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Musk's justified DOGE with Deep State conspiracy theories. But bureaucrats are more directly accountable than contractors are, especially when those contractors own monopolies and are politically powerful. It's impossible to imagine a DOD official doing what Musk did and keeping his job.

the political part aside, it seems like a pretty big problem that a social media company controlled by a conglomerate that includes two Hollywood Studios is banning an account dedicated to a film from one of its competitors!

so restricting Ukraine's Starlink was Musk's idea, but after Moscow took advantage he became "alarmed about the possibility of adverse consumer reaction in Europe" to the "night of carnage" and denied responsibility I mean, it sounds like typical Elon

The emissions from a single coalmine expansion might not seem like a lot compared with the scale of global emissions - but every tonne of CO2 has a consequence. Here are some of them

It's not "strikingly juvenile" and it's not a "personal broadside." It's hate speech. The Vice President is trying to get people to vote against a Democrat by implying that he's gay and/or a pedophile and/or a fetishist. Take it seriously. It is on a par with every other kind of hate speech.

The next Democratic administration must nationalize SpaceX and Starlink since Musk poses a national security risk to the U.S.

New White House press secretary Katie Zacharia appears to have been a follower of QAnon figure Jon Herold (known online as "Patel Patriot"), whose "Devolution" conspiracy theory — which claimed Trump was secretly still in power — was popular within the QAnon community after Biden took office.

1. Trump’s new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia is a prolific user of Truth Social where she regularly promoted Pizzagate and QAnon conspiracies, accusing elites in the Democratic Party and Hollywood of running child sex rings and eating people.

This is how you write a headline.

This is a disaster. The ethics committee in Denmark that approved the Guinea-Bissau study which will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine “had never considered medical studies before but it changed the rules in order to vote on this one”. Four members of the committee have resigned in protest.

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

Let’s be clear. AI is not an intelligence; it’s not being trained, it doesn’t think, it doesn’t have agency, it's not gone rogue and it’s not alive. Humanising it helps Big Tech bypass laws they’ve already broken and weaken laws they’re keen to flout. Read on: thepoint.com.au/opinions/261...

Specifically, X and Meta are in essence misinformation companies. The US government is a misinformation government. Other companies and other governments are leaning that way.

imagine if the mainstream media covered Republicans' number one donor — the biggest political donor in US history! — and his controversial views with as much scrutiny as they covered Hasan Piker's

Kind of disconcerting to hear Altman say that he thinks OpenAI was going above and beyond by disclosing that his company's technology had hacked other organisations, and governments. That seems like the barest of bare minimums to me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OOH...

Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all

we have control mechanisms for this. it's called The Law. these guys should be held personally liable for these harms. the suicides, the thefts, the intrusions into computer systems. they should be sued and prosecuted as appropriate. problem immediately solved

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon. many more here: www.newscientist.com/author/tom-gauld/

My interview with Sam Matey-Coste at THE WEEKLY ANTHROPOCENE is up!!

The ability of the richest & most powerful men in the world to position themselves against "the elite" - a category that excludes the world's richest man, its biggest media magnates, the UK's richest party & the biggest donors in UK history - may be the most effective lie in modern political history

Quite incredible that the richest man on earth who has legitimately done all sorts of things from paying people to vote and purchasing media in order to twist it to his will is... claiming that Soros (who is not nearly as wealthy) has done the very things Musk absolutely does.

Exclusive: US-controlled weapons corporations and forces have control or access to more than 100 facilities across the continent, which some analysts describe as a ‘colonisation’ of Australia’s military.

Several mentions of the use of these chambers to “treat” things like adhd & autism, when they do nothing of the sort. Zero mention of the fact that this entire industry is an unregulated scam which is putting kids at risk every single day, even without the fires. I’m so angry at this framing.

Genuinely abundant, cheap, accessible energy has vastly more liberatory potential than AI, for vastly more people -- especially more poor people. Which, I guess, is your answer.

The Republic of Memory by @mahmudelsayed.bsky.social is one of the best books of 2026, and should be a strong contender for the Hugo Award next year. I wholeheartedly endorse this book. We had the chance to chat with the author about his debut novel, his influences, and about language in general.

Maybe it seems weird that AI bosses won't stop rending their garments about the terrible potential of their bots, from the jobspocalypse that'll ensue when AI does our jobs, to the impending moment when the word-guessing programs learn too many words, wake up and turn us into paperclips. 1/

Not sure why anybody in Canberra thinks they're getting those submarines.

Babies were found with dead brain tissue similar to what follows cancer and the kind of bleeding seen after a stroke. Their autopsies all came to the same conclusion: Their deaths could have been prevented with the long-standard vitamin K shot. (Published May)

Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.

Vaccine benefit in children "Since 1974, vaccination has averted 154 million deaths, including 146 million among children younger than 5 years of whom 101 million were infants younger than 1 year." www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... The most striking benefit was for vaccination vs measles (Figure)

So what if there’s a fierce backlash from ‘betting giants’? Most voters don’t want the advertising, or gamblers targeted with inducements, and the ‘product’ does nothing in terms of a productive economy or jobs. Fuck em

Trump tariffed 80 countries including Norway and New Zealand on the pretext that they use forced labor.

OK, small point here, but it’s almost certain he meant “parameters of a deal,” but he can’t spell and is very dumb, so he used “perimeters of a deal” and news orgs are just running with it like that’s a perfectly normal thing to say, which it absolutely is not. That’s not a thing anybody says.

Two years after the Prime Minister said he'd ban teens from social media, 80% of them are still on there. No policy is going to be perfect from the get go, but it's worth considering the time and effort put towards this instead of other reforms.

Absolutely nuts: Google Earth now has a feature that lets you convincingly fabricate satellite imagery www.digitaldigging.org/p/how-to-pla...

Surely the solution here is just *don't use AI tools* for your writing and research and continue to do your writing and research in ALL the ways you were doing it before you started using AI instead of doing the work??

Wait. They all shake hands at the end? What are we even doing here? He's the US President suing you for $20 billion for reporting on the birthday card he sent his friend the pedophile in which he drew a naked girl & mused about secrets. And they all shake hands?

Trump placing tariffs on nations over not dealing with the importation of products using slave and indentured labour, when US prisoners provide over 10 billion of goods and services to the US economy is a lark. Especially since their own reg system of those imports is widely considered useless.

“It will never stop pissing me off how much trump is going to walk away from this presidency as a ‘real’ billionaire in a way he never was before, and it will be solely because of the public office.” @swin24.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/swin... bsky.app/profile/thor... bsky.app/profile/ifin...

World Cup trophy presentation @theageaustralia.bsky.social

Tim Pool was paid by a Russian front to create content. This is definitely the dumbest timeline…

The only person who actually illegally accessed Colorado’s voting infrastructure — Republican Tina Peters — was just pardoned.