Out-of-control blaze at one of Australia’s two remaining oil refineries in Geelong Smoke warning for residents south of Viva oil refinery in Corio as Geelong mayor calls fire ‘unprecedented’ A major oil refinery in Geelong, which supplies half of Victoria’s fuel and 10% of the nation’s, exploded into flames on Wednesday night and the blaze was still out of control by first light on Thursday. Fire Rescue Victoria said they responded to an incident at the Mogas (motor gasoline) unit at Viva oil refinery in Corio around 11:15pm Thursday. Continue reading...

Out-of-control blaze at one of Australia’s two remaining oil refineries in Geelong

For 10's of thousands of years, there have always been pricks, like yourself.

Amazon reportedly failed to create any new jobs at its HQ2 in Virginia last year, despite millions of state tax incentives.

The company has cut 30,000 jobs since last October — while saving $4 billion in taxes under Trump's Big Ugly Bill.

Trickle-down economics is a hoax.

Read the room, von der Leyen.

The Australian government have decided not to pursue membership of the European Southern Observatory, the world’s largest astronomy organisation and one where membership was the main request of the decadal review.

What are we going to do?

ANU spent $6k on a 'non-significant' meeting. Then why do they pay tutors even less for a semester? Last year the Australian National University (ANU) was getting some bad press, so they engaged a company called Bastion Reputation to help with the media fallout from restructures and the heavily crit...

Just 1 example of the kind of thing unis are getting for their massive spend on consultants. ANU spent $6k on a "non-significant meeting" with a reputation management firm at which apparently no one took a note. That's more than a tutor gets for a semester's work
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The problem is that ARC thinks industry is there to solve their problems. Industry DGAF!

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will deliver an address to the nation tonight, outlining the government's response to the Middle East conflict and encouraging Australians to "play their part". He is expected to urge Australians to save fuel for areas and industries that "most need it". The address will be simulcast on television and radio across Australia at 7pm AEDT.

people simply love it when you storm out of the gates to support an illegal war, then lecture them about personal responsibility after it makes their lives worse

That's got to be a loss for Labor and the Greens

I misread that headline, and thought it meant you didn't care that the tech bros were mad (like as in insane). I'm glad to be corrected.

The AI code tsunami is already here... The software iceberg you are shipping to prod is becoming 10x bigger. And like with regular icebergs you don't see and don't know the biggest and the most dangerous part of it.

Watch this clip.

Professors will recognize this kid as the student who didn't do the reading but still has very strong opinions about how it's all "bullshit," except this time he's not the callow student who's going to fail your course, he's the reviewer who's going to cancel your grant.

Name the perpetrators. It's not Grok. It's men.

I say a similar thing to most people at work. "I have a coffee cup that has been working here, longer than you've been alive."

sounds like you would have memorised all the AT commands as well. I know I did.

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

Maybe @toomanyspectra.bsky.social could assist

Rob, the only one trying to redefine the discussion is you, with your false equivalence.

Why Australia Needs Action on Wealth Inequality With Gary Stevenson YouTube video by Australian Greens

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Contrast: "We turned off all the lights on the upper decks, and with the ship stopped with no ripples, all of the stars reflected perfectly off the ocean, and it felt like we were in the middle of the universe."

More of us could have that sky, if we fight for it.

A screenshot of the Polymarket website showing a prediction market titled "Nuclear weapon detonation by...?" under the Geopolitics and Ukraine categories. The market displays three betting options with their current probabilities and "Buy Yes" or "Buy No" prices: "March 31" at 5%, "June 30" at 12%, and "Before 2027" at 22%. The total trading volume shown is over $843,000.

Polymarket has created a betting market on the use of nuclear weapons. Everyone involved in this should be put in prison for life.

Tell that to the Germans, on the Eastern front, during WW2

Data centre ARMS RACE must END! YouTube video by Senator David Shoebridge

#StateOfTheNation

Thank You @davidshoebridge.bsky.social

way too many people sexed up over Ai Data Centres without knowing the logistical and environmental impacts they will have.

a #VoiceOfReason for the Nation 🙏

#AusPol #BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor #AiData

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It's not just the heat and launch costs, which should nix the whole project anyway. But cosmic radiation will absolutely punish computers; especially those that are trying to push the boundaries of processing speeds.

We're nowhere near anywhere close to being able to build a Dyson sphere, nor the orbiting data centres.

Pope Leo tells priests not to use AI to write homilies or seek likes on TikTok "To give a true homily is to share faith," and artificial intelligence "will never be able to share faith," the pope said.

“Pope Leo XIV has urged priests to not to use artificial intelligence to write their homilies or to seek ‘likes’ on social media platforms like TikTok.”

“‘To give a true homily is to share faith,’ and artificial intelligence ‘will never be able to share faith,’ the pope added.”

Just caught up with Anthony Albanese and Chris Minnsanyahu hobnobbing it with Lachlan Murdoch and his gang of rwnj’s at the Sky News rebrand to News24. The Australian Labor Party is cooked. Money, mining and maaates. They’re just as bad as the conservative side of politics.

Well, at this point you are a hard unfollow. Anyone who promotes generative AI is grifting, in my book.

Prof Lyon explains with examples the “huge” benefit #Big4 receive
A company with $100 reward could ‘become extinct’ when sanctioned, while a Big4 firm with $2.5Bill profits is paying just $1mill in costs
This while paying No corporate income or payroll tax💥
It’s a farce #auspol

I would happily watch a full 2hr version of this than anything made with genAI