Dan Thorpe
@danisnotadj.bsky.social
Sound design // public health // weird sounds (mostly on the piano). “No respect for the culture of pianism”. Your queer dad.
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As a side note, it’s funny to see so many of these emails with thirsty academics repeatedly enact Marx’s bit in the 1844 Manuscripts about the power of money. “Oh Mr Epstein, your house in New York is enormous and, unrelatedly, your questions at dinner were so intelligent, so insightful, so deep.”
![That which is for me through the medium of money - that for which I can pay (i.e., which money can buy) - that am I myself, the possessor of the money. The extent of the power of money is the extent of my power. Money's properties are my - the possessor's - properties and essential powers. Thus, what I am and am capable of is by no means determined by my individuality. I am ugly, but I can buy for myself the most beautiful of women.
Therefore I am not ugly, for the effect of ugliness - its deterrent power - is nullified by money. I, according to my individual characteristics, am lame, but money furnishes me with twenty-four feet.
Therefore I am not lame. I am bad, dishonest, unscrupulous, stupid; but money is honoured, and hence its possessor. Money is the supreme good, therefore its possessor is good. Money, besides, saves me the trouble of being dishonest: I am therefore presumed honest. I am brainless, but money is the real brain of all things and how then should its possessor be brainless? Besides, he can buy clever people for himself, and is he who has [In the manuscript: is. - Ed.] power over the clever not more clever than the clever? Do not I, who thanks to money am capable of all that the human heart longs for, possess all human capacities? Does not my money, therefore, transform all my incapacities into their contrary?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:myqic77tkmdhmaufgkvj43hr/bafkreidpuxbx764xh7vobavcnvs3v2lo5fnfi6dukfrmk3ygxmseznkyxi@jpeg)
January 31, 2026 at 4:05 PM
As a side note, it’s funny to see so many of these emails with thirsty academics repeatedly enact Marx’s bit in the 1844 Manuscripts about the power of money. “Oh Mr Epstein, your house in New York is enormous and, unrelatedly, your questions at dinner were so intelligent, so insightful, so deep.”
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January 30, 2026 at 1:29 PM
Having a normal one
January 30, 2026 at 12:07 AM
Having a normal one
Reviewing papers about AI use in therapy contexts makes me want to put my head through a window.
January 29, 2026 at 11:22 PM
Reviewing papers about AI use in therapy contexts makes me want to put my head through a window.
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It just seems naive, to me, at a time when the US is gleefully burning every bridge, ripping through international law and norms, and declaring its proud return to a sadistic world ordered by brute force and domination, for people to say, "But don't you see? We rely on them for security."
January 29, 2026 at 9:11 AM
It just seems naive, to me, at a time when the US is gleefully burning every bridge, ripping through international law and norms, and declaring its proud return to a sadistic world ordered by brute force and domination, for people to say, "But don't you see? We rely on them for security."
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hello I am launching my very own podcast with @jordanjamboree.pittbert.gay where we (mostly casually!) chat about car culture in the decline of the American empire, auto racing, and industry news interspersed with tales of our former auto journo careers. we call it TRAN GIRLISMO
January 29, 2026 at 1:21 AM
hello I am launching my very own podcast with @jordanjamboree.pittbert.gay where we (mostly casually!) chat about car culture in the decline of the American empire, auto racing, and industry news interspersed with tales of our former auto journo careers. we call it TRAN GIRLISMO
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NEW: Australia’s sovereign wealth fund now owns more than $100 million worth of shares in Palantir, a controversial tech company that’s powering the Trump administration’s anti-immigration efforts.
Revealed: Australia's $100 million investment in controversial surveillance giant Palantir
Australia's Future Fund drastically increased its stake in Palantir in the year since Donald Trump took office, according to its latest figures.
www.crikey.com.au
January 29, 2026 at 1:20 AM
NEW: Australia’s sovereign wealth fund now owns more than $100 million worth of shares in Palantir, a controversial tech company that’s powering the Trump administration’s anti-immigration efforts.
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As an historian I often wonder how people learned nothing from the twentieth century and how we have fallen into the mess and rise of fascism yet again and here we are. People simply *don't care* that they are in a military alliance with and dependant on a fascist state when capitalism requires it.
So Polanski wants to leave NATO,cut Defence spend & distance ourselves from USA who we rely on for essential defence apparatus& intelligence.
Then the tariffs will rise our steel industry will collapse(even more essential for defence),car ìndustry collapse 1000's jobs lost,no £££ for public services
Then the tariffs will rise our steel industry will collapse(even more essential for defence),car ìndustry collapse 1000's jobs lost,no £££ for public services
January 29, 2026 at 8:34 AM
As an historian I often wonder how people learned nothing from the twentieth century and how we have fallen into the mess and rise of fascism yet again and here we are. People simply *don't care* that they are in a military alliance with and dependant on a fascist state when capitalism requires it.
