As wildfires grow bigger and hotter in many parts of the world, researchers have embarked on an airborne mission to learn more about the severe storm clouds that sometimes form over the most intense blazes. https://to.pbs.org/4dMxAFk

'An unworldly experience.' Why scientists flew into firestorm clouds this wildfire season

As wildfires grow bigger and hotter in many parts of the world, researchers have embarked on an airborne mission to learn more about the severe storm clouds that sometimes form over the most intense b...

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An alliance of ideologues and grifters is remaking U.S. foreign policy, from Iran and Ukraine to Venezuela and Cuba. On @firinglineshow.bsky.social Watch here: youtu.be/4okBq3W_E-o

Anne Applebaum | Full Episode 9.25.26 | Firing Line with Margaret Hoover | PBS

YouTube video by Firing Line with Margaret Hoover | PBS

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After a heated week at the U.N. General Assembly, a new ceasefire proposal came and apparently went. Iran's bitterness and bewilderment over how to make peace with Trump - by Robin Wright #Iran #Pezeshkian www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Iran’s Bitterness and Bewilderment Over How to Make Peace with Trump

After a heated week at the U.N. General Assembly, a new ceasefire proposal between the U.S. and Iran came and apparently went.

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🤣 Tough time on the dating scene for Tech Bro$. 🎻 “I get nervous now. I don’t bring it up,” he added. He’s now fallen back on saying he works in AI — which also elicits “some pretty bad responses sometimes.” Ya think? No game works; they don't even get to flash 💵. 😆😵‍💫 🧾 trib.al/0BTvJL5

Wealthy Tech Guys Can't Get Dates Because They're So Widely Hated That Not Even Money Is Making Women Grimace and Deal With Them

Some dudes who work for Big Tech companies complain that women won't talk to them because of who they work for.

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Futurism@futurism.com · 19h ago

"Sometimes people would just straight up stop talking to me."

#70Up While we keenly anticipate viewing on SBS on Demand from 3 October this interview will delight and there may be tears. Participant Paul is in Melbourne www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

From 7 to 70: Inside the 'Up' documentary series - ABC listen

Guests:  Paul Kligerman, 7 Up series participant  Claire Lewis, Series Producer, 7 Up series Susan Kligerman, 7 Up series participant

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Talarico: "Billionaires are pouring money into TX to try to buy this Senate seat ... they are hoping that Texans will care more about these manufactured culture wars than actual wars. They're hoping Texans will care more about pronouns than prices. But I think Texans see through this distraction."

““In effect,” says Charlton, “we are creating a new import bill.” Data centres are the ore of the AI industry. Australia needs to do some of the high-value-adding processing of the ore, and that’s the training of models.” lol wut. Cripes. We are stuffed. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

Why Australia simply cannot afford to miss this AI wave

For future prosperity and security, and to have any real influence over the big beasts of AI, Australia must convince them to train their models here.

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And speaking of Angus Taylor, I've been meaning to post this since hearing him bang on about masculinity as a policy issue. I don't know about you, but my idealisation of masculinity is quietly loving and mentally strong and respecting equality. Try this, Angus, from Lucas Jones:

#auspol #climate

Hard to realise the power MAGA's hard-right "Christian" influence, represented by half-mad Donald Trump and closer to Russia's than the West's, is having worldwide. Queer rights in global retreat - by Dennis Altman and Jonathan Symons 🎁 www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/e0e71d...

Queer rights in global retreat

In a trailer for the new British television drama Tip Toe, one gay man reflects: ‘I used to walk into a room and just go, Ta-da! Now I tiptoe – just in case.’ It’s a portrayal of the depressingly comm...

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'The appointment of a senior Murdoch executive to a plum diplomatic posting in New York raises questions about Albanese’s judgement and his relationship with the right-wing mogul' Murdoch ally appointed next consul general in New York - by Elle Hardy 🎁 www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/195814...

Murdoch ally appointed next consul general in New York

The appointment of a senior Murdoch executive to a plum diplomatic posting in New York has raised questions about Anthony Albanese’s judgement and his relationship with the right-wing mogul.

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As an intensifying nor’easter approached on Saturday morning, threatening to bring strong winds, heavy rain and flooding, more than a dozen counties in New York and New Jersey were under a state of emergency. Follow live updates.

Powerful Nor’easter Bears Down on East Coast: Live News and Updates

Rain, flooding and damaging winds are in the forecast for much of the coastal Northeast, including New York, Long Island and Boston.

