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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 57m

good lord how can anyone be this whiny; are you not ashamed

Donald Trump writes on Truth Social: "This is the woman who received the Nobel Peace Prize over the Great United States of America, whose Representative, ME, settled eight Wars, and many other things. I know nothing about this woman, and neither does anyone else! In fact, to the best of my knowledge, no one ever heard of her other than the fact that she, very obviously, hates Israel. I don’t know what the woman has done. I settled 8 Wars, with letters being sent from every President and Prime Minister from the countries that I helped to the Norwegian Nobel Committee, and I’m about to settle, or win, two more, Iran and, Russia/Ukraine. They’re both happening at breakneck speed but, forget them, it’s the 8 that I’ve already settled, any one of which, in particular, Pakistan and India, would be far more than necessary to win the Nobel Prize. In actuality, I should have won 8 Nobel Peace Prizes, not just 1. The 8 Wars are:"

Donald Trump writes on Truth Social: "Cambodia and Thailand
Kosovo and Serbia
The Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda
Pakistan and India
Israel and Iran
Egypt and Ethiopia
Armenia and Azerbaijan
Israel and Hamas
Additionally, I stopped Iran from having a Nuclear Weapon, and blowing up the entire Middle East and, ultimately, far beyond! I saved more lives than anyone in History and, as Maria Corina Machado, a truly fine person, stated to the Media when she gave me her Nobel Prize of last year, “Donald Trump settled many Wars, and deserves the Nobel Peace Prize more than any person that has ever received it.” Based on my record of PEACE, a record like no one else has ever achieved, I agree! I got back all of the hostages in Israel, including the final 28, both living and dead, and worked with Hamas to"

Donald Trump writes on Truth Social: "PEACE, a record like no one else has ever achieved, I agree! I got back all of the hostages in Israel, including the final 28, both living and dead, and worked with Hamas to do it — Nobody believed this was possible! I removed the World’s Evil Dictator, Nicolas Maduro, from Venezuela, and am in the process of making Venezuela a rich Democracy. Likewise, with Iran, I stopped them from destroying Israel, the Middle East, and Europe. I am also preventing, on a constant basis, a War between South Korea and North Korea, and Japan and North Korea. Add China and Taiwan, and numerous other hot spots, which have not been involved in Wars, only because of President Donald J. Trump, and the United States of America. I am responsible for having NATO countries increase spending from 2% to 5% of GDP, creating a stronger alliance and defense, another thing that everybody said was impossible to do. I have negotiated the release, and secured the return, of more than 900 political prisoners from multiple countries"

Donald Trump writes on Truth Social: "another thing that everybody said was impossible to do. I have negotiated the release, and secured the return, of more than 900 political prisoners from multiple countries in Eastern Europe. Additionally, I have brought 196 hostages HOME from captivity, from all over the World, and did it without having paid a ransom, unlike Biden and Obama who would pay Billions of Dollars. On top of it all, I have created a soon to be very prosperous Arctic. Despite all of this, the Nobel Prize was given today to a liberal person who works at the United Nations, who nobody has ever heard of. In all of the Wars that I have settled, I never spoke to the United Nations—they were of no help. The United States of America, represented by me, as your President, should have received the Nobel Peace Prize, but didn’t. This is an indelible stain on Norway, one that will never be forgotten. The Nobel “Peace” Prize has been forever discredited by a handful of Radical Ideologues who are Anti-Democracy, and Enemies of Civilization! President DONALD J. TRUMP"

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"A landmark ruling in the High Court has found planning authorities are required to consider the emissions caused by burning fossil fuels overseas when approving projects." This is a big deal, surely.

abc.net.au

NSW coalmine climate ruling a massive shake-up to Australia's oil and gas

Australia's High Court rules in favour of a Hunter Valley community group in a landmark climate ruling that could redraw how fossil fuel projects are approved in Australia.

