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Darrel Mc

@mithrilrat.bsky.social
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Darrel Mc @mithrilrat.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"One hundred thousand million years", which used to be how we said it in Australia. Now that would be described as "100 Billion".
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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
static.klipy.com
Tom Delonge Blink182 Wtf Meme
Alt: Tom Delonge Blink182 Wtf Meme
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Darrel Mc @mithrilrat.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
😂
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Darrel Mc @mithrilrat.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
was his tail vibrating? Because that's what our little one does, when he's just standing there watching.
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Darrel Mc @mithrilrat.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Hahahahahaha. I get that exact same look from my little doggo. He even has the same face markings, although our little one has half floppy ears.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
My @deepcutnews.bsky.social column - in the late 1970s neoliberal con artists unleashed their cancer in to society. Fuck them and the horse they rode on. www.deepcutnews.com/p/neoliberal...
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Neoliberalism has destroyed our social fabric in the name of profits – Greg Jericho
Privatisation has failed. It's time to put public services back into public hands
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Darrel Mc @mithrilrat.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Sounds like what happened to Qantas
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Darrel Mc @mithrilrat.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Not really. It's grifting for a publicity stunt according to other sources. try following UwU Underground to a different perspective.
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Darrel Mc @mithrilrat.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
And this is why the Pharmacutical companies are leveraging Trump and his regime to lean on Australia's Pharmacutical Benefit Scheme. They can't gouge Australian's yet.
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Darrel Mc @mithrilrat.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Why does the US get to unilaterally approve launching a mirror to create "Sunlight on demand"? theconversation.com/the-u-s-just...
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The U.S. just approved a giant space mirror to test ‘sunlight on demand.’ Low Earth orbit is getting weird
From space hotels and artificial meteor showers, to a new giant mirror that reflects sunlight to Earth — low-Earth orbit is getting weird.
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Three Scary Rogue Agents in a Trenchcoat @alexhanna.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
A message for the class of 2026: We need more friction!
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the Juice Media @thejuicemedia.com · 30/06/2026
The Government™ has made an ad about Palantir, and it's surprsingly honest and informative.
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Honest Government Ad | Palantir
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
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Darrel Mc @mithrilrat.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
They're telling us who they are... every damn time!
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 18/06/2026
ben got tired of retyping the same arguments benui.ca/blog/why-i-r...
The arguments around the use of "AI" are exhausting. I'm tired of re-typing my reasons, so this document is a summary of some of the many reasons why I refuse to use AI.

These reasons are not particularly original. They have been stated many times by others.
These are not all the reasons not to use AI.
These reasons are not in any particular order.
These arguments focus on my work as a programmer.
I interchange AI and LLMs, but prefer LLMs as "AI" is a marketing term used to oversell the capability of generative models.
Table of Contents:
Deskilling
Built on Stolen Labour
Negative Environmental Impacts
Introduces Reliance on Subscription Service
I Like Programming
Fundamentally Hostile to Human Learning
Worse Quality Code
It's a Black Box
Inaccuracy and Bad User Experience
Fundamentally Designed to Make Stuff up
The Statistical Average is the Least Interesting Result
Inability to Solve Novel Problems
Used to Obfuscate Responsibility
LLMs Ruin the Web
Non-deterministic
Not Using Your Brain is Insulting
Suspiciously Similar to NFTs, Crypto, Metaverse
Chatbot interaction is emotionally manipulative and can lead to psychosis
LLMs Make Everyone Poorer
Something made with no effort has no value
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Darrel Mc @mithrilrat.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
She's lucky she didn't smell like a raw onion.
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Tim Stephens @proftimstephens.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
“The average NSW resident is already $20,000 a year worse off because of historical climate change, and economic modelling suggests future global warming will further squeeze household budgets through a double whammy of lost wages and higher grocery bills.” www.smh.com.au/environment/...
smh.com.au
You’re losing $20k a year because of climate change – and it’s predicted to get worse
As well as the cost of extreme weather and natural disasters, longer-term climatic changes are also a drag on economic productivity, the NSW Net Zero Commission says.
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LisaZed 👩🏻‍🎨 🌏 🐨🌳🇪🇭🇺🇦 @lisazed.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
@albomp.bsky.social is handing over our water to voracious psycho capitalists who will bleed our waterways dry & push up electricity costs! Why do these #LimpDick fuckers keep handing over our democracy to the worst of society! Time to #RegulateAINOW!!! Not when it's too fucking late! #auspol
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Andrés Diplotti @diplotti.com · 02/06/2026
Subí esto a un Reddit de memes de El Señor de los Anillos y me complace informar que la respuesta ha dicho abrumadoramente positiva.
About half of all celebrities right now:

