing a boulder up the hill. He looked tired
Great thread and reminder that we can resist ❤️
1/ People keep saying AI is inevitable. History disagrees. Plenty of technologies were called unstoppable, and societies stopped them or shrank them down to a niche. A thread 🧵
September 25, 2026 at 9:08 AM
Great thread and reminder that we can resist ❤️
Reading about air pods with cameras and apple watches that are ‘always on’ (recording) and I just want to scream….
September 24, 2026 at 8:43 AM
Reading about air pods with cameras and apple watches that are ‘always on’ (recording) and I just want to scream….
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Norwegian humor is on another level.
Here's how the Norwegian Consumer Council explained @doctorow.pluralistic.net's concept of 'enshittification':
Here's how the Norwegian Consumer Council explained @doctorow.pluralistic.net's concept of 'enshittification':
September 22, 2026 at 8:29 AM
Norwegian humor is on another level.
Here's how the Norwegian Consumer Council explained @doctorow.pluralistic.net's concept of 'enshittification':
Here's how the Norwegian Consumer Council explained @doctorow.pluralistic.net's concept of 'enshittification':
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“You wouldn’t steal the entirety of human knowledge”
Oh actually, you would.
Oh actually, you would.
PM meets Tim Cook at Apple HQ, leaves door open to copyright law change in AI race
Albanese visits Apple HQ, warns Australia can't sit on sidelines of AI race
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has not ruled out changing copyright laws to attract AI investment from tech giants, warning Australia needs to be "forward leaning" if it is to help shape the development of the increasingly powerful technology.
www.abc.net.au
September 19, 2026 at 11:33 PM
“You wouldn’t steal the entirety of human knowledge”
Oh actually, you would.
Oh actually, you would.
Finally some coverage (in @thesaturdaypaper.com.au) on the damaging effect of Sky/News 24 contract throughout regional Australia.
September 18, 2026 at 8:35 PM
Finally some coverage (in @thesaturdaypaper.com.au) on the damaging effect of Sky/News 24 contract throughout regional Australia.
Algorithms for funding packages for support need human oversight… you don’t say… Are they going to do the same for the NDIS? #Auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Health officials in turmoil over 11th-hour backflip on aged care algorithm override powers, emails reveal
Ministers given emergency briefing about changes to algorithm decisions just three days before tool rollout
www.theguardian.com
September 17, 2026 at 12:31 AM
Algorithms for funding packages for support need human oversight… you don’t say… Are they going to do the same for the NDIS? #Auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Meanwhile, Don’t Break Our Arts! in Victoria: dont-break-our-arts.ghost.io/coming-soon/
Don't break our arts
The arts and culture in Victoria are in crisis. Funding from Creative Victoria to the most important part of the sector – artists and small-to-medium cultural organisations – has declined 35% in 2022 ...
dont-break-our-arts.ghost.io
September 16, 2026 at 1:56 AM
Meanwhile, Don’t Break Our Arts! in Victoria: dont-break-our-arts.ghost.io/coming-soon/
Australian creatives ‘thrown under the bus’ - holy hell wasn’t Albo trumpeting recently about how Australian copyright is sacred? Hmmm…. #Auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Labor accused of throwing creatives ‘under the bus’ with proposal to ease copyright protections for AI giants
Compromise revealed as senior personnel from OpenAI, creator of ChatGPT, meets Albanese ministers
www.theguardian.com
September 16, 2026 at 1:55 AM
Australian creatives ‘thrown under the bus’ - holy hell wasn’t Albo trumpeting recently about how Australian copyright is sacred? Hmmm…. #Auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Absolutely mind boggling that Australia's Signals Directorate has given Israeli phone hacking company Cellebrite secret security clearance to handle sensitive Government data. Our data.
September 7, 2026 at 4:33 AM
Absolutely mind boggling that Australia's Signals Directorate has given Israeli phone hacking company Cellebrite secret security clearance to handle sensitive Government data. Our data.
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"We (NDIS) are the guinea pigs for the rest of you" @criprights
Claudia Weisenberger investigates how they gave Palantir & Cellebrite access to Australians' data and what total surveillance means
#auspol
michaelwest.com.au/palantir-cel...
Claudia Weisenberger investigates how they gave Palantir & Cellebrite access to Australians' data and what total surveillance means
#auspol
michaelwest.com.au/palantir-cel...
Nothing to Hide? Everything to Lose - Michael West
Australian Governments have given surveillance companies Palantir and Cellebrite access to our data, including NDIS, via AUSTRAC
michaelwest.com.au
September 4, 2026 at 10:03 PM
"We (NDIS) are the guinea pigs for the rest of you" @criprights
Claudia Weisenberger investigates how they gave Palantir & Cellebrite access to Australians' data and what total surveillance means
#auspol
michaelwest.com.au/palantir-cel...
Claudia Weisenberger investigates how they gave Palantir & Cellebrite access to Australians' data and what total surveillance means
#auspol
michaelwest.com.au/palantir-cel...
