Glen

Glen

@gergyl.bsky.social

Australian snow and snow weather, hydrology, climate ... other stuff. I reciprocal follow, and block abusive posters.

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Glen
@gergyl.bsky.social

'Don't be evil'. Well, initially. Look, there's all this money to be had.

Mother Jones@motherjones.com

Anthropic’s filing appears to partly walk back the co-founders’ pledge to commit 80% of their personal equity holdings in the AI startup to philanthropic causes. Those acts, the filing suggests, are “voluntary, revocable expressions” that “do not constitute binding obligations.”

motherjones.comAnthropic's founders pledged to donate most of their stock. Their IPO tells another story.The AI giant's new filing calls the promise a "revocable," nonbinding "expression" that depends on market conditions.
Glen
@gergyl.bsky.social

Coupla misses there: NSW South Coast (most of), Townsville - Cairns (it's the dry season).

Glen@gergyl.bsky.social

Last 7 days: www.bom.gov.au/climate/rain....

Glen
@gergyl.bsky.social

Wanna be argumentative, or a mass murder apologist, or a rustedon brain-fail? Not stopping ya; that's allowed. Not listening either.

Glen
@gergyl.bsky.social

Aves!

Aves do Brasil@avesbrasil.bsky.social

Sou nordestino, nasci no interior da Bahia, a primeira vez que eu votei no Lula foi em 2002, eu tinha 6 anos, minha mãe sempre me levou pra urna pra que eu voltasse no 13. Desde muito cedo meus pais me ensinaram a ter consciência social, me ensinaram a lutar contra a pobreza e a desigualdade

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Anthony Klan
@anthonyklan.bsky.social

🚨Gina Rinehart has sought to insert herself in the Haines attack, despite being one of the nation’s biggest funders of hate. The biggest funder of both One Nation and far-right Advance refuses to say if they should tone down their hateful rhetoric... theklaxon.com.au/gzks

theklaxon.com.auHate funder Rinehart silent on violence - cites herself - The KlaxonThe biggest funder of both One Nation and far-right lobby group Advance is refusing to say whether the political entities should tone down their hateful rhetoric.
Glen
@gergyl.bsky.social

Housing crisis. Two adjacent multiple-occupancy houses being built on small lots in suburban far-western Brisbane, by a private, for-profit developer. One with (I think) 5 bedrooms, all with outside doors, the other 4; shared facilities. Local word is 'for NDIS'. Could be, I guess; 'group home'?

Glen
@gergyl.bsky.social

Neither for nor against here, just interested. Guess there's a large market for this style of accommodation. Fair way from services though. There is a bus, supermarket, walking distance; medical centre a couple of stops on the bus.

Glen
@gergyl.bsky.social

So Anthropic is losing north of AUD$200 billion a year. That's billion, not million ... 0.2 trillion Australian dollars. 'But its revenue is growing.' Good. Maybe it has an unassailable market position, safe from competition, new entrants. Might. That's been unaccountably common among IT companies.

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Tim Lowe
@timlow3.bsky.social

Replying to @albomp.bsky.social

With respect Prime Minister. Philanthropy porn is heartwarming and satisfying. But by no means is it any way, to run a country. Society is not organised for the resources of AU to benefit the majority of Australians. In fact they are suffering to benefit a few and being told to shut up about it.

Glen
@gergyl.bsky.social

'Narrower goals'... Iran has 10 times the citizen population of Israel. It's 70 times as big. It fought wars with the Roman Empire 2000 years ago.

Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com

Iran is emerging as a key dividing line in Israel’s election, with Netanyahu pushing regime change and Eisenkot arguing for narrower goals.

bloom.bgIran Stance Splits Netanyahu and Challenger Eisenkot Before VoteFor months, Israeli opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot has pitched himself as a modest alternative to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, campaigning more on reliability than a markedly different approach to the country’s myriad security challenges.
Glen
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Jesus wept.

David Marler@qldaah.bsky.social

"Good people should be able to have weapons, bad people should have none." Premier David Crisafulli won't enrol Queensland in the national gun buyback. This year 250 guns were stolen Jan-Aug; mainly from Wide Bay–Burnett & Darling Downs where most registered firearms owners reside. #qldpol

Glen
@gergyl.bsky.social

Seriously? You're the goddam prime minister, presiding over a deliberately destroyed welfare system.

Anthony Albanese@albomp.bsky.social

The Kmart Wishing Tree Appeal is bringing a little bit of joy to Australian families doing it tough. And that’s something our whole Parliament can support.

