Rorie Gilligan

Missed his flight on the evening of the 10th, caught the 2 am flight instead of the one at 8 that got hijacked

I'm surprised that there are still people defending him, but I really shouldn't be. It's just baffling that he still has a reputation for being a "genius innovator."

Thiel was almost on one of the planes hijacked on September 11th.

[To the tune of Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison]

🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Walking down the street
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵House with chicken feet
🎵Baba Yaga

if microsoft just made outlook search not suck they'd see triple the productivity gains of any AI integration

Cooking dirt again

He missed the point of the joke he clumsily recited about economics.

It soothes my bitter heart to know that no matter how much money Elon Musk has, he will never, ever be funny

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a quick thread of some of the references to Australia in the newly released Epstein documents that I found

Sally McManus (ACTU) on Nazis.

*I'dd that smashing labour unions was critical to the Nazi rise to power in GER, and the labour movement a key target. >

Australia had a lot of graphic PSAs about the dangers of skin cancer.

That's how I remember being taught in primary school in Australia in the mid-late 90s.

Talking about radioactive rocks at work today, or what I spent 2012-2016 studying.

Haha, this from the New Yorker is getting passed around the math dork community. I did a comic about this kind of thought a few years ago: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/commut...

W wasn't even alive when it happened, born in mid '46.

Obergruppenführer Greg Cow

ceo of mcdonalds say big mac yum yum

One of the things that Australia really excels at is consumer protection.

His late dad had much better politics

It's turning around alright, but not in a good way.

Chinese astronauts become the first to grill wings in space, paving the way for future uncstronauts

My dad knew Cheney since he was fords chief of staff and would always say “i liked him then. Idk what the hell happened”
In the run up to the second Iraq war my dad wrote an article comparing it to the gulf of Tonkin and Cheney himself made sure my father was fired from his gov job

Anyway he’s dead

Quick everyone make the good tweets about dick cheney before all the Americans wake up

american indie developer deciding on a setting: in a cozy mountain town surrounded by wholesome yokai, ghibli inspired cooperative sustainable cherry blossoms and you can pet the dog french indie developer deciding on a setting: in a world where the gestalt misery of colonisation's victims has manifested into a sort of misery elemental, three church-like religious organisations hav[nine more paragraphs that leave you feeling like you know less than you knew before you started reading] polish indie developer deciding on a setting: warsaw👍🇵🇱 it is very bad

every science news article is like "chinese researchers invent cure for hurting your back getting out of bed" and every science policy news article is like "uncomfortable bed lobby successfully lobbies trump admin with $500 bribe"

Part of Silicon Valley exceptionalism is this culture of bullshit and fantasy that Americans are just programmed into believing. The spiritual void of America is the engine of tech-capitalism.

Excerpt for Karen Hao's 'Empire of AI'

Probably just as well the Japanese never made it to New Zealand.

Before he attracted infamy for pushing fake covid cures, Craig Kelly caused a minor diplomatic incident between Australia and Croatia by speaking at an event glorifying the NDH as a sitting MP.

One thing that threw me off that one time I visited the US was how massive the vehicles were.

I've sometimes heard those massive trucks disparagingly called "yank tanks" in Australia, where they're much less common.