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2026-10-24 01:49:34 UTC

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Gosh, I hope Trump can get his head around this one since he’s openly said the Russians have been fine. Hope Melania breaks it to him gently. (sarcasm)
#USPol #cruelty #ignorance

2026-10-23 10:37:58 UTC

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Did the same for a friend who was also experiencing these bossy bullying intrusive ‘notifications’ from PDF applications. She was so frustrated that she kept stabbing her phone & thus loading other crap. Stuff like this should be outlawed.
Great reading your real life stories of what real people need help dealing with! 😀🙏🏻

2026-10-21 02:09:58 UTC

Illustrating so much that is… not right, & thanks to The Age for sharing. 🙏🏻 Two comments, original extract below (it’s longish, no time to edit it).
1. This company shares that it will now halt speculative data centre construction & land buys for which it has *NO CLIENTS*. How did we catch this US disease so quickly & why is it spreading so fast when there’s so many other, much more productive things that could be done with the capital to be wasted in this way?
2. Reporter notes that “data centre construction is one of the few bright spots in the sluggish Australian economy”. If this is a bright spot there’s something really badly wrong. What about all the other construction priorities that these speculative builds are sucking the air, materials, skilled labour force away from & jacking up inflation in the meantime? Who’s actually running this show? When did govts get so passive?
“The market reaction against the data centre developer was sharp: NextDC shares collapsed to $5.46 on Wednesday, down more than 40 per cent from their Monday closing price of $9.57. The crash wiped billions off the company’s valuation, driving its stock to its lowest point since 2019 – a far cry from its peak of $17.22 a year ago.
“NextDC on Wednesday also revealed it was putting the brakes on its wider construction pipeline, in a move which could alarm state and federal governments as data centre construction is one of the few bright spots in the sluggish Australian economy.
“NextDC slashed its construction budget for the coming financial year from up to $5.75 billion to between $4.5 billion and $5 billion, pausing developments without client contract commitments. Previously, the company had built new data centres without having tenants contracted to go into them.
“NextDC chief executive Craig Scroggie said the company, as well as pausing expectations from its West Footscray project, would also halt speculative expansion projects and land buys not already locked in by paying clients.”
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/power-protests-light-fuse-on-2-billion-data-centre-implosion-as-nextdc-shares-plummet-20261021-p617dd.html
#dataCentres #speculation #AIPipeDreams #AusPol #VicPol #inappropriateDevelopment

2026-10-20 01:34:43 UTC

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Thank you for making this so clear! 🙏🏻

2026-10-16 07:54:35 UTC

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He should know the word disgrace well as he sees the biggest one whenever he looks in the mirror. 🤮

2026-10-13 06:37:49 UTC

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Think a lot of people want it to be true & there’s certainly a lot of anecdata but we don’t seem to have the appropriate metrics to confirm it either way. 😕
@npub1hkh…0nqq

2026-10-13 04:52:29 UTC

Jeremy Hsu pointing out - on 13 Oct - that Russia’s getting back what it started (kabooming data centres) is not working out so well for them because: centralised (Ukraine’s are more decentralised, some even underground). Several lessons here in realms from population & business control issues to war tactics & strategy, but what caught my attention in this piece was the “petaflops”
& supercomputer rankings. Some other technical details too.
Also, is it just coincidence that one of the kaboomed DCs was named Vladimir & that Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin just had his birthday? (74 years young, thanks for asking 🤮).
“It was not immediately clear how much damage may have occurred to the supercomputers, which are based on Nvidia A100 GPU chips. The Chervonenkis supercomputer has a computing performance rated at 29.42 petaflops and ranks at 101 on the Top 500 List of supercomputers, while the Lyapunov supercomputer is rated at 20.03 petaflops and ranks at 161.”
“… A third Ukrainian drone strike then forced Yandex to suspend operations at its data center in Vladimir, east of Moscow, on October 11, according to BBC News. This facility houses the third of Yandex’s three supercomputers, Galushkin, which ranked 134 on the Top 500 list and is rated at 20.64 petaflops of computing performance.”
Among the Comments this by motytrah addresses the bots & trolls traffic (which we’re struggling to get a handle on as it seems we don’t have appropriate metrics to clarify anecdata):
“… one thing I don't like about the reporting on this is everyone on social media says this took out bot nets. That doesn't actually seem to be the case. It's more likely the loss of Yandex indexing traffic means the bot nets can't find new social content to astroturf.”
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/10/russia-was-not-ready-for-the-data-center-war-it-started-with-ukraine
#Ukraine #Russia #Ruzzia #Yandex #dataCentres #supercomputers #supercomputerRanking #petaflops #LLMs #modelTraining #centralisation #socialMedia #botsAndTrolls #botNets #astroturfing

2026-10-12 05:49:09 UTC

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Try
Cal Newport: The AI Industry Is Betting On The Wrong Kind Of AI
I did a brief review this morning & apparently he has his own podcast. I’ll try & send my review to you…

2026-10-10 11:50:11 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.sayzard.org/@sayzard/117415984135144693
Translated from the Korean by DeepL; “Reports suggest that a drone attack by Ukraine has damaged the AI data centre of a company known as ‘Russia’s Google’. This infrastructure incident demonstrates that data centres essential for the operation of AI services can be directly exposed to the risks of war and physical security threats, and is likely to affect regional AI computing capacity and continuity.”
#AI #Russia #Ruzzia #DataCentres #supercomputers #Yandex #Infrastructure
#note1se7…tan4

