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Warren McDonald

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Technical strategist and innovator driving use of digital and #WebRTC powered #Telehealth for systemic change in #health delivery (retired). Proudly Green [bridged from mastodon.au/@warrenjmcdonald on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy ]

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 15/09/2026
I still think there is not a good awareness out there of just how much the AI industry plans to run off fossil fuels. This is a *conservative* estimate that excludes many planned projects. These are weak plans and they can be stopped. au.finance.yahoo.com/news/us-data...
Investing.com -- Data centers in the United States are projected to consume more natural gas than most countries within the next ten years, according to a new outlook from BloombergNEF.

Natural gas consumption for electricity generation at data centers is forecast to increase by 15 billion cubic feet per day in the decade ending in 2035, even when accounting for planned projects that may never be completed. This volume exceeds the current gas consumption of all nations except China, Russia, Iran and the United States, based on data from the US Energy Information Administration. The projection is more than double BloombergNEF's December forecast of 6.9 billion cubic feet per day.
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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026
Today's Low Quality Ad is for this Riot Gnome Pin. Jeff Bezos originally wanted to employ gnomes at Amazon warehouses, but he didn't realize how strong their unions are. If you tell a gnome he can't take a bathroom break your warehouse is getting torched. collabs.shop/bitnjj
An enamel pin of a garden gnome wearing a red hat, blue shirt, and green boots, holding a lit Molotov cocktail.
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jonny (nonvenomous) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026
Surely the light of human consciousness will evolve beyond its biological bounds and create an interstellar information superspecies thanks to a process whose incentives include "minmaxing token output on benchmarks so hard the model defaults to minified python"
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Hacker Memes @i0null.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026
python wrapper functions :python:
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zaire @zaire.wetdry.world.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026
if a grid misaligns with a grid right behind, that's a moiré
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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026
Today's Low Quality Ad is for this "Born in the Wrong Generation" Pin. Ah, to be born 500 million years ago. Filter feeding with my trilobite friends. Feeling the sun on my exoskeleton. Doing all the other things trilobites did. That's the life. collabs.shop/1cauo6
A round enamel pin featuring a black trilobite illustration in the center against a white background, with the text "BORN IN THE WRONG GENERATION" curved along the inner top border.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/08/2026
Just to be clear: the data centre industry might add a small amount onto the renewable energy section here but it also makes the red line target higher by much, much more than the renewable energy they add. Making the gap wider: and hurting the energy transition rather than 'helping' it
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Andrew Jennings @andyjennings.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026
the difference between Labor and the opposition? Labor will let you die from neglect, but the opposition will actually hunt you down and kill you […]
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Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈 @lazarou.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026
RE: floss.social/@rdnielsen/11710077341… Climate Change is changing our bodies...that's a new one. #ClimateCrisis
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Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈 @lazarou.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026
RE: greennuclear.online/@collectifissio… Unlike microscopic COVID, the effects of Climate Change are very hard for the average person to ignore, the grass is dead everywhere here, and the trees are starting to die as well. Essex looks like Breaking Bad country, the […]
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Ben Fulton @benfulton.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026
The real energy use of agentic AI "My personal and professional AI usage now emits a bit more per year than running an electric clothes dryer, and about half as much as driving an electric car 11,500 miles in California or taking one San Francisco to New York round-trip flight in economy. It is […]
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TrundlelinB 🌍💚 @trundlelinb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@greenpeace/1170140… #NoPlanetB🌍 🧑‍🦰👵🧕🧔‍♀️👱🙎‍♀️🤰🤱👼 #Overpopulation ⁉️ Can we talk about it❓️ 🚨🙈⏰️🙉📣 🙊 #OverConsumption🛍🛒🐮🌾⚠️ #ClimateAction ‼️ #ClimateChange #Greenwashing 🤢 #extinctionisforever 🦖🦕🦤....🐝🌾🧑‍🍼? #SaveOurWeatherPatterns ☀️🌡❄️⚡🌬️🌀🌪️🌊 […]
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Joshua "Headless" Byrd 🎃 @phocks.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2026
This.
The text of the social media post reads:

"I will post this again. Keating sums it up. If you are an income earner you have been paying a lot of tax. If you are sitting back making money on assets you are not paying enough."

