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Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!

But if it gets Full Self Flying ...... ?

Hello Back to the Future!

Deepcut News | Substack Independent journalism that cuts through the spin. Click to read Deepcut News, a Substack publication.

Well worth a read.

Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn't a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division

I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Data shows Albo reducing poverty while welfare sector insists he isn’t Claims from Australia’s welfare peak body appear at odds with reality.

In a scathing opinion piece the CEO of ACOSS claimed that ‘one in eight of us still lives in poverty, including one in six children’, and that 'wealth inequality is worsening'. When we track the data underlying this condemnation of Labor in 2025, we find it was collected under the Coalition in 2019.

Australia Post joins other global mail services and suspends US parcels Australia Post is taking the extraordinary step of immediately suspending many forms of shipping to the United States, as a Trump administration tariff deadline approaches on Friday.

AusPost has done the same www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

Most (good) solutions are proposed not by newcomers, but by people who understand an issue deeply.

There are exceptions, of course, but generally, if a solution seems "obvious", it's because you don't understand the problem as well as you think. 🧵

A visual timeline titled "Prime Ministers of Australia Since Robert Menzies" featuring portraits of Australian Prime Ministers from 1949 to the present. Each portrait includes the leader's name and term dates. The sequence starts with Robert Menzies (1949–1968) and continues through to Anthony Albanese (2022-). Some date entries contain typographical errors, and Tony Abbott appears twice with different dates. The portraits of the prime ministers are also really bad, absolutely incorrect and totally fucked up e.g. Gough Whitlam looks like a Bob Hawke hybrid and Bob Hawke doesn’t even look like Bob Hawke. These images are a clear indication that AI hasn’t quite got it right just yet.

“Show me a list of Australian prime ministers since Robert Menzies, with their names and years in office under their portraits.”

ChatGPT –

Want to save yourself from super scams and dodgy financial advice? Ask these questions An ex-financial adviser shares her tips on spotting dodgy advice, as thousands of people wait to see if they’ll lose more than $1 billion in super.

theconversation.com/want-to-save...

Funny and yet horrifically true summing up. Do watch; they’re very good at what they do.

YouTube video by Generative Artificial Intelligence 🗣️ "Signal President Meredith Whittaker warns of "real danger" in agentic AI hype.🥇

This the context -> Meredith Whitaker at SXSW in the perfect summary of why agentic AI should be a top line concern: youtu.be/jY8cd2YMdI4?...

There is no gas shortage in Australia.

Remember: Australia exports 80% of its gas.

Despite the fact that nearly all sides of politics agree, this hasn't stopped Big Gas from pushing the myth of a shortage to justify digging new gas fields.

Read more: australiainstitute.org.au/post/forget-...

Big gas claims there's a shortage, while they export 80% of our gas.

To add insult to injury, it's driving our energy prices up.

Please share our TV ad, and add your name to the petition ⤵️
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“I tied an onion to my belt which was the style at the time”….

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

The beauty of Blue Sky and the underpinning protocol is that it is possible to host the required services outside of the US and still participate in the discussions on Blue Sky.

Heck, there’s even a variety of clients so you are not stuck with just the bsky app, you can choose a different one.

The relationship has definitely followed the trajectory of Musk’s SpaceX starships - loud & fiery launch followed by a rapid disassembly 🚀💥

The gas industry has had higher profit margins than ANY other sector in Australia over the last few years.

That's unsurprising when you know how little tax they pay. A THREAD (1/5)

You would think that reducing Govt funding to private schools would enable supply of lunches in public ones. But the private schools wouldn’t want their profits reduced, so would get more 💰 and the public schools would again be underfunded. Entrenching the existing private school grift.

The real cover-up is of Trump's disordered mental state Sanewashing didn't end with the 2024 campaign.

Must-read! 👇🏽

2020s - Social Media "Celebrity"?

Super stoush reveals teals’ leanings The attacks on Labor’s proposed superannuation tax reform have exposed inconsistencies in the progressive agendas of the independents.

This seems to be a pretty good explanation on the proposed tax on superannuation over $3M & why the independents are opposing it.

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/20839/...

The Milky Way as seen from the Coorong

The Milky Way as seen from the Coorong

Night sky from the Coorong

California has got really good at building giant batteries At peak times they provide 30% of the state’s electricity

www.economist.com/united-state...

the 7th Apollo launch successfully carried a crew. the 8th took people to lunar orbit. the 11th landed people on the moon.

"starship" has launched 9 times and each one has exploded. at this point, they're just very expensive fireworks.

Starship Was Doomed From The Beginning The fatal flaw SpaceX can't overcome.

Starship was doomed to fail because the entire concept is flawed and Musk doesn't understand engineering: www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/starship-w...

"Approval of the North West Shelf extension would be easily one of the worst decisions ever made by an Environment Minister in Australia's history," said @grogsgamut.bsky.social.