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Australian formerly of London, now repatriated. Once I did other things, now I grow flowers & barbecue. 'Time is the fire in which we burn.' Interests: economics, markets, beer, bbq, motorcycles and cats. Follow at own risk.

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No shit.

09.03.2026 11:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Putin gets:

High oil prices,
Loosening of sanctions,
An EU that's weaker politically and economically,
An Iranian client state that's even more dependent on him,
A US military rapidly depleting its smart munitions,
A global surge in anti-Americanism.

Quite a haul. Even Israel can't match it.

09.03.2026 05:36 πŸ‘ 325 πŸ” 83 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm on Bluesky just so I can scroll through endless screenshots of posts by right-wing nutjobs on X.

06.03.2026 22:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Tesla workers shared sensitive images recorded by customers' cars, ex-employees say Between 2019 and 2022, groups of Tesla employees privately shared via an internal messaging system sometimes highly invasive videos and images recorded by customers’ car cameras, according to former e...

Still don't think people have their head around that Teslas are also recording video. Tesla recordings by customers' cars being shared by Tesla employees: "One ex-employee described a video of a man approaching a vehicle completely naked."

www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04...

04.03.2026 09:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

These broken men will be as rich as ****, and still need people to like them. No amount of money will ever fix his strange egg shaped head, either.

04.03.2026 05:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You'd think after all the "Benghazi this, Benghazi that", they'd be familiar with the work.

04.03.2026 00:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Maybe they don't realize they're copying Obama's plan.

04.03.2026 00:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

While not repeating the Iraq "plan" is good, I'm not sure a plan to walk away while Iran and the region descends into chaos is quite the good plan they seem to think. Isn't that just the Libya "plan"?

03.03.2026 23:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946.

In 2007, the US president was born in 1946.

In 2017, the US president was born in 1946.

And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.

03.03.2026 20:10 πŸ‘ 10767 πŸ” 3276 πŸ’¬ 197 πŸ“Œ 246

Anyway, we're not talking about Epstein.

03.03.2026 21:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

MechaJesus thanks you for your sacrifices.

03.03.2026 05:54 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Jesus II will probably actually be MechaJesus.

03.03.2026 03:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You know, only the first black swan was a black swan event. You can't keep going around being surprised everytime you encounter one.

02.03.2026 20:27 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Boomers "anti-WFH" rage finally caught up with them.

01.03.2026 02:01 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Not to mention the blockade by Saudi Arabia on Qatar just a few years ago. Love the neighbourhood, Qatar.

01.03.2026 00:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
They Might Be Giants - Birdhouse In Your Soul (The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson 04/03/1990)
They Might Be Giants - Birdhouse In Your Soul (The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson 04/03/1990) YouTube video by PinkJazzTrancers

This just turned up in my YouTube algorithm, so it’d be rude not to share.

28.02.2026 21:01 πŸ‘ 124 πŸ” 26 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 5

It's pronounced nuke-u-lar.

28.02.2026 22:12 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I have never heard anyone make such a distinction before.

28.02.2026 06:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Well, having worked with plenty of people over my career, I'm not confident that too many really think deeply about security, liability or accountability. If I were to hire an average developer, I wouldn't be significantly more confident without a great deal of oversight as AI also requires.

27.02.2026 12:13 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So you're saying a human's only moat is the ability to be sued for negligence?

27.02.2026 08:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I've no idea where Gorton and Denton is.

27.02.2026 05:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Stock is up presumably because the market interprets this as "Ah, this company has solved its problems that had depressed the stock over past 6 months" by making its workforce more efficient. But does it address any external factors weighing on the stock, its walls being eroded by AI revolution?

27.02.2026 00:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I think morale is going to be bad either way. Who's to say 40% is the magic final number?

26.02.2026 23:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"We now have robotic arms, so, yeah, we're going to cut your arm off now. You'll need to start using this robotic arm that's on the table in front of you."

26.02.2026 23:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Even if its the direction to go, surely its better to manage it over time than to cut 40% at once, unless all the teams are ready now, losing 40% at once is pretty severe shock.

26.02.2026 23:29 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I mean, how do I know that the code doesn't have security issues and bugs that could make my business liable, if I hired a dev to build it?

26.02.2026 23:13 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Absolutely, as a small business owner, it's pretty exciting to be able to tackle problems that would just not be justifiable due to cost of hiring a software engineer or outsource to a software development company, or commit even more of my own time and focus that's better spent elsewhere.

26.02.2026 06:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Well I suppose we don't put self preservation as a key trait of these models for a good reason, see: HAL 9000.

26.02.2026 00:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Paddington at the BAFTAs, but he’s doing Tony Montana’s β€˜bad guy’ bit from Scarface.

23.02.2026 17:07 πŸ‘ 331 πŸ” 121 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 5

Yes, but you already got the orange guy.

25.02.2026 22:50 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0