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@krazykitkat

MSc (Atmospheric Science) by thesis. invisible disability, chronic illness. feminist. bleeding heart leftie. adorer of wonderful women. crazy bird lady. she/her

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krazykitkat@krazykitkat· 4d

My 3 photos I sent to the Incognito Art Show have now all sold! $300 to charities that support artists with intellectual disability.

Sideview of pink windflower. Dark background with large bokeh circles of light.

Brushtail possum portrait, possum is walking towards the camera. White background, only head in focus.

krazykitkat@krazykitkat· 5d

Communism?? It really is funny how a party that represents business & wealthy people is against a policy that helps normal people have a retirement beyond the aged pension... And does anyone honestly believe that super contributions would be given back as wage/salary? #auspol

From https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-12/liberals-pour-cold-water-on-bragg-migration-comments/107028192

Senator Bragg said Australia was "sick", accusing the government of "communism" and "state-sanctioned corruption" by supporting the superannuation system, declaring voters wanted "authenticity" and a move beyond "paternalistic and glib politics".
Freelancing across multiple portfolios, he called compulsory superannuation "a strange but huge illiberal experiment" and said the Superannuation Guarantee "takes 12 per cent from people's wages to vest them with managers they will never meet".
"It is a loss of liberty … What was the point if there is no public finance benefit and minimal personal benefit?" he said.

krazykitkat@krazykitkat· 6d

Dickhead. They aren't available as single vaccines. It will cost more, requires more doctor visits when people are already short of time, so vaccines will be missed. Good possibility three vaccines will have more antigens than the one vaccine.

$Trump signing executive order to split up MMR vaccines, scraps recommendations for hepatitis B, Covid-19 and influenza jabs In the Oval Office, Donald Trump has signed an executive order – that we flagged earlier – which would split up the measles, mumps and rubella vaccines. “You should have five separate visits for vaccines rather than giving them all in the same day,” the president said. He added that his administration would no longer recommend hepatitis b, Covid-19 and influenza shots for children. “Decades ago, children received only a small fraction of the vaccines required today. In those times, people were much healthy, and of course, the high rates of autism now observed did not exist. So there’s a reason for such epidemic rates of autism, and we’re going to bring it back to much closer to where it was,” Trump said, despite the fact that there is no proven link between inoculations and an increased risk of autism.$

krazykitkat@krazykitkat· 9d

So much brilliance about Trump in this transcript. newrepublic.com/article/2140...

Sargent: I think you actually get an important point there with this idea about him not understanding that if you use bombs, you have fewer bombs. Because he really does believe that he’s in a position of limitless strength. He thinks America has unlimited power, but by that he actually means he has unlimited power, because he couldn’t possibly be weak in any way.

And so you can really see how he goes from there to not really paying close attention to little details like what the war that he started is doing to our weapons stockpiles, right?

Marcotte: Yeah, he has a very childish vision of what American military might is, which is, we definitely have a large military, one of the biggest and most expensive in the world, but it’s not limitless. And crucially, as we found out in Iran, it’s not unlimited in its ability to just crush enemies.

Sargent: Well, there’s another funny detail in the Post story. It says this, quote: “Hegseth defended himself and blamed his deputy for the shortages and for not ensuring Trump was fully apprised of the issue.”

Amanda, Hegseth has to blame someone below him for the fact that Trump was not on top of the situation enough to know what the hell was happening. At no point can anyone say, why doesn’t the president of the United States know what his own war is doing to our ammunition stockpiles? What do you think of that?

Marcotte: This is something that I find super fascinating, and the examples are endless. It’s the paradox of MAGA, right? Which is, on one hand, they all worship Donald Trump as this almighty leader who knows everything and can do everything and is the greatest leader of all time and blah, blah, blah.

Also, he can’t ever be expected to know anything, be responsible for anything, et cetera. Like, he’s blameless always. He is like a baby.

And so I think we’re seeing this play out at the top ranks of the Trump administration, which is a lot of people who are incompetent, and their only pathway to success is through slavish devotion to this moron. And there was no other way for them to get there. So they’re willing to make those compromises.

Sargent: It’s almost like there’s a contract or a deal of sorts, right? Donald Trump knows that he can get certain types of people to relentlessly do his bidding once he kind of co-opts them into his cult. So he picks them because he recognizes in them a certain weakness of character and willingness to do whatever it takes to kind of be in the chosen charmed circle.