Below this text "Keating had this to say:". The quote reads:

"Punsters with a big idea won't be put off by some marginal change to the tax rate. The rush of entrepreneurial blood to the brain always dominates.The simple fact is that income is taxed too heavily while capital is taxed too lightly. That is the fact of it - and has been the fact of it. And that distortion has made housing unaffordable for a whole generation."
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...
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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
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Andrew Jennings @andyjennings.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/05/2026
Kos Samaras on Farrer open.substack.com/pub/redbridgeinte… #auspol
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The Wall Between Parramatta and Bundaberg
The Demographic Wall: Why One Nation’s wave will break where Labor’s urban vote begins
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Indio Gringo ® @paninid.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 10/05/2026
This part.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 09/04/2026
This is a useful reminder that the carbon market both still exists and still continues to be rife with for-profit sale of faked climate action: sucking up time, money, effort and regulatory focus from the broader effort to phase out fossil fuels. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
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What a Clean Cookstove Company’s Bankruptcy Means for Carbon Markets
Prices on Corsia, a marketplace for airlines, have fallen in the months following Koko’s collapse.
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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 31/03/2026
Anthropic's Claude Code's full source code leaked. Claude is seen by many to be the best coding LLM on the market with Anthropic proudly stating that Claude Code itself is mostly written by the LLM. Now this sounds good as long as nobody can see the code which is quite the trash fire. Detecting […]
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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 04/04/2026
I’m spending the holiday at the Marxism conference, and I just had the unexpected pleasure of seeing Gary Foley speak, and watching the premiere of his documentary. He is an aboriginal rights activist and dug up his own 60s government file, and reconciled with the people who wrote it. Fascinating.
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Stephen Gentle @stephengentle.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 11/03/2026
One really big thing I want to see in my lifetime - the mainstream acceptance that the central bank *simply cannot* fix inflation by raising rates. It’s utter lunacy and it hurts millions of people. And it just doesn’t work […]
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M.S. Bellows, Jr. @msbellows.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 02/01/2026
Trump is withholding the entire country's childcare payments because one aid organization in one place allegedly committed fraud. Trump personally has been convicted beyond reasonable didn't of 34 counts of fraud.
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Brian Vastag @brianvastag.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 31/12/2025
Folks interested in science should be interested in Retraction Watch, which is now 15 years old. Started by medical journalists Ivan Oransky & Adam Marcus, the site is the only one (that I know of, anyway) that uncovers and tracks scientific retratcions, errors, and other controversies. My best […]
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 28/12/2025
This is also putting aside the fact that one of the largest demand sources for fossil fuels is the entire energy-intensive supply chain, in particular the liquefaction process for fossil gas
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 28/12/2025
"fossil fuels are killing your grocery bills" is a clear, simple and undeniably true message that voters *already understand*, but centrist parties would never broadly run with that (and the "climate pragmatists" would NEVER suggest it) because opposing fossil fuels directly feels wrong to them
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Bodhipaksa @bodhipaksa.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 28/12/2025
I loved this, but the person who posted it had crappy alt text, so I'm re-posting.
A typed table with the heading "I have achieved all my 2025 Goals" followed by a numbered list. Each item has been altered with a ballpoint pen. 1 has been changed from "buy a house" to "buy a houseplant." 2 was originally "run 10 kilometers," but now says "run 0.10 km." 3 Was "get fit" but is now "get fat." 4 has gone from "meditate daily" to "medicate daily." 5 Has been changed from "invest in stocks" to "invest in socks."
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Ted Mielczarek @tedmielczarek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/11/2025
Update:
A black and white cat sits in a basket next to the edge of a large bathtub. On the wall behind is an oil painting of the same cat in the same basket. To the right of that is a photo of the same cat in the same basket underneath the same painting.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 17/11/2025
