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i am inviting anyone from a legacy media organization to explain to me why the house judiciary dems report on trump’s epstein’s ties and multiple allegations of rape isn’t worthy of extensively reporting on. i’m serious. i want to understand.

YES. JESUS CHRIST YES. ITS ONLY BEEN AROUND 3 YEARS. WE DON'T NEED IT. www.techspot.com/news/114234-...

The Midterms

We need to give more appreciation to the people who wrote walkthroughs for GameFAQs. They wrote hundreds of pages, often including their own ASCII art, for no monetary compensation whatsoever. They just wanted to help us through games.

It's a good point but to be clear, a pass mark is zero stars. This is a chart of how villainous the USA was/is under each of these men are and the answer for all of them is: very.

Anthropic is out with new nonsense about Claude (or the collection of models called Claude) deserving moral consideration and/or be able to feel distress, so my inbox is filling up with journos asking me to comment. I've also got a day job, so here is a brief set of public comments on this: >>

Old mate is always on some bullshit. Keep up with The Chaser by subscribing to our free newsletter: chaser.com.au/weakly

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

We don’t think the case for this has been made. One constant in the global history of policing is that every weapon given to cops, they will eventually use. Therefore, every force escalation requires compelling justification.

"It's a carbon copy of a policy spearheaded by wildly popular New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani, who is piloting five city-owned grocery stores with the same objective." Journalists thinking Mamdani invented socialism six months ago is extremely embarrassing.

Holy shit.

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

“Australia’s interest rate rise is the wrong medicine and an even worse alibi” Yanis Varoufakis www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

the only time murdoch press would ever give mamdani credit is when they are using it to attack a woman of colour

The rest of the world: we're not sitting through a speech from a racist genocidal maniac in return for a pat on the head from fascist child rapist. Australia, Canada, and England: how many pats on the head are we talking?

RBA doing little dances today - happy that more people will live in poverty on Jobseeker www.abs.gov.au/media-centre...

Breaking news: AFL confirms you're allowed to punch people if it's a Prelim Final after a compelling and completely rules-based "come ooooooon. It's a Grand Fiiiiiiiinal" defence from Brisbane. #afl #grandfinal #football #aussierules #footy #sport

Haven't seen a better AI explainer than this one (even if it somewhat overstates the AI safety stuff) www.instagram.com/reel/Ddlt1kR...

Hey, I notice you're trying to influence political candidates during an election. That's really inconvenient, politically speaking. Wouldn't it be better to wait until after the election, when the candidate has everything they need from you, and you have zero leverage?

Ed "pro-genocide" Sheeran? Never really understood the hype. Seems like there are dozens of equally or more talented musicians who do basically the same style of music but don't have a tenth of the fame of Ed "pro-genocide" Sheeran. I guess Ed "pro-genocide" Sheeran just got lucky.

Just Ms.Rachel spreading Ed Sheeran for filth

At $9 billion per obsolete boat only the UK arms dealer making them thinks the Hunter frigate is a good idea. We should scrap them now before billions more are wasted. The only naval ships that cost more anywhere on the planet are nuclear powered aircraft carriers.

"Despite growing backlash from our billionaire owners."

Thing about technology that actually does make life better is you don't need to write 1,437 different op-eds to try to persuade people that it will make your life better.

...good?

The RBA, 3 years late to the party, last week confirmed profits drove the sky high inflation in 2022. In 2023 they attacked our research, & briefed media companies about how we were wrong. I guess they'll apologise now? Me for @thepointau.bsky.social thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

The Australian Bureau of Statistics isn't doing the thing that tells us if the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. I'm sure this is for perfectly incident reasons and not because there's something rich people don't want us to know.

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Just remember, the Reserve Bank is worried that wages might grow too fast and cause inflation

Dolly Parton was the only rich person to ever use her money the way the media says rich people use their money

Whether it’s Pete Hegseth overseeing missile depletion, food shortages, and sailor suicide attempts or Lloyd Austin being Black, both secretaries of defense have angered portions of the electorate.

If you’re grabbed by someone wearing “shock gloves”…your body may convulse involuntarily. It could look like you’re resisting arrest when in reality, you’re in medical distress. The appearance of resistance will embolden ICE to use lethal force. These gloves will kill people.

I enjoyed this. ordinaryabundance.com

I haven't announced this until now, but I have a website. It's still under development, so I've been reluctant to share. However, I think it will be perpetually under development - so you may as well know about it ... sandyhornephoto.com

The unhinging continues

They never cared about women’s sports before it became politically convenient. Equal pay? Pfffft. Rampant sexual abuse? Sorry that keeps happening. An excuse to attack a tiny population of vulnerable transgender athletes? “PROTECT WOMENS’ SPORTS!”

The only responsible attitude for liberals and progressives to align on is that all right-wing grievances, claims and believes are not only false, but malicious lies. Nothing passes the mouth of an American conservative in public life that is not meant to harm and destroy the lives of millions.

These "we have made an AI so powerful" warnings are straight-up advertisements, btw. No different than "we have made an Oreo so delicious all other snack artists must relent."

the thing about having actual principles is that when a politician I respect does some stupid shit I can just be like, “that sucks, knock it off” instead of inventing an imaginary world where I’m forced to defend stupid shit for procedural 4d chess reasons

Adelaide Coach Matthew Nicks re: booing a player who's been the victim of a homophobic slur: "the game's a passionate game, and sometimes we lose our way in that a little." Weak as piss. The Adelaide supporters who booked are bigots and cowards. Call them that or you're no better. #afl

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

A lot of people don’t realize the dust bowl wasn’t a natural phenomenon. It happened when agrobusiness interests dramatically transformed the plains without regard for drought, and created vicious dust storms that choked whole families to death. That’s what I think of when I read about data centers.

I have been expressing desire for an app that alerts me to the presence of pervert glasses in my vicinity. It exists and it's called Nearby Glasses! Immediate download.

"We’re helpless to do anything but start charging three bucks a litre. It’s simple maths, any economist will tell you." theshovel.com.au/2026/07/14/t...

Lindsey Graham was a simple, tragic man to understand. He lacked a moral core. The great empty spaces of his life were filled with an insatiable need for “relevance.” He found it as a cast member in the most malignant reality show ever made. steveschmidt.substack.com/p/lindsey-kn...