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• Post #4130538

  First one I’ve seen in the wild. Looks like dogshit.

• Post #4105741

  Dario Amodei’s chief of economics says Dario Amodei has been lying for the last four years and AI isn’t displacing any jobs at all. https://fortune.com/2026/07/24/anthropic-peter-mccrory-dario-amodei-why-hasnt-it-killed-jobs/

• Post #4087723

  South Australia’s PEAK electricity demand was in 2025, when it reached 3.3 GW. Ping @davidgerard@circumstances.run Firmus, a datacenter company which owns zero datacenters, has been sprinkling council development approvals around Australia like confetti. One of them asks if it can build a 1 GW facility at Tailem Bend. Not only has Firmus never built any datacenters before, but nobody in the world has ever built a 1 GW datacenter. A 1 GW facility requires scalable solutions to engineering prob...

• Post #3944611

  RE: https://rssfeed.media/@abcfeeds/116949162635227689 Jailmaxxing.

• Post #3870850

  Sydney. Each dot is the geotag coordinates extracted from the EXIF data on a photo. Blue dots are photos taken by people whose photos have EXIF data which predominantly indicates they live in Sydney. Red dots are photos taken by people whose photos have EXIF data which predominantly indicates they’re visiting. Yellow dots are where it’s not possible to conclusively determine whether the photographer is local or a tourist. Red patches on the map are places where tourists take lots of photos....

• Post #3693014

  Absolutely not. I'll just have to try to struggle on without reading your substack while you ram it firmly up your ass. Thanks.

• Post #3688805

  Having a negative impression of Israel is not antisemitism, my dear antisemitism royal commissioner. I have a very negative impression of Israel, a country that has spent decades voting for a government of genocidal maniacs who have attempted to eradicate the Palestinian people and who, due to their actions against Iran, threaten global stability. Is that antisemitic? My suggestion for parts of the Jewish community who are suffering from this "perception": Grow up.

• Post #3602279

  First hone buyers aren't biting *yet*. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jul/04/australia-property-market-transforming-first-home-buyers-cold-feet It's actually okay to wait until landlord-investors feel pain. Nobody needs to rush, the houses will still be there next year.

• Post #3554726

  Australia is unfathomably wealthy, and anyone who claims our society can’t have all the good things it wants (even Melbourne airport rail!) should be laughed out of the room. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-02/ubs-global-wealth-report-australia-millionaires/106869298

• Post #3465147

  It is not antisemitic to publish news coverage of a genocide without also covering the genocider’s emotional state. This is one of the clearest examples yet of the conflation of anti-Zionism with antisemitism: Jews weren’t annihilating Gaza, Israel was. Why on earth should it be necessary to sympathize with the State aggressor to avoid charges of antisemitism? https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-29/bondi-antisemitism-social-cohesion-royal-commission-resumes/106819456

• Post #3446707

  The Golden Barley is charging $2 extra for mash and veg if you order steak. Does that pass the pub test?

• Post #3441087

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116821762943906148 A golf cart is a street legal electric buggy designed for luxury resorts which costs less than US$25,000. They’ve reinvented the golf cart, but made it worse.

• Post #3389021

  What a curious headline. Who else would pay it? https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/24/ai-data-centers-tech-companies-congress-energy-costs.html When I’ve built datacenters, I’ve had to budget for upgrades to nearby substations and transmission lines needed to get power to them. In Australia we call it the “augmentation fee.” It would surprise me if there wasn’t a similar principle in North America.

• Post #3380546

  If the only thing that made them valuable was tax policy, maybe they weren’t as successful as you think, fellas.

• Post #3368407

  I’m sure they got all of it. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jun/22/almost-three-tonnes-of-cocaine-found-buried-under-sydney-property-in-australias-biggest-ever-seizure-police-say

• Post #3364946

  This project was a stupid Turnbull thought bubble. Everyone with an ounce of engineering clue knew it was doomed before it was announced, but Turnbull had a rationality distortion field around him that made politicians and journalists (only) think it was a good idea. Nobody who isn’t a politician or journalist has ever given a flying fuck about Snowy 2.0, and the fact that it’s a failed project that’ll cost gazillions isn’t even making the public genuinely upset. The best thing we can do with...

• Post #3359941

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116782160610816863 Get the calipers out, the UK is doing phrenology again. The last shred of British decorum and modesty only continues to exist because nobody has drawn a pseudoscience link between criminality and dick and ball size.

• Post #3354306

  Can we stop pretending Victoria is a “progressive stronghold?” It’s basically a police state. It’s exactly the kind of environment One Nation will thrive in. (If Labor could stop building the enforcement and sustainment infrastructure for future fascism, that’d be AMAZING, thank you) https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-12/one-nation-rise-hung-parliament-possibility-victorian-election/106787500

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• Post #3315022

  AI stops being a tool and starts being an employee as soon as it gets so expensive that Forbes readers want to get rid of it.

• Post #3299614

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@David_Hollingworth/116736130234276346 Politicians always say they’re hacked when the real problem is they don’t know how to computer.

• Post #3251058

  Oh fuck off, Julie. https://social.chinwag.org/@abc_bot/116724377754041568

• Post #3218327

  Barbecues Nomore. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-09/barbeques-galore-to-close-62-stores-to-wind-up-within-weeks/106777092

• Post #3193649

  Silicon Valley drone startup Shield AI just can’t stop cutting peoples’ fingers off. https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/drone-crashes-severed-fingers-13-billion-silicon-valley-military-startup-2026-06-05/

• Post #3193648

  RE: https://cosocial.ca/@dyckron/116700051523289401 Gonna assume they had at least SOME oxygen.

• Post #3193647

  Back in Sydney.

• Post #3193646

  A cockroach breeder? Seriously? https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jun/05/live-cockroaches-seized-nsw-breeder-australia

• Post #3193645

  The trip home compared to the trip out two days ago: Chalk and cheese. There's a big high pressure system over Victoria at the moment. High pressure systems typically create mild and stable conditions; Those warm windless days of blue-sky sunshine in winter are almost all under the influence of a high. Today's QNH was 1031 hPa. "Standard atmosphere" is 1013.2 hPa. On Friday the freezing level was about 4500' AMSL. Today it was above 10,000'....

• Post #3193644

  Griffith, descent from 7000.

• Post #3193643

  1033.4 hPa. Lovely day for it.