The phrase "Christ is King" is a very particular phrase with a nasty recent history in the US. Now it's showing up in country towns like Warragul.

Got an email with the subject line "My son was weeks old when the fires started" and my first thought was that the son was starting the fires (it was from the Climate Council). Anyway

ja fragt euch mal

Posting to remind myself to check if they take this down and also admit the error

imo chatbot delusions aren’t some uniquely AI-induced phenomenon as much as a standard issue human dialogic disorder that people can induce in one another through ungrounded conversation like falling into a conspiracy theory. LLMs are particularly adept at triggering this due to their design.

There’s an interesting piece on ABC this morning about a new research direction studying what terrorists and domestic abusers have in common, particularly “fixated grievance”

Greenslopes stormwater drains this weekend #brisbane #graffiti #streetart

This guy gets it. This quote is from a piece written last month, after Trump started posting videos of a Christian preacher seemingly prophesying his presidency back in 2007. www.salon.com/2026/04/04/t...

There's a short piece in The Atlantic explaining how the purpose of Rededicate 250 was to advance a "spiritual warfare" political cosmology.

Listening to Tucker Carlson probably isn't healthy for me, but where else am I going to hear a guest assert that pandas aren't real wild animals.

How your email finds me

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Greenslopes stormwater drains this weekend #brisbane #graffiti #streetart

This is a really interesting piece about how the United States uses military institutions to reproduce its culture of insecure masculinity.

Today I learned

Useful follow if you want to keep track of America’s immigrant warehouse project.

Underappreciated benefit of being a sceptic: it helps with lucid dreaming. I dreamt I saw a glass move across a table by itself. Bc I don’t believe in ghosts, I realised I was dreaming and got to fly around and have fun with it. Downside: if I ever see a real ghost, I may seriously injure myself.

Mostly bookmarking for later

something that i think being in small cloistered internet communications full of fractious characters should instill in you is.....it would be a very different experience to live in a place where you need to have good relations with everyone that provides you some kind of good or service

one of the funniest videos i’ve ever seen

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Today I learned en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surafen...

"War is Poison" Stencil seen in Brooklyn, New York

“For years, we’ve been told that we don’t have to worry about a crazy [US] president launching a nuclear war, because the military would not carry out any illegal order. But that’s not real.”

Insecurity in the US and what’s coming for us all.

Really helpful explainer of what happened to the voting laws in the US this week.

Hard rubbish this week in Annerley. Didn’t even get around to any footpath shopping. That’s how out of control my life has become. #brisbane

I’m thinking about a dialectic between ‘slop’ and ‘care’ as two opposing orientations toward the manner in which we do things (like work, tasks, creative acts, interacting, etc); and how different ways and uses of automation can be influenced by, evince, or further drive a sloppy or caring attitude.

Henry Glavin, Corinne's Neighbor (acrylic, ink, and graphite on panel, 2021)

“Slop comes from the heart” And that’s why I fear there’s a tsunami of bullshit coming for science.

This is such a perfect example of the maxim “slop comes from the heart”. Carelessness—the lack of concern and consideration for the other people who have the misfortune to become associated with your work against their will or without their knowledge—always shows through.

"Three young Barn Owls looking out of the quatrefoil of a church in North Norfolk."

From www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-most-a... Describing the job of elite partisan influencers like Ben Shapiro

This makes a lot of sense. It also explains the viciousness of MAGA From www.theguardian.com/books/2020/s...

I’m crying www.booooooom.com/2016/05/09/b...

An article about a facilitated discussion about a difficult topic: immigration www.channelnewsasia.com/commentary/s...

(b) Semi-private spheres — group chats, invite-only communities, subscription spaces. Reciprocity over reach, trust over virality. Structurally invisible to most existing research methods. (c) AI-mediated communication — We today talk more to ChatGPT than we interact with friends on social media.

So "social media" is fragmenting into three post-social formations: (a) Algorithmic broadcasting platforms — few-to-many flows from creators, brands, and bots, delivered as personalized feeds. Broadcasting, but individualized. Endpoint: the fully synthetic feed.

GPT-5.2 and Claude Opus 4.5 performed far better under the study's conditions than the other three models, even as conversations progressed. Really striking, given that OpenAI publicly admitted in Aug 2025 (in response to the Raine lawsuit) that its guardrails could erode over time:

What rhymes with sledgehammer? Because I’d bet money this’ll appear in the next Lego AI video from Explosive Media.

It is deeply evil to take money from the kind of person who would fall for this.

Fortitude Valley yesterday, where we went for the Brisbane Illustration Fair

The truth about what’s behind this corruption will be ghastly www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

You might think this is just corporate pabulum, but the reason it sells product is because it’s deep within humans to give and receive encouragement, so I choose to believe.

Greenslopes storm water drains today #graffiti #streetart #brisbane #southside

This timeline is wild I’ve got the chorus stuck in my head now, and I don’t know what to do with that considering what it says

Nobody: Trump:

it was mostly written by this one guy who writes a lot of articles about lakes and glaciers en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highest...