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Mac Thompson
@mackthompson.bsky.social
Father, renewable energy entrepreneur and rugby enthusiast
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What do #AI experts think about this? This is a very intriguing analysis of AI's potential evolution: "We wrote a scenario that represents our best guess about what "Superhuman AI" might look like." ai-2027.com
AI 2027
A research-backed AI scenario forecast.
ai-2027.com
June 26, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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Have never heard of #Gormless

All these words with any connection with incompetence seem to be making a comeback.

@janecaro.bsky.social
March 28, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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The captain of a cargo ship which collided with a tanker containing US armed forces jet fuel in the North Sea is a Russian national, according to the ship’s owners.
Captain of ship that crashed into US tanker is Russian, owner says
Solong crashed into the U.S. tanker Stena Immaculate off the East Yorkshire coast Monday.
ow.ly
March 12, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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🕯️ 🇳🇿 Kyiv bids farewell to Ukrainian intelligence operative from New Zealand with ritual Maori haka – video
Kyiv bids farewell to Ukrainian intelligence operative from New Zealand with ritual Maori haka – video
The body of fallen DIU soldier “Tolkien,” a Maori from New Zealand, was brought back to Kyiv. His brothers-in-arms honoured him with a traditional Maori haka.
www.pravda.com.ua
March 12, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Lithuanian athlete Körnelija Düdaitė was disqualified at the World Fitness Championship in Hungary for wearing a T-shirt saying "Make Russia small again." The whole Lithuanian team resigned with her in protest.

The championship, held in Budapest, featured a Russian team.
December 14, 2024 at 10:39 AM
Right now I’m charging my car, charging my home batteries and I have left over power that I’m selling to the grid. Maybe Dutton needs to sit down with an electrician to explain how all this Harry Potter magic works.

#auspol

reneweconomy.com.au/you-cant-cha...
“You can’t charge your battery and your car at same time:” Dutton does not have a clue about energy
Peter Dutton defends nuclear by claiming that rooftop solar cannot charge EVs and household batteries at the same time. How wrong and ignorant can you be?
reneweconomy.com.au
December 13, 2024 at 3:14 AM
I don’t know if it’s possible to have a more disingenuous response to wind farms off Newcastle. A place inundated with coal carriers is soon to have barely visible cheap green energy that is almost constant, which puts it in Dutton’s outdated base load category.
#auspol #renewableenergy
December 4, 2024 at 11:38 PM
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Can anyone help clear up some confusion re the social media ban? Will my 8-year-old get to keep her existing SportsBet account? She’s sweating on a 20-leg multi and can NOT afford to be kicked out @albomp.bsky.social
November 27, 2024 at 3:47 AM
Lots of lessons here for Australia and our supermarket duopoly.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Great Grocery Squeeze
How a federal policy change in the 1980s created the modern food desert
www.theatlantic.com
December 3, 2024 at 9:22 PM
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Just a reminder..... The ENTIRE Domestic gas used in Australia = Gas used by the gas industry to turn gas into LNG for export.
December 1, 2024 at 10:48 PM
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📌I'm a Navy vet, and was the Managing Editor of Stars & Stripes, the editorially independent newspaper that covers the troops and their families overseas.

📌I wish to GOD I never had to write this, but you REALLY need to read it.

(And if you are asking what to do, share it. Information is POWER.)
WARNING SHOT
The America-attacking Trump is coming for our military, and then US ...
dearlstephens.substack.com
November 19, 2024 at 7:05 PM
November 18, 2024 at 8:52 AM