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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 10h

This is an alarming compression of the planetary destruction timeline: with the massive growth of the AI bubble, data centers are expected to consume up to 12% of total US electricity by 2028, up from 4.4% in 2023.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/t...

Sora 2 and ChatGPT are consuming so much power that OpenAI just did another 10 gigawatt deal | CNN Business

OpenAI is partnering with Broadcom to design and develop 10 gigawatts of custom AI chips and systems, a massive amount of power that will use as much electricity as a large city. The move further high...

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Lisa Will @dustchick.bsky.social · 7h

I've always said this, but since last November, I've been pointing this out frequently in whatever venues to whatever audiences I can: "The planet NASA studies most is Earth."

Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 15h

A lot of comments on Mars rovers or Moon landings, but it's important to remember that the planet NASA studies most is Earth. This is less about cutting flashy things like moonwalks and more about keeping communities in the dark on climate, weather, agriculture, pollution, natural hazards, and more.

Reuters @reuters.com · 18h

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

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Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · May 16

“The America I love, the America I’ve written about, that has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years, is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration… Rise with us, raise your voices against authoritarianism.” @brucespringsteen.net

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Bruce Springsteen in Manchester England May 2025, introducing the song that gives the tour its name Land of Hope and Dreams: “In my home, the America I love, the America I’ve written about, that has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years, is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration. Tonight, we ask all who believe in democracy and the best of our American experiment to rise with us, raise your voices against authoritarianism and let freedom ring!”

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 20h

When Aaron Fucking Rupar is doing more reporting than CBS News and The NYT

I think this was a plotline on the second season of The Newsroom

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Trump's conversation with Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto is caught on a hot mic. Hard to tell exactly what they are talking about, but Subianto asks Trump about meeting Eric Trump and Don Jr, who supposedly have nothing to do with government while they run the family business.

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anita72.bsky.social @anita72.bsky.social · 13h

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

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Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 1d

✍️ Add your name to the petition calling on the Australian Government to launch a Parliamentary inquiry into AUKUS:

nb.australiainstitute.org.au/aukus_parlia...

For more info:

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Listen to After America here:

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✍️PETITION: Launch a Parliamentary Inquiry into AUKUS

Launch a Parliamentary Inquiry into AUKUS NOW! Australia Institute research shows a majority of Australians support a parliamentary inquiry into AUKUS ✍️ Add your name now >

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Michael Dowling aka MeckeringBoy @meckeringboy.bsky.social · 2d

We Australians seem to be very vulnerable to right wing media/political forces/oligarchs’ manipulation. I hope this changes as the younger generations come to voting age.

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The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 1d

Editorial: Scott Morrison’s last and only meaningful acts in parliament were about securing his first opportunities outside it. AUKUS is less a security partnership and more a one-man superannuation scheme. satpa.pe/XBsTJqi

The one-man super scheme

Of all the things Scott Morrison does not understand, and the list is long and often embarrassing, somewhat in the shape of his prime ministership, China would rate very close to the top.

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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 1d

If Albanese visits the US after they invoke the Insurrection Act there can be absolutely no doubt he’s comfortable with aligning Australia with a fascist state.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

Welker: "Are you seriously considering invoking the Insurrection Act?"

Vance: "Well, the president's looking at all of his options right now."

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 1d

This is great. Normally, with U.S. press, when a Republican lies, they go, "well, we'll have to leave it there because I want to move on."

In this case, however, Vance lies and Stephanopoulos is immediately, "into the trebuchet, my dude."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 2d

"In an authoritarian context, all journalism will tend toward propaganda unless it is explicitly formulated as anti-authoritarian. Unless an institution is explicitly designed to counter authoritarianism, it will end up aiding the authoritarians."

The Washington Post and CBS News are dying. The Bulwark is the future.

We drink their milkshake.

www.thebulwark.com

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The DILETTANTE @demwar.bsky.social · 2d

Big Tech:

- leverage your data for their monetisation
- spy on everything you do
- steal your IP
- never reward loyalty
- share your info with govt
- erode privacy
- destroy the environment

Then they buy off govt officials to avoid regulation and having to pay tax.

Absolute societal cancer.

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Anthony B, @swearyanthony.bsky.social · 2d

Read the fuckin room, asshole. At least you're no longer exclusively posting to the Nazi site.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 2d

Terribly sad news about one of the greats. Diane Keaton has died at 79.
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Diane Keaton, Famed for Roles in 'Father of the Bride,' 'First Wives Club' and More, Dies at 79 (Exclusive)

Diane Keaton has died at age 79. Keaton was best known for roles in movies like 'Annie Hall,' 'The First Wives Club,' 'Something's Gotta Give' and 'The Godfather.'

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Piper @yourfriendpiper.bsky.social · 2d

I love this piece and glad this part was noted: "The question of who wins or who loses in Triangle Posting Politics is divorced from material conditions, justice, or the common good."

sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 2d

I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

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A T Tate @spudonthetracks.bsky.social · 2d

Wonder if he’s seen the ending of that Civil War movie? Asking for a friend.

A T Tate @spudonthetracks.bsky.social · 2d

Note to the upwardly mobile mainstream media editor bots.

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Margaret Morgan 🇳🇱🇦🇺🇪🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 2d

Gosh, bots created in the image of their makers.

"When they were rewarded for success at tasks like boosting likes and other online engagement metrics, the bots increasingly engaged in unethical behavior like lying and spreading hateful messages or misinformation."

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New Paper Finds That When You Reward AI for Success on Social Media, It Becomes Increasingly Sociopathic

Stanford scientists unleashed AI bots in different environments, including social media, and they started behaving unethically.

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Dr James on a bicycle, psychologist, cycologist 🇨🇦 @jamesbicycle.bsky.social · 6d

David Bowie 2002. Prescient. Thoughtful.
"One of the dangers of the American way is that it's America first in everything it does. There is virtually no interest in the ambitions, feelings, needs or sensitivities of any other nation.. It's one of the things that makes us resent Americans much"

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Victoria Fielding @drvicfielding.bsky.social · 3d

Two years on from the Voice referendum, I’m never going to forgive the Liberal Party for their cruel destruction of hopes of reconciliation for political point scoring. Dutton, Price, Hastie, Abbott, Credlin, and all weak, cowardly moderates who stood by and said nothing. A dark stain on Australia.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 3d

Not today, Satan‼️

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Honor Laois 🦘📎🍉 #auspol @honorlaoiss.bsky.social · 3d

Inside Albanese’s FOI reforms: ‘He hates transparency’ www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/2025/10... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au

Inside Albanese’s FOI reforms: ‘He hates transparency’

Labor’s reforms to freedom of information laws are opposed by every public submission made to the Senate, with the government’s record on secrecy worse than Scott Morrison’s.

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Rod Moffatt @politikarma.bsky.social · 3d

Albanese believes his own B.S. and is becoming increasingly hostile to being held to account.
Hubris has replaced humility
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Kittylitter @kittylitter.bsky.social · 3d

#auspol
www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/10/g...
"If there’s a threat to Australian culture and identity, it’s from tax-dodging foreign companies committed to wrecking our social cohesion."

Grand Theft Australia? Foreigner News Corp pays no tax, but has the hide to complain about stealing

News Corp's Michael Miller is complaining about theft by AI. That's rich coming from a foreign company that pays no tax in Australia and undermines our social cohesion.

www.crikey.com.au

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