Kevin

And all signs indicate we won’t learn from it.

Russian gas tanker Arctic Metagaz on fire near Malta, doing a passable imitation of a sunset. It's widely suspected to be the work of Ukrainian artists as part of a continued installation called "Russian warship go fuck yourself". The crew is reportedly accounted for and has been rescued by the Maltese authorities.

Olafur Eliasson's The Weather Project at the Tate. A giant orange sun hangs over the Turbine Hall.

Who did it better?

Xi’s China will be world-shaping in the coming months and years. Our return to Beijing could not be more timely or urgent Lisa Visentin March 3, 2026 — 3:45pm

Australia faces the threat of war with China within three years – and we’re not ready Are we prepared for full-scale conflict? Our panel of national security experts says no. March 7, 2023Peter Hartcher and Matthew Knott

lulz, the SMH is announcing it is re-opening its China bureau almost exactly 3 years since they said we could be at war with China in... *checks notes*... 3 years

Microslop When you slop you can't stop

I think you can pin to the image digest on a tag but you would need something to pull the new digest and update the nix config somehow

“I don’t want to sound condescending (that kinda means talking down to you) but really you need to [insert explaining here]”

When it happens I give Apple permission to hack my phone and start playing U2’s “Beautiful Day” regardless of the time of day or night.

for those of you unfamiliar with Lucifer's corporate presence on earth: Oracle lawyers use the courts in roughly the same way an artillery commander might use a W82 tactical nuclear warhead

APS really needs to have an entire professional line that pays much closer to tech\professional rates without being shoehorned in to el1\2 so we can get away from the 90% contractor style of operating

a screenshot of a Bluesky in-app screen – the text reads: “Age Assurance Due to laws in your region, certain features on Bluesky are currently restricted until you're able to verify you're an adult. Is your location not accurate? Tap here to confirm your location. Verify now Age assurance only takes a few minutes” below this text is the option “Export my data”

welp, guess I’ll be #leavingBluesky soon…

#AgeVerification is #SurveillanceTech that either doesn’t actually work (age estimation) and/or is privacy-invading (requires government ID) for all adults as well as the kids it purports to protect

#AusPol
#privacy
#SocialMediaBan
#BullshitTech

If you’re a wine fan the Italian/french base on Concordia is where you want to go!

Arc Vector - Wikipedia

i wonder if it's a serial number filled off version of the arc vector.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_Vec... Looks amazing but that price point is ouch.

Surprised the lnp didn’t pick him as their candidate

Ensuring your nerd sniping (journo multiclass) skills are getting used

it keeps going back and forth between being infuriating and funny how much we study this when the answer is always the same and it never matters

I became Senior VP at a multi-million dollar company at age 26. My salary was $600k. This was in 2018. How did I do it? Blacked out lines CEO (my dad) promoted me to SVP. There are no gimmicks. There are no shortcuts.

This is blackout poetry to me

Which country is going to do the tech transfers? The us made propulsion, weapons,sensors and control systems or the uk made everything else?

30 billion is a fuckload for some welders

I desperately need you, the person reading this post, to know that this is happening at the senior leadership/executive levels of YOUR COMPANY TOO right now.

And I really do mean *you* even if I know you personally.

Hell, some of you ARE the executives.

Hot cross buns showed up in December

A modern rewrite of Dante's Inferno, where it's literally the same except they add an even deeper ring of hell for the dipshit who inflicted strodes on us.

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SkyCards. It's electronic catnip for airplane nerds with ADHD.

Tesla and Starlink employees could probably sweep the Babysitter Olympics, if something like that existed

Is solvable but the legislation wouldn’t serve the desired chilling effect if it could be done without linking to the person

*submits the names of qld police force members*

Margaret Kudelka is with Kudelka and 2 others. We are sad to tell you that our beloved, brilliant Jon Kudelka died peacefully in South Hobart on Sunday afternoon, surrounded by his family and friends. He was 53. Jon was deeply loved and admired by many, including fellow Tasmanians, the legions of fans of his inimitable art, countless newspaper readers over 30 years, and even by the politicians he relentlessly skewered in his award-winning cartoons (many of whom have his work on their walls). He loved his family, friends, making art in many forms, and firmly calling out political and anti-science bullshit with his typically dry wit and compassion. Jon was diagnosed with glioblastoma in early 2024 and faced treatment for two years with positivity and hope, supported by his wife, Maggie, teenage children Kay and Oskar, sister Liesl, and his many friends. Jon believed in showing up fully for life and embracing humour even in the hardest of times. In the past two years, he was heard many times to say, ironically, “good times”. Jon's presence remains in the love he gave and the lives he touched. He will always be with us. Funeral details to follow. In lieu of flowers, the family asks for donations in Jon's memory to The Bob Brown Foundation, Canteen Australia or The Menzies Institute for Medical Research.

Alas, the magnificent artist and cartoonist Jon Kudelka has died.

just need to work out how to train them as part of the R.A.N.

Did you do the appropriate "HULK SMASH"? after you did it?