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[Umesh Kumar Yadav @Umesh__digital]

Dennis Ritchie created C in the early 1970s without Google, Stack Overflow, GitHub, or any AI ( Claude, Cursor, Codex) assistant.

- No VC funding.
- No viral launch.
- No TED talk.
- Just two engineers at Bell Labs. A terminal. And a problem to solve.

He built a language that fit in kilobytes.

50 years later, it runs everything.

Linux kernel. Windows. macOS.

Every iPhone. Every Android.

NASA’s deep space probes.

The International Space Station.

> Python borrowed from it.
> Java borrowed from it.
> JavaScript borrowed from it.

If you have ever written a single line of code in any language, you did it in Dennis Ritchie’s shadow.

He died in 2011.
The same week as Steve Jobs.
Jobs got the front pages.
Ritchie got silence.

This Legend deserves to be celebrated.

[Australian Patriot. @JimThom90458694]

A group of everyday Aussies making their voice heard outside Parliament, calling for politicians to feel the same cost-of-living pressure as everyone else before asking families to tighten their belts further. It's a message that resonates with a lot of households doing it tough right now. Fair call, or too simple a fix for a bigger problem?
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#Australia #CostOfLiving #Politics #Debate

[Michelle @ricochet_888]

YES Absolutely 💯

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Can we pass a law that says that Government is never allowed to say "free" and instead they must always say "tax-payer funded"?

[Senator Alex Antic @SenatorAntic]

Today I am introducing the Broadcasting Services Amendment (Register of Media Interests) Bill 2026.

If passed the Bill would require journalists and others inside the media to publicly disclose what they earn, any gifts they receive and the origin of same.

If the news media in this country are as influential as we are told, then Australians deserve to know this information.

[The White Rabbit Podcast @AllBiteNoBark88]

Australians are being RIPPED OFF!!!
This family used less than $20 of Water 💧 yet their Bill is $185.05?
A large block for sewage & other costs for Parks?

[Melinda Richards 🇦🇺🇺🇸 @goodfoodgal]

Quick question:

Why to Coles and Woolworths (Australia’s 2 major supermarket companies) need to install Facial recognition technology?

[Alexandra Marshall @ellymelly]

This is absolutely HILARIOUS.

@JEChalmers got ratioed AND community-noted.

So he put it up again.

And it's happening again.

Labor is panicking because - shock horror - people might withdraw their $4 trillion from the super.

Chalmers thinks this $4 trillion is a government asset. He looks at it like a magical money tree he can keep taxing. He doesn't want anyone to realise that it's money held against the will of the people who own it - YOU. And he absolutely doesn't want to have a conversation about how much super politicians get on top of their salary, while the poorer working classes have it taken out of their take-home pay.

At the end of the day - YOUR money should be yours to do with as you please. You earned it.

During a wealthy era of Australia's history, Labor conned people into thinking they could make 'shitloads of money' from Super. It wasn't true.

We still pay pensions.

Politicians got a MASSIVE super pay bonus.

While the biggest legacy of compulsory super is ... a massive decline in home ownership.

Yes.

The legacy of compulsory super is home ownership class divide where the poor had to hand over their money instead of investing it in a home.

You can trace Australia's declining productivity and rise in rentals straight to super rises.

[JP__75 @JP__75]

Can someone explain why politicians can retire from politics, collect massive taxpayer-funded pensions for life, then walk straight into the private sector earning huge salaries without it affecting their pension? Meanwhile, ordinary Australians can have their Age Pension reduced or taken away simply because they keep working and earning an income. How does that make any sense?

#auspol

[Tyler Green @GreenTyler27]

This is a fantastic little illustration of money and purchasing power. A 10-cent Australian coin sitting beside an ordinary steel washer.

At Bunnings today: 50 × M8 zinc-plated washers: $8.60 = 17.2¢ each

Buy one galvanised M8 washer: 20¢

Buy 200 zinc-plated M8 washers: $15.75 = 7.9¢ each

So depending on how you buy them, an ordinary washer can literally retail for considerably more than the face value of the 10-cent coin sitting beside it. Of course, drilling holes in coins isn’t the answer, but the picture makes a serious point. The coin hasn’t become smaller and the washer hasn’t become extraordinary it’s the purchasing power of our money has changed. Inflation isn’t just prices going up, it’s your currency actually buying less.

[Craig Kelly:🇦����Foundation for Economic Education @craigkellyAFEE]

$2.5 Million Per Job

Australia is in deep trouble. We are being governed by a pack of incompetent clowns.

Blowing $2.5 billion to “secure” just 1,000 jobs works out to a grotesque $2.5 million per job.

Tomago was once a genuine wealth-creating industry — until Net Zero fanaticism destroyed its economic viability.

Now it’s nothing more than a taxpayer-funded handout of $2.5 million per worker just to keep the doors from slamming shut.

Where the hell is this money coming from?

Which productive industries are supposed to generate the extra profits to bankroll this insanity?

And what happens when the cash finally runs out?

Aluminium smelters need reliable power 24/7. You cannot produce aluminium at an internationally competitive price with Chinese-made solar panels, wind turbines and batteries.

