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AMS/ID Pharmacist. Melbourne 🇦🇺
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Stop holding the tiny clip mic, you fucking idiots. You look like you don’t know what you’re doing.
September 23, 2026 at 8:38 AM
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Maybe the RBA and the government should be focusing on the ‘company profit-price spiral’
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September 22, 2026 at 8:56 PM
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This is a great insight from a young woman in Canberra on housing and time and multiculturalism

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
The woman who feels priced out of spare time Rosie* is in her 30s and lives in Canberra. She captured the point vividly. "Housing gets covered as deposits, rates, supply. Living it, the real cost is time. You work the hours the housing demands, in the suburb the housing pushed you to, and what gets sacrificed is the ability to sit down with the people around you. "Multiculturalism worked in this country when people had time to spend with people unlike themselves. Not policy time — ordinary time. Backyards, front steps, sport, the shops, someone's kitchen. That's how a stranger stops being a category and becomes a neighbour. "We have spent 30 years pricing that time out of people's lives and now we're surprised that cohesion is fraying and asking what went wrong with our values. "When people are exhausted and stretched and never in the same room, difference stops being interesting and starts being threatening. That's not a failure of tolerance. It's a failure of time. That's what I'd want people in power to understand."
September 21, 2026 at 8:44 PM
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@aoc.bsky.social just put out a great statement on AI. Refreshing to see a major politician on the left nail this.

"Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity. But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves."

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Charles, Last weekend, Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, one of the largest Al companies in the world, publicly asked his industry to slow down Al development. Shortly after, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAl, followed suit. Then Elon Musk. This all came days after an Anthropic researcher quit, citing his belief that this technology could wipe out humanity and that Al companies are "gambling with our lives." For years, people have warned that generative Al could slip out of our direct control. Those safety concerns must be taken seriously. And this is why I have advocated for strict safety standards on how Al is built and deployed, public oversight over this technology, and using existing laws to hold these companies accountable when they cause harm. But I want to draw your attention to another reality: Right now, the U.S. economy and our financial futures are riding on Silicon Valley's bet that Al will soon be immensely profitable and pay off. And that bet isn't looking good. The formula for a profitable business isn't complicated: make more money than you spend. But the biggest Al companies aren't doing that. They are spending hundreds of billions per year on data centers, chips, and other costs while their ability to make revenues that exceed their already-immense sunk costs are unclear. Experts estimate that these Al companies will require another $600 billion of debt just to finance themselves in 2026 alone. That is more than the entire budgets of the U.S. Departments of Justice, Transportation, & Education combined. Meanwhile, despite almost every single one of these companies not turning a profit & having sunk billions of investor dollars in development of data centers & other infrastructure, Al companies are also on a spending spree of hundreds of millions of dollars in lobbying & dark money in our elections. It would be one thing if we were discussing a few private companies with a poor business model. But last year, virtually all stock market gains - 80% - rested entirely on just a handful of Al companies. That tells us two things: 1. Nearly the entire U.S. economy outside the Al industry is relatively stagnating and faring poorly & the gains from these few companies are disguising it; & 2. Millions of people's retirements - including their pensions, 401ks, & investments - are potentially exposed to this risk. That's why these Al companies' dubious financial positions matter to working people. These companies argue that debt is necessary. They'll tell you that building transformative technologies requires upfront capital, & that massive borrowing today will pay off in generating unprecedented prosperity tomorrow. But this is not the typical debt that startups take on while they build out a company. We are talking about billions going on trillions of dollars leveraged with no indication that these companies will be able to recoup these funds profitably. And they are increasingly looking to the government as their source of cash. In an effort to hide their debt, tech companies have been relying on "circular financing" where tech giants like Google, Amazon, & Microsoft give billions to Al startups like OpenAl & Anthropic, only for those startups to hand that money right back to buy Al processing power. In other words, these Al companies are luring in new investors by making it look like their financials are healthier than they really are. What's even worse is that retirement & pension funds are key to supporting this illusion. When the Al companies issue bonds to raise more money, your pension funds & retirement accounts are some of the biggest buyers. When Musk's Al business went public, it became part of index funds where millions of Americans invest our savings. Many Americans don't even know that their retirement investments are tied up in these companies at all. From Big Tech's perspective, that's a feature, not a bug. By tying our futures to their reckless gambling, Al billionaires are trying to make themselves too big to fail. They think they can take such dangerous risks because we will bail them out if things go wrong. Sound familiar? This scene is dangerously reminiscent of the rampant speculation, corruption, & broken incentives leading up to the 2008 financial crisis that plunged millions of working class Americans into financial chaos that we never fully recovered from. It is no accident that these warnings from Altman & Amodei come months-if not weeks-before these companies were meant to go public. When companies go public, they have to be more transparent about how they are doing financially. And after a waiting period, they typically have to let private investors-like their own employees-sell their shares. The New York Times recently confirmed that OpenAl has postponed going public for this very reason. They are in no rush for the truth about their finances to come out. But the moment these oligarchs began to seek our public tax dollars & public contracts while exposing their companies to public pension funds & investments, they opened themselves to public accountability & scrutiny. Silicon Valley billionaires have rigged the game & are attempting to shift their financial risk to working people: If they're right about Al's potential, they reap the profits. If they're wrong & the bubble bursts, they are setting up the American people to pick up the tab. Heads, they win; tails, we lose. We can stop this, and we shouldn't play their game. Together we can address both the economic and safety threats of unrestricted Al development and prevent financial chaos and stabilize market risk. We must make it clear now that should the Al bubble pop, Congress should not bail out Big Tech. And across our federal agencies, we have the authorities and tools to hold Al companies and their leaders accountable for releasing dangerous, unvetted, and defective products. We must not wait. Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity. But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves. It's time we hold them accountable. Thank you for reading. In solidarity, Alexandria
September 19, 2026 at 1:19 AM
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drjulieb.bsky.social
This shit is way cooler than roads
September 19, 2026 at 8:36 PM
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marygillis.bsky.social
They haven't lost control. They keep letting it loose and then saying it went rogue.
If you intentionally drop a brick off of a building and it hits someone, it wasn't a rogue brick just because you couldn't predict the exact person it would hit.
thestar.com Toronto Star @thestar.com · 3d
The tech bros unleashed AI. Now they’ve lost control. The subject of Patrick Corrigan’s cartoon
September 19, 2026 at 8:34 PM
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I’d rather be able to have pride that Australia was doing its utmost to work towards a more equality society, combat climate change and oppose war and genocide, than be proud of an empty symbol like a flag
September 19, 2026 at 8:54 PM
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September 18, 2026 at 4:58 PM
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#LetterboxdFriday #filmsky
#LastFourWatched
Last four films: the housemaid; Serpico; Jackie brown; lord of the rings - fellowship of the ring
September 19, 2026 at 4:22 AM
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Crab News Update from BigSoftTitty.png with me and @demilardner.bsky.social
September 18, 2026 at 12:01 AM
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clemgrakata.bsky.social
Never underestimate the degree to which having effectively bottomless disposable income can warp a person's brain.

