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magshells.bsky.social @magshells.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
This is a crime against all of humanity. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...
abc.net.au
Buyer drops nearly $72m on one of world's most complete T-rex skeletons
One of the largest Tyrannosaurus rex skeletons discovered makes history as the most valuable dinosaur fossil bought at auction.
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magshells.bsky.social @magshells.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
A university professor charted the results when students had to take a final exam in person, after the mid-term exam was take-home. Scores plummeted (except for one heroic struggler!) for obvious reasons. Then an AI which interprets and sums up charts gets the description exactly backwards!
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magshells.bsky.social @magshells.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
FIFA are a disgrace. If the USMNT had any integrity Balogun would sit out the next game, but Pulisic's gleeful comments in the article indicate that won't happen. The United States national team are as big a disgrace as FIFA. Disgusting. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
bbc.com
World Cup 2026: US striker Folarin Balogun's one-game red card ban suspended by Fifa
Folarin Balogun is available to play for the United States in their World Cup last-16 tie against Belgium after his one-game ban is suspended by Fifa.
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magshells.bsky.social @magshells.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Sons of US and Bosnian leaders Donald Trump and Bosnia Milorad Dodik, Donald Trump Jr and Igor Dodik, greet each other in Bosnia to make corrupt deals. If I were the son of a corrupt despot I hope I'd have the integrity to have nothing to do with my evil father. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
theguardian.com
Why $1bn in Balkans energy contracts are going to an obscure company connected to Donald Trump
Guardian investigation shows how US presidency blurs line between policy and enrichment of American ruling family and those around it
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magshells.bsky.social @magshells.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Good post from Campos at LGM: starts with an essay by Orwell complaining about bland writers, then relates this to modern use of LLMs. The closing bit is worth stealing: "Large language models are at the centre of an ongoing mass cultural suicide." www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/05/the-...
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The soul of a dead machine - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Dan’s post regarding Eve Fairbanks’ essay about what’s wrong with AI prose reminded me of a thought I’d had a couple of times recently, which is this: Such criticisms are reminiscent of the arguments ...
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magshells.bsky.social @magshells.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
This smug, arrogant prick tells us plebs to flush our livelihoods down the toilet, that in the audience here haven't even begun. We see the SLOP AI makes; we hate it. But owners and bosses, billionaires to petty tyrants we report to, say use it, fix the slop, and take the job/pay cuts that result.
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magshells.bsky.social @magshells.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
For Christ's sake, can we just write off all this AI crap? Get rid of it. No-one wants it. It demonstrably makes the whole world, not just the internet, but every aspect of life, worse. digbysblog.net/2026/05/08/a...
digbysblog.net
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magshells.bsky.social @magshells.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Andreessen, though moronic and not understanding the first thing about how chatbots work, is a highly malevolent, evil and malignant piece of shit. Dawkins (see my post quoted here; the Andreessen post is within a few minutes) on the other hand is just cringeworthy. I actually feel bad for him.
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magshells.bsky.social @magshells.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
unherd.com/2026/05/is-a... Paywalled, but you only need to read the paragraphs that are visible. Jesus Christ how much of a moron is Richard Dawkins.
unherd.com
When Dawkins met Claude
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magshells.bsky.social @magshells.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Holy crap but Marc Andreessen is a moron.
andreessen's bot prompt includes "Never hallucinate or
make anything up.  If you don't know something, just say so."
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magshells.bsky.social @magshells.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
physicsworld.com/a/word-wave-... At the risk of giving away a hint, the puzzle itself links to a story about patents in the quantum economy. So I thought "qubit" would be an excellent starting word. "Qubit" is not a word according to the puzzle on PhysicsWorld. It appears 3 times in the article.
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Word wave puzzle no.3 – Physics World
Can you work out the word in this puzzle?
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magshells.bsky.social @magshells.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Another dumb decision from the dumb people who rule us. Leave single-trip ticket prices as they are, and heavily reduce prices of season tickets of at least three months. Lock in the new users, don't just give them a freebie while petrol prices are high. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
abc.net.au
Public transport to be free for Victorians in April as fuel prices climb
The Victorian government says public transport will be free across the state in April in a bid to relieve cost-of-living pressure as fuel prices continue to climb.
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magshells.bsky.social @magshells.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/w... @albomp.bsky.social @senatorwong.bsky.social and please forward to Richard Marles, Minister for Defence: Are you going to submit a formal protest to the US for making Australians a party to a war crime? Or will you keep on being your usual gutless selves?
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3 Australians Were on U.S. Submarine That Sank an Iranian Warship
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magshells.bsky.social @magshells.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03... @albomp.bsky.social @senatorwong.bsky.social you gutless worms. If free people of the world defeat Trumpism, genocide, & Israel, where does that leave you two, having supported it? But if evil wins you will have helped it. You are failing in this moment of history.
abc.net.au
Albanese's swift backing of US-Israel strikes tells of changed world
The speed at which the Albanese government backed the US-Israel operation is a tale of a changed world and a radically altered domestic environment.
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magshells.bsky.social @magshells.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
@prospect.org You guys will like this (long!) article about the rise, spread and nefarious influence of neoliberal thinktanks in Australia and around the world. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
abc.net.au
A discreet intellectual network has been reshaping the world for 70 years. Here's how
A constant battle of ideas reshapes the world we live in, and few groups have been more successful in winning the war than the little-known Atlas Network.
