AndyDentPerth

Hey Guys! For every male technologist you follow on Twitter, try to add five female or alt gender technologists. Simple self-education hack. You will find more of them when you start following them (Twitter recommendations work & this will bring more #diversity to your feed).

The F-35 was supposed to be unkillable. That was the whole point. Lockheed Martin spent thirty years and four hundred billion dollars, the most expensive weapons programme in human history, building an aircraft that the enemy simply could not see. Not on radar. Not on infrared. Not on anything. The F-35 was not just a fighter jet. It was a theological statement. America’s way of saying: we have moved beyond the reach of your missiles, your sensors, and your prayers. Iran apparently didn’t get the memo. Somewhere over Iranian airspace on March 19, 2026, an IRST system, infrared search and track, the kind of sensor your grandmother could probably explain, looked up, found the F-35, and locked on. Not because Iranian engineers are geniuses. Because the F-35, it turns out, is extremely hot. All that engine. All that thrust. All that carefully sculpted stealth geometry, and the bloody thing glows like a kettle. The heat signature data Iran now holds is not just embarrassing. It is a gift that keeps giving. To Moscow. To Beijing. To every procurement ministry on the planet that has been quietly wondering whether to spend the money on systems designed to kill this aircraft. The answer, as of this week, is yes. And here is the bit that should really worry the Pentagon. You can patch software. You can redesign coatings. You cannot reprogramme a pilot’s brain. Every F-35 driver who takes off from here on knows, actually knows, that someone down there might be able to see them. That changes everything about how they fly. Caution replaces aggression. Hesitation replaces instinct. Four hundred billion dollars. And in the end, it was done in by a heat sensor. Tremendous. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

@EthanLevins2 For the first time in history, F-35s are tested against something more than defenseless children in Gaza 🤡

No action on Australian charities breaking international law funding illegal Israel settlements, IDF - Katy Gallagher tells Senate @sstephanietrann #auspol michaelwest.com.au/charities-fund…

Like I said in a previous post on the topic of ID/Age Verification - I started digging into the topic quite a bit, especially after that Meta lobbying exposed news dropped. What I have (and more of others) found is something that is so stupid, but also makes a whole lot of sense...in fact imo its the perfect piece of the puzzle. I will lay out my digging through a series of events: 1. Advertisers (ie Corporations with products or services to sell), contract with big Social media platforms, paying boatloads of money for adspace. The logic is that even if 10% of the tens of millions of users buy into their ads, its worth the investment. 2. The onset of botting, has led to ads being viewers by more bots than they do humans. No matter how many bots watch your ads, they never need your products or services. So they will never give advertisers' money and business. 3. This essentially means that, Advertisers are proverbially throwing money into the drain. Paying the price with practically no ROI. Many reports indicate that this botting problem resulted in multi-billion dollar wastage on ad spending. 4. Advertisers have started grilling social media companies, especially Meta which was one of the biggest sources of the issue. This resulted in many advertisers basically threatening to pull ad money until the botting situation is controlled. 5. The botting situation became even WORSE around 2023-2025 with the Ai-Bros and Ai Companies hard pushing Ai development. The past anti-bot systems and measures lose effectiveness as Ai makes bots more sophisticated. 6. Then late 2025/2026, you can see the SNAP. The nuclear solution - Age/ID verification being pushed or implemented across multiple countries at around the same timing (within months). 7. Then now all the news about Socmed and big tech corps lobbying politicians and governments for mass ID/Age Verification on an OS/Appstore level. 8. Why? Since you pick your poison to "age verify"...a selfie, submit your ID, or Ping your credit card. Sure your age will be "verified", but it also comes with the useful byproduct of confirming you are HUMAN. So as a takeaway, what does this mean? Well to me at least, this quite neatly explains why BOTH Governments and large Corporations have collaborated and colluded to push for ID Verification at an alarming pace Globally. In the end, it really was about money. It also means quite simply in my opinion - these Corporations and Governments, NEVER really cared about "the children". "Think of the Children" imo, has always been, and will continue to be the convenient excuse for these corporations and politicians to implement this privacy-invasive system. Because if only PROVEN humans can use social media, or other similar sites/services - Advertisers will be mollified and continue to throw money at these Big Tech corporations for continued ad space. This ALSO means - that the so-called parents and people like the Riceman who run defence of ID Verification, are either very stupid, or complicit in this. Either way, the only winners are the Advertisers, the Big Tech Corpos, and the Politicians. We all however, lose.

