Half of all planned data centers are cancelled or postponed now.
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Apple announces new CEO, deliberately slows down old one

Watchdogs say the previous CEO model suspiciously started slowing down immediately after the announcement
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Really looking forward to this one. Hope an Australian festival finds room for it.

Well stop being so good then! Honestly Whitney. x

Thank you for another excellent article.

Rental platform unnecessarily collected the data of millions of Australians, privacy commissioner finds 2Apply’s over-collection of personal information adds to the power of the real estate industry in the competitive rental market, Carly Kind says

“There is a long list of categories of personal information that are routinely being collected from renters that have no bearing on their ability to pay rent, or a likelihood that they will look after the property."

Your Glasses Got Worse On Purpose How an Italian orphan built a $27 billion monopoly that controls the brands, the stores, the lenses, and the insurance.

Del Vecchio understood something that would fuel the next thirty years of expansion: if you put a fashion label on a medical device, people will pay twenty times what it costs to make.

A really great read.

Red flags and 'the six-word phrase': Queensland protest arrests are part of an Australian history of crushing dissent Australia has some form when it comes to criminalisation of symbolic dissent, stretching back almost a century before Queensland starting arresting citizens for pro-Palestine chants.

I wrote for @crikey.com.au about some parallels between repression now and in the past

Where is The Godfather’s boldness in modern cinema? As a visceral study of degenerate power, Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather series succeeds in meeting our historical moment, where One Battle After Another fails.

One feels that Paul Thomas Anderson is directing by constantly looking over his shoulder, wanting to be congratulated for his flaccid left-wing pieties, writes Christos Tsiolkas.

After watching that film, I put on Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather... satpa.pe/Q0tgAbR

Wolfram provides a window into the past through the eye of one of Australia's best storytellers Warwick Thornton said that Wolfram acts as an antidote to its stunning forebear Sweet Country – a film that cost the director and his cast and crew a great deal emotionally to make. With the scars of ...

Perhaps the best way to view Wolfram is as another story that needs to be told about Australia’s history. So many tales have been taken away from the tellers. “We’re playing catch up,” Thornton said of Wolfram and Indigenous cinema in Australia. @nadinewhitney.bsky.social in @thecurbau.bsky.social

Archaeologists Find Iliad “Catalog of Ships” Papyrus Inside Egyptian Mummy - Arkeonews Archaeologists in Egypt’s Oxyrhynchus have discovered a Roman-era tomb containing mummies with golden tongues and a rare papyrus

Archaeologists working at the ancient site of Oxyrhynchus in Egypt’s Minya Governorate have uncovered a Roman-era burial that combines rare funerary objects with an unexpected literary find: a papyrus fragment from Homer’s Iliad concealed inside a mummy.

The Point Live: Business and gas companies have their say on gas tax proposals. Representatives from the Business Council, Shell and ConocoPhillips are among those fronting the gas tax senate inquiry today, while the health minister lays out proposed changes to the NDIS.

Holy moly.

The head of the Queensland Resources Council just told the Gas Tax Committee "all Australians are benefiting from higher prices"
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NBC projects that YES will win in Virginia.

Shero

How will history regard the Albanese government? On turning a blind eye to war crimes in Iran, Gaza and Lebanon

Is there any moral limit to what Israel or the US could do, any war crime that goes too far, for Australia to place conditions on our loyalty? It seems there are no red lines.
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Coachella is removing these videos, so they might be about to learn about the Strokesand Effect.

Thank you!

Does anyone know what is happening with Qantas/Emirates flights via Dubai? I can’t get any information from the airlines and I would love to know if anyone has passed through Dubai, were you rerouted? Was your flight cancelled? I’m due to fly Melbourne to Europe via Dubai on May 8. Thank you

Does anyone know what is happening with Qantas/Emirates flights via Dubai? I can’t get any information from the airlines and I would love to know if anyone has passed through Dubai, were you rerouted? Was your flight cancelled? I’m due to fly Melbourne to Europe via Dubai on May 8. Thank you

A Q&A with... Me I talk about my new book

Martin McKenzie-Murray's new book 'Sirens', will be released in a few weeks with its launch at Readings Carlton, in Melbourne. Here he is talking about it:

Christ. Well now I need to rewatch THE FIRM.

A Q&A with... Me I talk about my new book

Martin McKenzie-Murray's new book 'Sirens', will be released in a few weeks with its launch at Readings Carlton, in Melbourne. Here he is talking about it:

Young pope Leo, undated but he appears to be in his teens or early 20’s

young pope leo looks like a ska scene regular who goes by Upbeat but no one knows his real name

Can you imagine Angus Taylor doing this?

"The Coalition is Pacman, Labor is...the little dots...and the cherry is racism."

Can you imagine Angus Taylor doing this?

"The Coalition is Pacman, Labor is...the little dots...and the cherry is racism."

It's so true. One Nation have been ripping off candidates and being accused of running a pyramid scheme for well over a decade: www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic...

Headline: Why oil refineries are designed not to catch fire.

Remember when oil refineries *were* designed to catch fire? Those were the days!

Opinion | Don’t Use A.I. to Do This

The point is, I’m not saying all this to defend humanity. Humanity sucks. It’s totally terrible. I’m saying this because I believe in an old-fashioned virtue called Doing the Freakin’ Work.

Suffer like the artist you are. It ain’t easy, but if it were easy, it wouldn’t be worth doing.

That’s it, we’re all done, this is the definitive take on AI, it’s so good that it’s what AI will give you one day when you ask for the definitive take on AI, only it will add some errors and flat, dull language.

Wow. Thank you!