He’s really kind of very canny at that. Let’s give him some credit here, right? This is something Donald Trump is good at. He is perceptive about people almost in an animal-like way, isn’t he?

Marcotte: Yeah, probably because he recognizes himself in this, right? He is the person who is incompetent and has only ever succeeded in life because he was willing to break rules, lie, cheat, use deception, because he knows that he can’t actually succeed on his merits. And so I think he recognizes that in other people.

krazykitkat@krazykitkat· 9d

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...

Darlene Thomas from Aboriginal family violence service Djirra said many acts of violence against First Nations women were "ignored" by law enforcement.

"Our women tell you that police often refuse to take their statements or properly investigate family violence or breaches of intervention orders," she said.

"Aboriginal women are often not believed because they don't present as the perfect victim, and police regularly believe male perpetrators over Aboriginal women.

"These men are most often non-Aboriginal. We don't call this misidentification. We call this racial targeting."

"We had a Stolen Generations Return to Country where we saw our mob being attacked on these visits and it was really shameful," she said.

"Our children are being bullied because of their culture … They get it in the school grounds, our workplaces …

"Aboriginal people can't run businesses and be public without attracting suspicion, disdain, discrimination, hate and violence."

krazykitkat@krazykitkat· 15d

I know it's just the Commonwealth Games, but the Aus men won the 4 x 100m relay! We beat Canada, the Olympic champions (who were then DQed).

37m ago
05.23 AEST
Scratch that. Canada have bene disqualified for a lane infringement on their first baton change between Aaron Brown and Jerome Blake. South Africa have also been disqualified.

So Nigeria move up to silver, Ghana up to bronze, England up to 4th.

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39m ago
05.21 AEST
What a turn-up. Defending champions England finished down in 6th behind South Africa in 5th. Jamaica and Kenya were 7th and 8th.

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41m ago
05.19 AEST
Australia’s change-overs were outstanding – they went so early and the baton handling was perfect. Josh Azzopardi was roared down the back straight by Kennedy and Calab Law ran a great bend on leg three.

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43m ago
05.17 AEST
Australia win gold in men's 4x100m relay!
Wow! From the outside lane! Lachlan Kennedy’s first leg kickstarted their race and Rohan Browning held on against Canada’s Andre de Grasse on the final leg! Nigeria pip Ghana to bronze by one-hundredth of a second.

krazykitkat@krazykitkat· 23d

The comments on any post about the AusAlert test 🤬 If the conspiracy fantasists won't be on social media for a day, it's a win for the rest of us! Hopefully they will also ignore any actual alerts.

Tracey Coleman
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This is is being pushed isn’t it 🤔🤔🤔

Katrina McDonnell
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Tracey Coleman How dare they make sure everyone is aware a test will be performed!

Will Brendon
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Katrina McDonnell still taking the booster shots too Katrina?

Katrina McDonnell
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Will Brendon Yes, I am. Because I am an actual scientist and you are a conspiracy fantasist.
Reply

krazykitkat@krazykitkat· 27d

*headdesk* I responded to someone posting the latest Roy Morgan polling that has ON dropping 5.5% to 3rd place.

Facebook comments:

Katrina McDonnell
Morgan is not reliable. Their polling is all over the place.

Peter Burke
Katrina McDonnell Typical comment from a One Nation shill! 🤣🤣

Katrina McDonnell
Peter Burke Oh, dear, that's a massive assumption... I'm a Greens voter and can't stand ON.
I've also worked in market research and no media organisation will pay for Roy Morgan polling.

Larry Carmichael
Katrina McDonnell you people are pathetic! The Roy Morgan poll is the most reliable in Australia.
And yes polls change because people change their opinion!!😀

Katrina McDonnell
Larry Carmichael rotfl! You another person who think I'm a Pauline supporter???
Roy Morgan was a good polling organisation a couple of decades ago. Hasn't been reliable in at least a decade. If it was reliable, a media organisation would pay for their polling.
I WISH this polling was accurate, but I highly doubt it.

krazykitkat@krazykitkat· Jul 8

ffs, Angus and Barnaby. Things break. It is impossible for anything to be 100% reliable. And how is the government supposed to 'explain', when the company has explained as much as they currently know. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...

