And cats can just instinctively figure out a litter box. Big reason why I like cats. 😂
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One wonders if many white Australians, like white Americans, can't stand the idea of immigrants being more qualified than they are.
Pearls and IrritationsAustralia has skills shortages, yet almost half of skilled migrants are working below their qualification level. A clogged recognition system is wasting teachers, nurses, engineers and tradespeople already here, John Menadue writes. #auspol #Migration #Skills
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I get that most ppl won't know this, but this website is a News Corp site and this journalist in particular is a really really nasty piece of work. Please share the original @404media.co that NC is copying for clicks www.404media.co/ai-companies...
AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI SlopISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.”www.404media.coDr. Jeroen W.P. WijnendaeleNo longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.
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One shocking ICE escalation after another in this story from @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social prospect.org/2026/07/28/i...
ICE Finds New Ways to Expand Detention - The American ProspectCommunity members in Louisiana packed a board meeting to protest a camp for women and children last week. Only half the board showed up, and one member slept through the meeting.prospect.org⟳ Репост от Birdpoof
I don't think melting thousands of video cards inside a big air conditioned building is a good way to manage the integration of solar power into a grid. If you care about decarbonisation and fossil fuel elimination, all this does is shift the finish line further away.
Data centres are already helping flatten solar duck curve, and there are 9 gigawatts more seeking grid connectionData centres are already helping reshape the grid and flatten the solar duck curve, but AEMO says some 9 GW are seeking connections, and that's another issue.reneweconomy.com.au
Republicans are among the worst people alive today.
CIDRAPState Department agrees to reinstate vaccine funding for Gavi The department had been withholding $600 million in congressionally appropriated funds for the international vaccine partnership. Read more: https://bit.ly/4fu654L 📷: WHO/Ismail Taxta
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The state accounted for nearly one-quarter of all incidents nationwide documented by the Physicians for Human Rights and the Human Rights Center at the University of California Berkeley.
Study finds 94 cases of crowd-control weapon misuse during Minnesota ICE protestsThe state accounted for nearly one-quarter of all incidents nationwide documented by the Physicians for Human Rights and the Human Rights Center at the University of California Berkeley. While rubber ...www.mprnews.orgHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
paris martineauThe CDC just updated its cyclospora surveillance data. It now says it has received reports of more than 19,000 cases since May 1st, though 11,500 of those haven't been confirmed yet. To put that into perspective, there were about 2,800 cases reported annually in the US between 2016 and 2023.
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If the entire Democratic Party is being asked by the press and pundits about a few DSA candidates in NYC, it seems like the entire Republican Party should be asked about their colleague who has been credibly accused -- by another colleague's daughter -- of repeated acts of violence.
Eric UmanskyGOP House member--and fmr Trump advance man--allegedly -threw boiling water on his then-wife -held a gun to her head -broke his daughter's collarbone. She's 2 -abused abuse a fmr Trump WHer too When a reporter asked him about it , he threatened to block their # www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/u...