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Floyd, of the K floyds @floydthek.bsky.social · 1h

Watch out, BrisVegas, I'm off to the hotel gym to get ripped, shredded, cut, and awesomely HUUUUGE. (ie spend 38 minutes on one of those Nordic skiing things)

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 10h

When you realise how history will judge you

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Floyd, of the K floyds @floydthek.bsky.social · 6h

Katie's government did its best to wipe out RAFFWU, a union for retail workers

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 6h

raise revenue and undercut right-populism with One Weird Trick (capitalists HATE this)

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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 7h

What’s happening to our climate is utterly terrifying. We’re looking at 4 degrees above average this southern summer www.theguardian.com/environment/...

theguardian.com

‘Jaw-dropping’ El Niño bursts through temperature record months before peak

‘Godzilla-level’ phenomenon is supercharging the climate crisis and will have a huge impact on communities across the world

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 11h

One in six kids in poverty. Increasing housing stress. Fossil-fueled climate policy. Our closest alliance with the fascist US. Enabling the #GazaGenocide. Policy written by corporate donors. If this is what the “centre” delivers, “sensible” it is not. #auspol podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/7...

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As the Coalition veers right, should Albo hold the centre?

Podcast Episode · 7am · 9 October · 16min

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Floyd, of the K floyds @floydthek.bsky.social · 19h

'Mob rule' Wake up babe, a new euphemism for 'everybody hates me and with good reason' just dropped

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Jon Piccini @jonpiccini.bsky.social · 19h

"An obvious objection to the war-fi genre is that there are quite enough wars to be getting on with without inventing fictional ones."

lrb.co.uk

Tom Stevenson · The Russians are coming

War-fi accounts accurately depict the frontier between Europe and Russia as being in an unstable equilibrium. But they...

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 19h

Over the past decade, scientists have found that when tiny green spaces are scattered across cities, their cumulative effects are greater than the sum of their parts. @jollyette.bsky.social writes on the giant power of tiny parks.

motherjones.com

The giant power of tiny parks

The feds think bigger green spaces are better, but mini ones make a big difference.

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Floyd, of the K floyds @floydthek.bsky.social · 21h

*title might be different, I'm too busy and annoyed to look it up

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Floyd, of the K floyds @floydthek.bsky.social · 21h

Apparently Sydney Uni has a sub-department for brain-shrinkingly simplistic generalisations. At least that's the best explanation for a super simplistic talk on Liberalism and Values* I just heard on the Philosopher's Zone: Hungary is just like China, except for when it isn't, never mind...

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

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Mike Hudema @mikehudema.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"Current policies are taking the world to a 2.8 degree temperature rise...that spells catastrophe, yet the collective response remains pitiful." – @antonioguterres There is no time to wait. #ActOnClimate #climate #energy #renewables

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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 09/10/2026

The "CANZUK" people are always fun like that too: "We propose a union of ex-British Empire Anglophone democracies - so yes, of course Ireland is welcome!" "Oh, so those criteria would mean India's welcome too, then?" "Ah, well, the thing is,

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Floyd, of the K floyds @floydthek.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Pakistan has loads of English speakers too, as does Zimbabwe - there's a lot of work for these absolutely-not-at-all-racist English language enthusiasts to be getting on with!

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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 09/10/2026

Goddamn lefties, complaining about this, that and the other. As a One Nation voter, I'm about to lose it! www.crikey.com.au/2026/10/09/o...

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I hate lefty whingers and protesters but I also hate everything

Cheaper groceries at publicly owned supermarkets? What kind of socialist hellscape is this?

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Floyd, of the K floyds @floydthek.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Haven't heard of this outfit, so can't be surprised by white nationalist tied. One goal is 'closer ties between English speaking peoples'. If they mean poms and septics that's bullshit, we already act like there's only 3 countries in the world. If serious, India has a lot of English speakers

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Floyd, of the K floyds @floydthek.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

No disrespect to Gibson or Neuromancer, which I devoured back in the day and which did indeed feel like a very good new thing, but "ruthless megacorporations" were a thing a loooong time before the book came out, or indeed before Gibson was born

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Floyd, of the K floyds @floydthek.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Rubber Soul is terrific, but for mine 'Help' is a critically neglected cust-of-change Beatles album

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Floyd, of the K floyds @floydthek.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Off to BrisVegas (I know I should call it Meanjin, but I like the Bris-variants: BrisBoring, BrisVegas, BrisBrilliant, BrisBohemian etc) Reading matter is: Osamu Dasai: No Longer Human Karl Marx: Capital Vols 1 and 3 A bunch of Grauniads and a Sat Paper

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Floyd, of the K floyds @floydthek.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Fair's fair, Richard Marles shares values with the USA's current leadership, albeit not very good ones

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Floyd, of the K floyds @floydthek.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

My bad, it was the Anti-Defamation Commission that is equating 75,000 and counting civilian victims of the IDF with the 911 hijackers

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Floyd, of the K floyds @floydthek.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I really want to see ROGUE TEOOPER. Is it coming to an Aussie cinema anytime soon?

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Floyd, of the K floyds @floydthek.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is the sort of stuff used to retroactively justify invading Iraq after it became clear the WMDs didn't exist

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 08/10/2026

Can I just say because it probably isn't said enough: @timnitgebru.blacksky.app @emilymbender.bsky.social were specifically extremely correct in their "stochastic parrots" paper on their environmental risk warnings and narrowly, on the unjust burden of impacts: s10251.pcdn.co/pdf/2021-ben...

ENVIRONMENTAL AND FINANCIAL COST
Strubell et al. recently benchmarked model training and development costs in terms of dollars and estimated 퐶푂2 emissions [129].
While the average human is responsible for an estimated 5t 퐶푂2푒
per year,2
the authors trained a Transformer (big) model [136] with
neural architecture search and estimated that the training procedure
emitted 284t of 퐶푂2. Training a single BERT base model (without
hyperparameter tuning) on GPUs was estimated to require as much
energy as a trans-American flight.
While some of this energy comes from renewable sources, or
cloud compute companies’ use of carbon credit-offset sources, the
authors note that the majority of cloud compute providers’ energy is
not sourced from renewable sources and many energy sources in the
world are not carbon neutral. In addition, renewable energy sources
are still costly to the environment,3
and data centers with increasing
computation requirements take away from other potential uses of

green energy,4 underscoring the need for energy efficient model
architectures and training paradigms.
Strubell et al. also examine the cost of these models vs. their
accuracy gains. For the task of machine translation where large
LMs have resulted in performance gains, they estimate that an
increase in 0.1 BLEU score using neural architecture search for
English to German translation results in an increase of $150,000
compute cost in addition to the carbon emissions. To encourage
more equitable access to NLP research and reduce carbon footprint,
the authors give recommendations to report training time and
sensitivity to hyperparameters when the released model is meant
to be re-trained for downstream use. They also urge governments to
invest in compute clouds to provide equitable access to researchers.

When we perform risk/benefit analyses of language technology,
we must keep in mind how the risks and benefits are distributed,
because they do not accrue to the same people. On the one hand, it
is well documented in the literature on environmental racism that
the negative effects of climate change are reaching and impacting
the world’s most marginalized communities first [1, 27].6
Is it fair or
just to ask, for example, that the residents of the Maldives (likely to
be underwater by 2100 [6]) or the 800,000 people in Sudan affected

These models are being developed at a time when unprecedented environmental changes are being witnessed around the
world. From monsoons caused by changes in rainfall patterns due
to climate change affecting more than 8 million people in India,9
to the worst fire season on record in Australia killing or displacing
nearly three billion animals and at least 400 people,10 the effect
of climate change continues to set new records every year. It is
past time for researchers to prioritize energy efficiency and cost
to reduce negative environmental impact and inequitable access
to resources — both of which disproportionately affect people who
are already in marginalized positions.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 01/10/2026

AI safety expert Timnit Gebru says tech leaders are promoting greatly exaggerated claims about "superintelligence" and "existential risk" as a way to distract from the real threat — their own unregulated companies.

democracynow.org

The Real Existential Risk Is AI CEOs Avoiding Oversight: “Alternative Nobel” Winner Timnit Gebru

We speak to the prominent AI researcher and leading critic of the AI industry, Timnit Gebru, who was recently awarded a 2026 Right Livelihood Award for her work investigating the harms and hype behind...

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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I know Tony and Wendy well. They're good friends and long-time Greens, and they've spent decades fighting to protect the Hunter Valley they love. Today they took on the fossil fuel giants and got an important win.

Guardian article screenshot. Headline: Hunter Valley community group wins landmark high court climate change case over coalmine.

