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!

Yep. Her last show here was really good. See you there.

For the First Time in the U.S., Renewables Generate More Power Than Natural Gas

Let's make sure this stays a trend rather than an outlier. With rising electricity demand from data centers and the electrification of transportation and heating, there is definitely a risk of backsliding.

Are you going to see her later this year?

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Why do you think some directors (typically success male) think AI is "just another tool" and seem to have no ethical issue with using it? Cronenberg had zero issue using it in The Shrouds, and no one seemed to mind.

B-doubling down on electric trucks While the Coalition claims electric trucks are not capable of transporting heavy freight, overseas usage and current trials in Australia show they far outperform diesel on both overall cost and efficiency.

“Even on pre-Iran war, pre oil crisis prices, we estimate that that run would have still been 70 per cent cheaper on energy cost alone.”

How freight is electrifying faster than many expected: satpa.pe/Zu26aGH

Sade | Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

👏 Congratulations to Sade Adu, the first British black woman to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. #MusicSky #Sade

rockhall.com/sade/

"Hey... you're that guy from..."

Famous last words.

Trees within a woodland

Bakethin Nature Reserve in April

Meet a tree

#nature #naturephotography #spring #kielderforest #northumberland

“[Writing is] largely a matter of application and hard work, or writing and rewriting endlessly until you are satisfied that you have said what you want to say as clearly and simply as possible. For me that usually means many, many revisions.”
Rachel Carson, who died on this day in 1964

The alleged crimes of Ben Roberts-Smith Tony Abbott is not known for his instinct or his sympathy. This was obvious on Tuesday, after Ben Roberts-Smith was charged with five war crime offences.

Editorial: Roberts-Smith’s defenders are uniformly right-wing. His benefactors are conservatives. He represents a simplistic vision of Australian heroism. He is an archetype, a national myth, forever running ashore at Gallipoli. satpa.pe/XeW6JtL

Illinois Becomes First State To Require Haircut Leave While Bob Grows Out SPRINGFIELD, IL—As the landmark bipartisan legislation passed into law Thursday, Illinois became the first state in the union to mandate paid haircut leave while an employee’s new bob grows out. “Effe...

No one should have to worry about losing their job just because they need time to come to terms with what the heck they were thinking when they brought a photo of Keira Knightley from 2002 into the salon and said, ‘Do that.’

Sony has officially announced that production has wrapped on Wes Ball's #TheLegendofZelda movie.

In theatres on May 7th, 2027.

Rot, rancour and redundancy: Genevieve Bell's ANU tenure shows accountability isn't really that boring Even by global standards, the rapid unplanned disassembly of Australian National University has been disturbing. And, yes, occasionally even funny.

"Former foreign affairs minister Julie Bishop is the first female chancellor of ANU, and she led the appointment of Bell and stood by her through a rolling crisis — until even that proved too much," @squigglyrick.bsky.social writes in @crikey.com.au. "It may yet be both of them who go."

Country that lectures Iran on democracy arrests another 523 people for peacefully protesting The absurdity surrounding the UK’s treatment of Palestine Action and its supporters has reached new lows.

Country that lectures Iran on democracy arrests another 523 people for peacefully protesting
open.substack.com/pub/councile...

something that wrinkles my brain every time I remember it is the fact that total eclipses are only possible on earth because the moon and sun appear to be the same size in our sky, due to the insanely, astronomically unlikely fluke that the moon is 400x smaller than the sun but 400x closer to us.

Well, you know where to find him now!

Oh, ACB told me.

Saturday. The Old Bar.

Melbourne Seasons How many seasons does Melbourne really have? 75 years of weather data, analysed with changepoint detection. Explore 2 to 12 seasons interactively.

Great stuff, this. An analysis of data 1981–2025 suggests Melbourne is best understood to have seven seasons. seasons.lotlsoft.com

Wurundjeri and other Kulin Nation peoples have long recognised seven seasons.

Via the Guardian’s The Crunch newsletter. www.theguardian.com/news/2023/no...