The irony is rich.

“violent fantasy became an obsession, according to former Trump administration officials…“Fucking kill them all,” Trump would say. “An eye for an eye.” Other times he’d snap at his staff: “You just got to kill these people…Other countries do it all the time.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

The replies to this are really interesting. It looks like parts of America are really leading the way in using parking policy to give people options not to drive

if you see a robot in the wild like this you are allowed to ride it like you would ride a turtle if it wasn’t unethical to ride a turtle.

A little pet peeve. It’s not exactly that tropical rainforests have “gone from being allies in the fight against climate breakdown to being part of the problem.” Forests lose carbon when people cut them (or via fire) and gain carbon when trees grow. It’s that the losing is outweighing the gaining.

#RioTinto are wrecking the planet, but they are LGBTIQifying their logo, so that’s nice. #perth

toy company CEOs: "at long last, we have created the Sinister Talking Doll Factory from the acclaimed movie 'Don't Create the Sinister Talking Doll Factory'" futurism.com/artificial-i...

I'd like to say we'd do better here, but....

Every year Tesla ranks as the worst for road worthiness amongst ALL brands, not just EV. Every. Single. Year. 💩 🤡 🚗

Australia projected to miss 2035 emissions reduction target ‘by a country mile’ unless it ramps up climate policies

“The latest..bushfire outlook predicts an increased risk of fires in north & central NSW & south WA, while the fire risk in VIC is tipped to escalate later in summer.The BOM is forecasting hotter than ave. temperatures across most of the country over the summer months” www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

I made a machine steal the work of a real human being. It's almost as if the stolen work it regurgitated seems like it was written by a real human being. Instead of giving that credit to the breathing person it was stolen from... perhaps the theft machine is actually alive??

Today is World Sustainable Transport Day! Public transport can help reduce emissions, noise pollution, air pollution, and more. And the more the service is upgraded, the more people will use it.🚉🚌🚋🚆

This is a city on Robo-Taxis. (Don't let it happen to yours.)

Overestimated natural biological nitrogen fixation translates to an exaggerated CO2 fertilisation effect in Earth system models ...meaning models may overestimate future plant carbon uptake as CO2 rises Better nitrogen modelling = better climate predictions www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Schools closed and calls for caution as NSW faces worst bushfire risk in years

As soon as this new information was unleashed, people began looking at the location data for accounts that primarily serve to stoke political tensions in the U.S. with far-right narratives that are often misleading or outright false.

UK wildfires devastated more areas in 2025 than at any time since records began, figures show

It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!

We saw it with big tobacco, we saw it with the fossil fuels industry. When their own internal research showed the harm from their product, the defunded the research and attacked independent researchers coming to the very same conclusions. #ScienceUnderSiege

“At first glance, these revelations appear to confirm what researchers & close observers have long known: that foreign actors (bots or humans) are posing as Americans & piping political-engagement bait, mis- & disinformation, & spam into people’s timeline.” A “worthless, poisoned hall of mirrors.”

Instagram’s former head of safety and well-being Vaishnavi Jayakumar testified the company had a “17x” strike policy for accounts that engaged in the trafficking of humans for sex. “You could incur 16 violations and upon the 17th violation, your account would be suspended" time.com/7336204/meta...

From our recent Annual General Meeting: Covering the windows with ads is prioritising advertisers over passengers. Elsewhere they have ads but leave the windows clear, improving visibility and security.

If you still have a Twitter account, today is a great day to delete it.

It’s really hard to defend industry academic collaborations with meta as earnest, if they’re internally burying evidence of harm. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Fascinating read on how a suspicious pitch highlighted a growing problem in freelance journalism: A flood of generative AI that even prestige publications don't catch, complete with fabricated quotes, from scammers who see opportunity in a field so many real humans are struggling to survive in.

As nations KEEP FAILING on #ClimateAction, cities must DOUBLE their efforts & actions on #ClimateChange mitigation though the SIGNIFICANT power of land-use and transportation decisions, which are within the power of cities and are TRANSFORMATIVE in addressing the #ClimateCrisis. Further & faster.

Reuters has confirmed that President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and his special envoy Steve Witkoff held a private meeting in Miami with a sanctioned Kremlin proxy to help shape the new "peace plan" for Ukraine. www.reuters.com/world/europe...

This is correct. But keep in mind that Vance is Peter Thiel's man, and FBI agents revealed that Thiel was the subject of a decade-long RIS influence or recruitment operation run by Putin himself which Putin thought highly successful.

@stevanzetti.bsky.social appears to be having fun today.

Stunning development: Senators now confirm the Trump admin’s 28-point “peace plan” for Ukraine wasn’t a U.S. plan at all. It was a Russian wish list. Follow along. This is crazy. 1/

Listening to my 90s playlist last night and this came up. We need a 2020s update with new media and LLMs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YeZ...

Melbourne and Sydney have similar populations - but their trains are a lot more frequent than ours, especially on weekends. Frequent services make it so much easier to use public transport - especially when heading to events or appointments, or interchanging from other lines.

Good regulation is good for productivity growth. Lack of regulation is driving inefficiency. Poorly regulated building markets led to debacles like the cracking in Opal Towers and flammable cladding being expensively replaced across the country My column thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...

during testing… www.space.com/space-explor...

Students, Staff & Alumni of Go8 unis (ANU, Monash, UAdelaide, UMelb, UNSW, USyd, UQ, UWA) disgruntled about their endorsement of deeply regressive EPBC changes championed as "essential" by the Business Council of Australia-led Alliance may wish to make their objections known to their institutions

See Betteridge's law of headlines

Replace it with an oversize car tax

Heads up, folk! I have just noticed that my publication 'Shaping Neighbourhoods: For Local Health and Global Sustainability' has 25% discount for Xmas sale thingy [so-called Black Friday] Very practical, with evidence-base, conceptual tools and **case studies** www.routledge.com/Shaping-Neig...

Study after study shows that using LLMs is bad for cognition, bad for learning, bad for understanding, bad for mental health. So why are our schools and universities still relentlessly pushing them?

just great

This analysis is correct. Indeed, obvious. Phillips P. OBrien: Trump's "peace" plan for Ukraine, which he at this very moment trying to force on the country with threats and intimidation, is grotesque. The US president is admitting what too many refused to admit. He wants Putin to win.

Tesla was sued over a fiery crash in Washington state that left one person dead and another seriously injured after rescuers allegedly struggled to open the vehicle’s doors, the latest in a growing body of litigation scrutinizing the company’s electrically powered handles

MAGA Republicans are more likely to justify political violence, study finds

The development of non-urban rail in China makes a MASSIVE difference to oil demand

Cryptocurrency backed by Farage donor is used for Russian war effort, investigators say Tether tokens found to facilitate scheme that enables sanctions evasion and launders money for the Kremlin www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Transit Signal Priority is an umbrella term for multiple strategies that reduce delays for transit vehicles at signalized intersections, potentially down to zero. Here, I'm comparing the trade-offs between a "French-style" and an "in-phase" TSP strategy, more common in North America.

An X user asks Elon Musk why they’re seeing tweets from left-wing lawmakers. Musk: “Because we are failing very badly with the recommendations algorithm. Doing my best to address this.”