Darrel Mc

My @deepcutnews.bsky.social column - in the late 1970s neoliberal con artists unleashed their cancer in to society. Fuck them and the horse they rode on. www.deepcutnews.com/p/neoliberal...

Why does the US get to unilaterally approve launching a mirror to create "Sunlight on demand"? theconversation.com/the-u-s-just...

A message for the class of 2026: We need more friction!

The Government™ has made an ad about Palantir, and it's surprsingly honest and informative.

“The average NSW resident is already $20,000 a year worse off because of historical climate change, and economic modelling suggests future global warming will further squeeze household budgets through a double whammy of lost wages and higher grocery bills.” www.smh.com.au/environment/...

@albomp.bsky.social is handing over our water to voracious psycho capitalists who will bleed our waterways dry & push up electricity costs! Why do these #LimpDick fuckers keep handing over our democracy to the worst of society! Time to #RegulateAINOW!!! Not when it's too fucking late! #auspol

Subí esto a un Reddit de memes de El Señor de los Anillos y me complace informar que la respuesta ha dicho abrumadoramente positiva.

“In 20 years of working in the sector I have never seen a University Council member come to a department meeting, sit in on a lecture, talk to students, or address a public forum.” satpa.pe/DxrLAvx

Hawai’i just passed a bill that undermine Citizens United. The bill establishes corporations as “artificial persons” without the right to spend money on elections. The bill could limit the influence of super PACs and be a model to challenge the influence of money in politics.

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

JUST DO THIS, AUSTRALIA!!! "Australia is one of only a few high-income nations in the world that does not provide children with a free meal at school each day."

You belong here @kylebrandtsky.bsky.social

Out-of-control blaze at one of Australia’s two remaining oil refineries in Geelong

Amazon reportedly failed to create any new jobs at its HQ2 in Virginia last year, despite millions of state tax incentives. The company has cut 30,000 jobs since last October — while saving $4 billion in taxes under Trump's Big Ugly Bill. Trickle-down economics is a hoax.

Read the room, von der Leyen.

The Australian government have decided not to pursue membership of the European Southern Observatory, the world’s largest astronomy organisation and one where membership was the main request of the decadal review. What are we going to do?

Just 1 example of the kind of thing unis are getting for their massive spend on consultants. ANU spent $6k on a "non-significant meeting" with a reputation management firm at which apparently no one took a note. That's more than a tutor gets for a semester's work thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

people simply love it when you storm out of the gates to support an illegal war, then lecture them about personal responsibility after it makes their lives worse

The AI code tsunami is already here... The software iceberg you are shipping to prod is becoming 10x bigger. And like with regular icebergs you don't see and don't know the biggest and the most dangerous part of it.

Watch this clip. Professors will recognize this kid as the student who didn't do the reading but still has very strong opinions about how it's all "bullshit," except this time he's not the callow student who's going to fail your course, he's the reviewer who's going to cancel your grant.

Name the perpetrators. It's not Grok. It's men.

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

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#StateOfTheNation Thank You @davidshoebridge.bsky.social way too many people sexed up over Ai Data Centres without knowing the logistical and environmental impacts they will have. a #VoiceOfReason for the Nation 🙏 #AusPol #BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor #AiData youtu.be/KWGtsULfDJU?...

Just caught up with Anthony Albanese and Chris Minnsanyahu hobnobbing it with Lachlan Murdoch and his gang of rwnj’s at the Sky News rebrand to News24. The Australian Labor Party is cooked. Money, mining and maaates. They’re just as bad as the conservative side of politics.

Prof Lyon explains with examples the “huge” benefit #Big4 receive A company with $100 reward could ‘become extinct’ when sanctioned, while a Big4 firm with $2.5Bill profits is paying just $1mill in costs This while paying No corporate income or payroll tax💥 It’s a farce #auspol

I would happily watch a full 2hr version of this than anything made with genAI

Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.

“Cuts at CSIRO simply shift the cost to the Australian Government into paying another provider. And when there is no other organisation that can provide scientific expertise at the same level, then the costs will go up and the quality will go down.” satpa.pe/I4oZaxk

Five times higher at least! #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The CIA scrubbing the World Factbook from the web may not seem like a big deal in itself, but it's a symptom of something larger: the Trump administration's war on government usefulness. My latest at Public Notice: www.publicnotice.co/p/cia-world-...

NSW Police have proven themselves unfit to hold their standard powers, time and time again. Their punishment for case after case of incompetence, corruption and misuse of their current powers is . . . more powers. #NSWPol #AusPol

Worth keeping a close watch on this 👇

"in 2025, corporate profits surged by 18%, while real wages grew by just 1.2%. The RBA’s response? Raise interest rates again, ensuring that the pain of inflation is borne not by those who caused it, but by those who can least afford it."

I’m not gonna cop this. I want to see the dick pic that doesn’t exist cause I’ve never ever sent one. If Dave Hooper and friends don’t pull the thread I will take legal action cause I’m just not gonna let this utter garbage ride. You have 18hrs!!.. Ian

"... in tough times, the United States often puts its own interests before its promises..." No. The US has *never* required 'tough times' to make those rationalisations. Through the 90s, I followed Agro-economic AU news. The US repeated f*cked AU with every slight blip of a grain price on the NYSE.

If we let CSIRO and public research wither, we make it easier for the loudest and richest voices to define “truth”. I wrote about it here.👇🏽 www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/science...