Jamie Hall

Inner West Greens are hosting a meeting to “force a grassroots planning process” on a DA to replace ten $3m houses with 156 apartments near the new Dulwich Hill Metro station. Metro, light rail, the Greenway. It may be one of the best places for more housing in the city!

For the first time ever, batteries storing cheap solar energy overtook expensive gas during the afternoon peak, in the last three months.  The Coalition today committed to scrapping this policy that has helped so many Australians with the cost of living, we're supporting it.

In Hegseth’s defence, he and his aides were extremely drunk at the time, but you won’t read that in the woke mainstream media witch hunt from journalists who don’t appreciate the warrior ethos www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Unconscionable to be on “X” at this point. Just a cesspit. Except for banking; I do my banking there & don’t see a problem.

If you…?! Motherfucker I remember All Your Base Are Belong To Us. It didn’t go viral, because nobody had invented that term yet. USA Today called it a “web fungus”

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Another adjacent @jdcmedlock.bsky.social essential hit

One thing about El-Sayed’s exchange: not that it matters what “Tommy” thinks, but Tommy is not going to be moved by an appeal to the Constitution protecting both their religious freedom for the same reason “how does it affect you in any way?” didn’t win over anti-marriage equality activists.

elon will look untouchable right up until he doesn't anymore and western governments should accelerate that day as quickly as possible

👁️👁️ www.wired.com/story/book-e...

Part of the continuing series -- ouch, Brazil.

Y’all, I hate to rain on the dead bot parade, but the Yandex data center destruction doesn’t seem to have significantly impacted social media bots. I made temporal graphs of X posts about AfD around the time of the attack and there’s no sign of a sudden dip or residual impact on that conversation.

Exciting to see this in print! It’s so good!!

This is a caricature of drive-by journalism and goes some way to explaining why so many commentators seem bewildered by the rise of One Nation. Like, if you can’t even stop the car for longer than it takes to take a photo of a spicy banner, you get very weak analysis.

The empirical evidence from Norway, and California, points in the same direction: Australia needs a wealth tax! Tax theorists will say it’s “suboptimal” but they say that about everything ✨

As I always say to my students (sometimes with this specific example) you really need to think about the size of the effect and not just the sign. “Do rich people move in response to tax increases?” is not the right question for policy. The right question is, *how much* do they move?

Gentrification level unlocked: the local smash repairs place has rebranded as a “Collision Care Centre”

🌟🎊 The Blind Date people pashed! All this week you will have good luck www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

The most important thing in the #nrlgf is that both teams have fun

This is amateurish, like a pastiche of Keynesianism frozen in 1965. And it seems to imply that the RBA should give up on using interest rates and instead focus on negotiating peace in the Middle East www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Here’s the monthly data with a 12-month trailing average, so we don’t “look ahead” of the time series. We can see that visits from Canada are substantially down. Like, a *lot*. And if we looked at the French series by itself we’d see something too. But it’s not on the scale of Covid. Yet.

If I were in charge of the central bank, I would simply set inflation to 2.5% and unemployment to zero.

The Greens have 11 federal MPs, of whom 10 are running for the party leadership

This is the far more likely pathway for how AI will end us all, btw. Not via some superintelligent swarm of paperclip maximizers, but by a cascading sequence of dumb fuckups driven by human beings who have arranged things to be fast-moving and catastrophically fragile while also being really lazy.

Robert E Lee was the most overrated general in history. Woof. towardsdatascience.com/napoleon-was...

The photo’s got him right in the middle of saying “you don’t even think to call me Godfather”

Get absolutely fucked, you boring old fart www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

The most fundamental question in politics is: whose support do you need to win and hold power? Is it warlords, aristocrats, empires or "the demos"? If the answer is "billionaires", you are not a democracy but a plutocracy. That's why democracies *must* erect barricades against capture by the rich

If Australian ABC did the CCTV New Year Gala, I’d watch

Mr The Conquerer to retain the median voter you will have to go moderate on trans rights

I am contacting William The Conqueror via ouija board to inform him his numbers are tanking

This man won his primary by 30 points.

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A fun fact I learned from this book is that the horse was originally domesticated for meat. Grass on the Steppe is often below winter snow. Cattle and sheep would starve; horses instinctively dig with their hooves. The Proto Indo-Europeans discovered they could ride them later, by accident

Apparently people from Rhode Island sound like Australians?! mydialect.us/quiz-standar...

It’s so strange whenever you see an ibis outside its natural habitat (garbage bins). Just now I watched one gliding majestically through the air on a thermal updraft. What are you doing up there, buddy?!

Large portions of the data center backlash are based on moral panic, but the the tech right VC types upset by it are very funny considering how gleeful they were about the demise of ‘legacy’ media. What’s that? You’re missing epistemic gatekeepers who would place complex facts in context? Tough shit

I was floored by the connection between J L Austin and the Butlerian Jihad

I thought I knew about Simone Weil already but learned so many new details from last week’s Runciman podcast, including: - she was a classmate of de Beauvoir’s at the ENS, and they vied for first place - her brother was Andre Weil of the Mordell-Weil theorem - name pronounced like “vie”, not “vial”