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Ausmerican. Tree hugger. Linguist. Techie. MBA Renewables (http://mba-renewables.de). Living on Ngunnawal country.
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Hang it in the Louvre (they’ve got a jumbotron for this sort of thing, right?)

If that’s what they do to a United States Senator with a question, imagine what they can do to any American that dares to speak up. We will hold this administration accountable.

If they're willing to assault and tackle a sitting US senator in front of national media, what do you think they're doing to immigrants in detention centers?

Kristi Noem: "We are not going away. We are staying here to liberate the city from the socialists and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country and what they have tried to insert into the city." Sen. Alex Padilla is then forcibly removed!

Another example: one of my ex-bosses, a House Member, would hire off-duty cops for some events in his home district, and I worried about field hearings. But we never even considered the possibility we would have to provide our own security to protect against federal LEOs. This is nakedly fascist.

We drill into military officers that Members of Congress have Constitutional oversight rights, Members outrank four-stars in protocol, and even Congressional staffers are treated like generals/admirals. To see sworn federal officers manhandle and handcuff a U.S. Senator... I'm still shook up.

The derangement of right wing politics in America is incredible

With all of Greta’s privilege, she stands for what’s right every time. Every time she’s asked about herself she answers by redirecting straight to the people she’s standing up for. ‘How are you?’ ‘Better than the people in Palestine, specifically Gaza.’ 👇 = smug bullshit from a small mind

Candidly, as a civ-mil watcher, this scene at Bragg is freaking me out more than anything else that's happened so far. Just an absolute collapse of professional military norms.

Study shows that relying on generative AI kills off your critical thinking skills. https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-study-finds-relying-on-ai-kills-your-critical-thinking-skills-2000561788

The world will eventually run out of fossil fuels, so our choice is really between stopping their use on our own terms now or being forced to find alternatives in the future while having a terrible climate, tens of millions of deaths from air pollution and climate disasters, higher sea level, etc.

for no reason in particular, remembering that the hausmannization of paris was about breaking up the narrow medieval streets that were easily defended by citizens

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra recorded biggest loss in its 118-year history. Legal bills helped blow a $3.3 million hole in its budget Concerts were postponed & members protested over its sacking of Gillham after he dedicated a song to killed Palestinian journos www.afr.com/life-and-lux...

Elon Musk is choking a black community with air pollution to run a racist chatbot on a right-wing social media site. The next phase will double the gas turbines. A short vid on a dataset I found showing the scale of this problem Part 1 below, or full on YT here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrQC...

"So here's the plan -- we impose massive tariffs on the nations that sell us food." "Hmm." "But it's OK, because we just rely more on states like California that grow a lot of the same things." "Oh, I guess that ..." "And then we go to war with California."

Imagine putting on all this tactical gear and latching onto a military assault vehicle so you can storm a minimall on Sepulveda and apprehend a line cook at family restaurant.

Weird juxtaposition as I'm sitting at a lovely outdoor jazz festival in northern California scrolling a social media feed and watching as the federal government is invading southern California.

In order to eliminate any inconvenience to cars, we’ve made it illegal for children to be children

In 1936, FDR closed out his re-election campaign by bragging to a massive crowd at Madison Square Garden that “organized money” hated him “and I welcome their hatred.” He took 60% of the vote in a 523-8 electoral college landslide. FDR knew having the right enemies could be a useful thing.

This workshop looks like just the thing that many academics in Australia could do with right now, given all the job cuts.

WATER IS LIFE . . . Gila River Tribes Intend to Float Solar Panels on a Reservoir. Could the Technology Help the Colorado River? insideclimatenews.org/news/0106202...

Renew Economy has enjoyed record readership over the last 12 months, and a big jump in newsletter subscribers

The "hallucinations" are the normal operation of this machine. The times it's right are the weird accidents.

I would be saving this report and the minutes of these meetings, and getting ready to sue the council any tome Warrnambool floods in the future. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

I wish I could Google my old articles without provoking AI hallucinations

this is v scary - but at least we are not entrusting the entire internet our understanding of the world and they way we communicate over to AI and the people who are running it so they can make money

Around the country, an unaccountable class of university managers is thinning out rich and meaningful curriculums and replacing them with generic mass units dressed up as skills-focused learning. The latest from my University:

Bank of England former staff member, quoted in the FT: “Most people [in finance] don’t give a monkeys about climate change.” www.ft.com/content/c991...