@LundukeJournal censoring opposition to age verification on a platform built by the open source community is the tell. when even the spaces dedicated to free software start policing speech about surveillance infrastructure, the overton window has already moved past you.

Now Australia needs to toughen up @AlboMP

@Amockx2022 He deserves to be humiliated!

The very definition of insanity. The AFL does a respectful 1 minute silence tribute to the Bondi victims but because they didn't scream & shout that it was an antisemitic attack, James Paterson a senator NOT from NSW refers the AFL to the Royal Commission for being antisemitic.

this has been an open secret in tech for years and if you’ve been following my threads you already know where I stand on this I genuinely believe Palantir was never just a government contractor it was always designed from day 1 to embed itself so deep inside the intelligence & defense apparatus that ripping it out would be like trying to remove the nervous system from a living body you need to understand how this works on a technical level to really grasp the scale of what I’m describing Gotham & foundry are data integration platforms that plug into every single information source an organization has, internal databases, intelligence feeds, comms, satellite data, financial transactions, social media…everything gets funneled into a single ontological knowledge graph and here’s the key, once you’ve connected 5y of an intelligence agency’s data or a defense ministry’s operations into Palantir’s architecture you’ve created a technological dependency that is virtually impossible to reverse bc migrating that graph to another system would mean rebuilding the ENTIRE institutional memory of the organization from scratch I’m telling you this is vendor lock-in at the scale of a nation state & I’m personally convinced it was designed to work exactly this way from the beginning by the way palantir is just the most visible case, you should know that the same exact playbook is running across the entire deftech ecosystem right now, companies building AI systems for surveillance targeting & predictive intelligence are quietly rotating former employees into regulatory agencies & defense departments the revolving door between silicon valley & the pentagon has literally become a conveyor belt at this point & I think the boundary between private tech infrastructure and state power is dissolving way faster than anyone wants to acknowledge and I’ll add something that I believe makes it even more concerning these systems are increasingly autonomous meaning the AI layer is making recommendations that humans inside gvt are rubber stamping without fully understanding the underlying logic I’m deeply convinced that the most important power shift of this decade is happening in complete silence and I think most people have absolutely no idea, this is the moment where the companies building the tools of governance become indistinguishable from governance itself & believe me by the time the general public figures out what happened the integration will be too deep too complex & too classified to ever be unwound

I worked at Epic Games for two years. This is real, and the strategy behind it is smarter than most people realize. Tim Sweeney has spent nearly two decades buying North Carolina forest land. 50,000+ acres across 15 counties. He’s now one of the largest private landowners in the state. The purchases started in 2008, right after the real estate collapse wiped out developers who had been planning golf resorts and luxury communities on biodiverse wilderness. Sweeney paid $15 million for Box Creek Wilderness, a 7,000-acre stretch in the Blue Ridge foothills containing 130+ rare and threatened species. Developers had owned 5,000 of those acres before the crash. He bought them for conservation prices when nobody else was bidding. He runs the acquisitions through an LLC called “130 of Chatham.” He buys the land, holds it for years, then either donates it to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, sells it at a discount to state parks, or hands it to land trusts. In 2021, he donated 7,500 acres in the Roan Highlands to the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy. Largest private land donation in North Carolina history. The part people miss: he told the News & Observer that since 2021, land got too expensive to keep buying. So he shifted focus to converting his existing 50,000 acres into permanent conservation status. He’s locking the land into legal structures that make development impossible regardless of who owns it in the future. A billionaire worth roughly $6 billion is spending tens of millions acquiring wilderness specifically during economic downturns, then giving it away or placing it under permanent legal protection. The land will outlast him, Epic Games, and Fortnite. That’s the part that separates Sweeney from billionaires who write checks to get their name on a building. The building depreciates. The forest compounds.

Launching #taxdata so you can search top companies and find out how much tax they do/don't pay taxdata.michaelwest.com.au Just pop the name in for data (on say Newscorp's zero tax on more than $20B in income) Also - the $37B Defence black hole Video: youtu.be/KcXYpGhg-aQ?si…

In the 2021 census, there were 248,430 Lebanese Australians and around 110k Jewish Australians. Israel is bombing Beirut. A million Lebanese have been displaced. With contempt to local demographics (not to mention basic morality), the ALP is backing Israel’s genocidal expansion

Why bother holding a Royal Commission when recommendations for referrals to AFP, NACC, Law Society and Heads of Agencies are completely ignored. There is no justice for the victims of #RoboDebt. People should have been held to account. #Auspol aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_…