Without evidence, he said some Australians are drawing a connection between today's outage and a ballistic missile test launched by China into the Pacific earlier this week.

"There's many questions Australians are asking," he said.

"We saw a provocative and unwelcome missile launch from the PLA (China's People's Liberation Army) yesterday, and I can understand why Australians are drawing that connection.

"Now, I don't know whether there's any connection or not, I have no idea, but it's no wonder Australians are starting to ask questions like that."

Earlier, Telstra CFO Michael Ackland said while the root cause of the outage was not yet known, it was known the issue stemmed from a data centre. He also said there was no evidence of malicious activity.

Sarah Henderson, the shadow minister for communications, reportedly told Sky News this morning she had called Triple Zero multiple times this morning to test if the service was working, despite authorities' requests not to call the number unless you are experiencing an emergency.

But Taylor deflected questions as to whether this was "irresponsible", reiterating that the government had "not explained" what was going on.

krazykitkat@krazykitkat· Jun 30

*headdesk* Communist super system???? You mean so the normal person has more than an aged pension? It's not as though the money put into super would be converted to a wage rise. Have never understood the Lib hate of superannuation. #auspol

krazykitkat@krazykitkat· Jun 30

You're welcome to go back to England, Tony. #auspol

krazykitkat@krazykitkat· Jun 24

@crowbar.wtf You are the best food person I know :) I bought white cap mushrooms from Woolies. They have gone this colour since last week. They are still within date. Are they still okay to eat? I get paranoid about food poisoning. Thank you.

krazykitkat@krazykitkat· Jun 19

Newscorpse is doing for Hanson what they did for Trump. These quotes are sickening. Not doing it for power???

Images of Newscorpe headlines and quotes about Pauline Hanson in Facebook posts:
'Pauline smashed it out of the park at the Press Club, almost'
'"This was a tour de force performance" - James Morrow's take on Hanson's press club address'
'Suddenly, supporting Pauline Hanson's On Nation is fun. For so many Australians, it's a joy to watch, for once those damn Canberra politicians freak.' - Andrew Bolt
'There's just no part of Ms Hanson that appears to be doing this for power. As she repeated over and over, she works for the Australian people. And more and more believe this every day.'

krazykitkat@krazykitkat· Jun 17

Fuck off, Barnaby. You don't speak for me. Just because you can't show respect for everyone.

I
By Isabella Tolhurst

One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce says Pauline Hanson fights against things that Australians "never wanted".

Senator Hanson touched on several topics at the centre of what could be considered "culture wars" in Australia, including migration, welcomes to country, and transgender rights.

Speaking to Sky News after the address, Mr Joyce said "the executive" (aka bureaucrats in Canberra) had too much power in "pushing social agendas".

"It's brought forward decisions that the Australian people have never voted for and in many instances never wished," he said.

"We never had a vote for three flags, we never had a vote for welcome to country, there was never a wider debate about it, it was just incrementally put in place ... and Australian people don't want that."

krazykitkat@krazykitkat· Jun 6

Uhlmann is plumbing new lows... #auspol

Newspaper headline:
Will Pauline Hanson be the Martin Luther of our time?

Australia's woke elites have sparked a backlash, just as the Catholic Church's Curia did in 1517.

by Chris Uhlmann
Columnist

krazykitkat@krazykitkat· Jun 3

Disgraceful. Are the LNP and ON calling these scum out? Rich mates, secret mansions: Australia’s millionaire Nazi-backers revealed archive.today/2026.06.03-0... #auspol

Among Sewell’s rich associates are a race-car driver turned failed political candidate who owns a fleet of planes; the son of a gun dealer and inventor in regional Victoria; a jet-setting “manfluencer” friend of Andrew Tate who sells penis supplements to teenagers; a property development heir turned provocateur, and a stockbroker mixing with MAGA influencers overseas.