2026-10-09 23:57:35 UTC

Well well well, the Firmus plot thickens, in Tasmania they got a local council level approval then sought variations which would have needed an EPA (higher level) approval… treating Tasmanians like idiots: “EPA likely to have assessed project if proposed use was higher.” The EPA has now joined the appeals against:
“In its October 7 submission, seen by the ABC, the [EPA] board said it was originally told the generators would be used "just for emergency use in the event of a power failure", [not] during normal operation other than for scheduled weekly exercise runs of less than two hours, annual load tests, and utility outage events.
“The board said Firmus's recent appeal showed it planned on using the generators in more circumstances than it thought.
“That variation, if part of the original proposal, would likely have resulted in the Board making a different decision in relation to whether to assess the proposal," the board said.
"Seeking to enlarge the use of the diesel generators post-approval undermines the Board's determination and changes the environmental risk profile posed by the activity."
“It pointed out that if Firmus's appeal against the condition around generator use is upheld, it could allow it to subvert EPA processes it likely would have been subjected to "if the proposal had been accurately presented".”
Firmus also now changing its story on building additional power generation in Tassie.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10-10/firmus-generators-epa-appeal-watchdog/107247476
#dataCentres #electricityGeneration #TasPol #misleadingApprovalProcesses #InsiderTrading #deviousness #lies #tricky #dishonesty #socialLicense #IPO

2026-10-09 04:57:41 UTC

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Another: “Capitalistic society is not collapsing under the specter of AI because AI is all-powerful; it is doing so because it has always been brittle. A world in which a person’s entire fate—economic, social, physical—depends on an unfettered labor market, with institutional protections for a middle class5 and for culture hollowed out, is so fragile at every level that a chatbot encounters no difficulty convincing its depraved managerial class to initiate a society’s death sequence.”
In a footnote he (Michael O. Church) says: “Writing precisely, in any language, remains a nontrivial task.” And I could note agree more. This person can *write*

2026-10-09 04:45:39 UTC

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Another gem: “If a tree falls down in a twenty-mile-per-hour wind, you don’t blame the wind. The wind was ordinary; the rot was well-established in the roots.”
In fact, this is the entire thesis, but reading the piece gives you insights into what that actually means in various individual industries. Plus the writing is so good it’s a joy to read. Thank goodness for human professionals! 🙏🏻

2026-10-09 04:37:47 UTC

Interesting, thoughtful, well-written long read. Glad I invested the time. Learnt heaps. Much to consider. Suspect the argument is compelling but need to read again. Along the way, many gems, including: “… it is hard to be sure what language models know, but it becomes plausible that artificial intelligence providers, seeing as they compete against academic mathematicians over prestige theorems, while also using session transcripts for training, are absorbing unpublished work and, in effect, “scooping” their clients.
“It is plausible that artificial intelligence will spawn new methods of automated reasoning. It’s also plausible that human creativity is being stolen for marketing purposes. It would be good to know which is which. Right now, we don’t [know]”
https://antipodes.substack.com/p/everything-ai-is-killing-was-dying
#AI #LLMs #academia #originalMathematics #softwareDevelopment #Agile #originalWriting #notAISlop #publishing #industries #warning #grimFuture

2026-10-08 09:37:28 UTC

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That’s a horrifying statistic: “There are now more full-time lobbyists influencing the EU’s digital policies, than there are MEPs in the European Parliament.‘“ 🙀
I’d like to know what the European Parliament says &/or does about that situation (do they fund alternate voices or assist citizens to also lobby?) or why they accept it. Also how many have been corrupted through which avenues. 🤔
(Sorry - I know you probably can’t tell me but it seems to me that this is just the ‘tip of the iceberg’ of an unacceptable circumstance & it does seem to explain why so much proposed law doesn’t seem to favour citizens/ voters. ☹️)
#lobbyists #lobbying #EUPol #digitalPolicies #BigTech #EuropeanParliament

2026-10-06 11:02:01 UTC

Alarms going off: The AI Panel
Ed Zitron: Microsoft Has $80 Billion Of AI Chips It Can't Plug In
For everyone wondering about the consequences, & when the AI bubble bursts… hold onto your hats & watch ‘The AI Panel’ (includes the line: “The biggest misallocation of capital we’ve seen in our lifetime”):
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=es4FfRU8saQ
@nobull-markettalkwithgeorg4907
#AI #LLMs #AgenticAI #GPUs #dataCentres #hyperscalers #AIBubble #biggestCapitalMisallocationInOurLifetime

2026-09-28 11:23:19 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@camwilson/117347692094154998
Oh boo hoo 😿
“Advocacy group Data Centre Australia recently warned Australia risked losing data centre developments to neighbouring countries.
“"Some of that is the approval processes, some of that is supply chain issues, some of that is physically getting in there or social licence issues," CEO Belinda Dennett said.”
#DataCentres #AusPol #NSWPol #Australia #LaneCove #socialLicence #stillNoRegulations #inappropriateDevelopment

2026-09-27 01:53:52 UTC

Matthew Knott on Insiders: “Can’t have economic growth without immigration” (citing Tony Bourke at the National Press Club).
#Insiders #economicNeedForImmigration #AusPol

2026-09-05 00:20:03 UTC

RE: https://social.edu.nl/@wlaatje/117214504061479271
Can this be true? “The average American aged 18 to 34 carries more than $40 thousand in non-mortgage debt across student loans, credit card balances, auto loans, and personal loans, with some estimates go as high as $100 thousand.”
#USPol #USPopulationIndebtedness #personalDebt
#note17qq…3tvx

2026-09-01 01:06:40 UTC

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Lovely recommendation, brought a tear to my eye & I haven’t even gotten to the program. 🥲
I will def make time to watch. Thank you so much! 🙂🙏🏻

2026-08-29 07:44:36 UTC

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Thought so too. He’d obviously done his homework & knew the makeup of his electorate & also seemed to be a problem solver, happy to accept solutions from wherever they came - rather than insisting on purity.
Some things he shared that I noted: that
* 40% of Oz food is grown in Farrer,
* while 42% of aged care nurses in Australia are from o/s, in Farrer that proportion is 68%,
* he’s not opposed to immigration but he is opposed to is poor planning.
When he described his forays into preselection, he said he was looking for a party that would be brave enough to spend their political capital on getting things done (my words as I didn’t write his down).
#AusPol #Farrer #newMember #problemSolver #opposedToPoorPlanning
@npub1vse…3fdg

2026-08-28 08:20:45 UTC

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Me neither. Thanks David, you’ve saved us. 👍🙏🏻

2026-08-23 14:41:46 UTC

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So rich, blue, mysterious & beautiful. 😍

2026-08-20 06:04:28 UTC

More weirdo stuff: “Trump goes everywhere with a 35-year-old blonde aide named Natalie Harp, whom New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman has deemed his “human binky.””
and
“Whatever the extent of Natalie Harp’s duties, it seems undeniable that she is there to keep the temperamental president calm by distracting him from his own failures with words of praise. That he needs this is a sign of profound weakness. Stable adults do not need full-time babysitters. That Harp’s job even exists is a testament to Trump’s incredible narcissism, but it also carries more than a whiff of elder care and suspicions about medical conditions that require monitoring and placating.”
Apparently Thump’s minders are worried, now that dots have been connected, that thump doesn’t appear strong & virile but weak & feeble…
https://www.salon.com/2026/08/19/trump-aide-natalie-harp-nurses-his-decline/
#USPol #narcissism #weird #weirdo #humanBinky #profoundWeakness #PresNeedsABabysitter #elderCareFor47
#diaperDon

2026-08-20 04:29:31 UTC

Local issues signpost wider salience/ relevance; this from an Axios article re a private (read ‘secret’) memo by the Senate GOP campaign to major AI companies, warning: “toxic views of U.S. data centers are killing the party's chances of holding a vital seat in Ohio.”
“State of play: Republicans say in the memo, headlined "Ohio Data Center Risk," that it's up to AI companies to improve perceptions of data centers by explaining "who benefits, who pays, and why a community should want one."
“"Until that happens, the issue will continue to dominate this race…”
“The bottom line: The memo argues that a [candidate] Husted loss would cause long-lasting damage to AI companies in their push to build data centers nationwide to power future generations of AI.
“"If voters' perceptions of data centers are not fixed quickly, the campaign against them will expand far beyond Ohio," the party warns.”
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/19/gop-data-center-memo-ai-election
#USPol #localPol #globalPol #OhioPol #DataCentres #AI #AICompute #powerAI #fewLocalJobs #drainEnergyAndWater #contributeLittleToLocalHostingAreas #unexplained #voterPerceptions #whyCommunicateToThePeasants

2026-08-16 13:50:58 UTC

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Fascinating how quickly substantial outcomes were gained: “This study shows just how fast the benefits can come to life. At these two sites, it took under four years for functioning habitat to return. The biggest resurgence was native bees. Around year two, plants began to mature, and that's when nature took off because hundreds of native bees returned to the land. In early surveys, scientists recorded almost no bees, but by year four, they saw them regularly. Other insects as well, including wasps, moths, flies, butterflies, and beetles. In fact, the number of insects surveyed tripled over five years.”
Read More: https://www.bgr.com/2233665/solar-farms-unexpected-ecosystem-benefits-growth/

2026-07-29 06:46:21 UTC

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My understanding is that the positivity rate is the rate of people testing positive from all who are scientifically tested. They may have sought testing because they had symptoms but symptoms are not necessary (some people get tested ahead of travelling or socialising with vulnerable people, or large family gatherings, etc).
@npub1ef7…dcnq

2026-07-29 03:37:13 UTC

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Seems like China could be doing a lot of testing for their Covid19 positivity rate to hit 16.3%. They’re calling it “moderate”.
#Covid19 #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #positivityRate #moderate #wearAMask

2026-07-18 14:12:19 UTC

Winter butterfly, white daisies.
#butterfly #papillon #Schmetterling #daisies #bloom #bloomScrolling
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2026-07-12 02:58:24 UTC

RE: https://aus.social/@andyjennings/116888321133719605
Ha ha. Slopfix says it is:
“getting paid according to how much code it deletes. Its three engineers agree to a line-reduction target before starting, with a stated example of whittling a 100,000-line project down to 35,000 while maintaining the same functionality. The best part? Slopfix uses AI coding agents itself to do the trimming.” but describes them as being kept on “a very short leash”.
Interesting read & approach, was wondering when someone would do this…
#AISlop #refactoring
#note1zt4…u2wy

