all the horrors aside it's extremely fucking funny that the US thought it was taking a W by forcing the one scenario which every country had been trying to avoid bc it's the one thing preventing global economic collapse. and now they're all like "wait what the fuck what's happening to the economy"

I feel like WW3 could start tomorrow and my feed would still be full of people endlessly reposting "Don't get distracted about the Epstein files" memes

It took two hours for Albanese to declare support for the latest US/Israeli war crimes. How long has it taken the Labor Party to consider raising the rate? To halting fossil fuels? To seriously address the racism to First Nations and Muslims? The ALP in your head is long dead.

No wonder the ALP refuses to rule it out

Social media created this nonsense idea that not exposing yourself to hatred is isolationist. Choosing to not spend your free time with bigots isn’t living in a bubble. I don’t need to know what’s going on at X. I won’t be smarter or more knowledgeable or empathic by being there. Neither will you.

Growing up in social housing with a hard working single mother and traditional Labor values, I always dreamed of one day supporting a pedophile in his war on the school children of the middle east

In summary: AI rots critical thinking, hallucinates, is shaped by the hyper-wealthy pedos that own it, its data centres guzzle water we can't spare, it will help lay off millions, we can't trust photos anymore & it keeps recommending nuclear war. But yeah, nice memes, dipshits!!

Unpopular opinion: smash burgers are overrated

"Worst Prime Minister in Australian history. (Used) astute political artistry to dress up policies as favouring 'battlers', but in reality, (made) life easier for the wealthy by imposing on the broad mass of (us) the rotten fruits of a malignant ideology." #auspol johnmenadue.com/post/2026/02...

Also for @JulianHillMP. Try to fucking-well pay attention, Julian. #auspol johnmenadue.com/post/2026/02...

Massive investment in AI contributed “basically zero” to U.S. economic growth last year, Goldman Sachs has calculated. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Some day we'll all regret this & we'll hold hearings & rend garments & pledge "never again" & we'll be just as full of shit as we were last time.

We should be talking a lot more about how the San Francisco tech scene is populated by a strange cult of doom acceleration nerds who fantasize about using computers to destroy humanity. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

The decline of right wing cultural production is just due to the fact that they don’t like culture, they like the signifiers of culture, ie “classic sculpture means white people are better.” They don’t like art at all except for this purpose. They don’t even like the nerd stuff they whine about

I just for the life of me can't figure out why a large chunk of people are inherently hostile to new technology shaped by companies that actively support an anti-science, anti-humanist mass murder autocracy

I hate bluesky because people don't just agree with me! I get no engagement even though I follow 40 whole people, and block everyone who interacts with me! That's it, I'm going back to the Nazi headquarters WHERE I'M APPRECIATED 😠

albo the climate criminal approves another planet killing fossil fuel project, while scientists warn we are nearing the point of no return: a hellish ‘hothouse Earth’ getting closer. #Auspol #ClimateChange We need Change, before it’s too late.

You know what AI discourse has really taught me? A shocking number of highly paid people in the executive world are useless parasites who could, in fact, be replaced by a magic bullshit engine.

Chapter 44 territory Are any sitting members - federal, state, territory dual citizens of Israel. Is anyone under any acknowledgement of allegiance, obedience or adherence to a foreign power?

Here's me. "Why the fuck would we 'socially cohere' for monsters?"

I can’t express how outrageous this whole thing is, but I’ve given it a go! #auspol For shame @albomp.bsky.social @chrisminnsmp.bsky.social

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

One of the most sickening realizations I've ever had came when it hit me that six hundred years from now historians will be writing things like "while technically illegal, intercourse with minors was broadly accepted as normal among the American ruling class, and even a marker of status"

Australians and New Zealanders fought and died together, and both nations commemorate this every year on ANZAC day. Will the Albo government condemn this desecration? Seems like a great thing to ask the genocidal Israeli President about when he's here. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/new-zeala...

they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit

At an industry event last night one (old media) journalist said “we may need institutions like the BBC because internet searches don’t return separate news stories now, but an AI summary that is usually wrong.” Watching an industry shrug and surrender to a competitor that DOES NOT WORK.

In this week's column I seek to explain Keir Starmer's flat refusal to change our electoral system, even though its gross unfairness could put Reform UK in power on <30% of the vote. The reasons, I believe, are deeply cynical and disturbing. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Have you ever used Jack, Jack Hacks, or Jack Cocreates? Have you used Sven 3.5? Have you tried Phil Codex Andromeda? If you haven't tried Gary Gleans you have no idea what's coming. You have to see Carl Constructs. If you're still on 3.0 without the Collab Pack you need to update your priors

We will never survive if we keep electing these people who listen only to strategists and ignore the realities of the world happening around them. This woman is like some consultant fed “only the economy” into an AI and the computer shit out a robot politician.

this is why they invented the whole notion of "virtue signaling". they wanted it all to be empty posturing, they wanted to denigrate the act of standing up and be seen doing something virtuous, all because genuine virtue and bravery are completely alien to them.

Hope the Albo government opens a commemorative coal mine

Seeing the NYT switch to active voice feels like watching a seal holding back the apocalypse crack

One problem that Americans have to get past is that this *is* who they are. It’s not an aberration - this is what the US society is. All that time kidding yourself about being the greatest nation on earth you have been murdering your own citizens and those in other countries.

Call me old-fashioned, but maybe a system that rewards the worst of humanity with incomprehensible levels of wealth and power and the ability to crush everyone and everything else... wasn't the best idea.

You are witnessing the sum total of substantive lessons the political centre has taken away from the success of Zohran Mamdani's election campaign.

Americans are gonna miss American hegemony.

No wonder Marles is so keen to join

[AI bubble bursts] billionaire tech bro: the stupid consumer did not understand it

History In Pictures 1938 British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain waives promissory note for 1 billion German marks to signal he will join Hitler’s Peace Board, shouting ‘Peace Board in our time!’

This is less news but rather OpenAI's entire state of being. It cannot exist without continual investment. It's a bottomless money pit that investors hope will someday start spitting out cash. They've just started rolling out ads so it's definitely going great. www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

I’m playing both sides by doing nothing, this is grown up politics. Nothing is more serious in politics than nothing is what I always say. I stand for Nothing, Nothing is what you get. Thank you -KS

"Well then what's the point in even going?" chaser.com.au/world/trump-...

Just a boy standing in front a of a graph saying if you're going to do a pie chart, please don't do it in this stupid way

It makes me so angry because these are not serious people and we are forced to pretend they are or get scolded for being elitists insufficiently open to new stalls in the marketplace of ideas when we point out a prerequisite for the debate stage should be understanding how literally anything works.

Again it is something that people in previous eras have commented on but I still find it just astonishing to witness in my own: fascism is somehow the natural ideology of loser men, just all of our most pathetic and contemptible instincts rendered into a worldview.

Boomer/Gen-X nostalgia, unrecognised propaganda and binary thinking ("dO yOu WaNt ThE LiBeRaLs To WiN?!?) are blinding much of the nation to how horrifically complicitly shit this party is

Some thoughts on Adelaide Writers' Week and the moment we find ourselves in. It's all just so grinding. rick-morton.ghost.io/the-great-si...

About 45 years ago the right realised they could act like cunts and expect the left to be the bigger person. They also realised enough of their base was dumb, scared or both that they could reverse engineer justifications for any policy. Which is why public opinion has no baring on political policy

It's "culturally unsafe" to have a Palestinian Aus author advocate against the systematic slaughter of hundreds of thousands of her people, but it's "a good thing" for the president of apartheid Israel, which has committed daily massacres and mass starvation for 2yrs, to visit us. Unbearably racist.

Solidarity with Louise Adler and Randa Abdel-Fattah. We stand against this retrograde decision and with the countless authors withdrawing in support of Randa and her work.