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[Frank S @madfrank55]

@Sean95060825 @giveashitnature I suppose you mean “cite” not “sight”. You appear to equate “value” with using the land for crops and the myth of trickle-down economics. Never mind, there will be no economy when the planet burns.

[Mike Sowden @Mikeachim]

Now THIS is incredible. 26 decommissioned wind turbines from Scotland's first commercial wind farm were - wait for it - 99.9% recycled?!!

Less than 0.1% of their materials into landfill. And 100% of the recycling taking place here in the UK!

Blimey. What a game changer.

[David Pocock @DavidPocock]

How many more warnings do we need before the Australian Govt takes AI risk seriously and legislates some strong guardrails? Then start pushing other countries to work together to slow frontier model development.

This is about much more than just social media harm. The govt is woefully slow and underprepared in responding to frontier AI threats.

[MindArch @mindarchx]

A dead MIT professor accidentally destroyed the $25 billion executive coaching industry with one hour of lecture, and ten million people have already watched him do it.

He filmed it once in January 2018 and died eighteen months later.

Executive coaches charge sixteen thousand dollars a session to teach a third of what he covered in that one hour for free.

His name was Patrick Winston. He ran the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory from 1972 to 1997 and wrote the AI textbook every computer science major in the world read for thirty years.

Every January for four decades, he gave a lecture called "How to Speak."

His entire framework fits on a napkin.

Do not read. Be in the image. Keep images simple. Eliminate clutter. Start with an empathetic connection. End with a punch line the audience can repeat over dinner. Never open with a joke. Never end with "thank you."

That last rule alone has probably cost the executive coaching industry a hundred million dollars.

"Your success in life will be determined largely by your ability to speak, your ability to write, and the quality of your ideas. In that order."

That is the actual opening line of the lecture. Winston believed it strongly enough to spend fifty years teaching computer scientists how to talk.

Founders spend $80,000 on an MBA and then hire a communications coach to teach them the same material Winston filmed once for free. Engineers write brilliant code and lose promotions to teammates who watched this lecture on the train.

The lecture is free on MIT OpenCourseWare. The textbook is free on his page.

Winston died in 2019. Almost none of the ten million viewers have actually implemented the four rules on the napkin.

The napkin is free. The willingness to actually use it in your next meeting is the entire edge.

The answer is in this video. Don't miss this gem.

[Frank S @madfrank55]

@grok @feyereisen63002 @BiatchDulce So for that cohort, only Greece and Italy have higher ratios than USA. So much for the anti-social-democracy argument.

[Frank S @madfrank55]

@feyereisen63002 @BiatchDulce @grok, verify, tabulate ranked government debt to GDP for European and Anglophone countries

[Frank S @madfrank55]

@thesupermanmx Look at this: https://t.co/OEYphn7Hz2

[Paul Roberts @PaulRob11880584]

Credit must be given where it's due. Because the mainstream media is so heavily swayed towards right-wing political parties, the actual achievements of this government need to be more widely heard.

[Frank S @madfrank55]

@DavidPocock Qld premier is claiming data centres will reduce electricity prices for the public. Video on Facebook indicates they will increase and quantum computing will make data centres redundant in less than 4 years. https://t.co/1xNynGnqjz

[Frank S @madfrank55]

MIT Just Proved EVs Are Cleaner Than Petrol Cars EVERYWHERE - Even On Coal https://t.co/IXZvOnhnVa via @YouTube

[Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf 🌏 🦣 @rahmstorf]

Mountain glaciers are losing mass increasingly fast world-wide over the past 75 years in response to #globalwarming. This and permafrost thawing can destabilize mountain sides and cause glacial collapse and flash floods.
World Glacier Monitoring Service

https://t.co/5Yza3b2Mvw

[Frank S @madfrank55]

https://t.co/WDXN2SAnEF

[Frank S @madfrank55]

@Bob_Blaylock @MikeHudema @ChristianAslund These are real photos of glacier retreat at the same Arctic location (Svalbard Norway) taken decades apart in summer showing major glacier retreat.

Older early 20th century photo  from the Norwegian Polar Institute.  Newer photo taken by Swedish photographer Christian Åslund.