Saruman saying, "Against the power of Silicon Valley there is no victory. We must work with it, Gandalf. We must work with AI."
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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 28/05/2026
I observe with my students using a .5m telescope every year. The satellite interference has increased aggressively.
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Darrel Mc @mithrilrat.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Welcome to the Australian nightmare.
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Darrel Mc @mithrilrat.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Looks like a generic EV
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The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 16/05/2026
“In 20 years of working in the sector I have never seen a University Council member come to a department meeting, sit in on a lecture, talk to students, or address a public forum.” satpa.pe/DxrLAvx
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Universities fail on workplace realities
As a run of inquiries examine the governance of Australia’s universities, senior leadership refuses to accept there is a crisis in the sector.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Hawai’i just passed a bill that undermine Citizens United. The bill establishes corporations as “artificial persons” without the right to spend money on elections. The bill could limit the influence of super PACs and be a model to challenge the influence of money in politics.
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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 11/05/2026
this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.
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Rod Campbell @rodcampbell.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
JUST DO THIS, AUSTRALIA!!! "Australia is one of only a few high-income nations in the world that does not provide children with a free meal at school each day."
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Darrel Mc @mithrilrat.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Good
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Darrel Mc @mithrilrat.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Exactly, especially when there is also an export market for all the electricity we can send to SE Asia.
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Darrel Mc @mithrilrat.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
I don't understand the end game; or is it just short term profits and billionairs exit when every ounce of money has been extracted.
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Darrel Mc @mithrilrat.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Science is not in danger. But USA led science is totally heading to the dumpster. Europe and Asia will outpace all US based research for the next generation or three.
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Night of the long knives last night. Who stands to gain? Who stands to benefit?
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
You belong here @kylebrandtsky.bsky.social
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Darrel Mc @mithrilrat.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
I assumed it was BS anyway. It is coming from the SMH
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Darrel Mc @mithrilrat.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Where I work, travel is work. We MUST factor in rostered days off (paid) if travel is over 10 hours, or involves major timezone changes or puts you over 6 working days in a row.
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 15/04/2026
Out-of-control blaze at one of Australia’s two remaining oil refineries in Geelong
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Out-of-control blaze at one of Australia’s two remaining oil refineries in Geelong
Smoke warning for residents south of Viva oil refinery in Corio as Geelong mayor calls fire ‘unprecedented’ A major oil refinery in Geelong, which supplies half of Victoria’s fuel and 10% of the nation’s, exploded into flames on Wednesday night and the blaze was still out of control by first light on Thursday. Fire Rescue Victoria said they responded to an incident at the Mogas (motor gasoline) unit at Viva oil refinery in Corio around 11:15pm Thursday. Continue reading...
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Darrel Mc @mithrilrat.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
For 10's of thousands of years, there have always been pricks, like yourself.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Amazon reportedly failed to create any new jobs at its HQ2 in Virginia last year, despite millions of state tax incentives. The company has cut 30,000 jobs since last October — while saving $4 billion in taxes under Trump's Big Ugly Bill. Trickle-down economics is a hoax.
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iangrant25.bsky.social @iangrant25.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Read the room, von der Leyen.
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Benjamin Pope @benjaminpope.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
The Australian government have decided not to pursue membership of the European Southern Observatory, the world’s largest astronomy organisation and one where membership was the main request of the decadal review. What are we going to do?
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Alice Grundy @alicektg.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Just 1 example of the kind of thing unis are getting for their massive spend on consultants. ANU spent $6k on a "non-significant meeting" with a reputation management firm at which apparently no one took a note. That's more than a tutor gets for a semester's work thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
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ANU spent $6k on a 'non-significant' meeting. Then why do they pay tutors even less for a semester?
Last year the Australian National University (ANU) was getting some bad press, so they engaged a company called Bastion Reputation to help with the media fallout from restructures and the heavily crit...
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Darrel Mc @mithrilrat.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
The problem is that ARC thinks industry is there to solve their problems. Industry DGAF!
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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
people simply love it when you storm out of the gates to support an illegal war, then lecture them about personal responsibility after it makes their lives worse
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will deliver an address to the nation tonight, outlining the government's response to the Middle East conflict and encouraging Australians to "play their part".

He is expected to urge Australians to save fuel for areas and industries that "most need it". 

The address will be simulcast on television and radio across Australia at 7pm AEDT.
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Darrel Mc @mithrilrat.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
That's got to be a loss for Labor and the Greens
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Darrel Mc @mithrilrat.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
I misread that headline, and thought it meant you didn't care that the tech bros were mad (like as in insane). I'm glad to be corrected.
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Kyle Quest (the DockerSlim guy) @kcqon.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
The AI code tsunami is already here... The software iceberg you are shipping to prod is becoming 10x bigger. And like with regular icebergs you don't see and don't know the biggest and the most dangerous part of it.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Watch this clip. Professors will recognize this kid as the student who didn't do the reading but still has very strong opinions about how it's all "bullshit," except this time he's not the callow student who's going to fail your course, he's the reviewer who's going to cancel your grant.
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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Name the perpetrators. It's not Grok. It's men.
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Darrel Mc @mithrilrat.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
I say a similar thing to most people at work. "I have a coffee cup that has been working here, longer than you've been alive."
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Darrel Mc @mithrilrat.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
sounds like you would have memorised all the AT commands as well. I know I did.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 05/03/2026
Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM
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Darrel Mc @mithrilrat.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Maybe @toomanyspectra.bsky.social could assist
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