Huh. Phone is now too old for the Amex app, apparently. Ok, deleted!

Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."

BREAKING: economist discovers “second shift,” a concept coined by sociologists almost 50 years ago; gives it new, stupider, and less explicitly labor-oriented name

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

Isn’t “access money you are entitled to and give it to me” a foundational scam premise? #auspol #healthcare www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

We ought to listen to folks like Me Kohler instead of Thiel/Musk/Zuck/Farquhar/Altman… Thinking and talking sense instead of whatever BS passes for tech lad big thoughts. #ai #crypto #economics #tech www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

LOL. Tamagotchi-phones… makes sense. thewalrus.ca/how-tamagotc...

Perceptive article. #sport #f1 visualsciencelab.blogspot.com/2025/10/form...

He’s not wrong, IF one accepts his self serving priors including the premise that LLMs are the right tech and application. #ai #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Not sure the pollies should get special care in having numbers taken out of the databases… AFP ain’t too worried about all the plans getting calls about those packages at customs. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States. Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Oh look, what a surprise: labour exploitation makes bank, no regulation or enforcement, guess what happens. Shitty humans take advantage of other humans. Blueberries? Exploitationberries. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Queensland. 1/2 hour and 20 years behind. #auspol The wilful sabotage of public health is simple cruelty masquerading as ‘choice’ where uninformed choices hurt people unnecessarily. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Oh, man. After reading the article, what it actually says is that an historian did a lot of archival work and spatial research to determine the site of a killing and then the family of the likely perpetrator stepped forward with photographs to confirm identity. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Washington Post dismantled the platform Jamal wrote on. Discarded the fellowship they created in his memory. They fired me unjustly for speaking the truth. But I’ll never stop talking about my friend, writer, and amazing human, Jamal Khashoggi. RIP, Jamal. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

it’s really good when “technology of the future” treats you leaving as if you were leaving a cult

Morning. ☕️

Well I never. It’d be fun if we could get the ‘immigrants and political correctness anti environment’ mob exercised about opaque exploits like this. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Checks out. www.techdirt.com/2025/09/30/h...

Isn’t commercial, capitalist #healthcare wonderful? Make a buck or let ‘em die. Nice. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Anthony Rotondo, in my opinion, qualifies for the “Christ, what an asshole” standard caption. #auspol Esafety sometimes feels a bit pearl clutchy with the approach to social media age stuff, but nice one here. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

It’s almost like de staffing is part of broader community disconnection where treating folks like shit has no intrinsic downside. But the current path of addressing symptoms must be more profitable than addressing foundations. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

This is the greatest

LOL. It is clear what the Liberal party stands for - a vehicle to power for those nostalgic for the power dynamics of the 1950s. No amount of lipstick on the pig will change that. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Recently rolled thru Broken Hill and not many of the ‘business returns’ seem to have landed in the town. So it seems fair that more of the state owned resource value goes to the folks living in the state #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

So… don’t buy anything online or over the phone. Got it. Seem pathetic though that nation-state level resources can’t keep up with and neuter the fkn crooks. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Easy: If you stand with a Nazi, may as well be a Nazi. There might have been non-Nazis showing up against immigration, but if they stuck around.. eh, walks like a duck. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

OpenAI have written software that sort of mimics being human and doesn’t know or care about real human experience. “Parental controls” are just shifting responsibility for the outcomes of that software being used. VCs and engineers need to be held in check. #AI #ffs www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Thank you on this labor day!!

those who have made this connection and understand its implications are who are most opposed to LLMs invading everything. setting aside what could be done to improve the tech, we're always back to it being a shortcut for thinking.

i wish brands would include more technical information in their product descriptions. i don't need to know this was inspired by timeless italian men summering in nantucket who could dress up or down. i want to know the fabric weight, leather tanning method, seam construction, etc.

in which AG Rowland discovers the boundless joys of NewSpeak How about govt business is public business as a default? #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The National Guardners

Ironically, this is how you manage a grown adults tantrums as well.

You stupid people funding Nazis in Australia. We can see who you are through the Queensland donations website. You're a disgrace to Australia. You're a disgrace to Jewish people. You're a disgrace to those who fought the Nazis in WWII. #auspol disclosures.ecq.qld.gov.au/Map

Facts that will amaze prime minister @albomp.bsky.social— Racists are not "good people." Nazis/Neo-Nazis are not "good people." #auspol #racism #fascism #WhiteSupremacy

Absolutely and totally condemned all of you who have donated to KAP & One Nation. We know who you are. Australians, Jewish & European people laid down their lives in WWII to defeat Nazism & here you are funding it in Australia. FY. #auspol disclosures.ecq.qld.gov.au/Map

What’s the Problem Bunky?

At the moment, this really seems more like idiots selling a false dream to other idiots, and no one wants the accountability for when people die. #tesla #swasticar #baloney www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

@margaretatwood.bsky.social is a goddamn national treasure.

This headline should be accompanied with another article titled: Three Nazis sit in the Australian Parliament. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

How ‘supreme’ are you if a tiny bit of equality threatens your existence? Like all bullies, white supremacist are fuelled by the acceptance of their own inadequacy and the need to create unfair advantage as their only way to win.

Helpful of the Nazi sympathisers among the people’s representative to stand up and be counted. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

“When I hear the best minds of my generation rhapsodize about intelligence explosions while devoting their own prodigious intellects to ketamine binges, mixed martial arts, and Hellenistic fashion design, I can’t help but wonder whether more intelligence is really a good thing.”

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