International extremism expert Matt Kriner, who recently assessed the NSN for the Albanese government, says the assets and connections uncovered by this masthead suggest Australia’s neo-Nazis have entered a dangerous new phase. “Historically, when fascist movements start to sequester themselves in compounds, particularly those that have already shown a fascination with violence, terrorists and weapons like the NSN, that makes them very dangerous,” Kriner said.
He and other far-right researchers say authorities should now target the group the same way they had organised crime syndicates: “By following the money.”
Sewell’s new home – described by one gushing realtor as a mountain chalet – boasts more than 10 bedrooms, as well as a gym and pool on a 19-acre block. Up a long snaking drive, the main house is screened from the road by thick bush and security fences, but enjoys soaring hilltop views of Melbourne.

Soon, Sewell promised, the group would have even more “protected rentals” like this, owned by members and associates, to house its “warriors”.
Featherstone is certainly a sympathetic landlord. He frequently espouses extreme views online – from nuking Israel and “stomping out” people of colour to executing “traitors” and “putting parliaments to the sword”. In secret NSN chats leaked to this masthead, Featherstone also joined in the neo-Nazi group’s violent discussions, including about running over Indian people with cars.
Former AFP counter-terrorism detective John Coyne, who once infiltrated white supremacist compounds himself, says that Sewell’s new headquarters calls to mind the strongholds of American neo-Nazis. That includes terror cell The Order as well as the Ku Klux Klan at its height – two groups openly lionised by the NSN.
“Of course, one man’s secret military compound is another’s house in the ’burbs,” Coyne said. But the possibility of guns on the Melbourne property was particularly worthy of investigation, he added.

krazykitkat@krazykitkat· May 23

I've got my google search set up to ban ai.

https://www.google.com/search?q=disregard&udm=14
Give actual links:

'DISREGARD Definition & Meaning

Merriam-Webster
https://www.merriam-webster.com › dictionary › disreg...
The meaning of DISREGARD is to pay no attention to : treat as unworthy of regard or notice. How to use disregard in a sentence.
DISREGARD Synonyms & Antonyms - 195 words

Thesaurus.com
https://www.thesaurus.com › browse › disregard
Find 195 different ways to say DISREGARD, along with antonyms, related words, and example sentences at Thesaurus.com.
Everyone is searching 'disregard.' Why is it breaking Google?

USA Today
https://www.usatoday.com › story › tech › 2026/05/22
13 hours ago — As of May 22, several action words, including "disregard," "ignore" and "dismiss" are causing a glitch when using Google Search.

krazykitkat@krazykitkat· May 21

So much mis/disinformation. thenightly.com.au/opinion/mark...

And much of it is not true.

The blanket memes would have us believe that the tax rate for small businesses is going to rise from 30 per cent to 47 per cent.

It isn’t.

They also suggest the CGT changes mean they will lose 50 per cent of their capital gains to taxation when they eventually sell their businesses.

But that also is untrue.

Significant concessions will still apply to all small businesses, defined as those with aggregated annual turnovers below $2 million or with net assets below $6m.

Any small business that has been owned for 15 years or more will retain the most generous of concessions — a 100 per cent CGT exemption.

For those sold within 15 years, the capital gain is automatically reduced by 50 per cent or indexation — whichever is greater — through what’s called the Small Business Active Asset Reduction measure.

The remaining capital gain can be reduced by a further 50 per cent if it qualifies for what’s known as the “active asset reduction”, which applies to assets that were actively used in the conduct of the business.

In addition, the first $500,000 of capital gain is tax free if the individual is aged over 55 and for someone aged below 55 if they direct it into a superannuation fund.

And on top of all that, the entire capital gain can be deferred for up to two years before being taxed at all. That allows it to be reinvested in a new business venture in the meantime if so desired.

These are what we call facts.

They don’t fit in the limited space of an internet meme.

But they are important.

krazykitkat@krazykitkat· May 20

Looks like links will still be available.

Tweet:
Culture Crave 🍿 @CultureCrave 5h

Update: The new features rollout this week

A Google spokesperson responded to the TechCrunch article:

“We’re continuing to display blue links on the search results page in addition to AI responses. If someone chooses to ask a follow-up from an AI Overview, or selects the AI Mode button in the Search box, then that takes them to AI Mode. It doesn’t happen automatically – people have to choose to navigate to AI Mode"

(via
@Phil_Lewis_)

krazykitkat@krazykitkat· May 10

It is not 1.5 million. And you totally missed the point.

krazykitkat@krazykitkat· May 1

www.instagram.com/p/DXtpWecj10e/

Instagram post:

nyadolnyuon

I am not ‘sick’, I am done.

