“But even if you don’t have hope, it doesn’t really matter. This is about defiance. It’s about doing the right thing, fighting for democracy and for people to not be exploited.” Luke Kemp, on his new book Goliath’s Curse.
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COLBERT: You warned everyone…he would prosecute political enemies, cut Medicaid, alienate our allies, give tax cuts to the rich. I know you're not here to say 'I told you so' but would you like to?

HARRIS: You're correct. I did predict a lot of that. But what I did not predict was the capitulation.

Opinion | There's a real risk that inflation is going to go below 2%. If it does, Michele Bullock and the RBA have tough questions to answer

Generative AI is slowly degrading the internet. More alarming is that before long, the technology’s unreliability may go unnoticed, writes Matteo Wong: https://theatln.tc/4Z7IqvVi

chemical warfare

Bill Gates says he will donate 99% of his remaining tech fortune to the Gates Foundation. He also announced the foundation will now close in 2045, earlier than previously planned.

Nearly 300 apply as French university offers US academics ‘scientific asylum’.

Applicants hailed from Johns Hopkins, NASA, Columbia, Yale & Stanford. Most of the applications were sent using encrypted messaging “with worrying, sometimes chilling, accounts".

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Goldberg on Waltz: "This isn't The Matrix. Phone numbers don't just get sucked into other phones. I don't know what he's talking about ... my phone number was in his phone because my phone number was in his phone. He's telling everyone that he's never met me or spoken to me. That's simply not true."

Adulting is hard... here's a baby goat 🖤

Let’s. Do. This. 😎✨

Opinion | The biggest tech companies in the world are trying to smear their faces with orange makeup, coiff their hair and wrap themselves in the American flag.

Wow — mega congrats to Bluesky on reaching 33 MILLION users! 💙🦋
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NEW: The stock market is now lower than when Trump was sworn in as president — and lower than when he was elected president.

Trump's own company is down 32% since Election Day.

"It doesn't matter whether people believe in #climate change or not.

What matters is insurance companies know that their payouts have gone through the roof & the insurance companies are going to increase people's premiums.

That's just the way it works."

- @richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol