james hennessy
@jrhennessy.com
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respected Bluesky poster. ideas editor
@capitalbrief.com
. co-host @ Down Round
completely starstruck. just saw the innocent punter getting slugged at the bowser. the one from the news
30 days ago
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i could achieve regime change through air power alone, sorry to the US but i move different
about 1 month ago
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when the AI bubble pops I'll be swooping in and buying those data centres and turning them into dining precincts. i'm talking a Guzman Y Gomez, a Grilld, a Rolld, a Coffee Club, a Fratelli Fresh, a Strike Bowling
7 months ago
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he looks like a bond trader in exile in Tuscany. he's about to say "we anglos never truly understood Machiavelli"
7 months ago
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Your AI slopfeed will never make the human soul sing like this
7 months ago
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ally
7 months ago
made a playable zine for FREAKON that incorporates a whole heap of stories of how games media helped feed our community
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Staring absolutely dazzled at the masterful pun in this Macquarie report today. Hotel Computerfornia
7 months ago
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Keep coming back to check out Bluesky but I'm just not sure it has enough brain melting infohazards. Prefer a sort of Tough Mudder style info environment
7 months ago
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i'll be hosting a session on dropshipping le creuset knockoffs from aliexpress at the jim chalmers productivity roundtable. see you all there
8 months ago
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I'm chopped and unc
8 months ago
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I was hooting and hollering at some of the costuming and design choices in ep 2 of Alien Earth
8 months ago
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love the fake trendy businesses that are given leases at sydney metro stations. a cafe that sells "banana croissants" which also offers a laundering service for your Nikes. sure ok
8 months ago
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the black skivvies. wiggles inc. the wetwork specialists. the big red car — why does it have no doors, no visible engine?
9 months ago
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Looking to connect with Labubu collectors and the Labubu community on Bluesky. To discuss Labubu and related matters
9 months ago
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for my myriad sins, i wrote about Q+A
www.capitalbrief.com/article/qa-w...
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Q+A was built for another era of media, and died with it
Once a cornerstone of the national political conversation, Q+A ultimately couldn’t survive an increasingly fractured media landscape.
https://www.capitalbrief.com/article/qa-was-built-for-another-era-of-media-and-died-with-it-e45821be-5d50-40ca-824d-d27f5b030593/?gift=2290e3a3-1d2a-4b8f-b42f-b0d1291b3b31
10 months ago
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John Buckley
10 months ago
Scoop: ABC to axe Q+A after nearly two decades on air via
@capitalbrief.com
www.capitalbrief.com/article/abc-...
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ABC to axe Q+A after nearly two decades on air
The ABC is set to pull the plug on its late-night panel program, ending years of speculation over its future.
https://www.capitalbrief.com/article/abc-to-axe-qa-after-nearly-two-decades-on-air-1c657025-5e38-452b-b647-b49d92748610/
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wrote about canva
www.capitalbrief.com/newsletter/c...
about 1 year ago
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OK well I feel like THIS time the proletarianised middle class will respond normally to their new station
about 1 year ago
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US: late imperial psychosis, hegemonic drift, decadent technocracy, elite panic, managed decline, post-legitimacy politics australia:
about 1 year ago
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cool feature of the economy now is that a huge number of voters are now retail traders with a line go up/line go down dashboard in their pocket at all times probably underrated in aus politics in particular, where market performance and politics isn't usually very correlated
about 1 year ago
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Wrote this a month ago about the coming clash on the tech right over tariffs. some might say eerily prescient. disturbing evidence of precognition?
www.capitalbrief.com/article/from...
about 1 year ago
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wrote about tariffs. for the ol newsletter
www.capitalbrief.com/newsletter/c...
about 1 year ago
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Waddup Bluesky
about 1 year ago
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james hennessy
Down Round
over 1 year ago
Today we're joined by New York Times tech correspondent
@mikeisaac.bsky.social
to talk Meta: - The about face on politics, fact checking and DEI - Mark Zuckerberg's based turn - Meta's increasingly confused vision of what it wants to be
omny.fm/shows/down-r...
