Bob Harris

bugs bunny is holding a cup in front of a refrigerator and says `` i 'm out ... '' . Alt: bugs bunny says `` i 'm out ... '' .

What’s your interest level in a book on what it’s really like to emigrate from 🇺🇸 (as I did 7 years ago after 15 years of travel and looking into the options)?

Hi Matt, 🇺🇸 => 🇦🇺 expat here, watch every ep. Know how much work goes in. Massive respect. My Qs:

— Is there one historical case where outside decapitation => democracy? Think not

— Estimates of Iranian missile stockpiles and ability to sustain

— Any historic 🇦🇺 involvement (w UK/US 1953 etc)

Thx!

I asked an AI what it thinks of current AI expenditures:

"Claude, how long can the AI bubble last, realistically?"

I've edited for clarity. These were the main points, his words.

The full reply included sources, a timeline, and a projection that the big players will survive. Try it yourself.

Claude AI is an idiot

I asked Claude.ai for its Super Bowl thoughts. The answer is spectacularly, repeatedly stupid.

Sure, AI is totally worth $7 trillion by 2030 and enormous environmental cost. Sure.

25th the 47th

Comparison of Aussie PM handing out humanitarian awards with the US state-sanctioned murder of an unarmed protester

Incredible to see two such potentially similar countries, the two countries where I have citizenship, diverge so profoundly.

One day in Australia. One day in the US.

New on my Substack.

open.substack.com/pub/5minutes...

When Trump won in 2024, I put the over/under on the shooting of innocent civilian protesters at July 4, 2025. (I was in a darkly ironic mood obv.)

Clearly I was alarmist. It took a little longer than that.

The Illegal Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom Government | NEA

Anyone who thinks for one second 🇺🇸 wouldn't take Greenland needs to learn about Hawaii

www.nea.org/nea-today/al...

bugs bunny is holding a cup in front of a refrigerator and says `` i 'm out ... '' . Alt: bugs bunny says `` i 'm out ... '' .

What’s your interest level in a book on what it’s really like to emigrate from 🇺🇸 (as I did 7 years ago after 15 years of travel and looking into the options)?

Last week's news, but new on my Substack, don't judge me: How immigrants were *absolutely essential* to the moon landing, the development of the atom, etc

5minutesinaustralia.substack.com/p/stephen-mi...

#immigration #racism #science #history #NASA #tech #technology

Thanks for your reposts etc — very kind

I don't want to sound like Madonna after 6 mos in 🇬🇧, but after 15 years of visiting + 7 years living here, I feel much more 🇦🇺 than even I'd have thought. Was in 🇺🇸 for much of 2024 and so much now feels foreign. As it now does to many Americans as well, sadly

Satire can often be viewed as a reductio ad absurdum proof, dramatised. ("If X is true, then Y and Z etc must logically follow, and Z is obviously absurd, so X is false.")

Humankind seems to learn best unfortunately by acting out its reductio ad absurdum proofs over decades

Also Australia: Scott Boland already has just as many fours as Head's first innings opening partner did
#ashes

Australia has gun violence. You're still 62 times more likely to get shot to death in the US For any young person in the US who wants to imagine that life can be different:

I've started a Substack of short essays on what it's actually like to leave 🇺🇸 and live elsewhere (in my case 🇦🇺). What would you most want to know?

5minutesinaustralia.substack.com/p/australia-...

Australia has gun violence. You're still 62 times more likely to get shot to death in the US For any young person in the US who wants to imagine that life can be different:

As a dual 🇦🇺 🇺🇸 citizen, my reaction to this week's violence

(Yes, I've started a Substack. 63 pc of Gen Z in 🇺🇸 is considering emigrating ffs. I'll write about what it's really like.)

open.substack.com/pub/5minutes...

OMG Charlotte Walker turned 21 on election day. When we spoke at the local booth here, she was far enough down the Labor ticket that she honestly thought she had zero chance of winning. But as votes add up, she's currently on track to become the youngest senator in Aussie history

Wow 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺 🤞🤞🤞

Well. Happy to be permanently down under now. Sad all the time about the US but who with half a brain heart and soul is not... watched Canada with joy as well. Hope you're good!

Btw I might seek your advice on a publishing thing later this year. Will email or DM as it shapes

Glad you're here!

Yesterday was kinda wonderful here. And sad, bc Americans should have it just as good

The guy who lost tried to run a US-style campaign, a consciously Trumpian hodgepodge of criticism, character attacks, and culture war crap without offering specific solutions

He lost in an historic landslide

#AntonyGreenStandingOvation

repost if you agree #auspol

Antony Green, legend

I wish all Australia had some way to give Antony Green a group standing ovation at the end of tonight. Regardless of our political stripe, the man's whole career has been devoted to 🇦🇺 democracy

#AntonyGreenStandingOvation or similar really should trend on all media. This legend deserves it

#auspol

YouTube video by ABC News (Australia) LIVE: ABC NEWS Election Night Live with full results and analysis

www.youtube.com/watch?v=er5h...

Antony Green, legend

I wish all Australia had some way to give Antony Green a group standing ovation at the end of tonight. Regardless of our political stripe, the man's whole career has been devoted to 🇦🇺 democracy

#AntonyGreenStandingOvation or similar really should trend on all media. This legend deserves it

#auspol

Mate, thank you for reminding me. Yes. *We.* 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

Honest to god, if you cut me now, I bleed green and gold 😁

#auspol

Thanks, mate. Grateful to be here 🇦🇺

Bob with South Australian Labor candidates Marisa Bell and Charlotte Walker

Voted today in 🇦🇺 fed election, 1st time as 🇦🇺 citizen (expat from 🇺🇸)

Small town, pre-poll

Yet *right there* stood Marisa Bell, Labor MP candidate, and Charlotte Walker, a Senate candidate

Great chat

Pic taken by a Green volunteer ❤️

*All* unimaginable in 🇺🇸

Aussies, realise what you have
#auspol

FACT FOCUS: Examining RFK Jr.'s claims about measles, autism and diet as head of HHS Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made sweeping changes to the Department of Health and Human Services in just a few months at the helm.

HOW MUCH MONEY DID MEASLES GIVE THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN

I need to make it make sense

apnews.com/article/rfk-...

Correlation does not equal causation: a case study in how my physical presence in Australia coincides weirdly with the Australian Labor Party's polling numbers

Correlation does not equal causation 🤣

My last lap of 🇺🇸 (probably) was a weird time everywhere I looked

#auspol #science

Trump signs orders cracking down on diversity and inclusion at US universities Actions attack funding and accreditation but also seek to increase affordability and retention at Black colleges

Pretending to believe in (or comprehend) merit 🤣🤣

Your own Education Secretary thought "A.I." was "A-1."
Hegseth—merit! sure
Vance—totally best for the job
RFK—most learned doctor on earth

Laughing stocks of the world. Also, deadly lunatics
🇺🇸 will never recover

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...