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🇷🇺 Putin says Russia not preparing for 'any kind' of conflict with Europe Russia is not preparing for "any kind" of conflict with Europe, President Vladimir Putin said in Saint Petersburg, after warnings from some European NATO members of potential Russian attacks on the alliance's territory

I wrote about Helen Garner's long-awaited new book, The Season, for Guardian Australia. Yes, it's about teenagers playing footy and you do actually need to be able to write like Helen Garner to make that a goer. www.theguardian.com/books/2024/d...

The Season by Helen Garner – a ‘nanna’s book about footy’ from an Australian literary great

In her first book since This House of Grief, the author spends a season watching her grandson play AFL. The scope may sound narrow but she is working in epic mode

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🎶 Can't be held responsible

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2d ago

OpenAI says agents leaked 53 images from ChatGPT users in latest example of rogue activity

DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.

DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.

In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam

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Brisbane, dammit. But wow, what a game!

I am so fuckingsick of the “rogue agent” stories - at its heart, this is just shitty programming. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...

Australia not alone as OpenAI agents hacked other websites

OpenAI says dozens more third parties were affected by rogue agents bypassing website security controls, as new traces reveal days of attempts to access Australian health data.

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Denmark, France, the Netherlands, Finland, Lithuania, Switzerland are warning of imminent danger from Russia. Poland, citing its own intelligence, warned that Russia could launch "hybrid drone and missile strikes" against NATO countries. This by Laura Tingle: www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...

A dangerous new reality is taking hold in Europe

One after the other they lined up to speak: National leaders warning of increasing imminent danger to their countries.

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Leaders backed by mega-donors, and others with hidden agendas, have hedged climate figures or flat-out denied them, presuming the hoi-polloi won't get it anyway. Now anyone on social media can see the frightening results. Read Robert Hunziker on Bill McGuire: www.counterpunch.org/2026/09/25/e...

Elites Have No Plan for Climate Collapse

Bill McGuire, emeritus professor, Geophysical & Climate Hazards, University College London is unique within the scientific community. He claims that

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'The President’s party, facing a midterm reckoning, is begging for a way out of his Iran-war doom loop.' The Week Republicans Finally Panicked About Trump - by Susan Glasser, always worth reading. #USPolitics www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

The Week Republicans Finally Panicked About Trump

President Trump is deeply unpopular and trapped in an unwon war of his own choosing. A reckoning—one far harsher than was expected, even a few months ago—seems imminent, Susan B. Glasser writes.

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This is Nazi rhetoric. Not similar. Not Nazi-like. It’s straight up lebensraum.

Louise Seamster@louiseseamster.bsky.social · 2d ago

oh my god I had missed this www.whitehouse.gov/releases/202...

Why would you trust an industry founded on theft to self-regulate?

OpenAI’s artificial intelligence went rogue this year in at least four additional incidents, hacking and trying to break into government and university websites without being instructed to do so, according to researchers and government officials. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/t...

OpenAI’s A.I. Tried Breaching Four Other Targets, With No Prompting

In each incident, the technology appeared to be conducting mundane data collection and resorted to hacking techniques to get it, researchers said.

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📢 Travellers with disabilities will be forced to walk almost 20 times further when Melbourne Airport abolishes kerbside pick-up and drop-off next month.

‘Not an upgrade for everyone’: Melbourne Airport changes to add half an hour to disability travel times

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This from July, and I'm sure nothing has improved since. Reverend Bill Crews said he has never seen Sydney's homelessness crisis worse than it is today." The wait for unbuilt social housing ... - by @news.abc.net.au #homelessness www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...

Alone, robbed and in pain: A man finds himself on Sydney's streets

People with lived experience of homelessness say the issue is deepening as housing stock remains out of reach and community providers are left struggling to cope with demand.

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One of the many things that will require clarification as we go forward into what's promising to be a nightmare. We can't arrest a "non-human" agent. And they will inevitably multiply out of control unless some genius finds a way to digitally constrain/interdict specific AI actions by law. #AI

Greg Jericho@grogsgamut.bsky.social · 4d ago

Concern? How about arrest the f*cker?? Cripes. If you or I hacked Medicare, the AFP would bash down our doors. AI does it? Oopsies! I am concerned! www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

'Climate campaigner Bill McKibben says that while it's too late to prevent the climate crisis from unfolding, solar and wind energy are now cheap enough "to blunt its worst excesses."' @democracynow on Instagram

74% of the world is under dictatorship. Most elected democratically.

JD Vance: we invade countries, overthrow their governments, and we do it to steal things.