2026-07-11 03:15:50 UTC

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That was great! Thanks for the recommendation. Alan Kohler is a national treasure & Justin Wolfers worth listening to; I especially liked his arguments on immigration = innovation (child of 2 immigrants myself) & his positive admiration of Australia. It really is past time to lose, & to stop acting out on that cultural cringe!
The frightening thing was his costing of the US Presidency at ~$2b and profitable at that price - since est. that Thump made ~$8b last year (in bribes & corruption, not trades, which are chickenshit by comparison - such a small man). In Australia we need to tighten up the money flow potentials for that to happen here. No one - person or group - should be able to buy a Presidency, PM-ship or Premier-ship.
#AusPol #USPol #economics #JustinWolfers #AlanKohler #immigration #innovation immigrationIsInnovation #AustraliaLoseThatChip #costOfPresidency #corruption #bribery

2026-07-09 11:13:36 UTC

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Great capture! I especially like the framing, & well done you to finally get there!
(astonishingly there is no emoticon for Uluru…)

2026-07-09 09:39:46 UTC

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I like the “Bin for the Win” slogan, think it will go far (hope this works):
https://things.uk/@eclectech/116884194475295446
#BinForTheWin

2026-07-07 06:24:45 UTC

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“Fußball” in Germany. 🇩🇪 😀
@npub1ums…7ra6

2026-07-02 07:06:38 UTC

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Worth a listen 👂especially when Dr Sue Keay really gets going towards the end (but you need the start when a lot of the terms get explained - like ‘compute’ & ‘hyperscalers’). 😀
♥️ Love the info on the practical AI-robotics applications to control Crown of Thorns starfish & to migrate coral spawn to better temperatures for breeding so the Reef can move south. 🪸 (Didn’t know the Reef is the size of Italy!)
So many questions! 🤔 Why don’t we back ourselves more, why do so many of our best & brightest have to leave to get/develop their work, why don’t we invest more in research & development? 🤔 And whatever happened to all the work done on AI under the first Albanese govt? How & why was it watered down to some statement of non-binding expectations… 🤔🤔🤔
#GenerativeAI #AIRobotics #Robotics #AusPol #Australia #dataCentres #hyperscalers #neoCloud #Research&Development #ChangeManagement #countrywideChangeManagement

2026-06-23 08:53:12 UTC

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Yes, the experience was a real eye-opener. 🙄
You read in the journals of these ‘early explorers’ of team members driven mad by thirst, & stealing the water rations of their team mates, and you finally understand it. The fact is that there comes a point when you simply cannot drink enough, quickly enough, to replace what you are losing due to the heat & humidity. It is frightening. 😱

2026-06-23 07:19:44 UTC

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Super frightening! I have experienced 49 degree Celsius heat, with the added ‘bonus’ of high humidity, when camping inland (ie not at the coast) along the Fitzroy River (Western Australia): I finally understood what early ‘explorers’ like Stuart & his party experienced: the need to drink water (ie to rehydrate) can dominate everything you do.

2026-06-22 13:46:15 UTC

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#USPol #meme #ReflectingPool #AlgaeGreen #meltingMosaic
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2026-06-22 08:11:24 UTC

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Then there’s this -
https://bsky.app/profile/kateration.bsky.social/post/3mothjtl7wk2x
“ Someone has been projecting images all over D.C. “It’s swampier than ever.” The Kennedy Center one is pretty hilarious. 😂😂😂
Nighttime video of swamp imagery and Trump administration references projected onto several Washington, D.C. landmarks, covering building facades set to Another One Bites the Dust by Queen.”
0:24 / 0:58
#USPol #protestArt #ProtestProjections

2026-06-21 01:49:07 UTC

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2026-06-19 02:48:49 UTC

Pot, kettle.
“Mr Vance criticised Mr Ben-Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich in a New York Times interview released earlier on Thursday, local time.
"”What is your exact proposal? You're a country of 9 million people. You can't just kill your way out of solving every single national security problem that you have," Mr Vance said.”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-19/jd-vance-on-israel-iran-deal-lebanon-strikes-and-donald-trump/106816852
#AusPol #Iran #Israel #ABC #ironyIsNotDeadButSelfAwarenessIs

2026-06-17 16:54:43 UTC

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Hey thanks for making the transcript available! 🙏🏻 Really appreciate the opportunity to check what I heard.
This line struck me as it was so out of place in the context & with her demeanour: “It’s your job to scrutinise my Party, its people and its policies.” Quickly followed by threats to defund SBS & ABC. Didn’t feel like welcoming scrutiny to me. Felt like the Trumpian revenge play of punishing supposed enemies. 🫤 A sort of ‘put your head up to scrutinise my Party (=me) & we’ll cut it off for free’ promise. She’s such a professional victim. 😐
#AusPol #PHON #OneNotion #doesNotWelcomeScrutiny #professionalVictim

2026-06-14 12:59:04 UTC

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Repeating my post-comment on the original Reuters article (a fine piece of reporting): Informative, outrageous; & the Israeli govt apparently knew nothing about it: “Before scrubbing its online presence following enquiries from Reuters, ⁠BlackCore described itself as "an elite influence, cyber, and technology company built for the modern era of information warfare." It said it provided governments and political campaigns with "cutting-edge strategies, advanced tools, and robust security to shape narratives."
“It has not responded to repeated requests for comment.
“Reporting by Gabriel Stargardter in Paris. Writing by Dominique Vidalon and Gabriel Stargardter. Additional reporting by Raphael Satter in Washington, John Irish in Paris and Sam Tabahriti in London. Editing by Susan Fenton, Matthew Lewis and Kevin Liffey and Mark Potter”
#Israel #Reuters #Scotland #misinformation #disinformation #BlackCore #informationWarfare #shapeNarratives #eliteInfluence

