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You'd wonder if proof of ID for online things would be a thing if a family could survive on one salary at a minimum, 4 day work week and a better cost of living were actual things, giving time and energy to parents to actually watch and spend time with their kids.
But no that's just fantasy I guess
There is a lesson for the Australian Labor Party -- and the Australian Greens -- here.
#Auspol
Panel 1 Comic titled “Rejection Sensitivity Explained.” The ADHD Alien character stands beside another person who responds casually with the words “Oh, thanks.” The reaction is neutral and calm. The ADHD Alien character looks worried and overthinks the interaction. Caption text reads: “When people react neutrally to me, I think they secretly hate me.”
Panel 2 The ADHD Alien character sits curled up on the floor in a dim room, looking anxious and overwhelmed. The caption reads: “It’s like my logic turns off and an emergency mode turns on.” Thought bubbles show spiraling worries: “I must’ve done something wrong.” “I need to figure out what I did wrong.” “Did I overstep?”
Spent all vacation worrying that the people I’d meet wouldn’t like me. They liked me 😭. Could’ve enjoyed my croissant in peace
Rejection sensitivity part 1/4
A DoD contract for ‘Industrial Intelligence Capability’ obtained by Crikey is the first time the nature and conditions of Palantir's work with Australia has been made public.
Palantir embedding staff in Defence and mining Australian data
- by Cam Wilson
www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/09/p...
#auspol
Palantir collects data in Australia but is unrestricted in where it stores the data and who it allows to access it. As a U.S. based company, Palantir is subject to American laws that allow access to foreign data. Australians need to be able to protect our sensitive information.
Palantir is under pressure around the world but in Australia it is mollycoddled.
Michael West on the regulators’ double standards
1/ #tech #surveillance
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And given that the UK and Australia are also contracting Palantir for government work, the risk is far wider than just the US.
grok please confirm even the most basic information cos I'm a dumb fuck MAGA
I feel like the crowd here on bluesky is pretty savvy to this already, but please don’t try to get information from genAI.
And remember to scroll past Google’s AI overview in search results, or simply click the sources that get linked. It’s consistently incorrect.
The sheer number of people insisting that Japanese companies “cannot” work with SAG-AFTRA or have “no reason to” whose heads would explode upon learning SEGA could do this…
Super mario bros movie : generic kids movie held up by cameos and references Original mario bros movie with bob hoskins : avante garde cyberpunk film about a dystopian capitalist society bent ln genociding inferior species, brought down by two blue collar men
You know what tho
A snippet from the Netflix press release touting a “six episode” series of BTS and interviews that are to be released all at once on only one single platform.
This isn’t a podcast. If Netflix still shipped out DVDs, this would have just been a special feature.
Reminder that the only time Mastercard has flinched is when outrage was directed at them. Attacking platforms like SubscribeStar for Visa/Mastercard's extralegal censorship is exactly the deflection they want.
Good work Queensland cops, you have arrested someone for a t-shirt www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Workers run the world, not machines. Don’t let them make us forget about each other.
the answer to the trolley problem is that we have to blow up the fucking trolley i think
*Rereads*
Oops, you're right, dunno how I misread that.
Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now
I've been thinking about this all day. Thank you all so much for your kind words and support. Whether you're a colleague, friend, fan, gamer, or even just a random person who caught this on your feed, thank you. 💙
I don't expect my job back, but you all HAVING my back means so much!
SHUT YOUR DOOMER ASS UP & REGARD LIFE AS PRECIOUS ENOUGH TO DEFEND, SUNSHINE!!!!!
I have been saying for years that there is something weirdly cancel-proof about Tom Cruise. we have known jaw-droppingly horrible things about him for decades and it has not made a dent! people still line up around the block to watch his movies! maybe this will be different but 🤷♀️???
It reads like he's only just discovering differences, instead saying "I just don't like it" rather than having fascination with it, dunno what else to say other than simplifying with "cultural differences", but character limits. Not like someone's taking gross amount of liberty with Japanese scripts
To be fair, I'd be annoyed about naming a horse after the Monarchy too.
"Listen up, Americans, you need to pull your head in, and die for us to make sure the Epstein Class gets richer"
I'm not putting up any GoFundMe or anything, I'm just saying I can only hope people around me can understand, I'm not using it as an excuse, in fact it's sort of the opposite. I got goals and can have a little control, it's more if I invest a little TOO much time on side quests...
Hey, so disclosure, I've been without ADHD medication for some time, due to costs of a review just to get repeats, so to speak, and I'm tired of the hoops, and the costs for a condition I never sought assessment for.
Managing motivation, impulse and emotional control and anxiety is kind of hell.
Doing what's right is never easy, but if you got everyone else's back to those who want to, or who are working in this field, they're going to have yours, no hesitation.