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@claudeai pls allow highlight text to voice in the windows desktop app - would be a very nice qol feature

the internet breaks your brain so much that you don't remember what the person who is being trolled actually looks like anymore

@anammostarac Melbourne researcher pragmatism never loses

It's time for everyone to fill out their Helen Toner apology forms.

ycombinator with a generational vote of confidence for @garrytan keep steering that ship homie

@ElizabethHolmes @GoldRockAILabs @garrytan lmao this is the greatest indictment of a CEO ever

@GoldRockAILabs No, @garrytan knows what he is doing.

I'll refrain from commenting. But if the founders would like to talk... I've seen this show before.

@AusPoll6 even if we met our IEA obligations of 90 days, the petrol cartels would jack up prices regardless - failures by everyone on multiple levels. governed by muppets across the board

Who is to blame for rising petrol prices? 🇺🇸 Donald Trump: 61% 🇦🇺 Anthony Albanese: 14% 🟡 Both about equally: 16% ⚫️ Neither of these: 5% ⚪️ Unsure: 4% RedBridge/Accent | 23-27 Mar | n=1003

@Mylovanov holy shit, that's what pompeo looks like now? Ozempic is a hell of a thing

Pompeo: It breaks my heart, but NATO allies have been feckless — unable to support or explain US and Israeli strikes on Iran. After this, the US will have to rethink who its real allies are and what it can rely on them for. 1/

@hubriskets @WarMonitor3 maybe China will do it for him when they finish the "liberate Taiwan" focus

@WarMonitor3 He’s only on Partial Mobilization now, needs 300 more political power unless he raises World Tension to drop that to 150

BREAKING: Trump wants to switch to a war economy in 2027-Bloomberg

trump saying he'll leave the strait in 2-3 weeks is unironically this

@QBCCIntegrity what a fantastic start to a fantastic first day of april

Erm… this is kinda unexpected.

@JVatra75570 @mrjoebert @Hesamation

@mrjoebert @Hesamation It is, its called Comma Valued Separators

this thing disappeared like smoke in a thunderstorm.

@JEChalmers subsidising demand during a supply shock seems pretty unintuitive, just quietly.

BREAKING: Labor is halving the fuel excise which will reduce the cost of petrol and diesel by 26.3c per litre. The Albanese Government will halve the fuel excise for three months from April and cut the Heavy Vehicle Road User Charge to zero to help with the cost of living. This is on top of boosting fuel supply, supporting our domestic refineries, empowering the ACCC with bigger penalties for misconduct, and strengthening international supply chains. People are under cost-of-living pressure and a lot of that pressure is being piled on at the petrol pump as a direct result of the conflict in the Middle East.

@KobeissiLetter Iran is not China.

We firmly believe there are ongoing US-Iran "peace deal" talks right now: Why? Because we have seen this EXACT sequence of events MULTIPLE times in previous deals negotiated by President Trump. In fact, the May 2025 China trade deal followed the exact same timeline. On April 24th, 2025, just 15 days after the "90-day tariff pause," which also came as the 10Y Note Yield soared above 4.45%, President Trump made similar claims about China, and China responded like Iran just did. Trump said China was interested in a "trade deal" with the US, and China responded stating that "there are absolutely no negotiations between the US and China." Just 3 weeks later, on May 12th, 2025, the US and China announced their first trade deal, reducing tariffs to a 30% baseline. We believe a similar situation is happening right now with Iran, behind closed doors. As Iran's war strategy has become to play the “long game” and pressure the US/Israel through capital and energy markets, Iran does not want to lose leverage and allow markets to normalize until a definitive deal has been solidified. This is the same exact form of leverage that China had in April 2025 negotiations, which they initially denied, as the 10Y Note Yield broke above 4.50% and US equity markets collapsed. We believe Trump is following the same playbook now. That said, volatility will persist until there is a clear agreement in place, and broader market normalization after this historic shock will take months. Pattern-based trading has become incredibly profitable over the last 12 months, and we continue to update our models as a result. Bookmark this post. Keep following the patterns.

the fate of the global economy is in the hands of two real estate developers. God help us all.

@AusPoll6 give the porn issue some time to perculuate. when people realise when they go for an evening rub n tug that their site of choice is either blocked or asking for ID, that labor primary will drop another 5pts

🚨 NEW: Federal voting intention 🟥 ALP: 29% (-3) 🟧 ONP: 24% (+1) 🟦 L/NP: 22% (-1) 🟩 GRN: 12% (+1) ⬜️ IND: 8% (+1) ⬛️ OTH: 5% (-) Resolve | 9-14 Mar | n=1803 | +/- 8-14 Feb

@AvidCommentator not sure without checking, but trump has done exactly that with his own house.

Just prior to kicking off a war a powerful leader said: "We only have to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down" I've been thinking on this perspective quite a lot since the war with Iran began. Points for who knows who it is without Google.

you hope this will be a lesson to everyone that electing an incompetent, senile idiot with access to the most powerful military on the planet, is a bad idea

since Labor is clearly the new liberal party, can the greens please rebrand as social democrats so they can shed the skin of the single issue party so many people see them as?

Australian geopolitical strategy has always been: the US tells us to jump, we ask how high. there's rarely, if ever, any foresight to protecting our sovereignty independently of a major power.

@WarintheFuture 100% agree. it feels like intense hubris and overconfidence - drone doctrines should have been well and truly integrated before striking an entity known for building thousands and actively learning from Eastern Europe..

@evanM_FP The sensor network is critical. In 2022, Ukraine started with iPhones on poles and has since integrated a whole array of sensors into an integrated nation wide air defence network. But, once again, we have watched this for 4 years and done what?

This capability has flipped the economics of drone operations. It is now cheaper to intercept Shaheds than it is to use them. Such capabilities will have many impacts on sustainable air defence systems, particularly in protracted conflicts where massed drone attacks are employed. But there is more… 1/3 🧵