Hunter Living Histories

Community Unity. All things history for Newcastle Mulubinba & wider Hunter and Central Coast Regions, New South Wales, Australia.

[Democracy Now! @democracynow]

Historian Alfred McCoy says global empires rise by mastering new energy systems, as China is currently doing with renewables. “China is absolutely dominant in every aspect of this green energy revolution,” says McCoy.

https://t.co/CmKM7Sk57U

[Prof. Carl Sagan @ProfCarlSagan]

Carl Sagan explains how the Ancient Greek knew the earth was round.

[Prof. Carl Sagan @ProfCarlSagan]

We have to simply come to grips with the real universe that we really live in and if some of our myth and some of our religion is inconsistent with it, it's time to change the myth and the religion.

[Saganism @Saganismm]

Carl Sagan explains how the ancient Greeks knew the Earth was round and calculated its circumference over 2,000 years ago.

[David Shoebridge @DavidShoebridge]

Every wondered how many guns are in your suburb? We have built a tool that shows registered firearms by postcode across NSW.

https://t.co/IbimDJzZSG

Having access to data can help us all understand how our gun laws are actually working (or failing to work!)

[Phillip Adams @PhillipAdams_1]

Today at the University of Newcastle. Old bloke getting an Hon Doc Thanks for your kindness

[Hunter Living Histories @hunterhistories]

@PhysInHistory Very true

[Hunter Living Histories @hunterhistories]

Newcastle: Generations of Pride, the lates film in the Stories of Our Town series (on the LGBTIQ histories of the Hunter Region Australia) was launched at Bernie’s Bar (The famous Star Hotel) last night and we love it! https://t.co/bXYbWxtQ85

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Mark Zuckerberg is building a data center in Louisiana that will use 3x more electricity than all of New Orleans.

Oligarchs want YOU to pay for these data centers with higher water & electric bills.

Americans must fight back against billionaires who put profits over people.

[💧Michael West @MichaelWestBiz]

Dear Fossil Cookers, please see cost of solar and wind v gas and coal in this chart .. then go and have a nice lie down

[💧Michael West @MichaelWestBiz]

Why are electricity bills so high? The Coalition & fossil media say renewables. It's actually coal, gas and corporate profiteering. We look at the evidence
#auspol
https://t.co/LqgT9B5oJF

[Prof. Carl Sagan @ProfCarlSagan]

Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own.

- Plato

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Netflix quietly filmed a final interview with Dr. Jane Goodall, to be released only after her death.

In it, she jokes about blasting Trump and Elon Musk into space… then leaves the world with two words:

“Don’t lose hope.”

A legendary sign-off.

[Hunter Living Histories @hunterhistories]

Hunter Living Histories 2025 Annual Report https://t.co/waBooMwyrE and all the posts here: https://t.co/uF2sG3bNNe

[Hunter Living Histories @hunterhistories]

@strangerous10 @DavidShoebridge You are a polite and respectful person with people (at great public expense) who need to be shown the door.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Refugees didn’t underfund our schools.

Refugees didn’t privatise our public services.

Refugees didn’t close our hospitals.

Stop scapegoating refugees and tackle the real cause of society’s ills: a rigged economic system that concentrates wealth in the hands of the few.

[Hunter Living Histories @hunterhistories]

@strangerous10 @DavidShoebridge We appear to have a real problem with what these public servants understand about serving the public.

[Declassified Australia @DeclassifiedAus]

NEW DECLASSIFIED AUSTRALIA

Australia has signed up to a system where, at a moment’s notice, RAAF’s F-35 fighter jet ‘parts and components’ may be whisked off the shelves at the RAAF Williamtown Air Base in New South Wales on the whim of a foreign state to be exported to a foreign country in a distant war zone.

SELLING OUT OUR SOVEREIGNTY
https://t.co/yPNlvliUxZ

[Pascal Bornet @pascal_bornet]

A 17-year-old just built a mind-controlled prosthetic arm for $300.

Yes, $300.

For something that usually costs $450,000.

Let that hit you.

A teenager, working from home, used AI, cheap materials, and 23,000 lines of code to build a device that reads brain signals without surgery, without implants, and without a $450K price tag.

This is not a feel-good story.

It’s a warning shot.

How can a high school student build something 1,500× cheaper than the industry standard?

What does that say about innovation?

About pricing?

About who gets access to life-changing technology?

Of course, medical prosthetics are expensive for real reasons:
materials, testing, regulation, customization.

But let’s be honest — not all of that justifies a half-million-dollar price.

This story exposes a simple truth:

The future of accessibility won’t come from the system.

It will come from the outsiders who dare to challenge it.

If a 17-year-old can match top-tier prosthetics for a fraction of the cost…

why aren’t these solutions available to the millions who need them?

What do you think — breakthrough moment or the start of a bigger revolution?

#AI #Innovation #Healthcare #Accessibility #FutureOfTech

[Hunter Living Histories @hunterhistories]

@Wisdom_HQ Kindness