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

he looks like a bond trader in exile in Tuscany. he's about to say "we anglos never truly understood Machiavelli"

Your AI slopfeed will never make the human soul sing like this

made a playable zine for FREAKON that incorporates a whole heap of stories of how games media helped feed our community

Staring absolutely dazzled at the masterful pun in this Macquarie report today. Hotel Computerfornia

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

i'll be hosting a session on dropshipping le creuset knockoffs from aliexpress at the jim chalmers productivity roundtable. see you all there

I'm chopped and unc

I was hooting and hollering at some of the costuming and design choices in ep 2 of Alien Earth

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

the black skivvies. wiggles inc. the wetwork specialists. the big red car — why does it have no doors, no visible engine?

Looking to connect with Labubu collectors and the Labubu community on Bluesky. To discuss Labubu and related matters

for my myriad sins, i wrote about Q+A www.capitalbrief.com/article/qa-w...

Scoop: ABC to axe Q+A after nearly two decades on air via @capitalbrief.com www.capitalbrief.com/article/abc-...

wrote about canva www.capitalbrief.com/newsletter/c...

OK well I feel like THIS time the proletarianised middle class will respond normally to their new station

US: late imperial psychosis, hegemonic drift, decadent technocracy, elite panic, managed decline, post-legitimacy politics australia:

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

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...

wrote about tariffs. for the ol newsletter www.capitalbrief.com/newsletter/c...

Waddup Bluesky

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...

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

A new era of free speech is upon us

Each resident of Greenland to receive an Xbox 360 or equivalent console in exchange for joining the US

New drip

deeply disturbing

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

Nosferatu good. Nicholas Hoult gets cucked by his consumptive goth wife and her Romanian forums boyfriend. Tale as old as time. 4 stars.

poster for a missing cockatiel in Marrickville which stipulates that it "unfortunately might be hard to catch"

Lots going on in this ad

watching Hypernormalisation. putting aside some specific detail, he was absolutely cooking on a vibes level

Junior partner in the grand coalition moment

nolan doing The Odyssey... wow. too prideful, cocky, arrogant. of course I will be seated.

subletting half of my apartment to a Chinese state-owned utility company under the belt and road initiative

This week we're doing another Down Round Q&A as part of our critical Christmas programming. Drop your Qs here 👇

the Zynternet hit its late Roman phase remarkably quickly

perfect concept

enjoyed. now here's a guy. www.statecraft.pub/p/how-to-com...

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.

New look: member of royal council disapproving of recent military strategy in the northern provinces

apple's generative AI emoji — a slap in the face for the Unicode Consortium's role as a truthmaking institution. i'm livid

lol www.smh.com.au/sport/nrl/au...

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...

hmm, guess i've never really formed a specific opinion on a more dense layout with all message bubbles aligned on the same side

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

lol www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/b...

fascinated by Jay-Z's choice to respond to allegations in the voice of a loquacious salesman of miracle potions and tinctures being run out of town on the railroad after being exposed as a fraud