If you stop and think about it, it’s really weird that every ISP and social media company and cloud provider and search engine work together to stop me from sharing illegal copies of Harry Potter, but credible death threats against specific people are easy to spread.
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Stuff like this destroys me far more than those like 30 under 30 lists.
How do some people have their shit so much together they not only have a bag for cold beverages but its a frog?
How am I meant to compete against Frog Drink Bag?
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White is OP.
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In one’s 40s it’s best to approach health and wellness in terms of “staging a fighting retreat”
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"Using Australian panel data, we find evidence suggesting that the unemployed subjected to MOs sustain their job search intensity, yet take longer to become re-employed and spend less time in employment compared to otherwise identical unemployed searching without MOs"
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GPT-3 commenting, summarizing, and then translating a regular expression into a partially rhyming poem:
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Spitfire's long-range fuel tanks are swapped with barrels, allowing delivery of fresh beer (chilled by high-altitude flight) to Allied front lines. Officially designated "Modification XXX" by RAF. Read more: spitfiresite.com/2012/01/modifi
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Ohio 5th Graders Annoyed That Friend Forced To Give Birth Only Talks About Baby Stuff Now bit.ly/3KHrFBC
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ORMish is a wonderful way to describe modest layers of code that abstract your database for your controllers but don’t go the Full Django.
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Spent the day cleaning up our AWS SSO config (no more assume role after SSO!) and writing docs on the ORMish thing we use.
Pretty bloody good day, really.
Imagine if they’d built the Montague St Bridge over the Suez Canal.
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Nothing screams "open and honest deliberation" like releasing a preprepared list of initiatives you were going to do anyway an hour before the Summit actually finishes and claiming these were all achieved there.
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BREAKING: The Jobs and Skills Summit has secured 36 initiatives for immediate action. Click the link for full outcomes #jobssummit #auspol
treasury.gov.au/sites/default/
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At the human level, we must emphasise the #robodebt amounts don't speak to the suffering. Those who had the least had nothing to garnishee, lived with the week to week payment plan.
The small toy, the pack of biscuits foregone.
A jobseeker life doesn't yield a lot of interest
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From Monday, #Robodebt victims will get a payment for the interest they would have got on the money they were made to illegally repay. Half will receive between $50 & $300. A tiny portion will be very small - under the terms of the class action court order all have to be notified
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Has anyone started a wiki/list of “Russians who’ve fallen out of windows”?
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BREAKING:
Ravil Maganov, Chairman of the Board of Lukoil, Russia’s 2nd-largest company & one of the world’s largest oil producers, has died after falling out of a window in Moscow
In March, the board called for a quick termination of the war & expressed empathy for all victims
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JK Rowling released a new book today about a YouTube animator that gets stabbed to death for making racist and transphobic animations and it is 600 pages longer than Dune
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“FIGJAM is a distinctively Australian acronym. The second to sixth letters stand for ‘I’m good, just ask me’. The first letter is a vulgarism to add emphasis, and not hard to guess.”
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"A rectangular zone extending from Gympie in Queensland to Sydney (825 km by 380 km) encompasses more than half of all fatal VFR flight-into-IMC accidents [in Australia] since 2006." #avgeek flightsafetyaustralia.com/2022/01/im-goo
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I wonder if the Ukrainian armed forces have thought about leaving a giant wooden washing machine full of Ukrainian soldiers outside Kherson.
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OH: the meetings will continue until alignment improves
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People have asked me my opinion of President Biden's criticism of "semi-fascism." Well, I can't overstate my disapproval of the inappropriate use of "semi."
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HEXAGONS
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I'm doing some more ASCII art experiments in Python. This one creates a denser and denser field of connected hexagons. Source: pastebin.com/raw/btzLve58
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Tax cuts for the rich
Nothing meaningful on climate
Continuing to fuck over folks on welfare
Why did the ALP want to be in govt, again? What is the point of them?
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you know your macrofinancial regime is dying when the World Bank has to point out the obvious
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The thing is that if you’re in government you actually can relitigate it. That’s sort of the point. The only excuse not to do so would be if you think it’s a good idea, so the conclusion must be that Labor thinks tax cuts for the rich is a good idea.
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PM Anthony Albanese at #npc, asked about the controversial stage 3 tax cuts: “we made a decision that we would stand by that legislation rather than re-litigate it… We inherited it. And I said that we haven't changed our position”
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Cats confused by category theory, DALL·E
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Sorry, kids.
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I think it's safe to say now a few months into the global fossil energy crisis, govt's have been amazingly eager to ramp up sources of fossil fuels, and ultra-slow or entirely stalled on efforts to destroy demand for fossil fuels (like clean energy, insulation, electrification)
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Sorry, kids.
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And, you know, digging up fossil fuels resulting in the end of life as we know it.
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“Backpacker Georg is an outlier adn should not have been counted.”
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New term: "Quiet wage theft" - it's where bosses and managers exploit the scarcity in the job market to create a competitive, insecure workplace culture that requires people to sacrifice their own time in order to meet the norm of "above and beyond".
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Terrifying fact: we figured this out at Google and it was part of why we stopped the program. The folks who left the program to start Starlink knew all this.
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Ok, short thread about why this could be an ecological and cultural disaster. I'm on the beach, so this might be a bit slow.. twitter.com/rdrimmel/statu…
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A new blog post: Goodbye Cloudflare; hello Fastly!
blog.ceejbot.com/posts/goodbye-
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Fascinating to read the new report on hierarchy at apsc.gov.au/initiatives-an The new leadership behaviours are good, but could be a little stronger in a) delegating decision making down b) stewardship of public good c) special context of gov
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