So while they're dismantling NDIS, the government is also doing their best to create more severely disabled people by removing the best MS drug from the PBS. This will make it skyrocket from $35 to $2200 per month. www.msaustralia.org.au/news/pbs-acc...

i have 2 (yes, TWO) siblings with MS, and whilst this change doesn't impact either of them, seeing these meds get pulled from PBS would be upsetting.

I’m of an age where the transition to The Cloud was happening as I was getting my education, and I remember thinking that it seemed most useful for hobbyist/small companies that didn’t want to run their own servers, or didn’t know how.

For years we have been overwhelmed by the volume of code contributions we have to review, especially from new contributors. AI has made the problem much worse. That's why we are taking steps to reduce the burden on maintainers while still welcoming new contributors: godotengine.org/article/cont...

My boss loves how I use AI for communication, but really I’m just a pedantic bitch who loves words and grammar.

Not that anybody on earth cares but the White House is 225 years old.

LLM technology cannot RELIABLY do most (any?) of what it's marketed for. It is built on stolen data, causes catastrophic CO2 emissions, exploits and traumatises economically vulnerable people, uses precious stores of fresh water. So no, I don't understand the "benefits". Do you?

Right now the world is full of people who want to code and write and paint and film stuff and people who want to play and read and look at and watch stuff and nobody is allowed to do any of that because some unrelated third guy isn't making enough money off the deal

every time you see a headline that begins with “we have to,” replace the “we” with “you” and you’ll immediately understand the purpose of the piece and the power dynamics at play

Doctors 25% more likely to miss a diagnosis on a patient within 3 months after Ai is implemented. The results indicate Ai has an immediate negative effect on professionals skillsets vs prolonged reliance. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

in case you forgot that it's pride month here's your reminder that like most of this account and a very good chunk of the scp wiki exists because of weird trans women. thank you weird trans women

This will become ever green

Both totally unnecessary and extremely funny that the Guardian has an interactive graphic for you to change the color of the US flag's blue to the color of the Reflecting Pool from 8 to 19 June and counting

And somehow she likes the terrible bits?! And you get to make her laugh, which is the best part of the day??!!

So I have this idea for a new game: you get in a lift and it starts to fill with tar. That's the elevator pitch.

Me IRL #CavesOfQud

Thread about how using “A.i.” will turn you into a world class loser in the eyes of your colleagues… and yourself. Just say no. This shit is trash and it destroys human souls. I’m not exaggerating.

I re-made the SemiAnalysis subscription margin table, which assumed 75% gross margins, with the actual margins presented here that were about 42%. The answer is pretty rough, with just under 5% average utilization being the break-even point for ChatGPT

TIL that Kenny Loggins has a trans son and that he is a super awesome and supportive dad.

jesus christ NO! NO!!! FUCK

A new Science study shows that bumble bees can position a ball underneath a fake “flower” to reach a reward, suggesting they can exhibit spontaneous problem-solving and challenging the notion that such advanced cognitive abilities are exclusive to large-brained vertebrates. https://scim.ag/4vs08dC

this is in fact amazingly good

The amazing @nickyr.bsky.social's advice to graduates. adsei.org/2026/06/14/d...

On the day before Elon Musk becomes the world's first trillionaire, all I can think about is that time in 2021 when the head of the UN World Food Program asked Musk to donate $6 billion to save 42 million people from starvation and he refused.

Why does this read like a shitpost?

The computer lost the mandate of heaven when the humble, helpful "program" was replaced with the insidious "app"

Vibes

This is the funniest thing I’ve ever read

have you gotten your OpenAI assigned tulpa yet?

"Something remarkable happened in April. For the first time in history, wind and solar generated more electricity than gas across the entire planet. Not in a country. Not in a region. Globally." Tons of great news here from Danny Kennedy (via @billmckibben.bsky.social's newsletter, which rules).

see? here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared

You know its the Chinese century because we now see from China the sort of revolutionary devices that were previously only found in America.

Gotem

LOL

My politics is that I liked The Last Jedi, Admiral Holdo did nothing wrong, Poe was recently demoted for getting a lot of people killed, Casino-planet was cool and the duality of the nepo-baby wanting to erase his family and the orphan trying to find hers as light and dark draw closer is pure cinema

GREG DAVIES: seems like a kind of a shit task. Everyone just seems like they're going home normally. ALEX HORNE: well before you say that let's have a look at how Odysseus did. cut to panel of AJAX, MENELAUS, AGAMEMNON, and DIOMEDES who are all staring at ODYSSEUS with his head in his hands

(cartoon Steve Sack) #politics

the whole 21st century is just going to be this over and over in bigger waves each time

actually i kinda *do* think using genAI should be such a social faux pas that the user is marked as a pariah and no longer feels welcome in the community. "AI is bad" is no longer an abstract (it never was), my city has been under a boil water advisory for a week because of AI data centers

oh look, AI is not a search engine at all, it's a statistically plausible lie generator. who knew!? 🫠

my god

It me

Ok this is a truly great tweet

Cameron Park Zoo in Waco TX has a new black-footed cat kitten (Felis nigripes). It's exploring grass for the 1st time here. This species is the smallest wild cat in Africa, but with the highest hunting success (~60%). They eat 1/6th their body weight in rodents & birds every night.

Well holy crap. Erin Brockovich (yes, the same one the led the Hinkley, CA toxic groundwater lawsuit in ‘93) launched a website tracking AI data centers across the US and the ecological impacts to the environment and drinking water. MN is riddled with them. www.brockovichdatacenter.com

Lying is bad unless you do it via AI. False advertising is bad unless you do it via AI. Plagiarism is bad unless you do it via AI. Losing billions of dollars for no good reason is bad unless you do it via AI. Robbing cities of water is bad unless you do it via AI. You’re just embracing the future.

Now you can keep track of how many billions the AI companies are losing on AI. (Red is spending, green is revenue.) isaiprofitable.com

I'm going to be talking at PyCon AU this year! See me talk about @fastapi.tiangolo.com and @pydantic.dev and all sorts of fun things! Best of all, you choose what I'm going to say! It's A Choose-Your-Own PyCon Talk, like Goosebumps books! Vote on your phone! 2026.pycon.org.au/schedule/XQ8...