Matt Osborn

Angie’s husband. Eddie and Bennett’s dad. Councillor at @CityofPAE. @ASUnion_SANT proud. @Deakin and @UniOfAdelaide alumnus. @PAFC & @Celtics fan.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

I see your profile picture. That’s Johnny Cash. My hero too. Arrested seven times. Smuggled 668 amphetamines across the Mexican border in 1965. Took every drug there was and drank like I did. Cheated on his first wife. Slept with more woman than I ever did. Hit bottom in a cave in Tennessee in 1968 trying to crawl off and die. And then he got up. He got clean. He spent the rest of his life singing for prisoners and addicts and the people the country threw away because he knew he was one of them.

That was the whole point of the Man in Black. He wore it for the poor and the beaten down. He wore it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime. He wore it for the ones who never heard a word of Jesus. He wore it for the addicted and the dying. He wore it as a standing witness that no one is past saving.

You picked his picture. You did not pick his message. Try listening to the words.

[Alex Prompter @alex_prompter]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[Dr.Hamza Alsharif 🇵🇸 @Hamzasharif5750]

For those who don't know.

Gaza now has the highest rate of children with amputated limbs in all of modern history.

Something you stand before with great sadness and shock,

not a passing news story.

[Matt Osborn @MattOsborn]

@hoopshype Tim Duncan. Underrated AF.

[Our World in Data @OurWorldInData]

✍️ New article: Battery costs have declined by 99% in the last three decades, making electrified transport a reality—

Over 20 million electric cars were sold globally in 2025 — some for as little as $10,000. Even just two decades ago, that would have been impossible.

The reason it's possible now? Batteries have gotten *much* cheaper.

In 1991, lithium-ion battery cells cost around $9,200 per kilowatt-hour. By 2024, that had fallen to just $78 — a decline of more than 99%. You can see this in the chart.

To put that in perspective: the battery cells in a standard electric car today cost around $5,000. In 1991, those same cells would have cost nearly $600,000.

There was no single breakthrough behind this. Batteries follow a “learning curve”: as cumulative production grows, thousands of small improvements in chemistry, manufacturing, and supply chains drive prices down.

Since 1998, every time global cumulative battery production doubled, the price dropped by roughly 19%.

Early progress was driven by consumer electronics — phones and laptops — before the technology became viable for cars, buses, and larger energy storage.

Energy density has also more than tripled since the 1990s, meaning batteries can now store far more energy for their volume.

The half-a-million-dollar battery was never going to transform transport. The $5,000 battery is.

[Matt Osborn @MattOsborn]

@Elections__SA @one_nationSA *Port Adelaide Enfield

[Matt Osborn @MattOsborn]

@Elections__SA @one_nationSA If you’re suggesting this is Nat Cook’s final term, that’s a big call.

[Adelaide 36ers @Adelaide36ers]

YOU KNOW WHO. 🔥

SERIES TIED!

[Sean Cowan @Sean_D_Cowan]

Vale Dennis Cometti.
West Perth player. Footscray ressies. Ammos for Wanneroo. Coach at Maddington, Ossie Park, Kelmscott and WP.
The soundtrack of my generation. A master of the one-liner and the perfectly timed pause.
Made the game sound better.
Rest easy to one of the greats.

[Matt Osborn @MattOsborn]

“And since I'd achieved all my Bazball goals for the Boxing Day Test in two days, there was no need for a third, fourth, or fifth. The end. Hmm, good memoirs. Good, not great.”

#Ashes

[Mike Rann @Mike_Rann]

Australians didn’t blame the Howard government for the Port Arthur Massacre. They didn’t call Howard’s embrace of tougher gun laws a “diversion”. Instead, there was strong bipartisan support. Australia’s leaders united to put the national interest first. Times have changed.

[Matt Osborn @MattOsborn]

@AlisonMitchell Jason Gillespie is being suspiciously quiet about players who wear unconventional sunglasses…

[Matt Osborn @MattOsborn]

@crmarkbasham @BBCSport Better than 6 7 wickets 🫠

[Dr. Ezzideen @ezzingaza]

Since early morning, my family and I have been living in a state of total psychological collapse.
Today we learned that our homes, our land, and our entire neighborhood, every house belonging to our family and our neighbors, have been completely erased. Bulldozed. Flattened into a barren stretch of yellow dust.

From the first light of day, we have been living the full meaning of defeat.
We have lost more than seventy members of our family. We have lost our land.
We now have no home to return to, no walls to protect us, no place left to call our own.

And then, one of Hamas’s leaders appears on television declaring that “the people have not been defeated,” that “Gaza has stood firm and fought a historic war.”

So let history record this:
I, Dr. Ezzideen Shehab, from Gaza, together with my family, my friends, and their families, did not fight any war.
We were the victims of an annihilation ignited by Hamas from within our homes, only for the Israeli army to descend upon us and unleash its full cruelty on the civilians of Gaza, while Hamas’s fighters vanished into their tunnels.

Let history record the truth: we were defeated, utterly, painfully, and completely defeated.
And it is we, the people of Gaza, who have the right to say whether we were defeated or not, not those who sit comfortably in Qatar or Turkey.

We were crushed, humiliated, and broken after our city was destroyed, occupied, and erased from existence.
We were displaced, stripped of everything we had built, left to wander through the ruins of our own lives.

And somewhere amid all this, I understood something simple and terrible:
My mother’s tears are holier than the homeland itself, and my father’s brokenness matters more to me than any flag.
Because what meaning does a homeland hold when it devours the ones you love, when it glorifies death but forgets the living?

We were not steadfast. We were held hostage in our own land.
We could not leave. We could not change those who claimed to rule us.
We were trapped between a merciless occupier and rulers who feed on our suffering.

And if there is one moment in my life when I must speak the truth, without fear, without hesitation, then this is that moment.

Let it be written clearly:
We were not soldiers in a war.
We were the bodies buried beneath it.

#GazaGenocide

[Matt Osborn @MattOsborn]

@AFL @Telstra Time to induct Mike into the Hall of Fame

[Peter Malinauskas @PMalinauskasMP]

Saddened to hear about the passing of the legendary Barrie Robran MBE.

A Whyalla boy who was one of South Australia's greatest footballers, a state treasure.

On behalf of all Government of South Australia, I extend our deepest condolences to his wife Taimi, sons Matthew and Jonathan, grandchildren, and his wider family.

May he rest in peace.

[Sean Kelly @mrseankelly]

This week's column was about a lot of things, including party discipline and topics not discussed enough and voices outside the parliament. But this is the bit I'd like more people to think about:

[Matt Osborn @MattOsborn]

These three players have collectively achieved three AFL premierships, as well as 196 games and 185 goals at the top level.

Sure it’s just one fella contributing, but still.

Welcome to Greenacres Football Club, Paul Puopolo.

[Peter Dutton @Hon_PeterDutton]

You dirty lefties are too easy. Enjoy your weekend.

[Barrie Cassidy @barriecassidy]

And Albanese won’t only be the first PM to win back to back elections since Howard he will be the first PM ever to increase his majority after a first election victory. Menzies, Howard, Hawke, Fraser did not.