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The recording of our @Macquarie_Uni x @TheRWCHR collaborative event Understanding and Responding to State Hostage-Taking is now available in full 👇🏻 piped.video/watch?v=wmO1bz… Feat. RWCHR Director of Policy and Projects Brandon Silver, Melbourne uni's @daraconduit and the UN's Sophie Hunter
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EXCLUSIVE: The former bodyguard of Ismail Haniyeh, leader of Hamas, was given asylum and citizenship in the UK — then “plotted” huge foiled terror attack targeting Jews in Europe last year Mr X had legal anonymity for 100 years: Sunday Times quashed this thetimes.com/uk/crime/articl…
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Every vice chancellor rolling out the welcome mat to Big AI (which, other than a few hold outs, is most of them) should read this
Cornell just produced a massive new report on higher education noting that companies have a “jarring” skepticism of higher ed thanks to a new generation of degree holders who lack key skills like handling uncertainty, compromising, and absorbing feedback. Faculty also report that incoming students, despite four years of undergraduate education, are “underdeveloped” in these relational or interpersonal skills. This is a serious crises in higher education and the report calls for a greater need for conflict-resolution training. We need to do a better job training our students to deal with these issues. These are traditionally the skills students developed in higher education. I loved college because it challenged me, sparked debate, and required me to grapple with complexity. This should be an essential part of college--inside and outside the classroom. chronicle.com/article/compan…
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Former American hostage in Iran Emad Shargi in a moving reflection on how his time in Evin taught him that the Islamic Republic is weaker than it may seem- "After 47 years, the regime that has inflicted unimaginable misery on its own people and helped spread militant extremism throughout the Middle East may be approaching its final act. This is not the moment to lose our resolve." thecipherbrief.com/irans-reg… @cipher
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Mass illiteracy and innumeracy is apparently just fine as long as AI's got it covered. To me this is just a 21st century version of the Dark Ages, where the hoi polloi can, in their ignorance, be coddled and kept in their place. Presumably while the tech bros and their Steiner school-educated offspring rule over us all.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang questions whether some of the learning fundamentals are still relevant “Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter? I don't think it does.”
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RT @NazaninBoniadi: Was there any coordinated walkout by member states when Pezeshkian spoke at the @UN? Asking for the tens of thousands…
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A professor published 200+ papers and as many as 14 books this year. I'll leave it there. gift link wapo.st/4d3vD7n
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My friend Dr Payam Akhavan exploring the visceral truths behind “constructive resilience” in Mahvash Sabet’s book OPEN WIDE THE DOORS, fast becoming a global best seller. Constructive resilience is an active, purposeful, non-adversarial response to oppression. He says when the perpetrators of the appalling violence inflicted on the people of Iran are themselves traumatised - something no one even thinks about - what is required is a seismic shift in grass roots consciousness. Most in Iran know someone or have family members who were harmed or killed by the regime and there’s been immense psychological suffering. They are righteously angry so it’s unrealistic to expect people not to take revenge but also many want perpetrators to be brought to justice in the courts when the regime is gone. Either way, when a human rights culture is finally created in a future Iran, what happens before it will ultimately be recorded as the most remarkable revolution in history.
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Really enjoying being an IRGC recruit, Mossad agent and MEK sympathiser all at the same time, along with being a fake prisoner, someone who deliberately got herself imprisoned and someone whose ethnic background doesn't entitle her to an opinion at all.
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شاهزاده رضا پهلوی @PahlaviReza با درود، بنده به‌عنوان یک شهروند، از ایده‌تان درباره مسلح‌کردن مردم حمایت می‌کنم؛ البته با یک شرط: روزی که خودتان، تیمتان، اعضای پروژه شکوفایی و آن چند هزار نفری که بلیت خریدند تا برای دیدار شما به تورنتو بیایند، لباس رزم پوشیده و با اولین پرواز راهی خط مقدم شوید، من شخصاً با پرواز دوم، حتی با دست خالی، پشت سرتان می‌آیم. اما تا آن روز، حاضر نیستم از ایده‌ای حمایت کنم که مردم عادی و آموزش‌ندیده را در برابر نیروی وحشی و تا دندان مسلح رژیم قرار میدهد. شما را نمی‌دانم، ولی من به‌عنوان یک شهروند آن‌قدر مسئولیت‌پذیری برای خودم قائلم که وقتی از ایده‌ای حمایت می‌کنم، خودم را در برابر پیامدهای خوب و بدِ آن هم مسئول بدانم.
