House prices fall in four capital cities as Sydney values drop nearly $50,000 this year
House prices fall in four capital cities as Sydney values drop nearly $50,000 this year
More than half of homes taken to auction not selling while median property price in Adelaide started to slide in June * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast House prices are now falling in four capital cities with the Adelaide market beginning to slide in June, while Sydney values have dropped by $48,000 since the start of the year. Data from Cotality, released on Wednesday, showed Sydney and Melbourne recorded their biggest one-month decline in values since August 2022, falling 1.2% and 1% respectively. Continue reading...
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Poland went from Iranian living standards to Japanese living standards in just a few decades. Not bad…
I found this neat tool that lets you generate text and images just from your ideas. It's really good!
'The New American Gothic' Criselda Vasquez Oil on canvas 72” x 48"
Here's a fun fact about Elon Musk: in 2020, his (nominal) net worth was $20b, and today it's $1t (nominally). But *that's* not the fun fact; *this* is: everything he's done since 2020 was a flop. 1/
This pit of fire has been burning for 55 years. And there’s something ALIVE at the bottom of it! 1/7 ⚛️🧪
The gig economy is moving into healthcare and trying to make nurses bid on shifts through apps. @katiejwells.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to dig into the threat gig work poses for patients and hospital workers alike. There are already horror stories. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/332_...
all the CEOs gleeful about AI putting people out of work don't seem to realize unemployed people tend not to buy things — including their products
Joshua Erlich@joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 3mo agothe thing that’s been painfully obvious for years is that unchecked capital accumulation paired with gutting the social safety net and public goods was going to lead to commerce without customers. an economy built on consumption when no one has money to consume.
Realizing gender is a construct is very liberating, whether you decide then to transform it or whether you continue to construct it in the "conventional" way
Max Dubler 🏳️🌈@maxdubler.com · 3mo agoGenuinely wild that I, a homosexual who loves disco music and rhinestones, am more comfortable in my masculinity than half of the heterosexual men in mainstream punditry.
Musk's racism and transphobia both have potential personal motivations (inherited from his parents/South African upbringing in the former case, and arising from having a trans daughter in the latter), but they also both have instrumental value, as described here. If that sounds familiar, it should.
Adam Conover@adamconover.net · 3mo agoWhat does Musk’s racism do for him politically? Check out the new Factually! episode with @bentarnoff.com and @quinnslobodian.com wherever you get podcasts. » Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f... » Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/0fK8WJw... » YouTube: youtu.be/jLJx8j26oFE
Many executives see employees as the costly, stubborn step between prompt and product. They're used to saying "make things happen" and things happening. Now they're being told they can skip this step between their genius and their success. This is the generative AI promise: cheap, compliant labour.
This open-source community project lets you create a StumbleUpon-like experience for recommending your favorite sites.
Meet Wander, a StumbleUpon-inspired tool for discovering the 'small web' | TechCrunch
This open-source community project lets you create a StumbleUpon-like experience for recommending your favorite sites.
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Pope Leo XIV called for robust regulation of artificial intelligence and for its developers to work for the common good rather than profit, issuing a sweeping manifesto on safeguarding humankind as the technology impacts everything from work to war.
Pope calls for robust regulation of AI in manifesto that ponders the future of humanity
Pope Leo XIV has called for robust regulation of artificial intelligence and for its developers to work for the common good rather than profit.
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The stairwell of Mousa Broch on the western shore of the Island of Mousa in the Shetland Isles. The broch was constructed in the Iron Age in around 100 BC. 📸 My own. #StairwellSaturday #Mousa #Shetland #Archaeology
This is really worth your time if you're a nonfiction writer. Some good reminders of classic advice and some new tips too.
Tamir Moustafa@tamirmoustafa.bsky.social · 5mo agoFantastic writing tips by Marcus Rediker. pghrev.com/sixteen-writ...
Trump's core Republican support is showing clear signs of erosion.
Trump Humiliated by Damning Fox News Poll
Even core Republican support is showing clear signs of erosion.
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"When the Going Gets Tough, the Bard Goes Drinking." (No I.D. required for half-elves.) The Bard's Tale print advertisement, 1986.
If electricity prices went up 76% to subsidize the solar industry, people would completely lose their shit. But doing it to subsidize the Slop Industry is apparently kosher.
The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv)@theserfstv.bsky.social · 3mo agoData centers are responsible for a 76% increase in the cost of electricity in the largest US grid www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
No life on Earth can escape the laws of Physics as humans heat the planet and make life impossible Arctic fires are releasing carbon stored for thousands of years www.newscientist.com/article/2526...
Arctic fires are releasing carbon stored for thousands of years
A study of soils around the Arctic and boreal forests has found that some wildfires are releasing carbon stored over millennia, meaning higher CO2 emissions than assumed
newscientist.com
my firm take is that any man loudly worried about fertility rates is a fucking creep
Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 3mo agoDerek Thompson is the canonical example of what staying on Twitter does to your brain.
This is important. We can't rely on anyone/anything else. We the People have the power to save American democracy.
Angus Taylor has abandoned the sensible centre to compete with One Neuron for the redneck vote. History is watching the demise of the Coalition.
THANK YOU David Letterman & Stephen Colbert for a lifetime of smart satire, laughs, speaking truth to power & sending us to bed with a smile on our collective faces. You will be missed. 🙏 #EndOfAnEra
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3mo ago🔥
Checked the Nazi site for how the transphobes are coping. Not well, reader. Not well. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...
Ruling upheld after transgender woman excluded from female-only app
A landmark Federal Court ruling that the exclusion of a transgender woman from a female-only app constituted unlawful gender identity discrimination is upheld on appeal.
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This is a painting I made a few years ago. Golden Sky 40x60 acrylic on canvas
Those he commands move only in command, Nothing in love. Now does he feel his title Hang loose about him, like a giant’s robe Upon a dwarfish thief.
Joel Webbon openly calls for authoritarian rule, defends racist rhetoric, promotes violence against migrants, and argues democracy must be stripped away by force. This brand of Christian nationalism is building influence through podcasts, conferences, and alliances with the far right. Read more:
The Christian Nationalist Next Door: Meet Joel Webbon
A Texas pastor with a growing online audience, Joel Webbon has emerged as one of the most openly extremist voices in the Christian nationalist movement, advocating authoritarian rule, racial segregati...
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