Transhumanism has always been crank shit masquerading as respectable and speculative but it’s also just less interesting than asking “what if I’m actually a girl?”
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Transhumanism has always been crank shit masquerading as respectable and speculative but it’s also just less interesting than asking “what if I’m actually a girl?”
Given the mainstream media avoids complex discussions about the Greens, it was a pleasure to have a long chat with Jonathan Sri on @3rrrfm.bsky.social about how the Greens are travelling atm, their weaknesses and opportunities:
www.rrr.org.au/on-demand/se...
How US bases make Australia part of the Iran war https://johnmenadue.com/post/2026/03/how-us-bases-make-australia-part-of-the-iran-war #Auspol
maybe the algorithms have been instructed to defend valuations.
The Christchurch mosque massacre should have been a turning point that forced this country to confront its own racism, but the reckoning never came.
and households wanting to move faster are frightened off by misinformation from plutocrat media about PV, heat pumps, insul, air leakage.
media is a bigger bottleneck than taxation/subsidies.
maybe even bigger than fossil fueled fascist govts.
I wish I had the time to write op-eds but I don‘t. What is sorely missing: an op-ed that debunks the myth by which ‚businesses want to get rid of sustainability regulation or carbon taxes‘. There are two economies by now: one wants to move faster, the other slams the breaks - and gets all the press.
important tip.
better to spend the same money on an ebike, or moves towards energy sobriety like draught sealing.
in plain sight, how dare you say it
“We need more Australian humour, more Australian jokes…”
not a bad name for fossil fuels, bit geeky, but nicely applicable across fossil fuels.
#pyrrhictech works better!
Not all of this will go ahead, particularly given the notable shortage in gas turbine supply. But the point isn’t for all of this to get built. These people are throwing wet noodles at the wall and hoping a few of them stick. Even a fraction of these data centre fossil plants getting built would cause a material rise in America’s economy-wide greenhouse gas emissions (as has already started to happen). But another report released yesterday suggests a good chunk of America’s planned fossil data centre capacity will actually go ahead (the report also includes the finding that OpenAI’s fossil-gas fuelled Stargate project will emit 14 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent, wiping out 20 years of emissions reductions in New Mexico). It also highlights the intense desperation behind turbine sourcing: reusing aircraft jet engines and buying turbines from a cruise ship company. This is a win-win for companies, politicians and the fossil gas industry. Skyrocketing electricity bills in the US linked to data centre grid connections can be eased by bolting filthy, oversized off-grid fossil power plants onto facilities. That soothes political angst and creates a guaranteed demand sink for fossil fuels. This is “petrotech” — a brand new variety of fossil-fuelled overproduction. Data centres have been around for some time. But they’ve never been dipped into a near-religious frenzy of global hype as we’ve seen around AI. This creates a mode of data centre development insatiably hungry for energy, with zero consideration of externalities like “does this cause humanity’s life support systems to collapse?” Fossil-fuelled data centre development is the rule, not the exception, induced by the nutty cultural and political conditions in which this growth is occurring. Inevitably, it has come to Australia.
New @crikey.com.au piece- Australia's latest fossil-fuelled data centre carbon bomb would undo one year's worth of emissions cuts for the state of New South Wales if it were to go ahead at its proposed scale
This is #Petrotech at work - and it's going to get worse
www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/11/f...
is it all about pay? nothing about pro Zionist propaganda? if so, hard to GAF.
Our dependency on fossil fuels makes us vulnerable. Wars across the world are pushing up prices for households in the UK.
Why keep waiting for the next crisis? We need to transition to clean power as fast as we can to protect people and our economy.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Look I'm just glad Snog remixes are finally receiving the attention they deserve
youtu.be/dAXvggYt_lk?...
Internal dialogue: "i couldn't possibly get involved in politics, those already at the top are incredibly competent and intelligent operators who deeply understand all of the risks of their policy choices."
Reality: we consider ourselves too good for politics, so we're ruled by fail-son gangsters.
Operation Epic Fail continues in the Strait of Hormuz - tall tale over a week.
Epic Fury
Epic Escort
Epic Fail
Kurds are right not to take orange security assurances as credible. Ship-owners and insurers will be reconsidering the "obliteration" of the Iranian navy and attack capabilities.
Apropos of nothing, I've decided to post this video I made for Hanna-Barbera.com back when Hanna-Barbera still existed because I think it would be fun to pin to my profile.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jrw...
I blame contientious micro blogging, we edit and edit again, analogous to over feeding objects of love.
American arrogance and ignorance is a bipartisan phenomenon, tho Republicans have tried to take full ownership.
"but we saved 5 footballers, therefore 100,000 Palestinians and 1000..10000 Iranians are no big deal." says generic LibLab politician.
Albo's dog getting ready for the big game or some shit
He's just sent us to war, people can't afford normal things, and billionaires are encouraging the racists to go fkn nuts while we get robbed. How is this different to "Scomo's" curry, Bunnings and Sharkies posting? These pricks are popped out of the same mold in the same factory.
kinda, but Labor caved on carbon tax in 2013 and totally lied on net zero 'Climate Safeguard'. Neoliberals are like that.
For when incompetence is a flex.
#ClimateCriminals are stupid, #auspol.
Like the constant Trolley Problem chatter feels linked to the over-eagerness of the Yglesiases and Newsoms of the world to find vulnerable people to sacrifice for the greater good. Like it's a way to make HURTING people somehow seem VIRTUOUS.
No thanks!
Increasingly of the opinion that the correct answer to the Trolley Problem is "fuck you, why are you so fixated on finding reasons to justify killing people?"
*which is why the Lib Labs chose him to protect their callous corrupt type of government. they also fixed the NACCs terms of reference, learning from Victoria's nanofocus IBAC.
whoa now, next thing you'll start considering Western Civilisation in context of the theft, slavery and genocide it is built upon! is that even legal any more?
Dubai was built with slave Labor and the blood of thousands of South Asians, Asians and Africans. They can’t escape. I’m sick of hearing about how fucking f “developed” it is. Skyscrapers and wealth are not markers of civilisation if they’re built on destitution and death