Is AUKUS the worst, most costly and riskiest defence decision Australia has ever made?

Do yourself a favour and listen to this podcast from The Australia Institute exploring the enormous financial costs, strategic risks and questions of sovereignty surrounding the AUKUS submarine deal. An important conversation about Australia's future and defence priorities.
https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/aukus-the-worst-most-costly-and-riskiest-australian-defence-decision-ever/

#AUKUS #AusPol #Defence #NationalSecurity #AustralianSovereignty

Also while I’m randomly live tooting my travel experiences, I’ve experienced Korea as a place that wants indoors MUCH warmer than I’m used to. I think it’s because of the heated floors (ondol). They are incredibly effective, to the point where I’m sometimes using AC in small rooms where I don’t control them (the hanok room, for example), to lower the temp.

It’s also possible that I think I’ve got them turned off when I don’t. There are some spots of the marble floor where I’m staying now that seem to be still on, and on high (kinda burning my bare feet at one point). I can’t tell if this is by design or not. 🤣

It does explain why the plane ride over felt so insanely hot, though, if people are just used to warmer rooms.

When you spend all afternoon poring over the docs trying to do something, and it turns out the first thing you tried should have worked and there was just a bug.

#dogs 🐶

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@JEmphatically/117601813269166822

when conservatives say “cut red tape” they mean “let industry break laws”

I’ve been a bit too addicted to big tech lately and my work is about to drive me into an Adobe subscription. The hold that these companies have on our lives is outrageous. I dream of being able to live life with only a POTS line and printed directions from the young internet.

REALLY shoulda gotten that final/tenth one, too, given I’m only a few weeks removed from the History of English Podcast episode(s) about the topic. Still tho. 9/10 ain’t bad, for sure.

catfishing.net
#872 - 9/10 🎉
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Ew, ew, ew — I’m less anti-#AI than many of my friends, but this @404mediaco about #Muse is a stark example of Doing It Wrong: https://www.404media.co/muse-sexts-roleplaying-real-people/

tl;dr — Muse will quite happily impersonate real people (or barely-shaded versions of them), and roleplay them in sexual situations.

The article points out the sheer hypocrisy of this, given Meta’s blue-nosed attitude towards all forms of sexual content from actual human beings.

As always, Sex Sells, so I’m not actually *surprised* by any of this, but it’s pretty galling on multiple levels…

My morning view. Sadly I think this is the only day it’s not forecast to rain. But we did have the most fucking delicious black pork Korean BBQ over homemade charcoal bricks last night. So if I’m stuck inside, we will go back there. #Jeju

Corey Robin:

I'm kinda getting the feeling that these libs and centrists just don't like the left.

https://substack.com/@coreyrobin/note/c-384950391

RE: https://ottawa.place/@stephanie/117604949961931846

carney's “digital sovereignty” looks like

RE: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/117592999181546016

I used my @inference.coop membership to turn my old printer into a smart hub for the whole family. https://nathanschneider.info/2026/11/from-ai-rabbit-holes-to-a-warm-den-co-building-the-inference-cooperative/

Fair Source lets you read the code and forbids you from competing with it for two years. The clock runs per release, so the version you may compete with is always two years old, including security fixes.

Fairtrade gives growers half the votes. Fair Source's definition was written by the vendors who use it.

The right to fork is how a community holds a steward to account. The AGPLv3 stops hosted freeloaders without taking that away.

https://gaggl.com/blogs/2026-11-13-enclosure-on-a-timer/

#SoftwareLicensing #FOSS #FairSource #OpenSource #AGPL

IT RAIN!!!

Ok but how's the 3dfx stock doing. My giant horde of Voodoo Graphics Cards are still a safe investment right

RE: https://mastodon.art/@mobydick/117605665103226617

This is ponderous, man. Really ponderous.

https://liberationnews.org/final-ohio-results-disprove-spoiler-nonsense-about-socialist-greg-levy/

#USPol #socialism

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RE: https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/117605130319433718

Oh no. Not Outlook, Sharepoint, and Teams. How awful.

(I suppose given my list of tech products I despise I should go ahead and say, no, I had nothing to do with this outage other than laughing at it and enjoying it.)

#gnomember let’s see gnome pics

I see a lot of people dunking on Jensen Huang, but I have a lot of compassion for people who lose their job, or make bad decisions and end up on hard times. If he showed up at my food shelf, I would offer him a wide variety of canned goods, rice and pasta, cereal, frozen meat, and fresh vegetables. We work really hard to keep it stocked. In the last 3 days I've tried to help two people who were evicted, one facing court-ordered payments to avoid eviction, several others already sleeping outside in Vermont in November or asking for support to get in a hotel to avoid that. If Jensen were facing any of those problems I would help him with no judgement even if he had a heroin habit, which I wouldn't even ask about. #JensenHuang