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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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"He Was an Agitator," Claims LAPD Officer Who Shot Sleeping Snorlax hard-drive.net/hd/video-gam...

Hard to believe that self-reported test results in a country with pissweak regulation turn out to be bullshit.

LGBTQ+ People Change Social Media Profile Images To Corporate Logos in Honor of Pride Month hard-drive.net/hd/entertain...

Israel Intercepts Gaza Aid Boat With Greta Thunberg Aboard theonion.com/israel-...

It will be very funny if we get out of the submarine "deal" (where we pay a lot of money for US and UK shipyards and are clearly going to get no submarines for decades, if at all) because of Trumpism. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Visited Australian Red Cross Lifeblood today to give a pint of the good stuff.

Villains and heroes. My @smh @theage cartoon.

An embarrassed National Rifle Association says it totally forgot to do the one thing it has been saying for years it is solely there to do.

Moira Deeming referred to corruption investigators over John Pesutto offer: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-12/moira-deeming-john-pesutto-ibac-referral-bankruptcy-proposal/105406352

The latest Kevin Roose piece for the NYT is one of the worst ones he's done yet. A company that wants to "automate all labor" by "creating training environments to teach models." No product of any kind, doesn't matter, write article send article AI good yum yum www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/t...

An upcoming conference held by Australia's core carbon offsetting lobby group has the government body meant to regulate offsets as a 'platinum sponsor' Also British Petroleum (BP) is a 'gold sponsor'

Um, no. The main priority of the Australian PM is to protect Australia’s sovereignty and independence, not lock in a contract

Australian Super is profiting from war crimes; holds shares in at least 55 Israeli companies incl Elbit (bombs/drones) & ICL (white phosphorus) #auspol michaelwest.com.au/australian-s...

A global survey shows Australians have some of the most negative attitudes in the world towards Donald Trump www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

Trump Claims He Can Overrule Constitution With Executive Order Because Of Little-Known ‘No One Will Stop Me’ Loophole theonion.com/trump-c...

ANU has paid millions of dollars to Nous in the last year so maybe ANU can say it’s a co-sponsor? Anyone else worried that a major sponsor of a higher ed event is a contractor helping slash jobs?

I wonder will Donald Trump pardon those arrested ″⁣unlawful demonstrators″⁣ in Los Angeles as he did the unlawful rioters at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. Rosie Elsass, Brighton East @theage letters

Opinion | These were the most Australian shows of all time: deeply unimaginative, cowardly and doggedly mediocre to the point of being actively harmful, @cormacmccafe.bsky.social writes.

Having lunch this weekend with the refugees from the Deakin Institute of Teaching and Learning. We're heading to the winery.

Yeah I'm sorry man if you are the ceo of the most prominent AI startup and getting triggered by Gary Marcus doing the tamest prodding you are unbelievably washed. Bearish sign, like getting upset at Garfield for hating Mondays

"It was a great show because I got to be on it" gets an op ed. Incredible.

A breakdown of migration cases at the Administrative Review Tribunal shows well over half relate to student visa refusals. It dwarfs the next biggest areas of migration review, citizenship and partner visas. https://trib.al/m72tkEQ

The passive-aggressive mug you take to meetings when you hate meetings.

People Still Baffled By Mysterious Condition ‘Long Covid’ That Suddenly Appeared A Few Years Ago Out Of Nowhere.

Calls for urgent home support packages after aged care reforms delayed: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-11/at-home-support-calls-after-aged-care-reform-delay/105403364

Still remembers when she lost a lot of money on the bourse when foreign anarchist Mario Buda car-bombed Wall Street in September 1920.

Australia needs clarity. If the PM responsible for Robodebt can be rewarded, nothing is off limits. If we don’t speak up, we are silently agreeing to live in a nation where cruelty is policy and honour is survival at the top. #auspol #Honour

Isn't this what your first term was for? Anyway, looking forward to this generating a range of bold and interesting reforms that the government will immediately rule out forever because someone might get cross at them if they tried any of it.

Jetstar Asia closure marks end of Broome-Singapore route: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-11/qantas-jetstar-asia-shutdown-broome-to-singapore-flights-axed/105403432

I don't think Americans realise just how passionately Australia's big commercial media stations love the cops and authoritarian crackdowns. They are passive-voicing a US police officer targeting and shooting one of their OWN JOURNALISTS www.crikey.com.au/2025/06/10/a...

I firmly believe that ABC News and Current Affairs will replace The Bad Show with something even worse (as improbable as that sounds.)

DHS Chief: ‘We Are A Nation Of Immigrants Who Came Here Between 1776 And 1943’

Doing our part for AI training.

AI has the most divorced uncle energy of any tech hype cycle, every move like this feels desperate and weird rather than futuristic. Maybe if you have to "train people to use AI" so intensely it's not actually intelligent? and maybe sucks?

"We beseech the Lord daily to protect our high-capacity automatic rifles and Kevlar vests from the ravages of the possible but not very likely stone or block of wood that could be hurled our way by a weeping child or hysterical mother as we pry their loved ones from their hands."

[looking at rising emissions, stagnant unemployment benefits, massive university redundancies, ABC cuts] yeah, I was just about to tell him to knock it off with all the giving us what we want