Highly recommend spending half an hour on this talk by @chrissimon.au on the bulshit that LLMs produce. Yup. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bF_... #AI #LLM #ChatGPT

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

A must-watch talk from @scott.hanselman.com. Scott and I are of the same vintage, and I am embarrassed (mortified!) by how revolting some of our generational peers have become. Technology still has a unique power to improve our lives, but wow, do we ever have work to do. youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg?...

Federal Court Justice Wigney is beginning his summary of his decision in Pabai Pabai v Commonwealth with a sketch of the changes to the Torres Strait islands. He is describing profound changes to the landscape. /n

Some people are suddenly very opposed to cloud seeding and all forms of weather modification. Boy, are those people going to be upset when they realize how fossil fuel burning has been changing the composition of the atmosphere and modifying the weather for everyone.

Just realised that from today (July 2) it’s now closer to the year 2050 then it is to 2000.

apropos of nothing, this is my holiday reading this week.

Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

Next week it is time to #ShowYourStripes again. We encourage everyone to download their warming stripes graphics and use them to start climate conversations on Friday 20th and Saturday 21st June. www.ShowYourStripes.info Graphic: Change in global average temperature from 1850-2024.

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If you watch only one video today, let it be this one. Watch NYU Stern School of Business Professor Scott Galloway’s outstanding commentary on what prosperity and wealth should mean in America. His words could not be more on point and timely. Please pass it on.

Another ABC article about the cost of climate change that forgot to mention either climate change or the resulting sea level rise. 'It doesn't look like it's going to stop'. Genius. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

It's joenly the beginning www.espn.com.au/football/sto...

“Fixing climate change is too expensive.” Um no. What’s really expensive is doing nothing. Climate disasters cost billions—and those costs are rising fast. Climate solutions save money and lives, as well as building a better world for us all 🌏💚

Thankfully, the village was evacuated already, but one person is missing and everyone else’s homes are destroyed. Make no mistake: this is a climate disaster.

Good news and well done the people behind this. 🧪 #nature @euanritchie.bsky.social cosmosmagazine.com/nature/anima...

Rrrright on schedule—KOMO posted the first broadcast of Dave Crockett’s footage. He survived. It’s okay to watch. But if you’ve never seen it before, fair warning: it’s disorienting.

Respect to NASA for somehow fixing the thrusters on their Voyager spacecraft which broke 20+ years ago and is currently 48 years from earth. ✌️ #DIY #nasa #voyager

Kinda cool to see myself quoted on the wall at @bellmuseum.bsky.social last week!

thinking about the some sheep/no sheep map again

Oh my goodness. Look at this strange and beautiful sea slug. It is completely transparent except for a complex network of pale tubules that runs through body and looks like an armature you would use if you were making a model of a sea slug. Amazing!

This is heartbreaking

They've launched it! "Clifford said Incat hoped to build “as many sustainable ships as possible for the global market, both here in Australia and overseas”."

NEW PAPER, JUST OUT! 👀 Insects from the '70s and '80s were already collecting microplastic, decades before the term microplastic even existed. 🤯 A thread on the surprising history of this pollutant and the incredible insect larvae that helped us uncover it. 🐛 Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x

Thanks to Trump the unwitting climate activist, 2024 may turn out to be the year that global emissions peaked 🙌

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

a dutton majority or climate indies in the balance of power? 🤔 just a handful of seats will answer that question & ~12 indie campaigns are on a knife's edge. 🔪 can you chip in to help get them over the line? 👇 ✨ all donations will be DOUBLED ✨ www.climate200.com.au/campaign/ele...

This is the sort of content the internet is made for.

ADOLESCENCE on Netflix is extraordinary television. Filmmaking of the highest order. Pretty much every single creative decision is perfect. Cannot recommend it highly enough.

Adolescence on Netflix is a hell of a show innit

completely insane. foreign travel to the united states should be over. we should be a pariah state. you would have to be insane to come here for any reason after reading this. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Matt has a remarkable skill in weaving a thread through modern history to explain current events. Magnificent story telling. This episode is fascinating context for the changing global superpower dynamic.

The Sun, emerging from totality behind the Earth, seen from Blue Ghost's perch on the Moon: @firefly-aerospace.bsky.social

Butterflies are vanishing from the face of the Earth because of us.

This is excellent news. There is good reason to be optimistic about this next stage of search based on ongoing analysis completed by government agencies and impressively credentialled volunteers around the world.

My 9yo asked me to explain what DOGE is and why it’s called that and I think both of us got dumber in the process.

in case you needed explaining why the first pic might be a bad idea, have a look at the second

"According to [ASIO boss] Burgess, "almost all" [people planning terrorist attacks] were radicalised minors who are "overwhelmingly" male and Australian-born, and the "majority" were lone wolf-type individuals following "nationalist and racist ideologies". That seems quite bad."

Movies you’ve watched more than 6 times using only GIFs

absolutely wild. i went to youtube to watch a video and the autoplay ad was an AI fake of tom hanks spouting fake diabetes cures. google is making money off this???

In the face of all this, it's time to reread @drkatemarvel.bsky.social's We Need Courage, Not Hope, to Face Climate Change (not to mention rampant, accelerating fascism).

The entire nation of Australia gets it. Media in that country are having to blur what Elon Musk did twice in public today because of laws there regarding the Nazi salute.

You know who understands risk? Actuaries. And guess what they're saying: "... the plausible worst-case hit to global economies would be 50% in the two decades before 2090." I'm bad at budgeting, can someone tell me whether 50% is a lot?

The simplest environmental solutions are often the best. They’re proven. They’re ready now. They can help us avert disaster. So why do some people prefer complicated, high-tech, faraway gadgets instead? globalecoguy.org/occams-razor...

A modern home in Pacific Palisades survived the fire while all the homes around it burned. It was luck, but also it was made to withstand a wildfire, and it did. I spoke with the architect who designed it, plus other architects, about designing for disaster: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

“We basically have three choices: mitigation, adaptation and suffering. We’re going to do some of each. The question is what the mix is going to be. The more mitigation we do, the less adaptation will be required and the less suffering there will be.” - John Holdren, Obama's science advisor in 2007

We should have some unprecedented events that are good for once

Outstanding ABC Storyline on #Solar ‘Over the past two decades, solar power has been undergoing a revolution.’ Puts into perspective how much land #solar power really takes up. #energy www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...

Incredible scenes at Perry Park for the game between @brisbaneroar.bsky.social women and Central Coast after today's rain. Support staff have been sweeping and scooping water from the surface since 4pm. Original 5pm KO now delayed until 7pm! #aleaguewomen

Unbelievable talent.