Belinda Barnet
@manjusrii
Snr Lecturer digital media Swinburne Uni, chicken whisperer, researcher. Smells books. Maybe we can build a new thing here 🌱 The Upside Down:
Media outlets should all stand together in opposition to this: boycott the conference altogether. The ban will grow to include you one day if you don’t cut it at the root
This week: Pauline Hanson describes domestic violence as a “two way street”. Also this week:
It would seem you’ve got the attention of the Crown Prosecution Service now.
Malcolm Turnbull on News Corp (at the launch event for Andrew Dodd & Matthew Ricketson’s Getting Murdoched): www.theage.com.au/business/com...
Imagine deploying the national guard, federal police, security towers, fencing and AI-powered cameras with intrusion detection to “protect” a reflecting pool. To protect what is essentially a mirror.
Also, Meta has absolutely no interest in delivering “the sustainable news sector Australian journalists and audiences deserve”. They don’t care about our media or our democracy. Their closing argument is disingenuous at best
Meta has published a response to the NBI that argues we are randomly and unfairly picking on them. NB: The “handful of companies” Meta is referring to here are the world’s most powerful digital platforms. They are worth $4.3 trillion (alphabet), $1.5 trillion (meta) & $500 billion (TikTok)
NB: Apparently “aliens” from Australia who “arrived under the cover of darkness and embedded themselves directly into our society” have also been arrested. You can search in their “Alien Arrest Map”. I’m not joking.
I’ve been an academic for 20 years and have yet to meet a student who works for award wage and also puts “most of her pay into index fund ETFs”. This is AI generated—but that’s not the problem. The problem is using a *deliberately* inaccurate scenario to complain about CGT changes you don’t like
Americans are familiar with this by now but perhaps it is time to warn Australians: undermining press freedom is a populist authoritarian tactic. Discredit the press, shut them out, and finally dismantle (or take over) them. Hanson hasn’t got to step 3 yet but can we please be aware of the ladder
What is a grandiose delusion exactly, and is this what they look like? Serious question
Happy Easter America. This is what the leader of the free world posts on Easter morning
It took some serious mental acrobatics to blame this on renewables rather than the war in Iran, but they did it. “The true culprit behind recent disruptions and price volatility is global energy policy. www.theaustralian.com.au/business/the...
Can we take a moment to admire NYT describing Nick Adams as a “fawning supporter”
For a regime whose “airforce are dead” because it has been “blown off of [sic] the map” according to Trump, it still seems to be causing damage www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...
The levels of irony here. A warning about misinformation “generated by AI” & how dangerous it is. From someone who regularly posts AI-generated material to millions of people. Yes we are seeing a deluge of misinformation. But you’ve undermined the checks & balances we had in place to mitigate it
Is anyone else deeply worried that one nation is polling like this in Victoria?
Trump’s Truth Social is allowing ads that appear *on his profile* purporting to be a Nine News link. These link to a “news” article that uses fake Penny Wong interview to sell a dodgy cryptocurrency platform.
One of my deepest fears with the breakup/breakdown of the LNP was that One Nation would step into the void and scoop up voters. Please can this not be happening
This is an insane invasion of data privacy. From The Intercept: “…a judge gave the FBI permission to attempt to bypass biometrics: the convenient shortcuts that let you unlock your phone by scanning your fingerprint or face. theintercept.com/2026/01/30/w...
He is punishing the NATO countries who sent troops to Greenland. He is punishing his own allies. This is just gobsmacking (and spiteful)
I feel like Ahmed al Ahmed has done more to foster *unity* and decency in the wake of the Bondi attack than anyone else. Just kind of modeling how to be a good human being. Over and above the actual act of bravery on the day.
The Long Bay prison inmate posting content from a contraband phone (including a cute “unboxing” vid of another contraband device) now has 11.3K followers.