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The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 10h
SoftBank’s promise to pay its highest-ever yields in a record $11 billion junk-bond offering highlights the pressure on CEO Masayoshi Son to secure returns on his all-in bet on AI.
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SoftBank junk bond sale raises stakes for CEO Son’s all-in AI bet
Son’s bets have a mixed track record.
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The Point @thepointau.bsky.social · 12h
"There is something deeply circular about asking multinational technology companies what national security risks Australia faces, whether we urgently need their products and how their industry should be regulated" writes Darcie Newland. Read the full piece on The Point: sbrew.link/6PKYkU9b
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 12h
If you give a shit about democracy and transparency, donate to the Open Australia Foundation
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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 21h
More Wrensday Wednesday loveliness. A splendid fairywren sitting on some nicely-shaped tree branches at Gluepot Reserve.
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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 21h
Torii in calm waters. Photography by Yasuhiko Yoshihiro
Captured by photographer Yasuhiko Yoshihiro, this ethereal landscape photograph depicts a solitary wooden sacred gate (torii) standing immersed in the placid, glassy waters of Lake Kinrin (Kinrinko) in Yufuin, Oita Prefecture. A delicate sacred straw rope (shimenawa) with paper streamers (shide) hangs suspended beneath the gate's crossbeam (kasagi). The scene is bathed in a soft, silvery morning light as mist drifts gently across the lake surface, veiling the distant forested shoreline and rolling hills in a delicate white haze. The perfectly still water functions as a pristine mirror, casting a dark, symmetrical reflection of the torii into the depths below. Bare, delicate tree branches reach down from the upper right quadrant, framing the atmospheric void.

The photograph awakens a serene, transcendental sensory atmosphere: the crisp, cool morning air clinging to water-bound stone, the silent rise of geothermal steam over calm lake water, the absolute stillness of early dawn unbroken by wind or human footsteps, and the deep, restorative quietude of a sacred watery realm.
Located at the foot of Mount Yufu in Kyushu, Lake Kinrin is famous for its natural hot springs (onsen) and freshwater springs that feed simultaneously into the lake basin. The temperature differential between the warm geothermal springs and cool mountain air creates the lake's iconic morning mist (asagiri) throughout autumn and winter. The submerged gate belongs to Tenjin Shrine (Tenjin-sha), a small Shinto sanctuary situated along the lake's edge, dedicated to Tenjin (the deified spirit of scholar Sugawara no Michizane) and local water deities.