✡︎𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐈𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐍𝐞𝐰𝐬🇮🇷🇮🇱
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A geek who hacks Medicare would be charged. A company that creates an AI agent that hacks Medicare should be charged.
Breaking: Anthony Albanese rings up Sam Altman to express "severe concern" after finding out an AI agent hacked into an Australian Medicare data portal in June. Richard Marles says while the impact was "minor" it is a "warning in terms of what can happen" abc.net.au/news/2026-09-24/a…
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"The models were trained on stolen labor and the executives knew it while they were doing it. That's not my opinion. That's what their own documents say."
🦔Internal documents from Mother Jones' lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft show the companies knew exactly what they did. A Microsoft director called it "an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions." OpenAI's president responded "ah nice" to a New York Times paywall hack. Microsoft's research found AI search cut clicks to news articles by 90%. After the lawsuits, OpenAI built a filter that blocked output only from publishers who sued, not to prevent infringement but to limit evidence. My Take The Buckmaster case hit hard because it was one mathematician and one model. This is the same thing at industrial scale, and now we have the companies' own executives confirming it in internal documents. They knew. They did it anyway. And when the lawsuits came, OpenAI's response wasn't to stop using copyrighted content. It was to stop the companies that sued from gathering evidence. I think these documents change the conversation around AI valuations. OpenAI wants $1.5 trillion. Microsoft trades at $3 trillion. Both companies built their AI products on content they took without permission, and their own people called it theft internally. If these lawsuits result in licensing obligations or damages at scale, the cost structure for every major AI model changes overnight. The models were trained on stolen labor and the executives knew it while they were doing it. That's not my opinion. That's what their own documents say. I think any investor looking at AI valuations right now needs to factor in the liability that comes with how these models were built, because the companies clearly weren't expecting anyone to read their internal communications. Hedgie🤗 motherjones.com/politics/202…
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دوستان منصف خانم کایلی مور پژوهشگر استرالیایی که ج.ا گروگان گرفت مقاله ای در خصوص آقای پهلوی نوشته که نظر محترم ایشون هست. در این میان نوشته که برخی طرفداران پهلوی ایشون رو تهدید به مرگ می کنن I have suffered extensive trolling and abuse as a result of my speaking out against the radical fringes associated with the Pahlavists. هموطنان مون و خصوصا بسیاری سلطنت طلب ها ولی همچنان دارن پایین این پست به ایشون خشم پرتاب می کنن. تف بر جمهوری اسلامی ولی ایا بیرحمی ج.ا ما رو هم باید بی رحم کنه؟ نمی توانیم کنار نظری که می دهیم آزاری که این زن دیده رو یک لحظه لحاظ کنیم؟ اون هم وقتی ملت استرالیا این حرفهای شما رو می خونن؟ اگه حوصله کردین به بحث بپیوندین لینکش اینجاست.
The ABC @abcnews has covered the Coalition's invitation to Reza Pahlavi to visit Australia with extensive reference to my opinion piece on the monarchist movement published in @theage earlier this week. As predicted, I have suffered extensive trolling and abuse as a result of my speaking out against the radical fringes associated with the Pahlavists. Pahlavi insists his objective is to act as a "transitional leader" and a "bridge" to democracy, rather than seeking power himself. If by some miracle the Islamic Republic disappears and Pahlavi gets to enact this plan, and does indeed step aside to make way for democratic elections, he will earn himself the Nobel Peace Prize. I will be the first person to say he is deserving of it. If however he does not step aside and rather seeks to install himself as a constitutional or absolute monarch, he will join the many other "transitional leaders" throughout history who, after tasting power, suddenly develop a reticence to part with it. abc.net.au/news/2026-09-17/r…
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Update: Tehran prosecutors filed charges against the organisers of Tehran’s 10km run, and alleged that “legal and religious regulations” were not observed during the event, the judiciary's Mizan News Agency today…
Video shows women taking part in a 10km run in Tehran, Iran today with some not wearing the mandatory hijab. Running events across the country have previously been cancelled or faced backlash amid authorities’ enforcement of the country’s mandatory hijab law.
