"decades of research — including a large study published today in the US — conclude that consuming fluoride at recommended levels in drinking water has no adverse effects" www.abc.net.au/news/science...

"THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS" (1991) dir. Jonathan Demme Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Ted Levine, Scott Glenn, Anthony Heald, Kasi Lemmons 🎬 Orion Pictures

Trump didn’t need a discharge petition to release the MLK Jr., JFK, or Earhart files. So why are the Epstein files the one set he refuses to touch?

I still have no idea whether I have ADHD or if I do what type etc etc but it was mind-boggling reading this and relating so deeply to so many of the struggles in it I don't actually care that much about debates around diagnosis. I just like knowing that other people struggle w/ the same things

People who live and work near these farms pay the price for this PFAS contamination with their health.

First Blood (1982) Directed by Ted Kotcheff

The dumbing down of Australia continues in a quest to make the Australian populace as ignorant & gullible as the USA's. Coalition or Labor same same. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... @csiro.bsky.social #auspol @australianlabor.bsky.social

PM @albomp.bsky.social says "his government was a “friend of science”" @australiainstitute.org.au graph says NO (Australia's pitiful R&D spend includes tax breaks to private companies; h/t @rodcampbell.bsky.social, @tomswann.bsky.social) #WithFriendsLikeTheseWhoNeedsEnemies

Australian governments just never tire of finding new ways to give our money to the fossil fuel industry…

This is why for a long time I've found the Prime Minister's Prizes for Science a rather insulting propaganda exercise www.abc.net.au/news/science... CSIRO funding as a percentage of GDP: 1982-83 = 0.17 2024-25 = 0.03 ... Scientific extinction event imminent?

Better approve some more gas fields and coal mines.

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

The latest Cloudflare and Amazon outages have got me thinking about utilities. We can't build modern software without dependencies. The days of running entirely on the client are over, which I see as a good thing. The cost is that we rely on infrastructure. 1/5

“ At just 16 years old, she took a job at Mar a Lago, believing she had secured a dream summer position. But that dream quickly morphed into a nightmare when Ghislaine Maxwell preyed upon her…. They trafficked her”

Good morning Bluesky. Ginkgo biloba. The tree that outlived the dinosaurs.

Breaking: An Epstein survivor just silenced press conference attendees when she delivered the following remarks: “Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”

Fun little #rustlang thing this morning: what's the fastest way to get a program to find a file recursively up from your current directory? std doesn't give a good way to access args without allocation, so we go no-std: github.com/glehmann/fin...

Both the CSIRO and the ABC, traditionally iconic and much loved Australian organisations, have been slowly decimated by consecutive govts over time. Both used to shed light and truth on the political class and their ideological policies. In different ways. Their pain is not a coincidence.

"Australian workers are being shortchanged $95.8 billion a year in unpaid overtime" #ThePoint #GoHomeOnTimeDay thepoint.com.au/news/251119-...

"The average mortgage pays $200,000 in profit over its life to the banks," says Richard Denniss, co-CEO at The Australia Institute. You can read more on good ideas for economic reform on The Point. thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...

This is obscene. The challenges facing the nation means we should be scaling up CSIRO, not cutting it to shreds. While we are sending billions to the US for nuclear shipyards, our science and industrial base at home is falling apart for lack of funds and direction.

L'Ornotreal

“CSIRO has announced it will slash up to 350 jobs as the national science agency grapples with long-term financial challenges … with current funding failing to keep pace with the rising costs of running a modern science agency.” Not “challenges”. They’re choices. 😡

Checkmate, Mr. President

“Methane emissions across the supply chain are a key indicator of poor environmental and operational practices in the fossil fuel industry. Reducing [them] in the energy sector is the most effective and rapid way to cut greenhouse gases in the short term.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

PDF to docx using Python

If you want to argue some progress has been made with reducing greenhouse gas emissions - OK. But stop framing it like this. The precision of 2.6°C completely misrepresents the *vast* uncertainties when it comes to climate & social responses & dynamics. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I've had hangovers like that

Commentary: Cricket has had many brilliant all-rounders, but does the game need a Shohei Ohtani?

"Today we are witnessing a massacre as our forest is being destroyed"

The Name of the Rose (1986) Directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud

one argument thats always struck me as funny is the one about people coming to america to drain the budget of our many social services. such as free university, free healthcare, UBI, etc. you know, all those things we dont have

Australia ranks 142 out of 145 countries according to Greenplexity Index. Our ability to adapt to Green technology is extraordinarily bad. growthlab.app/greenplexity...

Zoe Daniel has unleashed on Tim Wilson saying he’s now “compromised” after taking a Net Zero policy to the election & turning his back on the ppl of Goldstein “To stay in the party at all, I think is really problematic.” “He failed. He’s ineffective.”🔥 #Abc

Source: ScienceDaily search.app/vwdjC

Oh geez, Ferguson has destroyed her with the question on how can renewables be increasing the cost of electricity when gas is the driver of the marginal cost #abc730

indeed i've begun to refer to generative models as "rhetorical technology" because they're only really genuinely effective for narrative support, arguing positions and post-hoc rationalizations for invidious actions (built on a foundation of bullshit, of course)

Epstein survivors just dropped a powerful message for Congress, and it hits like a warning: no more waiting, the truth is coming, ready or not. Watch till the end @housedemocrats.bsky.social @houserepublicans.bsky.social

It’s pretty simple. When you do a huge armed midnight raid on an apartment building rounding up and terrorizing children and later find out there were no criminals there everyone involved resigns in shame and we have loud showy Congressional hearings.

Working Class Man premieres tomorrow night at 7:30pm on Channel 7 and 7plus. Being working class for me is something that I wear in my spirit, it's in my soul and it never changes.

Social media doesn't like me mentioning the 3 crimes below but it's important to get this message out now. All 3 are crimes. The world is not as familiar with the other two terms. Megyn Kelly is trying to convince the world that the two are not as bad as the one.

“Australia’s commitment to net zero is not a political plaything or a virtue-signalling culture war trope. It is grounded in physics and is the compass that guides us towards a flourishing economy. Throwing it away has real consequences.” #auspol #climatecrisis www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

We can map the world's existing forests with incredible accuracy now, but clearly we cannot (or will not) stop them from disappearing at rapid rates almost everywhere. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌎

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... Facts......

<rant> A periodic reminder that Sprints, Backlogs, Daily Scrums, Scrum Boards, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Points, Velocity, PIs, etc., have NOTHING AT ALL to do with "Agile." Agility comes from working small, delivering frequently for feedback from actual customers, and adapting based on 1/3

Amazon announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year. UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year. Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.