Today's billionaires are so indistinguishable from the inbred nobles of the days of yore that I question how much of an impact the vigorous incest of the old nobility really had.
September 17, 2026 at 6:14 PM
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📣 New #Communicable / #Breakpoints drops Mon 21 Sep!

Erin McCreary, PharmD & Josh Davis are joined by Steve Webb & Steven Tong to discuss REMAP-CAP results suggesting that oseltamivir may harm critically ill patients, while also highlighting the importance and impact of RCTs.

#IDSky #ViroSky #flu
September 17, 2026 at 10:30 AM
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If we aren’t doing this everywhere, what are we even doing?

Annual Toronto dog swim before they close down the outdoor pools for the season:
September 9, 2026 at 2:48 PM
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ketanjoshi.co
Finally made a page on my website that lists all my reports, briefings etc I've done! Man it has been a busy year :)

ketanjoshi.co/reports/
Reports
This page contains reports, analyses and other major or ongoing work I’ve led for various clients. Enjoy! February 2026 – The AI Climate Hoax The first investigation into greenwashing n…
ketanjoshi.co
September 17, 2026 at 8:35 AM
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the simpson’s mom! dad! bart’s dead triptych only it’s mom! dad! the human race is dead! that’s right, dead tired of all these losers inflating the dangers of llm models!
September 17, 2026 at 3:38 AM
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Sports is almost mentioned in a new FROM THE HIDEOUT: linktr.ee/fromthehideout
September 15, 2026 at 11:52 PM
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"Hello, is this Ed Sheeran? It's Scott Morrison...
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Former Prime Minister of Australia.
Anyway, I saw that a few spots have opened up for your US tour as support acts, and I'm currently in the US and I happen to have my ukulele with me..
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Is April Sun In Cuba too political? Hello?"
Scott Morrison on a mobile phone
September 15, 2026 at 11:54 PM
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True story.
benkahncomics.bsky.social Ben (Bee) Kahn @benkahncomics.bsky.social · 7d
BREAKING: Wyld Stallyns will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran
September 15, 2026 at 11:47 PM
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Level up your ID knowledge at #IDWeek2026. 🎮

Register today: https://www.idweek.org/registration/
September 12, 2026 at 11:06 PM
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I resigned from JibJab over what I believe are dangerous intelligences creating deepfakes
September 13, 2026 at 1:46 AM
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#LetterboxdFriday #filmsky
#LastFourWatched
Last four films: over your dead body; project Hail Mary; Mickey 17; the hunt for red October.
September 12, 2026 at 3:33 AM
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Sound on for some Tūī-in-a-Kōwhai magic this sunny Spring(ish) morning #nz
September 11, 2026 at 9:29 PM
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AMERICA always innovates because AMERICA is NUMBER ONE!! This winter, get ready to die of: THREEberculosis
September 11, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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The contrast between watching Mamdani getting stuff done day after day and watching these useless cowards
September 11, 2026 at 9:40 PM
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BREAKING
Anthony Albanese promises every Australian voter 5,000 carbon credits available via the gambling app of their choice if Labor wins the next election
Anthony Albanese
September 11, 2026 at 9:20 PM