Up to the fourth interviewee in this project who said our recruitment posters were great, putting this on my CV etc.
January 29, 2026 at 3:05 AM
Up to the fourth interviewee in this project who said our recruitment posters were great, putting this on my CV etc.
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"They're being so vague and the language could be describing either option."
January 28, 2026 at 3:28 AM
"They're being so vague and the language could be describing either option."
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“The AUKUS agreement is so absurd that it seems laughable one Australian government would sign up to it, but for two governments to be so reckless, strains credulity beyond breaking point. And yet here we are.” - Greg Jericho
Read Greg Jericho’s full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/4qOAIFp
Read Greg Jericho’s full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/4qOAIFp
January 28, 2026 at 1:40 AM
“The AUKUS agreement is so absurd that it seems laughable one Australian government would sign up to it, but for two governments to be so reckless, strains credulity beyond breaking point. And yet here we are.” - Greg Jericho
Read Greg Jericho’s full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/4qOAIFp
Read Greg Jericho’s full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/4qOAIFp
It didn’t drop below 30°C last night and it’s gonna be 30-40°C every day this week, and my shitty Australian slum rental (like everyone else’s rental in this fucking stupid country) is barely survivable. It is insane to me that we don’t all go sicko mode about this every summer????
January 26, 2026 at 11:06 PM
It didn’t drop below 30°C last night and it’s gonna be 30-40°C every day this week, and my shitty Australian slum rental (like everyone else’s rental in this fucking stupid country) is barely survivable. It is insane to me that we don’t all go sicko mode about this every summer????
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Wow I wonder what happened in 2016. Don’t worry, the headline and first paragraphs will definitely not tell you.
And I remember how the airports were plastered in “Britain: open for business!” posters right after Brexit.
www.ft.com/content/66eb...
And I remember how the airports were plastered in “Britain: open for business!” posters right after Brexit.
www.ft.com/content/66eb...
UK consumer confidence marks 10 years without a positive reading
GfK index rose by 1 point to minus 16 in January, up from a low of minus 23 in April 2025
www.ft.com
January 23, 2026 at 8:56 AM
Wow I wonder what happened in 2016. Don’t worry, the headline and first paragraphs will definitely not tell you.
And I remember how the airports were plastered in “Britain: open for business!” posters right after Brexit.
www.ft.com/content/66eb...
And I remember how the airports were plastered in “Britain: open for business!” posters right after Brexit.
www.ft.com/content/66eb...
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Six monarchs, three ex-Soviet apparatchiks and a leader sought by the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes — those are among the inaugural members of the US president’s rival to the UN, which he is expected to unveil at Davos. ft.trib.al/acCThWH
January 22, 2026 at 5:36 AM
Six monarchs, three ex-Soviet apparatchiks and a leader sought by the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes — those are among the inaugural members of the US president’s rival to the UN, which he is expected to unveil at Davos. ft.trib.al/acCThWH
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Every time I think about Australia-China relations, it always reminds me of this Utopia bit where they constantly have to please the US because of AUKUS.
January 21, 2026 at 12:55 AM
Every time I think about Australia-China relations, it always reminds me of this Utopia bit where they constantly have to please the US because of AUKUS.
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ChatGPT is a scapegoat. It may lift the quality of work of the worst students, but universities were already giving poor work a passing grade.
It is the universities who broke trust first -- not the students.
On @thepointau.bsky.social --
thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
It is the universities who broke trust first -- not the students.
On @thepointau.bsky.social --
thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
Students are only fake learning because universities are fake teaching
Artificial Intelligence is improving exponentially. There is a real threat that it could upend employment, security, art and even what it means to be human.
thepoint.com.au
January 18, 2026 at 10:16 PM
ChatGPT is a scapegoat. It may lift the quality of work of the worst students, but universities were already giving poor work a passing grade.
It is the universities who broke trust first -- not the students.
On @thepointau.bsky.social --
thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
It is the universities who broke trust first -- not the students.
On @thepointau.bsky.social --
thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
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![Exclusive: Secret report suggests fats, oils and grease accumulate in ‘inaccessible dead zone’ at Malabar plant, then dislodge when pumping pressure ‘rapidly increases’
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Anne Davies
Anne Davies NSW state correspondent
Sat 17 Jan 2026 01.01 AEDT
Agiant fatberg, potentially the size of four Sydney buses, within Sydney Water’s Malabar deepwater ocean sewer has been identified as the likely source of the debris balls that washed up on Sydney beaches a year ago.
Sydney Water isn’t sure exactly how big the fatberg is because it can’t easily access where it has accumulated.