Photo of David Shoebridge, Larissa Waters, Wendy, and Tony standing together and smiling in a Parliament office

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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Find a special enemy in your life who hates you as much as Chris Minns hates activists

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Floyd, of the K floyds @floydthek.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Just got an email from the Anti Defamation Association asking me to imagine a vigil for the 911 hijackers. I would, but what that's got to do with a vigil for 75000 murdered civilians, I don't know.

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Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is not a real person! There are THIRTY TWO books here that 'Andrew V. Smith' has shat out in the last year alone, all of which have AI-generated covers and most borrow or straight up rip off titles from other more popular (and more importantly: human) works like my own

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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Yesterday we got this odd statement in an article about solar power in Cuba. "Given Cuba’s size, solar will never be able to provide baseload energy, Piñon added, and it will always need large thermoelectric plants."

bloomberg.com

A Surge in US Solar Exports Helps Cuba Keep Some of Its Lights On

When Cuba suffered its seventh national blackout this year, the guests at La Campana in Havana kept partying. Thanks to the event center’s solar panels and backup batteries, they didn’t even realize t...

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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

And, on this, did a podcast on this stuff where we teased out the issues with the far smarter and cleverer @ketanjoshi.co and @rachelwithers.bsky.social shows.acast.com/6244d1918dd1...

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Is the ‘Nerd Reich’ gaslighting Australia on data centres? | Crikey's Electioncast - a daily Australian federal election podcast

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Floyd, of the K floyds @floydthek.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Kylie No-Moore-Please Gilbert says migrants kept up the GDP "artificially". Aren't they real people? Do they pay in fake migrant money or something?

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Chris Salisbury @chrissalisbury.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Remembering (yes, remembering) that time 40 years ago this month when Queensland Museum carted replica dinosaurs through busy inner city Brisbane streets to new museum digs at South Bank/Kurilpa

A flat bed truck carrying a replica Tyrannosaurus Rex through traffic in inner Brisbane/Magandjin in October 1986 [pic: QLD Museum]

A truck arriving with a replica Tyrannosaurus Rex at Grey St, South Brisbane where Queensland Museum opened on its new site in October 1986 [pic: QLD Museum]

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 07/10/2026

We have published now two full reports both debunking this claim and shining a new light on the climate impacts of companies like NVIDIA and others who insist on this without evidence. Public control won't fix this problem - not at all. ketanjoshi.co/2026/02/17/b... ketanjoshi.co/2026/09/16/n...

a graphic showing the difference bw energy consumption and climate benefit claims

the rising energy consumption of hyperscalers

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Paul Gregoire @paulrgregoire.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

WA police has sent out letters to a dozen antiwar activists nationwide, explaining that they've been banned from entering the Land Forces 2026 weapons expo site, via threat of three years imprisonment 👇 www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/wa-poli...

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WA Police Bans a Dozen Activists from Perth Weapons Expo

Western Australian police have sent letters to a dozen activists nationwide, warning that they face up to three years in prison if they enter the area around the 2026 Land Forces expo.

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Floyd, of the K floyds @floydthek.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The Grauniad has a cartoon which shows a Jewish guy making sweet music at a piano with a Muslim woman while an annoying strident Greens person shouts 'Zionism is Racism' into the air nearby. Seems to assume that Zionism = being Jewish? Even then, a dud cartoon

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Floyd, of the K floyds @floydthek.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Tasmania appears to have seceded. Good luck to them

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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Finally! A good news climate story!

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MEAA @withmeaa.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The rollout of Future News at Nine News outlets can't come at the expense of news workers. Journalists, camera operators, producers and editors are taking on extra duties while newsrooms face redundancies and growing workloads. meaa.io/4duO2tP

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MEAA calls for stronger worker consideration as Future News continues rollout

The Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) has called on Nine Entertainment to manage the increasing concerns from journalists, camera operators, editors and production staff regarding pay,…

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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 08/10/2026

While climate-related spending gets criticised, billions forked out for security and strategic engagement get framed as for the “national interest”. www.crikey.com.au/2026/10/08/w...

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Whose security counts in the Pacific?

While climate-related spending gets criticised, billions forked out for security and strategic engagement gets framed as for the “national interest”.

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Floyd, of the K floyds @floydthek.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

That's 'Kidnapped Venezuelan President' ABC News

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Floyd, of the K floyds @floydthek.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

”Australia has essentially a corruption-free government” Joe Hockey, who was apparently in a coma during the Abbott government

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