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Skeets forever! Sometimes I feel like being a revolutionary cat. PhD candidate at UTS Sydney. Nothing here is the opinion of my employer. I have always hated emdashes.

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IBM's CEO walked through some napkin math on data centers— & said there's "no way" to turn a profit at current costs.
"$8 trillion of CapEx means you need roughly $800 billion of profit just to pay for the interest," Arvind Krishna said

www.businessinsider.com/ibm-ceo-big-te…
December 7, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Qld LNP faces ‘pro-life’ takeover plot from activist forced out of party: A 25-year-old crusader claims he has recruited 200 anti-abortion members to the LNP youth wing as part of his ambition to get Queensland abortion laws overturned.
December 7, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Stephen Miller & his racist inspiration: 'The Camp Of The Saints,' A White Nationalist Reference

www.npr.org/2019/11/19/780…
December 6, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Worth reading this article! Camp of the Saints: The 1973 dystopian apocalyptic French novel that inspires today's violent white, rightwing populism.

africasacountry.com/2019/03/camp-o…
December 6, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Putin ordered the “astonishingly reckless” attempted assassination of Sergei Skripal as a “public demonstration of Russian power”, a major UK inquiry into the Salisbury novichok poisonings has concluded.

www.msn.com/en-au/news/o...
December 4, 2025 at 9:58 PM
I might have spent too much time on Duolingo this year
December 4, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Consultant says National Party's Net Zero modelling was a "client-influenced" best-case coal scenario
Energy consulting firm Arche Energy has clarified what role the Nationals' think tank had in achieving its claim that coal is cheaper than renewables.

www.nationalaccount.com.au/p/coal-report-…
December 3, 2025 at 8:32 PM
'Unauthorized' Edit to Ukraine's Frontline Maps Point to Polymarket's War Betting

It looks like someone invented a fake Russia advance in Ukraine to manipulate online gambling markets.

www.404media.co/unauthorized-e…
December 1, 2025 at 7:35 PM
‘Victim blaming’ comments by police after Hannah Clarke murders were [allegedly 🙄] part of botched police media strategy

www.theguardian.com/australia-news…
November 30, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Donald Trump and Mohammed bin Salman had a heated exchange at the White House over Israel’s war in Gaza and the Saudi Crown Prince rejected joining Abraham Accords until the creation of a pathway towards Palestinian statehood, according to a report.

www.firstpost.com/world/mbs-had-…
November 29, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Good move: Australia blocks takeover of Mayne Pharma by US firm, cites national interest | Reuters

www.reuters.com/business/healt…
November 29, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Welcome to summer in NSW
November 29, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Reform UK’s barrister tried to scare us. Our advice to other news sites: don’t play the bully’s game

www.thenerve.news/p/reform-natio…
November 28, 2025 at 10:58 PM
LOL whoopsy: US urges Lebanon to return undetonated GBU-39 | The Jerusalem Post

www.jpost.com/middle-east/ar…
November 28, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I’m His Uncle.
If my nephew’s ideas on immigration had been in force a century ago, our family would have been wiped out.

politi.co/2w2L0Yd
November 28, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Idaho Banned Vaccine Mandates: “makes it illegal to require anyone to take a vaccine or receive “medical intervention.” The activist behind the law, hopes to make it a “societal norm” for the rest of the country.”

www.propublica.org/article/idaho-…
November 27, 2025 at 9:20 PM
UKHSA says 'wear a mask' as four viruses spread in UK

www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/u…
November 27, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Uh oh: MIT study finds AI can already replace 11.7% of U.S. workforce

www.cnbc.com/2025/11/26/mit…
November 27, 2025 at 6:56 PM
How Do You Know Whether You Perceive Pain the Same as Others? A new platform aims to objectively measure pain perception

spectrum.ieee.org/eeg-pain-perce…
November 25, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Might come in handy for some folks to know: Saline nasal drops reduce the duration of the common cold in young children by two days

www.ersnet.org/news-and-featu…
November 25, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Tl;dr yes: Is the AfD spying for Russia?”

updategermany.substack.com/p/is-the-afd-s…
November 25, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Get us off Microsoft! Lawmakers press EU Parliament to change in-house IT.
“We cannot afford this level of dependence on foreign tech,” lawmakers say in letter obtained by POLITICO.

www.politico.eu/article/get-us…
November 25, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Here’s a map: The map of 41 "future post-Russian states", as proposed by the Free Nations of PostRussia Forum
November 25, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I’m on a train
November 24, 2025 at 9:41 PM
The Economic Impact of Brexit: by 2025 “combination of elevated uncertainty, reduced demand, diverted management time, and increased misallocation of resources from a protracted Brexit process”

www.nber.org/papers/w34459
November 24, 2025 at 7:35 PM