The construction of aquatic torii gates represents an ancient Shinto tradition of marking sacred thresholds (kekkai) across natural bodies of water, acknowledging the presence of kami (divine spirits) within lakes, mountains, and coastal bays.
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 22h
Real estate AI use grows with furniture and families altered in advertisements
abc.net.au
Real estate agents urged to 'enhance responsibly' as AI use rises
The real estate industry is "one of the fastest adopters of AI", using the technology to create listings, enhance images and songs, experts say.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 23h
She's simply going to hide in the corner of the human traffickers' rooms in the dark. Babadook situation, 90% fatality rate.
New Trump administration creature Barbera Thornhill to lead human trafficking fight. (Woman looks like no human has ever looked before.)
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Aron Lund @aronlund.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
You snicker, but if the only way to turn off night-time notifications on my phone meant accepting a 0,001% risk of being killed by a Scud missile in my sleep, I would take the deal.
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Triskeltic @triskeltic.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Jesus. I hope you've prepped the yacht.
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Nigel Bell 🍉 @nigel63.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
This is a 🇬🇧 consumer review of chocolate products. I saw one done on the 🇦🇺 marketplace about 6 mths ago. Same players, same story: • less cocoa, more oil • lower portion size, higher price • *slave* labour Only 2 '🇦🇺' chocolates passed: - NZ's Whittaker, & - Adelaide's Haigh youtu.be/ORXoC-TkRlo
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I Investigated The Company That Ruined British Chocolate
YouTube video by Food Crisis UK
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Triskeltic @triskeltic.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Bloody hell. And it's on you to pick up all those costs?
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Triskeltic @triskeltic.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Poor sods.
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Kim Wingerei @kimwingerei.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Latest from our AAP #news feed #auspol Consumer watchdog cracks down on alleged egg cartel. Australia's biggest egg suppliers have been accused of banding together to block their competitors and inflate prices, allegations the companies den...
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Consumer watchdog cracks down on alleged egg cartel - Michael West
Australia's biggest egg suppliers have been accused of banding together to block their competitors and inflate prices, allegations the companies deny.
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Triskeltic @triskeltic.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
😂
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Wolfie Rankin @wolfierankin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
youtube.com
How do Japanese parents tell their children to listen?
YouTube video by Kyota Ko
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Triskeltic @triskeltic.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Ugh.
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Triskeltic @triskeltic.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Does he like you, though?
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Amazing photo in New York Times of Gen Z protests in India.
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Triskeltic @triskeltic.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
That'll be the least of their problems.
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Catalin Cimpanu @campuscodi.risky.biz · 11/10/2026
about:config browser.nova.enabled ----> false
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Triskeltic @triskeltic.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Everything seems to be in a state of collapse.
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Triskeltic @triskeltic.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Medieval Military Medicine @medmilmedicine.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Diablo’s lax attitude made him the kingdom’s most sought after chaperone by young courting couples - 13th century, BnF Français 14969, f. 5r
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Prof Brendan Crabb AC @brendancrabb.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Fascinating thread from Ryan. Below is an explainer of what is likely going on with these v different looking variants, except in this new PJ case the chronically infected person seems to be continually transmitting infections that establish themselves in others. theconversation.com/the-emergenc...
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The emergence of JN.1 is an evolutionary ‘step change’ in the COVID pandemic. Why is this significant?
The JN.1 variant has become dominant in Australia and around the world, causing large waves of infections. Here’s what we know about it so far – and why it’s so important.
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The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 10/10/2026
Junior doctors work well beyond their rostered hours to treat patients, writes Hayden Stephens. Likewise, casual academics are required to work without proper recognition and pay. This unpaid labour is often treated as incidental. In reality, it is anything but. trib.al/OS1EzXy
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How hospitals and unis normalised wage theft
Australia’s hospitals and universities do very different work, but they share a growing problem: they routinely fail to recognise the hours worked by the people who keep them running.
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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Usually I'm the one writing about AI. But recently, the tables were turned. Someone sent me a link to an 89-page book about "redefining living through Cam Wilson teachings", seemingly made by AI So, I bought it. Once it arrived, things got even weirder: www.abc.net.au/news/...
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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 07/10/2026
Portrait of a man wondering what it was all for
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PacoOnPause @pacoonpause.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A lot of people are wondering why they keep getting sick and I'm hoping this can connect some dots.
thebmj 

Feature

Covid-19

Why scientists are rethinking the immune effects of SARS-CoV-2

BMJ 2025;390 doi:
https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.r1733(Published 19 August 2025)

