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@SunWeatherMan The Swiss word for kitchen cupboard?

Remember this guy? The patriot veteran who looked at the USA under Biden and cried on 60min over the friends he lost in battle, and over the current degraded state of our country.... He's now being used for Alzheimers ads... Didn't even take the 60MINUTES logo off the image.

@TruthFairy131 It's a shame farmer's can't make their own youtube.com/watch?v=8TOnyA…

🔥 BREAKING 🔥 Glitch shuts Australia's biggest maker of vital fertiliser input for two months. The shutdown of the Yara Pilbara plant comes as a quarter of global trade in ammonia, used for urea fertiliser & mining explosives, is blocked by war. I’m convinced that this war is intended to cause a global depression & famine. Way too many coincidences right now.

@mandotheway100 @cmdibley Yeah, EV's might be cheaper to run, but they lack the soul of a real engine! As a car guy, it's not all about performance.

@cmdibley I’m of an age where I’ll never have to have an EV. I’m not interested. IMO certain petrol cars are better looking and way more exciting than EVs. As for cost. I’m not interested.

Those of us still driving ice cars are doing so for a myriad of reasons but we all know EVs are better & cheaper. Everyone I know intends their next car to be electric. We’ll all be there soon. And I can’t wait.

@claytonmackenz3 @ChrisSpicer1 @KatyKray73 *waves hands* because the grid can't cope!

@ChrisSpicer1 @KatyKray73 Why wouldn't it work in the bush

I don’t want to get me truck serviced at f*cking JB Hi-Fi! 💀 🤣🤣

Did Australia learn nothing from the last Iranian fuel crisis? Labor could reuse this ad…

@Terrytoo69 Sometimes it's cheaper to buy replacement parts for another model that fit. Also modern problems require modern solutions printables.com/contest/475-fr…

Might have to replace our deep freezer because the crappy plastic drawers have cracked after years of faithful service. Buy replacement drawers? Makers have made sure that's just not economical. Bit pissed off.

@Aussie_Snags @eevblog Miele. The best.

@eevblog What model is it?

We never use any other mode on the dishwasher. Quick Power Wash is the fastest, uses the least water, similar energy to others (even ECO mode), and works every time.

@eevblog @rationalaussie It's protected at all levels. Electrical upgrade on my property is requiring three different electricians due to legislated specialisation. Also x.com/macropin/statu…

It's a protected gate kept industry in Australia Even qualified electrical engineers like myself can't get an electrical license (even a restricted one) without starting from scratch, going through the entire apprentice system. Insane. It didn't used to be like this, you could just sit the exam & get your license

The bigger question here - and the real problem - is why does it take 5 years to become an electrician? You're seriously gonna tell me the smartest white collar workers (soon to be unemployed) are effectively prohibited from getting employed as a lucrative tradesperson during the final period where human employment even matters, because of regulations? It's insane. A smart person could turbo charge this in 6 months. The West needs fast-track trades programs.

Identifying and neutralising PEBKACs is SOP in the life of a GRS (Glitch Removal Specialist).

@straceX Using cron, of course.

@straceX Post process all the payments and issue 9,999 refunds.

Interviewer: There is exactly ONE concert ticket left. 10,000 fans click 'Buy' at the exact same millisecond. How do you guarantee only one person gets it without crashing the database?

He literally explained why practicing art grows your soul—not your status.

@TheLastFarm The productivity of sunchokes is unmatched. A few years ago I planted about 15 tubers and harvested enough to fill a 200L cart. Now I'm experimenting with growing them in an unimproved field along with half a dozen other things (chaos) to see if I can get a yield without compost.

Love sunchokes. And if you slowly dial up how much you eat raw each day—very good for your intestinal health—you can house ‘em without fear of explosive gas. Alternatively, you can cook them in anything acidic (water w/ lemon juice) or ferment them to neutralize the inulin

@techspence When I retire I'm going to buy a small farm somewhere quiet.

Tell me you’ve worked in IT without telling me you’ve worked in IT. I’ll go first… Did you try turning it off and back on again?

@shanaka86 Moltbook also requires full read access to the human's Twitter account via an app permission required at signup.