🚨 AMERICA JUST LOST THE MIDDLE EAST → AND NOBODY IS TALKING ABOUT IT While everyone is watching the bombs fall on Iran, something FAR more dangerous just happened behind closed doors. Reuters confirms Gulf states are now "reassessing their security dependence on Washington" and actively considering new regional security arrangements — with IRAN. Let that sink in. The countries America SWORE to protect are now planning to partner with the country America is currently bombing. 💀 Gulf states realized the U.S. CANNOT protect their oil, gas, or sovereignty during wartime 💀 The cost to Gulf economies described as "STAGGERING" 💀 Saudi Arabia's Gulf Research Center says the U.S. failed to secure a SINGLE guarantee for its allies 💀 They're now accelerating diversification of ALL security partnerships — away from Washington ⚠️ The U.S. has had military bases in the Gulf since 1991 — 35 YEARS of "protection" — GONE ⚠️ America's ENTIRE Middle East strategy depends on Gulf cooperation ⚠️ If the Gulf pivots to Iran, Russia, and China — U.S. dollar dominance in oil is FINISHED The media is showing you missile strikes and aircraft carriers. They're NOT showing you America's closest allies quietly walking out the back door. Here's how this ends. Step by step: Step 1 → Gulf states sign bilateral security deals with China and Russia. Already in progress. Step 2 → Saudi Arabia starts accepting yuan for oil. The petrodollar dies. Step 3 → U.S. military bases in Qatar, Bahrain, UAE get "reviewed" — diplomatic language for EVICTION. Step 4 → Iran gets rehabilitated as a regional partner instead of an enemy. Step 5 → America loses its grip on the most energy-rich region on Earth — PERMANENTLY. You don't "reassess security dependence" on your protector when you feel safe → You reassess when your protector just started a war on your doorstep WITHOUT asking you → And you only talk to the ENEMY when you've already decided your protector is the bigger threat. Trump wanted to project strength. Instead he proved to every Gulf nation that America is an unreliable partner who will torch the entire region for its own agenda. The Gulf isn't diversifying. They're building an EXIT PLAN. And once that door opens, it CANNOT be closed. Prepare accordingly. 🚨🚨🚨 This post is being throttled. Like + RT to keep it alive. ⚠️

Amazing Grace. “Albanese has let us all down by capitulating to foreign powers who crave hegemony, profit from endless chaos, whose interests conflict with our own — how quickly the government moved to show support for Iran war initiated by US & Israel.” theguardian.com/australia-news…

Over 400 women have been arrested since they overturned Roe v Wade— yet not a SINGLE man has been arrested for raping children with Epstein.

One Rule for Some. Another for the Rest of Us. This week an eighteen-year-old was arrested by fifteen police officers in Brisbane for wearing a singlet bearing six words. She received a caution. This time. The law she was arrested under carries two years in prison. The architects of Robodebt - $1.76 billion in unlawful debts, lives destroyed, deaths linked to the scheme - have faced no charges. Not one. Not ever. And now we learn from @sstephanietrann that the Queensland law used to arrest her was praised by Israel's Foreign Minister, who urged its expansion to other states. Australian law. Shaped by foreign government pressure. Used against an Australian teenager in a singlet. When the law descends swiftly on the powerless and never reaches the powerful - when it answers to foreign interests before it answers to its own citizens - democracy itself is at stake. The fair go is not a slogan. It is a promise. Right now, that promise is being broken in plain sight. One rule for some. Another for the rest of us. That is not the country we were promised. And it is not the country we should accept. 👇 [link] open.substack.com/pub/suebarrett… #auspol @MichaelWestBiz @deniseshrivell @aaronsmith @JoYohana @Anthony_Klan @auspolfiles @CommunityIndeps @AusIndiMedia

Share EVERYWHERE. This woman who got a OAM, now CEO of Opal Healthcare is removing hot breakfasts and biscuits from aged care facilities unless they pay a premium. Absolutely disgusting. @ney567/post/DVzzy81E-9A?xmt=AQF0-jzzS0jJ4xM5g2oPQrHcrFA8_RqsRa5Vxp3SxDavOMnKLm2Vlj5JG7UoYGNJfPfiRPpo&slof=1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">threads.com/@ney567/post/D…

When we can’t afford decent aged care & hospitals have queues out the door, defence gets a blank cheque & isn’t even audited. Treasurer @JEChalmers wants everyone to pull in their belts except for defence & AUKUS