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Dad Jokes @dadsaysjokes.com · 16h

Math is hard, 15+15 is thirty...

But 16+16 is thirty too.

Saji Weerasingham @sajilicious.bsky.social · 16h

Some good explanations and whiteboarding of why these two managers are trying very different results #manchesterunited #manutd #premierleague #footballtactics

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Why Man Utd's 3-4-3 doesn't work (but Palace's does)

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Independent Media Australia. @indymediaaus.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18h

Snowy 2.0 legal cost avalanche – more public money spent hushing more public information https://michaelwest.com.au/snowy-2-0-legal-cost-avalanche/ #auspol

Snowy 2.0 legal cost avalanche – more public money spent hushing more public information

The Government has confessed to the Senate that it has spent $600K on lawyers to prevent the early warnings signs of Snowy 2.0 cost and schedule blowouts from being made public.

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David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 17h

The Albanese govt’s first term was the second most secretive on record.

Rather than changing their ways, they’re doubling down and tightening our FOI system to make it even harder to get information. Not a single expert or member of parliament outside of the Labor party has backed their new bill.

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Troy Hunt @troyhunt.com · 3d

Who here has ever given their data to Qantas 😬 youtu.be/u7QTR3yMxW0?...

Should Qantas customers be alarmed by cybercriminals ransom threats? | ABC NEWS

YouTube video by ABC News (Australia)

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ardalis (Steve Smith) @ardalis.com · 2d

AI better be topping (or close) the updated OWASP Top 10 lists…

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#ai #security #infosec

New Research: AI Is Already the #1 Data Exfiltration Channel in the Enterprise

LayerX finds AI tools now drive most enterprise data leaks, with 77% of sensitive data pasted via personal accounts.

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Saji Weerasingham @sajilicious.bsky.social · 2d

Discussion about Sir Jim Ratcliffe's recent interview with a really good section about the academy

#manchesterunited #manutd #talkofthedevils #premierleague

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Ratcliffe on Amorim & Man United Academy in focus

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Dev Leader @devleader.ca · 3d

Name a better measure of quality. I'll wait.

#SoftwareEngineering #Developers #Memes

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The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 3d

Winning government from opposition broadly involves three stages: establishing competence, offering an alternative vision of government, and surviving the campaign.

👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/compete...

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 3d

The Treasury Debt is up before Senate estimates. So I'm watching to help out @amyremeikis.bsky.social with the live blog. Expect the LNP senators to have a lot of "climate change, is it *really* that bad???" questions
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Australia Institute Live: 'I'm very proud of the team I lead' says Sussan Ley as she's forced to fend off party room woes for the third day All the day's events, as it happens

It's the final day of the House sitting, with estimates hearings continuing and the Coalition still in a mess. All the day's events, with fact checks, live.

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Dr Richard Denniss @richarddenniss.bsky.social · 3d

I don’t know about you, but I’m a bit scared of any new ‘environment laws’ that Labor can get Matt Canavan and Andrew Hastie to vote for…I think they will be better described as ‘ how to build more mines faster laws’ www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Watt nears deal with Coalition to finally overhaul environment laws

Environment Minister Murray Watt will sit down with his Liberal counterpart Angie Bell today, with quiet optimism in both parties that a deal might soon be struck to finally rewrite Australia's "broke...

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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 3d

By some estimates, OpenAI has this year inked $1 trillion dollars worth of infrastructure deals. Altman says to expect even more.

Even after Stargate, Oracle, Nvidia and AMD, OpenAI has more big deals coming soon, Sam Altman says | TechCrunch

By some estimates, OpenAI has this year inked $1 trillion dollars worth of infrastructure deals. Altman says to expect even more.

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Ebony Bennett @ebonybennett.bsky.social · 3d

That tells you everything you need to know.

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 3d

It's good that the govt is rolling out a robotax scheme to get old debts from individuals, that should fix things....

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Tables showing from 2013-14 to 2023-24 Santos Ltd had $46.7bn in revenue and paid $0 tax

Year Total income ($m) Taxable income ($m) Tax payable ($m)
2014-15 $3,389.4 $0.0 $0.0
2015-16 $3,476.0 $0.0 $0.0
2016-17 $3,715.3 $0.0 $0.0
2017-18 $3,498.0 $0.0 $0.0
2018-19 $4,360.6 $8.3 $0.0
2019-20 $5,013.9 $29.0 $0.0
2020-21 $4,070.3 $68.8 $0.0
2021-22 $4,746.0 $74.1 $0.0
2022-23 $6,257.4 $19.8 $0.0
2023-24 $8,210.3 $21.2 $0.0
Total $46,737.3 $221.2 $0.0

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 3d

Hey lovelies: here's part 2 of my @crikey.com.au series on Meta's massive new effort to wildly worsen their climate damage but mask that by lobbying to change the way emissions are measured.

