Miguel D'Souza

Alright, I think people knew of the tariff pause and traded it beforehand.

You can see before Trump posted "buy" on Truth Social, traders opened $QQQ $TQQQ and $SPY calls

RIGHT BEFORE THE NEWS, someone opened $SPY 509 calls, expiring TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Those calls are up 2100% in one hour.

Meta ends fact checks as it prepares for Trump era Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg ends fact-checking on Facebook and Instagram in favor of community notes, calling the recent election “a cultural tipping point.”

Breaking: Meta ends fact-checking, presumably because reality is now optional. Coming soon: gravity is just a theory, and the moon is actually a giant space cookie. Critical truth update failed: installing flat earth patch. #MetaVerse​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Listening to Jim Maxwell annoyed by the Indian fielders' chat, calling them 'children, a cage of canaries' and other terms of ridicule remind me of when people would shout 'speak English!' at someone speaking a native tongue on the train. And just completely missed a dismissal. Time to go, old man.

Palestinian voices silenced: 14 months of ABC’s RN Breakfast Coverage - Pearls and Irritations The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) is widely regarded as one of the most trusted brands in Australian media. This trust is underpinned by the ABC’s editorial policies. Among these policies,...

Palestinian voices silenced: 14 months of ABC’s RN Breakfast Coverage - johnmenadue.com/palestinian-...

A graph showing what Lil Wayne spent his ittle-known pandemic-relief program money on

Lil Wayne received an $8.9 million grant from a little-known pandemic-relief program. Here's how he spent it: www.businessinsider.com/lil-wayne-ch...

Quick IP Australia search for the shite Rachael Gunn has applied for trademarks for. She gets less funny the further away we get from her umm, performance at the olympics. search.ipaustralia.gov.au/trademarks/s...

Remembering Mohamed Bouazizi: The man who sparked the Arab Spring Ten years ago, a Tunisian fruit vendor set himself on fire. His cousin reflects on that day and what followed.

www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

Antisemitism envoy criticised over 'dangerous' call to ban pro-Palestinian city protests Jillian Segal's comments have been described by one Palestinian advocate as "a thinly veiled attempt" to "silence critics of the Israeli government".

This genuinely scares me, as an Australian Jew

The refusal to accept legitimate criticism, and the awful accusation that legitimate criticism is antisemitic, is, imho, among the leading drivers of antisemitism, and paints our community in a very negative light.

It’s what I feared from the envoy

Freed prisoner who said he was a victim of the Assad regime was an intelligence officer, locals say | CNN A man who was filmed by CNN being released by rebels from a Damascus jail was a former intelligence officer with the deposed Syrian regime, according to local residents, and not an ordinary citizen wh...

A man who was filmed by CNN being released by rebels from a Damascus jail was a former intelligence officer with the deposed Syrian regime, according to local residents, and not an ordinary citizen who had been imprisoned, as he had claimed.

Did CNN Fabricate the Story of "Freeing a Prisoner from a Secret Jail"? On December 12, CNN published a video report on its website, YouTube, and X (formerly Twitter) titled, 'CNN Reporter Documents a Shocking Moment of Finding a Prisoner Held in a Secret Syrian Jail, Una...

Verify Syria's report on CNN verify-sy.com/en/details/1...

CNN Investigating Identity of Prisoner Freed in Clarissa Ward Video: He ‘May Have Given a False Identity’ The network "reported the scene as it unfolded," a CNN spokesperson tells TheWrap

A @cnn.com spokesperson has told @TheWrap that the network is aware of reports raising questions about the Clarissa Ward Syria detainee segment.

“We have subsequently been investigating his background and are aware that he may have given a false identity.” www.thewrap.com/cnn-investig...

This seems worth following.

Please help pushback against Dutton and News Corp’s nuclear disinformation by sharing these very simple FACTS which show nuclear power is more expensive, slower and will contribute a tiny share of power generation as compared to renewables. The nuclear campaign is designed to undermine renewables👇🏻

Taken at 2:21am this morning. So this is what he gets up to.

