Martin Paulo
@martinpaulo.bsky.social
Australian software developer in the wilds of Melbourne.
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Here's one - given the likely wave of pandemics caused by RFK Jnr and his henchfolk, when will the govt require vaccination proofs before entry to Australia. America is demanding visa-holders show social media history; our regulations should be smarter.
December 28, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Here's one - given the likely wave of pandemics caused by RFK Jnr and his henchfolk, when will the govt require vaccination proofs before entry to Australia. America is demanding visa-holders show social media history; our regulations should be smarter.
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I actually like the title of ANTIFA RADICAL LEFT SCUM. It just means I am a normal person with values
December 27, 2025 at 11:43 PM
I actually like the title of ANTIFA RADICAL LEFT SCUM. It just means I am a normal person with values
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Great list here.
Here's a very handy clickable list of publishers & commentators in Aust's independent news media sector.
Please support & share these news media publishers - & of course sign up to TrueNorth! #auspol > docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Please support & share these news media publishers - & of course sign up to TrueNorth! #auspol > docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
#auspol news media list
docs.google.com
December 28, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Great list here.
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This whole fucking thread, man...
In 2019, the rate of fatal police shootings in the US was 3.1 per million residents. By contrast, the rate in France was 0.14 per million, and in Germany, it was lower.
In Germany, police officers discharged a total of 85 bullets at people in the entire year of 2011.
In Germany, police officers discharged a total of 85 bullets at people in the entire year of 2011.
I’ve said it and I believe it is true
There is a willful forgetting and suppression of the memory of the hundreds of protests that shook this nation for the past decade and a half. So while Canadians and European laypeople whine “Americans don’t do anything,” the Americans are actively suppressed
There is a willful forgetting and suppression of the memory of the hundreds of protests that shook this nation for the past decade and a half. So while Canadians and European laypeople whine “Americans don’t do anything,” the Americans are actively suppressed
December 28, 2025 at 5:50 AM
This whole fucking thread, man...
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This was the same ship that left the passenger behind on an island and she died. Now it has run aground. You would think if you are paying 10s of 1000s of dollars (some trips are $65K) they would have competent people in charge...
December 28, 2025 at 6:15 AM
This was the same ship that left the passenger behind on an island and she died. Now it has run aground. You would think if you are paying 10s of 1000s of dollars (some trips are $65K) they would have competent people in charge...
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BP to scrap paid rest breaks and most bank holiday bonuses for forecourt staff.
Changes to employee benefits would cut take-home pay by at least 6.25%.
Would exec pay and dividends be cut? No chance.
Hard-won rights eroded as corporations rule without ever being elected.
Back to Victorian times.
Changes to employee benefits would cut take-home pay by at least 6.25%.
Would exec pay and dividends be cut? No chance.
Hard-won rights eroded as corporations rule without ever being elected.
Back to Victorian times.
BP to scrap paid rest breaks and most bank holiday bonuses for forecourt staff
Exclusive: Plans to offset increase in minimum ‘fair pay’ set by Living Wage Foundation will affect 5,400 employees
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:23 PM
BP to scrap paid rest breaks and most bank holiday bonuses for forecourt staff.
Changes to employee benefits would cut take-home pay by at least 6.25%.
Would exec pay and dividends be cut? No chance.
Hard-won rights eroded as corporations rule without ever being elected.
Back to Victorian times.
Changes to employee benefits would cut take-home pay by at least 6.25%.
Would exec pay and dividends be cut? No chance.
Hard-won rights eroded as corporations rule without ever being elected.
Back to Victorian times.
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AUKUS is likely the dumbest defence decision Australia has ever made.
$500 billion or more for second hand subs that may never arrive…
While many other areas of our society are suffering from lack of investment…
CSIRO
FNs
aged
education birth-death
women
NDIS
climate crises
housing
ABC
Renewables…
$500 billion or more for second hand subs that may never arrive…
While many other areas of our society are suffering from lack of investment…
CSIRO
FNs
aged
education birth-death
women
NDIS
climate crises
housing
ABC
Renewables…
Rockingham in Perth's south is fast becoming a crucial part of the AUKUS nuclear submarine deal, with promises of a big boost in jobs and infrastructure — but it's also leaving residents afraid for their lives and lifestyle.
Seaside city's leap to major AUKUS defence hub leaves locals trepidatious
Rockingham in Perth's south is fast becoming a crucial part of the AUKUS nuclear submarine deal, with promises of a big boost in jobs and infrastructure — but it's also leaving residents afraid for their lives and lifestyle.
www.abc.net.au
December 28, 2025 at 2:44 AM
AUKUS is likely the dumbest defence decision Australia has ever made.
$500 billion or more for second hand subs that may never arrive…
While many other areas of our society are suffering from lack of investment…
CSIRO
FNs
aged
education birth-death
women
NDIS
climate crises
housing
ABC
Renewables…
$500 billion or more for second hand subs that may never arrive…
While many other areas of our society are suffering from lack of investment…
CSIRO
FNs
aged
education birth-death
women
NDIS
climate crises
housing
ABC
Renewables…
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Every year, Australian governments let gas companies export enough gas to supply Australians for 4 years
They export the easier to extract, low cost gas, leaving us with high cost gas
Gas exports drain our affordable reserves, and that gas is never coming back
www.theleader.com.au/story/914046...
They export the easier to extract, low cost gas, leaving us with high cost gas
Gas exports drain our affordable reserves, and that gas is never coming back
www.theleader.com.au/story/914046...
'Horse has bolted' on cheap gas, even with reservation
Businesses and households want cheaper gas but it remains unclear how effective a plan to reserve more supply...
www.theleader.com.au
December 24, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Every year, Australian governments let gas companies export enough gas to supply Australians for 4 years
They export the easier to extract, low cost gas, leaving us with high cost gas
Gas exports drain our affordable reserves, and that gas is never coming back
www.theleader.com.au/story/914046...
They export the easier to extract, low cost gas, leaving us with high cost gas
Gas exports drain our affordable reserves, and that gas is never coming back
www.theleader.com.au/story/914046...
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From the Australia Institute.
December 24, 2025 at 1:01 AM
From the Australia Institute.
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Albo is going to alienate the entire country to try and appease the people who booed him. And they will never accept him.
December 23, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Albo is going to alienate the entire country to try and appease the people who booed him. And they will never accept him.
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How Did DOGE Disrupt So Much While Saving So Little?
The question: was DOGE, at its core, an exercise in budget cutting or deception. Among DOGE’s largest claims, the bogus savings were both larger & much more common than the real ones. Similar errors/exaggerations recurred across the group’s work
The question: was DOGE, at its core, an exercise in budget cutting or deception. Among DOGE’s largest claims, the bogus savings were both larger & much more common than the real ones. Similar errors/exaggerations recurred across the group’s work
How Did DOGE Disrupt So Much While Saving So Little?
www.nytimes.com
December 24, 2025 at 1:13 AM
How Did DOGE Disrupt So Much While Saving So Little?
The question: was DOGE, at its core, an exercise in budget cutting or deception. Among DOGE’s largest claims, the bogus savings were both larger & much more common than the real ones. Similar errors/exaggerations recurred across the group’s work
The question: was DOGE, at its core, an exercise in budget cutting or deception. Among DOGE’s largest claims, the bogus savings were both larger & much more common than the real ones. Similar errors/exaggerations recurred across the group’s work
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The time of the year when we remember that Twitter used to bring us some joy
December 20, 2025 at 9:16 PM
The time of the year when we remember that Twitter used to bring us some joy
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Murdoch media should have been subject of foreign interference/influence/manipulation laws for decades.
Wouldn’t want to politicise this tragedy. That would be terribly crass.
December 23, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Murdoch media should have been subject of foreign interference/influence/manipulation laws for decades.
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Not sure what happened but the Guardian is now at least *mentioning* that there is zero evidence to suggest the Bondi terror attack was the direct result of organised opposition to mass murder
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
December 22, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Not sure what happened but the Guardian is now at least *mentioning* that there is zero evidence to suggest the Bondi terror attack was the direct result of organised opposition to mass murder
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Matt Yglesias consistently treats net zero as if it’s some arbitrary goal that activists want, not a goal that scientists say is necessary to preserve a livable planet for all. He so badly wants a solution that sounds "reasonable" that he's willing to ignore and dismiss scientific reality.
Matthew Yglesias did it again
No, Democrats shouldn't embrace oil and gas.
www.climatecoloredgoggles.com
December 22, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Matt Yglesias consistently treats net zero as if it’s some arbitrary goal that activists want, not a goal that scientists say is necessary to preserve a livable planet for all. He so badly wants a solution that sounds "reasonable" that he's willing to ignore and dismiss scientific reality.
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No wonder the resident Trump propagandist at CBS didn't want us to see this. It is horrific and shows how deeply lawless and depraved the Trump/Miller administration is.
BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment
I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.
www.muellershewrote.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:18 AM
No wonder the resident Trump propagandist at CBS didn't want us to see this. It is horrific and shows how deeply lawless and depraved the Trump/Miller administration is.
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The competition in the Trump administration to be the first to tip off Putin must have been fierce.
December 22, 2025 at 9:40 PM
The competition in the Trump administration to be the first to tip off Putin must have been fierce.
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CBS NEWS: “We can’t report on the current murdering spree until we get the serial killer’s side of the story.”
December 22, 2025 at 8:39 PM
CBS NEWS: “We can’t report on the current murdering spree until we get the serial killer’s side of the story.”
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December 22, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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Don’t forget. Biden’s DoJ was investigating uncharged third parties in the Epstein files up until the last minute. Trump shut down the investigation, sent the files to DC, & fired the prosecutors. They went through them, redacted Trump’s name, then elected not to release them and closed the matter.
December 22, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Don’t forget. Biden’s DoJ was investigating uncharged third parties in the Epstein files up until the last minute. Trump shut down the investigation, sent the files to DC, & fired the prosecutors. They went through them, redacted Trump’s name, then elected not to release them and closed the matter.
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Effective altruist Andy Masley single-handedly convinced thousands of centrist liberals that data centre water consumption is a non-issue. There's a new peer-reviewed study out showing how false that is:
www.theverge.com/news/845831/...
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www.theverge.com/news/845831/...
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![Once he figured out how much electricity these AI systems would likely consume, he could use that to forecast the amount of planet-heating pollution that would likely create. That came out to between 32.6 and 79.7 million tons annually. For comparison, New York City emits around 50 million tons of carbon dioxide annually.
Data centers can also be big water guzzlers, an issue that’s similarly tied to their electricity use. Water is used in cooling systems for data centers to keep servers from overheating. Power plants also demand significant amounts of water needed to cool equipment and turn turbines using steam, which makes up a majority of a data center’s water footprint. The push to build new data centers for generative AI has also fueled plans to build more power plants, which in turn use more water and (and create more greenhouse gas pollution if they burn fossil fuels).
AI could use between 312.5 and 764.6 billion liters of water this year, according to de Vries-Gao. That reaches even higher than a previous study conducted in 2023 that estimates that water use could be as much as 600 billion liters in 2027.
Related/Google says a typical AI text prompt only uses 5 drops of water — experts say that’s misleading
“I think that’s the biggest surprise,” says Shaolei Ren, one of the authors of that 2023 study and an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, Riverside. “[de Vries-Gao’s] paper is really timely… especially as we are seeing increasingly polarized views about AI and water,” Ren adds.
Across the US, which has more of these facilities than any other country in the world, there’s been a surge in local opposition to new data center projects that is often driven by concerns about water and power usage.
Even with the higher projection for water use, Ren says de Vries-Gao’s analysis is “really conservative” because it only captures the environmental effects of operating AI equipment — excluding the additional effe…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:66lbtw2porscqpmair6mir37/bafkreiang6squ2hxjetevuwfbi2hgymtmmyoalny36rhieodyhwh6624wy@jpeg)
December 17, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Effective altruist Andy Masley single-handedly convinced thousands of centrist liberals that data centre water consumption is a non-issue. There's a new peer-reviewed study out showing how false that is:
www.theverge.com/news/845831/...
www.cell.com/patterns/ful...
www.theverge.com/news/845831/...
www.cell.com/patterns/ful...