Glen
@gergyl.bsky.social

Christ.

Philipp Krohn@philippkrohn.bsky.social

Es gibt schon grossartigen Journalismus. Auf Drilled (@amywestervelt.bsky.social) beschreibt Diana Taremwa, wie Total an einem der schönsten Orte, die ich gesehen habe, in Uganda Öl fördert und vorgibt, Biodiversitätsgewinne zu erreichen. 25 Jahre vor 2050. drilled.media/news/total-b...

drilled.mediaTotalEnergies Promises “Net Gain Biodiversity” as it Drills in Uganda’s Largest National ParkTotal claims it can make up for the biodiversity impacts of drilling in Uganda’s largest national park by preserving biodiversity elsewhere, but local advocates aren’t buying it.
Glen
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Has a banking licence, so has the same government guarantee as the others -- $250k per depositor per institution. But is presumably less secure overall.

Glen
@gergyl.bsky.social

The last time an Australian bank went belly-up, no one noticed. The government 'persuaded' the Commonwealth Bank to buy it out (BankWest in 2008).

Glen
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I guess Canada is closer, but not understanding why you would buy any Yank-made vehicles at all. Australia barely does now – about 2.5% of sales. (Ford utes still have a slice of the market here, but local stock is made in Thailand, and in China!)

RIDGE@1av8ter.bsky.social

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Tim White
@twmcltd.bsky.social

Replying to @twmcltd.bsky.social

On the battlefield, Russia's made another entry into its Top 10 days of losses during the entire war. Another 1,990 sacrificial pieces of meat in the last 24 hours, taking October's total to 6th place with 6 days to go. It will absolutely smash the all-time monthly losses total.

Glen
@gergyl.bsky.social

Why are Victorians convinced that they were badly governed during COVID ... and *still* hold a grudge against Labor for that? The data doesn't much support such a position: x.com/Gergyl/statu.... Everyone was still learning.

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Dr Jeremy Walker
@jeremywalker.bsky.social

“The principal purpose of Carbon Capture & Storage has never been to tackle the climate crisis. Instead, CCS serves to align public opinion & government policies with the fossil fuel industry’s plans for unrestricted expansion under the cover of “net-zero". www.nationalobserver.com/2022/04/06/o...

nationalobserver.comLessons from Australia show CCUS is about capturing public opinion and public finances, not carbonExperience from Australia shows the CCUS technology was not designed to contribute meaningfully to emissions reductions.
Dan Ilic@danilic.bsky.social

This is where the “capture and storage” plant that we were promised that has NEVER worked

Glen
@gergyl.bsky.social

Why are Victorians convinced that they were badly governed during COVID ... and *still* hold a grudge against Labor for that? The data doesn't much support such a position: x.com/Gergyl/statu.... Everyone was still learning.

Glen
@gergyl.bsky.social

'Invaders'.

Resist 🕎🍉@antizionistjew.bsky.social

#BREAKING | Settlers are establishing 8 new illegal outposts at the area of Hebron in the West Bank "in response to the Palestinian shooting attack" last week

Glen
@gergyl.bsky.social

Do hope he works at this, from day one. He's a very old man.

Glen@gergyl.bsky.social

Going to be close. If hold a position of power ANYWHERE, it's your job to promote successors — not one, several, and not by grooming, endorsing; by developing, mentoring, exposing. As a company board member it was one of my top-list questions: what's our leadership succession plan. Lula's a fail.

Glen
@gergyl.bsky.social

It's an interesting question, how nuggets like this form, geologically. Big lump, neatly rounded, so alluvial, after an even bigger lump? But it's quite soft, easily worked ... why not destroyed by stream power? Crazily heavy, so sinks among other stones, gets protected somehow?

ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au

Amateur prospector discovers gold nugget worth $150,000 on outback station

abc.net.auAmateur prospector finds $150,000 gold nugget in outback A Broken Hill prospector searching for gold was about to finish up for the day when there was a faint signal on his metal detector and he hit paydirt.
Glen
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Can also get rounded nodules in some soils, produced by nucleation and long chemical precipitation. Something like that? Gold is soluble in a few rare chemistries. Somehow created, naturally?

Glen
@gergyl.bsky.social

"Sykes–Picot in a glass," Colum McCann. (An ice cube, in Irish whiskey, in a colonial hotel in post-apartheid Cape Town. "All the straight edges...")