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Renowned Iranian investigative journalist @yasharsoltani has once again exposed the mind boggling corruption that US sanctions have created within Iran's political economy. He explains how dozens of Iranian sanctions oligarchs - who reaped billions of dollars through sanctions - have now been narrowed down to only a few, with just one of them having been tasked with selling over $30 billion of Iranian oil with little accountability. They are affiliated with hardliners who repeatedly insist that sanctions are not hurting Iran's economy. It's not for no reason that many Iranian hardliners have a vested interest in preventing diplomacy from working when ordinary Iranians are impoverished while the oligarchy thrives. They are effectively beneficiaries of the policies of fellow billionaire Scott Bessent, US Treasury Secretary.
سخنان یاشار سلطانی @yasharsoltani موی بر تنم راست شد شنا را نمیدانم ؟🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️
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In one of her first interviews since being released from Iran's Evin prison on temporary medical leave, Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi tells @JomanaCNN about her new memoir, her years behind bars and why she continues to speak out despite the risks.
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Two Australians appear on the Islamic Republic's public "traitors list" which encourages supporters to inform on dissidents abroad in order to threaten and punish them. Is it a coincidence that one of them is Milad Kianpour Ghafarokh, the brave Australian activist who exposed the fact that top IRGC General Yahya Rahim Safavi's daughter lived in Australia and had been given permanent residency? Smells like payback to me, and payback from the very top of the regime. This is the very heavy price dissidents like Milad pay for speaking out, even here in supposed safety on Australian soil. Article available via: archive.is/w6uU6 theaustralian.com.au/subscri…
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The ABC @abcnews has covered the Coalition's invitation to Reza Pahlavi to visit Australia with extensive reference to my opinion piece on the monarchist movement published in @theage earlier this week. As predicted, I have suffered extensive trolling and abuse as a result of my speaking out against the radical fringes associated with the Pahlavists. Pahlavi insists his objective is to act as a "transitional leader" and a "bridge" to democracy, rather than seeking power himself. If by some miracle the Islamic Republic disappears and Pahlavi gets to enact this plan, and does indeed step aside to make way for democratic elections, he will earn himself the Nobel Peace Prize. I will be the first person to say he is deserving of it. If however he does not step aside and rather seeks to install himself as a constitutional or absolute monarch, he will join the many other "transitional leaders" throughout history who, after tasting power, suddenly develop a reticence to part with it. abc.net.au/news/2026-09-17/r…
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Excellent piece by @RanaDadpour in today's @Australian The Iranian regime's use of AI for surveillance ops inside the country and in the diaspora should concern us all theaustralian.com.au/comment…
