There's three more Dub games this weekend, and you've got an audience of people watching women's football, but sure, let's have an ad for the A-League Men because why not?

oh man, we're going to have to hear "never say die" about this game from everyone and everywhere, aren't we? I'm gonna scream. #AUSvPRK #Matildas

I hate the argument that your arms have to be up in the air like that. You absolutely know putting your elbows in front of the other players face it going to impede them, and coming in at speed means you might elbow them. Absolutely a yellow for me. #Matildas #AUSvPRK #Tillies

Close shave there at the end of the half, but a good reminder of the superiority of the interplay North Korea have had over the #Matildas. Blueprint was there at the start, press them back into their defensive third, force the mistake and take advantage. Our midfield needs to do better. #AUSvPRK

HT, and 1-0 lead for Australia. Lots of poor passing, aimless long balls, and zero control in the midfield. Gorry has made some tackles and some fouls, Kennedy has a goal and a few decent balls, and EVE is also on the field. KCC or Wheels or Sayer early sub please! #Matildas #AUSvPRK #Tillies

Top tackle by Gorry 👌🏻 #AUSPRK

"A 37-year-old man was interviewed by police at the scene and was then given a direction to move on." It seems staggeringly unlikely if a Muslim came in throwing fists, threatening to kill people and shouting anti-semitic slogans at kids during Hannukah they'd be allowed to leave peacefully.

All Australian #homes should receive a score out of 10 for #energy efficiency before they can be sold or rented, experts say, as part of an expansion to a national assessment program.

really good, clean summary of Iranian war aims and strategy, recognizable both from its own messaging and from its actions it is very hard for me to see how the US and Israel can "win" if these are the terms of the fight (wish @gbrew24.bsky.social posted here too!) x.com/gbrew24/stat...

Bottom line: the "Robin Hood" style approach only works if the money taken from the rich ends up in the hands of the needy. But this is something the U.S. is uniquely bad at -- largely as a result of symbolic capitalists diverting huge sums of cash into special interest groups and our own pockets.

Nordic countries had a system like the U.S., with lots of carveouts & exclusions (+ accompanying waste, abuse, perverse incentives, and folks falling through the cracks): musaalgharbi.substack.com/i/189580755/... They moved towards predistribution, universalized benefits and direct assistance.

My latest for Symbolic Capital(ism) explores how my views on redistribution have evolved as a result of researching and writing my first book 🧵

Money Stuff For Her, by Maddy Lavine (International Women's Day edition) medium.com/prooftrading... Some moms want 24-Hour trading | AI job loss or opportunity to girlboss? | Prediction markets predict continuing gender imbalances | Everything is she-curities fraud? | Things don’t happen

Matildas score late in see-sawing draw with South Korea as top spot slips away at Women’s Asian Cup

😬I'm sure this will be fine😬 "Pace of global warming has nearly doubled since 2015, reveals study" www.carbonbrief.org/...

If claims start getting paid out, you're looking at a transfer of wealth with US taxpayer money going to private companies. There's also the possibility that you create an incentive for companies, particularly with older tankers, to feed ships and crews to the woodchipper.

It's dangerous gamble for a number of reasons. For a start, it assumes those public institutions have enough money to cover claims if stuff literally starts blowing up. If they don't, you have people relying on them but suddenly unable to cover their debts.

The US government wants to get traffic flowing again, or it is subject to compounding crises involving food production, transport fuels, and inflation for anything that contains plastic. Using public finance to underwrite massively risky ventures is what you do when you made a very big mistake.

This has made insurance super expensive, or forced the cancellation of policies. Importers/exporters and shipping companies don't do this for free. Without this coverage the shipping company loses everything in a strike or incident and takes a massive loss. No insurance, no transit.

A fifth of the world's shipping moves through the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran controls. If I recall, two fifths of total world shipping is fossil fuels. Since the war started, Iran has closed the strait and attacked oil tankers in transit, stopping all shipping.

Suddenly every strike goes from indirectly harming the US through its economy and financial relations, to directly costing a couple billion here, couple billion there...

There's skin in the game and then there's directly hooking the US treasury up to Iranian attacks on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.

"The idea that you didn’t need to assume rational agents who were easy to model mathematically but could have various agents w deviations from rationality... that had no impact. Why? Because believing those models required an act of faith" Hard to imagine not needing to understand & exercise taste

FIFA will allow TV networks to cut to commercial breaks during the "hydration breaks" that will split up every half at the 2026 World Cup, sources tell @theathletic.com. More on the rules and context: www.nytimes.com/athletic/708...

