Google plans to build a large artificial intelligence data centre on Australia’s remote Indian Ocean outpost of Christmas Island after signing a cloud deal with the Department of Defence this year, according to documents reviewed by Reuters and interviews with officials www.afr.com/technology/g...

New Australian content quotas are about to be introduced for streaming companies, like Netflix. These will hopefully boost the production of kids' TV - after changes the Coalition gov made in 2020, the amount of children's tv content produced nosedived

BACKYARD ALUMINIUM SMELTER www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Behind the scenes - I am deep in the Content Mines

I fucking love this... this is what the internet was meant for neal.fun/space-elevat...

Another entry to the *nightmare-coins-that-really-shouldn't-feature-teeth* series. This one of Benedict XVI.

there will 100% be Some Guy* who abuses the shit out of this scheme so much by like setting up a backyard aluminium smelter out of stuff they bought at Aldi and ruins it for everyone else *me www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

when making a new graph/chart/whatever you really have to ask yourself these two questions imo 1) is this chart/map better than a table 2) is this chart/map better than a bar chart

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Delivering on an election promise by handing over my 2008-2025 election night tie to the Museum of Australian Democracy, Old Parliament House, Canberra. When I paid $20 for it in 2008, never thought it would end up in a museum.

the Coalition dumping net zero and going harder on immigration to chase One Nation votes is not likely to help them if they ever want to win enough seats to form government again - and this (complicated) chart shows one reason why! www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

ATO is paying private debt collector $42m to pursue taxpayers, including welfare recipients www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... cc. @maximumwelfare.bsky.social @jeremypoxon.bsky.social

tbh this already happened in the 90s, there was a laser tag in Gosford of all places (it fucken ruled)

oh I had just assumed these were a front for something, like the american candy stores www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

According to AI overviews, Gamergate was my fault. Sorry guys!

I swear to god every other day there's an article debunking some stupid TikTok trend. the other day it was 'influencers' doing DIY dental work (??????) today it is protein water (????) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Its's super-shitty that we don't just institute proper welfare because it's the right thing to do but truly nuts that we won't even do it despite knowing it benefits everybody to do so

Microsoft forced its AI into 365 and wanted people to pay extra for the privilege. Didn't make it obvious that there was an option without AI. The ACCC is now suing them over it. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

building a $300m ballroom after cutting food welfare is some real emperor shit

The tragic change a single year has made in America | Margaret Sullivan

Done! Well done 🎉🎉🎉 Timor-Leste officially admitted to Asean, becoming its 11th member www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia...

Having now read this it is very funny that they are trying to rebuild Roblox for weird dudes with monkey JPEGs

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tip: do not store your harmonium in a very humid and hot attic

relevant chart - from USAToday

Interesting chart in this report surveying people on what they think are the major contributions to the 'housing problem'. Feels like a failure of the (non-right wing) media, politicians and experts that the measures that would have the most impact are so far below immigration

just doing the draft of the newsletter and it is an absolute banger this week even if I do say so myself

is it hot right now (yes) isithotrightnow.com/places/sydne...

Can you predict when Lou Bega's greatest hit, Mambo No. 5, was released based on the names of all the women mentioned in the song? Weirdly yes. yawpr.substack.com/p/project-a-... #databs #rstats

I'm so excited to live in an era when "butt breathing" might become a legit form of therapy. Lucky for you, @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social is on the story. And there is a truly mesmerizing infographic. arstechnica.com/science/2025...

wonder if big Ange wants to coach Hornsby Heights over 35s div 3 now that he is at a loose end?? anyone got his number

is this a heistogram chart?

Made a chart. There are a lot more museum heists than I thought. www.economist.com/culture/2025...

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"Bird migration is changing. What does this reveal about our planet?" www.theguardian.com/environment/...

You already know this is bad, but I absolutely guarantee the details in this article are at least 12x as bad as you think they are www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

An OpenAI executive said GPT-5 found solutions to 10 "previously unsolved" math problems when in reality all it did was find online references to places where people had already solved them techcrunch.com/2025/10/19/o...

AWS is down, post hog

this is the weirdest thing I've bought at aldi and I've bought some epic middle-aisle shit, so that is saying something. the mushrooms are whole! and very crispy. not bad at all tbh

This is an absolutely amazing piece of work - the ABC spent five years (!) working on this interactive feature that brings together First Nations oral histories spanning 65,000 years www.abc.net.au/news/deeptim...

The amazing world of fungi – in pictures

Carbon offsets, though widely used, often fail to deliver real emission cuts. They undermine global climate goals by enabling polluters to avoid reducing fossil-fuel use.

sometimes i will re-download a file multiple times because i cannot be bothered finding it on my computer

ChatGPT gave a significant portion of my students the wrong answer to an easy quiz question that everyone used to always get right I had two groups of students turn in annotated bibliographies that were ChatGPT generated - not a single citation actually existed