Fixing the problem would require shutting down the outfall – which reaches 2.3km offshore – for maintenance and diverting sewage to “cliff face discharge”, which would close Sydney’s beaches “for months”, a secret report obtained by Guardian Australia states.
Secret report shows likely source of ‘poo balls’ that closed Sydney’s beaches last summer
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This has “never been done” and is “no longer considered an acceptable approach”, the report acknowledges.
Sydney Water’s deepwater ocean outfalls (DOOF) assessment report, dated 30 August 2025, was produced for the New South Wales Environment Protection Authority, which has been investigating the “debris balls” that closed numerous beaches in late 2024 and early 2025.
“The working hypothesis is FOG [fats, oils and grease] accumulation in an inaccessible dead zone between the Malabar bulkhead door and the decline tunnel has potentially led to sloughing events, releasing debris balls,” the report concludes.
“This chamber was not designed for routine maintenance and can only be accessed by taking the DOOF offline and diverting effluent to the cliff face for an extended period (months), which would close Sydney beaches.”
A diagram from the Sydney Water report showing the accumulated FOG
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A diagram from the Sydney Water report showing the accumulated FOG. Illustrat](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:66lbtw2porscqpmair6mir37/bafkreigdz7gfgn5a5dkem2toydlzo3jjk3olszriaeevkasxwf7yalfesy@jpeg)
January 17, 2026 at 10:45 PM
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I think this is more likely than people realise and may be one of the few chuckles we get
It would be really ironic if the Ellisons ended up losing a decent amount of control of Oracle & the tech projects they're invested in because of the AI bubble as they work to establish one-party rule in the United States.
January 16, 2026 at 9:53 PM
I think this is more likely than people realise and may be one of the few chuckles we get
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i think gavin newsom fucking sucks and if you ever try to guilt me into voting for him i’ll scream
very cool!
January 16, 2026 at 3:24 AM
i think gavin newsom fucking sucks and if you ever try to guilt me into voting for him i’ll scream
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NEW: 1 in 10 teens going to headspace say the teen social media ban was a factor in their decision to seek mental health support.
This very preliminary data, supporting concerns about negative impacts of the ban, shows why more online reform is needed, headspace said.
This very preliminary data, supporting concerns about negative impacts of the ban, shows why more online reform is needed, headspace said.
One in 10 teens seeking mental health support from headspace cite social media ban as an issue
Early data from Australia's national youth mental health service shows that the teen social media ban emerged as a prominent factor in why 12- to 15-year-olds were coming to them.
www.crikey.com.au
January 16, 2026 at 4:09 AM
NEW: 1 in 10 teens going to headspace say the teen social media ban was a factor in their decision to seek mental health support.
This very preliminary data, supporting concerns about negative impacts of the ban, shows why more online reform is needed, headspace said.
This very preliminary data, supporting concerns about negative impacts of the ban, shows why more online reform is needed, headspace said.
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it's great for her to be saying all this and i truly hope she means it but if you trust any of this you're a fucking idiot
Losing my shit at Ashley St Clair doing a reverse Naomi Wolf.
January 11, 2026 at 8:40 PM
it's great for her to be saying all this and i truly hope she means it but if you trust any of this you're a fucking idiot
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"If we expelled him, why— we'd have to expel all the *other* far right pedophiles too."
"I think it is naive, frankly, to say that we should get rid of him because he’s a bad person," the new UK Royal Society president says of Elon Musk's membership.
The society would have expelled Isaac Newton if it made judgments on character & behaviour, Paul Nurse says.
www.ft.com/content/088b...
The society would have expelled Isaac Newton if it made judgments on character & behaviour, Paul Nurse says.
www.ft.com/content/088b...
Elon Musk should keep UK Royal Society membership, says president
Paul Nurse tells FT that national science academy should avoid ‘making judgments’ about ‘character’ of fellows
www.ft.com
January 11, 2026 at 10:09 PM
"If we expelled him, why— we'd have to expel all the *other* far right pedophiles too."
Adelaide people! Come to this show! I think it’s possibly the most earnest and lovely sound design I’ve ever done/Yoz is *so* funny and *such* a good story teller adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/my...
My Grandpa Doesn't Follow Me On Instagram: A Guide To Trans-generational Road-Tripping
They drove from Cornwall to the Scottish Highlands – one grandparent, one grandchild, one unspoken truth.
Multi-award-winning storyteller, Yoz Mensch, weaves a darkly funny and haunting solo show abou...
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January 11, 2026 at 11:51 PM
Adelaide people! Come to this show! I think it’s possibly the most earnest and lovely sound design I’ve ever done/Yoz is *so* funny and *such* a good story teller adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/my...