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Vision Zero? Remove all car money from Road Safety Research. Why on earth are we interviewing the "Australian Automobile Association managing director" as if he is a good guy in this story? @news.abc.net.au www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

Hmmm Brisbane rates as the 14th most congested city on the 2025 INRX index. Maybe that’s what you get when you keep thinking expanding roads for driving fixes traffic…

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10... Glad this report has been handed out. The findings aren’t a surprise. Hopefully action will be taken to address the pretty glaring flaws in the approach.

Love this!!

For Helen...

Can I have Levenshtein distances back? Isn't the typo "somehitng" a Levenshtein distance of 2 away from "something"

Helen Haines is the most generous and kind person - a woman of warmth and great personal integrity.

We had 4mm of light rain overnight. Because drivers are so bad, the weather bureau puts out a "Road Weather Alert" to say "wet roads can be slippery". Car culture meets toddlerism.

Do we owe each other anything as members of the same society? This is the first question we have to ask ourselves if we want to understand inequality.

It won't kill you, or humanity, to get off the AI upgrade treadmill

When your house is on fire, the last thing you want to hear when you call the emergency line is "Your call is very important to us, but our firefighting team is unavailable right now; we'll put your request on the backlog, sort it by priority, and get to it at the first available opportunity. 1/6

Thread: Each week I run a simulation of Australia’s main electricity grid using rescaled generation data to show that it can get very close to 100% renewable electricity with 24GW/120GWh of storage (5 hrs at av demand) Results: Last week: 100.0% RE Last 268 weeks: 98.5% RE (1/5)

Bricks rock.

Character is still losing $9 million a month AFTER - laying off employees - making its model worse on purpose to be cheaper - moving to open source models - adding usage limits - spamming ads in its product - adding new in-app paid products

I have no words for this sh!t Come on! Let's do what we can to prevent this from becoming any sort of normal. act.getup.org.au/s/l1zdRt3r

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Don't know about you, but I think it is about time for a diplomatic spat.

Wow a video about the birth of the "Stop de Kindermoord" (Stop the child murder) group. I had seen short excerpts of this, but never the entire video! Automatic translation of the Dutch captions is just about good enough to get the general story here, I think. youtu.be/tDQVlVCh4mM?...

My god. A Virginia data center ran backup diesel generators full blast for 24 hours, creating a giant cloud of toxic smoke that choked its human neighbors. The government claimed there was nothing they could do.

OP-ED: “Removing Toronto's bike lanes puts children's health at risk.” Actually, well documented evidence shows that EVERYONE is put at risk. And it costs EVERYONE. “The Ford government decision to tear up bike-lanes is bad for kids, families, cyclists, drivers, taxpayers & the planet.” And more.

"hype [is] an ordinary, structural mechanism for extracting short-term profit"

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Understatement of the year: "...economic costs of wealth taxation, in terms of migration and firm investment, are more limited than the public debate implies."

The Association for Human Mathematics (AHM) statement on OpenAI’s October 6 release of mathematical documents just dropped! www.ahmath.org/statements

Dark side of the moon, Pink Floyd (1973)

Great news that High Court has ruled Scope 3 emissions (exported carbon pollution) must be considered in new environmental approvals for coal mines. I’ve moved two Bills in the Parliament to that effect, both times rejected by the enviro-vandals in the ALP and LNP #auspol

OpenAI is giving off real Syndrome vibes. When everyone's a Maths Genius, no one will be.

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Well, stop posting such interesting papers then, will you?!

Our built infrastructure robs kids of their freedom of independent mobility. Streets are dominated by oversized vehicles, piloted by aggressive and distracted drivers where one mistake can turn lethal. We sacrificed child development to subsidize the auto industry.

I can't stop thinking how wrong the tech bros have understood creativity and creators. Or even just having hobbies. #erliart

Opting out of all the ways that the major tech companies can infiltrate our lives is difficult, but not impossible. Let us know where you’re starting from today, and take the month to seek more privacy from the tools you use. www.eff.org/pages/welco...