this comment on the ft website might *seem* harsh, but replace “art” with “tech startup destroying the planet” and I actually agree with it

David Pope in Canberra Times

over the weekend X / Twitter took the @America handle from the original user who registered it the handle now belongs to Elon Musk and his Super PAC set up to support Donald Trump here's everything we know: www.disruptionist.com/p/elon-musk-...

Elon Musk takes @America handle from X user to promote Donald Trump

The original @America user was a critic of both Musk and Trump.

Ded

I love the person doing advertising for our local furniture recycling place.

www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10...

Everybody goes bananas, then nothing happens: The flawed truth about the latest negative gearing outrage

News that Treasury was looking at modelling changes to negative gearing was treated as a scandal. But when it comes to Australia's housing affordability problem, wouldn't the real scandal be if Treasu...

Zuckerberg can fuck right off

DOdragonsofwales.bsky.socialSep 26, 2024 6:31am

They’re not even trying to hide it anymore. “Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says there are complex copyright questions around scraping data to train Al models, but he suggests the individual work of most creators isn't valuable enough for it to matter.”

Remember when they were all "do no evil"?

It's kind of harrowing that so much of The Expanse works because it depicts cruelties by capitalism that feel painfully likely given the current state and direction of space exploration.

TIL anti-lockdown protesters were dumber than literal ants