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Whadjuk Noongar country. Medical research writer / Clinical research consultant. Lost immunologist. Cavaliers basketball. Research integrity. Just a namby-pamby fact-checker.

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the latest Snowden leak: his brain from his ears

Australia to build ‘top-secret’ cloud for intelligence agencies in $2bn deal with Amazon

Australia to build ‘top-secret’ cloud for intelligence agencies in $2bn deal with Amazonwww.theguardian.com Richard Marles unveils cloud plan including three new datacentres to house the most secretive and valuable information Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast A “top-secret” cloud service will be built for Australia’s intelligence agencies to share information with one another by the decade’s end as part of a $2bn announcement with US technology giant Amazon. The deputy prime minister, Richard Marles, said the investment would generate about 2,000 jobs and ensure Australia “maintains” pace with the world’s leading defence force while it increased its interoperability with US agencies. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading...

Well done and hats off to St Vincents Private for pushing back against healthcare insurance company greed. The Australian healthcare system is better than most other countries. Let's keep it that way. www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07...

'First time in 167 years': Hospital chain flags shock split from major health insurerwww.abc.net.au St Vincent's is planning to end its contract with private health insurer nib after negotiations for renewal broke down.

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Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be" www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution"www.mediamatters.org

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Popehat

/8 At any rate, congratulations to the Federalist Society for an achievement beyond the reach of the British, outside the grasp of bloody civil war, impossible to Nazis and Soviets and terrorists: defeating the American idea.

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John

Thanks, John, but Mastodon is two doors down on the left. I think that’s where you’re supposed to go take a big shit on other people’s birthday cake.

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So, today's decision has even LESS support than Dobbs: www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-i...

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Sotomayor; Never in the history of our Republic has a President had reason to believe that he would be immune from criminal prosecution if he used the trappings of his office to violate the criminal law....With fear for our democracy, I dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23p...

www.supremecourt.gov

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Regretting canceling my subscription to the New York Times on a morning when they’re bringing me an oped from Bill Maher AND an interview with Steve Bannon. What a tantalizing feast for the mind, sadly beyond my reach now

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Pwnallthethings

It was a complete shitshow and it's on Biden and his team.

Sensing a vibe here.

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watching the stoned Subway employee put mayo on my chicken teriyaki sandwich

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Asawin Suebsaeng

If you are someone who wants to argue Biden has survived before and proved the doubters completely wrong a number of times, fine. I’m just relaying what is happening in the corridors of Democratic power rn, and it’s extremely, no-shit panicky in a significant way.

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Am obviously just one of many many reporters getting their phones blown up by elite Dems in positions of influence, power, money freaking the fuck out tonight. All I’ll say before pivoting to writing copy is this is Not the usual bed wetting, Biden should step aside fan fic. Tonight was different

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America is not a serious country. Come on. The fact that this man did this and has a judge playing defense for him over it? Utterly ridiculous. "Careful you don't spill the diet coke on the highly classified documents when you're in there!" www.thedailybeast.com/new-pics-sho...

New Pics Show Nuclear Secrets Stashed Beside the Diet Cokes at Mar-a-Lagowww.thedailybeast.com Another photo shows assorted wadded-up golf shirts next to a folder marked “CONFIDENTIAL” at Donald Trump’s country-club-turned-residence.

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Assange is going to be utterly insufferable isn't he.

He's probably served enough detention, but I get the feeling there'll be much whitewashing of Assange's actions when he comes home. US military secrets aside: let's not forget he had a large hand in Trump succeeding in 2016. Assange & Jim Comey, what a team. foreignpolicy.com/2017/08/17/w...

WikiLeaks Turned Down Leaks on Russian Government During U.S. Presidential Campaignforeignpolicy.com The leak organization ignored damaging information on the Kremlin to focus on Hillary Clinton and election-related hacks.

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"Some 45% of total shipping demand is for transporting fossil fuels. That means some $42 billion per year is spent on fossil shipping fuels to transport other fossil fuels to their point of use." rmi.org/the-incredib...?

The Incredible Inefficiency of the Fossil Energy System - RMIrmi.org Over $4.6 trillion per year, almost 5% of global GDP and 40% of what we spend on energy, is wasted due to fossil inefficiency.

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Reminder that Aaron Swartz was facing 35 years in prison and financial devastation for trying to programmatically download and open the contents of JSTOR, which led to him taking his own life. But OpenAI is going to scrape all of academia and make billions by plagiarizing it.

New version of chatbot reaches level of function where it responds to all queries by making a little twisty-wrist gesture with pinched fingers and saying “But isn’t it more *complicated* than that?”

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Coincidentally, someone who was 20 in 2020 is also 44 or 45 now

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it'll lay on the jargon with a mix of self-loathing & fear of being exposed

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“If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.” –Dorothy Parker

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Let’s be fair to Thomas. YOU try spending six weeks in a camper with an agitated woman talking nonstop about dead people voting in Georgia and see if YOU don’t want to keep your fuckin gun.

Roberts: wait Bruen says WHAT? Fuck fuck fuck I gotta stop voting on shit when I’m drunk. Okay. You can do this Johnny. You went to Harvard. Let’s parse our way out of this mess. Fuckin’ Thomas, I should have known better.

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Lately, journalists have asked if scientists didn't warn us enough, or didn't know how bad climate change would be. Scientists did their jobs. It's fossil fuel companies who lied about climate impacts FOR DECADES. They're to blame for these heat waves. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

‘Smoking gun proof’: fossil fuel industry knew of climate danger as early as 1954, documents showwww.theguardian.com Documents show industry-backed Air Pollution Foundation uncovered the severe harm climate change would wreak

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Was downtown Cleveland today and the film crew was turning the old Cleveland Leader Building into The Daily Planet for the new Supe movie! Large crowd of fellow geeks smiling and applauding and taking photos.

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Two of the four people in this photo from the Trinity test died of acute radiation from the demon core. Given the cowboy antics of the earliest atomic age, it's surprising more weren't killed. A reminder that every lab safety rule is written in blood.

The Death of Expertise.

New Dutch hard right wing government taking a hammer to higher ed… It looks like an up to 1 billion euro (8/10%?) budget cut across science and education side of the business. Most onerous is the direct reversal of a program that’s just put 1200 talented scientists in a permanent jobs.

Toponderzoekers zien in bezuinigingsplan van nieuw kabinet ‘vertrouwensbreuk met wetenschap’www.nrc.nl Open brief van laureaten: Geplande bezuinigingen van het komend kabinet bij universiteiten kosten vele honderden onderzoeksbanen en tasten innovatie en het…

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Jesus you people just stop

hey @profmusgrave.bsky.social this one's for you

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I never feel less hopeful about the future than when I see anti-vaccination lies get traction. Letting nearly eradicated plagues return because of social media posts. Pure death drive.