They’ve been at the red cordial in Canberra, I see. As if anyone outside that pissy little bubble world gives a fuck.
Apparently I’m not the only one who felt this way. twitter.com/glenndunks/sta…

I need a drink. pic.twitter.com/Cy4U0DYJqD
That podcast with @leslienassar is also available on @SoundCloud soundcloud.com/skankmedia/c00… and @spreaker spreaker.com/user/skankmedi… (2/2)
Re-plug: @leslienassar and I made a podcast. Would you like more like this? corruptednerds.com/pod/c00015/ (1/2)

New blog post: “Weekly Wrap 287: Satisfactory start to summer, with flowers” stilgherrian.com/weekly-wrap/28… pic.twitter.com/IlfCXXtwFH

THE_47th You will never unsee this.
NEVER.
Via @ianbremmer pic.twitter.com/FLCDGAGKbl
Mmmmmmm. Salt. twitter.com/NewtonMark/sta…
@CMSheen2 It’s a lovely 27C today.
Peta Credlin in Peta Credlin Is An Awful Human Being shock. twitter.com/isaacforman/st…
@michaelneale @R_Chirgwin Well yes, the results were significant within the limits of the sample size.
“Chinese government has arrested hackers it says breached OPM database” washingtonpost.com/world/national…
@R_Chirgwin It’s wonderful.
dev_dsp “The aristocrats” joke format but the punchline is “the infosec community!”
@dsearls Ah yes! So many fields are ripe pickings for this sort of thing.
@R_Chirgwin The research I cited is even scarier. Here’s the HuffPo write-up. huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/12/04/sci…
“The New Age Bullshit Generator sebpearce.com/bullshit/ works on the same principle but uses a list of profound-sounding words…”
“wisdomofchopra.com constructs meaningless statements … by randomly mashing together a list of words used in Deepak Chopra’s tweets.”

This is the money shot. “On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit” jdm.org/15/15923a/jdm1… pic.twitter.com/geNVDWIzeT

I’m amused by some of the side results in this research. jdm.org/15/15923a/jdm1… pic.twitter.com/TlN1ZV6Rnp
Nah, bugger all that journeying. I’ll have lunch at the local.
@marcuskelson I’m pretty sure I saw them live too, if I’m not having a Trump moment. Powerful performance.
Mobile. Walking in a calm and orderly fashion to Wentworth Falks, then getting the #purpletrain to K-town for lunch etc.
Sun plan: Laundry (in progress); Sunday lunch Katoomba; record podcast promo; certain quiet considerations; Weekly Wrap.
@BXGD There’s some deep human-nature thing at play there.
@BXGD Ta for that. So taking the NJPD stuff at face value, I’m fascinated by how a few people becomes many more in the re-telling…
@BXGD So to get the timeline straight, there was an original WaPo story based on NJPD at the time, later withdrawn?
@BXGD Well that’s shoddy work by them, sure.

gths One of these things is not like the others pic.twitter.com/VxGUj1qT25
Just when we’d finally managed to convince the aliens that vaporising the Earth was a bad idea… twitter.com/NME/status/673…
Sun plan, draft: Laundry; Sunday lunch Katoomba; certain quiet considerations; Weekly Wrap.
@marcuskelson Here is a soundtrack for you then. youtube.com/watch?v=eOQfmS…
“How fringe attacks on American Muslims became mainstream”, using plagiarism-detection software to track PR. washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-ca…
@astudentnow Ah, which reminds me, I’d started re-reading David Kilcullen’s (now) Walkley-winning Quarterly Essay a couple weeks back.
@natecochrane @GuardianAus Would it be in poor taste to make a comment about the traditional political role of eunuchs?
@astudentnow Everything is perfect in this the best of all possible world.
@williampart A nadir might be a more realistic goal.
Nuking Iowa? Yeah, I could get behind that. twitter.com/NuclearAnthro/…
Well, if you’re going to be like that… twitter.com/astudentnow/st…
@BundyB This sounds an excellent plan. But sadly your suggestion can’t be implemented today, because I do have a couple things to do.
Sometimes the first suggestions are the best. twitter.com/BundyB/status/…
So, I woke up well before 0500, and I’ve already had breakfast and a 90-minute nap. It’s now 1000. What’s the plan for the rest of the day?
There is very, very little that could go wrong here. twitter.com/jeamland/statu…
@NewtonMark This is not to say that I’m not happy with it. On the contrary. It’s just to say there’s EVEN MOAR in the doco.
@NewtonMark As it happens, that’s an ABC staff edit of material from my @RNFutureTense doco. abc.net.au/radionational/…
GonzoHacker Ask a middle-aged white guy anything
@ScottFilmCritic Sowwy.
@hmatkin @jayrosen_nyu @jxpaton Hah! The irony, it burns. Anyway, love your work, as always.
@GreenJ This may cheer you up. youtube.com/watch?v=SGbI-1…
@jayrosen_nyu @jxpaton This would be the 2015 version. youtube.com/watch?v=SGbI-1…
@GreenJ “Renown killjoy” is the phrase you were looking for.
@GreenJ @ScottFilmCritic It’s also satire from 2011. theinclusive.net/article.php?id…
@R_Chirgwin Yeah, I’ve only had it happen when the hardware has been suspected-dodgy. But glitches happen.
Agreed. twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurit…
@NuclearAnthro @GrantWTrent Exactly. No wait.
@R_Chirgwin Something something the one time etc.
“[US] Court: Breaking Your Employer’s Computer Policy Isn’t a Crime”, writes @EFF eff.org/deeplinks/2015…
@R_Chirgwin Oh good, glad that worked. It’s also a good plan to run a Time Machine backup before each update, ‘cos they’re bootable too.
You can also listen to that podcast on @SoundCloud soundcloud.com/skankmedia/c00… and @spreaker spreaker.com/user/skankmedi… (2/2)
Did you know that @leslienassar and I made a podcast? Well, we did. corruptednerds.com/pod/c00015/ (1/2)
I still don’t seen why I can’t have one. twitter.com/NuclearAnthro/…

EWErickson I shot holes in the NY Times editorial - This is what I think of the New York Times edito… eepurl.com/bIJb3f pic.twitter.com/brh3KrODwS

“Russian priests pose with pet cats in hit 2016 calendar” abc.net.au/news/2015-12-0… pic.twitter.com/axlqSFEFzy
“Robots could take half of all Japanese jobs within 20 years” bgr.com/2015/12/04/rob…
Sunday. All the cows are watching you. It is part of Their experiment, and the cows know it. Sunday.