China is putting enormous solar farms on water because they want to use land for agriculture

all technology reflects the values of its developers and host culture. LLMs are peak imperial white patriarchy.

In Paris, porcelain plates inside 18 meter pool filled with water create random sound symphony without human interference..pretty cool 😎

They all wanted to be Carlin, but now they're all Rogan.

when you hate the song the DJ is playing, but the fellas are cutting sick on the dance floor

Defence is one of the NACC’s biggest focuses with corruption complaints about billions of dollars of procurement contracts, that Brereton can’t see the conflict of interest when he is both working for Defence and reviewing corruption allegations just beggars belief.

Commissioner Brereton told the public and parliament that his position with Defence was entirely honourary, now we know that is not true, that he is part of a chain of advice to Ministers and Defence.

Even former gambling execs are calling for action on gambling ads. Good to hear the Minister is restarting talks on reform, but what’s needed is courage from the PM to take on vested interests & pursue a complete ban on ads - just as the Murphy Review recommended. www.afr.com/politics/fed...

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This is so insane. Public education needs a massive boost, not cuts. Almost all non-gov schools are religiously affiliated in some way- why are we outsourcing education to religious orgs? Education is compulsory- we should have pride in and strengthen our secular public schools, not undermine them.

Australians' opinion of immigration is interesting but ultimately irrelevant -- Australia NEEDS it to function

I'm turning 50 this year, or as the Romans would have put it, posting my L

What Gen AI has done, like social media before it, is to turn every human interaction and communication into possible spam that needs to be mentally filtered out of our personal sensorium—which take a lot of work and leaves us not wanting to deal with any of the authentic stuff

The ALP government's approach to climate targets reminds me of the guy at my office who says he's reduced his household carbon footprint by taking showers at work

You can't justify spending $50M on consultants if there's no crisis

The ANU's audited accounts show it made a $90m surplus last year. It says you can't count nearly $250m of its income, so it actually made a huge loss. While it spends lavishly on its executives, it sacks teachers and cuts courses. This is so dodgy. australiainstitute.org.au/post/the-anu...

It's the Chinese century...

A strip search is actually a sexual assault. At the very least it is punitive and can be inflicted on anyone the cops don't like the look of. Does possession of a couple of pills or a bit of weed warrant sexual assault? #ACAB www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

👇💯💪 The Unions of other countries should be ashamed of their inaction

Using his social media clout, which he gets from being a Senator, to stir up mobs with pitchforks and point them at targets. Even if he wasn't wrong about the woman's workplace, why should this be allowed? If this isn't against the law, the law should be changed.

Reagan can be best understood as white voters rejecting the New Deal if they had to share it with Black people

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

My complaints about the digital billboard in our office building that flashed up headlines from The Australian have borne fruit — now it flashes up headlines from the Fin Rev instead

Once again, this perfect @zeboydgames.bsky.social post comes to mind:

David Cross folks.

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the question to ask, therefore, is “does larry ellison record every single meeting he’s in?” and, if the answer is no, “why not? does he not want to be kept on his best behaviour?”

The Riyadh Comedy Festival is a pretty good excuse to talk about art washing and how Australia does many of the terrible things they do. But also how badass is this photo of Atsuko Okatsuka who turned down Riyadh blood money and leaked the censorship clauses. thiscouldbeit.ghost.io/riyadh-i-har...

i dont want america to crumble under fascism, that's where most of my parasocial youtube comedian friends live

One of the most haunting aspects of Squid Game was that the contestants could leave at any point if they wanted to but volunteered to be tortured to death because they were so desperate for money. Anyways...

Brereton should resign, imo. He's personally compromised (defence), completely stuffed up the Robodebt investigation (and had personal connections with those involved), and his NACC has produced nothing else of any significance, despite thousands of referrals.

#auspol Happier Times #NACC the NACC Perp Walk David Hurley (Scomo’s Gov Gen) of the singing-wife; Kathryn Campbell (Secretary of DHS for Scomo’s RoboDebt) and Paul Brereton (Commissioner NACC) on parade together in happier times what corruption? 🤷🏻‍♂️

What is it with privileged, powerful people in this country?! They appear to assume the rules simply don’t apply to them. And in so many respects the rules aren’t applied to them. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

I'm editing a new anthology of sci fi written by sex workers for @workinggirlspress.bsky.social. It's called Liquid Silver (after the club/brothel in Tank Girl) and I'm so excited to see what my SW babes are writing!

You do not need to read analysis about the raging hypocrisy of Trump and his lieutenants—Abbie Richards gets right to the 🎯 "fascism is a temper tantrum disguised as an ideology"

also a nice counter factual to media narratives that protests are evil because they obstruct traffic

my favourite thing about the evangelicals in Civic is how they preach right next to a homeless guy, and ignore the shit out of him.

over 24 hours now with no mobile internet or phone what is the fucking point of optus

maybe farmers should have voted for the party that wanted to build fibre to the premises nationwide

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faith - good works = American evangelical christianity

Dillon sold out, told everyone he sold out, then got fired before he could collect his paycheck. The only funny thing he's ever done. www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...

Sam, this is Bank Spendman. You can use your credit card at Burger King to get that Whopper you're craving.

A good news story. Well done.

USA has achieved its final form: an enormous Content mill. Please like and subscribe.

I have not gone deep on Epstein files but it seems pretty obvious: 1. Ghislaine Maxwell (and by extension Epstein) were found guilty of sex trafficking, eg procuring girls to give to others. 2. To traffic, you need suppliers and customers

AI companies accusing others of stealing is so funny to me www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

After watching SBS's "The People vs RoboDebt", you have wonder why Tudge, Roberts, Porter & Morrison aren't in jail. Lives lost, families destroyed, $ billions wasted, whistleblowers demonised ... yet these guys just moved on to their next adventure. More: www.sbs.com.au/.../tv-serie... #auspol

Meanwhile, Tony Hinchcliffe told the Dept "you can use any of my shit for free"