😒 Wordle 1,562 5/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟨 ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I know a lot of people won’t click through to read about “med beds” so here’s the crucial quote to explain how fucking crazy this is. Trump just posted an AI video of himself promising every American access to this.

It’s always satisfying seeing Clive Palmer lose, whether it’s elections or vexatious legal proceedings.

The Heat sequel looks a bit rubbish www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

Hitler vs Stalin NRL Grand Final

This whole thread, God help us.

Michaelia Cash has to be the Trumpiest of all Australian politicians - including the hair. Just talking absolute nonsense

‘Almost every person the ABC spoke to agrees that they missed the signs [of grooming] partly because [the perpetrator] Whiteside was a woman.’ www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

“Trump is picking up on a historical thread that was popular when he was a child: The idea that thoughtless mothers are somehow to blame for their children’s autism, which has been around nearly as long as the disorder has had a name.” 🎁 Link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/o...

Look what you can achieve when a ‘think and do’ tank embraces modern methods of #housing construction 👀 www.thetimes.com/article/c9f3...

“The sense of awe they inspire…” What?? In whom? Early experimental cinema was genuinely innovative in form and content. Those filmmakers went to enormous trouble to acquire the equipment and skills they needed. It wasn’t millions of internet buffoons flooding the web with lazy unwatchable AI slop

Switch this off in Profile > Settings > Data Privacy > Data for Generative AI improvement > Off www.vice.com/en/article/l...

Another platform going with opt-out, for something that should be opt-in www.vice.com/en/article/l...

Niche content, but his story is SO interesting. Thinking of telling next season. A

Got up at 0600 to get to the place that was showing the Grand Final in Berlin. First thing someone talked to me about was the Mushroom Trial.

It’s that time of year everyone 🦉🦅🐦‍⬛🦜🐓

It’s perfect

From what I’ve seen, a huge number of Australians are at risk of losing their super. Never take cold calls or click on social media ads spruiking amazing investment returns www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

What a team, holy heck

CAAAAARN LIONS!!! 🦁🦁🦁 #AFLGrandFinal2025

Tesla influencers testing full self-driving made it 60 miles on a cross USA trip before the Model Y hit an object that broke the sway bar bracket and damaged the suspension.

By having AI summarise the plots of Shakespeare's tragedies I can experience catharsis in a matter of minutes

Oh bloody hell, predictive text is adding words to my posts that make me sound even stupider than I am

Can you imagine how Kubrick would’ve reacted to this? Kubrick used to call up cinema projectionists to instruct them on how to project his films. He agonised over every frame. He would apoplectic at this shit, as I imagine Herzog will be

Cool new way for cars to kill people

groimes, oim een theh eepsteen foiles

"experts say" www.cnn.com/2025/08/11/b...

Whether you want to admit it or not, we no longer have rule of law. We don’t have checks and balances. He has weaponized the Department of Justice. Pure retribution and nobody willing to stop him.

“Hundreds of billions are being invested in a technology with an uncertain use case. Enormous data centres are sucking up power and potentially derailing progress in emissions reductions. Plus concerns the entire US economy is propped up by the AI investment bubble.” www.abc.net.au/news/science...

Only someone acutely aware of how much people despise him would make a demand like this

Punishing kids is the wrong approach to this hellscape. Regulate these highly profitable platforms. Put the onus on their billionaire owners and shareholders to implement meaningful safety measures

Very insightful piece.

Oh my lord 😳

2/ In 2001, Borsook said tech "libertarianism" reflected an adolescent mindset, with a craving for unchecked independence & resistance to constraint. She warned that tech libertarians wanted an anti-human world that worked more like a computer. From "Cyberselfish," a book based on her 90s writing:

PRESS STATEMENT: Simply unacceptable behavior by the UN, stopping this escalator while PM Tuxley II stepped onto it aside his wife, Lady Beakatrice. We will tariff & fire anyone who dares suggest these ramps never move, and we will SUE the lunatics who almost broke Lady B’s angelic features.

END OF THE WORLD FAILS AGAIN

Chair of this year’s Booker prize jury, Roddy Doyle, said that the majority of this year’s entries were a waste of time. The panel decided only 31 were wrth considering 🤭 [paywall] apple.news/AuGHmwCnXQpa...

This an RFK riff about “80 different vaccines”. And it’s false, of course. The standard childhood vaccination program inoculates against about a dozen diseases. And some vaccines are combined. There’s only two dozen or so vaccines in existence, and some, like the shingles shot are not given to kids

Hey, would any of you like the key to a lived-in and refined look?

Half of Australians have no idea that Google and other search engines will be forced to check the age of their users & change their service based on that info. This polling comes as an inquiry into Australia's online safety codes & the teen social media ban kicks off today www.crikey.com.au/20...

Tom Studans now going door-to-door asking media organisations to substantively cover welfare rights issues

Justice Rangiah: “the ABC's conduct in surrendering to the demands of the pro-Israel lobbyists and taking Ms Lattouf off air ignored its statutory obligation of maintaining its independence and integrity” and “it abjectly surrendered the rights of its employee" www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

The closest we ever came to experiencing the Rapture was that time on Twitter when all of the blue ticks couldn’t post for a few hours

Also Claudia Cardinale in Fellini’s 8 1/2 on Beamafilm beamafilm.com/watch/eight-...

"The Harvard Business Review study came out the day after a Financial Times analysis of hundreds of earnings reports and shareholder meeting transcripts filed by S&P 500 companies that found huge firms are having trouble articulating the specific benefits of widespread AI adoption..."

YouTube removed a channel that was dedicated to posting AI-generated videos of women being shot in the head following 404 Media’s request for comment. The videos were clearly generated with Google’s new AI video generator tool. 🔗 www.404media.co/ai-generated...

From yesterday and today: it certainly appears ICE in Chicago are wearing the Meta AI Ray-Ban glasses.

‘Andor’ Writer Dan Gilroy On Disney Suspending Jimmy Kimmel & Hollywood Facing “Venomous Evil”: “This Isn’t A Skirmish. It’s A Siege” – Guest Column deadline.com/2025/09/ando...