Fergus Ryan

Fed's Kashkari says he hasn't seen large-scale unemployment due to AI

Cheer Up, or Else. China Cracks Down on the Haters and Cynics

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That pink one in the middle.

When you’re reading a NYT story about China’s latest censorship campaign and spot your old apartment in Sanlitun.

From: Sent: Thursday, 18 September 2025 2:45 PM To: cialerts < @communications.gov.au> Cc: @mo.communications.gov.au; < @optus.com.au>; Optus Government Affairs < @optus.com.au> Subject: NOTIFICATION | Issue with calls to Triple Zero in SA and WA Good aernoon team, I have just been informed that Optus has received reports that some customers in SA and WA are experiencing impacts to Triple Zero calls. Suspected cause has been indicated to stem from our Regency Park exchange (which services SA and WA), this matter is urgently being worked through. - 3 I have no further details yet, but our Networks team have commenced the welfare check processes and relevant protocols. As more information is made available, I will provide updates, and let you know when the issue is resolved. Kind regards, Associate Director, Government Affairs 1 Lyonpark Road, Macquarie Park, NSW 2113 Aust

News out of estimates today is that Optus sent the alert about the triple zero outage to the department to an old communications email address for outages, not a new one, and the government didn't see it til later.

Sora is not the real problem here. The real problem is that in 12, at most 24 months, there will be a Sora clone from Tencent or Alibaba that is just as good and can be run by anybody with a 5099, at which point everyone in society needs to rapidly agree to treat all digital video as fake, period.

I have yet to hear of any accounts or connections between Kirk's shooter and Twitch, or reddit. There were supposed accounts from his partner and roommate, but who knows. Why not Twitter? I think the answer to that question is glaringly obvious.

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Neo-Nazi dentist and member of the National Socialist Network, Ian Lomax, has been suspended from practising. Happy Friday.

US Congress has formally invited the CEOs of Discord, Steam, Twitch & Reddit to testify on radicalization.

Why didn't they ask Kick to come too?

Is it just because those four were allegedly tied to Kirk’s shooter?

Research from economists at the Yale University Budget Lab and the Brookings Institution shows little evidence that cutting-edge tech such as chatbots is putting people out of work.

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Last night, the ADL took down its "Glossary of antisemitism" which included an entry for the term "globalist," describing it as a far-right codeword for Jews.

Hours later, the official DHS account authors a post with a common far-right meme, saying that "globalists" will be denied entry to the US.

Here's a video I made of Sam Altman as a World War 2 leader in an Axis uniform

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

loved this book

Tech companies consider giving up efforts to combat misinformation online in Australia Critics say misinformation is a big problem that social media platforms profit from

The tech industry is considering abandoning its obligations to combat online misinformation in Australia, claiming that regulation is too “politically charged and contentious”. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/o...

A very efficient, distilled and to me pretty persuasive version of the bear case against AI economics.

Ok as of now, if you really rely on LLMs for close reading of government regulations, the interpretation will be mediocre to poor. I think Gemini is pretty good for Chinese material but even it misses many things which would be obvious to a trained human analyst

Freya Leach’s Sky News Australia program axed after airing anti-Islam guest wearing shirt covered in bacon Freya Fires Up night show cancelled but presenter to remain as co-host of a different program

Six episodes has got to be some kind of record. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/s...

damn, I wonder what hell will be like for those countries? kindergarteners being gunned down in their classrooms and nothing being done, families bankrupted by healthcare tied to their jobs?

David Letterman is right: you can't appease a tyrant.

STEWART: “Comedy doesn’t change the world, but it’s a bellwether— we’re the banana peel in the coal mine… authoritarians are the threat to comedy, music, art, thought… progress.”

Nailed it.

YouTube video by 涵瞰世界 Devil's Advocate EP16 破桥 Moreless 查理柯克遇刺与言论自由

我与@moreless.bsky.social和破桥讨论查理柯克事件之后的美国言论自由状况
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Opinion | The FCC, Disney and Jimmy Kimmel The right gives the left a dose of cancel culture and regulatory abuse.

WSJ editorial board: "The political cycle of using government to punish opponents is taking the country into dark corners that will result in less freedom, and less free speech, for all sides..." www.wsj.com/opinion/fcc-...

Charlie Kirk's alleged assassin was charged with murder overnight. A public memorial for Kirk, the right-wing activist, influencer and close associate of Donald Trump, will take place in Arizona this weekend. The US President and Vice President are expected to attend. The Trump Administration has Hasan Piker speaks out against ‘dishonest’ rhetoric about Charlie Kirk | 7.30

Hasan Piker argues that Charlie Kirk’s surge in Gen Z popularity was no accident.

TikTok, “fearful of a ban,” gave him “an algorithm boost” that pushed his content “in front of a lot more people,” helping Turning Point USA break through on the platform.

Yeah, no thanks

Lethal highways: the Indigenous pedestrian deaths that haunt the Northern Territory Aboriginal people in the NT are 15 times more likely to be killed by a car than pedestrians elsewhere in Australia. And efforts to reduce the toll have come up against widespread acceptance of Territo...

Here’s that investigation. Thoughts with all the families affected by these senseless deaths and particularly callous racism.

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Fatal hit-run driver condemned for bragging about running men down The Northern Territory's Director of Public Prosecutions is considering whether to appeal a decision to allow a young fatal hit-and-run driver who bragged to his friends afterwards to avoid jail time.

In 2023, I spent a few months investigating why so many Aboriginal pedestrians were killed in road accidents in the NT. There was a lingering sense that racism played a part in this over representation, and that some drivers were dehumanising Aboriginal people. And lo: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Yes

Remember when good chunks of Bluesky were adamant that Biden was up to the job, even though his brain had just dribbled out of his ears in a televised debate?

The same thing is happening with Kirk's assassin. It really does look like he's not a Groyper, everyone. He shot him coz he was anti-trans.

General pattern in regime change: the comedy gets better and then it gets banned.