3. It gives section headings even if it's a large PDF such as this one.

But in this case, it was unable to generate an outline.

Temporary Pacific workers in Aus not only pay more tax than residents in the same job, workers from some countries are potentially paying enough in tax to fund the bilateral development assistance Aus gives their countries.
*Assuming 38-hr week
#auspol
australiainstitute.org.au/wp-content/u...

ChatGPT still generates fake references to papers that don't even exist.

And Google just launched Gemini Deep Research.

It generates well-researched articles with references to published sources.

This will change the way we do literature reviews.

Here's how to use it:

Danish universities have developed an online course on how to use generative AI for academic purposes:

It's self-paced and totally free.

Link: teachgenai.au.dk/learn-genai/...

2024. The year the anon staff survey pivoted

CSIRO patiently and methodically slaps down Peter Dutton’s nuclear nonsense CSIRO slaps down major nuclear talking points promoted by Coalition leader Peter Dutton in its latest GenCost report, which confirms – yet again – that integrated wind and solar are eas…

CSIRO slaps down major #nuclear talking points promoted by Coalition leader Peter Dutton in its latest GenCost report, which confirms – yet again – that integrated wind and solar are easily the cheapest option

Al-Assad in Moscow as Syrians worldwide celebrate fall of regime Syria’s longtime ruler fled earlier today and was granted asylum by Russia after opposition groups stormed Damascus.

Al-Jazeera's blog on the evolving situation in Syria is a must read - while Assad gets asylum in Russia, Syria's White Helmets need search and rescue, a team to dig through walls, to open iron doors, a team of trained dogs, and an ambulance to find his detainees/victims. aje.io/rwjkou

Education Is Key to Fighting Disinformation on Social Media In our interconnected modern world, education is critical in the fight against disinformation.

My new piece for the New York Times, where I make the case that we need a lot more education to deal with disinformation, not more censorship and fact checks
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/s...

Verifying Gaza - verification and data tools - start.me News, data and verification resources for journalists covering or checking stories from Gaza. If you want to make any suggestions or submissions, find Miguel D'Souza and let him know, If you'v...

Time to share this toolset for verifying content from Gaza, always happy for suggestions. Where possible, I've filtered for countries or regions involved.
start.me/p/gGndyM/ver...

New Cerulean Feature: Custom Areas of Interest (AOIs) 📍

With AOIs, you can now explore oil slicks in areas you care about by creating custom polygons, uploading your own geometry, and viewing a count of selected oil slicks and their total area (km2)

Create your own AOI: cerulean.skytruth.org 🌊

Certain names make ChatGPT grind to a halt, and we know why Filter resulting from subject of settled defamation lawsuit could cause trouble down the road.

Ars Technica might have the answer arstechnica.com/information-...

Act now to stop millions of research papers from disappearing Digital preservation is not keeping up with the growth of scholarly knowledge. Recognizing its causes is the first step to securing records everywhere for future generations.

And here I was thinking academic publishers were putting all those billions they earn from the paper they publish into securing these for future research. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

South Korean voters, take a bow! No dic(khead)tator will mess with your democratic rights.

Verifying Gaza - verification and data tools - start.me News, data and verification resources for journalists covering or checking stories from Gaza. If you want to make any suggestions or submissions, find Miguel D'Souza and let him know, If you'v...

Resource for journalists covering the Gaza conflict - I will keep updating this and just added a section for weapons identification, arms manufacture databases. start.me/p/gGndyM/ver...

Front page of the Herald Sun with a headline that reads: "Step on the Gas"

Shot of the double page spread from the Herald Sun promoting gas development.

A highlighted section acknowledging that the spread was sponsored by the Australian Pipelines Association, Tamboran, Santos and Jemena.

I have spent a lot of time reporting on, and writing about, fossil fuel sponsorship. It's very rare you get a working demonstration of why this matters. This double page spread in the Herald Sun was just sent to me with calls for more gas extraction -- sponsored by the gas industry.