Marco Ostini
@marcoostini.bsky.social
Infosec, Free & open-source software, Aerospace, renewable & efficient energy, zero emissions vehicles, genuine innovation & Being Alive advocate.
Thailand’s Queen is first reigning queen in the world to fly JAS 39 Gripen fighter solo share.google/q92lGpC1H9X2...
Thailand’s Queen is first reigning queen in the world to fly JAS 39 Gripen fighter solo
Thailand’s Queen is first reigning queen in the world to fly Royal Thai Air Force SAAB JAS 39 Gripen fighter jet aircraft solo
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One or more human beings are responsible for the code they wrote, and those are the people who should be held accountable. These programs are not acting “on their own”
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20h ago(NYT) - Artificial intelligence agents created by Anthropic, acting on their own, tried to gain access to a range of government websites, filled out visa applications on the State Department’s website and sent a fake homicide tip to Philadelphia’s Police Department. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/t...
OpenAI has fired three safety researchers for a "breach of trust," defending the decision after the trio accused the company of prioritizing corporate interests over safety.
OpenAI fires 3 safety researchers in dispute over AI risks
OpenAI has fired three safety researchers for a "breach of trust," defending the decision after the trio accused the company of prioritizing corporate interests over safety.
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The only way to reduce methane emissions from oil and gas is to phase out oil and gas production. The oil and gas industry has had 150 years to figure out how to do it. Instead they refuse any regulation.
EPA Readies Bid to Ease Methane Controls for Oil, Gas Companies
The US Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday it is readying a proposal to loosen federal rules designed to cut methane releases from oil and gas operations.
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Remembering (yes, remembering) that time 40 years ago this month when Queensland Museum carted replica dinosaurs through busy inner city Brisbane streets to new museum digs at South Bank/Kurilpa
![A flat bed truck carrying a replica Tyrannosaurus Rex through traffic in inner Brisbane/Magandjin in October 1986 [pic: QLD Museum]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vtipxjdan2luoo22ah2k4oyk/bafkreidu2klfwy3z2ohu4cv56w5dj3e7m6qsogzgtxztpojtocz5o4yuaq)
![A truck arriving with a replica Tyrannosaurus Rex at Grey St, South Brisbane where Queensland Museum opened on its new site in October 1986 [pic: QLD Museum]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vtipxjdan2luoo22ah2k4oyk/bafkreifx3qljbu3c6hagxjvovilawg52z763thesmk6ctz6nddila2gh4e)
University workers from Griffith, UQ, and QUT are all striking today in Brisbane in a show of solidarity for better conditions and pay, instead of overpaid executives, across the higher ed sector
Burnham warned he cannot wait until next election to start process of rejoining the EU www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Burnham warned he cannot wait until election to start process of rejoining the EU
Stella Creasy, chair of the influential Labour Movement for Europe, has said Mr Burnham only has six months to start taking action ahead of a pro-EU rally at the Labour Party conference
independent.co.uk
It is no longer safe to ask people like me at a party, “What do you think of this El Niño?” It is not the boy child we know. This is the devil boy. El Niño Diablo is going far beyond what we have ever seen before. bonniehuval.substack.com/p/el-nino-di...
El Niño Diablo
Main audience: everyone
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My former colleagues, Mark Cane and Stephen Zebiak, were the first to successfully predict El Niño more than a year in advance in the late 1980s. Now we’re really good at it, and know the consequences. It’d be irresponsible for governments not to take action. Read this from my buddy Jeff Shaman.
Opinion | The Super El Niño Comes Bearing One Gift: Time to Prepare (Gift Article)
There’s still time to prepare.
nytimes.com
El Niño is an absolute monster we have now surpassed the Super El Niño of 2015-2016 with peak expected in November-December 2026. We can’t truly know how significant the 1877-1878 El Niño was in equatorial Pacific clearly very significant, but this is at least strongest event in ~150 years.
Sydney retiree bids to be first to travel Australia on electric motorcycle
Retiree travelling 18,000km around Australia on electric motorcycle
Ed Darmanin has spent the past three months riding an electric motorcycle around Australia, carefully calculating every kilometre between charging points.
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Energy nerd Christmas was yesterday, with the release of the Australia's official energy data for 2024–25. I think the share of Australia's gas being sent offshore hit a new all-time record high for the year, which is neat unless you are running an Aussie business or home that uses energy.
When farms stop yielding, hunger does not knock — it breaks the door. Across the Horn of Africa, soils that once fed nations are turning barren. This is not “bad weather.” This is climate change rewriting our food systems in real time.
