Ben Thompson

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@ParamountPlusAU Samsung telly. App is super sluggish and non responsive. Took 10min for it to respond to "play"

@brutboss Hi Ben. Which device are you trying to watch the match on and what is the problem that you are having with the stream? Let us know and we'll help find a solution!

Group A action continues tonight in #WAC2026 ✨ It’s Korea Republic against IR Iran, with three crucial points up for grabs in the Gold Coast 🇰🇷🇮🇷 Watch #KORvIRN live and exclusive on Paramount+ 📺

@TraceyLeeHolmes More luge here than what's been on ch9 FTA

Enjoying the addition of drones to the coverage of the winter Olympics? Here the head of Olympic Broadcasting Services, @YiannisExarchos takes us through the journey of the drone at the fastest winter sport, luge. #WinterOlympics #MilanoCortinaOlympics2026 #luge #drones

Our government crossed a line by inviting a war criminal - they can’t uncross it.

WATCH I Israeli army bombed a three-story building in Zeitoun neighborhood in Gaza city. No injuries were reported.

Olympic goosebumps. Alysa Liu's short program is such a moment, a petal carried by the wind. We felt it all.

Whether it's illegal to say it or not (?), Israel is quite clearly committing genocide in Palestine. The Australian government (but not the Australian people) is quite clearly supporting it. And our farce of a democracy is being further eroded so people don't speak this truth.

Insanity

They freed the former president of Honduras, imprisoned for sending 400 tons of cocaine to the United States. They kidnapped the President of Venezuela and bombed his people for refusing to give away their oil. It's not the drugs: it's the oil.

Generative AI is amazing at tasks where I am not qualified to judge the output.

"The Palestinian cause is not a cause for Palestinians only, but a cause for every revolutionary, wherever he is." -Ghassan Kanafani

@GianmarcoSoresi What about them elbows?

Found my doppelgänger in Scotland

If you are trying to design and build something new, time spent building test infrastructure is well worth the investment. This is true for software or hardware. Make testing fast and easy!

I’m reviving this project. We’ll build a physical Winamp and I have a team this time. We’ve already planned the hardware and brainstormed the software…

@realjosev @90sfootball @grok Haha. Dumbass

@90sfootball @grok identify these legends

South American legends to have never won the Copa America!

Can we all agree that by hanging onto the coattails of the USA it is not keeping Australians safe and is diminishing our standing internationally. Let’s be clear if the world loses the incentive to comply with the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, it is only a matter of time before the human race is obliterated. Australia is on the side of the aggressors who have no regard for the sovereignty of other countries and are in breach of international law. #auspol #internationallawmatters

Not in our name

There is no internet. No signal. No sound. No world beyond this cage. I walked thirty minutes through ruins and dust. Not in search of escape, but for a fragment of signal, just enough to whisper, “We are still alive.” Not because anyone is listening, but because to die unheard is the final death. Gaza is silent now. Not with peace, but with obliteration. Not a silence of stillness, but of smothering. They severed the last cable. No messages leave. No images enter. Even grief has been forbidden. I passed the corpses of buildings, of homes, of men, some breathing, some not. All of them erased by the same hand that erased our voices. This is not a siege of bombs alone. It is a siege of memory: a war against our ability to say, “We were here.” The bombing never stopped, especially in Jabalia. They shell the streets where children beg for food. They shell the lines where mothers wait for flour. They shell hunger itself. No food. No water. No exit. And those who try, those who reach for aid, are struck down. People die here, and no one knows. Not because the killing paused, but because the killing of connection succeeded. The internet was our final breath. It was not a luxury; it was the last evidence of our humanity. Now it is gone. And in the dark, they massacre without consequence. I found this faint eSIM signal as a dying man finds a flicker of flame. I stood beneath a broken sky, risking death, not for rescue, but to send this. A single message. A last resistance. If you are reading this, remember: we walked through fire to say it. We were not silent. We were silenced. And when the cables are restored, the truth will bleed through the wires, and the world will know what it chose not to see.

The situation in Gaza is catastrophic, the silence in Australian press and political circles is devastating. My latest on the moral disconnect in Canberra: 'Gaza’s carnage, Australia’s complicity' #auspol @SenatorWong @AustralianLabor open.substack.com/pub/joeljenkin…