Daycare that doesn’t bankrupt you is a socialist trap

I mean this is the thing. It, like all literature books with screen adaptations will be bought en mass and read by few. Which is such a shame. Source: My copy of The Odyssey collecting dust next to my bedside.

Nolan’s film could make The Odyssey the most sought-after book in the US

The nearly 2,700-year-old epic poem is flying off shelves at bookstores and libraries after the blockbuster film came out

theguardian.com

I'm not going to be relitigating COVID lockdowns or mask mandates. Both were necessary measures that saved lives. If you cannot accept the curtailing of even the minor of freedoms in the name of public safety, you have demonstrated that you do not give a solitary fuck about the rest of us.

It's weird when people bristle at the idea of abolishing billionaires. Are you a billionaire? Is your mum one? Why do you care? It would be good to abolish billionaires. More money for public services, less money for them to buy rape islands.

Pauline Hanson flees her own custom-curated presser. With ABC & Guardian banned, & far-right criminal Avi Yemini running interference, still can’t handle questions, even from Sky “Shouldn't all media have access...?"💥 Not even sidekick Avi could save her from total humiliation.

Finding out that Max Easton has released another novel has pulled me out of a slump.

‘Anthropic described the project as “our effort to disruptively scan all the world’s books” in an internal memo, which noted “we do not want it to be known that we are pursuing this project”.’

Eli Valley@elivalley.bsky.social · last wk.

Dystopia www.news.com.au/technology/o...

"“Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in the world,” an internal planning document said. “We don’t want it to be known that we are working on this.”" novaramedia.com/2026/07/29/a...

AI Firms Are Buying up Old Books, Then Scanning and Destroying Them

The world’s biggest AI companies are buying antiquarian books en masse so they can be scanned to train their large language models (LLMs) before being destroyed.

novaramedia.com

“This is a book about that generation’s resistance to a capitalist war bequeathed to today’s anti-war generation. Tom Orsag reviews Rowan Cahill’s COLD WAR KID

Cold War rebel: how the government created its anti-war activists - Overland literary journal

“The only lottery I’ve ever won” quips Rowan Cahill about turning twenty — the date of his birthday being his number in the “lottery of death” or “blood lottery” run by the Australian government for c...

overland.org.au

Barthes’ “The Death of the Author” was published in 1967. If copyright is 70 years after the death of the author, then the entirety of human literary output will enter the public domain in 2037.

People are quick to criticise those of us who meet new technology with a cynicism-first attitude because they are first to think of what technology can do for us but not how we change to adapt to new technologies.

Brendan Keogh@brkeogh.bsky.social · last wk.

Surely the solution here is just *don't use AI tools* for your writing and research and continue to do your writing and research in ALL the ways you were doing it before you started using AI instead of doing the work??

Elon Musk can keep wreaking havoc and bullshitting everyone because he’s simply become too big to fail. Investors can’t let him go bust, and the media can’t let him become irrelevant. Too much is built up around him, so he can effectively do as he pleases. disconnect.blog/elon-musks-t...

Those watching the Teacher's strike and wish to see them succeed (and hopefully inspire more action) please donate to the strike fund and give those teachers who do need the extra support to continue through what has been a much needed shock to the system. chuffed.org/project/1923...

AEU Rank and File: Strike Fund

We are teachers and education support staff at Victorian public schools, and proud members of the Australian Education Union .

chuffed.org

It’s one thing to read it, another to hear it in her incredible voice.

Strictly 4 My Navigators@lizzslockeroom.bsky.social · 2w ago

“What are you without racism? Are you any good? Are you still strong? You still smart? You still like yourself?”- Toni Morrison

The fact that people are annoyed that a majority of people 'chose wrong' because of their 'ignorance' of statistics, just shows you how statistics is so isolated from any understanding of social and political behaviour.

YouGov@yougov.co.uk · 2w ago

If you had a choice between instantly receiving £50,000 or a 50% chance to win £1m, which would you pick? £50,000: 73% 50/50 chance of winning £1m: 21% yougov.com/en-gb/daily-...

If you had a choice between instantly receiving £50,000 or a 50% chance to win £1m, which would you pick? £50,000: 73% 50/50 chance of winning £1m: 21% yougov.com/en-gb/daily-...

Solidarity with the AEU and all teachers striking for better pay and conditions today. You help educate our children and keep them safe. You deserve better.

solidarity to all striking Victorian public school teachers but especially to all the goth baddies in the English department keeping Medea on the curriculum

Absolutely heartening to see a wave of teachers coming off the V-Line for today's strike. May they get all their demands and inspire more industrial strikes

Proposed $40b, 185ha data centre to use six times Top End's annual electricity consumption

Rural suburb flagged as home for proposed $40b 'hyperscale' data centre

A proposed massive new data centre would require more than six times the total demand of the Darwin and Katherine electricity grids to operate and be powered by gas piped direct from the Northern Territory's Beetaloo Basin.

abc.net.au

I went to the library to ask if they had this book about Pavlov's Dog and Schrödinger's Cat. The librarian said it rang a bell but she wasn't sure whether they had it or not.

It's almost like we shouldn't have incentivised our financial sector (through bail outs and media-fed speculative bubbles) to offer baffling amounts of loans to unreliable tech companies and their utopian promises. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...

Fears massive US private lending market sinking

The corporate regulator is concerned about the risks posed by private credit for Australians with superannuation.

abc.net.au

I regret deleting my ‘it’s feminism for a girlboss media mogul to do what the men do by appointing her nepo baby son to be in charge of a by women for women outlet’ post cause Leigh Sales is genuinely making that argument now lmao

Take 20 seconds , read the whole thing.

Unfortunately I was turned back due to the police's sudden interest in tire tread quality but inspiring to be a convoy of hundreds of people.

David Milner@davemilbo.bsky.social · 2w ago

We've turned onto Hatt Rd to Pine Gap. Felicity Hayes, elder of the Arrernte, and Senator @davidshoebridge.bsky.social are delivering a letter demanding the closure of the US base, reparations for the traditional owners of this land, and for the people of Gaza being hurt by its operations.

Olga Nesterova@onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 3w ago

apnews.com/article/tate...

If you pile your furniture in the middle of your living room then set it on fire, you will have the warmest house in your street, for a few hours.

I shudder to think how much of Vicki Brady's salary has been reduced given the extraordinary number of demerits, suspensions and financial penalties the corporation would surely have imposed as a result of her failing to meet her mutual obligation requirements.

Tom Studans@maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 3w ago

Pretty much everyone in crisis comms is stealing a living

Honestly still laughing at this. For YEARS people have told me the killer app, no doubt way that OpenAI would fix its business model would be ads, and it turns out it’s not going to make enough money to pay for a single month of inference spend. Great stuff Sammy! Big applause for the big man

Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · 3w ago

"Emarketer’s data finds that standalone chatbots like ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot app, Google AI Mode, and Amazon Alexa for Shopping (formerly Rufus) in U.S, will generate less than $1 billion in ad revenue this year, and just $5.41 billion by 2030" Lol www.adweek.com/media/openai...