Jez

Deep in cleantech. Dipping toes into NFTs

[Jez @Jeremy_Atkin]

I've decided to start tweeting.

Going to try to post something every day following the mantra of 'strong opinions, weakly held'.

A mix of sport, pop culture, ClimateTech and Web3 or whatever interests me on the day

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@puppyeh1 I’ll take the other side of this bet.

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“Australia is becoming a banana republic - we should be more like the US”

[Katherine Faulders @KFaulders]

NEWS -- President Trump is expected to drop his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service in exchange for the creation of a $1.7 billion fund to compensate allies who claim they were wrongfully targeted by the Biden administration, sources tell me @PCCharalambous @alex_mallin https://t.co/tuEUDtJvks

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@frankmikesmith Granted I’ve only played this one day but this is way too US-centric

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@MarkDiStef @gearside “The government should have funded the abc more to enable more punting on unproven kids IP” is such an absurdly revionist take

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Up 20% since this tweet. @OldTakesExposed

[Keith Rabois @rabois]

@NateSilver538 $80 and crashing.

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@HuwTindall @rugby_podcast It’s not valetini and it’s not mcreight. And he’s got a lot of work to do to get ahead of hooper so…

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@Luck_7773 It’s Clarke

[Nirgal451 🇦🇺🇺🇦 @Nirgal451]

All these things can be true at the same time.

The Bondi shooting was perpetrated by two Islamist terrorists.

The Bondi shooting targeted Jewish people at a Hanukkah celebration.

The actual shooting was over in 6 minutes, with police shooting back within 4 minutes at the latest.

All video evidence so far indicates that all NSW Police officers acted bravely given the circumstances.

Antisemitism has been on the rise in Australia since Islamist Hamas terrorists and other Islamist terrorists, including "civilians", launched the October 7 attacks, murdering, kidnapping, and wounding almost 5,000 people, primarily Jewish people.

It is very important to remember that history did not begin on 7 October 2023.

It was perfectly legitimate for Israel to respond to the October 7 attack.

Hamas should be eliminated and should not be part of Gaza's future.

The scale and extent of that response is open to criticism. Mistakes were made.

Criticising Israel and its actions is not antisemitism.

Criticising Zionism is not antisemitism. Zionism is a political movement, not a religion.

Criticising Benjamin Netanyahu is most definitely not antisemitism. He is most likely corrupt, and the way he has run Israel for a large part of the last 30 years has been to the detriment of all Jewish people, all Israelis, and everyone else on the planet.

Australia's gun laws are good and have been a tremendous success but should be strengthened where there are weaknesses.

On the whole, immigration to Australia is not the problem. Australia can handle an annual net immigration rate of 0.9%. Australia is a successful multicultural society, but we can do better, and new immigrants must make every effort to integrate into Australian society.

The Muslim community must make every effort to rid itself of extremists. Islamic terrorism is a cancer that must be weeded out.

The Australian Government should do more to combat antisemitism. The simple fact is that the Albanese Government has looked at the numbers and decided they didn't want to push harder against antisemitism, particularly in the Muslim community.

However, it's highly unlikely that even if all the proposals in the flawed Segal Report were implemented, the tragedy that happened in Bondi would have been prevented.

The Segal Report is flawed but does make some good suggestions, because it is based on a problematic definition of antisemitism.

May the memory of all those murdered be a blessing and may all those injured make a swift recovery.

Anyway, that is all for now.

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@puppyeh1 We don’t know that though. There’s every chance this was sponsored by some foreign entity (like the firebombings of the daycare centres by Iran).

Either way. We shouldn’t be arguing about this. There’s blood on the grass like 5km from our houses. It’s fucking horrible.

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@puppyeh1 “No mercy” is an insane thing to type in this situation.

Leaving that aside, and I get this is deeply traumatic but surely you understand he can’t just go off half-cocked. He has to follow whatever advice he’s receiving.

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Evergreen tweet

[SimpsonsCricket @CricketSimpsons]

YAAAAAAAY! DINGERS! DINGERS! #AUSvIND

Credit: Michelle Stanton

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@IFM_Economist How much does fiscal policy impact this (if at all)? Aus has been running a basically balanced budget for the last 4-5 years whereas the US has been running huge deficits?

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@clairlemon You make some good points but ignore the reality that the costs of decarbonisation are going to be paid eventually. Delaying action just makes it our kids’ problem.

And calling nuclear, reforestation and carbon capture “practical solutions” is magical thinking…

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@john_macgowan @MarkDiStef @mattjcan Does anyone actually think this? (Serious question)

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@markpinc @theallinpod This is such a bullshit confirmation bias take. He literally says the words “that’s not the only reason” that people switched to Trump. He literally says the border was poorly handled.

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Jimmy Kimmel did not say Charlie Kirk’s murderer was MAGA.

What he said was that many MAGA commentators and Trump specifically were more interested in pointing fingers than in genuinely mourning.

Insensitive? Sure.

A hateful viscous lie? No

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@puppyeh1 To be clear I'm not sure it's possible to make definitive statements either way.

Other than "Extremism and violence are bad and moderates need to unite to condemn extremism which ever direction it's coming from"

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@puppyeh1 This is only half the story. Having looked at the data - it's pretty clearly skewed by recency bias. Looking at the data over a period of time makes this clear. For example - here is a chart from March last year.

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@puppyeh1 Huge swathes of the right do the same. It’s all bad.