Kudos to these families for speaking up on the awful record of abuse, including sexual abuse, of children with disability in specialist schools. We need inclusive education! www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
Special school sexual abuse allegations with authorities, premier says
The Victorian premier says allegations of almost two decades of sexual abuse at a Traralgon special school are "harrowing".
www.abc.net.au
September 2, 2026 at 7:12 PM
Kudos to these families for speaking up on the awful record of abuse, including sexual abuse, of children with disability in specialist schools. We need inclusive education! www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
‘When this goes wrong and people are harmed, will the architects of this system face criminal prosecution? Or will history simply repeat itself?’ - Claudia Weisenberger in Michael West media on the NDIS Bill vote, and q’s around Palantir. michaelwest.com.au/robodebt-enc...
Robodebt encore? Palantir lurks as MPs shirk vote, NDIS Bill passes - Michael West
Politicians went AWOL from Parliament by the dozen on the NDIS vote amid denials about automation and Palantir's role. Is this Robobdebt II?
michaelwest.com.au
August 26, 2026 at 9:09 PM
‘When this goes wrong and people are harmed, will the architects of this system face criminal prosecution? Or will history simply repeat itself?’ - Claudia Weisenberger in Michael West media on the NDIS Bill vote, and q’s around Palantir. michaelwest.com.au/robodebt-enc...
Doing Time on @3crmelbourne.bsky.social is on and discussing the campaign against strip searching in prisons - it’s even done to kids! 10 year olds! Sign the petition: c.org/jFhFKYwdkg
Sign the Petition
Petition to Australian Governments: Ban Strip Searches in Australian Prisons
c.org
August 24, 2026 at 6:38 AM
Doing Time on @3crmelbourne.bsky.social is on and discussing the campaign against strip searching in prisons - it’s even done to kids! 10 year olds! Sign the petition: c.org/jFhFKYwdkg
Miele Laderman Ukeles did one at the New York Sanitation Department in the 1970s! (she created one)
more places should have artists-in-residence. like there should be a residency where you live on a particular train for a month. there should be an oil rig residency, an arctic research station residency. maybe a residency at a zoo
August 18, 2026 at 8:36 AM
Miele Laderman Ukeles did one at the New York Sanitation Department in the 1970s! (she created one)
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🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: ASIO no. 2 is being rushed through parliament this week.
This is the bill that allows warrantless questioning by ASIO, without a lawyer, and you can't tell a soul without being sent to prison.
Share this widely and make some noise.
This is the bill that allows warrantless questioning by ASIO, without a lawyer, and you can't tell a soul without being sent to prison.
Share this widely and make some noise.
August 18, 2026 at 2:12 AM
🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: ASIO no. 2 is being rushed through parliament this week.
This is the bill that allows warrantless questioning by ASIO, without a lawyer, and you can't tell a soul without being sent to prison.
Share this widely and make some noise.
This is the bill that allows warrantless questioning by ASIO, without a lawyer, and you can't tell a soul without being sent to prison.
Share this widely and make some noise.
Listening to David Pocock now speaking in the debate about the NDIS Bill and so grateful for his opposition to this Bill. Some of his words ‘unprecedented… worrying’ #Auspol
August 17, 2026 at 2:04 AM
Listening to David Pocock now speaking in the debate about the NDIS Bill and so grateful for his opposition to this Bill. Some of his words ‘unprecedented… worrying’ #Auspol
This is why this NDIS Bill is so dangerous. Govt should be making legislation that imagines the worst future govt is in power - what could they do under it? Are we not watching other examples? Or history?
The bill for the massive cuts to the NDIS show a future Health Minister could essentially kill the NDIS without even having to legislate it.
Chief Economist Greg Jericho unpacks the bill. Listen here ⤵️
https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/the-impact-of-the-governments-massive-ndis-cuts
Chief Economist Greg Jericho unpacks the bill. Listen here ⤵️
https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/the-impact-of-the-governments-massive-ndis-cuts
August 11, 2026 at 11:25 PM
This is why this NDIS Bill is so dangerous. Govt should be making legislation that imagines the worst future govt is in power - what could they do under it? Are we not watching other examples? Or history?
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“So, while everyone has read stories about shonky NDIS providers, is NDIS fraud really more widespread than other types of fraud in the federal budget?” writes Chris Coombes.
Read the full piece on The Point: thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
Read the full piece on The Point: thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
August 10, 2026 at 4:33 AM
“So, while everyone has read stories about shonky NDIS providers, is NDIS fraud really more widespread than other types of fraud in the federal budget?” writes Chris Coombes.
Read the full piece on The Point: thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
Read the full piece on The Point: thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
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From Inclusion Australia (peak body for people with intellectual disability) on Centerlink/TCF welfare penalties being switched back on. This will hurt people with disability: TCF must be removed and proper compensation for everyone harmed.
August 7, 2026 at 3:28 AM
From Inclusion Australia (peak body for people with intellectual disability) on Centerlink/TCF welfare penalties being switched back on. This will hurt people with disability: TCF must be removed and proper compensation for everyone harmed.