iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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This is the dodgiest and most-desperate thing I’ve seen in the bubble so far. Amazon selling their chips to a group of investors and leasing them back - an off balance sheet arrangement done in plain sight. Really scraping the bottom of the barrel here. And they’ll probably buy more!

Amazon is seeking to offload about $8bn of advanced Nvidia chips to external investors through a new vehicle aimed at strengthening its balance sheet, according to people familiar with the matter.
The Seattle-based cloud giant has held talks with investors in recent weeks to gauge interest in the deal, which would allow the company to spin off thousands of Grace Blackwell chips it is deploying in data centres across the US into a special-purpose vehicle.
Amazon will then lease the advanced AI chips back from the SPV, which would tap outside investors through debt issuance. By unloading the expensive semiconductors to investors, the company could adopt a more asset-light approach to its balance sheet.

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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 22h

Politics on this place is a bit Greenskyish. Riddle me this - if at the next election, One Nation have 9 Senators and 18 Reps seats. The ALP government need either the Libs, the Greens + 2, or a box of chocolates to pass legislation. Should PHON govern from the back bench? Why the Greens now? But!..

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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Why won't the government of the day work with us - a minor party with 5% of total Federal electoral representation - to implement our specific policy agenda as if we were the government? Probably because of the other 95%. Just guessing. This is going to go well then, I see.

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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Because the Greens aren't the government and don't have demographic representative weight substantial enough to be dictating government policy. If we go down this route, we end up like Israel - where small parties dominate government policy and direction. Doesn't that work well eh. Time to grow up..

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Aimee Hulbert @aimeeh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The quote tweets for this article are hilarious. My fav is the one from the dude bro claiming that the former tax avoidance lawyer and current sitting member of a mainstream political party is “anti establishment“.

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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Welcome David Shoebridge to power. Your first test is to cooperate to bring in the world's first, comprehensive AI and datacenter regulatory system, or squib it for your ego and literally leave it to the States and people like Crisafulli and whatever dross the Tasmanian cat last dragged in. <clink>

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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I were the Prime Minister - the first thing I'd do with the new leader of the Greens is to give him access to a full intelligence briefing.

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Aimee Hulbert @aimeeh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Counter point: Australian politicians dont need to and shouldn't be anything like UK or American politician. Lol at “reviving the Greens” their vote has been consistent for decades ffs.

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Australian Labor @australianlabor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Happy birthday, Julia Gillard! 🎉

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 28/09/2026

The greatest secret in finance is that nobody knows what they’re investing in and another is that a lot of the “very smart people” with “lots of data” base their powerful “financial models” based on extremely simplistic scenarios, many of them as obvious as “growth continues as it always has”

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 28/09/2026

It really doesn't make sense to attribute those job losses to AI-the-technology, because if that were the case we'd be observing AI outputs displacing conventional entertainment products, and they're clearly not. Rather, the impact of AI is that AI-the-business is crowding out other investment.

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Australian Labor @australianlabor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#OnThisDay in 1983, Australia became the first challenger in 132 years to take the America’s Cup, inspiring Prime Minister Bob Hawke to offer some memorable advice to employers. ⛵️🏆😂

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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I've never got the whole David Pocock thing. I've never once seen him in any interview where he was able to answer a question intelligently that wasn't on his very specific talking points list. Is it his vibe, his marketing, his choice of talking points? I just don't get it.

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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The actual solution is that the US needs to fuck off out of the middle east yesterday, and charge Israel for the bill. The US broke it, they have neither the capability nor capacity to fix it. The longer it takes them to leave, the more people will die from energy insecurity and push costs higher.

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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

huffing copium over this by keeping in mind that the price increase means less competition for me to buy one

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Australian Labor @australianlabor.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Labor's delivering a Future Made in Australia. More jobs, more industry, more opportunity, right here at home.

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Australian Labor @australianlabor.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Wishing @mrkrudd.bsky.social a very happy birthday! 🎉

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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Finally, what's colloquially known as the Missing Middle!. Now let's get the States on board to change property rights laws from arsehole to breakfast time to allow cost sharing and tax expenditure sharing between owners and operators to put it on every warehouse and large commercial premises.

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Australian Labor @australianlabor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Every kid deserves the best start in life. That means affordable childcare, with educators who are paid fairly for the work they do. 👇

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Rhys Parton @rhysparton.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Pauline Hanson has said “Aboriginal people are the most primitive race on Earth.” Yet I’m constantly told, including today, “nah, she’s not racist.”

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Chris Bowen @chrisbowenmp.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

AN IMPORTANT UPDATE FOR RENTERS. ☀️🔋🏚️

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Rhys Parton @rhysparton.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Bruh…

A screenshot of the Facebook page for the Young Nationals, a page for young supporters of the National Party in Australia. The post is to mark a year since Charlie Kirk was shot and killed.

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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The Greens splitting on the Koala park is an example of an increasigly regular part of the ideological environmental furniture. Carbon offsets are incompetent rubbish. But you could get a gigantic sanctuary. And while fossil fuel removal isn't remotely influenced by this legislation, it's symbolic.