The only person who has gone through something similar is Yassmin Abdel-Magied, and hers is the only message I have read that met me where I am with real understanding.

It was not the dismissiveness of “overreacting.” Not the minimisation “of just take it easy or calm down.”

And especially, it was not the more troubling view that pathologises my reaction — that I must be mentally struggling.

That third one is the worst. Because pathologising is precisely what @victoriauniversity and @worksafevic used to justify and continue their abusive conduct towards me. I ask you to not repeat it.

Instead of focusing on people like me, look at what the record of racism has done. It forced Adam Goodes out of public life. It silenced the powerful voice of Stan Grant. It exiled Yassmin Abdel-Magied from a country she served. And now, here I am.

This record isn’t about mental health. It isn’t about any of us not being strong enough, calm enough, or intelligent enough. This is the record of racism.

Face it. Hold it accountable, instead of comfortably prescribing how those it harms are supposed to cope.

krazykitkat@krazykitkat· Apr 26

Total arsehole. And Anzac Day isn't 'special' enough? www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The federal opposition leader, Angus Taylor, told ABC’s Insiders on Sunday that booing was “absolutely inappropriate and un-Australian” but that he could “understand the frustration Australians feel about over-use of welcomes to country”.

“I feel that at times. Often actually. I think it is overused, and as a result, they are devalued.

“I would like to see them used less and therefore not devalued, as I think they have been over time.

“It’s up to individual organising committees to decide whether they want to do it or not. But the general principle should be: let’s do this less and make it more special when it happens.”

krazykitkat@krazykitkat· Apr 24

Shitty racists. Hanson et al have encouraged this disrespect.

Individuals heckle during Melbourne and Sydney services
By Costa Haritos and Millie Roberts

The solemn mood at Melbourne's Dawn Service has been interrupted by loud heckling and boos from the crowd during Uncle Mark Brown's Welcome to Country address.

Photo: Uncle Mark Brown conducts the welcome to country during Anzac Day dawn service in melbourne
Uncle Mark Brown. (AAP: Con Chronis)

It continued for several moments as the Bunorong Elder became emotional during his address.

The shouting was quickly drowned out by a much louder applause from attendees.

In Sydney, a group of protesters booed and heckled during the acknowledgement of country at the Sunday Dawn Service.

Uncle Ray Minniecon is an Indigenous pastor and one of the founders of the annual Anzac Day event, the Coloured Diggers March, who delivered the acknowledgement.

Photo: Uncle Ray Minniecon speaks to a reporter at a dawn service
(ABC News)

Early into his delivery, a group began booing off to the side of the Cenotaph in Martin Place.

The Kabi-Kabi, Gurang-Gurang and South Sea Islander man continued with his acknowledgment, which was met with a large round of applause after.

Pastor Minniecon served for two years with the 51st Battalion within the Royal Queensland Regiment in the Citizens Military Forces as a transport driver.

krazykitkat@krazykitkat· Apr 22

Me too! Considering I already blocked them by being subscribed to the The Great AI - NFT - CRYPTO Cull list, their action was pointless.

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krazykitkat@krazykitkat· Apr 16

And then on other stories of mine. The hilarious thing was that I wasn't as 'popular' as her, because I didn't write soap opera. I found these comments hit me harder because at the time I was struggling with my writing. They were all her sock puppet accounts.

Musette12 chapter 1 . Sep 3, 2011
Formulaic, prosaic and deeply unerotic. Pedestrian execution and wholly predictable. Okay if you are after a cheap and ultimately unsatisfying quickie. Bubblegum, by the numbers porn with nothing to distinguish it

wyld stallion chapter 1 . Nov 19, 2011
Difficult to feel involved in this story. Maybe the style is meant to distance the reader? Yes, it's competently written, but it just doesn't engage.

Guest chapter 1 . Nov 17, 2011
Technically well written but somehow it feels like an exercise in techniques. Using the second person pronoun all the time became both distancing and intrusive. Ultimately, this story was rather unsatisfying for the reader as your style makes it difficult to get involved.

krazykitkat@krazykitkat· Apr 16

She was a real piece of work. She contacted me privately saying that 'some of her readers' had brought the similarities to her attention. I pointed out there weren't any. Then the harassing comments started.

Musette12 chapter 1 . Jul 30, 2011
Your premise and themes are very familiar. I would say this piece reminds me of the wonderful story Like A Hurricane by Maxie Kay, but the original is much better.

krazykitkat chapter 1 . Jul 30, 2011
A rebuttal to the plagiarism accusations.

From the stop_plagiarism community on livejournal:

to plagiarize, (UK usually plagiarise) verb [I or T]to use another person's idea or a part of their work and pretend that it is your own. Source Cambridge Dictionaries Online

Caveats to the above definition:

Shared theme(s) between two pieces is NOT plagiarism. (Ex: 1, 2) Even if there are a handful of common phrases (particularly those that are natural to the fandom). (Ex: 1) Even if you consider it to be a completely original plot concept. While it can be discouraging to realize someone had a similar insight, in fandom hivemind is to be expected.

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I have been accused of plagiarising 'Like a Hurricane' by Maxie Kay. The accusation made is that both stories are set in a nightclub, both involve Deeks and Kensi dancing and then going off for sex standing up, and afterwards tell each other that this meant nothing.

Yes, both are set in a night club, as are numerous other fics. It is canon that Kensi goes clubbing. My very first fic, 'Partners' written for Yuletide Madness, involved Kensi and Deeks in an undercover operation dancing in a night club. A scene in the more recent fic, 'The Second Hand Unwinds' (posted before 'Like a Hurricane'), was set after Jack walked out and had Kensi picking up a guy in a night club for sex as a way to deal with her feelings. I used the theme of that scene as the basis for Kensi's coping mechanism in 'Nothing More'.

There is NO mention in 'Nothing More' of Deeks and Kensi dancing and going off for sex. The sex that Kensi has against the wall is with an original character. Deeks doesn't even appear in the story until the final scene.

I'm not entirely sure myself the circumstances of the afternoon's undercover op, but it definitely didn't involve a night club. They found themselves in a situation where to maintain their cover they had to make out. During this Deeks got aroused (which he was embarrassed by), as did Kensi (which she is trying to ignore). It went no further. While Kensi does insist it meant nothing, Deeks himself doesn't say that and flinches at one point when she says it. Characters saying something meant nothing is nothing new, they've been doing it in stories and tv shows and movies for years. It is a pretty normal human response.

The sex against the wall scene (and the general concept of having sex with a stranger when struggling with their feelings for somebody else) was based on my West Wing story "Shades Of" from 2003, which is archived here at ffnet. There's probably more sex against walls in fanfic than real life.

I only ever read the first 2 chapters of 'Like a hurricane' and resent the implication that I copied it. I have plenty of ideas of my own, I don't need to borrow from others.

I also make note that the reader making the accusation in the review has not posted any reviews on 'Like a Hurricane'.

krazykitkat@krazykitkat· Apr 13

He really is the worst.

Tweet:

Tony Abbott
@HonTonyAbbott
Viktor Orbán has been a very consequential PM - probably the most consequential Hungary has ever had. The economy has strengthened, the city of Budapest has been transformed, and Hungary’s family policies and determination to keep its culture have been studied around the world. He and I differed on Ukraine but I thought he was dead right to defy the EU, on illegal immigration especially. Why should a sovereign nation be bullied by Brussels into policies that would jeopardise its future as a distinct people? Under Orbán, Budapest became something of a haven for conservative intellectuals. This has been a significant point of soft power for Hungary and I don’t expect the new government will want that to change.
3:01 PM · Apr 13, 2026
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krazykitkat@krazykitkat· Apr 13

The newish Maitland Hospital in NSW Hunter Valley has this.

Aerial view of solar panels covering a car park at Maitland Hospital.

krazykitkat@krazykitkat· Apr 10

AI used by the public has so many issues. And most of the public doesn't know/understand or doesn't care. More and more dis/misinformation is being spread by AI. Link to mentioned paper: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Twitter/X post:
Hedgie @HedgieMarkets
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

krazykitkat@krazykitkat· Apr 8

Scientific American article: The kids are all right 'Surprising studies show young people are doing better than previous generations in many ways' Thought this bit about social media use was interesting. archive.md/i8n9J