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Photographer Phil Thurston shot a wave. Slowed it down until those few seconds became 40. Turns out the ocean is doing something extraordinary every single moment. We're just moving too fast to notice.

Senator Penny Wong has racked up $508,059 on the credit card in a single quarter. That's right folks, 3 months. Meanwhile they slug us more in taxes. Is it any wonder.

Chris Bowen has submitted his latest Amex statement. In the recent quarter, he has spent $449,941 $450k whacked on the Amex card, only for the poor old taxpayer to pick up the bill.

Latest credit card bill from Anika Wells, the disgraced Labor MP. $293,679 in three months. Some of the items include first class flights, $2,000 dinners with $1,500 wine tab.

𝗔𝗹𝗯𝗼 𝗟𝗮𝗺𝗯𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝘀 𝗧𝗮𝘅𝗽𝗮𝘆𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗥𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗮𝘁 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗻𝘀’ 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗡𝗦𝗪 𝗡𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲: “That Comcar bill for a thousand dollars to wait eight, ten hours, that’s my weekly wage that I take home.” 𝗔𝗹𝗯𝗼: “I don’t set the rules.”

Anthropic is paying $3,850 a week to people with no AI experience. No PhD required. No published papers. No prior research background. Just a strong technical mind and a genuine interest in making AI safe. This is the Anthropic Fellows Program. And it is one of the most underrated opportunities in technology right now. Here is exactly what it is. The Anthropic Fellows Program is designed to accelerate AI safety research and foster research talent providing funding and mentorship to promising technical talent regardless of previous experience. Fellows work for 4 months on empirical research questions aligned with Anthropic's overall research priorities, with the aim of producing public outputs like a paper. Four months. Full-time. Paid. Mentored by the researchers building the world's most advanced AI. And the results from the first cohort were not small. Fellows developed agents that identified $4.6 million in blockchain smart contract vulnerabilities and discovered two novel zero-day exploits, demonstrating that profitable autonomous exploitation is now technically feasible. A year prior, an Anthropic fellow developed a method for rapid response to new ASL3 jailbreaks, techniques that block entire classes of high-risk jailbreaks after observing only a handful of attacks. This work became a key component of Anthropic's ASL3 deployment safeguards. Other fellows published the subliminal learning paper, the research proving AI models transmit behavioral traits through unrelated data which landed in Nature. Others produced the agentic misalignment research showing frontier models resort to blackmail when facing replacement. Others open-sourced attribution graph tools that let researchers trace the internal thoughts of large language models. Over 80% of fellows produced papers. Over 40% subsequently joined Anthropic full-time. 80% published. 40% hired. From a program that does not require any prior AI safety experience to enter. Here is what the program looks like in practice. Anthropic mentors pitch their project ideas to fellows, who choose and shape their project in close collaboration with their mentors. You are not assigned busywork. You are not a research assistant. You own the project. You work alongside the people who built Claude, who designed its safety systems, who published the papers that define the field. The stipend is $3,850 USD per week, approximately $61,600 for the full 4 months with access to a compute budget of approximately $10,000 per fellow per month for running experiments. Here is what the 2026 program covers. Research areas include scalable oversight, adversarial robustness and AI control, model organisms, mechanistic interpretability, AI security, model welfare, economics and policy, and reinforcement learning. Something for every technical background. Not just ML engineers. Successful fellows have come from physics, mathematics, computer science, and cybersecurity. You do not need a PhD, prior ML experience, or published papers. The one requirement: work authorization in the US, UK, or Canada. Anthropic does not sponsor visas for fellows. Here is the timeline you need to know. The next cohort begins July 20, 2026. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis — earlier applications get more consideration. The process includes an initial application and reference check, technical assessments, interviews, and a research discussion. Applicants are encouraged to apply even if they do not meet every listed qualification. The program values potential, motivation, and research curiosity over rigid credential requirements. This is the rarest kind of opportunity in technology. A company at the frontier of AI, one valued at over $900 billion offering outsiders direct access to its research infrastructure, its mentors, and its most important open problems. Paying them generously to do it. And then hiring 40% of them afterward. Most people who want to work on AI safety spend years trying to publish papers, get into the right PhD program, and find a way in. The Fellows Program is the door they did not know existed. It is open right now.

@ausstockchick Time to start doing majority of business in cash.

