@davidpenington.bsky.social
Database systems, father of adult offspring, cyclist, retired from sailing, auspol.
Mathematics & science background
Mathematics & science background
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“Providing housing to people sleeping rough is unsurprisingly highly effective at keeping people stably housed.”
With a positive return to government on every dollar spent. What a no brainer
With a positive return to government on every dollar spent. What a no brainer
How much does it cost to end rough sleeping? An Australian-first study may have just found out
theconversation.com/how-much-doe...
theconversation.com/how-much-doe...
How much does it cost to end rough sleeping? An Australian-first study may have just found out
A new study has revealed how many homes would be needed to end rough sleeping in three major Australian cities – and the costs.
theconversation.com
December 19, 2025 at 12:31 AM
“Providing housing to people sleeping rough is unsurprisingly highly effective at keeping people stably housed.”
With a positive return to government on every dollar spent. What a no brainer
With a positive return to government on every dollar spent. What a no brainer
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Brown has over 1,200 cameras and it wasn’t enough because cameras are a security blanket we’ve all been sold. They don’t prevent crimes and they barely solve crimes but in the meantime surveillance companies got rich and no one had to address the societal root causes of crime and violence.
Brown University has over 1,200 surveillance cameras. Why that wasn’t enough to capture video of the shooting suspect | CNN
CNN spoke to several security experts to better understand the growth of Brown’s surveillance system, why its cameras failed to capture the attack or suspect, and the concerns about privacy and academ...
www.cnn.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Brown has over 1,200 cameras and it wasn’t enough because cameras are a security blanket we’ve all been sold. They don’t prevent crimes and they barely solve crimes but in the meantime surveillance companies got rich and no one had to address the societal root causes of crime and violence.
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Finally, someone in the media has highlighted the hypocrisy of the Coalition who previously advocated that freedom of speech was more important than hate speech.
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
Finally, someone in the media has highlighted the hypocrisy of the Coalition who previously advocated that freedom of speech was more important than hate speech.
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
Two years have flipped the script on free speech. Now Australia is in new territory
Legislating around hate speech has never been straightforward, but the Bondi attack has shifted the debate. Labor’s new laws will put that public sentiment to the test.
www.smh.com.au
December 19, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Finally, someone in the media has highlighted the hypocrisy of the Coalition who previously advocated that freedom of speech was more important than hate speech.
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
Finally, someone in the media has highlighted the hypocrisy of the Coalition who previously advocated that freedom of speech was more important than hate speech.
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
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Josh lying for political gain.
Who’d have thunk it.
Who’d have thunk it.
Or Port Arthur. It wasn’t even the biggest massacre of white people in Australia.
Revisionist history for political gain.
Revisionist history for political gain.
December 18, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Josh lying for political gain.
Who’d have thunk it.
Who’d have thunk it.
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Susssssan Ley wants the PM to recall Parliament to debate anti-semitism.
Susssssan Ley consistently voted for the changes to 18c of the Racial Discrimination Act.
Remember when George Brandis said:
"People do have a right to be bigots." 🧵
Susssssan Ley consistently voted for the changes to 18c of the Racial Discrimination Act.
Remember when George Brandis said:
"People do have a right to be bigots." 🧵
December 18, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Susssssan Ley wants the PM to recall Parliament to debate anti-semitism.
Susssssan Ley consistently voted for the changes to 18c of the Racial Discrimination Act.
Remember when George Brandis said:
"People do have a right to be bigots." 🧵
Susssssan Ley consistently voted for the changes to 18c of the Racial Discrimination Act.
Remember when George Brandis said:
"People do have a right to be bigots." 🧵
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We literally had a project to give the streetcar & buses dedicated lanes, and mayor Bowser killed it to get cars to the stadium faster.
In testimony to D.C. Council, Metro General Manager Randy Clarke says a key to getting people to and from the new Commanders stadium at RFK will be bus rapid transit from Union Station. "It's critical... we need to be able to get a lot of people on the Red Line and take BRT to the site," he says.
December 18, 2025 at 9:04 PM
We literally had a project to give the streetcar & buses dedicated lanes, and mayor Bowser killed it to get cars to the stadium faster.
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New word of the day “mobecity” and its pedestrians and other road users that pay
“A 500kg increase in vehicle weight is linked to a 70% higher fatality risk for occupants of the lighter car.”
Big cars = Crazy ego feeding 😵💫
“A 500kg increase in vehicle weight is linked to a 70% higher fatality risk for occupants of the lighter car.”
Big cars = Crazy ego feeding 😵💫
Australia’s roads are full of giant cars, and everyone pays the price. What can be done?
If larger vehicles make us feel safer inside them, do they also make us take more risks behind the wheel?
theconversation.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:41 PM
New word of the day “mobecity” and its pedestrians and other road users that pay
“A 500kg increase in vehicle weight is linked to a 70% higher fatality risk for occupants of the lighter car.”
Big cars = Crazy ego feeding 😵💫
“A 500kg increase in vehicle weight is linked to a 70% higher fatality risk for occupants of the lighter car.”
Big cars = Crazy ego feeding 😵💫
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Can some explain to me why we are more concerned about the age of the participants than the fact the were apparently coerced into sex work? Are we unconcerned about trafficked 18 yr olds? Serious question.
December 18, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Can some explain to me why we are more concerned about the age of the participants than the fact the were apparently coerced into sex work? Are we unconcerned about trafficked 18 yr olds? Serious question.
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By my count, Cristal Caballero would be the 14th Operation Midway Blitz defendant to have criminal charges dropped, with 17 defendants remaining. No convictions so far.
Federal prosecutors in Chicago are dropping another case tied to Operation Midway Blitz. This time it's USA v. Cristal Caballero, which had been set for a preliminary hearing Monday.
Motion below, followed by excerpts from the criminal complaint.
Motion below, followed by excerpts from the criminal complaint.
December 18, 2025 at 10:25 PM
By my count, Cristal Caballero would be the 14th Operation Midway Blitz defendant to have criminal charges dropped, with 17 defendants remaining. No convictions so far.
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"In a November memo, Vinay Prasad, MD, MPH,... told his colleagues that the agency's "career staff have found that at least 10 children have died after and because of... COVID-19 vaccination."
That is false, Inside Medicine has learned."
www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/faus... @jeremyfaust.bsky.social
That is false, Inside Medicine has learned."
www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/faus... @jeremyfaust.bsky.social
Opinion | FDA Vax Chief Jumped the Gun on Claims of Kid Deaths From COVID Shots
Vinay Prasad's conclusions overshot what the agency's analysts ultimately found
www.medpagetoday.com
December 16, 2025 at 10:45 PM
"In a November memo, Vinay Prasad, MD, MPH,... told his colleagues that the agency's "career staff have found that at least 10 children have died after and because of... COVID-19 vaccination."
That is false, Inside Medicine has learned."
www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/faus... @jeremyfaust.bsky.social
That is false, Inside Medicine has learned."
www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/faus... @jeremyfaust.bsky.social
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What I find so infuriating about all this is that those who want to pretend to act on antisemitism just to deteriorate the rights of those who have long stood against ALL fascist violence are the ones doing the most damage since they end up doing nothing to combat real antisemitism.
Ah yes, that's where a recently unemployed 24-year-old bricklayer, who spent years hanging around Australia's pro-IS network, and his 50-year-old migrant father were radicalised: university anti-genocide protests 🙄
Be fucking serious for a moment.
Be fucking serious for a moment.
December 16, 2025 at 4:00 AM
What I find so infuriating about all this is that those who want to pretend to act on antisemitism just to deteriorate the rights of those who have long stood against ALL fascist violence are the ones doing the most damage since they end up doing nothing to combat real antisemitism.
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I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along
There is no national security logic that would impel the US to want to do regime change in Venezuela. It's simply not that important. I'm not even sure wag the dog is the right metaphor for what's happening here. Seems like an insane misallocation of US national security assets and attention.
Trump: "Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled ... It will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before — Until such time as they return to the USA all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us."
December 17, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along
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Real-time experiment: what happens when the world’s leading economy reallocates its law enforcement resources to liquidation of its own labor force?
New numbers show ICE is devouring US law enforcement: 1 in 5 US marshals, 1 in 5 FBI agents, half of all DEA agents, and over two-thirds of all ATF agents are now assigned to ICE enforcement. These are agencies with critical jobs they're now NOT doing.
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-is-eat...
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-is-eat...
ICE is Eating the Soul of America
Four things that show ICE increasingly considers itself outside the law
www.doomsdayscenario.co
September 10, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Real-time experiment: what happens when the world’s leading economy reallocates its law enforcement resources to liquidation of its own labor force?
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something quite relevant to this that I completely forgot I wrote a few months ago"
"Australia’s lead advisor on fighting antisemitism has singled out X for successfully using artificial intelligence to “root out hate”
More: www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/11/a...
"Australia’s lead advisor on fighting antisemitism has singled out X for successfully using artificial intelligence to “root out hate”
More: www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/11/a...
December 16, 2025 at 11:21 PM
something quite relevant to this that I completely forgot I wrote a few months ago"
"Australia’s lead advisor on fighting antisemitism has singled out X for successfully using artificial intelligence to “root out hate”
More: www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/11/a...
"Australia’s lead advisor on fighting antisemitism has singled out X for successfully using artificial intelligence to “root out hate”
More: www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/11/a...
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John Howard pushed for the invasion of Iraq, which was one of the dominoes which created the conditions for ISIS and caused untold human misery we are still dealing with today. He refused to acknowledge racism was a main driver of the Cronulla riots.
December 17, 2025 at 12:47 AM
John Howard pushed for the invasion of Iraq, which was one of the dominoes which created the conditions for ISIS and caused untold human misery we are still dealing with today. He refused to acknowledge racism was a main driver of the Cronulla riots.
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The media needs to stop writing headlines like “The CDC changes course on vaccines and autism” and “The CDC defends measles response”.
NONE of this is coming from legitimate scientists at the CDC.
ALL of it is coming from RFK Jr.
Every such headline is causing further harm to public health.
NONE of this is coming from legitimate scientists at the CDC.
ALL of it is coming from RFK Jr.
Every such headline is causing further harm to public health.
December 17, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The media needs to stop writing headlines like “The CDC changes course on vaccines and autism” and “The CDC defends measles response”.
NONE of this is coming from legitimate scientists at the CDC.
ALL of it is coming from RFK Jr.
Every such headline is causing further harm to public health.
NONE of this is coming from legitimate scientists at the CDC.
ALL of it is coming from RFK Jr.
Every such headline is causing further harm to public health.
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Unbelievable. This would be a terrible blow to American science, writ large. It would decimate not only climate research, but also the kind of weather, wildfire, and disaster research that has underpinned half a century of progress in prediction, early warning, and increased resilience.
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
bit.ly
December 17, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Unbelievable. This would be a terrible blow to American science, writ large. It would decimate not only climate research, but also the kind of weather, wildfire, and disaster research that has underpinned half a century of progress in prediction, early warning, and increased resilience.
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I said this before: I'm pretty sure 2 Muslim terrorists with links to IS were not influenced by the Bridge March against genocide.
The conservatives forces using the Bondi Massacre to instigate a crackdown of freedoms of speech and the right to assembly are completely disgusting.
Protesting genocide and the actions of the Netanyahu Israeli govt are not antisemitic.
Protesting genocide and the actions of the Netanyahu Israeli govt are not antisemitic.
December 17, 2025 at 3:28 AM
I said this before: I'm pretty sure 2 Muslim terrorists with links to IS were not influenced by the Bridge March against genocide.
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Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban.
Here’s how we did our analysis.
(Published Feb. 2025)
Here’s how we did our analysis.
(Published Feb. 2025)
Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...
www.propublica.org
December 17, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban.
Here’s how we did our analysis.
(Published Feb. 2025)
Here’s how we did our analysis.
(Published Feb. 2025)
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If the conservatives go fully down the path of "the PM is weak on antisemitism" to respond to this tragedy while the government go down the sensible further reforms to gun laws route, I know which approach I'd have my money on most Australians backing.
December 17, 2025 at 6:03 AM
If the conservatives go fully down the path of "the PM is weak on antisemitism" to respond to this tragedy while the government go down the sensible further reforms to gun laws route, I know which approach I'd have my money on most Australians backing.
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Could be wrong, but even the AFR & SMH editorials trying to link the attack with a lack of action on anti-Semitism, without identifying what specifically could have been done to prevent this, is really weird.
December 17, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Could be wrong, but even the AFR & SMH editorials trying to link the attack with a lack of action on anti-Semitism, without identifying what specifically could have been done to prevent this, is really weird.
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Opinion | John Howard's reemergence after the Bondi Beach shooting should have been comforting for gun control advocates. Instead, the former PM risks tarnishing his own legacy.
The living ghost of John Howard: Pain hits, then opportunism strikes
www.crikey.com.au
December 17, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Opinion | John Howard's reemergence after the Bondi Beach shooting should have been comforting for gun control advocates. Instead, the former PM risks tarnishing his own legacy.
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Patience, please: It’s just a delay for the historical inevitability to come.
it’s not at all the predictable result of sheer and total ignorance of everything we know about economics!
it’s not at all the predictable result of sheer and total ignorance of everything we know about economics!
You know things are bad when Trump changes his trademark “Two weeks” to “6 months to a year.”
December 15, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Patience, please: It’s just a delay for the historical inevitability to come.
it’s not at all the predictable result of sheer and total ignorance of everything we know about economics!
it’s not at all the predictable result of sheer and total ignorance of everything we know about economics!