Above all else, the smugness. This is one of the 20-somethings who were put in charge of deciding whether a grant proposal should be killed. #DOGECuts
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Above all else, the smugness. This is one of the 20-somethings who were put in charge of deciding whether a grant proposal should be killed. #DOGECuts
I really do encourage everyone to read this if they can. It’s worse than I thought it would be. The decision, not my piece. Although come to think of it everything I write is worse than I thought it would be.
Not mentioned in this great piece but mandating the operation of coal plants even as they become way too expensive and dirty to run feels like another nice example of this
8 SAVES! ⚽️
Busy night for Mackenzie Arnold 😅⚽️ #Matildas
#Matildas singing national anthem and saluting our supreme leader ready for kickoff LFG!! ⚽️
a chart showing that. There's almost no impact on productivity for firms, the vast majority showing either no impact or a very, very small impact, less than 5%,
The impact of "AI" on productivity over for large firms over the past 3 years (US, UK, DE, Aus) according to NBERS
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www.nber.org/system/files...
And today in ‘is Trump a Russian asset?’ www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
Interesting to see so many “experts” on here all of a sudden 🤔. A week ago most of you had never even heard of oil
Cracking read from Kelly Burke on the book scams that are targeting writers all over the world www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...
And great op-ed from @waltermarsh.bsky.social whose inbox has been flooded with AI scams www.theguardian.com/books/commen...
Pity, Rachel Weisz is such a wonderful actor
The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.
“Over the past week, we received valid critical feedback* from experts who are concerned that the agent misrepresented their voices”
*We were gonna get sued into oblivion
Trump regime, led by Netanyahu, just set fire to everything - and they don’t have the semblance of a plan
"Achieving the UK’s net zero target by 2050 will cost less than a single oil shock and bring health and economic benefits while insulating the country against future costs, the government’s climate advisers have forecast."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Oh fab! I was thinking about all the things that might have changed or shifted to influence that sentencing and realised I have no idea and it was probably a lot to ask in a bsky poast
the price of oil surging means you can burn your shein clothes, extract the oil, and make more money than you paid
"Every option now carries political costs and risks; the initial strike may have solved a tactical problem, but it created a strategic one. Given these realities, the wisest choice may well be for the United States to accept a limited loss now rather than risk compounding losses later."
The Pentagon calculated it was spending $1 billion a day on Trump and Netanyahu’s war. The truth? It was $3 billion…and that’s just for munitions.
Plus they’ve alarmed everyone by burning through scarce munitions in a matter of days.
Has the Indonesian judicial system become less draconian or is there some other explanation? I was expecting much heavier sentences but I don’t know much about the system since the Bali 9 executions
Safe for who? Is anyone editing these before publishing ABC?
I see this as about as meaningful a signal of reality as share prices or Kalshi / Polymarket bets on mass death and suffering. I guess it's an accurate reflection of the feelings of credulous, rich and greedy people?
Woah, who knew the story of Oskar Schindler’s overlooked wife? Oskar got all the glory in the blockbuster book and film www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-...
Israel gov yesterday: “this could take a while”
Straight to the bunker
if only we could power our cars on cope
Switching back to cocaine because sniffing unleaded is too expensive.
I should’ve said quantifies the absolute senselessness of these acts of mass destruction
Axios reports Israeli strikes on Iranian oil storage over and above what US expected.
Australian government has lost all credibility in its posturings about respecting rules based order