I really need to keep a tally of the times when data has been deleted or put behind a request-wall thanks entirely to me ccaf.io/cbnsi/cbeci
greyed out data for bitcoin mining
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kim_harding ✅ @kim-harding.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 06/11/2025
HEINEKEN is brewing beer with a massive 100 MWh heat battery electrek.co/2025/11/05/heineken-is-…
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HEINEKEN is brewing beer with a massive 100 MWh heat battery
Rondo Energy and energy producer EDP are installing a massive 100 MWh renewable-powered heat battery at HEINEKEN’s brewery in Lisbon, Portugal. The project will deliver round-the-clock renewable steam and reduce emissions without altering the facility’s beer brewing process. more…
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 06/11/2025
Definitely feeling even more weird about smooshing emissions from burning underground carbon with emissions from killing vegetation together into one number
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 06/11/2025
This @skynewsrss.bsky.social analysis confirms that X's algorithm is blatantly boosting far-right content If you are still posting or engaging there, you are volunteering your time and effort towards actively assisting a racist, white supremacist project STOP ALREADY news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
the neutral users saw twice as much right-wing content as left-wing content
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 06/11/2025
There are a wide range of institutions (including several major climate advocacy groups) encouraging "responsible" and "ethical" use of generative chatbots, eg 'checking outputs' This only worsens the harm: the people most compelled to trust ChatGPT are also the least likely to check.
AI-tainted Deloitte report was worse than previously thought
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Documents released under freedom of information laws show the mistakes in a Deloitte report commissioned by the federal government and tainted by AI hallucinations were much worse than previously disclosed, and included dozens of incorrect references.
Department of Employment and Workplace Relations staff identified 59 potential errors in a “quick review” of the report it reluctantly embarked on after The Australian Financial Review first reported claimAmong the concerns the department wrote to Deloitte about on August 29 was a reference to the Social Security (Administration) Act 1999 (Cth) sections “42UC–42UO”. The department said those sections do not exist.
It called out three footnotes referring to a speech by “Justice Natalie Cujes Perry” titled “Administrative Decision-Making in the 21st Century: Transparency and Review”.
The department said it was “unable to find” the speech and that the citation appeared to conflate a Justice Perry with academic Dr Natalie Cujes. (The final report replaced the citations with those of a speech by Justice Melissa Perry titled “iDecide: the Legal Implications of Automated Decision-Making”.)
The spreadsheet noted the original report cited several government documents that the department was “unable to find” including “Department of Education, Skills and Employment, Targeted Compliance Framework Overview”, and “Department of Social Services, Mutual Obligation Requirements and the Targeted Compliance Framework (Factsheet, 2020)”.
References to these documents were removed in the final report.
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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/11/2025
Dear #LazyGalaxy, we fucked up. Our planet formed a vast one-time reserve of hydrocarbon deposits due to a quirk of evolution - plants out evolved plant-eating microbes, for a time. We burned those hydrocarbons and now our climate is busted. Attached to this message is a technical readout of our […]
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 06/11/2025
This article is a really, really stunning example of how wind power is received in Norway. A proposed wind farm site right next to a massive highway and industrial area is being opposed on the grounds that it 'destroys nature' and is too noisy 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
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Mener vindkraft er verre enn motorvei og industri
Vindkraftmotstandere i Grimstad foretrekker både E18 og industriområder fremfor vindkraft. Forsker mener vindturbiner har blitt et symbol på en feilslått energipolitikk.
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Alexander Karn @xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 05/11/2025
POTUS reminding us that he's always just a bad polls away from outing American Jews as an internal enemy and "low-IQ" threat to national security. newrepublic.com/post/202654/trump-c…
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Trump Calls Jewish Voters “Stupid” in Deranged Post About Mamdani
Nothing like some good old antisemitism to get out the vote.
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La Página Definitiva @tootadynelpd.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/11/2025
Meme expandido: primero un meme con cuatro paneles, acompañados de fotos de escritores famosos.
Literatura inglesa: "moriré por honor"
Literatura francesa: "moriré por amor"
Literatura americana: "moriré por la libertad"
Literatura rusa: "moriré"

