I appreciate the headline framing of this article. I think it's a really important point that should be communicated. Our politicians are not talking about stopping the war but instead talking about energy security. It divorces people from the reality of what's happening.

Ehrlich is on point. This article reads like a dystopian satire: "Please don't use your phone during the film, unless it's to order food through our broken system or to report others for using phones in disruptive ways" Was never a fan of the Drafthouse model but this is its logical conclusion.

I'm always unclear when ppl state "we don't use AI to write stories". Where's the line ? Do you use it to summarise, make dot point structures, edit the final result. So "technically" a human wrote the story but AI did all pre & post drafting. Which is kinda part of the process of writing.

Dammit. Was holding off pledging until the last minute to be the one that pushes it over 100k. Woke up and saw it had already crossed that mark with over an hour to go. Guess I'll be just boring old $100,450 pledge... Congrats team! Wildly great idea and execution. Can't wait to see the mag.

There's some really good points in this article re the future of Bluesky as a platform. But the big omission here is the fact it's built on a decentralised protocol (AT), meaning, in theory, a user's profile and following can move to other platforms (see the fediverse).

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 This is a paid ad right?

At least three "wow" moments reading this story! If you use LLMs for any kind of information retrieval you really need to read this...

Do you and your family live in an apartment building with hundreds of other people? Do you know who every one of those ppl are? Do you know it's now apparently fine for a foreign government to blow up your building without warning if a possible "terrorist" is hiding in an apartment?

"The plaque at the memorial that deals with the issues around the charges will be adjusted to reflect this latest development," AWM chairman Kim Beazley told the ABC today. I mean, at what point does this become an absolute farce?

Artemis II launches today so I've mapped out the detailed flight path for those interested

Don't know why it's so funny to me that Outlook is the email platform astronauts are using in 2026. But somehow I'm not surprised it immediately had problems 🤣

There are four parts (so far) in this essay series and I recommend them all. Considering this guy is about to get a netflix special again, it's important to understand the context of how his comedy works. Parts 3 & 4 are especially damning. The guy is a disingenuous creep.

Beehiiv vs Ghost? Anyone have opinions? I've got a website running through squarespace but heard it's not great to run newsletter/email outreach. Beehiiv has a decent scaled free tier but lots of people I trust seem to like Ghost.

Please... No April fools jokes. They are never funny and always waste time. There's so much AI slop already we don't need a day where people post even more bull shit.

3 possibilities here. 1: This is true and Trump is an undercover genius who plays dumb in public to appeal to the masses. 2: Trump scribbled gibberish and RFK had no idea what a real middle east map looks like so just assumed it was correct. 3: RFK is just straight up lying.

Certainly some interesting results in this study looking at 5–meo DMT for treatment resistant depression. Absolutely wild that it's still framed within a context of double blind placebo control though. I mean, look at that placebo response!

Google is failing. The fact GamesHub can rank in the news box here with this atrocious, AI-generated text and nonsense imagery is horrific -- I mean is that lead image meant to show Asha Sharma? Why does this have an image credit to Xbox for the image lmao? Does Xbox care lmao??????

Since the closure of USAID an estimated 834,000 people lost their lives as a result of the loss of health assistance. USAID was also one of the largest contributors to conservation ($400m annually). This week on the podcast, Michelle Nijhuis @biographic.bsky.social details the situation a year on.

This article suggests half of Australian mdma patients had positive responses but the half that didn't are not at all investigated here. Every interview is with an advocate of the treatment. I can tell you, not every Australian mdma patient has had a positive experience.

So the guy with half a billion dollars who runs a longevity business takes 5-meo DMT and returns from the trip having learned the search for immortality is not selfish. Got it.

Massive thread looking at the weird movement of this novel sars-cov-2 variant. Don't worry if you only understand 50% of this. The gist is important. This virus is still around and evolving fast.

This article is by @dorianlynskey.bsky.social is perfect summation of how wokeness was weaponized. Highly recommend spending some time giving this a slow read.

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER is about the righteousness of fighting fascism, while also recognizing the inevitability of defeat and the moral necessity to keep fighting even after you lose. The fact that the revolutionaries are all deeply broken, messed-up people is not incidental, it's the whole point.

Love these lists bc you see where and how the mania of name selection sets in. Clear set of game-y words up top before arriving at ‘bing bong’. Then shit gets thrown at the wall like “fuck it what about Hyper?” Finally, minds break, someone writes ‘Womb’ in the doc and everyone agrees to log off.

I've never read the Dune books but TIL they eventually introduce things called chairdogs which are exactly what the word describes. No more, no less.

