NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...

Good piece here by Amy. This stuff is corrosive to democracy and journos should stop doing it

Very sad to be sharing this news: Research Professional News to discontinue publication at end of 2026. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-o...

Bethan's Rock is a small grey stone on display at Poole Museum in Poole, England. It was donated to the museum in 2019 by a five-year-old girl named Bethan, and it has since attracted significant attention on social media and become the museum's most famous object. - Wikipedia

University of Nottingham staff are facing cuts to more than 600 jobs and over 40 courses. This would be devastating for workers, students, and our city, as well as UK research.

What will murder the bull market - column by the always excellent @ianrharnett.bsky.social as.ft.com/r/df9718e3-9...

Human data #auspol #datacentre #climatecrisis

Whoa! 'About 40% of local bookshops report under $50,000 profit each year, the ABA says' www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...

Not a great economy alert! Wall Street Bets users think Palantir spiked today because The Onion story titled “Palantir Acquires Pentagon for $800 Billion” hit their front page. They’re guessing trading bots indexed the top post on the subreddit reddit not understanding source.

Falling house prices = improving housing affordability

> Another colleague says he found Griep’s attitude toward PhD students “not okay.” “He is close friends with one PhD candidate, outright blunt with another, and starts a relationship with their office mate.” www.voxweb.nl/en/discredit...

Monash University recorded a 2025 surplus of $580 million but is asking for donations

🚨 Google continues to lobby the UK government to hand the work of the country's creatives to big tech companies for free. 🧵 1/3

Australian university students paid $368 million more to study their undergraduate courses in 2024 than they would have if the Morrison government had not introduced a new pricing system. Julie Hare reports. www.crikey.com.au/2026/06/30/s...

One for the future historians. Ukraine has embarked on a strategic drone bombing campaign against Russia’s warmaking industries, roughly at 1943 levels of the air war in Europe

I feel like she, specifically, should know better

"Either knowingly or through ignorance, Services Australia has been failing for years to process social security payments and benefits across 93 separate matters," writes Crikey's correspondent-at-large Rick Morton. www.crikey.com.au/2026/06/30/s...

Multi-billionaire Steven Lowy again publicly preaching about "values", this time calling for national service. He's far less vocal about $550,000 in secretive payments he directed to the Liberal Party via an obscure company weeks before federal election…(ICYMI): theklaxon.com.au/nation-suffe...

Links to take action in the YouTube video description. If you're in Australia, make sure to join this townhall meeting on July 6!

University of Wollongong hearings at ICAC today: consultant Tanya Diesel got a lucrative contract with the University despite a close prior business relationship with Chancellor Michael Still. She even invited him to her poetry reading ...

Climate change really ruins a ski season

PARAGUAY! PARA-GUAY-HAI-HAI-HAI

Mt Hotham in July. Nothing to see here

I honestly think it was cool how for the Freedom 250 concert they symbolically had one attendee from every state

"I think I'm learning to walk into the room, curious and ready to learn something. That's been a good way for me to navigate the unknown." Acclaimed saxophonist Josh Johnson discusses genre fluidity, Wayne Shorter's wisdom, and how limitations unlocked creativity on his album 'Unusual Object.':

Ancient Roman Cthulhu mosaic. They knew.

"The ultimate contradiction within the ALP's climate politics, however, is precisely its ‘tactical fatalism’ – its refusal to confront fossil capital, effectively locking in higher warming"

Completely understandable mistake. I, too, have occassionally mistaken a pat on the shoulder for a violent assault, and have only sorted it out after making a formal complaint to Victoria Police www.theage.com.au/politics/vic...

Yes please www.carscoops.com/2026/06/cars...

What began as a “flamingo revolution” to protest the $1.4 billion development on Sazan Island has spiraled into mass protests against a ruling party that thousands now want out.

House prices in 2024 - "impossibly unaffordable". House prices today - slipping back to 2024 levels is now apparently a disaster.

Residents in Sydney’s lower north shore fear being swamped by data centre tsunami www.afr.com/property/res...

Today I'm introducing a Private Member’s Bill into parliament, to change the date of HECS indexation and make the system fairer for millions of Australian students and graduates.

"If the Royal Commission is serious about investigating the nature of antisemitism and its 'key drivers', it should begin with Australia’s Israel lobby – the leading proponents of the conflation of antisemitism with antizionism." @louiseadler1.bsky.social 💥🎯💯 www.deepcutnews.com/p/if-the-roy...

Maine just became the first U.S. state to pass a moratorium on hyperscale data centers.

Sarah Martin has been absolutely all over the grift that is One Nation www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

This is low-budget desktop McGuyering genius

I’m not thrilled that apparently the secret to success in basically every field right now is “be really good at short form video”

"Degrowth" isn't about shrinking GDP for fun. It's about shrinking the destructive sectors (fossil fuels, fast fashion) while expanding the human sectors (care, education, arts, local food).

The Kate Lamb story on this is brilliant (and scary) would strongly encourage reading if the Indonesia of it jumped out to you. This is a full on industry and an engrained part of Indonesian political culture now www.theguardian.com/world/2018/j...

So many of them. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Federal Court Justice Jonathan Beach ruled that an additional settlement of $548.5 million, which includes the $475 million Robodebt compensation, $60 million in costs to administer the scheme and $13.5 million in legal costs, was fair and reasonable au.finance.yahoo.com/news/centrel...

Photographer Pennie Smith, The Clash, September 1979, an image used for the 'London Calling' album cover art and voted best rock 'n' roll image #WomensArt

Controversial take perhaps, but I think you can install air-conditioning and shutdown data centers at the same time. maybe even steal all the air-conditioning units from the data centers and install them in public housing. Then run them off solar and battery while taxing the hyper rich to death

On a completely different note, yet another challenging (in a good way, it’s really well-written) and fascinating article from Joe Tomlinson and others kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/ws/portalfil...

Galaxias Wolf-Rayet - From Ángel López-Sánchez - https://flic.kr/p/brGSRZ

“The Ellisons are just one instance of a much larger, much more unwieldy transformation taking place, an inter-capitalist conflict with global implications, but they are a titanic plutocratic force that leverages familial and social ties and banks on the regulatory and governmental side of things”

Once again confirming my general assumption that the dumbest people you know (ABC senior management) are the ones most into A.I.