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Dan Thorpe

@danisnotadj.bsky.social

Sound designer // LGBTQ+ public health researcher. Your queer dad. He/Him

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Steven Cochrane-Diamond@stvncockdiamond.bsky.social · last wk.

Bosses gladly support expanded copyright protection if it means any license agreement giving tech companies access to your work puts money into their pockets instead of yours. Artists are workers. Changing labor laws will have greater impact than expanding copyright.

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · last wk.

By demanding the copyright our bosses love, we're seeking the right to be angry about AI, even as the AI companies and our bosses cut deals to train chatbots with our work, which they will use to attack our livelihoods. 70/

Gil Durán@gilduran.com · last wk.

The day has come! “The Nerd Reich” is now available at your favorite local bookstore. I’ll be on @msnowreports.bsky.social at approximately 10:30 am ET to talk about it. Tune in. And buy it! First week sales make a huge difference. If you keep reading, I keep fighting.

Promotional graphic for the nerd Reich book. Quote from Publishers Weekly: “ transfixing it’s an ominous look at an insular elite arrayed against American democracy.”
Dan Thorpe@danisnotadj.bsky.social · 2w ago

My hot take is that this is a conscious choice made by punters and by venues. My last bar job was at a joint run by a burnt out former social worker who genuinely worked to make her space a community space, it took time but the punters did start talking to each other/forming community

Will Cooling@willcooling.bsky.social · 2w ago

Maybe its me but I've gotta be honest, I don't see the "builds community" argument for pubs. I've pretty much always gone in with my friends or family, and left with those same people. And it always sure seems like everyone else is doing the same thing too.

HK@hkesvani.bsky.social · 2w ago

I think one of the less spoken about tragedies of the Death of Dr Arday is that even in death he is being extracted by people making content. MUAs, Spoken word poets, insta chefs, all who might mean well but feed into a logic in which everything can and therefore must be content

Jeremy Poxon@jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 2w ago

Just now, @pennyallmanpayne.com points out that EVERY civil society stakeholder wants the Targeted Compliance Framework abolished Government says it does not support job providers "undertaking action that is unlawful or that is based on fear" False: you directly pay them to do this

Antipoverty Centre@antipovertycentre.org · 2w ago

Today we have issued a joint statement with the other members of the reference group that the government convened in response to the discovery of unlawful welfare administration. You can read more on The Point: live.thepoint.com.au/2026/08/the-...

Last week the government announced its plan to restart some payment cancellations and suspensions that are applied to Centrelink recipients, which were found to operate unlawfully. Members of DEW's Targeted Compliance Framework Reference Group - which was established after the government discovered its unlawful administration - strongly oppose compulsory activities for people on Centrelink payments. We are calling on the Government to abandon its recently announced plan to restart some payment cancellations and suspensions, and stop the penalty system entirely.
Dan Thorpe@danisnotadj.bsky.social · 2w ago

Dear friend capturing my sound design process (probably reassuring to theatre colleagues that these are the faces I make when I’m putting together three hours of increasingly insane gay guy music videos for my wedding, too). Also she made me do the Fred Durst hands I swear etc.

A black and white, candid photograph of a dismayed looking Dan, fist pressed into the right hand side of his jaw, slumped over his laptop on a table covered in snacks.As before, but Dan’s biting his nails as an out of focus Miles (a tall man with a beard and glasses) goes about probably more normal pre-wedding activities in the back of the frame.As before, but now Dan’s doing the pose from Edward Munch’s the scream; his hands cupping either side of his face.Dan in a kitchen, wearing a denim shirt with his hands in front of his face, framing it in a diamond with his thumbs and forefingers, evoking Fred Durst if Fred Durst was your bisexual dad (unconfirmed) and a massive nerd (improbable).
Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · 2w ago

Also: this feels very much like an attempt to soften the blow on what might some really bad numbers. What is it that “Current EBITDA” doesn’t capture, exactly? Or is it more a problem of exactly what it captures - an unprofitable, unsustainable business that burns tend of billions of dollars?

LOOKING PAST CURRENT EARNINGS Established companies are typically valued more heavily on earnings, or EBITDA, which gives investors a sense of the economics of the business. For Anthropic, however, current EBITDA does not fully capture the economics investors expect the company to achieve at scale. Anthropic is spending enormous amounts on GPUs and other computing capacity, model training, inference and hiring. Those expenses are necessary to support its rapid expansion but could become a smaller percentage of revenue as the business grows.
Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · 2w ago

Absolutely astonishing story from Reuters, saying that Anthropic’s valuation is based on theoretical revenues of $180-200bn in 2028, and that its “current EBITDA does not fully capture the economics investors expect the company to achieve at scale.” Misleading! www.reuters.com/business/ant...

Summary Companies • Anthropic projects roughly $190 billion to $200 billion 2028 revenue, sources say • Bankers and investors use enterprise value-to-revenue multiples based on forecasts, sources say • Cloudlare, Palantir and SpaceX are reference points ahead of Anthropic analyst day, sources say Aug 14 (Reuters) - As Anthropic prepares for what could be one of the biggest IPOs on record, Wall Street is looking further into the future than it commonly does to put a price on the Al company, valuing it based on how much revenue it could generate two years from now. Anthropic is projecting 2028 revenue of roughly $190 billion to $200 billion, according to two people familiar with the company's financials, a figure that has not previously been reported. The projection dwarfs the $47 billion revenue "run rate," reflecting the firm's current pace of business, that the company publicized as recently as May, and shows the scale of growth investors are being asked to underwrite.
Dan Thorpe@danisnotadj.bsky.social · 3w ago

Listen, down under vs the world is hit and miss, but I’m glad the rest of the world gets to experience having two older gay coworkers in payroll who couldn’t give a shit about work and sneak you out to the pub every Thursday at 4pm to get on the piss and talk shit via Coco and Vybe

Gareth Watkins@garethwatkins.bsky.social · 3w ago

This is such a novel-less statement. You read any fiction from anywhere in human history and you'll realise that this is a perennial problem for all of humankind that we've never solved and likely never will at scale. It's a problem that affects most *primates*, not just humans.

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Royce Kurmelovs@roycerk2.bsky.social · 3w ago

The Federal Court has thrown out an application brought by the Wilderness Society that argued the Australian offshore oil and gas regulator (NOPSEMA) should be checking whether oil and gas companies have enough money on hand to cover the decommissioning cost of their old projects.

Screenshot from orders.
TRASHFUTURE@trashfuture.bsky.social · 3w ago

We absolutely had to talk about a recent court verdict in which eBay’s executives gangstalked two bloggers and had to pay an eight-figure settlement. Mattie Lubchansky and Josh Boerman joined us to revel in the sheer madness of the aggrieved corporate security cult.

Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · 3w ago

Analysts estimate that 70%+ of Microsoft, Google and Amazon's present and future AI revenues are from Anthropic and OpenAI's compute spend and model sales. Outside of two unsustainable AI labs, demand barely exists, and they've massively overbuilt capacity. www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-deman...

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