Philip Pollard @archcontext

I'm a bit hard to pigeonhole. I work as an urban designer, strategist, planner, architect & teacher. Sustainability's a core focus. RTs not nec' endorsements Awabakal country (Australia) Joined July 2010

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Philip Pollard @archcontext

18 hours ago

Tony Wright: ‘Sadly, we’ll never see Norman Gunston interview Hanson. He’s gone back to where he came from, which is to say to Garry McDonald’s absurdist imagination.’ smh.com.au/national/vale-…

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Jenny Difficult-Frecklington-Jones 🇵🇸🇱🇧🇮🇷 @JonesHowDareYou

2 days ago

Wilcox. #Spiral

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2 days ago

The ICAC said the amounts “were not declared and exceeded applicable donation caps”.

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2 days ago

smh.com.au/politics/nsw/t… The NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption outlined damning allegations against head of Catholic Schools Dallas McInerny, including that he “arranged & approved” political donations from Catholic Schools NSW to recruit members to the Liberal party.

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4 days ago

“Over the next 12 months we predict a massive shift from #AI usage to strict AI accountability,” Elastic’s Jeremy Pell said. “The era of evaluating success by how busy your usage dashboards look is officially coming to a close.”

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4 days ago

#Elastic suggests Au businesses are not yet measuring whether their AI spend delivers. Only 8% of decision-makers track AI’s contribution to revenue or $ savings. Yet 50% plan to increase AI spend over the next yr, with 32% saying they will only do so with clearer proof of value.

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Philip Pollard @archcontext

4 days ago

@KennethMoo25538 @DavidPocock Who do you think it should be directed at? Turning a blind eye to the cynical behaviour of big fossil fuel & their shameful lies & misrepresations - while they cook the planet - to support the illusion of becoming a “sporting giant” looks a bit misdirected from here.

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Philip Pollard @archcontext

4 days ago

The #ChristianBrothers in Australia transferred some of its most valuable colleges to a separate trust #EdmundRice for just $1 each but now claims it will be broke by September and unable to compensate hundreds of survivors of shocking clerical abuse.

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4 days ago

smh.com.au/national/prest… #ChristianBrothers give away $billions in assets - evidently to deny victims their hard-won compensation

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4 days ago

“It strikes me as a very obvious ploy to deny compensation to victims from an organisation that has billions in assets. This is a profoundly cynical tactic, but whether they can do anything about that, whether they can unwind this arrangement remains to be seen.” Andy Schmulow

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Philip Pollard @archcontext

a week ago

Nine’s “star”, Stefanovic has increasingly cast himself as a culture warrior, told “thug” Robinson that he admired his “tenacity” and “courage” in “trying to stand up for what you believe is right” in a podcast interview lasting almost an hour. -Appalling smh.com.au/politics/feder…

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a week ago

@Startingagain22 @TracyWesterman How algorithms work on this platform in particular-

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a week ago

@MichaelPascoe01 @TracyWesterman What a creep

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United Nations @UN

2 weeks ago

As conflicts escalate across the world, an alarming number of girls and boys are falling victim to rape, sexual slavery, forced marriage and trafficking. On the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict, @antonioguterres calls for an end to this abhorrent crime. un.org/en/observances…

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Philip Pollard @archcontext

2 weeks ago

#Wilcox

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3 weeks ago

“The private vested interests have got very, very good megaphones, and they’ll march up and down the street with their megaphones and their signs saying, ‘This is going to be a disaster, woe betide us’,” Prof Graham Samuel smh.com.au/politics/feder…

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Philip Pollard @archcontext

3 weeks ago

@HJoyOz @Mon4Kooyong There are no “units” in a PhD

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3 weeks ago

@StephenKealy1 @Mon4Kooyong 🤣

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3 weeks ago

@Hught2aswell @Mon4Kooyong At least they can use punctuation

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3 weeks ago

The USA has eye-watering rooftop solar costs compared with the rest of the world. A standard 7-kilowatt rooftop solar system that costs $28,000 to install in the USA would cost only $4,000 in Australia or $10,000 in Germany, according to the research group Permit Power. NYT