SO GOOD www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

"I had to punch that guy because I could tell he was going to hit me back once we jumped him" is just a description of jumping a guy

'As with the USA's abduction of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro in January, Trump's goals in this military action are about oil: controlling the supply of oil from the Middle East, and thereby exerting indirect leverage on China' www.theage.com.au/world/middle...

"The energy vampire next door: Life next to an AI mega-factory" Interesting long-form article www.theage.com.au/national/the...

Explainer: How will datacentres affect Australia’s power prices, water supply and emissions? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

'Jemena claims that Melbourne electricity demand will double by 2031, driven by a 4.1-gigawatt pipeline of data centre inquiries – a figure which represents half of Victoria's peak energy demand. The AER disagrees.' www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

"Italy calls for suspension of carbon price [the Emissions Trading System] in major attack on EU climate policy" www.politico.eu/article/ital...

This is very interesting analysis: "A growing share of [Australian] demand is for labour-intensive services with limited productivity growth. ... Inflation is increasingly shaped by domestic supply constraints rather than a simple excess of public or private demand." e61.in/take-a-walk-...

"The first results from the [NVES, Australia's] new fuel efficiency scheme tell an encouraging story: almost 70% of carmakers beat their fleet emissions targets. ... The scheme likely contributed to the first fall in transport emissions since COVID." theconversation.com/how-australi...

"Three-quarters of Australia’s new cars use more fuel than advertised lab rating, testing shows" www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

"Australians’ new-found love for electric vehicles has cut the carbon emissions of the transport sector for the first time since COVID lockdowns forced people to stay indoors, marking a significant turning point in the green energy transition." www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...

The Federal Court has dismissed, on all grounds, a 'greenwashing' case against Santos brought by the Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility, finding Santos did not breach the Corporations Act or Australian Consumer Law www.theage.com.au/business/com...

Das ist total spannend. So bis 1300 verstehe ich die Posts, wobei es immer schwerer wird, aber dann ist sowas von Schluss.

In a case of me having to update my priors, Streem's state of the sector report shows that Australian news outlets still overwhelmingly draw social media stories from Twitter over all over apps. A big of this will be the dominance of Twitter in contemporary US politics.

A South Australian trial to turn homes into grid-responsive #energy hubs is now 100 households in, and has some brutal lessons to share.

Great piece from @dsquareddigest.bsky.social, which touches on one of the big theories for why English-speaking countries do especially badly at housebuilding: Adversarial and litigious common law systems (Anglo) vs judge-led civil law systems elsewhere. samf.substack.com/p/build-the-...

Another v v good piece of analysis from @onlyfacts.io here - showing how the shift to uts and SUVs in Australia is a major component of rising transport emissions Remarkable how unassailable this deadly trend is, in Aus onlyfacts.io/newsletters/...

If China's emissions had kept growing at previous levels emissions would like, what, maybe a full GIGATONNE higher....the area of avoided emissions here is like deleting the emissions of entire countries. This is happening at a scale that will very clearly have an effect in lessening disasters

"Victoria has exceeded [i.e. overperformed] its 2025 renewable energy target ... Renewables delivered 44.6% of Victoria’s electricity generation last year - well exceeding the 40% target." The next target is 65% renewable electricity by 2030. www.linkedin.com/pulse/victor...

"Australians are paying the price for 2nd-best policies to deal with climate change, the head of the Productivity Commission has warned, lamenting that a carbon tax or emissions trading scheme wld have been better than the policies on offer from the govt or oppostn" www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...

This is lovely theconversation.com/as-beautiful...

Really looking forward to Minns and the Chief of Police explaining the context of this beat down

Queensland also has a target to reduce its GHG emissions by 75% below 2005 levels by 2035. An interesting duality.

Look I am not a fan of this arrangement but isn't their head of state King Charles www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

'Government spending increases inflation. Even government spending that decreases inflation actually increases inflation, just somewhere else.' Got it.

Scoop: Australia's online gambling watchdog has ruled that using "prediction markets" like Polymarket is gambling. It's a landmark decision that's at odds odds with the US where Polymarket has sidestepped gambling regulation by arguing it offers financial services www.crikey.com.au/20...