Ian Kath

YouTube video by Paul Kelly Paul Kelly - Rita Wrote A Letter (Official Video)

Happy #GravyDay

If you missed this, today’s the day to find out what happened next: youtu.be/EwFUkm1iJ7E?...

And lovely to thank them with a bottle of vino. 😊

I suppose Dick Van Dyke and he will just have to spend more time together.

Long term ice core studies show that similar events have happened over the millennia. When compared the 1859 solar storm barely even register. They are historically much, much worse.

My 20kw panels and 48kWh battery installs next month. It’s a total no brainer to pull money from my super for this and be financially better off in the long term.

Guardian Essential poll: only a quarter of older Australians believe climate change can be prevented Results show a ‘general sense of gloom’ as fewer Australians now believe climate change is caused by humans compared with March

We’re fucked.
With these declining percentages of people believing in climate change there’s no way things will turn around. People just don’t understand the basic science. And we grey beards can already compare the difference from our youth so we’re in despair 😩

I assume you’re elbow deep in the sewer of the filter?

I call it the wrist slashing music I despise. Until I heard “Cowgirl in the Rain”, the only song I feel is a little uplifting.

Toyota HiLux EV and ‘game-changing’ hydrogen ute confirmed for Australia The popular Toyota HiLux is losing its petrol engine but keeping diesel power while gaining both electric and hydrogen fuel-cell versions.

Toyota is so late to the party I doubt this will make a great impact. Sure they’ll sell a few BEVs but chasing the hydrogen boondoggle is a complete waste. In the mean time Chinese BEVs will eat their lunch.

A couple. Diving that deep is just depressing. I’ve got a good enough understanding from the read.

Australian households to get free electricity three hours a day Saying there is enough solar power for everyone in the daytime, the federal government will direct retailers to provide three hours of free power every day to consumers.

This is what we’ll see more of as we move over to the electrification of everything

Ta. I deeply hope he’s wrong. I’ll dig into your suggestion.

Yes I noticed that when I looked it up but tho it may be a false memory I feel like I saw it at a theatre. It was 40 years ago 🤷‍♂️ I’m ambivalent either way but good on ya for noticing.

Nice to hear the Hollow Books are being put to good use.

Front cover of the book white cover with black text, If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies THE CASE AGAINST SUPERINTELLIGENT AI Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares 'A loud trumpet call to humanity to awaken us as we sleepwalk into disaster STEPHEN FRY On a grey cloth background.

Thanks to @documental.ly substack (which I’ve been a paid reader for years) I’ve just read this sobering account about Superintelligent AI.

I haven’t felt this way since walking out of the cinema after seeing “The Day After” in 1983. I’m just much older and have less life to miss out on this time.

Watch the Sci-Fi Short Film “I’m Not a Robot”: Winner of a 2025 Academy Award Victoria Warmerdam, the writer and director of the short film, 'I’m Not a Robot,' summarizes the plot of her 22-minute film as follows:

I’m Not a Robot – What a great little film.

When you spend years striving for a goal, it’s an odd feeling to finally arrive. Six years and I’m now retired in my new home.

After nearly 50 working years I’m retiring in 5 hours. And other than payroll and my immediate supervisor, no one knows.

Thirty years ago we paid off the house and we’re mortgage free. A month later we broke up. I’ve been paying rent and mortgage ever since… Until today. Accommodation is now fully paid for. What a relief.

Oh stop talking of the Liberal party memebership

Could a planet really develop a brain? "My contention is that Earth may, if we are lucky and diligent and clever enough, grow an emergent superconsciousness."

Gaia theory has always been a concept I’ve been fascinated with. This is an extension where we have a global intelligence.

www.livescience.com/technology/c...

Robert Francis Prevost becomes Pope Leo XIV as cardinals elect first US pontiff Announcement prompts raucous celebration and delight among 50,000 pilgrims and tourists in St Peter’s Square

Well so much for any more career advancement 🤷‍♂️

Just bought an Atto 3 myself.

On Monday, does Peter Dutton have to go to his parliamentary office to clean it out or do they just send him the boxes? I suppose he could just ask John Howard.

“We’ve tried Dutton - what else have we got? Well not much because if Angus Taylor is the answer, it’s a stupid question.” — Graham Richardson

One in five Australians used to watch this show. Now clips thought lost forever have been found Every week, Sunday night six o'clock, Australians settled down to watch a show so famous even King Charles III made an appearance.

My lifetime has now become history.
This is introducing Countdown to younger generations as a historical phenomenon and for me it’s my youth.

How nice it is to see the moon the “correct” way up. So rarely do we see an image from the southern hemisphere.

Dire wolves are back from extinction. Here's how. Dire wolves, made famous by HBO's Game of Thrones, have been extinct for around 12,500 years. But thanks to genetic engineers at biotech company Colossal Biosciences, these majestic predators are back...

Wow! www.livescience.com/animals/exti...

Oh, That’s perfect.