"#NSW town flips switch on Australia’s first community-owned solar farm and battery"
A good news.
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"Mariya Takeuchi on Hollywood Boulevard in 1980"
This photo looks surreal.
According to Wikipedia, 'Mariya Takeuchi (竹内 まりや, Takeuchi Mariya) is a Japanese singer-songwriter and record producer. Regarded as the "Queen of City Pop", Takeuchi is one of the best-selling music artists in Japan with over 16 million records sold. Internationally, her 1985 song "Plastic Love" became a sleeper hit and the catalyst of the 21st century revival of city pop.'
De facto the USA has withdrawn from NATO. Can you realistically expect Americans to come to aid if Russians invades Estonia or Latvia tomorrow?
@alice When you take action, their inaction appears as compliance and complicity by comparison. 🤷♂️
#Trump is not an anomaly. He is a mirror of American culture and values. That's why Trump's puppets and judges win everywhere in the USA, despite the disastrous Iran war. 🙄🙄🙄
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/05/indiana-republicans-donald-trump
There’s an interesting history behind the Fujifilm Australia we know today.
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@FlockOfCats@famichiki.jp
Totally agreed.
They have a very strong podcast lineup too.
One of my fav is Amicus with Dahlia Lithwick. I am not even a lawyer or someone who works in the legal field. 😅
Although I have skipped many recent episodes of Amicus because the news is too grim. 🙁
https://slate.com/podcasts/amicus
Almost every headline on Slate is clickbait. Sometimes they do publish good articles and have good counterpoints in them, but the clickbait can feel excessive to the point it is nauseating. :eyeroll:
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@Captain_Jack_Sparrow@mastodon.world
It's absurd because Nigel has been exposed again and again as a very dubious character. Ten years on, Brexit has brought the British no benefit. Leavers thought the UK’s ‘special relationship’ with the US can save them. Trump revealed how Americans truly see the British.
Sadly, far right is also on the rise in Australia. 😞 The traditional right-wing Liberal Party dropped their policies and embraced racism to steal market share from One Nation.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/apr/28/pauline-hanson-one-nation-leadership-guardian-essential-poll-ntwnfb
"The Far Right Could Win France Soon
One year, in one year France will elect its next President and things are getting incredibly tense. The left is fragmented between a socialist anti-racism front and a social-democrat universalist front. The far-right is performing better than ever. "
This is depressing.
#socialdemocrat
#france
#farright
#europe
https://nebula.tv/videos/alicecappelle-the-far-right-could-win-france-soon
This is a good episode about "Luddites".
The host looks back at history and draws comparisons with AI today.
#japan
#history
#luddites
#ArtificialIntelligence
https://www.disruptingjapan.com/the-real-luddites-would-have-loved-ai/
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@anttipeltola@mastodon.world
Creating a successful Facebook replacement has little to do with underlying technology or university education system. Success depends far more on access to deep, liquid capital markets and a large domestic market that can serve as a launching pad for international growth.
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@buck@mastodon.social @Moltz@mastodon.social Tim Cook is leaving. He is working on a succession plan. That's why a lot of Apple old timers are leaving or already left, to make room for the new CEO to appoint their people in the near future.
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"Fed nominee Kevin Warsh declines to say Trump lost 2020 election"
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/fed-nominee-kevin-warsh-declines-to-say-trump-lost-2020-election/ar-AA21oUot
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@TheStoneDonkey @eighthourlunch
Don't give us this "we are innocent" BS ever again.
Trump and these big tech are not "anomalies". They are the product and outcome of the American culture, and Americans have been voting with both their ballot paper and money to make it happen for years.
That’s why Mark Carney’s remarks about middle powers resonate so strongly in the developed world. We, the people living in the civlised world, must stand together to confront the American Nazi.
I really dislike this kind of filler article on SMH. Apparently its target audience skews an older demographic, so there's probably still a significant number of Royalists who lap up anything British Royal Family related and want to read positive coverage of them. 🤷♂️
This article tries to talk up the impact of King Charles. The reality is: given that Trump's mercurial nature, one phone call from Putin and Trump will change his mind.
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@Strandjunker@mstdn.social The MSM in the USA are serving content the Americans want to see. Trump is just a symptom. :eyeroll: