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Matt Karger @mattkarger.bsky.social · 16m

I suspect whatever drug regime he's on stimulates his maximum daily moments of mental clarity, but is also hastening his descent into dementia. His henchmen will squeeze him like a sponge until he has nothing left to give.

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Matt Karger @mattkarger.bsky.social · 22m

He's very clear communicator, which in his case reflects the fact he's thought through the logic of his stated positions.

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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 29m

I've always liked Ed, which probably shares a lot of basis points for why the Labor Party Management Brain is scared of him.

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 34m

Australia must ‘have the guts’ to stand up to Japanese companies reselling gas for profit, Husic says

Labor backbencher is calling for drastic intervention to secure supplies for the east coast * Sign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter here * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The Labor backbencher Ed Husic is demanding an intervention to combat Japanese gas companies re-selling Australian exports to other markets, breaking ranks from the government and risking diplomatic blowback from Tokyo. The former industry minister said the government must send a “powerful signal” to overseas multinationals, in particular in Japan, to stop “playing us off as mugs” by profiting off the resale of Australian gas while households and industry on the east coast face high prices and potential supply shortages. Continue reading...

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Matt Karger @mattkarger.bsky.social · 32m

When the AI bubble bursts and shatters the world economy, I reckon people will be ripping it out of their businesses as fast as they can. It will become a moral imperative.

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 55m

Thing I just learned. “Lede” as in “bury the lede” is a deliberate misspelling of “lead”. It’s part of a lexicon of misspellings used for annotations by journalists and subs so that notes on copy are removed, rather than included in the body of the text by accident. Others include “dek” and “hed”.

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BJ Colangelo @bjcolangelo.bsky.social · 1h

If anyone at the premiere tonight heard a “THAT’S FUCKIN’ RIGHT!” yelled during the end credits of BLACK PHONE 2 where it declared that the movie cannot be repurposed to train AI, that was me.

C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 9h

There’s an interview going around about AI, so before there are any questions, let me state unequivocally that BLACK PHONE 2 is 100% organic. AI was not used at any stage of the filmmaking from idea generation, research, look books, writing, onscreen images - anything. We’re old school and love it.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 20h

Here’s this week’s Better Offline. I’m joined by @davidjroth.bsky.social and @vicmsong.bsky.social to talk about Sora 2, Meta’s AR glasses, the “friend” pendant, and why none of these products can ever truly deliver meaningful friendship.

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Radio Better Offline: Victoria Song and David Roth

Podcast Episode · Better Offline · 10/08/2025 · 51m

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Matt Karger @mattkarger.bsky.social · 2h

The big takeaway from this episode is that Ed Zitron has watched a lot of episodes of Australian Married At First Sight.

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 20h

Here’s this week’s Better Offline. I’m joined by @davidjroth.bsky.social and @vicmsong.bsky.social to talk about Sora 2, Meta’s AR glasses, the “friend” pendant, and why none of these products can ever truly deliver meaningful friendship.

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
Linktr.ee/betteroffline

Radio Better Offline: Victoria Song and David Roth

Podcast Episode · Better Offline · 10/08/2025 · 51m

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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 3h

Maybe AI using all the water is how we get to Mad Max for real,

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VHS Revue @vhsrevue.bsky.social · 4h

The 2002 SANFL ad that still haunts former SA Premier Mike Rann to this very day #vhsrevue #sanfl

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Matt Karger @mattkarger.bsky.social · 4h

@scottjohn.bsky.social I recall watching Big Al build a while impersonation of Mike Rann from this one catchphrase.

VHS Revue @vhsrevue.bsky.social · 4h

The 2002 SANFL ad that still haunts former SA Premier Mike Rann to this very day #vhsrevue #sanfl

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Phil Gorman @philgorman.bsky.social · 5h

If it's so essential to the nation NATIONALISE IT!

Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 10h

We're paying over half a billion dollars to prop up criminal-created global miner Glencore's Mount Isa copper smelter ... for just 2 years!

And we're taking how much ownership, for all that money? Don't answer that.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Mining giant gets $600m worth of taxpayer funds to keep refinery open

The last Australian copper smelter processing third-party product will stay open after its owner accepted a support package.

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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 8h

Working through the submissions to the Senate inquiry on climate misinformation and the patterns emerging sure are interesting.

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Matt Karger @mattkarger.bsky.social · 6h

Husic is a good communicator, cuts through with minimum effort.

The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 6h

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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John Sundman @jsundman.bsky.social · 7h

Shanghai'd by my wife Betty, I worked for 25 (unpaid, not easy) years helping to address food security, food equity, on Martha's Vineyard. That's how I met, & had a few beers in an idyllic setting, with Rep McGovern, Congress's most unyielding advocate for food justice, especially for children.1/

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 9h

The real economy is already in a deep recession. The fake AI economy is a smokescreen. And now I'm afraid that the government will throw any amount of money at it to keep it from popping.

The AI bubble is the only thing keeping the US economy together, Deutsche Bank warns

According to a research note recently sent to clients by Deutsche Bank, the AI boom is currently helping the US economy avoid a recession but it cannot...

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Matt Karger @mattkarger.bsky.social · 9h

I liked the movie, but I actually preferred William Goldman's novel. Just an insanely brilliant bit of writing.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 9h

“Marathon Man” premieres 49 years ago today.

Dustin Hoffman had tried various techniques “to appear out-of-it during the dental scenes,” director John Schlesinger recalled. “I had to completely reshoot all the close-ups. That’s when [Lawrence] Olivier said to me ‘Why doesn’t he just try ACTING?’”

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 9h

Can't even imagine the level of threats and rage that went into coercing Netanyahu to get the deal done before the Peace Prize is announced Friday.

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John MacLeod @mrjohnmacleod.bsky.social · 20h

Deploying ellipsis in 3, 2, 1…

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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 20h

You can’t make video games about comedy alcoholism any more, because of woke.

A ZX Spectrum game from the 1980s called Mr Wino. A blue M&M character sways drunkenly surround by empty bottles. Text on the cover reads “drinking is for Mr Wino not kids!”

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stuforreal.bsky.social @stuforreal.bsky.social · 21h

Don't even talk to me until i've had my plenary authority

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 1d

One of the conspirators who helped Gavrilo Princip shoot Archduke Franz Ferdinand survived to see the breakup of Yugoslavia. He could conceivably have watched the Neighbours episode where Scott and Charlene got married

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Woodrow Peel 🆗🆒 @woodyluvscoffee.bsky.social · 1d

"The President has
plenary authority"
"Stephen, are
you all right?"

TV news frame still of the interview where Stephen Miller says the President has plenary authority. The interviewer is frame left. Stephen Miller on the right of frame has been replaced by a thumb with an angry face.

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Leah | Miyazaki Mango arc 🎃 @ideocene.net · 1d

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A teaser of teaser 2 that reads: Find yourself.

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Darren Mart 🐶 @darrenmart.bsky.social · 1d

A phenomenon I'm witnessing firsthand in Big Tech: small groups of cherry-picked "rock stars" are death-marching to release moonshot AI projects/features which, if successful, will put many of their colleagues out of work.

A rising tide lifts all boats? Not in Big Tech right now. Maybe never again.

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