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kcarruthers, 7 months ago to random

Good grief🙀

“⚠️Attention, QLD⚠️
We’ve heard reports of people attempting to backburn around their properties as a means of protecting it from fire. A fire ban is in place for the majority of the state and we cannot risk anyone putting more fire into the landscape.
People who start fires risk creating an emergency situation & may put themselves, their property & others in danger.
If you believe your property is at threat from a fire in the area, call Triple Zero (000).”

petergleick, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to random

Math.

arstechnica, 7 months ago to random

Lexus LF-ZC and LF-ZL concepts show extreme aero can look extremely good

Welcome to 2026 and the future of Lexus as an all-electric brand.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/10/lexus-lf-zc-and-lf-zl-concepts-show-extreme-aero-can-look-extremely-good/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

kcarruthers, 7 months ago to random

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vwdasher, 7 months ago to random

Going through the dash cam, check out this vintage Ford ute spotted a while ago here in Melbourne

#WeirdCarMastodon

kcarruthers, 7 months ago to random

Sobering from Heather Cox Richardson: The Fight for Our America: There have always been two Americas. One based in religious zeal, mythology, and inequality; and one grounded in rule of the people and the pursuit of equality. This next election may determine which one prevails.

https://newrepublic.com/article/175736/heather-cox-richardson-democracy-awakening-fight-for-america

johnquiggin, 7 months ago to random

Starting a response to Andreessen manifesto.

1. Markets, characterised as "Willing buyer meets willing seller, a price is struck, both sides benefit from the exchange or it doesn’t happen"have played a very minor role in the rise of the Internet.

• Internet itself created in the public sector
• Same for World Wide Web, Wikipedia, blogs
• Google, Facebook etc rely on attaching ads to content produced by others, not markets
• Rest of tech sector relies on state-created intellectual property rights

kcarruthers, 7 months ago to random

World-first fusion device to be built at UNSW Sydney: A small-scale tokamak device – designed, built and managed by UNSW students – is set be housed at university’s main Kensington campus.

https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/science-tech/world-first-fusion-device-be-built-unsw-sydney

kcarruthers, 7 months ago to random

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mpesce, 7 months ago to random

Heading up to Consilium this morning to be on a panel about AI. Looks like I'll just be missing these sessions...

arstechnica, 7 months ago to random

Industry united in push to extend ban on human spaceflight regulations

“First, they need to get good at doing the regulations they have on the books today."

https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/10/industry-united-in-push-to-extend-ban-on-human-spaceflight-regulations/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

TheSpaceshipper, 7 months ago to random

A screen adaptation of astronaut Chris Hadfield’s cold war novel The Apollo Murders (2021) is in development!

"1973. A final, top-secret mission to the Moon. Three astronauts in a tiny module, a quarter of a million miles from home. A quarter of a million miles from help."

kcarruthers, 7 months ago to random

“It would take a far, far longer post than I’m prepared to spend my time writing to go through Marc Andreessen’s “Techno-Optimist Manifesto” paragraph by awful paragraph, but a few points probably won’t go amiss.”

@ianbetteridge on Marc Andreessen's manifesto

https://technovia.co.uk/2023/10/16/marc-andreessens-manifesto.html

seldo, 7 months ago to random

There are ads in the start bar in Windows 11, in an operating system I paid for. Whose joke of enshittification is this?

DarkGalloway, 7 months ago to history

Rock art on Gardom's Edge, Peak District. The real stone is buried under this amazingly realistic fibreglass replica.

#History #Blackandwhitephotography #StandingStoneSunday

kcarruthers, 7 months ago to random

I’m sorry. But it is almost as if the political tragics have never met a normal person. They are not deeply engaged in politics. They are not seeking out political info. For a lot of elections they decide as they walk in to vote. They often vote the way that seems safest.
1/2 #AusPol

pikesley, 7 months ago to random

So you're telling me that Australians, given the chance to vote for racism, voted for racism?

drahardja, 7 months ago to random

This is so cool! The engineers at MIT discovered that cement and carbon black (paracrystalline carbon) can be mixed to create a supercapacitor that still behaves like cement. That means you can build cement structures that store energy. They estimate that 45 m³ of this material is enough to store 10 kWh (about a day’s worth of energy for a home).

“New Breakthrough in Energy Storage – MIT Engineers Create Supercapacitor out of Ancient Materials”

https://scitechdaily.com/new-breakthrough-in-energy-storage-mit-engineers-create-supercapacitor-out-of-ancient-materials/

HeavenlyPossum, 7 months ago to random

I didn’t realize this was a thing that needed to be said but Hamas is not a progressive or left-wing movement.

breadandcircuses, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to politics

Our capitalist rulers, and the politicians they own, are playing the long game. Since the 1950s they have been working steadily to shift the Overton window, to reduce the influence of labor unions, to boost consumerism, and to concentrate wealth and power in the hands of a few.

A large part of that strategy involves privatizing services that used to be (and should be) public.

They're playing the long game, and they are winning — much to the detriment of you and me and the environment we live in.

#Politics #Capitalism #Environment