IT IS EXTREMELY SNEAKY

Inside Meta's fight to change climate reality... all so it can frantically expand a risky AI program

Everyone is ignoring the science on what Meta’s generative AI investment really costs, even though there's no evidence of a single, significant societal benefit.

www.crikey.com.au

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 3d

F*cking hell.

As @amyremeikis.bsky.social notes, this is WHY we need IR regulations.
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‘Baby Priya’ bill to be introduced into parliament
Amanda Rishworth is introducing a bill to the parliament that will stop employers from being able to cancel maternity/paternity leave in the event of a stillbirth or an early infant death.

It has been sparked by the case of Baby Priya, who was born three months early and lived for 42 days before passing. Priya’s mother (she has been asked not to be identified) rang her employer of 11 years to tell her of the loss, and then soon after received a text message telling her her three months maternity leave had been cancelled and she was only allowed four weeks paid personal leave.

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 3d

Labor of course do not need one single vote of the LNP to pass any laws, so they are choosing to make the laws weaker.

Dr Richard Denniss @richarddenniss.bsky.social · 3d

I don’t know about you, but I’m a bit scared of any new ‘environment laws’ that Labor can get Matt Canavan and Andrew Hastie to vote for…I think they will be better described as ‘ how to build more mines faster laws’ www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Watt nears deal with Coalition to finally overhaul environment laws

Environment Minister Murray Watt will sit down with his Liberal counterpart Angie Bell today, with quiet optimism in both parties that a deal might soon be struck to finally rewrite Australia's "broke...

www.abc.net.au

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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 3d

BREAKING: Crikey understands both the opposition and the crossbench, including the Greens, are opposed to Labor's bill, meaning it will struggle to get through the Senate.

Barely anyone except Labor supports the government's FOI reforms

Those opposed to the tightening of Australia's freedom of information regime are gathering force, meaning Labor will struggle to drag its bill through the Senate.

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Aaron Powell (@slace) @aaron-powell.com · 3d

I've enrolled the Awesome Copilot repo for #Hacktoberfest, so if you want to join the challenge, you now can with github.com/github/aweso...

GitHub - github/awesome-copilot: Community-contributed instructions, prompts, and configurations to help you make the most of GitHub Copilot.

Community-contributed instructions, prompts, and configurations to help you make the most of GitHub Copilot. - github/awesome-copilot

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Troy Hunt @troyhunt.com · 3d

As the clock counts down to the deadline the Qantas hackers have threatened to publish their data on, how much will the court injunction actually help the breach victims (which includes me)? www.troyhunt.com/court-injunc...

Court Injunctions are the Thoughts and Prayers of Data Breach Response

You see it all the time after a tragedy occurs somewhere, and people flock to offer their sympathies via the "thoughts and prayers" line. Sympathy is great, and we should all express that sentiment…

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The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 3d

Here’s what happens in your brain when you can’t get a tune out of your head.

👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/why-do-...

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 3d

Allowing unrestricted gas exports from the east coast of Australia has resulted in domestic wholesale gas prices more than tripling and electricity prices doubling, our research found.

Read:

Gas exports have tripled Australian gas prices and doubled electricity prices

New Australia Institute research reveals that gas exports have led to the tripling of wholesale east coast gas prices and doubling of electricity prices, since exports began in 2015.

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 3d

Ed Husic, Labor MP, made some great points on Afternoon Briefing yesterday.

"The reason why prices are so high is because we export a phenomenal amount of gas."

We can remedy supply constraints without opening new gas projects by diverting uncontracted gas to the domestic market.

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NPR @npr.org · 3d

When millions lost power in Spain and Portugal this spring, some were quick to blame too much solar and wind power. That wasn't the cause, but the misinformation had an impact. n.pr/4nLAI7A

After Spain's blackout, critics blamed renewable energy. It's part of a bigger attack

When millions lost power in Spain and Portugal this spring, some were quick to blame too much solar and wind power. That wasn't the cause, but the misinformation had an impact.

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Scott Hamilton @sdhamiltonvic.bsky.social · 4d

Unfortunately, no surprise here…

‘Australia’s reworked environmental laws will not include a climate trigger, the federal environment minister has confirmed.’ #ClimateCrisis #Renewables #auspol reneweconomy.com.au/watt-confirm...

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