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از کانال تلگرام خانم شیرین عبادی برنده جایزه صلح نوبل: سه زن، سه کشور و ردپایی که به تهران می‌رسد   🔹چند روز پیش در کلیسای جامع لوند در سوئد، به مناسبت دهمین سالگرد پروژه « من هم رویایی دارم»، به همراه توکل کارمان، دوست عزیز وقدیمی برنده نوبل از یمن، و خانم اینا شوچنکو مبارز فمنیست اوکراینی پیرامون تجربه تبعید و آنچه ما را به یکدیگر پیوند می‌دهد گفتگو و سخنرانی کردیم. ما سه زن از سه کشور متفاوت بودیم که سال هاست هزینه استبداد، سرکوب و البته جنگی را می پردازیم که نقشی در آن نداشته ایم. آنچه بیش از اینها ما را با وجود سه جغرافیای متفاوت به یکدیگر پیوند می داد، رد پای مخرب و شیطانی یک حکومت بود: جمهوری اسلامی.   🔹در این سخنرانی من به سرکوب خونبار اعتراضات دی ماه اشاره کردم، به مردمی که با دستان خالی به خیابان آمدند و با گلوله، بازداشت و احکام اعدام رو به رو شدند. تاکید کردم که جمهوری اسلامی بیش از دشمن خارجی همواره از قیام مردم خود وحشت داشته و همچون گذشته از دولت های اروپایی خواستم به تقویت و پشتیبانی از این حکومت پایان دهند.   🔹توکل کارمان نیز به درستی به حمایت نظامی، مالی و لجستیکی جمهوری اسلامی از حوثی ها اشاره کرد. حمایتی که منجر به طولانی شدن جنگ، تضعیف امکان صلح، تهدید امنیت منطقه شده و حاصلی جز جنگ، گرسنگی و فروپاشی نهادهای دولتی و مدنی در یمن نداشته است.   🔹ایناشوچنکو نیز که به واسطه جنگ اوکراین در پی تجاوز روسیه در تبعید زندگی می کند از خانه های گفت که در کشورش ویران می شوند و مردمی که تحت حملات پهپادی جان و زندگی شان در مخاطره دائم است. جمهوری اسلامی تامین کننده بخش بزرگی از پهپادهایی است که روسیه در جنگ علیه اوکراین به کار می گیرد و کشور و خانه و زندگی هموطنان اینا شوچنکو را ویران می کند.   🔹ما سه زن از سه کشور و با سه تجربه متفاوت هستیم. در ایران با کشتار خونبار معترضان در خیابان، در یمن با سلاح های به دست نیروهای شبه نظامی و در اوکراین با پهپادهایی که در آسمان شهرها خانه مردم را ویران می کنند. این همان نکته‌ای بود که از کنار هم قرار گرفتن این روایت‌ها آشکار می‌شد: سیاست‌های جمهوری اسلامی مدت‌هاست در مرزهای ایران متوقف نمی‌شوند. سرکوب در داخل و مداخله نظامی در خارج دو پرونده جداگانه نیستند؛ دو روی سیاست حکومتی‌اند که بخش مهمی از منابع کشور را صرف گسترش قدرت نظامی و شبکه‌های نیابتی کرده، در حالی که مردم ایران با فقر، سرکوب و بحران‌های عمیق اقتصادی و اجتماعی روبه‌رو هستند.   🔹روایت ما، چیزی فراتر از تجربه شخصی بود؛ ما بیش از هر چیز بر شکنندگی و آسیب پذیری دموکراسی تاکید داریم؛ نظامی که با چشم بستن بر استبداد و قدرت طلبی حکومت هایی همچون جمهوری اسلامی، خود را هر روز آسیبپذیر تر از قبل خواهد یافت. واقعیت این است که اروپا نیز نمی‌تواند برای همیشه سیاست‌های جمهوری اسلامی را مشکلی دوردست و متعلق به خاورمیانه بداند. امروز بحث بر سر پهپادهایی است که به جنگ اوکراین رسیده‌اند، موشک‌هایی با برد فزاینده و برنامه هسته‌ای‌ای که ایران در آن تا سطح ۶۰ درصد غنی‌سازی کرده است. نادیده گرفتن این روندها، از نگاه منتقدان جمهوری اسلامی، خطر را از بین نمی‌برد؛ فقط زمان مواجهه با آن را به تاخیر می‌اندازد. 🔹ده سال پیش تصاویر ما در نمایشگاهی درباره انسان‌هایی قرار گرفت که برای آزادی و حقوق بشر هزینه داده‌ و در تبعید هستند. اگر جهان از تجربه ایران، یمن و اوکراین چیزی نیاموزد، ممکن است ده سال دیگر در کنار این تصاویر، چهره کسانی از کشورهای دیگری نیز قرار گرفته باشد که روزی تصور می‌کردند این خطر هرگز به خانه آنها نخواهد رسید.   گاهی تاریخ پیش از آنکه تکرار شود، هشدار می‌دهد. مسئله این است که چه کسی حاضر است آن هشدار را بشنود. @ShirinEbadiofficial
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If we needed any more proof of the circus which is the UN these days, IRAN has been elected to the steering committee of the IAEA (tasked with monitoring Iran's own illicit nuclear program)
Iran scores diplomatic victory over US by by being elected onto steering committee of UN nuclear watchdog IAEA. The US envoy Preston Wells Griffith 111 (no less) had warned “Electing Iran to the IAEA committee, just days after its non-compliance was referred to the United Nations Security Council, would be beyond shameful and an embarrassment to the credibility of this body”. Iran emerged victorious in a secret ballot, with 44 countries backing the nomination against 35 that sided with the US’s position. Forty-two nations abstained. Trump’s ability to alienate friends and potential allies no matter the issue continues unabated.
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