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Sometimes it just dawns on me how deeply weird and wild this situation is. A company making a crappy, unchecked and badly designed product, but thanks to pre-existing science fiction narratives they can aggressively tout their own failures and inadequacies as reasons for self-regulation

UK looking to give carmakers incentives to turn EVs into ‘power plants on wheels’ V2G tech enables drivers to charge automatically when electricity is cheaper and then sell some back to the grid at times of high demand www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The circular funding model continues apace www.cnbc.com/2026/10/27/n...

That’s a lot of wanker packed into one headline

I don't understand why more roofs aren't white, let alone covered in radiative-cooling paint.

House Dems Report: “A growing body of evidence demonstrates Trump was an active participant in Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the 1990s. The DOJ & FBI are doing everything they can to keep the 🇺🇸 people in the dark about it.” The report: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

1/ Saturday's Ukrainian attack on Omsk in Siberia, at a distance of over 2,500 km, is causing fresh angst among Russian warbloggers over the poor performance of Russia's air defences. "[We're being hit] further and deeper," one complains. ⬇️ bsky.app/profile/kyiv...

So the gist here seems to be that two political advisors in Netanyahu’s inner circle have a comms business and are working to encourage far right politics in Europe & steer economic dealings at national levels. In consort with Axel Springer (Germany’s Murdoch) & with tech fash.

Dutch company Nico De Bont uses a cargo bike to navigate around their worksite. They specialize in restoration of historical monuments and know that a cargo bike is a tool of the trade that provides great utility without the excess in size.

When public servants give evidence in a public hearing, about jobs that the public pays them to do, their answers should be direct, unambiguous, and detailed. That is the contract between the public and government. Any suggestion otherwise goes against that agreement.

Besides being racist and false, this suggests science is only carried out by a few geniuses who claim prizes, whereas in reality science relies on smart and diligent people committed to collaboration and discovery without special recognition.

"Anthropic model accessed voter information" Yes the info is publicly available (for a fee) but "the model bypassed a paywall in accessing the information, according to Georgia officials and Anthropic." www.axios.com/2026/10/25/a...

PHON & LNP will dutifully complete the work of fossil fuel sponsored #AtlasNetwork think-tanks that spunoff Advance to kill the Voice referendum, then offshore wind, now the Vic govts clean energy rollout & VNI-West project. All this racism is cultivated solely to protect Big Fossil power & profit.

As First Nations spokesperson for the Greens I'm deeply concerned that the NT Govt has cancelled funding to the Bush Bus and cut whole communities off - I'm calling on the Federal Government to follow this up and do whatever possible to make sure people aren't just stranded.

Off the charts Trump family corruption. Kushner got Billions of foreign funds, while spearheading foreign policy. And the Hunter Biden hunters are silent. @MarshaBlackburn

In addition to two fascists losing elections in Serbia and Brazil yesterday, Oxford Street in London was closed to vehicular traffic and transformed into a pedestrian zone. 🥳

It’s going to be interesting to watch many Americans come to terms with the fact that Netanyahu is not The Only Problem

But China…

New car prices average $50,000, gas is at an all time high, and many Americans are forced into car dependency. In-office requirements are a tax on the working class.

Well will you look at that. The group supposedly run by a John Grimwade (which seems to have people auditing media & commerce so they can flag anything annoying the pro-Israel far right) is setting up a campaign against ABC’s Raf Epstein. #Auspol

This is such a brutal review: "Of all the books I have ever reviewed that purported to offer a serious thesis, this is without question the most deranged. If you are seeking a Christmas present for someone you really don’t like, give them a copy." www.telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fi...

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Some unhinged comments and quote posts on this. Machine learning with artificial neural networks has transformed the environmental sciences, and rightly deserved the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics. This isn’t using a chatbot to predict hurricanes.

1/ Russia is developing the capability to launch tens of thousands of kamikaze drones against European cities such as Paris, says a Russian drone developer. He describes heavy long-range drones such as the Iranian Shahed and Russian Geran as "a new weapon of deterrence". ⬇️

Just out of frame of this lifted monstrosity are dozens of children playing in a public space. A grown man is cutting through a plaza just to peacock, yet the biggest safety panic in our city right now is about e-bikes.

To be fair, the teacher might have been perplexed if she’d described her daughter as an outside-the-box thinker with great synergies who’s hitting all her KPIs.

cool, cool

Every AI grifter needs to be put in a secure lab facility and studied to make sure future generations don’t end up like them.

Our country stands at a critical crossroads. Change must occur - but what kind of change? And crucially, for who? I'm presenting our alternative vision for this country at the National Press Club this Wednesday, 12:30pm AEDT. Tune in live on ABC TV & iView.

Congrats to Lula on overcoming Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump to defeat Hospital Pervert Jr., even as his opposition literally blocked off roads and turned off bus service during election day. Fascists are scary but they are always, 100% of the time, ultimately gigantic fucking losers.

We are sensing a pattern

The Pentagon has quietly created a secretive agency, the Technology Support Office, to develop cyberattacks, supply-chain sabotage and deception tactics aimed at slowing adversaries’ military technology programs, Politico reports. No doubt to be used against Europe and Canada

Metallica's frontman, James Hetfield, proudly proclaims that his band is apolitical...

Control of our money, control of our politics, control of our thoughts, control of our lives. They represent The Wizard of Oz behind the curtain times a billion. The internet instantly changed for the better after Zelenskyy bombed those bot-farm data centers. The truth was revealed for all to see.

Everyone knew he was lying. It's literally ALL he does. But the fact that the people who swore an oath to protect us went along with his obvious bullshit and arrested people who clearly had done absolutely nothing wrong is unforgivable. They should ALL be held accountable.

I'm more convinced than ever that Trump has consistently sold out Ukraine because of this....and probably much more.

My tribute.

Let's make this the best #caturday ever!

Always.

We have allowed ourselves to become desensitized to the murder of children in American schools.

And yet they constantly claim that WE'RE the hateful ones.

It absolutely blows my mind that this hasn't happened yet. Not only because it is what any decent human being should do, but because the person saying it would be regarded as a hero by millions for the rest of their lives. Seems like a good trade-off for losing their precious 'access'.

I mean, he was once was a 'libertarian rapper' who called himself 'Da Vek'. That should really be all you need to know. But he still gets up every day and tries to prove himself to be a bigger joke than the day before...and he always succeeds in that task.

It's wild that they will get any votes at all.

This statement was designed by the President of the USA and his advisors (most obviously Stephen Miller) to inspire harassment and possibly violence against the 260,000 Somalis living in the US. 90% of whom are US citizens. How is this OK? How does THIS become just another stupid thing Trump said?

Remember when a President dementedly waffling on about people's asses in a public speech would have provoked instant and profound condemnation and deep concern from all sides of the political spectrum, on a global level?....me neither.

Vivek Ramaswamy’s ad targeting Amy Acton’s childhood sexual abuse backfired. It prompted Ohio’s largest newspaper, The Plain Dealer, to reverse its policy on political endorsements and endorse Acton for governor.