Lebanese families have been told to flee homes that they might never be able to return to, and families are setting up tents for an uncertain and dangerous life on the streets of Beirut all because of a conflict not of their making, brought about by another state.

it is goofy to be old enough to remember when Gmail promised you would never have to delete emails, only to tell everyone there were storage limits unless you paid monthly for extra space in the cloud

I think there's an untold story here that an intrepid journalist could investigate: When a big tech company builds a data center with on-site natural gas turbines, who pays for the pipelines the utility lays or expands to bring gas to the turbines? My guess: All gas ratepayers, not the tech company.

Claude Code source leak reveals how much info Anthropic can hoover up about you and your system

This is how puerile lobbying is: "Mining lobby representatives walked the halls of parliament house this week, handing out toy dump trucks with a fake Medicare card superglued to the tray."

This is so, so well-articulated.

Lol yes - turns out Freelancer bought Loadshift for $7.7m a few years back, which is a nice windfall for the founder but hardly represents a major part of the Australian logistics industry www.smartcompany.com.au/transport-lo...

important note. This “freelance journalist” is a wealthy investment banker. His wife did Kate Middleton’s make up. Aside from AI this is also about careless mediocrity being accepted if you move in the right circles. He was reviewing books for fun & even then couldn’t be bothered to do it properly

The recipe said potato gratin for *one*. Honestly.

Cancer-optimism posts are borderline abusive. I can't tell you Trudi's hell, because I must not spoil your smile or your nearly-religious witness. I just get to remember the 11 months given my love, and the oncologist who wouldn't tell us she was dying. (Nepean cancer centre has wonderful nurses.)

And drowned in the bathtub

This should become part of the national psyche, alongside the Nutbush, the Farnsy Flash mob. Do it, Sydney!

"FactFusion" gets traction for more fake slop.

Shame on the overseas company Wavenoe for selling this HIDEOUS so-called ANZAC bloody-palm Tshirt using an AI generated image & faked Australian accent. May you be haunted by the real images of the Western Front.

Loved this essay by @timdunlop.bsky.social on “a regnant, malicious, corrupt & immoral world order” that makes banal political theatre & policy levers of what was once humanity’s most radical evil: harming children “the point is not to hide the extremity; it is to make it part of the furniture”

I too would fly to the moon to escape having to use Outlook <hand to ear> wait, I'm gett- OH NO

Anthropic's marketing is phenomenal. They're like 100x more evil and shameless and skilled at deception than OpenAI and it is absolutely working for them, with the assistance of obscenely easy marks in journalism

Google has been getting plenty of glowing press for its large-scale renewable and storage investments recently. But Public Citizen discovered they are the quiet co-investors in an ugly, gas-fuelled bitcoin mining data centre www.citizen.org/article/goog...

World’s oldest tortoise caught in viral crypto death scam

If someone tells you the tortoise is dead and another tells you it's not, it's not your job to quote them both. It's your job to look out the fucking window and find out which is true. Literally someone did that, tortoise is not dead.

NEW: Local councils have begun calling for a moratorium on building data centres in Australia. As the federal government is clearing the way for AI investment by fast-tracking build-outs, councils say housing supply is being held up over energy/water constraints. www.crikey.com.au/20...

Well, my son drives a Toyota Echo, which is a petrol miser. And I drive a Hyundai diesel which is about 5l/100km. Have we done our bit?

A great orator Anthony Albanese is not.

Fuck Anthropic, and fuck the handmaiden media. www.afr.com/politics/fed...

sitting in a meeting about how we need to partner with ai and remembering all the meetings about how we should utilise the blockchain

I don't think people realise that this industry is built on the premise of unlimited, infinitely abundant data centre construction and energy supply *just to maintain* current performance. That's before we get to needing more and more energy for each shrinking implement 'improvement'

Tim Wilson had a chat on JJJ Hack about gas. I decided to do a bit of a fact check of his gas industry talking points. @thepointau.bsky.social thepoint.com.au/factchecks/2...

Happy Wrensday Wednesday! This one is from my archives. A red-backed fairywren on a farm gate at Amamoor near Gympie. #wrensday

It's not just that Coatsworth hated on crips at an AFR summit called to gather People Who Hate Crips, it's the applause for obvious lies.

Imagine if all the money spent on 'providers' went to people who need it to live instead? #AusPol

when the piss trough is designed by someone who has cleaned piss troughs.

#BigTech wants you to believe that AI is going to fight climate change. But what’s the truth? Independent climate & energy researcher @ketanjoshi.co explains. 🕵️‍♂️ #GreenSky

US foreign router ban criticized as ‘industrial policy disguised as cybersecurity’

As an NDIS registered worker, I can you assure you this is not the case

The social media ban is obviously a dud, and the government is flailing on what to do next. Great piece of work here by @cameronwilson.bsky.social

Just so you know, any time you post anything online that includes the phrase "From the river to the sea" or "Globalise the intifada", you may be committing a criminal offence in Queensland. There are "reasonable excuse" defences (ours is that we're doing this for a "genuine legal purpose").

“Being home all day is not a dream lifestyle… I doubt they’d say, “I wish I could be home all day with #pain that no medicine can relieve” or “I wish I could be home all day with such debilitating #fatigue, I can’t concentrate on anything.” https://buff.ly/grrBQNi #Disability

Consultancies have been accused of infiltrating universities and wasting scarce public funds on questionable advice about cutting courses and jobs.

I wonder how many electric truck "firsts" there'll be before greentech editors realise the first already happened.

The new right understanding of actually existing Catholic doctrine is literally delusional

SBS's streaming app on Android TV is amazingly bad.

The Toyota RAV-4 is the most egregious example of autobloat: once small, it's now taller and fatter than a 1970s Land Cruiser.

They obviously do things differently in Goa.

You would get so many more amazing books if you had Universal Basic Income. Not even the most dream-scenario AI could compete with the creativity of a world of authors no longer afraid of affording rent.

It is actually impressive how fast tech billionaires managed to make everyone hate them. Instead of just running their companies and enjoying their wealth, their egos forced them to interfere in politics. The public backlash is entirely self-inflicted

The two story walk ups are brilliant. If everyone in Sydney lived in sensible homes like that housing would be half the price it is now.

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Just as with the last federal election, more people voted against conservative candidates in South Australia, than for them. And yet policy and media is still dictated by conservative politics and whether or not there is ‘political space’ to enact them 🫠🫠🫠🫠

And 30 or so cyclists have joined the train. The atmosphere is distinctly hostile.