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Based Mark Zuckerberg (ft. Mike Isaac) - Down Round
Over the last couple of weeks, Mark Zuckerberg and Meta have signalled a shift in the way the company is run — eliminating factcheckers, rolling back internal DEI policies and bringing politics conten...
https://omny.fm/shows/down-round/based-mark-zuckerberg-ft-mike-isaac-1
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BayBayFriend
over 1 year ago
Logging into your boyfriend’s YouTube on the big TV: For You: Medieval historian ranks stews in cinema Building a catapult with dirt from my yard Programming a robot to unwrap KIND Bars Petite woman can eat the hottest sauce in the world The real John Wick was an Irish milkman
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A new era of free speech is upon us
over 1 year ago
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Each resident of Greenland to receive an Xbox 360 or equivalent console in exchange for joining the US
over 1 year ago
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over 1 year ago
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deeply disturbing
over 1 year ago
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abraconagra
over 1 year ago
had an absolutely brutal moment of self awareness as I realized that when I listen to ambient music called like Aleaeris 7: the Adonis Tapes by Hørst it's fulfilling the same purpose as my grandparents buying records called The Jimmy Cresp Orchestra Presents Tahitian Melodies
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Nosferatu good. Nicholas Hoult gets cucked by his consumptive goth wife and her Romanian forums boyfriend. Tale as old as time. 4 stars.
over 1 year ago
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poster for a missing cockatiel in Marrickville which stipulates that it "unfortunately might be hard to catch"
over 1 year ago
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Lots going on in this ad
over 1 year ago
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watching Hypernormalisation. putting aside some specific detail, he was absolutely cooking on a vibes level
over 1 year ago
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Junior partner in the grand coalition moment
over 1 year ago
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nolan doing The Odyssey... wow. too prideful, cocky, arrogant. of course I will be seated.
over 1 year ago
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subletting half of my apartment to a Chinese state-owned utility company under the belt and road initiative
over 1 year ago
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james hennessy
Down Round
over 1 year ago
This week we're doing another Down Round Q&A as part of our critical Christmas programming. Drop your Qs here 👇
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the Zynternet hit its late Roman phase remarkably quickly
over 1 year ago
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perfect concept
over 1 year ago
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enjoyed. now here's a guy.
www.statecraft.pub/p/how-to-com...
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How to Stage a Coup
"I'm now going to offer you a megalomaniac explanation of the course of events"
https://www.statecraft.pub/p/how-to-commit-a-coup
over 1 year ago
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Exciting new developments in cinema in CARRY-ON, where a plot revelation is conveyed by having explainer journalism headlines from Business Insider and Vox floating around Taron Egerton's head while he looks shocked.
over 1 year ago
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New look: member of royal council disapproving of recent military strategy in the northern provinces
over 1 year ago
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apple's generative AI emoji — a slap in the face for the Unicode Consortium's role as a truthmaking institution. i'm livid
over 1 year ago
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lol
www.smh.com.au/sport/nrl/au...
over 1 year ago
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james hennessy
John Buckley
over 1 year ago
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones are preparing to make an announcement on the future of the news media bargaining code on Thursday afternoon, according to people briefed on the matter
www.capitalbrief.com/article/seve...
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Government set for announcement on future of media bargaining code
The Labor government is preparing an announcement on the future of the code on Thursday afternoon, culminating months of policy debate.
https://www.capitalbrief.com/article/seven-warns-newshub-collapse-a-cautionary-tale-for-failed-media-policy-2e230b1a-e122-407a-b12a-70bc02a0b026/
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hmm, guess i've never really formed a specific opinion on a more dense layout with all message bubbles aligned on the same side
over 1 year ago
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Pretty punchy as far as manifestos go. Don't have the time or inclination to get into it, I'm no expert, you get the gist, seeya later
add a skeleton here at some point
over 1 year ago
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