Tom Swann

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

Inside Albanese’s FOI reforms: ‘He hates transparency’ Labor’s reforms to freedom of information laws are opposed by every public submission made to the Senate, with the government’s record on secrecy worse than Scott Morrison’s.

Warnings about how to avoid a paper trail that might later be accessed by an FOI request are part of the induction kit for new political staffers. Even the acronym has its own crude nickname in the ministerial wing: “FOI. Fuck Off Idiot.” satpa.pe/zPB9QFA

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

University council meetings should be open to the media and the public by default.

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Please enjoy this executive at one of America's biggest gas companies openly admitting that expanding supply leads to increased demand for fossil fuels

He is not wrong: frantic expansion of fossil fuel supply worsens climate change. Tax it, cut subsidies, wind it down

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Standing alone, uh, excuse me

Quite apart from all the talent being promoted for this, in the classic ABC fashion, were influential before I was born, I'm willing to predict this won't touch the role of legacy media darlings like Crabb in creating a political culture that turned voters off paying attention in the first place.

This is the SMALL bike parking garage next to Utrecht Centraal Station. Free for 24 hours. With a bike repair shop, a few hundred OVfiets rental bikes, and a 24/7 secure, staffed parking lot for 4,200 bikes.

The new lot on the other side of the station holds 11,500 bikes.

Beetaloo gas to hit market in 2026, thanks to $75m NT guarantee An unusual loan guarantee granted by the Northern Territory government has underscored how much gas from the project is needed.

NT government subsidising Beetaloo fracked gas through a loan guarantee.

Meanwhile there are multiple solar farms in the NT built but not connected to the grid.

Failed state.

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Fighting the social evil of tens of thousands of new homes.

I'm all for dunking on developers but this beyond parody.

Jeeesus

a bald stick figure in a chair with his arms out in front like he’s typing on a keyboard, and he’s got the biggest angry frown imaginable and eyebrows that express frustrated bemusement

my daughter really captured my essence in this portrait of me “at work”

photo of paulina borsook

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

Fox & Friends: "You secure the button if you have the leader of the free world on the escalator ... is it a coincidence? You had the teleprompter go down, you had the escalator stop, Katie Pavlich said in the press room when the president started talking the volume went down significantly ... "

Trump: "I'm really good at predicting things. During the campaign they had a hat -- a best-selling hat -- 'Trump was right about everything.' And I don't say that in a braggadocios way, but it's true. I've been right about everything."

“I’m really good at this stuff. Your countries are going to hell.”

Trump at the UN.

There will be whole books written about this quote even in decades time.

Hundreds of billions of dollars and it is still a struggle to get a selfie

In case anyone was wondering I too find the bailout of the arch Ayn Rand libertarian government of #Argentina by the America First government doubly funny.

An update on that insane lease term where the landlord owns everything you create during the tenancy:

Trump to the UN: "I'm really good at this stuff. Your countries are going to hell."

Since Sophie died, and before, I have read widely about grief, some non fiction but mostly memoirs. (It seems uniquely difficult to write honestly about deep loss without the loss being real.)

The best I think is the classic, A Grief Observed by C S Lewis. Cause to cry in agreement every few pages.

ANU’s ‘catastrophic failures’ happened on Bishop’s watch: Sheldon If ANU is serious about rebuilding trust, it cannot do so while Julie Bishop is chancellor, says Tony Sheldon, the man behind the Senate report into university governance.

“Ultimately, the responsibility [for ANU] rests with the chancellor, Julie Bishop. She presided over this continued period of dysfunction, and it was under her watch that catastrophic failures occurred,”

Senator Anthony Sheldon

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It Isn’t Just the U.S. The Whole World Has Soured on Climate Politics.

David Wallace-Wells is the best climate journalist working today, arguably the best journalist period, and this is a fantastic summary of where things stand on climate change:

More! Bigger!

We must imagine ourselves sane

You know what I think our cars are too small they need to be twice as big

?! Madness

Where on earth did you find this

Trump tells his audience at the Cornerstone Institute Founders’ dinner that he brought peace between Cambodia and Armenia.

Chartbook 409 Beyond the "Marshall Plan": China's solar boom as world-changing industrial policy. In the first six months of 2025 China installed more than 250GW of solar power capacity.

'China’s new-build solar additions in the last six months are more than the US has installed in total: China Flow > US stock. Germany was once the global champion of solar. China’s new additions in six months are two times Germany’s installed capacity.'
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