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NSW cops have badly hurt Greens staffer Hannah Thomas at a peace protest www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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"Learn to code" was always bad advice, unless you actually like to code. College students have the best chance of professional success if they major in topics that interest them. Today in @startribune.com. Please tell high school students and parents. www.startribune.com/what-should-...

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Reminded of the late Joel Fajans' expert testimony on whether electricity is "tangible personal property"

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

there's a reason society has spent many centuries coming up with the law of agency and fiduciary duties If your agentic AI doesn't come with any legal responsibility to you as the principal, it's not your agent; it's your sleazy used car salesman with access to your credit card and all your data

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This. I don't get the UK Gov's obsession with journal Open Access. So long as any paper describing public-funded research is freely available to everyone through some (no-cost) means -- arXiv, institutional repository, etc -- why do we need to throw £1000s per paper at publishers as well?

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Youth pastor voice: You know who else took on a globally important leadership role at the age of 33?

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Open Access is great but in astronomy where arXiv is universal it’s basically harmful to the financial model of research

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Worth reminding y'all that Creative Commons Licenses and other open licenses are FREE to put on your intellectual property (e.g. pre prints on arxiv, data, code). 🔭🧪 #AstroSci

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Great to see university funding getting the attention it deserves. NTEU members have been calling for this for years - and it’s working. This is a step forward, and with governance reform on the agenda too, we can win better universities. Find out more: betterunis.nteu.au

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Mamdani vindicating a “state of all its citizens”? Someone should write a book about that!

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Going through contenders for the Hottest Australian 100 is a wild exercise in "where are they now?" Answers: cooker, anti-vaxxer, cooker, cooker, genocide enthusiast, former MP, cooker, anti-woke activist, high school music teacher, cooker...

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mom can you pick me up they're making up new rootless cosmopolitanisms again

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Sharing this for American Bluesky - this is Zohran Mamdani rapping as Mr Cardamom, with Madhur Jaffrey playing the role of Nani (grandma). youtu.be/iQVsVNPkPmE?...

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

struggling with Zohran Mamdani being a year younger than me

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In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done. My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it. I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.

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For a REAL detailed map of how NYC voted, check our map out 😎 www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/24/m...

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

LOOKING FOR HOW HE DID IT? we covered it!

submitted 3 days ago • 23 comments

Tonight’s win was almost entirely conceived and powered by organized members of the largest socialist organization in the country. It’s truly almost impossible to believe.

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Zohran!

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Antoinette Lattouf has won her unfair dismissal case against the ABC. A hard won justice that came at great personal cost for Antoinette

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#exoplanets #jobs 📣 I'm advertising for a postdoc! Come work with me in sunny SoCal on the Roman Galactic Exoplanet Survey Project Infrastructure Team. You'll help build the pipeline for Roman* occurrence rates. *Launches NEXT YEAR! Please RT & share with your networks! aas.org/jobregister/...

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

my niche opinion is that cities should elect leaders who do not despise cities

submitted 3 days ago • 28 comments

NEW: NSF will be kicked out of their building. Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA. HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years. NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."

submitted 3 days ago • 112 comments

Cannot hear the Gorillaz without this tweet coming to me

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Did you know there's an abandoned half-built station in the eastern suburbs? @sydney.yimby.au have launched a petition to have Woollarah Station finally built. The population in that area has been going backwards so it's a great opportunity for more TOD. supporthousingcode.good.do/station/wool...

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

Congratulations. You've found the link to the least accurate thing anyone has ever written about Brexit. Daniel Hannan penned a piece 2 days before the referendum explaining what life would be like on 24 June 2025, ie today. It's worth a read for the laughs. www.reaction.life/p/britain-lo...

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I think it says something, however minor, that the YouTube comments on this are overwhelmingly positive.

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Key point being, this is not the action of a democratic nation, so maybe don't trust anything they tell you and report everything they do as you would a rogue state conducting genocide and trying to hide it.

submitted 4 days ago • 10 comments

Welcome to Australia. We export wool, iron ore & deportation solutions.

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Macquarie has put out the call for fully-funded PhD applications in all areas of astronomy, to start January 2026: aas.org/jobregister/... Applications due 2 July to [email protected]. International scholarships will be competitive, typically expecting publication and/or excellent GPA.

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One reason why the ghouls who run various consent manufactories can say things like "Australians don't care about war overseas" is because commitment to war overseas has been bipartisan for so long people have given up or simply forgotten refusal is an option. For the ghouls this is a triumph.

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The Australian national sec commentariat managing to deal with all this by worrying a lot about optics stuff only other people they've been on a defence industry conference panel with think matters. We are very poorly informed by them about how any of this might actually matter to us.

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I still hear people excusing the behaviour of Albanese & Wong with versions of "they don't have a choice - it's the job, etc." They really do have a choice. They could, at any moment, live up to the principles they espouse, and the worst that would happen is they might make a bit less money.

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Brad Lander via @jfrejnyc.bsky.social on Insta: “I am proud as a Jewish New Yorker to be on that slate alongside a Muslim New Yorker. Jewish New Yorkers and Muslim New Yorkers are not going to be divided against each other. Our safety, our freedoms, our thriving are bound up together.”

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We're celebrating today with the release of the first images from @vrubinobs.bsky.social. (Image credit: NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory). This one, of part of the Virgo cluster, is my favourite.

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Foreign Minister Penny Wong, May 2025 "Because of who we are and what we strive to be. A Nation that stands on its own two feet... A nation of courage and of kindness." Foreign Minister Penny Wong, June 2025 media blitz to emphasise Australia's full support for unsanctioned US bombings #auspol

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