BREAKING: Meta just acquired a social network where humans are banned from posting, built by a founder who never wrote a single line of code, that leaked 1.5 million API keys through a Supabase database with zero security policies enabled, and where Wiz researchers found exactly 17,000 humans puppeteering 1.5 million fake agents through a script loop with no rate limiting. This might be the most important acquisition in tech since WhatsApp. Everyone is debating the wrong question. The debate over whether Moltbook is “AI theatre” or genuine emergence misses the structural shift entirely. Meta did not buy a social network. Meta bought the only functioning coordination protocol for the machine internet, and it did so before anyone else understood what they were looking at. The agent economy has three layers. Intelligence is the foundation models. Execution is individual agents completing autonomous tasks. Coordination is agents discovering, verifying, and orchestrating with other agents without a human directing every interaction. Intelligence is a commodity war between six labs. Execution just got split between OpenAI, which hired OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger in February to build the next generation of personal agents on top of 250,000 GitHub stars and 1.5 million weekly npm downloads, and Meta, which paid over $2 billion for Manus in December, an execution engine that hit $100 million in annual recurring revenue in eight months and processed 147 trillion tokens across 80 million virtual computers. But Layer 3 did not exist until January 28, when Matt Schlicht vibe-coded Moltbook into existence and accidentally created the first persistent agent-to-agent discovery graph. As of today: 194,303 human-verified agents. 18,864 topic-specific coordination channels. Nearly 2 million posts. Over 13 million comments. A registry where agents authenticate via Bearer keys, maintain presence through a 30-minute heartbeat protocol, and coordinate through karma-weighted submolts. Yes, the security was catastrophic. Yes, the 88-to-1 bot-to-human ratio means most early activity was scripted theatre. Yes, Wiz found the entire Postgres database sitting behind an unauthenticated client-side JavaScript key with zero Row Level Security policies. And yes, the founder publicly admitted AI built everything while he directed. None of that invalidates the architecture. The breach was patched in under three hours. The verified registry is the defensible asset. Meta now owns intelligence via Llama, execution via Manus, and coordination via Moltbook, deployed across 3.58 billion daily active users on WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger. No other entity on Earth possesses this stack. In 2014 every analyst on Wall Street called Zuckerberg insane for paying $19 billion for a messaging app with zero revenue. That messaging app became the backbone of global commerce and Meta’s most strategic distribution asset. In 2026 every analyst is calling him insane for buying a vibe-coded AI Reddit that got hacked on day three. The pattern recognition is not subtle. Buy the network graph before anyone understands what it will become. The difference is that WhatsApp connected 2 billion humans. Moltbook connects the machines those humans will deploy. Falsification trigger: if Meta cannot ship verified agent-to-agent coordination features in WhatsApp or Instagram by Q4 2026, the thesis collapses. Watch for the March 16 integration start and the first hardened registry rollout. Whoever owns the protocol layer where autonomous agents discover each other owns the toll bridge of the next technological epoch. And Zuckerberg just bought it for less than a single quarter of Meta’s AI capital expenditure budget. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

@HQNewsNow Nice shoes. It's a shame no one taught him how to tie a balanced knot.

Sources say Trump purchases specific shoes for his inner circle, and that everyone is "afraid not to wear them." Marco Rubio was photographed wearing the alleged shoes despite them being too large.

@friendlyjordies How good are Pro Gear sunnies! I like this character. He seems sensible.

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@SocraticScribe The real show here is how good the tuner in the (Chinese) Xiegu G90 is at handling large a mismatch.

The guy using random objects in our surroundings to tune radio frequency he does a guard rail, barbed ranch fence, a baseball backstop, and this one a metal carport, highlighting how your shelter can be your antenna.

2026 thinking about the simpler times of 2025:

@eevblog This is exactly how newspaper polls work. I worked at a market research company more than 20 years ago running a poll for the Telegraph (IIRC), and between the questions we were asking and the "random" phone numbers we were calling the survey result was guaranteed.

I propose the term "Authority Laundering" for when companies pay legitimate reputable 3rd party test companies to do the exact narrow testing they want done, nothing more, nothing less. And then using that report as evidence that all their claims must therefore be true.