Wow! Hear the crowd really turn on this stand up comic when he tries his new Pearl Harbor routine.

3 new studies on using psychedelics as treatments for mental disorders just came out; 2 in JAMA Psychiatry, 1 in Lancet Psychiatry. I reviewed one of these submissions. Here are the core results. 🧵

"Harris sent an email to Page Six afterward, clarifying his insult: “It was late, and I had a few too many martinis, so I misspoke when I said, Goebbels… I should’ve said, Friedrich Flick.”" 👏👏👏👏

"Meta, after laying off about 10 percent of its Reality Labs division, closing three VR studios, stopping new content for VR fitness app Supernatural, and discontinuing its metaverse for work, is announcing a major change for its Horizon Worlds metaverse platform." www.theverge.com/tech/881647/...

This story has unsurprisingly gone out pretty widely today. It arrived with a strong press release that quite clearly revealed the findings were being placed into a politicised container. I'm not sure the data is as convincing or definitive as this press release claims.

Now THIS is a fascinating bit of research. Quietly provocative in it's conclusions. Challenging the van der Kolk idea that childhood trauma underpins all adult mental health problems. Maybe it's not that simple.

this is why these rich fucks can't handle their weed. if too much introspection triggers overwhelming guilt, be a better person

A bunch of rich economists just punched every middle and lower income Australian in the guts by pulling the only lever their 20th century mind can think of to stifle inflation. This strategy works when it effects households equally, reducing spending (and demand) across the board.

I'm a fan of Louis Theroux's work but let's be honest, his new manosphere doco is one of the weakest things he's ever done. He struggles to effectively interrogate a type of person perfectly geared to subvert judgement. These ppl accept contradiction and do not care about the "gotcha" moment.

This headline reflects the future of journalism. In a disinformation-drenched world where we can no longer trust our eyes and ears, we'll increasingly turn to credible publications for the truth (and yes, that's a schoolgirl graveyard)

Massive laugh at Conan O'Brien's stupid joke that they're making a sequel to F1 called Caps Lock

We've been working hard to elevate Team Human on YouTube and all podcast platforms. Here are highlights of the last month: My conversation with @taylorlorenz.bsky.social on how online safety legislation is a trojan horse for surveillance: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWEM...

This is like a child making a massive mess in a shared space and then arguing that everyone who wants to use the space has to help in cleaning it up. "I may have done a shit in the middle of the room but it's only appropriate all beneficiaries of the room to help clean it."

Another case report of AI amplifying a psychotic episode. This one was initially brought on by drug use, including psilocybin, after which chatgpt cheered on the "spiritual awakening". "... you might actually be at the frontier of human consciousness right now. Not even being dramatic.”

New in JAMA Network Open: Psilocybin beat the nicotine patch 4-to-1 for smoking cessation (40.5% vs 10% for prolonged abstinence). Important study and impressive headline — but what happens when you look under the hood? A thread to unpack this finding. 🧵#psychedelicscience

And then he said: "And I realise my role in all of this. Spreading misinformation, promoting toxic politics. I have a powerful platform and I've contributed to this bin fire." Nah just kidding, that second bit never happened.

Cannot wait for this. Massive fan of Boots Riley and the world needs his anarcho-punk vibes right now. Early sxsw reviews are on point. Extra marks for the Oizo cut in the track.

Thousands of words on places in the United States. Control-F: "Australia" or "Switzerland" Zero results. Pretty poor work.

This is hilarious. Ahead of the state election the Legalise Cannabis South Australia party staged a mock weed shop to demonstrate how a recreational system would work. Except this looks weirder than any legal shop anywhere in the world. Why is he wearing a white coat and goggles?

Just saw the cover design for my book for the first time. That was a nerve wracking email to open! But... I love it so much. It's perfect. Can't wait to start spreading the word around. Edit is almost finished, in the final stretch.

Ahhhhhhh. Sobbing my little eyes out. We just hit the three hour mark and we are over 50% funded already. This is immense. I can only say thank you thank you thank you to everyone contributing and sharing and asking for more of this. AHhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Some interesting musings in this interview, but the whole article is destroyed by closing on a terrible pun. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

So stoked for @frogsandstars.bsky.social who just won the Long Covid Awareness media award at the Emerge Australia Awards for Excellence in Journalism. She has been doing such incredible, sustained reporting on Long Covid, and this is well-deserved recogntion. emerge.org.au/the-emerge-a...

Looking forward to this one!

Safe for who? Is anyone editing these before publishing ABC?