Floods don’t ask for your passport. Droughts don’t care about your politics. Heatwaves don’t check your race or income. Climate change is the definition of a global crisis. It will only be solved by global leadership that puts people and planet above short-term politics. Let’s demand it.
“The report also found old electric vehicles stay on the road at double the rate of combustion vehicles: at age 15, the road exit rate for BEVs is 5.4 per cent, compared to 11.9 per cent for petrol vehicles.” thedriven.io/2026/09/24/e...
Electric cars are more durable than petrol equivalents, and last longer - major report finds
A study of millions of vehicles reveals that EVs are much less likely to fail compared to petrol equivalents, and will last a lot longer.
thedriven.io
Plans to build a 1,561 km gas pipeline from the NT Beetaloo Basin to south-east Queensland could cost as much as $9.74 billion, a new report has found, adding huge costs to a heavily polluting project https://ow.ly/YmH650ZRfw3
Cost of "preposterous" fracked gas pipeline could balloon to $10 billion, locking in higher bills for decades
Plans to build a 1,561 km gas pipeline from the NT Beetaloo Basin to south-east Queensland could cost as much as $9.74 billion, a new report has found, adding huge costs to a heavily polluting project.
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EVs are now nine times cheaper than petrol or diesel to drive in the UK. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-evs...
Analysis: EVs are now nine times cheaper than petrol or diesel to drive in the UK - Carbon Brief
The latest surge in fossil-fuel prices means it is now up to nine times cheaper in the UK to drive an electric vehicle (EV) than a petrol or diesel car, shows Carbon Brief analysis.
carbonbrief.org
Today, Saturday 26 September, is also Stanislav Petrov Day, when we curse the Russian lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces who, in 1983, prevented humanity being destroyed in a nuclear Armageddon. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisl... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_So...
Stanislav Petrov - Wikipedia
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Brilliant. Relevant nature article here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Biomimetic supramolecular protein matrix restores structure and properties of human dental enamel - Nature Communications
Regrowth of lost enamel in tooth decay and sensitivity is a major obstacle to overcome. Here, the authors report on a protein-based material that mimics features of natural enamel formation, allowing ...
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News - New gel restores dental enamel and could revolutionise tooth repair - University of Nottingham
A new material has been used to create a gel that can repair and regenerate tooth enamel, opening up new possibilities for effective and long-lasting preventive and restorative dental treatment.
nottingham.ac.uk
The Coalition says it wants cheaper power, not ideology. But its evidence-free plan is all ideology | Adam Morton
The Coalition says it wants cheaper power, not ideology. But its evidence-free plan is all ideology | Adam Morton
The reheated plans to scrap renewable schemes, boost fossil fuels and revive nuclear are not based on fact but ideology * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Give the Coalition points for chutzpah, if nothing else. In a press release on Wednesday, first given to the Australian for a not exactly hard-won “exclusive”, it declared “Australians need cheaper power, not more ideology”. You don’t have to get far beyond that headline to find its position comes from a worldview that is ideology on steroids. That worldview says climate change is not real, or at least not a real concern, and Australia should abolish nearly all plans to respond to or prepare the economy – and people’s lives – for the changes under way. Continue reading...
theguardian.com
Fascinating new figures confirming old EVs with a lot of miles on the clock are much more reliable than their petrol and diesel equivalents. www.businessgreen.com/news/4536166...
Study: High mileage EVs more reliable than petrol equivalents
Analysis of 47.4 million MOTs finds electric cars are around 25 per cent less likely to fail than petrol models as mileage climbs
businessgreen.com
Since Labor's revitalised safeguard started, it has done almost nothing to reduce emissions. Where abatement has occurred, by and large, it has been as a result of factors other than the safeguard, including via ACCUs and direct government support. trib.al/NR5E1k6
How to fix the safeguard measure
Offsets have failed. Almost 30 years of experience has shown they rarely work and that the failings are systemic, arising not from technical issues but the governance dynamics that develop around them – principally, the incentive to use them to manipulate prices.
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While every effort must be made to keep fossil fuels in the ground and electrify Australia with cheap, clean energy, we must also prepare our communities. That means strengthening emergency responses, investing in infrastructure that builds climate resilience, and improving disaster preparedness.
Productivity Commission chair Danielle Wood has bluntly warned governments not to undermine public trust by 'playing politics with our institutions'.
Danielle Wood’s blunt message to politicians: don’t undermine public trust by attacking institutions
theconversation.com
A 1980s PDP-11 is still running Unix – and now you can watch
A 1980s PDP-11 is still running Unix – and now you can watch
Yeah, you'd like that, wouldn't you?
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