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New figures in - Australians still hate Trump's USA, but like Canada live.thepoint.com.au

The Great Gas Giveaway just hit $78billon. And look, tbf, the gas companies are doing it tough. The government choosing to not do a 25% tax on gas exports is only fair - not like there are any needs currently being unmet... health, education, care, poverty, disability... live.thepoint.com.au

“a billionaire tax could scare billionaires away” oh no so it’s a win-win?

One of those "oh things are improving... wait, WTUF, the gap is that big?" graphs

Googling Tony Blair Arms Deal to find out what the deal is with those arms

If just 600 more people had been unemployed out of a labour force of 15.55m, it would have risen to 4.7%

Highest unemployment for 5 years? RBA happy.

Stop calling it a climate problem. Call it what it is: organized greed. The planet isn’t dying. It’s being killed for profit. The killers have names. And boardrooms. #ClimateJustice #StopEcocide

Hard not to see AI companies talk of needing a slowdown as just "please governments, enforce something so we can use it as a legal excuse for getting out of the massive financing hole we are in"

This is sewer-level stuff from Littleproud.

1987. Bowie was a voracious reader all his life, & travelled with a 'capsule library' including old favourites & new books. Marilyn Monroe had done similar

And that's a huge change! It's going to change a lot of things. But the most visible and impactful change to most people is that we'll all suffer way way more fraud Still zero reason to believe it'll cure cancer or figure out interstellar travel.

I keep seeing AI described as a massive shift in the nature of humanity and our understanding of consciousness But when I look at how good these new models are at hacking, I think oh we've basically just built the computer equivalent of the machine gun.

it's probably worth noting that the guys who 'grew up' instead of obsessing over their 'right' to be bigots still have vibrant careers doing what they love. meanwhile, there's Graham.

Dolly Parton: the American Diogenes

Ben-Gvir's AI-generated ad for a fucking concentration camp is one of the worst things I've ever seen (I admit I've had that thought a lot recently!). If you're still supporting these pricks, or haven't opened your mouth against them, your cowardice/evil has no limit, no red line

Haha, a more fitting logo for Google.

The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the seventh richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

Spreading the pain…

Really good work by Alan Kohler (and yes he does use a couple of my grpahs) www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFlg...

next-level bet-hedging there, Google.

Optimus Prime via Peter Cullen was a proxy father figure to a generation of well-meaning little dudes that heard him say on the regular things like"freedom is the right of all sentient beings" and took it seriously. Plus, ya know, he turned into a truck. RIP to a real one.

Lawyers Say Andrew Tate Rented Brother To Appear Loved Online

Keep yourselves safe from the 40 visiting IDF soldiers running in the marathon, Sydney. I'd avoid visiting hospitals if you can, they like to blow those up. Ditto for mosques. Same for Australian war cemeteries. And it probably goes without saying, but keep your kids well away.

I'm sorry what

"Millions delay or skip appointments as specialist care become too expensive for many Australians – new research" by @lukeslawomirski.bsky.social australiainstitute.org.au/post/million...

When I see someone characterize cis men disrupting and harassing women’s basketball players as “protecting” women’s sports, I think about how last year at a women’s soccer game some young men behind me paid for tickets just to heckle the women on the field. It’s all blatantly misogynistic.

Dolly Parton spent 80 years proving you could have big hair, a bigger heart, a brilliant mind and absolutely no patience for anyone who underestimated you. She gave us unforgettable songs, free books for millions of children, and enough wit, rhinestones and kindness to light up Tennessee.

One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.

The most racist, bigoted person you've seen on your timeline who regularly calls for the government to slash funding for charitable causes: "Genuine tears for Dolly Parton passing. She stood for so much."

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library gifted more than 332,000,000 books since it was first created 31 years ago.

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

[Exit Queen.]

we lost an actual saint

Between The Shot's story about explosives sent to Israel, Deepcut's story about Bisalloy Steel's role, plus all the F-35 parts, I can't help wondering how much of Australia's manufacturing is geared entirely towards facilitating the genocide... Remember when we made fkn cars?!

Just remember it's wages *expectations* that the RBA is worried about. And poor Ampol had no choice but to charge higher prices and have profits go up 376%. Good thing it only cost the govt $3.3bn to artificially lower petrol prices, no one else had any need of that money...

Please don't fall into the trap of defending a terrible government just because Dave Hughes is a fucken idiot. That's the play. It's easy to ridicule a cooked petty bourgeois landlord who doesn't understand anything without defending genocidally complicit ghouls. I just did. See.

Again, if you owe a woman $5 million dollars for sexual assault, you also owe the country your resignation.

One of my less popular beliefs is that you aren't serious about dealing with the problem of our big tech oligarchy if you completely disregard capital punishment for C-suites and founders. Thiel, Zuckerberg and Musk are all guilty of treason by any reasonable definition.

The cuts to the NDIS will destroy lives. My guess is a Royal Commission into abuse and neglect of people with disabilities in... ohh 2032 www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

bookmarking to say that if Minns lets this happen the armed guards will at some point injure and kill locals and call it self-defence. This is something colonisers invariably do. Our politicians are actively importing an additional form of colonialism.

Under the current forecasts, by the end of 2028 real wages will on average be the value they were at the end of 2011. But yeah, gotta keep those wage growth expectations down, don't we RBA! www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

Has any algorithm used in care work *not* lead to abuses and neglect?

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A heated debate over the Epstein files is making waves online 🔥