So unexpected how Ukraine gaining long range strike capability forces Russia to start negotiations, as opposed to triggering nuclear war. Who coulda guessed

This is a bit Tassie specific but also I think we do have an issue where local government members are 1) often small business professionals (eg accountants) and 2) have extreme job insecurity for their council role Leading to the situation where these individuals often unwilling to cut back...

Applies to local councils in Australia too

every time I or other professionals post about how we find carefully managed AI tools useful - whether journalists, historians, coders, whatever - , a bunch of people show up to insist that we must be wrong about our own workflow.

the politics of the latest Guy were a very bad sign for where this is going if people become convinced voting won’t work that’s not the profile you usually see from someone who tries something like that, and you really do not want to be in a situation where his profile becomes the new normal

Are they...y'know... <makes the standard hand gesture for "innumerate">

one nice thing about strava is that you can have this vicarious connection with other people who are probably one of like maybe 50 people ever to travel certain segments of road on foot. this strange semi-private experience that wasn't really intended.

Folks! Who do you think can apply for a low paying, high prestige job? It's neither average people (representative) nor salaried technical experts (massive pay cut). It's people who don't need the income!

So Claude Mythos was, indeed, not marketing hype. Remember this is a general purpose model that just happens to be good at finding exploits because good models are good at lots of things. Expect similar from OpenAI & Google. And from open models in 8 months. hacks.mozilla.org/2026/05/behi...

Damn, got two kilos of unground coffee beans instead of ground, guess I need to buy a grinder now.

Thriller movie about a guy who builds a time machine and then all he does is go back 30 years to buy a house

RIP to everyone banned by the mods for their hubris but I'm different. and better. maybe even better than the mods

This is an amazing video.

I joined NY’s Cutest on the Bergen Bike Bus that they ride to school every Wednesday, rain or shine. We’re adding bike boulevards and more pedestrian space on Bergen and Dean Street, from Court Street to East New York Ave. It was a wonderful kind of day.

Fantastic article exploring different categories of Rent. IMO the beating heart of leftish political goals should be the elimination of Rents (AKA Georgism).

Sydney Funnel Webs, man. A unique combination of size, venom, ferocity, and the will and capability to inflict pain and death

so I guess anthropic is running off the high-pollution datacenters we use as examples of what not to do? I'd really like this not to be true, but idk how else to interpret this news

Like the vast majority of spiders (certain Australian psychopaths excepted) the Brown Recluse does not seek confrontation and will only bite if threatened or trapped. To use words Kyle Rittenhouse will understand, Brown Recluses have a Castle Doctrine and abide by strict Stand Your Ground laws.

i think not unrelated to this is that the dems are steadily becoming the party of the professional-managerial class and are incredibly embarrassed about this. this of course mirrors the pmc itself, which instead of achieving class consciousness has achieved "class neuroticism"

genuinely think this has to include a lot of stuff seen as "girly" or whatever - eg horoscopes can be fun but astrology isn't real, it's not misogynistic or queerphobic to point that out (!!!)

COLBERT: How dumb do you think it is for people to say that I should run for president? OBAMA: Well, you know, the bar has changed. I think you would perform significantly better than some folks we've seen. COLBERT: Is that an endorsement? OBAMA: It was not

NSW 1999 says hi

Look at these absolute rookie numbers here @drdrehistorian.bsky.social

Bluey created an unrealistic ideal that I can be a decent parent for almost 7 minutes every day.

The USA national cricket team will be top level once all those kids come through

It’s all fun and games until your nine-year-old tells you to “pull yer head in ranga cunt” just like Bluey

Hey, I'm on the radio.

tfw the ball thrower has returned to work

very funny that this guy is literally like “tax the rich? that is the n word to me, personally” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/n...

"Got so mad online I tried to SWAT Will Stancil" is a level of online you should risk all hazards to avoid

hell yeah Claude that's the attitude

Wait is this why everyone is mad at Will Stancil

The killer use case is already here! Talk to any software engineer in the industry

I am trying to get in touch with the whānau of Dave Terangi, a Ngāpuhi fella who lived in Margaret St, Papakura. We did some research with Dave, and we know he has since died, but we would like to return a taonga. If anyone knows his whānau, pls DM me. Also Pls retweet (so to speak).

the RBA hates me, personally, and wants me to suffer

maybe a transaction tax, the revenue from which is highly dependent on property market conditions (volume, value) is a bad source of state revenue? a land tax is much more stable, as well as providing better incentives

“You not cowering before an insane accusation with no basis in fact is the same as when my ex beat me” no it’s not. That isn’t true.

"we are deeply fucked and in a bad place specifically because the tech is good" encapsulates my anxiety well. the denial of capability and fantasy ai will go away is extremely dangerous cope, the environmental concerns a distraction from the existential challenge, of fixing how society operates.

If Rudy is on the way out it's only fair that we remind ourselves of this, the funniest thing that has ever happened. People are sometimes gaslit into being told that finding this amusing is "cringe" or "resist lib" and that is wrong. It was an absolute, cast iron, day of absolute hilarity.

I chipped in earlier today. Join me in helping to get some progressive Jewish voices represented in front of the Royal Commission.

So one thing about this is the site says all your data is stored in your Bluesky account's PDS. Which means all your dating data, like all other data in your Bluesky account's PDS, is fully public.

This is Australian policy, and it’s terrible. Section 44 of the constitution.

there is only one correct way to redesign GitHub and this is it

you can know the location of enough mines to infer a safe route without knowing where each mine is. if minesweeper teaches us anything

bsky pfps should support alt text @pfrazee.com for accessibility primarily but also because it would almost certainly end up being funny

You hear them moving, then you take the lid off and they rear up at you, snapping. You have to firmly pinch a claw shut while you bite through the brain-pod. Delicious, but a little scary at first!

This was fun to write

Absolutely true in the AU and NZ contexts too.

Farmers vote Republican because they're people with money & property. So they vote like people with money & property. That's it. It's not rocket science.