2026-06-13 23:13:14 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.scot/@IndyRichard/116742831243262904
Informative, outrageous; & the Israeli govt apparently knew nothing about it: “Before scrubbing its online presence following enquiries from Reuters, ⁠BlackCore described itself as "an elite influence, cyber, and technology company built for the modern era of information warfare." It said it provided governments and political campaigns with "cutting-edge strategies, advanced tools, and robust security to shape narratives."
“It has not responded to repeated requests for comment.
“Reporting by Gabriel Stargardter in Paris. Writing by Dominique Vidalon and Gabriel Stargardter. Additional reporting by Raphael Satter in Washington, John Irish in Paris and Sam Tabahriti in London. Editing by Susan Fenton, Matthew Lewis and Kevin Liffey and Mark Potter”
#BlackCore #Israel #Scotland #AIBots #misinformation #disinformation #shapeNarratives #eliteInfluence #informationWarfare #notSoRobustSecurity
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2026-06-06 02:25:27 UTC

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Glad you said this as I’ve read the same, described in recent research: a majority of people used to get more ‘conservative’ as they became older, now they don’t.
In this case conservative = maintaining the status quo, not rocking the boat, etc rather than necessarily Michael’s modest list of ‘wants’.
Suspect you’re correct in reasons why too & that there are more reasons as well. This article [https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-26/millennials-rewriting-the-rules-of-australian-politics/106050836] - in the context of Australian electoral cycles - suggests: “Millennials are acutely feeling the pressure of housing unaffordability, the cost of living, and the changing shape of the world.
“Many were told by their parents to study hard, work hard, and were promised that if they did, home ownership and a good job could be theirs.
“Instead, they watched as major technology companies, innovation and AI reshaped the job market and felt increasing casualisation and insecurity in many industries…”
#conservatism #shiftingPoliticsWithAge #folkWisdom
@npub1ksf…r6s6

2026-05-28 12:08:13 UTC

RE: https://aus.social/@mojo/116651395295819945
I wish we would do more of this: sheet home the name & shame & blame - and costs - to companies like 3M knowingly doing the wrong thing, & leaving their crap & consequences for others to clean up.
#3M #PFAS #PFASCleanup #consequences #shameOnThem #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses
#note1sgm…st8a

2026-05-26 01:53:58 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@violetblue/116637798162504941
This resonated: “Decades of research in developmental psychology have shown that moral reasoning develops through consequences—not punishment, necessarily, but experiencing the effects of your actions on others, receiving honest feedback, having to accommodate reality as it actually is rather than as you wish it to be. It’s not that the wealthy become evil; it’s that their environment stops teaching them the things that nonwealthy people are forced to learn simply by living in a world that pushes back.”
Because I’m a big fan of reconnecting consequences to causes, also called join the dots.
#reconnectingConsequencesToCauses #joinTheDots #billionaires UglyRichAmericans #Bozo
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2026-05-26 00:20:10 UTC

RE: https://mas.to/@BicycleBen/116636274133777941
Could be another one for the Climate Diary - sounds dreadful - stay hydrated, check on neighbours, all that stuff. 🙏🏻
#ClimateDiary #ClimateCatastrophe
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2026-05-20 23:49:06 UTC

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That ben gvir is a sadist & a coward as well as a bully. I know I’m not saying anything thats new to you but I just need to say it having seen ancient footage of him rushing in to kick someone, defenceless, lying on the ground, having already been beaten by several men with sticks. ben gvir Could have done something else or nothing, but that was what he chose to do & you can tell from the look on his face that he enjoys it, it looks sexual. Revolting. And this is what Israelis are training their population to be? This is their choice? 😐

2026-05-20 02:28:34 UTC

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Astonishing “… ends all pending tax audits of him, his businesses and his family…” admits criminality. Otherwise why hide? 🫣

2026-05-18 04:05:08 UTC

Michael Crichton’s ‘Disclosure’ (which he says is based on a true story), 1st published in 1994, but still feels contemporary in lots of areas. Enjoyed the complicated plot & the product-based manufacturing problem solving. And then there was this:
“As for Meredith, her behaviour didn’t surprise him at all. For years, Sanders had fought the B-school mentality that she exemplified. After watching these graduates come and go, Sanders had finally concluded that there was a fundamental flaw in their education. They had been trained to believe that they were equipped to manage anything. But there was no such thing as general managerial skills and tools. In the end, there were only specific problems, involving specific industries and specific workers. To apply general tools to specific problems was to fail. You needed to know the market, you needed to know the customers, you needed to know the limits of manufacturing and the limits of your own creative people. None of that was obvious.”
#reading #MichaelCrichton #problem-solving #Disclosure #B-schoolMentality #education #fundamentalFlaw #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses

2026-05-18 00:47:46 UTC

RE: https://aus.social/@tallandtrue/116592371860047780
What an interesting quote! Let’s hear it for philosophy! And education in general. 🤗
#quoteToots #Aristotle #philosophy #education #selfCommand
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2026-05-15 11:13:53 UTC

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Oh this sounds interesting! I would live to know more about lamp repair and even making my own lamps. How to make sure old lamps are safe though is really important. 🙂👍
@npub1wu0…tf28

2026-05-15 04:41:27 UTC

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I love it that they list “Your heart” among the type of things they can maybe fix… 💔🥰

2026-04-14 21:59:22 UTC

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🙏🏻 Looking at Summer feeling happy makes me feel happy. 🙏🏻

2026-04-12 03:28:22 UTC

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Another great idea that would bump up the infrastructure offerings! That’s something like what this guy is doing (for prime-movers, in Picton area, between Sydney & Wollongong): “Daniel Bleakley, co-founder and co-chief executive of New Energy Transport… says the economics of electric trucks actually get better with heavier loads and longer distances.”
https://archive.is/d4x9x

2026-04-12 02:00:15 UTC

Current situation re electric trucks in Australia, where lots of stuff moves long distances (quoting James Purtill’s ABC article) : “ About a fifth of trucks in Australia are prime movers used for "line haul" long-distance bulk transportation of freight between cities and towns.
“”Battery-powered models are available but have limited applications, Mr Hammond [the Trucking Industry Council's (TIC) chief technical officer] said.
"You'd be lucky to get 300 kilometres on any of the major transport routes before you need probably a two-hour recharge," he said.
More powerful chargers would reduce this time but place a greater strain on the regional power network.
The amount of power required to recharge an electric road train in the space of an hour was about equivalent to that of a small commercial building, which would be more than some towns' spare capacity.
Hundreds of dedicated charging depots would need to be built to electrify intercity freight, and this would be expensive.” [end quote]
#electricTrucks #Australia #AusPol #dieselTrucks #diesel #EVs #truckingIndustry
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2026-04-09/record-sales-of-electric-trucks-price-parity/106526476

2026-04-11 23:48:46 UTC

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So sorry you & others had these experiences… peacefully protesting & then: “taken away by the British government and the intimate areas of my body inspected” & for what? Astonishing that UK Police don’t have better things to do & that UK Labour Govt doesn’t see that this is undermining population trust in policing… it’s not like they have tons of social capital to burn through. Just how much money are the war profiteers making & how much of it is ending up in which & whose pockets? Outrageous. 🤬😤
#UKPol #Palestine #protest

2026-04-06 13:37:26 UTC

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A very perceptive comment: “This [Ruzzia] is not a country. This is the largest prison on earth.”
#Russia # Ruzzia #RussiaIsAPrison #gulag

2026-02-27 21:57:40 UTC

RE: https://aus.social/@jhaue/116144724922192499
Absolutely disgusting. 😤 Your blood will boil if you read this article; stories of humble people not asking for much, being penalsed & traumatised by auto-algo-AI-slop-stupid & weasel words about ‘fine-tuning’ the system: "It's quite inhumane” is the least of it.🤬
New Minister Sam Rae does not cover himself in glory either - pathetic response. 😤
Hard to believe this is happening so recently after Robodebt & that the public service bureaucracy & the federal govt & indeed other govts have learned so little! Perhaps it’s because no one was adequately punished for Robodebt? ‘AI says No’ has become the excuse of the day. 😤
#AusPol #inhumane #AISlop #AIHarms #ComputerSaysNo #AISaysNo #Robodebt #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses
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2026-02-26 05:36:29 UTC

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Ok…. Now it makes sense… what Prof Toby Walsh was saying in his address to the National Press Club yesterday. He was really pissed off & basically said he no longer felt constrained & would give advice in public in future (ie not in private to govt). Also explains Albo’s seemingly gratuitous badmouthing of Pocock. I suppose a ‘donation’ is about to fall off some big-tech AI-pusher’s truck & into party coffers…
ABC cited Walsh: "Big tech has embraced lobbying in Washington, London, Brussels and now here in Canberra," he said.
"In the last election the big tech sector donated more to the political parties than mining did. That should tell us something."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-25/ai-regulation-toby-walsh-national-press-club-warning/106384688
#AI #unregulatedAI #AIHarms #TobyWalsh #AUSPol #bigTech #politicalDonations #corruption #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses

2026-01-24 21:53:22 UTC

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This is satire right? 😁

2026-01-12 13:40:03 UTC

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Re “how much damage can Trump do in his gangster phase?” look at how much damage Putin has done in Ruzzia… but he did start earlier. ☹️
It’s clear Thump/GOP intend to remain in power by fear & force - otherwise wouldn’t they be trying to gain approval instead of losing it? Yet their ratings keep heading south & in polls I’ve seen the majority surveyed are now also against ICE & ICE actions. Feels like the violence is escalating while Thump pisses off more people than he pleases.☹️
@npub1uqn…lhdy

2026-01-08 03:57:26 UTC

RE: https://union.place/@lisagetspolitik/115857040483402819
Surely this is the universe speaking! Ms Good,
“An unarmed civilian in a vehicle. The only thing she was armed with was a sense of justice.” Bears repeating.
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2026-01-05 06:25:48 UTC

Finished reading Earthquake by Niki Savva. A book about politics (specifically the ‘surprise’ losses by conservatives of the last 2 Australian elections), full of quotable quotes. From the Introduction (p 3):
“Journalists… seldom welcome being told how to do their jobs better, especially if they are in the business of dividing, not informing, or if they are loathe to deliver tough messages to leaders they like or their owners support. Blindly partisan media—particularly Sky After Dark and the Murdoch Press—create or nurture the fatal flaws that eventually destroy the very people they are desperate to promote. Along the way they wreck their own credibility. Covering up for conservatives—or anybody else—ensures that everyone loses. Including and especially Australians.”
#AUSPol #SkyAfterDark #MurdochPress
#NikiSavva

2026-01-04 01:43:18 UTC

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Out of all those quoted so far, the Spanish seem to be the least mealy-mouthed:
“Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez: "Spain did not recognize the Maduro regime. But neither will it recognize an intervention that violates international law and pushes the region toward a horizon of uncertainty and belligerence." “

2026-01-04 01:40:25 UTC

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And then there’s the eventual UK - or at least, Starmer - ‘s response (as reported by our ABC, spoiler alert: don’t have one until they talk to US):
“UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer: "We regarded Maduro as an illegitimate president and we shed no tears about the end of his regime. The UK government will discuss the evolving situation with US counterparts in the days ahead as we seek a safe and peaceful transition to a legitimate government that reflects the will of the Venezuelan people." “
Source: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-04/venezuela-trump-says-maduro-on-way-to-new-york/106197080#live-blog-post-249465

2025-12-29 23:05:42 UTC

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The most hopeful thing I’ve seen all year - 🙏🏻
@npub1fdr…lvhs

2025-12-21 01:09:53 UTC

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Shameful isn’t it! ☹️ Takes so little to do good design that caters to more ability-levels.
Wish the design people could get on board with smart broadcast campaigns on billboards etc to get maximum attention.
Better education is needed (in one year of my degree our tutor made us wheelchair around town to better understand the issues). 🤔
Everyone knows someone who’s older & less abled, mum with babies in stroller, crutch or wheelchair user, etc.
Enshrining small adjustments in house-building principles & public infrastructure doesn’t take that much & repays several-fold.
Wider doorways, corridors & turning circles that wheelchairs can fit through, ramps as well as or instead of stairs so strollers, prams & bikes have easier access, … add your idea here… 😀

2025-12-20 06:47:05 UTC

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Yes! I was thinking of making a surface design… that could be used for fabric, wallpaper, home decor… 😁

2025-12-19 13:17:04 UTC

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Love this: it has a really ‘other worldly’ feel. 🪐

2025-12-13 12:56:33 UTC

RE: https://zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6/115711249933966903
Wow! Is Denmark the first country to do this? 🤔
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2025-11-23 21:09:10 UTC

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I had no idea American cooking was so dangerous! 🫣

2025-11-20 05:36:14 UTC

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It’s that 3G to 4G transition that seems to have added unholy mess to an already messy situation. I had a nice reliable little Nokia but it took a long time & hours off my life to get Aldi to work out their SIM was the issue. Had to buy & install a new SIM, as well as turn on Volte; Aldi said they’d reimburse me but never did. Part of my research was calls to Telstra (Aldi’s underlying carrier), Nokia, etc, gaslighting all the way. And yeah I got the same impression - I was supposed to be a good little consumer & buy a new mobile. Problem solved. 🙁

2025-11-20 03:09:55 UTC

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A frightening situation… I had no idea so thanks for spelling it out. 🙏🏻 I guess this is why Telstra’s just emailed to say it’s my responsibility to have a mobile phone that works with the emergency call service… 🤔

2025-11-06 05:27:50 UTC

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So well said - 🙏🏻 thank you: “I can condemn Hamas' brutality, I can stand up for us Jews to feel safe and valued, and I can also say that Netanyahu is a war criminal whose ass should be hauled up to answer for genocide in an international court.
“It is not complicated to say all these things in one paragraph” - you proved it! 😁👏
Mr Hobbs (whoever he is) - like so many others - could take lessons from you in how to do it. But they would need to put their bad faith actions aside first… 😐
[@michaelhobbes.bsky.social](https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/michaelhobbes.bsky.social )

2025-11-05 01:11:36 UTC

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Always love reading your stories (but what is seismic retrofit - I think of earthquakes…surely not!). You are definitely (& always have been I think) “a very nice lady and should get priority” in all things. 🤗

2025-10-26 23:40:16 UTC

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It’s wonderful, the join the dashes pie!! The broomstick came out great too. Thanks so mych for showing me: I hope you all enjoy it. Now I’m really hungry… 😁

2025-10-26 21:38:51 UTC

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Yum! I hope we get to see a picture of the pie baked but before grandkids… curious how your pricked pic turns out! 😁

2025-10-22 04:16:20 UTC

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Great capture, great post! How big is that frog - it looks quite small relative to the other things… say an inch & a half long? 🤔
Frogs are one of the first creatures I recall paying attention to. Frogs & Praying Mantises. 😁

2025-10-13 06:07:02 UTC

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Reading this that you wrote, that you believe, made me tear up 🥲: “I have come to believe none of us are safe until we are all safe. This is a turning point I hope.”
Thank you so much for sharing it & also, I think you’re going to look gorgeous as a chicken. 🙏🏻
(Hope Summer can handle the excitement… 🙂)
@npub142w…n2y5

2025-09-28 22:50:03 UTC

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Heartbreaking… do you think she (your longstanding hairdresser) was always like this? I’m just thinking that sometimes a personality change into aggression can be a sign of dementia. Also distressing. 🙁

2025-09-15 02:09:11 UTC

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Great way to spend time & ‘read the highway’. 🙂 What’s your estimate of the ratio of “honking vs giving us the finger”? Ten to one? Five to one? Be great to record it to see if or how it changes over time (sorry… data nerd here!). 🙂

2025-09-07 06:58:45 UTC

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Can’t see any way out of the UK’s “mass civil disobedience” myself… although it seems only in London that protesters are being arrested? I’ve read that in Edinburgh they are not. So how does that work? The longer it goes on - & the longer the root causes are not addressed - the more will protest, won’t they? Are any unions actively supporting the breaking of the Gaza blockade, for instance? Hard to understand how Starmer & UK Labour got themselves into this mess… ☹️