Y debajo, un dibujo de Don Quijote embistiendo los molinos, y la leyenda
Literatura española: "moriré por la coña"
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AJ Sadauskas @aj.gts.sadauskas.id.au.ap.brid.gy · 31/10/2025
Marques Brownlee has put up a video about a US$20,000 robot. The company behind it claims it can do a whole range of household tasks 'through the power of AI', and will be delivered next year. They even demonstrated a prototype to a journalist. And the entire demonstration was being remotely […]
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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 29/10/2025
Hey, so as a veteran and incident responder I need to warn you to pay attention to something in America. The human brain is resilient. While you’re watching kids get dragged away from the parents and people being beaten in the streets, you’re accumulating trauma but also being desensitized.
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Independent Media Australia. @indymediaaus.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/10/2025
The (grossly misleading) Boyer lecture: Some things it forgot to mention johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10/the-gr… #Auspol
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The (grossly misleading) Boyer lecture: Some things it forgot to mention
One of the lectures, entitled “Australia is fricking amazing!” by Justin Wolfers was an ecstatic eulogy celebrating Australia’s achievements and institutions.
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Independent Media Australia. @indymediaaus.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/10/2025
The easy way or the hard way to the same result johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10/the-ea… #Auspol
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The easy way or the hard way to the same result
National leaders deceive most people most of the time. Israel’s long, atrocious, US-backed assault on the Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank, and Lebanon is the latest example, as are their joint attacks on Syria, Yemen, and Iran.
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Independent Media Australia. @indymediaaus.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/10/2025
“Dangerous bubble sure to pop”. Wall Street has AI crash in the wings michaelwest.com.au/dangerous-bubble… #Auspol
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“Dangerous bubble sure to pop”. Wall Street has AI crash in the wings
“Keeping perspective” is Michael Pascoe’s mantra. He writes that AI mania has not just warped perspective, it risks blowing up reality.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 27/10/2025
The site chosen for the fossil fuelled power station Google is funding is the Decatur site in Illinois - where the previous ethanol carbon capture and storage project leaked, resulting in intervention from the EPA SEEMS BAD HEY!!!
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Carbon storage site that leaked set to restart injections
Archer-Daniels-Midland’s storage site in Decatur, Illinois, has been on pause since EPA found that brine and CO2 had likely migrated into unauthorized
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Jess👾 @jesstheunstill.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 27/10/2025
Coffee mug that reads:
I accidentally became important at work and it's ruining my life
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Independent Media Australia. @indymediaaus.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2025
Adani selling coal to India at mates rates, costing Queenslanders $400 million […]
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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2025
DoD today confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America. - Pentagon Press Association
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Pamela Fox @pamelafox.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2025
LLMs are slow! But you can make the LLM answer appear faster by *streaming* the response, one token at a time. Steps: 1) Call LLM API with stream=True 2) Return tokens over HTTP streaming response 3) Re-render in frontend I wrote more in this post […]
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 08/10/2025
Hey lovelies: here's part 2 of my @crikey.com.au series on Meta's massive new effort to wildly worsen their climate damage but mask that by lobbying to change the way emissions are measured. IT IS EXTREMELY SNEAKY
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Inside Meta's fight to change climate reality... all so it can frantically expand a risky AI program
Everyone is ignoring the science on what Meta’s generative AI investment really costs, even though there's no evidence of a single, significant societal benefit.
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