Downstairs Eddie

My eyeball fell out two weeks ago while I was enjoying some soup. I sneezed. There was a splash. Claude finished the soup for me. He said it did wonders for the seasoning.

Reducing human value to what we can be trained to do is straight up technofascism. Every fascism has its suhumans. To technofascists, humans are the subhumans.

Oh no

Letterboxd screenshot Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) Watched by Branson Reese 28 Apr 2022 Abrams isn't a man so much as he's an avatar of cultural entropy. If you make something popular enough eventually you will die or sell it off and and a person in thick rimmed glasses whose main artistic vision is that he loves to have meetings will take it and sandblast it until it's nothing. I hate to see this happen here but maybe it's good that this happened. Maybe every franchise should collapse into a version of itself that makes shareholders nod and shake each others' hands. We should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend.

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PM defends decision to invite Herzog to Australia Nick Newling Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has backed his decision to invite Israeli President Isaac Herzog to Australia, saying it was appropriate to allow the Jewish community to mourn with the leader. "He was [invited] because he's the head of state. He's the equivalent of the governor-general, and when the Jewish community asked for their head of state to visit. I think it is appropriate that people be allowed to mourn and to do so respectfully," Albanese told Triple M radio in Hobart.

This is maddening nonsense from Albanese.

Herzog is the President of *Israel*. He’s not the “head of state” for Jews.

This transformation of Jews into some convenient monolith is perverse.

Video shows a man pinned to the ground as Australian police strike him repeatedly during an arrest. The man appears already subdued as blows continue. The incident occurred at protests in Sydney against Israeli President Isaac Herzog.

Video: Jared Kimpton via X (@jared_kimpton)

Extraordinary footage. Police pulling off people engaged in peaceful prayer.

@Nick_Davidov Asked Claude Cowork organize my wife's desktop, it stated doing it, asked for a permission to delete temp office files, I granted it, and then it goes "ooops" Turns out it tried renaming and accidentally deleted a folder with all of the photos my wife made on her camera for the last 15 years. All photos of kids, their illustrations, friends' weddings, travel, everything. It's not in trash, it was done via terminal It's not in iCloud, it already synced the new file structure. She didn't have Time Machine. Disc recovery tools can't see anything. I called Apple and they pointed me to a feature in iCloud allowing to retrieve files that were saved before but are no longer on iCloud Drive (they keep them for 30 days). I'm now watching it load tens of thousands of files. I nearly had a heart attack.

Nick Davidov • @Nick_Davidov VC, founder, DVC.ai - backing repeat founders with a community of 200 engineers. e/acc/OSS. Perplexity, Higgsfield, Animation, Etched. Husband to @msdavidova

VC, founder, dumbass

Australian politicians spending more than two years effectively co-signing Israel's genocide of Palestinians is exactly why we need to globalise the intifada until Palestine is free from the river to the sea you pissweak fucks

Revealed: Australia's $100 million investment in controversial surveillance giant Palantir Australia's Future Fund drastically increased its stake in Palantir in the year since Donald Trump took office, according to its latest figures.

NEW: Australia’s sovereign wealth fund now owns more than $100 million worth of shares in Palantir, a controversial tech company that’s powering the Trump administration’s anti-immigration efforts.

(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star)

Does this look like a big laser to anyone else

Are you still a believer in the rule of law? Because by 2026, it's marginal, right?

Smarmiest voice I've ever heard

ABC Indigenous doesn’t mince words

a man holding a cup with the words " oppression is the mask of fear remember that " below him Alt: a man holding a cup with the words " oppression is the mask of fear remember that " below him

Have a nice day!

Two adjacent stories on The Guardian site. 1st headline is 'Teenage girl wearing jersey with Palestinian flag refused entry to Sydney A-League game'. 2nd headline is 'Criticism of Benjamin Netanyahu may be an offence under Australia's new laws, Greens warn'

quite a pair of headlines

The Attorney General can’t rule out that accurately describing Israel as committing genocide could land you in jail for 15 years.

Let Palestine free you too.

Photograph from 1911 taken by Herbert Ponting whilst with Scott's Antarctic Expedition The monochrome photo is taken from within a cave. The walls of the cave are made of ice. The cave entrance is in the mid distance with two figures standing looking out towards a distant ship. Between them and the ship there is first a 'beach' of ice before the sea itself. The ship could be up to 800 metres away What makes the photo so special is that where the figures are at the cave entrance there is a band of very white snow and ice (contrasting with the comparatively dark inside of the cave) that creates a stark framework in which the men and the ship are captured. It is made even more dramatic by the fact that the cave entrance is at least 30 metres high and is in the shape of a distorted elipse with the tail sloping off to the right at the top of the elipse The photo being in monochrome in a largely white environment makes the photographers skill all the more laudable

This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition,

The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance

Iconic imo

My idol 20 years ago | My idol today

The ‘V’ Files: The Shocking Legacy of an ’80s Sci-Fi Cult Classic Hollywood backstabbing, conspiracy theories, and the devastating murder of a star behind the TV alien-invasion sensation.

"In the 1935 book, the US is torn apart by a flamboyant blowhard politician who uses fearmongering and empty promises to the working class to win election before consolidating his power, shattering the traditions of governance, breaking any laws that constrain him and stoking paranoia and division."

• Australia news live Penny Wong says Israeli president Isaac Herzog's visit a good thing' despite backlash from Labor party members Follow updates live

It's "culturally unsafe" to have a Palestinian Aus author advocate against the systematic slaughter of hundreds of thousands of her people, but it's
"a good thing" for the president of apartheid Israel, which has committed daily massacres and mass starvation for 2yrs, to visit us. Unbearably racist.

Anti-Palestinian racism truly makes people say the most unhinged things

A whole bunch of artists and cultural workers have lost work because of the implosion of Adelaide Writers week — writers, producers, stage crew, front of house. None of this was their fault. Something for the Labor premier to think about

Password's enough, pal.

"Adler well knew that including Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah ('if you are a Zionist you have no claim or right to cultural safety') would endanger the institution.

A big long article and this is the only example of something Randa has said that's supposedly worth destroying a festival over??

I doubt they'll be able to hear each other over the protest chants