Matt El
@mrmrleonard.bsky.social
You know I know that I think that you know
Wonder why Barca were so happy to let Guiu leave?… 🤔
November 8, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Wonder why Barca were so happy to let Guiu leave?… 🤔
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The AWS outage today is a good reminder that there is no "cloud", there's just somebody else's computer.
October 20, 2025 at 4:19 PM
The AWS outage today is a good reminder that there is no "cloud", there's just somebody else's computer.
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With the AWS outage, now‘s as good a time as any to post this old strip.
October 20, 2025 at 10:18 AM
With the AWS outage, now‘s as good a time as any to post this old strip.
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after I picked up my kid from school today I got a message from the school saying they couldn't do much work since Amazon was down and also they couldn't tell us that they couldn't do much work since Amazon was down, since Amazon was down
October 21, 2025 at 1:43 AM
after I picked up my kid from school today I got a message from the school saying they couldn't do much work since Amazon was down and also they couldn't tell us that they couldn't do much work since Amazon was down, since Amazon was down
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Two disgusting, corrupt, massive pieces of shit that are sucking the joy out everything they touch. Fuck FIFA. Fuck Trump.
October 15, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Two disgusting, corrupt, massive pieces of shit that are sucking the joy out everything they touch. Fuck FIFA. Fuck Trump.
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A World Cup preying on Fomo: Fifa’s 2026 ticket scheme is a late-capitalist hellscape
A World Cup preying on Fomo: Fifa’s 2026 ticket scheme is a late-capitalist hellscape
Dynamic pricing, crypto detritus and corporate doublespeak have made the task of buying 2026 World Cup tickets a grim case study in the monetization of emotion
When the first tickets for the 2026 World Cup went on sale last week, millions of fans joined online queues only to discover what Gianni Infantino’s assurance that “the world will be welcome” really means. The cheapest face-value seat for next summer’s final, somewhere in the gods of New Jersey’s 82,500-seat MetLife Stadium where the players are specks and the football’s a rumor, comes at a cost of $2,030 (oxygen tank not included). Most upper-deck seats range from $2,790 to $4,210, according to customers who finally glimpsed the prices that had been closely guarded. The much-touted $60 tickets for group-stage games, propped up by Fifa as evidence of affordability, exist only as comically tiny green smudges on the edge of digital seating maps, little more than mirages of inclusivity.
Fifa had kept the costs under wraps until the very moment of sale, replacing the usual published table of price points with a digital lottery that decided who even got the chance to buy. Millions spent hours staring at a queue screen as algorithms determined their place in line. When access finally came for most, the lower-priced sections had already vanished, many presumably swallowed by bots and bulk-buyers (and that’s before Fifa quietly raised the prices of at least nine matches after only one day of sales). The whole process resembled less a ticket release than a psyop to calibrate how much frustration and scarcity the public will tolerate. Continue reading...
dlvr.it
October 11, 2025 at 7:11 AM
A World Cup preying on Fomo: Fifa’s 2026 ticket scheme is a late-capitalist hellscape
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Breach? Sounds like people gave their data to the government on a promise of disaster support, the government gave their data and our money to a contractor on a promise of service provision, and the contractor gave their data to a tech business on a promise of slop.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
Major data breach as up to 3,000 flood victims' details loaded to ChatGPT
The NSW Reconstruction Authority says the breach occurred in March and involved the personal data of applicants to the Northern Rivers Resilient Homes Program.
www.abc.net.au
October 6, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Breach? Sounds like people gave their data to the government on a promise of disaster support, the government gave their data and our money to a contractor on a promise of service provision, and the contractor gave their data to a tech business on a promise of slop.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
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Smiting and vengeance is so much easier than forgiveness and charity
A lot of evangelicals seem to be more attracted to the vengeful God of the Old Testament than the forgiving God of the New.
October 4, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Smiting and vengeance is so much easier than forgiveness and charity
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Trump is a con artist & he’s representing a legion of oligarchs & criminals. They’ll maintain power long after he’s gone. It’s a sleight of hand strategy; Trump rambles or passes some EO that is going to be shut down by the courts. In the background massive embezzlement & fleecing is taking place.
October 2, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Trump is a con artist & he’s representing a legion of oligarchs & criminals. They’ll maintain power long after he’s gone. It’s a sleight of hand strategy; Trump rambles or passes some EO that is going to be shut down by the courts. In the background massive embezzlement & fleecing is taking place.
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ChatGPT is probably the biggest honey pot of willingly-turned over highly confidential information that has ever been created in human history.
also, so many of these people are just taking company confidential, proprietary data and dumping it into public iterations of ChatGPT, which is so incredibly problematic on so many levels. Even on our internal approved tools I have to tell people to turn them off when discussing certain legal stuff!
August 11, 2025 at 6:00 PM
ChatGPT is probably the biggest honey pot of willingly-turned over highly confidential information that has ever been created in human history.
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Just a reminder that no politician or bureaucrat has ever faced any charges for Robodebt
September 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Just a reminder that no politician or bureaucrat has ever faced any charges for Robodebt
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Do you care about your #RightToKnow and Freedom of Information? Do you know there's currently a bill before the Australian Parliament?
Do you have lived experience with the #FOI system?
Consider sharing your perspective?
www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...
@oaf.org.au @asherwolf.bsky.social
Do you have lived experience with the #FOI system?
Consider sharing your perspective?
www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...
@oaf.org.au @asherwolf.bsky.social
Freedom of Information Amendment Bill 2025
Committee: Legal and Constitutional
Affairs Legislation Committee
Date referred: 4 September 2025
Submissions close: 1 October 2025
Reporting date: 3 December 2025
On 4 September 2025, the Senate...
www.aph.gov.au
September 25, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Do you care about your #RightToKnow and Freedom of Information? Do you know there's currently a bill before the Australian Parliament?
Do you have lived experience with the #FOI system?
Consider sharing your perspective?
www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...
@oaf.org.au @asherwolf.bsky.social
Do you have lived experience with the #FOI system?
Consider sharing your perspective?
www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...
@oaf.org.au @asherwolf.bsky.social
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I've discovered things under FOI that I can't talk about yet.
Those things were extremely difficult to access under the current FOI Act.
There is no way I would have succeeded under this bill. I would be powerless and at the mercy of the things revealed.
That is what this is really about.
Those things were extremely difficult to access under the current FOI Act.
There is no way I would have succeeded under this bill. I would be powerless and at the mercy of the things revealed.
That is what this is really about.
September 25, 2025 at 8:49 AM
I've discovered things under FOI that I can't talk about yet.
Those things were extremely difficult to access under the current FOI Act.
There is no way I would have succeeded under this bill. I would be powerless and at the mercy of the things revealed.
That is what this is really about.
Those things were extremely difficult to access under the current FOI Act.
There is no way I would have succeeded under this bill. I would be powerless and at the mercy of the things revealed.
That is what this is really about.
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Clarke and Dawe; The Gillies Report; Rubbery Figures; The Hollowmen; Tonightly; Micallef Mad as Hell: Mark Humphries; The Chaser… We can run a once-a-week show like Charlie Pickering for 12 shows in a row, but what happens for the rest of the year?
September 18, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Clarke and Dawe; The Gillies Report; Rubbery Figures; The Hollowmen; Tonightly; Micallef Mad as Hell: Mark Humphries; The Chaser… We can run a once-a-week show like Charlie Pickering for 12 shows in a row, but what happens for the rest of the year?
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magnificent finish that, shame he was a toe offside. Great pass Andrey, maybe play him more?
September 17, 2025 at 8:50 PM
magnificent finish that, shame he was a toe offside. Great pass Andrey, maybe play him more?
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Why is it necessary in the pantomime of political reporting to seek the input on every issue of a group with perishingly few seats and NO policies? What is the point of it?
September 14, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Why is it necessary in the pantomime of political reporting to seek the input on every issue of a group with perishingly few seats and NO policies? What is the point of it?
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If only we had national anti- corruption commission to look into things like this
The ABC reports that, within months of leaving parliament, former health minister Greg Hunt started working for a Plymouth Brethren-linked company whose owners won $135 million in government contracts for COVID supplies. Read more: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
#auspol
#auspol
Former minister working for three companies linked to controversial religious group
The Sydney-based church has been described by former members and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese as a "cult".
www.abc.net.au
September 13, 2025 at 10:40 PM
If only we had national anti- corruption commission to look into things like this
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man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence
September 10, 2025 at 2:47 AM
man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence
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📣 NEW -- In The Economist, discussing the privacy perils of AI agents and what AI companies and operating systems need to do--NOW--to protect Signal and much else!
www.economist.com/by-invitatio...
www.economist.com/by-invitatio...
September 9, 2025 at 11:44 AM
📣 NEW -- In The Economist, discussing the privacy perils of AI agents and what AI companies and operating systems need to do--NOW--to protect Signal and much else!
www.economist.com/by-invitatio...
www.economist.com/by-invitatio...
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I think if you listen to a podcast with fake AI people saying AI generated words you are functionally dead, you are basically a phone to me at that point
September 9, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I think if you listen to a podcast with fake AI people saying AI generated words you are functionally dead, you are basically a phone to me at that point
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EXCLUSIVE - Today the Guardian is publishing the Boris Files
A trove of leaked data from the office of Boris Johnson.
It reveals how Johnson is using the relationships forged in the UK’s highest elected office to facilitate his personal enrichment.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
A trove of leaked data from the office of Boris Johnson.
It reveals how Johnson is using the relationships forged in the UK’s highest elected office to facilitate his personal enrichment.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
What are the Boris Files and what do they reveal about former PM’s conduct?
Leaked material from Johnson’s private office raises serious questions relating to his time in No 10 and since he resigned
www.theguardian.com
September 8, 2025 at 6:22 PM
EXCLUSIVE - Today the Guardian is publishing the Boris Files
A trove of leaked data from the office of Boris Johnson.
It reveals how Johnson is using the relationships forged in the UK’s highest elected office to facilitate his personal enrichment.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
A trove of leaked data from the office of Boris Johnson.
It reveals how Johnson is using the relationships forged in the UK’s highest elected office to facilitate his personal enrichment.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
A PSA reminder that FFA #football website playfootball.com.au is the shoddiest cluttered unfriendly registration experience ever
Absolute total junk
Absolute total junk
September 9, 2025 at 12:33 AM
A PSA reminder that FFA #football website playfootball.com.au is the shoddiest cluttered unfriendly registration experience ever
Absolute total junk
Absolute total junk