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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

For the second time in a week, Rudd is spot on today. We are a lazy country, beholden to lazy leadership that is scared to challenge - let alone move aside - the old status quo. The world has dramatically changed and most politics, let alone people, aren't up to it www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQWM...

youtube.com

WATCH NOW: Fmr PM and Asia Society CEO Kevin Rudd at National Press Club | ABC NEWS

YouTube video by ABC News (Australia)

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rimidar @rimidar.au · 10/09/2026

“One Nation’s rise is inevitable.” The humble Section 44:

44. Disqualification
Any person who:
(i) is under any acknowledgment of allegiance, obedience, or adherence to a foreign power, or is a subject or a citizen or entitled to the rights or privileges of a subject or a citizen of a foreign power; or (ii) is attainted of treason, or has been convicted and is under sentence, or subject to be sentenced, for any offence punishable under the law of the Commonwealth or of a State by imprisonment for one year or longer; or
(iii) is an undischarged bankrupt or insolvent; or
(iv) holds any office of profit under the Crown, or any pension payable during the pleasure of the Crown
out of any of the revenues of the Commonwealth: or
(v) has any direct or indirect pecuniary interest in any agreement with the Public Service of the Commonwealth otherwise than as a member and in common with the other members of an incorporated company consisting of more than twenty-five persons;
shall be incapable of being chosen or of sitting as a senator or a member of the House of Representatives.
AUSTRALIA'S CONSTITUTION
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 10/09/2026

This Jacob Coxon thing is weird. He worked at Anthropic for six weeks and OpenAI for nearly three years. He’s doing a whole media tour without any real statements about what it is he’s scared of other than vague references to recursive self improvement, a theoretical ai that teaches itself.

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Aimee Hulbert @aimeeh.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Folks thinking the ON guys past with drugs and DV will some how harm his chances of being elected are delusional and hypocritical . None of those things stopped folks from voting for Stephen Dick Pic Jolly. Didnt stop the vic socialists from doing a preference deal with him either.

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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Can start with me if you want. My alternative hypothesis is that too many people can't accept that movement on any given thing that makes the world a better place is to be celebrated - and if it's not enough, we push for more, rather than deliberately shit on the good we've done for ego and clicks

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Dan Olson @foldablehuman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I can tell you with confidence that Jimmy Beast did, in fact, write some of this book with his own hands (derogatory)

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Aston Bailey-Fong @astonbaileyfong.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Probably the best take on the Iran War I’ve seen so far. The entire foreign policy ecosystem in Washington D.C. (and the Likud lobby in partnership) has been pushing for this outcome for decades now. All it took was the dumbest president in history to actually believe them.

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 30/08/2026

“Taking time to ensure genuine consultation” is such fucking meaningless corporate executive speak. To what end should these “consultations” be held

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

most embarrassing guy of all time

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

post by leyawn

jester, roast this peasant child for saying i have no clothes on. more vulgar, jester. use the forbidden words

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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I saw an interesting piece of industry analysis today that solar + battery firming in Australia (mostly because of the massive increases in battery capability with decreasing costs, and the forecast trajectory on both) means it might make new wind proposals redundant by 2032 under every scenario

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Australian Labor @australianlabor.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Australia leads the world with rooftop solar.☀️ And because of Labor’s discounts, we are now leading the world with home batteries too.🔋

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James B. Jones @jamesbjones.com · 21/08/2026

When people say they’re anti-AI, they’re clearly talking about generative AI in the arts and LLM slop that C-Suite jackoffs want to use to replace them. You know this. I know this. Everyone knows this. So the “then don’t use spellcheck if you hate AI” talking point is disingenuous horseshit.

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

This dude is not even *Gosford's third best Joe Rogan tribute band.* Sure buddy, people were gagging for some content about the dastardly Fabian plotters.

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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

This joint Fed/ NSW gov investment into renewable infrastructure to transform the Rio Tinto Tomago aluminium smelter to green reminds me of something I've been seeing a lot. Charlatan political voices more keen on opposing everything for micro-clout, than decarbonising industry to save the planet.

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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Here's a climate integrity idea - anyone proposing a gas tax to fund recurrent expenditure, giving the Federal budget a fossil fuel addiction, should be fed into the nearest coal furnace. Any gas tax must be capital expenditure for the energy transition, not Norway climate recalcitrance

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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

A reminder of why the Australian government's proposed data center regulatory policy is actually better than good. Also a reminder that the US isn't Australia. For some reason, some of you need to hear the obvious being stated.

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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Free David McBride!* (*With every faux-progressive media subscription) The man tried to stop war crimes investigations. He's not a whistleblower, he's a grifter, and if you fell for the cheap politics of it, you were the mark.

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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

It doesn't matter what David Janetzki thinks, section 51(v) of the constitution is crystal clear - he will do what he is told, regardless of what the fossil fuel interests in the back pocket of the Qld LNP want.

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Sarcasmitron @sarcasmitron.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

New Video out for everyone! youtu.be/gG7BSJ6bfqg

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I Wish It Were About Oil

YouTube video by Sarcasmitron

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From The Ashes @fallofromulus.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

”Gentle-Beings I give you liberated Benzar…and damnation to the Dominion!” - Praetor Neral tr’Vatoth’s toast at the Deneva conference, december 2374. (Artwork by the sublimely skilled @crowlls.bsky.social)

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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

People on this very site were telling me just last week that I'm mad, as the Federal government's datacenter policy was pro-gas. Having a reality based community is more important than your partisan based identity folks. That way is Maga. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...

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Commonwealth says it will block gas-fired data centres

The NT government has rejected a federal plan to mandate the use of renewables for new large-scale data centres, but the Commonwealth says it will block proposals that rely on gas.

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Australian Labor @australianlabor.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

What are they hiding from? 🤔

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