I am getting some images not loading at the moment too, so my guess is things are just busted a bit?

as almost always happens everyone who piled into $BIRD after the first 10 minutes last Wednesday is now under water and the average trade marked to market = a loss of $1 billion

This breathless enthusiasm for obvious pump and dumps is a hallmark of crypto but it seems werid at this scale for stocks? Is that just my imagination?

Yet again I remind everyone (as Elizabeth does in her very next tweet) that "foreigners are corrupting our pure blood with weakness & disease" is Fascism 101. Not some variant, not some metaphorically similar thing, not some echo -- the thing itself.

this company lost almost a billion dollars last year so I guess people are mistaking it for a tiny little AI company

terrible news for the federal government, who will be forced to reckon with the fact that, actually, policy can actually impact housing prices and they may actually have the power to do something and can't just hope the RBA or a war in the Middle East bails them out

oh shit - an email from Adobe saying they're about to enhance my plan with new value

I'm screwed

Duolingo CEO Says They've Stopped Tracking Employees' AI Use for Performance Reviews - Slashdot Last May Duolingo's stock peaked at $529.05. But while the learning app passed $1 billion in revenue in 2025 and 50 million daily active users, today its stock price has dropped more than 81%, to $10...

I don't know for sure but I'd assume it was true. Many companies have been pushing it to the point where developers get KPIs about how much they use AI.

Duolingo was one of the big ones - then literally yesterday I read this story about them backtracking on it (slashdot.org/story/26/04/...)

Wanted to show you this post in English because it’s so good and we truly are a global village

Fed firmly on hold for April Prices are too high for too many.

The Federal Reserve meets next week. Expect an uncomfortable hold with debate within the Fed intensifying about whether its next move is up or down on rates. Its inflation-fighting credibility is eroding.

My take for April FOMC

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Price was Copilot's killer app; without that not sure there's much point to it

The concerns I expressed about unanswered questions proved to be unfortunately prophetic.

This week gave us yet another example of the pattern of good news while markets are open, followed by the real news coming as soon as they're closed.

People seem to have a lot of resistance to solar and storage as solving a lot of decarbonisation and replacing gas quickly because it seems too simple. Friend, do you know that AI is substantially just matrix multiplication? Simple and scaled often works. #EnergySky

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Announcing: Freeplay is here to stay. Parallels 2026 is coming and we're advocating for games to be funded as art. Read more and get involved: freeplay.net.au/posts/freepl...

BofA Hartnett: nothing says risk-on more than Aussie dollar (cyclical FX) at highest levels vs. Japanese yen (funding FX) since Oct'90

William Gibson: In my book I invented cyberpunk dystopia as a cautionary tale
Tech Companies:

principal-skinner.gif: "no, it's the people with disabilities who are wrong"

I know it's fun to blame vibe coding on bsky's woes (and maybe it is a factor here) but I suspect this is just because they only do "devops" and don't have any experienced systems/infra people. This is a rookie mistake systems people make exactly once in their career and then never again.

best part was the status page though

new free money scam unlocked

My Allbirds shoes telling me to kill myself

Dammit it’s already happening

Wish we had this sort of discourse around Australia's immediate sacrificing of tax revenue to make petrol cheaper but instead it seems to be mostly cheering it on?

he is clearly only a few posts away from starting his own state religion and starting a holy war

gonna be some great content

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This would’ve been a great place to raise a family, but instead a wealthy couple will collect egregious amounts of passive income from bachelorette parties. Reference #32487

Real Estate: Never Mind, It’s An Airbnb Now

Curious to know if this divergence happens often, or what kind of events it might be an indicator for?

Ta! Super interested in exe.dev. My company does www.binarylane.com.au - a very vanilla VPS service but founded with vaguely similar idea of making it fast & easy for devs to spin stuff up. Still figuring out AI strategy a bit, whether doubling down on the hardware side or leaning in elsewhere.

Can I ask if you're rolling your own hardware and colocating it? Or are you leveraging existing public cloud services to provision VMs? (Appreciate you may not want to provide too much detail on this point!)

The other legal battle might be people that make tools and inadvertently leak company data or build vulnerable software that gets exploited. I've seen a bunch of the former already; people build small websites without realising all the data is embedded in the front end!

This is a common theme from economists in Australia but gets like one article every 6 months on ABC and Guardian while everyone else ignores it because they'd rather pile on the RBA and don't like it when big companies get angry at them