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Ooo this is a good one ☺️

submitted 19 days ago • 1198 comments

Gonna repeat what I said last night, now that it's clear Nvidia stock is getting hit too: OpenAI's service being exposed as horribly, unnecessarily inefficient might be the real big news here rather than the existence of a major alternative in itself

submitted 31 days ago • 3 comments

I think about this joke a lot these days.

submitted 40 days ago • 41 comments

We have a cost of living “crisis” So of course Dutton pledges that if he wins the next election he will legislate Australia Day citizenship ceremonies in first 100 days🤷‍♂️ Election will be April-May Latest 100 days post election ends is in August Australia Day is Jan 26th Priorities Peter? #auspol

submitted 43 days ago • 4 comments

"The technical, operational, strategic & financial aspects of Australia’s AUKUS submarine project are simply not credible. And even if our Navy were to receive any boats, the revolutionary nature of technological change will have made them irrelevant" Alan Stephens johnmenadue.com/aukus-confir...

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

So we're banning Tik Tok and books in the US but not assault weapons? Got it.

submitted 45 days ago • 10 comments

Fascinating article. Well worth a read.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

"Siri, what 15 second video clip serves as a metaphor for the culmination of the last half-Century of American-led, fossil fuel driven, neoliberal capitalism?" [Video by @stuartpalley.bsky.social]

submitted 50 days ago • 8 comments

Incredible precision by the helicopter crew dropping water on the LA firea 🎯

submitted 50 days ago • 401 comments

Over 200 cars were abandoned in the Pacific Palisades fire as people fled for their lives, many taking their keys with them. A bulldozer had to clear the vehicles so that fire trucks could get to where they needed to go.

submitted 51 days ago • 206 comments

Facebook replacing actual fact checkers with user created community notes (the same as Twitter). There's no going back now. It's all over. Disinformation wins.

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

Happy New Year, friend! We stood together, fought for truth, & gave it all. The future may seem bleak, but we’ll keep lighting the path, calling out lies. United, we’re invincible. To the grifters salivating over $$$, we’ll expose you at every turn. Here’s to fighting the good fight in 2025!

submitted 58 days ago • 33 comments

Trump says he is the “anti war candidate,” yet has threatened to invade Mexico, take over the Panama Canal, annex Canada, and take Greenland. And he’s not even president yet.

submitted 59 days ago • 24 comments

Please tell your kids, every damn day if necessary, that chatGPT is not a goddamn search engine and you shouldn’t believe a word it says. Tell the adults too, but it’s especially imperative to inoculate kids against this

submitted 79 days ago • 20 comments

BREAKING: BLUESKY JUST REACHED 25,000,000 USERS. Elon Musk’s X lost over 2.7 million active users in the US while Bluesky gained around 2.5 million since he started promoting Donald Trump. Let's keep it up and spread the word about Bluesky.

submitted 77 days ago • 78 comments

14% increase in homelessness in a year. 1 in 47 people in London are homeless, 1 in 61 in Birmingham. There are dreadful, frightening figures. www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

submitted 79 days ago • 13 comments

Gifted: The Rage and Glee That Followed a C.E.O.’s Killing Should Ring All Alarms www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/o...

submitted 83 days ago • 2 comments

A reminder that it is our modern industrial civilization’s accelerating demand for materials that drives fossil fuel consumption, ecocide, and the West’s imperialist assaults on the Global South. In 6 recent years we've consumed nearly as much as we did in the entire 20th century.