In case Australians had any doubt about the current US regime www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

when I write a book [unlikely] I will make metadata about the book freely available, machine-readable information about the concepts described: in time that will be the part that makes the most enduring cultural impact

@senatorwong.bsky.social will you be calling the US ambassador in to explain what they are doing in Venezuela?

In an #auspol first, The Australian has used its 1 January headline to announce its official editorial policy

may your annus be mirabilis

a good long thread about expertise, opinions etc

the aesthetics of a depopulated airport

At this point in the game, the editors at the Australian 'newspaper' are climate criminals. Betraying the country, betraying their kids. Shame on them.

sufficiently advanced massage is indistinguishable from enlightenment

part of a Tasmanian marsupial series I’m working on

the solstice is the real start of summer

When a currency-issuing government says it can’t afford to do important, worthwhile things, it’s a political choice, not an economic one. Remember that when the Australian government has unlimited money for submarines but won’t fund nature repair.

so many little, fiddly problems. we need lots and lots of tiny dextrous robots. I admit they might themselves cause problems, but even so

we should commit to a program of maintaining and repairing and upgrading the rovers, so they can roam the planet for a thousand years

appetite for demafamiliarisation

political question I grapple with: is it better to try to do good deeds, or to fight the wicked? The latter is less fun but perhaps more effective

Erich Fromm once wrote a book called Fear Of Freedom. Here David Graeber relates some of Fromm's ideas to the modern world of work.

The Humanoid Robot Beauty Limit legislation of 2033, making it illegal to manufacture or own a robot more attractive than a 20th-percentile human

postmodern monetary theory

we should be trying to build the kind of society where “AI is going to do all of our jobs” is exciting, something to be celebrated

hypothesising a second, shadow personality who has only those memories that the daylight self has forgotten

generative AI, sure but what about subtractive AI

fuck the conservative techbros for appropriating good fictional words for their shitty products if Elon still had the capacity to actually understand Stranger in a Strange Land he wouldn’t have called his laughable LLM Grok

they should invent a new kind of book where you buy it, and you also get the uninterrupted time and attentional capacity to actually read it

#Batteries #Cement shorturl.at/gMVVa MIT can make a type of concrete that can store and release electricity. About 5 cubic meters of the electron-conducting concrete—the volume of a typical basement wall—can hold enough energy to meet the daily needs of an average American household! Geeks rule!

Our love of hoodies with pouches just shows the innate human desire to become a marsupial

AirBnB stays as opportunities to explore different aesthetic and functional fitness landscapes

buying yourself a jetski and a lifted ute to tow it while your kids go barefoot and your grandma eats toast for dinner #politas www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

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the real challenge is solving the human alignment problem

The view from the high point of Schouten Island in Tasmania. Freycinet Peninsula in the background

Napoli => Naples in English therefore Stromboli => Strombles Gallipoli => Galliples

Useless. The most important environmental challenge for the planet is apparently less important than pleasing fossil-fuel companies www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

I drew a quoll

hot #politas take: yes, the stadium is bad because it's a waste of money but also because professional football is bad for every player living their dream, there are thousands of punters who trade participation for spectacle, who watch but don't do there are better ways to spend your weekend

civilisational epitaph: we knew what to do, but it wasn’t profitable so it was impossible

I get why people are scared of AI takeover but our societies are already subject to forces we don't control, inhuman systems whose goals ignore human and planetary flourishing

mind as a semi-random walk through messy n-dimensional embeddings

the rapture totally happened, it was just a few of us. we’re up in heaven, naked, it’s nice

Tron-friendly intersection

what painkiller do I avoid to prevent me becoming a malignant narcissist

halfway between high and low tide? call it the aquanox

sperm whales sleep vertically

an emergent superintelligence has read your work and incorporated it into its worldview and people think that's a bad thing?

a generation of young writers lost because they read harry potter too young

neither burning out, nor fading away, but a secret third thing

@seanmcarroll.bsky.social boltzmann brains, but make it poetic

The global community should force the US government to give up their naked .gov domains. The internet is not the United States.

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