My latest article in The Shot "The largest contributors to the breakdown of social cohesion in Australia are the governments of Australia, practising a privileged fuck-you version of democracy that makes its own rules & caters for those within the club" #pffft theshot.net.au/uncategorize...

Chris Sidoti, former Human Rights Commissioner, at the National Press Club: “The Genocide Convention not only requires that we not commit genocide - it also requires that we act to prevent genocide.” #npc

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

Anti-vaccine cranks melting down because RFK's made up cause for autism is different to their own made up cause for autism is strangely entertaining

Oxford has been around since 1096. Imagine tossing almost a thousand years of academic reputation into the garbage, setting it on fire, and then pissing it out over a useless fucking plagiarism machine what loses billions of dollars a year telling people to kill themselves.

Wow we should base our entire economy on this technology

The fall out to last week’s assassination is interesting to me because it really gives insight into the way the algorithm showed people on the right CK’s relatively benign, pro-Christian, pro-family content and none of his bigotry, and people on the left seemingly only saw the bigotry stuff

Someone asked me earlier why I don’t do more than AI, and the answer is that every time I look deeper into AI I see more evidence that this is a massive, unbelievable failure, propped up by webs of debt and ignorance, private capital fully believes there’s massive AI demand that does not exist.

Riveting and terrifying thread. When Trump dies or is removed, and Vance becomes leader, it is Thiel's apocalyptic fascism that will be driving him. Gone will be Trump's erraticism -- he and MAGA will have done their job --replaced by a christofascist dictatorship beyond removal by ballot box.

How it started. How it’s going

So many bangers but this is the one that dooms Starmer's govt and with it the UK. Lawyer brain imagines a jury of public opinion that will be convinced when they are shown the evidence. But no net migration number is low enough and one photo of a small boat on a beach will overpower any statistic

Somewhere along the line we let the damn fool notion take hold that our society is a corporation and everything it does must generate profit for a group of shareholders, and I think this fool notion needs to be demolished forever.

Literally the second meme I've made in my life.

This shit makes me furious. You have an ironclad majority in the house and a progressive senate you snivelling fucks, this is an outright lie. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

A man on the streets of the UK is asked about the “problem of immigration” and dismantles talking points with ease.

For Australians, the conclusion is unavoidable - Albanese’s failed Australia and as a leader. Unless he begins to act with independence, honesty, and courage, he’ll be remembered as a Prime Minister who allowed foreign powers to turn Australia into a stage for their own political theatre.

literally nobody on earth has made as many wrong predictions about self-driving tech as Elon, but Tesla is worth a trillion dollars because people still believe him every time he says "self driving by the end of the year" no matter how many times he says it

‘Israel cannot stand looking at itself in the full-size mirror these journalists in Gaza hold up to it, day in and day out.’

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

Here's how the real two-tier Britain works: 1. Whatever Nigel Farage says, however stupid, is looped and discussed by the media, while left-wing voices are treated as noises off. 2. Tiny far-right protests get massive airtime, while 10s of 000s gathering for Palestine or green causes are ignored.🧵

I haven’t been this excited for a bubble to burst since I was a toddler.

Altman: We’re probably going to have to start recruiting ghosts to haunt the data centers to keep them cool. Von: Sweet. Altman: Because ghosts run cold. Von: Yeah.

Here's me. "Two states of bullshit"

Is this the first (supposed) war in all of history where a belligerent has killed more humanitarian aid workers than it has lost troops killed? That's 500 aid workers killed vs 450 IDF.

"Australia won’t stop sending weapons parts to Israel and facilitating the genocide because Labor are genuinely scared to stand up to Donald Trump and the US." Time to be more like Ireland. #auspol www.independent.ie/irish-news/i...

My goto is to ask LLMs how many states have R in their name. They always fail. GPT 5 included Indiana, Illinois, and Texas in its list. It then asked me if I wanted an alphabetical highlighted map. Sure, why not.

I wrote a little ditty about this very thing jamwil.com/the-lie-of-g...

It's taken the New York Times a decade to finally realize how the far right works. They amplify a handful of random posts by nobodies as a characterization of the entire left and then get outraged by it. That in turn drives media coverage and takes over the media cycle for weeks.

some might say "wow, Hitler concerns, I'm out altogether," whereas others might say "hey, who cares about Hitler concerns?" but we at the Microsoft Corporation are enlightened centrists who see the presence of Hitler concerns as a sign that we should move forward cautiously

Real echoes of the 30’s , it’s just non stop , the RW media,(including the BBC)just have to keep this centre stage, they have nothing else to shoe in fake Farage. Saw this yesterday at the Imperial war museum from 80 years ago,nothings changed.

THE EPSTEIN LIST IS FINALLY RELEASED!!!

Some people keep saying "AI isn't just probabilities, AI understands," and then AI puts a toilet next to the office desk, both of which are in the kitchen with no sink. This is not something an entity would do if it "understood" what those things are.

This is skilled demolition using hand-placed charges, not aerial bombardment. Notice how the highlighted buildings are carefully pancaked, each in a separate direction, none of them towards the roads. It's an act of wanton bastardry, not 'war'.

This is the entire point of the "it's complicated" line of hasbara/Western journalism. It is an intellectual off-ramp for further thought. And so many of us take it. It is a state-sanctioned excuse not to think at all. Because as soon as you actually do, the whole picture unravels

“History shows that increasing wealth inequality consistently precedes collapse”

The most amusing part to me is that the "random 32char string" is actually 36 characters long.

There were ultimately 3 things that helped the Nazis seize total power: 1. The refusal of democratic parties to work together. 2. The establishment's over-reliance on traditions that the Nazis then ignored. 3. The Nazi blockade of any legislation that would improve the problems they complained about

From Icelandic cartoonist Dagsson.

This really is appalling journalism. There is no news merit in just publishing awful, racist tweets posted by people with tiny followings. But when it’s framed in a way to defend Segal’s joke of an anti-semitism review, The Age decides they warrant prominence www.smh.com.au/national/onl...

Absolutely dystopian juxtaposition from the Guardian front page. Difficult to understand how anyone of decency and conscience can defend this government at this point. Just sheer moral degeneracy to arm a state that does this and arrest people for objecting. Wtf are we doing as a country?

Not that anyone thought QAnon believers were intelligent but it’s almost comical how this community has been so invested in Epstein for years and couldn’t put two and two together that Trump was actually his bestie

Here's @ronnisalt.bsky.social. 'None of this passes the pub test'

Fascinated by the replies to any post doing numbers about the Trump/Epstein stuff that keep mentioning Russia. Like, it's a bunch of rich Americans that went to an island to abuse children. You don't have to find some geopolitical conspiracy theory rationale for it.

And I also understand why there is bilateral pressure from the upper echelons of power to prevent this. It's going to wreck shit for everyone. But what can they do? Don't rise to power by convincing your base there's a secret paedo cult running the world if you're in an actual, unrelated paedo cult.

Actual sanity from the Guardian today www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

re: generative AI I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used. And now, you can use it, too.

Is this the kernel of the problem? Is it the unwillingness to acknowledge that Europe is a legitimate world actor. At this point, it's a hang-up And is that reflex rejection what is actually stopping the UK moving towards Europe? The history is interesting. A 🧵

I want to talk more about this reference to Fraenkel’s “The Dual State” in Justice Jackson’s CASA dissent. Fraenkel describes two legal systems that operate simultaneously in Nazi Germany. Jackson mentions one. But there’s another: the "Normative" state. And it's crucial to selling fascism. 1.