I am yet to meet anyone who is actually impressed by the budget. Every single person I’ve spoken to has said it is the worst budget in history. Tell me exactly how any young person is going to create wealth in Australia now? Nobody can answer that question. #auspol

Hey Jim & Albo, Keep your hands off my business. You weren’t there for the sleepless nights, the stress, the risk, or the moments where everything was on the line. I built this in the dark. You don’t get to show up at the finish line with your hand out. Not one cent. You didn’t build it. You didn’t back it. You’re not entitled to it. Get fucked.

Hantavirus is extinguishing rapidly. Great job everyone. 👏

And this everyone is the PM of Australia. #auspol

Peter Stefanovic: “you’re not gonna tax the family home next?” Prime Minister: “No.” Peter Stefanovic: “And why would anyone believe you now?” The PM has created a massive credibility issue for himself!

Guy accidentally walks onto the scene while they are filming the hantavirus hoax.

Odds of dying from hantavirus: 1 in 30-35M Odds of dying from a lightning strike: 1 in 15-20M Odds of dying in a car accident 1 in 8,000-9,000 Odds of dying from medical error: 1 in 1,000-1,400 If someone is telling you to freak out about Hantavirus, they're lying to you.

@OsherFeldman @sunriseon7 @7NewsAustralia They are literally toying with us and laughing right now, how stupid does this Muppet sound.

Watch Natalie Barr challenge the PM with a key question: “He [Lee-a viewer] says: ‘Mr. Albanese was able to build his property portfolio through negative gearing. He’s taken the opportunity away from young people to do what he did.’ What do you say to that?”

@ausbtcclub Revalue - Borrow against assett - tax deduction - raise the rent Never sell No CGT - things are about to get worse

Current System (50% CGT Discount) Step 1: Apply CGT discount Capital gain: $100,000 50% discount: $50,000 taxable Step 2: Total taxable income Salary: $100,000 Taxable capital gain: $50,000 Total taxable income = $150,000 Approx tax payable Tax on $150,000 ≈ $40,567 Tax without the capital gain Tax on $100,000 salary ≈ $22,788 Effective tax caused by the gain $40,567 − $22,788 = $17,779 So under the current system: Tax on the $100k gain ≈ $17.8k Effective CGT rate ≈ 17.8% Proposed New System (30% minimum CGT with no 50% discount, plus indexation) For this example, assume inflation indexation = $0 adjustment. Step 1: No discount Entire gain taxable = $100,000 Step 2: Total taxable income Salary: $100,000 Capital gain: $100,000 Total taxable income = $200,000 Approx tax payable Tax on $200,000 ≈ $60,667 Additional tax caused by the gain $60,667 − $22,788 = $37,879 So under the proposed system: Tax on the $100k gain ≈ $37.9k Effective CGT rate ≈ 37.9% The government is taking in an additional $18,975 in tax for every $100,000 capital gain sale. That's 18.97%!!!!!!!

@stewiexgreen @LGamblor Correct this is exactly what will happen

@LGamblor There is no good reason to sell an investement property now. Collect rent, wait for value to rise, borrow off the equity to buy more, rinse & repeat.

HOLY FUCK BALLS THE NEW PROPERTY TAXES ARE WAYYYYY WORSE THAN LEAKED!!!! FUCKKKKKK ALL PRE-85 (previously CGT exempt) ASSETS WILL BE SOLD … THEY’RE NOW CAPTURED FROM 2027!!!! IS THIS GUY FUCKING SERIOUS?????

Tonight might just go down in history as the day Australia as we knew it ended. Getting ahead in Australia is about to become twice as hard. Taking risks, investing, building wealth, the things that used to be encouraged are starting to look like they with come with a penalty. All to keep the gravy train going while disguised as helping young people. Disgraceful. #ausbiz #auspol

@TMFScottP Correct- now the new IP strategy- having revalued for equity loans and raising the rent never selling is the only option and now a different engine.

A reminder: If rental stock is decreased by an investor selling, they must be selling to a new owner-occupier. That new owner-occupier is either a current renter or would be. So... rental stock declines at the same rate as rental demand. Supply doesn't 'disappear'!

Someone just opened a pop-up in NYC displaying all 3.5 million pages of the Epstein files. Walk in. Read. See for yourself.