David Harrison

fuck what an incendiary quote, from a recruiter of all people

Feels like the obvious thing to do here would be some quick, simple legislation (hah) that ensures tariff reimbursements flow through to consumers and don't just end up as corporate windfall

Unavailable in Australia :(

So far this year, U.S.-domiciled investors have pulled $52 billion out of US equity products — “the most in the first eight weeks of the year since at least 2010.” 😔

@reuters.com #ByeAmerica
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just read a story about a little boy in SC who just learned to ride a bike but he was unvaxxed and got measles and got really sick and got a spinal tap and then pumped with medicines and then his brain swelled anyway and now he won't ever walk or eat on his own and he definitely won't ride a bike

feels like charity at this point

How is it possible to make a post like this about a death penalty topic where the written summary is different to the headline in the actual article? Isn't this what editors are for? Do they still exist or did we just give up

world's most hurried hate crime laws going pretty much as expected

Australia Post doing NFTs while arguing delivering the mail is becoming too expensive.

Same. I only lived to my 2nd birthday because of antibiotics, probably only made it to 5 because of vaccines, would have been blind by 25 and dead by 40 for different reasons (survived both crises because of modern medical interventions).

Fuck that RFK Jr. shitheel. I hope he dies of cysticercosis.

Will the government finally deliver a housing policy that stops making a bad situation worse? | Greg Jericho The 5% deposit guarantee has done what everyone expected to housing affordability. But fixing the capital gains tax discount would be a great move

My column on new data that shows how the 5% deposit guarantee raised house prices just like we all said it would.

www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

Telstra to cut 209 jobs from AI joint venture, offshoring work to India

📢 The telco giant has proposed to slash hundreds of jobs from its joint venture with consulting firm Accenture after cutting thousands of roles in the past two years and bolstering its AI capabilities.

This week Section 230 turned 30, and you'll see a bunch of posts on Techdirt today and the rest of the week about the importance of Section 230, but my first contribution this week is how the arguments against 230 are so contradictory that it should give everyone pause to consider why.

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

Solar and numerous crops are complements and I am tiring of FUD indicating otherwise as the peer reviewed experimental evidence piles up. #EnergySky

You push a commit. You wait. A runner picks it up. You watch logs scroll. Something fails. The error looks like someone fed a stack trace through a paper shredder and then set the shredder on fire. You add a run: env step to see what’s going on. You push again. You wait again. A twenty-minute feedback loop for a one-line change. You do this fourteen times. This is your afternoon now. You had plans. You were going to go outside. The afternoon belongs to the CI now. It has always belonged to the CI. You are only now perceiving this truth.

www.iankduncan.com/engineering/...

We should get rid of cars in cities. If that's impossible, we should get rid of human-driven cars[1] in cities. Advocating for a situation that results in an incredible number of preventable deaths per year is just fucking ludicrous.

[1] Teslas count as human-driven

krugman is spiking the football and doing an end zone dance

Worth noting that MSTR has a lot of BTC, but not as much as in ETFs - this post just yesterday from @benmckenzie.bsky.social (the halcyon days of yore when MSTR's haul was worth $60b) has $170b in cryptoasset ETFs.

bsky.app/profile/benm...

It was $16k just a few years ago. Still a long way down.

I am dreading the future in which people decide what news to pay attention to and/or believe based on who has the most mainstream-acceptable AI avatar delivering it

I hate it here

oh no! anyway,,

*BITCOIN EXTENDS DROP TO BELOW $65,000 AS DELEVERAGING QUICKENS

Panel 1: Exec: "Ok guys ok ok we won't kill Adobe Animate." Crowd: "Phew" "thank fuck" "That's better" "I'm still switching to something else." "No yeah you really should" Panel 2: Exec: "Unfortunately we will also stop adding new features to it." Crowd: "WOO!!!" "It's a dream come true!" "Yeah!" "Finally!" Exec: "... um. Why are they cheering"

maintenance mode

Thread about why this crypto crash might be “the big one” 🧵

I am curious if this kind of thing is why so many people can so easily anthropomorphise "AI" things - because they are good at seeing the shapes and outline of common human-like behaviours, and from there it's a quick step to assigning them to software.

am I reading this wrong or does this sentence just sort of trail off here

Why should renters like me have to trade away our privacy just to get a roof over our heads? | Samantha Floreani The rise in real estate tech means renters often hand over huge amounts of revealing information to digital third parties – at great risk

News came out today of serious security vulnerabilities in seven popular Australian ‘RentTech’ platforms, leaving millions of documents containing renter personal information exposed. Renters often have no choice but to use these apps in order to secure housing.

I wrote about it for the Guardian:

Right, ta. I guess I was mostly asking if there was a possibility of them getting margin called if the BTC price dropped too far but sounds like that is not likely. Just wondering if the decline is going to happen suddenly and precipitously or just going to be draaaaaaaaged out for ever

What are the implications if it drops below the cost basis for an extended period?

where is that Shakespeare bot with the amazing apropos-of-nothing quotes with to drop a "the lady doth protest too much, methinks"

My erudition is very limited, and many of you will have better literary examples, but what is happening in the US at the moment seems to be Isherwood’s Berlin stories re-written for the American urban experience by Shirley Jackson.

How every thing we see hints at wider cruelties.