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Professional engineer. Recovering academic. Working with data to improve work safety in Victoria. Opinions my own. https://stuartpalmer2.github.io/spalm/index.html
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Imagine if the Paris Commune could have had access to self-driving barricades on demand...

This could be the opening scene of any cyberpunk novel...

One in 35 Americans live in Los Angeles County. Los Angeles is America.

imagine the having a police officer look at you, point a gun at you and intentionally shoot you, only for your own employer to say that you were 'caught in the crossfire'

Google search absolutely delivering the goods again. Lucky they are burning the planet for Gemini I guess.

The protesters have turned on the Waymos

“Jeremy Rockliff’s fall does not spell the end of the stadium, and it seems as if the AFL now controls the destiny of Tasmania’s future rather than Tasmanians.” Richard Flanagan on the proposed Macquarie Point Stadium and the political crisis in Tasmania: https://trib.al/sMVYk2o

World-first footage shows Antarctic sea floor scoured by cruise ship anchors: https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-06-09/anchor-chain-damage-antarctica-sea-floor-video-footage/105376474

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What conditions Environment Minister Murray Watt places on Woodside are still unknown, but the company is confident it won’t amount to anything too onerous. https://trib.al/SpZ2lYR

The framing of this column is so absurd - trying to make a big deal about people paying a fricken small % of tax on massive earnings www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

So You Want to Be a Physicist? Sabine Hossenfelder www.youtube.com/watch?v=WR8-...

I like this paper. Open access in Safety Science recently in Safety Science. Hayes, J., Maslen, S., Holdsworth, S., & Sandri, O. (2025). The part that we play: Engineers’ perceptions of their responsibility for public safety. Safety Science, 187, 106862. www.sciencedirect.com/.../pii/S092...

⚠️🚌 Watch out for bus disruptions this Thursday 12th June on routes run by CDC and Dysons, including some services in parts of Melbourne, Ballarat, Geelong and Mildura. Full details from PTV: www.ptv.vic.gov.au/n...

My producer sent this to me and off the headline I was like "oh right, so she got hit by a loose round"... but then when you see it... like, that officer saw she was a reporter and shot her ~on camera~. Absolutely wild. Hope @laurentomasi.bsky.social is ok.

Exclusive: Khan Ali Safdary endured more than seven years of detention after arriving in Australia in 2011 as an unaccompanied child. Now, the UN has ordered that Australia pay him compensation. https://trib.al/kARRxbJ

5 stars. No notes.

Excellent from The Age - modelling the tax tweak that parts of the media/political world are screaming blue murder about. This retired farmer put his farm in his super account and grew his wealth by $450,000 in a year. Extra tax he has to pay on that? $18,000. www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...

You can see the bloke aim at her

Not one lie detected

Short answer for (literally) 99.5% of Australians: not at all.

ABC or RBT?

Alan Kohler “The gripping stoush between Trump and Musk was emblematic of America's slide into a kind of corrupt flakiness. Yesterday's decision to call in the National Guard to put down immigration protests in Los Angeles was equally gripping, but much more serious” www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

Have we forgotten anything?

😩😩 The person who said this received our Country’s highest award today. Upside down world #auspol

How does translate in any meaningful way to stopping coral bleaching in the wild?

Scott Morrison Receives King’s Birthday Honours for Services to Hairdressing, Truck Driving, Welding, Cooking, Cricket, Building and Not Shooting Women

“The problem with factions is they consume passion and intellectual energy, which should be devoted to solving our existential crises, especially climate change,” writes Barry Jones. https://trib.al/iLQHqwS

Apparently possible to play AFL in Bunbury without insisting the state bankrupt itself building a new stadium.

I don’t tolerate any form of Nike product www.newarab.com/news/nike-dr...

Mark Cuban and people like Mark Cuban are the exclusive audience for Megan McCardle articles

Oh dear

Again, it's remarkable how much right-wing sites like X benefit from simply sharing no data of any kind. X could have usage rates plummeting at 2x the rate but because there's no way to know, these chuds get to present bsky as a self-destructive bubble

Rift Widens Between Elon Musk, Anyone Who Ever Met Him theonion.com/rift-wi...

Former AUS PM Scott Morrison will receive the Companion of the Order of Australia, our highest civilian honour! Holidayed in Hawaii during Australia's bushfires. Failed to appreciate the trauma suffered by Brittany Higgins (until Jen clarified it). Robodebt. THAT Scott Morrison. 😠 #auspol #honours

I'm a glutton for punishment. Had another look at the IMDB upcoming releases listed for Australia for the rest of the year. What a grim list.

Buyer’s remorse.. Today’s @smh @theage cartoon.

Went to see Tinā today. Let's just say there's not too many surprises in the overarching narrative arc, but it is very well made in the way that many New Zealand movies are. Absolutely lying room only at the Pivotonian. If you know the place, the front row has space for bean bags, all occupied today

“Scott Morrison will be joining the honours list along with Bettina Arndt and George Pell” @instanterudite.bsky.social The #SundayShot panel reacts accordingly! #auspol

“The tech world is reeling from revelations that Builder.ai, once hailed as a $1.5 billion 'AI' powerhouse, now faces scrutiny as its highly promoted artificial intelligence facade crumbles, revealing a human-powered operation behind the cutting-edge AI automation.“ It was 700 Indians writing code!🤣

“Salmon farming companies should pay a royalty to the Tasmanian government for the use of waters which are ‘owned’ by the state government on behalf of the people of Tasmania,” - Saul Eslake Our research shows the tax paid by the three largest salmon farms has been near-zero. More here: