Asher Wolf
@asherwolf.bsky.social
Amnesty Media Award 2014. Cryptoparty. Anti-Robodebt campaigner. Digital rights. Mutant network node herder. Completing a Master of Social Work. Devouring entropy https://www.patreon.com/asherwolf
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The Aquaman factor?
“The development highlights a growing tension within the real estate industry. Fires, floods and other disasters are posing more risks to homes as the planet warms, but forecasting exactly which houses are most vulnerable — and might sell for less — has proved fraught.”
Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:50 PM
The Aquaman factor?
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extremely funny to illustrate this with an ambulance trapped in traffic
Mamdani hires car-hating activist Ben Furnas to transportation team: ‘war on drivers’
Mamdani hires car-hating activist Ben Furnas to transportation team: ‘war on drivers’
Car-hating Transportation Alternatives boss Ben Furnas has been appointed to Mamdani's transition team for transportation, climate and infrastructure – and his agenda is a nightmare for the city's drivers.
nypost.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:56 PM
extremely funny to illustrate this with an ambulance trapped in traffic
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Rising Tide protest: climate activists stop three ships from entering world’s largest coal port in Newcastle
Rising Tide protest: climate activists stop three ships from entering world’s largest coal port in Newcastle
Australian campaigners demand Albanese government cancel planned fossil fuel projects and tax existing operations at 78%
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Activists have blocked another two coal ships from entering the Port of Newcastle on the fourth day of the Rising Tide protests, bringing the total number of ships turned around by campaigners this weekend to three.
Thousands of people have gathered at Rising Tide’s annual climate protest at the world’s largest coal port. It began on Thursday and will continue until Tuesday. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Rising Tide protest: climate activists stop three ships from entering world’s largest coal port in Newcastle
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📢 The British government is investigating its contracts with an Australian travel company that helps manage thousands of asylum seekers.
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Australian sales furore turns spotlight on UK asylum hotels
www.smh.com.au
November 30, 2025 at 2:54 AM
📢 The British government is investigating its contracts with an Australian travel company that helps manage thousands of asylum seekers.
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Having a hard time with hydration. Using a GLP-1 killed the worst of the food noise but also muted the capacity to feel thirsty
November 30, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Having a hard time with hydration. Using a GLP-1 killed the worst of the food noise but also muted the capacity to feel thirsty
Bought a cheap knock-off version of cheese stringers and Kid just tested it out:
“It’s so bad I feel like it’s gonna make me lactose intolerant”
“It’s so bad I feel like it’s gonna make me lactose intolerant”
November 30, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Bought a cheap knock-off version of cheese stringers and Kid just tested it out:
“It’s so bad I feel like it’s gonna make me lactose intolerant”
“It’s so bad I feel like it’s gonna make me lactose intolerant”
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an incredibly interesting piece about why rabies is surging in India. spoiler alert: because humans nearly completely eliminated one of the locally native species that helps keep it in check.
Humans killed millions of vultures. Now people are paying the price.
The near-extinction of vultures in India has had severe consequences.
wapo.st
November 30, 2025 at 10:19 AM
an incredibly interesting piece about why rabies is surging in India. spoiler alert: because humans nearly completely eliminated one of the locally native species that helps keep it in check.
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The four most abundant butterflies on the Uloola Track today were the Common Grass Blue, Australian Painted Lady, Caper White and Varied Swordgrass Brown. Caper Whites often eclose in enormous numbers, sometimes in the millions. I'm hoping their presence is the sign of one of these fabulous events!
November 30, 2025 at 6:07 AM
The four most abundant butterflies on the Uloola Track today were the Common Grass Blue, Australian Painted Lady, Caper White and Varied Swordgrass Brown. Caper Whites often eclose in enormous numbers, sometimes in the millions. I'm hoping their presence is the sign of one of these fabulous events!
Sleepy cos I brushed her
November 30, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Sleepy cos I brushed her
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Love that this is the bloke we use to justify the u16 SM ban
November 30, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Love that this is the bloke we use to justify the u16 SM ban
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141 people have been arrested in Australia as climate activists stop ships reaching the world’s biggest coal port
Rising Tide protest: climate activists stop three ships from entering world’s largest coal port in Newcastle
NSW police arrest 141 people as campaigners demand federal government cancel planned fossil fuel projects and tax existing operations at 78%
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:58 AM
141 people have been arrested in Australia as climate activists stop ships reaching the world’s biggest coal port
@profanity.accountant heya, please can you let me know know my swear count?
November 30, 2025 at 10:20 AM
@profanity.accountant heya, please can you let me know know my swear count?
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"If this comes to fruition, it means the free version of the ChatGPT app is about to get ads"
mashable.com/article/chat...
mashable.com/article/chat...
ChatGPT might be serving you ads soon, leak suggests
Everything is a tool for ads!
mashable.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:54 AM
"If this comes to fruition, it means the free version of the ChatGPT app is about to get ads"
mashable.com/article/chat...
mashable.com/article/chat...
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"Use ChatGPT as a source" and "AI isn't perfect so just double check it" are two mutually exclusive statements that exist in this person's head without conflict only because there are no other thoughts in there, giving these two plenty of space
November 30, 2025 at 8:55 AM
"Use ChatGPT as a source" and "AI isn't perfect so just double check it" are two mutually exclusive statements that exist in this person's head without conflict only because there are no other thoughts in there, giving these two plenty of space
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If only we had learned from every previous time this happened that doing something on the cheap is only cheaper if that thing actually works; when it inevitably doesn't work you will have to pay for the failure and then pay full price (plus a rush fee) to have the job done properly.
"Astonishingly, the textbook companies had invested the equivalent of $567 million in the project, to meet the government’s commitment of $850 million."
At what point are actual monetary costs too high, these days?
futurism.com/future-socie...
At what point are actual monetary costs too high, these days?
futurism.com/future-socie...
South Korea's Experiment in AI Textbooks Ends in Disaster
The South Korean government's billion-dollar AI textbook initiative has been a complete failure from start to finish.
futurism.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:17 AM
If only we had learned from every previous time this happened that doing something on the cheap is only cheaper if that thing actually works; when it inevitably doesn't work you will have to pay for the failure and then pay full price (plus a rush fee) to have the job done properly.
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one of the firefighters suggested submerging the battery in water permanently to which i was like... lithium reacts explosively with water that is the ... problem?????
and they were like "it's sealed" and in my head i'm like "yes and it would be good to not rely on that seal being perfect!"
and they were like "it's sealed" and in my head i'm like "yes and it would be good to not rely on that seal being perfect!"
just had a battery fire scare after my vape cart and battery went straight in fully submerged in a glass of ice water and then stayed stuck on the high heat setting and as of rn still is stuck on the high heat setting in two zip loc bags in our drive way w/some rice in the inner bag
November 30, 2025 at 3:33 AM
one of the firefighters suggested submerging the battery in water permanently to which i was like... lithium reacts explosively with water that is the ... problem?????
and they were like "it's sealed" and in my head i'm like "yes and it would be good to not rely on that seal being perfect!"
and they were like "it's sealed" and in my head i'm like "yes and it would be good to not rely on that seal being perfect!"
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The Prime Minister will be on leave for five days from Monday 1 December 2025. The Deputy Prime Minister will be Acting Prime Minister. The DPM is expected to travel to Papua New Guinea from Tuesday morning to Wednesday afternoon. During this time Minister Wong will be Acting Prime Minister #auspol
November 30, 2025 at 5:09 AM
The Prime Minister will be on leave for five days from Monday 1 December 2025. The Deputy Prime Minister will be Acting Prime Minister. The DPM is expected to travel to Papua New Guinea from Tuesday morning to Wednesday afternoon. During this time Minister Wong will be Acting Prime Minister #auspol
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Great article by @drjanetiller.bsky.social the Aus insurance sector is already feeding their members' data to AI to support claims processing, let's hope our gov can keep DNA out of them theconversation.com/life-insurer...
Life insurers soon won’t be able to discriminate against you based on your genes
People could take a genetic test to gauge their future risk of disease without worrying their life insurers would penalise them.
theconversation.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Great article by @drjanetiller.bsky.social the Aus insurance sector is already feeding their members' data to AI to support claims processing, let's hope our gov can keep DNA out of them theconversation.com/life-insurer...
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APAN has created an anti-Palestinian racism register. Anyone can report to it.
Anti-Palestinian Racism
The Anti-Palestinian Racism (APR) Project aims to raise public awareness of anti-Palestinian racism, its impacts, and increasing community capacity to respond.
combat-apr.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:01 AM
APAN has created an anti-Palestinian racism register. Anyone can report to it.
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When did sycophancy and cowardice become a prerequisite for political life.
What is ed Husic doing on the backbench
What is ed Husic doing on the backbench
November 29, 2025 at 10:53 PM
When did sycophancy and cowardice become a prerequisite for political life.
What is ed Husic doing on the backbench
What is ed Husic doing on the backbench
Minestrone and stewed apple both on the stove, pumpkin is baking
November 30, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Minestrone and stewed apple both on the stove, pumpkin is baking
Making minestrone, roast pumpkin and stewed apple
November 30, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Making minestrone, roast pumpkin and stewed apple
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FWIW, there is a tutorial for reviving these by giving it a "brain transplant" from the cloud service of the company that made it to your own LLM (locally runnable if you have the hardware, or a subscription cloud service). www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWmP...
Saving my favorite robot named Vector from Death
YouTube video by Anoraker
www.youtube.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:40 AM
FWIW, there is a tutorial for reviving these by giving it a "brain transplant" from the cloud service of the company that made it to your own LLM (locally runnable if you have the hardware, or a subscription cloud service). www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWmP...
When your content creation income from 218,200 followers is tied to a subscription house appliance that is now defunct because the company behind it ran out of funding
November 30, 2025 at 1:56 AM
When your content creation income from 218,200 followers is tied to a subscription house appliance that is now defunct because the company behind it ran out of funding