humans are not designed for the amount of feedback being a public figure on social media provides. Whether it's praise or criticism, receiving an avalanche of nonstop attention is profoundly corrosive to your brain.

The poverty rate is the highest it's been in 25 years. Yet Gina & Clive are hoarding billions while 1 in 3 big corporations pays no tax. This is no accident. Poverty is a policy choice, and it's a choice Labor and the Coalition continue to make. It doesn't have to be this way.

While the gospels say that Judas led the Romans to Jesus, a new theory is gaining traction with some Biblical scholars. There is evidence, some say, that Judas merely shared Christ's location on an insecure group chat that accidentally included several Roman officials and journalists.

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Suspension is a better strategy: take Trump's authority away, "You get your toys back USA when you put an adult in charge."

Good day to remember that a US President has no inherent power over tariffs whatsoever. It’s not like war powers or pardons. It’s entirely delegated by Congress to deal with emergencies. GOP Congress cld modify that law tonight and bring this to a screeching halt.

Toxic Evil Policy is AOK when someone else is paying...

Four (4) more IPv6 Certification workshops across Asia-Pacific by APNIC! blog.apnic.net/2025/03/19/a...

"The right has shifted almost monolithically away from values once prized by both liberals and conservatives, like respect for institutions, evidence-based policymaking and the rule of law." @keanebernard.bsky.social on the death of liberalism under Dutton www.crikey.com.au/2025/03/19/p...

The internet didn’t make people worse. It just made their worst thoughts public.

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Sex workers: doing more for male mental health than every bro therapist combined. But sure, we’re the bad guys.

Ahem, a "defense budget" equal the top 30 spenders on the planet, most of whom are allies ... well, maybe not for long, ok, let's go with bad math.

Yeah, much happier than I'm off X and Meta now.

Cheap, Clean, Green, and more Reliable. Says Rio Tinto. reneweconomy.com.au/solar-batter...

If your business cannot operate legally, you run a CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE.

1. I get served an unintentionally hilarious video on Instagram of someone claiming that giving birth with dolphins ensures there is no pain in childbirth and your kid will have a 150 IQ. 2. I google to see where this theory comes from. 3. I get served an AI answer with this amazing sentence.

Zero Day on Netflix is worth a watch. Watch out for the slur on the main tech villain. You will know it when you hear it.

If you worked for 18F and got fired, Group together to start a consulting company. It’s just a matter of time before DOGE needs you to fix the mess they inevitably create. They will have to hire your company as a contractor to fix it. But on your terms. I’m happy to invest and/or help

Today's winner of The Internet.

It will be interesting in the extreme to see if the consumer class can up end the power structure of the world's largest free but unfair marketplace.

This week, I had the pleasure of facilitating a role-play exercise with @terrysweetser.bsky.social, @aftabsiddiqui.bsky.social, and the #APRICOT2025 Fellows, the latter of which got to practice presenting & defending policies that seek to improve the resilience of the Internet #nextgen

The 2025 ISIF Asia applications are now open! Discover more and start your application via the Foundation blog. Applications close April 4, but registration of organizations in the funding portal closes April 2. apnic.foundation/blog/2025-is... #funding #grants #digitaldevelopment #connectivity

Imagine if other products were made like software is. Every two weeks someone is coming to your house and is replacing your toilet with one that you have to learn to use all over again.

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

The long-rumoured fix is in. Rather than improve their policies to improve their falling popularity, Labor and the Coalition are agreeing on rigging the system to lock out their competitors.

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Battery costs plunge, solar and wind undercut new coal and gas "in almost every market" reneweconomy.com.au/battery-cost...

How to be a critical thinker: 1. Be 10% more skeptical of people you agree with—and 10% more charitable to those you disagree with 2. Find flaws in ideas you like—and strengths in views you dislike 3. Discount sources that peddle one narrative—and learn from those that explore competing ideas

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That's so interesting.

The remote work debate was funny because it forced the question "Is a job something valuable you do or is it a place you go to be watched like daycare" and the answer for a lot of them was yeah it's the daycare thing now come on inside recess is over

In an alternate reality, somewhere in the multiverse, there's a movie franchise, The Terminator series, and the main evil protagonist Super AI is called Project Stargate ...

There are only two types of political science professor right now: (1) those with a haunted look in their eyes, their voices sounding like they should really be speaking to a therapist instead of a classroom full of students right now. (2) absolute psychopaths.

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I believe Buddha said this too.

Lmfao Meta 🔐 Lock Out when I tried to start a messenger only account for family only.

EOI open for 2 @ApnicFoundation programs helping build technical capacity & gender diversity in South Asia & Southeast Asia. Switch!: apnic.foundation/blog/switch2... Digital Leap South Asia: apnic.foundation/blog/express... #ActionNotWords #netgov #digitaldevelopment #asean #tech #southasia

pulse.internetsociety.org/blog/explori... Mikrotik is ....

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The rsync utility in #Linux, *BSD, & #Unix systems are vulnerable to multiple security issues, including arbitrary code execution, arbitrary file upload, information disclosure, and privilege escalation. Hence, you must patch the system ASAP www.cyberciti.biz/linux-news/c... #security #infosec

Welcome to Bluesky.....

Need to sort dates on your #Linux, #Unix or *BSD/macOS? Use the sort command! Month wise simple sort: sort -M input.txt sort -k 3 -M input.txt More complicated options are supported, like sorting using yyyy-mm-dd and any other format; see my blog www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-un... page for more

Junior dev: "I messed up badly. I'm so fired." Senior dev: "Been there, done that...twice. *proceeds to drink coffee like it's no big deal*" Me: "They named a production outage after me, and it was in the newspapers. *proceeds to drink coffee while staring wistfully out the window*"

Therapy...