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Daz Bambrick
@dazbam8.bsky.social
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Qld based chemical engineer focused on decarbonising alumina refining. I like electrifying everything, Lego, Doctor Who, Phantom Comics, and growing orchids and geraniums.
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dazbam8.bsky.social
An absolute no brainer for Australia
goodfellow.bsky.social goodfellow.bsky.social @goodfellow.bsky.social · Nov 3
“parking lots in South Korea with more than 80 spaces will be required to install solar canopies and carports. But, unlike similar laws that have been proposed in the US, this new law doesn’t just apply to new construction – existing lots will have to comply as well!” electrek.co/2025/11/02/n...
New national law will turn large parking lots into solar power farms
Starting this month, parking lots in South Korea with more than 80 spaces will be required to install solar canopies and carports.
electrek.co
November 3, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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emauxstylo.bsky.social
BBC News captures Doctor Who himself Sylvester McCoy at the Trump protest seemingly unaware of who they're interviewing.
September 17, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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techcrunch.com
CEO Brian Armstrong mandated that all Coinbase engineers set up their GitHub Copilot or Cursor accounts within a week.
Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately | TechCrunch
CEO Brian Armstrong mandated that all Coinbase engineers set up their GitHub Copilot or Cursor accounts within a week.
techcrunch.com
August 22, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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anthonyklan.bsky.social
🚨Antisemitism boss Jillian Segal and her husband are the second biggest funders of far-right group "Advance". The extremist lobby group spreads online racism and xenophobia, including directly targeting Palestinians...
theklaxon.com.au/hrgd
Jillian Segal and husband funding far-right group "Advance" - The Klaxon
Antisemitism envoy Jillian Segal and her husband are among the biggest funders of far-right group "Advance”, which spreads hateful propaganda and racist tropes.
theklaxon.com.au
July 12, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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spavel.bsky.social
Even linkedin gets it
Mark Butcher 1) Sandra used AI to write a report 2) Bill used AI to summarise the report 3) Bill used AI to write questions about the report 4) Sandra used AI to respond to the questions 5) Bill used AI to create a presentation about the report 6) Jane used AI to take notes from the presentation 7) Jane’s team used AI to summarise the notes she shared No one wrote the report, no one ever read the report, no one understood the questions or the answers. No business value was achieved But but but AI adds business value
June 29, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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haroldh.bsky.social
Every dollar spent on repression is a dollar stolen from compassion. We were told there’s no money for healthcare, housing, or food—but there’s always funding for boots, bullets, and barricades. Priorities aren’t broken; they’re perfectly cruel by design.
June 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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iamthepaulina.bsky.social
Take a listen and seriously consider it. While this is not an uncommon practice, I am glad people are beginning to speak up about it.
June 11, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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demwar.bsky.social
Don’t let it go unnoticed that while regional Australia is again flooded the National Party continues to deny climate change.
May 23, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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levisatyrane.bsky.social
Oh yeah nice one kid hook that hope for humanity right into my veins
May 8, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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astrokatie.com
Bleak.

nymag.com/intelligence...
Text from article: It’ll be years before we can fully account for what all of this is doing to students’ brains. Some early research shows that when students off-load cognitive duties onto chatbots, their capacity for memory, problem-solving, and creativity could suffer. Multiple studies published within the past year have linked AI usage with a deterioration in critical-thinking skills; one found the effect to be more pronounced in younger participants. In February, Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University published a study that found a person’s confidence in generative AI correlates with reduced critical-thinking effort. The net effect seems, if not quite Wall-E, at least a dramatic reorganization of a person’s efforts and abilities, away from high-effort inquiry and fact-gathering and toward integration and verification. This is all especially unnerving if you add in the reality that AI is imperfect — it might rely on something that is factually inaccurate or just make something up entirely — with the ruinous effect social media has had on Gen Z’s ability to tell fact from fiction. The problem may be much larger than generative AI. The so-called Flynn effect refers to the consistent rise in IQ scores from generation to generation going back to at least the 1930s. That rise started to slow, and in some cases reverse, around 2006. “The greatest worry in these times of generative AI is not that it may compromise human creativity or intelligence,” Robert Sternberg, a psychology professor at Cornell University, told The Guardian, “but that it already has.” (Katie's added note: the sentences about reorganization of abilities and telling fact from fiction have been highlighted.)
May 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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jhaue.bsky.social
‘Bordering on incredible’: Coalition under fire for planning to scrap Labor climate policies and offering none of its own

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
‘Bordering on incredible’: Coalition under fire for planning to scrap Labor climate policies and offering none of its own
With Peter Dutton’s views on climate change in the spotlight, the focus has turned onto whether there will be any policies to reduce emissions in the next decade
www.theguardian.com
April 19, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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profterryhughes.bsky.social
Troglodyte on the wrong side of history: “If I had my way I’d be building coal-fired power stations, full stop, that’s what I’d be doing.”
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Coalition MP Colin Boyce told climate science deniers blackouts a ‘big political opportunity’
Boyce tells Climate and Energy Realists Queensland that opposition to renewables is growing and fellow MPs should adopt a ‘do nothing strategy’
www.theguardian.com
April 15, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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grogsgamut.bsky.social
Everyone is dumber for having listened to this debate moderation by Ross Greenwood. Even Angus Taylor, and that takes some doing.
April 9, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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mayawest.online
the ZipZipZip tells me this is a most excellent king.
droblivion.bsky.social Oblivion @droblivion.bsky.social · Apr 4
Video in question. Let's make it viral again.
April 6, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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aaronsmith333.bsky.social
The LNP don't like their own words repeated back to them, which is why they're infuriated by this ad.

Which is also why you should share it.
April 4, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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jduke77.bsky.social
April 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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hmmvryintrstng.bsky.social
james surowiecki has discovered where the completely fabricated trump tariff rate has come from for each country

"...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."
Just figured out where these fake tariff rates come from. They didn't actually calculate tariff rates + non-tariff barriers, as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us. So we have a $17.9 billion trade deficit with Indonesia. Its exports to us are $28 billion. $17.9/$28 = 64%, which Trump claims is the tariff rate Indonesia charges us. What extraordinary nonsense this is.
April 2, 2025 at 10:32 PM
dazbam8.bsky.social
Hey @ketanjoshi.co I'm no gas expert but this is wrong right? Like that conversion factor is off by 1000?
Google AI hallucination showing incorrect gas conversion factors Online calculator converting Mj to Tj of gas
March 26, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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edzitron.com
Newsletter: Microsoft pulled back on over a gigawatt of planned data center capacity, suggesting that they do not think there is a growth future in generative AI. Meanwhile, SoftBank, the only company that can afford to fund OpenAI, has to take out loans to do so.
www.wheresyoured.at/power-cut/
March 3, 2025 at 5:17 PM
dazbam8.bsky.social
Kinda hope this happens in Australia too, Albo's not doing a great job but it's more important that we embed the renewable construction pipeline before Dutton cuts it. Hopefully Chambers steps up post election
acyn.bsky.social Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Feb 27
Canadian MP Charlie Angus: I think what we're going to see is the conservative numbers in Canada drop because people are looking at the destruction that Trump is unleashing and Canadians are thinking, 'If this is what MAGA looks like, there's no damn way we're going to vote for it in Canada.'
February 28, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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emorwee.bsky.social
Trump's new energy secretary, fracking exec Chris Wright, went on Fox Business yesterday and argued that there are "pluses" to climate change

The DOE then posted the video on its official YouTube.

heated.world/p/trump-ener...
Trump energy chief says there are upsides to ecological collapse
Seven Democrats voted to confirm this man. Seven!
heated.world
February 20, 2025 at 6:59 PM
dazbam8.bsky.social
Spending the morning making a map of our substations at risk from coastal inundation, knowing full well it will be pooh poohed by most that see it 🤷‍♂️
February 16, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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mrdenmore.bsky.social
Rather than just handing the Trump regime $800m for non-existent subs no questions asked, why didn’t Albo and Marles hold back and ask for guarantees before they slapped tariffs on us? Clueless.
February 10, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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needhibhalla.bsky.social
Darby makes this point but I just want to reinforce it: These words are entirely legitimate to discuss science, accurately and correctly. This attack on "DEI" (🙄) is not only an attempt to resegregate science but also an attack on expertise, itself.

Resisting it is a defense of science
darbysaxbe.bsky.social Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · Feb 4
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
list of banned keywords
February 4, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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makenakelly.bsky.social
NEW: The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk's Government Takeover

from @telliotter.bsky.social
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk's Government Takeover
Engineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk’s companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control of federal infrastructure.
www.wired.com
February 2, 2025 at 7:28 PM