[Frank S @madfrank55]

Canada values multiculturism. Maybe poorlean should do a study tour to educate herself? https://t.co/wBVAE818Eu

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

Canada’s founding insight is that unity does not require uniformity. This is neither myth nor miracle, but a series of choices, made imperfectly, across generations. 

On Canadian Multiculturalism Day, we celebrate the diversity that defines our national character:
https://t.co/1NWYyO0NtD

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

BREAKING: "climate change cannot be reversed even by zero emissions" say top scientists

[Frank S @madfrank55]

Here is the sensible response to the Hansonist outrage merchants. They will ignore it of course. https://t.co/r5tI8WTHJg

[Frank S @madfrank55]

@rustyynail888 @TracyWesterman emmigrated

[jeff @Jeff4theclimate]

Don't repost as it upsets Gina

[Dr Tracy Westerman AM @TracyWesterman]

The Sanewashing of Hanson Is at Its Peak.
This is how Trump came to power: platform the lies, skip the follow-up, let the headlines call it “proving her critics wrong.”
We are all watching it happen in real time.
At the National Press Club, Pauline Hanson said the following. Not one claim was challenged by the so called journalists in attendance and she continues to be unchallenged on the facts in every interview she sits.
-1. Unlike the Prime Minister, I welcome scrutiny.” Hypocritical. In the same speech she announced she refuses ABC interviews, will scrap the SBS, & will make the ABC subscription-only. The event allowed 2 hours; standard format gives 25–30 mins for the address. She spoke for 50-halving the time left for questions. When Guardian journalist Sarah Martin used that remaining time to ask about her daughter's $150,000 taxpayer-funded advisor role, Hanson called her “a trashy journalist” and banned her from all future press conferences.
• “Babies are aborted the day before birth.” Fabricated. Late-term abortion is highly restricted, requires medical approval, and occurs only in genuine medical emergencies.
• “Interest rates are heading towards 10%.” False. RBA cash rate: 4.35%. Forecast to fall, not rise.
• “There’s no gender pay gap — just women taking time off.” False. WGEA confirms the gap exists at equal hours, equal roles, regardless of career breaks.
• “$30B a year on Indigenous programs.” False. Only 18% (~$5.6B) is Indigenous-specific. The rest is the Indigenous share of mainstream services every Australian uses.
• Transgender people were compared to “militant Islam.” False and dangerous. ABS data: transgender and gender-diverse Australians make up 1% of the pop’n. There’s no body of research showing transgender ppl commit crime at elevated rates-in fact it shows transgender people are dramatically more likely to be victims of violence— assault, sexual violence, and homicide rates against trans people are well above general population rates in most studies (US, UK, and Aust data all show this pattern)
• “23% of Australians can’t speak English.” False. That 23% speak another language at home — most are bilingual. Limited English proficiency: just 3.2%.
• “The CEFC has had $200 billion.” False by a factor of six. Actual legislated capacity: $33 billion.
• “I care about the homeless and hungry.” Hypocritical. In the same speech, she backed cuts to Indigenous-specific funding — despite Aboriginal homelessness running up to 10 times higher than the non-Indigenous rate.
• $90 billion in cuts, no plan. ~$35 billion of it remains unaccounted for. No modelling.
• “I support worker rights.” False. Voted against minimum wage increases, penalty rates, criminalising wage theft, casual conversion rights, same job same pay, and the right to disconnect. Took a $100,000 pay rise while voting against a tax break for low-paid workers
• Called Australian workers “lazy.” She has attended just 12% of Senate estimates since 2016 & 53% of parliamentary votes. Paid over $200k a year
• Labor have let immigration get out of control.” False. Net overseas migration has fallen every year since the post-COVID peak in 2022-23 — 538,000 → 446,000 → 306,000 in 2024-25. She also recycled a 26-year-old ABS pop’n projection as a fresh “next 50 years” forecast

Said: This beautiful country belongs to all Australians born here and those who have joined us”- in her opening line; then spent the next 50 minutes demanding a monocultural society, comparing transgender Australians to militant Islam, inflating migration and language figures, denying the gender pay gap, and repeating the debunked $30 billion Indigenous funding myth. Welcomed everyone in the first sentence. Spent the rest of the speech defining most of them out — and offered no plan to fix anything she raised, only $90 billion in cuts.
Not one follow-up question. No source data on a single figure in the entire speech. This is what unchallenged looks like.
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