Rob Reiner was a good guy. He made a lot of movies about good guys, in worlds where not everyone was good and you didn’t have to be good. He made movies about people trying. He was angry, as many hopeful people are. He knew the world could be better and he wanted it to be. His death is devastating.

Someone has just restored "Daicon 3" from a rare 8mm copy. It's the best version to date. >> archive.org/details/zgfp...

Sussan Ley, touting the Antisemitism Envoy’s report, demanding that it be immediately implemented. The plan has been emphatically rejected by the Australian Human Rights Institute, Amnesty Internatjonal and a coalition of 9 Jewish groups.

If you're scared this tragedy will by weaponised by those pushing hatred, division & control, same. It's a pattern that can change nations. We've already seen Netanyahu claim the Muslim who charged the shooters was Jewish. Empathy, patience and truth. Everything else is unhelpful

"While the victims of the massacre at Bondi Beach were still bleeding, Benjamin Netanyahu - architect of the genocide in Palestine - blamed Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese." Butt out, Netanyahu #auspol michaelwest.com.au/butt-out-of-...

As I understand it, legal gun ownership requires a licencee to demonstrate a "genuine reason" for such ownership. But a 50'ish suburban man can have 6?!!

Here’s an article from this year with the Australian gun lobby boasting that, with surging gun numbers, it was winning the fight against firearms control advocates. Blame guns. Blame anti-Semitism. Blame terrorists. Do not blame everyday Australians who marched for peace.

BREAKING: Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar says her son was pulled over by immigration agents and asked to prove his citizenship.

Elon Musk's AI robot is spewing misinformation about the Bondi Beach shooting

when the media starts platforming Hanson on this remember she believes and promotes the insane lie that Port Arthur was a government operation.

Netanyahu has done more than anyone to make Jews everywhere feel unsafe.

this, from @kevinbaker.bsky.social, is a better analysis of the intersection between LLMs and academic science than 98% of what's out there.

Still not engaging in the news cycle but fuck Netanyahu. Fuck him entirely. Disgusting human being. Fuck him forever.

I see war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu lying on global TV. He says that the person who stopped a Bondi Beach shooter, Ahmed al Ahmed, was a Jewish man. The hero is in fact, a 43-year-old muslim fruit shop owner from Sydney - and this has been multiple source confirmed.

ABC News Australia doing what BBC News haven't done yet, name the Bondi Beach hero: Inala Cooper, "What I was reflecting on this morning was the footage of the civilian, the unarmed man, Ahmed el Ahmed, a 43 year old fruit shop owner"

So there is already an ai-generated whitewashing campaign to bury the name of the Muslim man, Ahmed al Ahmed, who disarmed one of the Bondi Beach shooters, and replace his identity with a white guy name and that’s why even a thimble of our potable water powering this tech is too fucking much.

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

Four sources close to the situation claim OpenAI has become hesitant to publish research on the negative impact of AI. The company says it has only expanded the economic research team’s scope.

Horrific, disgusting, inexcusable, antisemitic

"The virus can lead to brain swelling, which can cause lasting damage, including blindness, deafness and intellectual disabilities..." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/w...

This paper contains some good arguments about an issue that concerns me a lot when I hear my colleagues talking about LLM use in developing their research: Whose ideas are you presenting as your own? (Though the fatalist argument the authors make at the end of paper is disappointing/bizarre.)

Many of the accounts on X that are now opportunistically spreading anti-immigration content in the wake of the Bondi attack are *not even located in Australia*

A family gathering at the beach. This is an act of pure evil. We’ve seen some bravery in response but I’m thinking of the families who must have been truly terrified upon realising what was happening around them. Devastating.

I am deeply shocked by the distressing images from the shooting at the Hanukkah celebrations at Bondi Beach in Australia. This appalling act of violence against the Jewish community must be unequivocally condemned. (1/2)

#BREAKING 🚨 Police have now confirmed at least 12 people are dead and 29 others injured after a mass shooting on Bondi Beach, which has been declared a terrorist attack NSW premier Chris Minns says the shooting targeted the Jewish community at a Hanukkah celebration

Absolutely horrified by the news of the mass murders in Sydney's Bondi Beach - a place dear to me, where I used to live, and which I cannot imagine as a massacre site. Humanity needs to stop and re-evaluate our infinite capacity for inhumanity. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

When will we learn that the slaughter of innocents helps no one. 💔

My heart filled with dread when I saw the news this evening. I’m absolutely devastated by the horrific violence at Bondi beach tonight. This is an appalling and unforgivable act of violence.

Our thoughts are with all of the victims of today‘s horrific attack and their families.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... Bondi beach shooting live updates: two people in custody as PM urges public to follow police guidance amid ‘shocking and distressing’ scenes

Two people are in police custody at Bondi Beach in Sydney, the New South Wales Police Force said, after reports multiple gunshots were fired late Sunday

This is one of the key reasons that China's economy is about to overtake the US, and pull significantly ahead. If it hasn't already.

Fox is blaming RFK Jr. for the measles outbreak. They promoted him, supported his nomination, and now they are turning on him. 🙄

fucking piece of shit

My heart is with my beautiful alma mater right now. We should treasure universities. www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.

Well, it was a win, but even as an Gooner I feel sorry for Wolves. Arsenal were pretty awful, while Wolves deserved something more.

As he celebrates his 100th Birthday this very day, can we all take a moment to acknowledge that time when Dick Van Dyke won the internet internet. Forever.

"The earth has moved under our feet, and our massive security gamble is crumbling, but the government pretends nothing has happened" @michaelpascoe01.bsky.social #auspol #AUKUS #Trump michaelwest.com.au/australias-s...

Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.

[guy who voted for this] i didn’t vote for this

Today in "Don't Trust AI to Tell You Facts": How several different "AI" programs messed up the simple fact of to whom I dedicated a book, and what that means for how much you should trust "AI" to tell you the truth about things (spoiler: not much at all): whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/13/a...

DUST BUNNY (2025): I saw a review that said this was a cross between THE PROFESSIONAL and TREMORS, which is the most unhinged combination, but I’ll be damned if they weren’t 100% right. Strong PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH vibes and a lot of fun.

Jealous

I get that the BBC is terrified at the moment over the Panorama/Trump thing and is keen to be performatively "even-handed," but sticking Robin Ince in the ribs for the high crime of believing that maybe kindness and tolerance aren't such bad things is a hell of a line to draw.

The very same commentators that spent years condemning anti-semitism in UK politics as a major national scandal, have suddenly lost interest now that it implicates one of their own www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-farage...

Deeply disappointed to hear that the BBC has pushed out one of the most brilliant presenters in all of science communication for speaking with integrity and honor in support of human rights and dignity.