A Belgian aristocrat who served as diplomat and European commissioner will have to face trial regarding his possible involvement in the murder of Patrice Lumumba, the Congolese prime minister and independence leader assassinated in 1961. www.ft.com/content/16c5...

THREAD. 3 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he had been living, in rural Cornwall, and decided he wanted to live with us instead. We decided to call him Jim. This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st, 2022.

getting occasional reddit recommendations for posts in the ai subreddits is a great way to remind myself millions and millions of people still think LLMs are the Correct Answer Machine

It’s neck and neck. Is Penny Wong or Tony Burke the most reduced person when in power? Wong is like an amusement gallery clown, Burke an extra from Lord of the Flies. #auspol

Every time a person tells me “me too has gone too far” I scream in their face “THEY PUT A PEDOPHILE RAPIST IN THE WHITE HOUSE, YOU LEMMING”.

One fundamental law of KPIs is Goodhart’s Law: when a measure becomes a target, it cease to be a good measure.

I would posit that in the same way RBA Brain became unfit for purpose in the early 90's because they believed the economy acted on the basic premises of the 1970's and early 80s which was their learned experience, we again have the same problem today, believing it acts akin to pre-GFC.

Someone needs to tell Old Mate that the Berlin Wall could do with some demolition work.

It's genuinely so funny to point out to a venture capital billionaire that he and other venture capital billionaires don't do much self-reflection and for him to conclude that proves self-reflection is bad

Oops. Headphones found in harmful chemicals.

Best taxes: 1) Land tax 2) Capital gains tax 3) Income tax 4) Value added/general sales tax Worst taxes: All of the other ones

One imagines after Gaza the Israeli army, and wider society, is way above weight in utter psychos who love killing and butchering ordinary people, an will keep at it as long as possible.

Oh but y’know, they’ll save the good stuff for the book. Best seller, bound to be.

the most insane thing cop shows did was convince people cops solve crimes.

Goddamn can I place a bet on this?

300 years of professionalism and amateur cricket is still where it's at... www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/m...

Every state and federal politician will tell you stories of how this works and their offices being deluged with calls and letters.

By the end of the week it’ll be the Americans blockading the Straits of Hormuz and running a nice extortion racket run by Kushner. 10 days tops.

Remembering that on this day 7 years ago a 28 year old Australian man killed 51 people and injured 89 others at two mosques in Christchurch NZ. Today is UN International Day to Combat Islamophobia. The date was chosen as the anniversary of Christchurch.

Fair fucken dinkum. #aflnorthport

I'm sorry ma'am, but your son perished on Kharg Island in a valiant effort to create Wii Bowling meme videos for the White House X account. In the face of danger, he was not cringe; he was based to his last breath. Please have this commemorative Epic Fury challenge coin. Yes that's Punisher, ma'am

It seems we have spent literal millennia reinventing the Fleshlight.

North supporters, while we still have tens of hours of glorious hope left before our first game, spare a thought for our Essendon counterparts who are already grappling with the futility of their season. Let that thought be "Soz cunts"

Werner Herzog and Paul Keating looking so wile these days.

the AI companies could not be more clear that the plan is to get business hooked on the product, convince them to fire all the workers, then jack the price of their services.

this is the essence of white western culture, overlaid on Iranians. The explosions are good because they are not happening to me.

Software saddos, especially in AI, besmirch all of us folk in tech with their quasi-religious fuckwittedness. Quite interesting really - points to the subtle difference between logic and physics.

Spending trillions to create a commodity so cheap you measure it at the spigot. Very smart.

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out: www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

Also an outstanding bar on Enmore Road.

The designer is the last person who should get an award, because every fucking feature of a car is about how it affects sales, in utter conflict with reliability, reduced manufacturing impact, maintenance and product life. Car design is a total disaster and shameful.

Loquacious Language Mimicker

Still don’t know who (checks notes) “kyle and jackie oh” are.

Aussie journo Heidi Pett is doing great job for @aljazeera.com in Beirut (Actually all her colleagues covering the war doing great work too. Refreshing having people in Beirut and Tehran).

Jeez there's a lot of work to do on the nexus between technology and religion. The former (especially smartphones) have unlocked a wild, unhinged version of the latter, whereby if you can imagine a thing, it's possible, so we get the lunacy around AI and project 2025 and assorted horseshit.

No they won't, it's one of the most standard stories playing out yet again ("fascist liar wins over the petit bourgeois, mainline conservatives think they can control him, the left are focused on fighting liberals, and liberals underestimate the stupidity and venality of mainline conservatives")

Instantly went in the memory hole. Australia is like a house with fucked stumps and nobody ever coughed up for restumping, the rising damp is the racism that’s been left festering, and people try to pretend there’s no probs while whole rooms have floors wobbling like jelly. Still working on this one

Albo and co know there’s a huge round of interest rate (mortgage) pain about to unleash on top of and because of oil shortage induced inflation and recession. Globally. To keep Trump and Netanyahu out of jail. What a world.

Sad Albo won’t be invited to sit on the Souths board post-parliament if he touches gambling revenue.

Jeez there's a lot of work to do on the nexus between technology and religion. The former (especially smartphones) have unlocked a wild, unhinged version of the latter, whereby if you can imagine a thing, it's possible, so we get the lunacy around AI and project 2025 and assorted horseshit.

The enshitification of TVs shows no signs of slowing.

The massive rise in Islamophobia, consciously fuelled by large sections of the media, is a national disgrace. I'd love to hear the PM and LOTO speak out about this and the dangers of white supremacy but ....crickets

We give very substantial humanitarian, development and disaster aid to people in Myanmar. The Myanmar regime is genocidal to large numbers of its own people and wages war and terror on many ethnic groups in its territory. Yet I don't see anyone arguing we should not render life saving assistance.

Excellent TOD

Still as good a way to pop off as any.

Ukrainian poet and soldier Varyna Chornohuz. https://kyivindependent.com/after-six-years-at-the-front-here-is-what-nobody-tells-you-about-being-a-woman-at-war/

Come on Mr Murdoch, weigh in on the $20 barrel.

Hewy @albomp.bsky.social - see this? It's called leadership. #auspol