@teqnomad.bsky.social

forever evolving, culture weaver, technical, a dash of dataops, a twist of physical biochemistry (PhD) and a squeeze of Japanese. Wallumedegal land, Sydney, AU

This!! ➡️ "Australia needs houses, aged care beds, affordable health care, schools for our children, potholes fixed and trains for our sprawling outer suburbs. We are only halfway through a historic transition from an expensive and polluting coal-fired electricity grid."

Ben Eltham@beneltham.bsky.social · 2d ago

In Crikey today, I have a long read on Canberra’s endearment with AI and the dubious promise of data centre riches. While Australia’s creatives are being sold down the river, you don’t need to fire up Claude to spot some cracks in the hype-doom sales pitch ($) www.crikey.com.au/2026/10/08/a...

There came a time when we understood that asbestos was a product that when you used it as intended would cause harm. That's now the case with coal and gas. We don't mine and export asbestos anymore. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

High Court's coalmine emissions ruling says 'the quiet part out loud'

Activists, politicians and the resources sector are fired up about a High Court ruling over a planning statute.

abc.net.au

It's almost like putting a quack anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist in charge of the nation's health policy has consequences. "The United States has now had more measles deaths in the past two years than we have had in the previous three decades combined...": www.ms.now/news/pennsyl...

Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak is the largest in decades in the U.S.

The state has surpassed 1,000 measles cases this year, health officials said Monday, making it the largest outbreak in the U.S. in more than three decades.

ms.now