2025-09-02 06:20:04 UTC

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Terrible! 76% of Covid-19 cases in Wales were hospital-acquired. You read that right: *hospital-acquired*
Yes it’s in Wales… but that’s probably just because they’ve collected the data. Unless your place/location is astonishingly better at infection control, rates are likely to be similar. ☹️. We have to be able to do better than this!
@npub15gr…ztdn

2025-08-30 04:39:50 UTC

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Stunningly beautiful sunsets - and thanks for sharing… as always!
Glad Summer’s ok, she would be a heavy armsful, that’s for sure! 🙂
I think a lot of people, but especially women, will identify with what you describe so well here, always having been responsible for others. It’s not necessarily good or bad but just how it is - as you say. Experienced the same reflection myself, at a relatively late age (when all near & dear to me were no longer) and for the first time. It felt… odd. Good to talk about & share these things! 🙏🏻

2025-08-21 03:00:50 UTC

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You did well!! Great captures, & they’re all so different! What is the one with the iridescent shiny green parts? It’s a stunner! They’re all lovely in their own way. 🙂

2025-08-20 01:53:33 UTC

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Powerful image.
@npub1fcp…w85n

2025-08-20 01:52:55 UTC

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Thank you for quoting the entire poem. It's been a long time since I read it. It's worth reading every morning to remind us of this deepest of all truths. "No man is an island" by John Donne.
@npub1703…2l86 @npub1fcp…w85n

2025-08-11 08:15:34 UTC

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Yes, well said. I saw one person interviewed who said they were protesting because as a retired person they had nothing to lose… in other words they know how vindictive their govt can & will be. A terrible situation. 😐
@npub12pw…zvxn

2025-08-11 07:27:34 UTC

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Sick people in the IDF, unconstrained & unregulated, just like the sickos in their superstructure (so-called govt., parliament). What is wrong with these people? How did they get to where they are & be so devoid of empathy?
@npub1zxn…0kqm

2025-08-04 05:06:16 UTC

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Weak advice: “ wear a mask if concerned”… 😟
Guess they didn’t catch up yet with latest estimates that ~40% of those with Covid-19 are asymptomatic (infected but no apparent symptoms).
Wear a mask!😷 protect yourself, protect others, break the chain of infection.
#COVID19 #CovidIsAirborne #CovidIsNotOver #PublicHealth #ReconnectingConsequencesToCauses

2025-07-31 04:34:05 UTC

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Pretty sure this is a law, but maybe needs a snappy title:
“Data which is collected will eventually be leaked.”
Obverse: The only secure data is that which is not collected.
Also needs a snappy title.
🙂

2025-07-30 05:13:30 UTC

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I think you speak for many who are becoming increasingly unwilling to provide any private data to strangers websites on the internet &/or strangers on the phone. Than you for putting it so clearly & sharing your thoughts & conclusions.

2025-07-29 05:20:32 UTC

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Already in 2021! “The US & Israel, alone, voted against a 2021 UN resolution to make food a human right.”
The US is and has been so often a holdout - rather than a leader - in these basic areas of human rights. I don’t believe they ever ratified the Convention against Torture either…
It’s astonishing that we - or at least the lazy stenographing media - keep looking to the US for any sort of leadership. It’s like the inertia that’s kept the US $ as the default currency for so long.
@npub1zxn…0kqm

2025-07-28 02:10:13 UTC

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" #Solar is now 41% cheaper than fossil fuels, new UN report finds..." so all those fossil fuel producers who have not pivoted to renewables remain in danger of being caught holding stranded assets & surely consequent shareholder desertion over same... 🙂
Why didnt they pivot when they had time & first-mover advantage? Sounds like an MBA case study coming right up...

2025-07-16 23:18:30 UTC

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Still struck by the irony of your comment: "Some may be misinformed, but I also find that even if I inform people (including PhDs) about all the studies that show how Covid harms the brain, they might say "I am fine if you wear a mask", but they won't start wearing masks themselves."
Putting that together with recent estimates that ~40% of people with Covid are asymptomatic & the lack of preventive actions at structural + infrastructural levels (eg clean air filters in shared air spaces) it's all a bit alarming. I guess it will continue like this until something major changes, either for better or for worse. 😐

2025-07-16 05:38:42 UTC

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Yes, well said, that is what I do. At the last hospital I was in (to support a friend) apart from one staff I was the only one masked. It was an Emergency Dept waiting room. 😞

2025-07-16 03:08:55 UTC

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More than a year old (dated Feb 2024) but a good summary of the many complexities contributing to why healthcare settings can greatly improve poor infection control for COVID-19.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-11/patients-catching-covid-hospitals-australia-infection-control/103442806

2025-07-16 02:22:22 UTC

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Beware healthcare: "We’ve got some evidence that 10%-15% of our cases in New Zealand were acquired in hospitals"
Shouldn’t be like that but it is. Hospitals are dangerous places, especially for sick people. 😐

2025-07-14 02:42:35 UTC

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A headline that needs something else or perhaps a more sensitive expression: “Long Covid is continuing to linger in the workplace, and businesses struggle to cope.”
Because I’m pretty sure the people who suffer from Long Covid also struggle to cope with it.
Linked question: have workplaces done anything to either support workers or prevent transmission? Are they cleaning the shared air, for instance? (Especially with current estimates of ~40% of those with Covid-19 being asymptomatic.)
#Covid #CovidIsAirborne #CovidIsNot0ver #PublicHealth #Public_Health #asymptomatic #workplace