With two grey model humans directly underneath and they are spraying respiratory secretions all over each other and one is red and the other is blue.
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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 08/10/2026
When the philosopher with the most explanatory power over the moment stops being Fukuyama and starts being Michel Foucault you’re in a bad way
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Foxfeather Zenkova @foxfeather.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The geese always seem have the expression of someone about to write a strongly worded email. 🪶
A bar-headed goose staring directly at the viewer and one giving side-eye
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Triskeltic @triskeltic.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It's hard to keep tabs on this constantly evolving menagerie.
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Privacy Guides @privacyguides.org · 08/10/2026
Your AI Assistant is Your Biggest Security Risk #AI #Meta #Muse #privacy #cybersecurity
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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
In an intimate, ghostly macro portrait titled Who Weeps for Me?, photographer Alan D. Newton captures a moment of unbearable, quiet grief suspended between the mortal world and the spirit realm, drawing directly upon the ancient, exalted theatrical traditions of Japanese Noh (Nōgaku),.
In an intimate, ghostly macro portrait titled Who Weeps for Me?, photographer Alan D. Newton captures a moment of unbearable, quiet grief suspended between the mortal world and the spirit realm. A porcelain-white face—carved with the subtle, idealized contours of a traditional Noh mask (noh-men)—bows its head in sorrow, its narrow, hollowed eye slits framed by intense crimson shading (beni) that bleeds softly into the chalky, matte surface. A pale, slender hand gently presses against the bridge of the nose and eyebrow, catching fine, disheveled strands of jet-black hair that fall in delicate ribbons across the cheek. The photograph evokes an intensely mournful sensory atmosphere: the cold, smooth texture of carved wood coated in crushed shell pigment, the whisper-thin brush of hair against porcelain lacquer, the heavy, airless silence of an empty stage, and the chilling, bittersweet ache of a sorrow too deep for physical tears.   Newton’s composition draws directly upon the ancient, exalted theatrical traditions of Japanese Noh (Nōgaku), codified during the fourteenth century by Zeami Motokiyo and his father Kan'ami. The gesture depicted—raising a hand to the face to obscure the eyes—is the classical Noh stage movement known as shiori, the universal dramatic posture utilized by actors to signify quiet, profound weeping. Noh masks are celebrated monuments of monozukuri (artisanal devotion and technical discipline), sculpted from single blocks of Japanese cypress (hinoki) by master mask-makers (men-shi) and coated with dozens of meticulous layers of gofun (calcium carbonate derived from crushed oyster shells) mixed with animal glue (nikawa). In classical mugen Noh (phantom or dream plays), masks representing tragic, grieving, or vengeful female spirits—such as Hashihime or Yase-onna—give physical form to unfulfilled longing and tragic memory, transforming human heartbreak into a sacred, ritualized performance.
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Triskeltic @triskeltic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Done. And - thank you!
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Triskeltic @triskeltic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
You know what, I WILL!
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Triskeltic @triskeltic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I am not a paid subscriber but I love your newsletter and I don't think your tone is overly hostile. It's just that you're not an uncritical mindless fanboi. Maybe I should take out a sub just to help even things out... 😉
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Triskeltic @triskeltic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Triskeltic @triskeltic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
😂 WTF
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Ntina Tzouvala @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
one of the reasons that make me think that capitalism cannot be reformed is that in the West the golden years of capitalism produced boomers, a generation of lowkey sociopaths.
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Triskeltic @triskeltic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
That, and I guess the danger to pets, which would make it too tricky to use for lots of people.
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Triskeltic @triskeltic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I knew it was bad for dogs, but I had no idea it was poisonous for rodents. This would have saved me from a lot of disputes with my mother, who insisted on throwing rat poison all over the place.
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Triskeltic @triskeltic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Wish I'd known that years ago!
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Triskeltic @triskeltic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Cocoa kills rodents?
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Triskeltic @triskeltic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Oh dear, lol.
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 06/10/2026
arstechnica.com
OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic
The reports of OpenAI agents harming 3rd party sites keep coming.
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Numeritos 🍕🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @08181.es · 06/10/2026
"Una agencia de espionaje extranjera" Se admiten apuestas.
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Triskeltic @triskeltic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Wow. Isn't Cadence still around too?
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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I want to hear more about the second of these writing sessions
Jeffrey Archer, former
Conservative politician and novelist, dies aged 86
Publisher says author died peacefully at home
'between writing sessions'
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 06/10/2026
the 'uwu smol bean rogue agents' schtick is wearing thin, i see www.ft.com/content/a5ca...
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Insurance claims to test Altman and Amodei liability for ‘rogue’ AI
Insurers and lawyers weigh the cost of potential massive lawsuits and damages against the leaders of OpenAI and Anthropic
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