Unsplash image of the Earth, mostly the nightside with a tracery of city lights on every continent.
OK, this is wild.
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
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...it concluded since the landslide was triggered by the melting glacier, and since *that* happened due to rising global temperatures...
This was a signal - and a warning - from our rapidly changing world, heard in every single part of it.
Best we listen up.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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The cruelty may not necessarily be the point, but the self interest certainly is. And, well
This will/would hit the US economy so much harder than it hits its trading partners.
For everyone else, it’s one trading relationship damaged. For the US it’s all of them simultaneously.
When the vice president uses the exact same language as a white supremacist mass murderer www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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Age letter from Tony Morton of PTUA, which reads in part: We can agree the Suburban Rail Link business case lacks detail in its cost estimates (“Alarm raised over SRL costings”, 22/3). At the same time, we already have a better idea how much the tunnels are to cost, since the contracts for these have been let and total $5.3 billion out of the $35 billion budget, for 27 kilometres of tunnelling. The balance of the $35 billion is for stations, rolling stock and operating costs, but for the tunnel component that carries the most technical risk, costs appear to be under control. If only Infrastructure Australia had had less “confidence” in the North East Link in 2018 when it ticked off a $16 billion budget cost that has now ballooned to $26 billion. Apparently, big risky budgets are only acceptable when they’re for road projects.
All this scrutiny on SRL - a shame there wasn't enough for North East Link, now hugely over budget, and set to miss its "congestion-busting" promise, just like every big motorway project before it.
Our letter in The Age today.
"We know we don't have a gas supply shortage. We have a gas export problem in Australia, where we prioritise exporting gas ahead of actually looking after Australian households and businesses."
said @davidpocock.bsky.social on ABC News.
Read more: australiainstitute.org.au/post/no-shor...
lmao getting fact checked irl
Absolutely truly pathetic. Scott Morrison would be proud.
Labor’s bid to protect Tasmanian salmon industry met with unease from pro-environment MPs
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
If direct air capture (DAC), a CO₂ removal (CDR) technique, costs $500 per tonne, removing just US emissions would cost ~$3 trillion annually (that's ~4x US military spending).
It would also require twice the total power generation capacity of the US today (and it has to be 100% carbon-free).
The Coalition is stumbling into this election offering false information around the costs of their energy plan
Three in four Australians (76%) support a total ban on gambling ads phased in over three years.
Four in five Australians support banning gambling ads on social media and online (81%) and in stadiums and players’ uniforms (79%), our research has found. ⤵️
The geniuses at DOGE are bringing us insights like "I'm not really sure why the tax agency for a country of 330 million people has a larger staff than a midsize bank"
With only 300-1000 swift parrots left on the planet, decisive action must be taken to ensure these incredible birds are not driven to extinction. Protecting their feeding range in NSW by ending native forest logging is critical in giving them a chance of survival.
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On Pine Gap & the critical role it plays in US global surveillance, see (eg):
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04...
Quick reminder: In 2024, Democrats rejected running on populism that donors and media elites hate, and instead ran explicitly on the donor-approved “abundance agenda.”
This decision got them lauded by pundits and lost the election to Donald Trump.
Excellent run-down on the governance crisis in our universities, by the inestimable Rick Morton www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/educati...
The fact we can boycott Tesla and make its stocks dive is evidence we have a lot of collective power.
Who’s next?!
As foreshadowed by the AFP last year in response to a question from @paulkarp.bsky.social at NPC they did twice force tech companies to provide assistance, but still didn't use powers to make them make something
UK Subs detained
Thanks guys this is really cute but can you stop logging native forests and tax the gas industry
interesting
This moment in our country's history is depressing, but it's also illuminating. We're finding out, in real time, whom among those in power will hedge their bets, trade complicity for personal preservation, and retreat into cowardice in the hopes they'll be spared.
And we will remember their names.
Today the employment department has publicly revealed shocking revelations that they've made 100s of 1000s of potentially unlawful decisions to cut people's Centrelink payment since at least 2020.
It's completely untenable to continue this system of punishment.
apcentre.substack.com/p/employment...
What the actual fcuk!
"It's so bizarre to me how obsessed you are with the federal government," sneered the woman to the people who elected her to be their voice in the federal government.
