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Yes, that one. Saying things; around the place. On the land of the Gadigal people of the Eora nation. He/him.
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Thread, sounds plausible to me but needs a good business/entertainment reporter to get the goods

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

I'd been going to do this as a joke but on reflection it's just the literal truth - Bezos bought Bond because Barbara B is a liberal Anglo-American lady who would be interested in doing a film about Bond taking down a crooked traitor billionaire (maybe South African) seeking to destroy democracy

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

This is a great example of a moral panic (the fear of underage drinking, which is completely harmless) causing actual harm (forcible lack of control over personal data) www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

Incidentally - the correct position on AI is "the lads in China did an amazing job at reducing the processing power required but since their work is mostly open source and also we're in a trade war, all the GPT stuff that's quite useful but hugely lossmaking will end up a commodity like AWS"

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

It's funny because the white working class dumbshits who support Trump are the same ones who dismiss "email jobs" as pretend

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

The UK's current defence policy is and has been for 70 years based on being a subordinate ally of the USA, as is Australia's, as is every non-Russia-aligned European country except France, and as (but more grumpily) is France. This possibly needs to change but it's not exactly a simple fucking pivot

submitted 7 hours ago • 3 comments

These two together (pictures from internet), setting out my stand very early as a) queer b) extremely uncool c) correct about which music was good

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

I've always admired Tommy Cash and this is no exception www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

Only Connect, round 1 rules, four clues given over time, one linking theme. Clue 1: Paul Simonon

submitted 10 hours ago • 2 comments

With every passing day of the current US government it's clearer that the guy who shot the random health bureaucrat did a fucking stupid job wasting his one shot, and the weirdos who idolise him would do better to recognise that

submitted 10 hours ago • 3 comments

The weird pretend church is honestly doing better than a lot of people who should know better

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

The Starmer aide/AI stuff feels a bit canary/coalmine because this isn't letting electoral factors triumph over good governance or sinply doing something I don't like - things every government does - this is falling for a scam. There are people in Nunber 10 who are just idiots.

submitted 12 hours ago • 37 comments

ooooh I have a theory on that - I think a crucial difference between the centre left and centre right is that the former has more of a sense of where it stands ideologically and historically, eg away from wherever the Labour party is at that point in time, whereas the latter only ever tethers...

submitted 12 hours ago • 25 comments

Good theory here

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

The Luna Carmoon video trilogy from Fontaines's Romance is the best and most ambitious thing I've seen in music video for a decade - nice to have an art school band selling multimillions again I guess www.creativereview.co.uk/fontaines-dc...

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

I like how this looks insane for Australia but also looks like a relatively standard chart for a Japanese opposition party

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

This is an old piece, but really highlights how disgraceful it is to treat criminal damage against private corporations as "terrorism" for investigative purposes. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

Lol. I missed that the author of NIST 800-63 Appendix A had formally apologized for his sins

submitted 18 hours ago • 11 comments

He is so stunningly, uniquely terrible at posting that it immediately stands out even in an offline context like this. The absolute worst to ever do it. In a category by himself. Singularly anti-talented in a way we will talk about for decades if not centuries. The Wayne Gretzky of bad posting.

submitted 18 hours ago • 32 comments

New Zealand has two main LOTR-themed locations, Hobbiton and Orcland

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments