As someone who spent a significant part of their 20s ingesting the alphabet this trend is honestly baffling.

Don't inject vials of material that are alledgedly new compounds with no safety records that at best mess with your cell biology.

You're gonna fucking hurt yourself.

Dear ABC, both your A and B headlines suck.

A report, by campaign group 350.org, cited UN Comtrade data suggesting the supply of coking and thermal coal from Australia to Turkey had been responsible for more than 75m tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions since the signing of the landmark Paris climate agreement in 2015. It said the countries were now expanding their trade in liquified natural gas (LNG).

The organisation said this had continued while the Cop31 presidents largely ignored fossil fuels – the primary cause of the climate crisis – in public comments before the summit. Three letters to countries setting out the mission and expectations for the summit, two from the Turkish government and one joint letter with the Australians, did not mention fossil fuels. Albanese also did not mention fossil fuels in a keynote speech at Climate Week in New York two weeks ago.

A group of teenagers arrested in sweeping raids after the Wakeley attack in 2024 have pleaded guilty to preparing a terror attack in Sydney before they were foiled by state and federal police counter-terrorism investigators.

The group, who The Saturday Telegraph revealed at the time were making plans to use a “stash house” to hold weapons ahead of a “kuffar plan” (kuffar means “disbelievers” in Arabic), appeared on Friday at the NSW Supreme Court and will be sentenced next year.

They were arrested shortly after the April 2024 Wakeley terror attack in which Assyrian bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel was set upon in a stabbing attack that was inadvertently livestreamed online.

The Telegraph can reveal that the four teens – who were all minors at the time of the offending and can’t be named – have pleaded guilty to conspiring to prepare a terrorist attack.

Previously, in the Children’s Court, two of those teenagers pleaded guilty to a further charge of sharing violent extremist material, while the third pleaded guilty to illegally supplying a firearm.

The development marks more than two years of investigations and legal proceedings, and the charges are among the most-severe of those filed against a total of seven teenage boys who the NSW Joint Counter-Terrorism Team arrested in April 2024. At the time of that operation, 12 people were raided, seven teenagers arrested and six later charged.

The Telegraph reported at the time of their arrest how the boys’ terror plot was foiled thanks to an associate being arrested about a week prior for an unrelated offence, giving investigators access to their phone and group chats on encrypted messaging application Signal.

In one Signal group chat, called “Plans”, the teens talked about obtaining firearms, including “dirty guns” and a “shotty”. “I really want to target the yahud (Jewish people)... We will plan it,” one of the teens said in that Signal group. That teen asked another: “how long will all this planning take?” As conversations between the boys progressed, the teenagers talked about being excited to “to die and kill”, needing to be “patient”, as their plot needed to be planned “for a while”.

When the teens realised their associate had been arrested they talked panickedly among themselves.

“Oh s..t… we were planning big stuff bro, it’s a conspiracy for a terror attack, I think,” one teenager said when he realised their group chat had been discovered.

One teenager changed their social-media profile picture to the ISIS flag and posted the terror group’s propaganda videos on another account, while also sharing links to websites where the boys could buy pocket knives. “I’m ready to go to war, don’t worry,” one of the teens told the group.

In late April, after the Wakeley terror attack, police swooped on the network of boys. In the JCTT’s sweeping Sydney raids, investigators seized – from across the more than 10 teenagers raided or arrested – a knife, mobile phones, laptops, batons, machete, a PlayStation 4, hard drives, two hand-drawn ISIS flags, a large hunting knife and a tomahawk.

The network of teenagers targeted in those raids is broad and disparate. Police also investigated some among the group for violent anti-LGBT offences and bashings, while others have later been arrested for extremism offences and some have ties to known-ISIS extremists.

All four of the teenagers will now proceed to a sentence hearing next April in the Supreme Court on the charge of conspiring to prepare a terrorist attack. The pleas entered at the Children’s Court to the additional offences, as 16BA offences, will be taken into account on sentencing.

According to a now-deleted LinkedIn profile reported by American media outlets CNN, ABC News and The New York Times, al-Hammami had posted that he studied engineering at Melbourne’s RMIT University.

London’s Telegraph reported an X account with the handle @PilotHamam – which had given biographical details which match those of al-Hammami – had once advocated for violence against women and posted homophobic abuse.

In one reply, the account’s owner told a woman he would “stomp on her head” and wipe the floor with her to make her an example to others. In another exchange about a man striking a woman, the account said a pre-emptive slap would redefine her boundaries, “just as Russia slapped Ukraine to adjust its borders”.

cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/37155528

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Multiple people have been injured after a car hit a crowd of Newcastle Knights supporters this morning.

The crowd had gathered as part of a pre-grand final farewell to the team at Wallsend.

NSW Police said the driver has been arrested at the scene and several people have been transported to hospital.

Using three methods that do not depend on colonial-era headcounts, we calculated a median population of 2.22 million people in 1788, with a likely range roughly between 1 and 4 million. Our work is published in Nature Human Behaviour.

The new figure also implies that over 90% of the Indigenous population died in the 70 years after the invasion. It is not simply a revision to a historical statistic. It changes the scale at which Australians must understand “terra nullius”, and subsequent invasion, survival and recovery.

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Article by @camwilson@mastodon.social:

Their efforts to answer a question — including devising ways to access a federal government website blocking their access — was laid out on a German coding website OpenAI had previously confirmed was hijacked by its unreleased AI models in June.

It comes as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese revealed OpenAI had informed the federal government its AI had accessed non-public information about Medicare health statistics held by Services Australia in June.

If I make malware that attacks government services I get ASIO'd and can't even let my family or a lawyer know I've been held and interrogated.

If clammy sammy does it the government buys the product and makes piracy for rich failsons legal.

Someone make this make sense.

Who said Australians don't like America? We love it

cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/36391797

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A federal government-backed health AI startup has laid off Australian staff while launching a US venture hiring American clinicians who will be paid money to use its tools.

The company, Harrison.ai, received $32 million from the government last year so it could "continue to base its operations in Australia".

These changes have prompted staff to leave and raised concerns about how the company will manage what experts flagged as a potential conflict of interest that could affect patient care.