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magshells.bsky.social @magshells.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
@slowhorsesappletv.bsky.social The latest episode set off my misophonia. Please don't ever do that again.
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magshells.bsky.social @magshells.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
www.abc.net.au/news/science... This article, which is supposed to be news, completely bypasses the main reason why search engines got worse (technically, enshittified): it was deliberate, to increase "engagement" and advertising revenue.
abc.net.au
Is Google search getting worse? Maybe what we want from it has changed
Has the simple search become less useful in a world of low-information, SEO-optimised sites, and often faulty AI summaries? Are there better ways to navigate the web?
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magshells.bsky.social @magshells.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
www.abc.net.au/news/science... This will be just like the classic Six Million Dollar Man episode where a rogue Soviet probe to Venus lands on Earth.
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magshells.bsky.social @magshells.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
bigifftrue.substack.com/p/the-costs-... I saw a link to this and thought it would be about something that's vexed me for quite a while (it's actually a boring piece about racial discrimination). About 8% of males and 1/2% of females are colour-blind.
bigifftrue.substack.com
The costs of colorblindness
Coleman Hughes, DEI, and ethnic ties
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magshells.bsky.social @magshells.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Lol what a low-rent crook Elon Musk really is.
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magshells.bsky.social @magshells.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Sergey Brin is nothing more than an arrogant moron. 1) AGI is a scam. AIs are computers programmed to find a statistically likely output for some input. There is no "intelligence". 2) Knowledge workers are productive for 4 hrs/day. The rest of the time is busywork. arstechnica.com/google/2025/...
arstechnica.com
Sergey Brin says AGI is within reach if Googlers work 60-hour weeks
Google says it has no immediate plans to change work-from-home policies.
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magshells.bsky.social @magshells.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
All this, is just making Boeing eat a giant plate of shit. The longer it takes them to deliver the new Air Force Ones, the more pressure they will be under to let Musk, who is 1) an industry competitor, 2) a drug-addled security risk, have a look at their internals. www.reuters.com/business/aer...
reuters.com
Boeing CEO says Musk "helping in a big way" on timing of Air Force One planes
Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg on Thursday said Elon Musk, the head of its space business rival SpaceX, is "helping us a lot" in navigating through delays in delivering Boeing's Air Force One presidential jet.
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magshells.bsky.social @magshells.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Schneier states: "Software supply-chain security is an absolute mess. And it’s not going to be easy, or cheap, to fix. Which means that it won’t be. Which is an even worse mess." Big Tech would rather spend $100 billion on a huge AI boondoggle scam. www.schneier.com/blog/archive...
schneier.com
Delivering Malware Through Abandoned Amazon S3 Buckets - Schneier on Security
Here’s a supply-chain attack just waiting to happen. A group of researchers searched for, and then registered, abandoned Amazon S3 buckets for about $400. These buckets contained software libraries th...
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magshells.bsky.social @magshells.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Finally some good news concerning that damn Nazi Elon Musk. If he manages to get control of OpenAI then he'll drive it into a ditch, just like he did to Twitter. Where it belongs. www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Elon Musk-led group makes $97.4bn bid for ChatGPT maker OpenAI
The billionaire's attorney, Marc Toberoff, confirmed he submitted the bid for "all assets" of the company on Monday.
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magshells.bsky.social @magshells.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Lol, how it started 1 of 2: marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...
marginalrevolution.com
Deep Research - Marginal REVOLUTION
I have had it write a number of ten-page papers for me, each of them outstanding.  I think of the quality as comparable to having a good PhD-level research assistant, and sending that person away with...
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magshells.bsky.social @magshells.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
1. Tech VCs are amoral ghouls trying to appeal to pro-violence fascists by rewarding an actual murderer. 2. They are morons with their heads up their arses but think they're geniuses because they got rich by being in the right place at the right time; this hire proves it.
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magshells.bsky.social @magshells.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
On the Nazi site is this post about AI doing maths. twitter.com/deedydas/sta... If you know that neural networks are just brute force statistical inference calculators (and don't understand anything) you realise the computation must be colossal. Is it really worth the extra global warming?
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magshells.bsky.social @magshells.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
"If we had some ham, we could have a ham sandwich." marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...
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magshells.bsky.social @magshells.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Pubs like WSJ and The Economist parrot the common wisdom of why the rich get everything while the rest of us just have to lump it. The Prospect reports the truth about lobbyists, scumbags, and scoundrels. Biden chose The Prospect to explain his legacy, prospect.org/economy/2024...
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magshells.bsky.social @magshells.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
You don't need a WSY subscription to see the salient point in the first line of the story: Musk's own executives see him as a drug-addled security risk and treat him like a giant baby. www.wsj.com/tech/musk-sp...
wsj.com
Why Musk Doesn’t Have Access to SpaceX’s Biggest Government Secrets
The rocket company’s executives haven’t sought a higher security clearance for its CEO to avoid questions about his drug use and contact with foreign officials. The answers might no longer matter.
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magshells.bsky.social @magshells.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... This is such a gross double standard from New Yorker magazine, and everyone else that is sane-washing this nutcase. When Michelle Obama tried to get American children to eat more healthily people went BATSHIT.
newyorker.com
The Fundamental Problem with R.F.K., Jr.,’s Nomination to H.H.S.
Kennedy has many bad ideas. Yet the irony of our political moment is that his more reasonable positions are the ones that could sink his candidacy.
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