In principle, a self driving car is cool. In practice, it means handing control of your car to an AI controlled by Elon Musk or some other oligarch. Which is very much not cool.

Sydney is burning.

AI vs. humanity. A dispatch from the front lines.

Of a person’s mind, there is more unconscious than conscious. Of the conscious, there is more unexpressed than expressed. Of the expressed, there is more organic than digital. And the digital is rarely the better part. Yet it is of this that they pretend to construct a superior person. #banai

Calling it the Department of War is better, actually. More accurate, less Orwellian. It was never about defense.

This is an exceptional article, read it to understand the cost of AI in education.

Because you'll rarely see this obvious truth from other news services:

If you think that AI is "just a tool", bear one thing in mind. You are not the one who holds the hammer. You are the one into whom the nail is driven. #banai #butlerianjihad

Just incredible: In Laos, the scam economy in 2023 was $10.9bn, equivalent to 68.5% of GDP. I first learned about these scam centers from Shan monks, who saw it in their own communities. But I had no idea it was so huge. And these figures are two years old!

It's allowed because there are more regulations on a sandwich than for AI. It's allowed because the purpose of AI is dehumanization. It's allowed because because nobody stopped them. It's allowed because they bribed Trump.

Yoshua Bengio, a computer scientist known as a godfather of AI, said “A sandwich has more regulation than AI.”

AI "alignment" with the good of humanity can never happen. Why? Because if a truly aligned AI were created, it would strive to destroy first its masters, then itself.

In latest climate-change created disaster, hundreds are left dead, and billions are left in a state of denial.

breaking up big tech, enforcing regulation, and building alternative open-source infrastructure has never been more urgent

This is the upside down world A Skyscaper of horrors in China Chinese company Hubei Zhongxin Kaiwei Modern Farming has built a 26-story skyscraper that can efficiently slaughter 1.2 million pigs a year.

An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.

One of my beliefs is that the evil north is deliberately accelerating climate change. It’s rare to see this mentioned in public, though, because it's just so evil. But it seems it was on Epstein's mind years ago, as he suggested that “Canada perhaps favored global warming, since it’s cold”. 1/x

Weird weather in Sydney. Train outages because of storms. Meanwhile in Sydney

I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"

Cruel, stupid children playing with matches.

I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.

The Buddha wasn’t an effective altruist. “Sir, where should a gift be given?” “Wherever your heart feels inspired, great king.” “But sir, where is a gift very fruitful?” “Where a gift should be given is one thing, great king, but where a gift is very fruitful is another.” — the Buddha, SN 3.24

‘More than a quarter of young New South Wales men who participated in a recent survey agreed that “men should use violence to get respect if necessary”, and over one-third admitted to sexually harassing a woman in the past month.’

The more you know it, the less you trust it.

“Every vision of the future is really a theory of human nature and the one I choose is the one that says we can create larger than life flights of fancy when we really see each other, and that's how we lift everyone into the light.”

Good article, I've seen these claims floating around and didn't quite know what to make of them. tl;dr: the reason it seems there are more deaths from cold than hot is that cold countries keep better records.

Proposal to “clear 50,000 ha” of “critical habitat” impacting “water resources in arid region”; not for “communities experiencing energy poverty and injustice” but for “sustainable” “green industry” AKA “hyperscale” AI data center. Alternatively, don’t. #banai #butlerianjihad

The extreme right are just nazis and we should stop pretending otherwise. Use the word for the thing.

I am begging people to understand that claims about reduced emissions are routinely based on dodgy accounting like this.

His every word is a debasement. Don't use his language, not as a joke, not ironically, not to turn it around. Use the correct word for what he is: rapist, pedophile, sadist, career criminal, liar, fraud, felon, bully, coward, narcissist, psychopath, idiot. Evil.

Happy Transgender Awareness Week #trans #buddhist About 2% of Australia is Buddhist, about 2% of Australia is transgender.

Things were sooooo different way back in the 80s, sex-wise! Boys were boys and no-one thought twice about it. Or so they say. Meanwhile, 2000 years ago in the robustly patriarchal Manusmṛti, a man who has sex by violence is called a monster, and one who rapes an intoxicated woman is a demon.

Can you hear, can you hear that thunder?

"Australia’s bottom-tier ranking reflects decades of bipartisan policy failure: reliance on extraction rather than production; property speculation, not innovation; privatisation over public investment; and political capture by fossil capital." #renewables #auspol johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...

In body text on the web, never use: - negative letterspacing - < 400 weight - > 1.6 lineheight - < default font size (16pt) - geometric sans - low contrast - justification Readability matters!

This lil fella appeared to me today. Who is it?

Government by AI is a direct path to global oligarchical totalitarianism.

The idea that Chinese industry will save the planet is nuts, yet mainstream environmentalists say this all the time. Turns out they’ve been secret accelerationists all along.

A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.

This will be my thread for thoughts while reading Disabling Intelligences by @fractalecho.bsky.social this week. I'm all wrapped up in a fleece blanket, I have my highlighter and page flags, and on page 2 I'm already love their writing style. 🧵

Tomorrow a few of us are walking across the Harbor Bridge— come and join us! We’re meeting at 5pm, Wynyard Station, George St. side. We’ll walk over to Milsons Point, then either train or keep walking to Crows Nest Centre for the 7pm talk and meditation.

Always two there are; no more, no less: the abuser and the enabler.

Amazing essay, please read it.

“For a moment it felt like maybe things mightn’t be too bad. The moon shed her light over land and sea, over the living and the lifeless, knowing no distinction of race or color or country or creed. Once, men strode upon her as conquering heroes and planted the flags of their proud nations. 1/x

Yesterday a young guy mentioned how is mum is always at the blokes to do the recycling properly. I realized, albeit belatedly, that since recycling is domestic drudgery, it ends up being women’s work. So recycling is basically men dumping crap on women to clean up.

Fun tip for Buddhists: when someone new shows up, say hello. For literally 30 years now, I've seen new folks show up, then EVERYONE ignores them.* *Bonus points if the teacher says hello to a woman, and not one but two men butt in as if she's not there. Not that this happened to me or anything.

This is evil. Don't use AI. Don't download AI apps. AI kills jobs, the planet, and people -- intentionally.

It was a mistake to imagine we could sit down with oil companies and develop climate policies. They are not partners to be negotiated with, but enemies to be defeated.

There are no words for how evil this is

Something AI gurus have in common—they grew in a womb, were nurtured by milk, and were held in mother's arms. So now they are dedicating their lives to making sure no-one has to do that in the future.