Until we ditch this Net Zero madness, Australia will keep sliding backwards.

[Australia, Explained @AusExplained]

Dear ABC,

If you're looking for opinions on the Census Data, here's mine.

I'm a former data analyst (crime), but I also designed a data matching algorithm still used today by Victoria Police because of its effectiveness, so I have some professional skin in the game.

I am unable to defend the 2026 prioritisation of Census questions.

How does "We urgently need nationally exhaustive information about whether someone identifies as straight, gay, bisexual or another sexual orientation"...

While we didn't obtain nationally exhaustive information about whether households can access a GP,

whether they have unmet childcare needs,

whether working people commute three days rather than five,

whether households are involuntarily overcrowded because they cannot find housing.

Or these types of questions, which would surely be hard to argue against from a prioritisation perspective of best value for data capture, and best opportunity for Australians to provide a holistic picture of their lives;

Citizenship / visa or residency status (because Country of birth doesn't tell government whether someone is a citizen, permanent resident, international student, temporary worker, etc. Those populations can impose quite different infrastructure/service demands).

Year a non-Australian-born person obtained permanent residency/citizenship (because there is much better longitudinal information about settlement and integration than birthplace alone)

Primary mode of transport normally used (Census asks about journey-to-work circumstances, but hybrid/WFH has made a single Census-day travel snapshot much less informative than it once was).

Housing capacity/occupancy pressure (Bedrooms alone is crude. Ask whether people are sharing bedrooms, using converted garages/studies, or accommodating people who would otherwise live elsewhere. That's enormously relevant during a housing shortage).

Reason adults remain in/shared household (Understanding drivers of Financial necessity, caring, cultural preference, disability, housing unavailability etc...would distinguish genuine housing stress from chosen multigenerational living & inform other pressure points th Government can focus on).

Internet quality/access (As infrastructure in its own right, particularly with WFH, telehealth and online government services).

Household energy characteristics (Solar, battery, EV charging, gas/electric heating etc... would be extraordinarily useful for electricity-grid infrastructure planning)

Many of these variables have extremely obvious relationships with hospitals, roads, rail, schools, housing, childcare, workforce participation and infrastructure investment.

The ABS also removed “number of children ever born” from the 2026 Census (it will return in 2031).... while introducing gender and sexual orientation.

From a strategic-planning perspective, fertility and family formation are among the most consequential long-term variables imaginable. They affect future school enrolments, workforce size, dependency ratios, healthcare demand and population ageing.

This missed opportunity to capture all those above mentioned data sets to inform in policy/planning areas isn't just a shame, it's borderline failure of professional judgement.

We removed access to data that could inform those things, and replaced it with gender questions.

Who managed to convince a ABS strategic review board
“We don't have enough justification to collect fertility information every Census, but sexual orientation warrants universal national collection every five years”??

I'd love to see the cost-benefit/consequences methodology behind that decision !

The reality is the Census can only ask so many questions, and we should prioritise the ones that provide the greatest benefit for planning Australia's future, not pander to the "feelings" of a tiny majority of people that got warm and fuzzy because a national census survey "affirmed" their gender.

Thank you, if you read this.

[Alexandra Marshall @ellymelly]

When did Andrew Bolt become so ... I don't know.

He had a huge meltdown last night about Trump's decision to calm down the number of childhood vaccines given to infants - to separate some of them out a bit - and called for a proper investigation into autism concerns.

The onscreen headlines?

"US PRESIDENT PUSHES DANGEROUS THEORY - Trump changes child vaccine schedule, peddles false autism link."

His guest even contradicted his claims of conspiracy theories etc and Bolt seemed flabbergasted.

Then he finished with:

"I just hope that Robert F Kennedy Jnr - he's got a few kangaroos loose in the top paddock - and I hope his latest conspiracy theory doesn't lead to dead kids."

What a thing to say about the man pushing to make America healthy.

Honestly.

[Mickamious @MickamiousG]

Rates went up across every council.
Services have been cut at some councils over certain areas.

Reality > Councils are full of shit.

They waste money on nonsense instead of focusing on the primary things they should be

Roads, Rates & Rubbish

[Melinda Richards 🇦🇺🇺🇸 @goodfoodgal]

Taxation in Australia is theft.

Pure and simple.

[Melinda Richards 🇦🇺🇺🇸 @goodfoodgal]

The taxation system in Australia is sending us in a downward spiral and at the bottom is socialism.

[Alexandra Marshall @ellymelly]

Everyone who has a job must prove their economic value to receive pay.

The government TAKES a huge percentage of most people's wages and business profits.

And yet at no point does the government have to prove its value.

It takes. It spends. It wastes. It actively damages productivity.

This has to end. We pay too much and get too little. At this point, this is an abusive relationship.

[Derrick Evans @DerrickEvans4WV]

Can’t even make this up.

Guy goes to film a Flock office building. He is met by Flock employees who say they don’t feel safe being surveilled.

I’m sorry, what….but they think it’s ok to mass surveil the American people.