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Spent a whole three hours awake at mum’s. Slipped out so we didn’t have to do another trip down trauma lane

📢 NSW has passed sweeping emergency legislation tightening gun laws and granting police expanded powers to restrict public protests following the Bondi Beach terror attack.

Ran updates on mum’s phone. That’s it for this holiday season

They "redacted" by highlighting with black marker in the PDF, which is not only perfectly reversible in the PDF itself, but doesn't stay redacted when you paste out to another document or application. Mind boggling.

"PHAC lacks timely national data on children’s vaccination rates as report finds agency is not meeting targets" 🤔💉🧮 www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

The USA has officially banned ALL new device models of "UAS and UAS critical component parts that are produced in foreign countries" as of today. Which means this ban extends beyond just DJI. This will devastate the currently-thriving drone data services market. docs.fcc.gov/public/attac...

📢 A review into the Queensland government's response to Cyclone Alfred has slammed an over-reliance on technology to issue public information. 👉 Report issues, make suggestions

Earlier today

I would be over the moon if MP Mark Butler lists Tirzepatide on the PBS au.news.yahoo.com/weight-loss-...

Somewhere out there right now is a programmer vibe-coding an FDA-regulated medical device, and somewhere else is the unemployed person whose job was to inspect that code and hold it to standards and who was fired by a 19 year old.

Made a choice. Felafel, hummus, cumin rice and salad at Glenny’s www.glennykebabs.com/about

In Elsternwick. Overwhelmed by choices of places to eat, people, noise. Sitting on a bench for five minutes and then I’ll try to make a plan for food

Dropped off a birthday present to my aunt in Strathbogie (cake, flowers, etc), now headed to Melbourne for more knee treatment tomorrow

Soft “miaow” at the front door early this morning, which was confusing cos Cat usually slams the screen door with her paw and “MIAOWS” loudly til someone lets her in. I opened the door. She looked lovingly up at me and spat out a live mouse, which immediately took off

iCloud, Mega, and as a torrent. Archivists have uploaded the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss spiked.

I still cannot believe it is easier for Andrew Tate to travel to America or Europe than me, who got a Master in law degree from a European university - purely because I do not, unlike Tate, have US and/or British citizenship. I couldn't even attend my graduation because my Visa "expired".

Good post on this idea here!

Important context here: when Peter Thiel and David Sacks began their war on diversity as undergrads at Stanford, thirty years ago, the very first tactic they adopted was to normalize slurs that had already been stigmatized out of mainstream society. This return of these hateful terms was a key goal.

it's odd to see the people who can accurately assess Bari Weiss isn't a good journalist and failed upward into her role as chief brunchlord, but can't take the additional leap to realize this is part of an active plot by extraction class media ownership to actively destroy journalism and consensus

Instacart Says It Is Pulling the Plug on Its AI-Powered Price Tests

Acting CISA director failed a polygraph. Career staff are now under investigation.

gizmodo.com/the-u-s-cybe... Oh no Gizmodo went there “The inner workings of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) are a chaotic single-camera sitcom presided over by an alleged Michael Scott-style oaf named Madhu Gottumukkala”

And awake at 1am with heartburn

A suicide note left by a negotiator for the 1972 Okinawa reversion — which describes the envoy’s grief over brokering a secret nuclear agreement with the U.S. — is now on display.

Bedtime

Floor time. Plus a song to soothe the soul web.plumvillage.app/item/i-am-ho...

"The crowd cheers and the MC leads a chant of “from Gadigal to Gaza, globalise the intifada”. Over a dozen police watch on." www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Got to use the term “strengths-based practice” today tho, and that makes me happy

Me: “a day of hitting my perfect calorie target” Also me: “two coffees between 7am and 8pm and then a burrito is really not it”

Our Free to Protest guide provides a range of information about police surveillance capabilities so you can be prepared when you next head out. Happy protesting! 🪧 pvcy.org/freetoprotest

Gun crackdown and controversial protest laws to be passed in NSW despite Coalition split over firearms

📢 Whistleblowers say Disaster Relief Australia has inflated its membership numbers, has opaque recruitment practices and prioritises marketing over missions.

Some of the funding will be used to pilot an AI chatbot assistant.

Katy Gallagher used it to attack the Coalition during the election campaign.

10 minutes into meditating and Kid wandered into my room dragging his camp mat behind him and flopped down beside me. I live for these moments

Bedtime

"We know there are congregations and Rabbis who are moving towards speaking out and it's really important for us to work with these institutions to make more space. But what we're thinking about at the Jewish Council is how do we build our own institutions." youtu.be/CH2i5dgMYt4?...

Hah, almost to the day - snipe.net/2010/11/12/v...

A spokesperson confirmed Waymo has suspended service.

At least five FUBARed Waymo robots: Market & Guerrero, SF One is a problem, two a mistake, five a major ops screw up. Waymo has never fixed their cascading failure problem. Maybe they don't know how. Fundamentally unfit for service at scale until they do, IMO. OP: tiktok.brahmsstan

More FUBARed Waymo robots in different locations in this video: Market and Valencia Folsom and 9th Waymo should at least fix their robots to pull to the curb on failure/MRC (Minimum Risk Condition). DMV should require them to do so and report their MRC performance. OP: tiktok.nowhappening1

Driverless cars are malfunctioning in SF’s power outage & are blocking intersections, turn lanes, and streets all over the city right now. This is impeding buses, emergency vehicles, and other traffic. It is forcing pedestrians outside crosswalks and cars to use oncoming traffic lanes. It’s a mess.

Around half of San Francisco is without power right now and something like 1/3rd of intersections I drove through had waymos stopped in the middle of them making a dangerous situation even worse. Do not let Waymo into your city.

No I think the consultants fees are really reasonable actually. Just covering costs I’m sure.

for uni I am working on a proposal for a disaster recovery project (after a tsunami). The more I learn about disaster recovery the more psychic damage I take from my time in the ADFs laughable Reconstruction Task Force in Afghanistan. A genuinely amateur-hour fiasco that was doomed to failure.

director: you do know how to draw unicorns from the front, right? artist: say and worry no more

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when technology seemed like it would solve our problems, before it became our problems