How an idealistic community for exchanging free stuff tried to break away from Facebook, and ended up breaking apart (aka the risks of ditching your social platform): wired.com/story/the-batt…

The top highest earners in sports: sportico.com/feature/highes… Combined earnings of $45.9b (adjusted), 9 sports, 17 countries.

Not even a tiny bit surprised to see MilkRun go under, what a ridiculous business model. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Star Wars by Wes Anderson… The Galactic Menagerie youtu.be/d-8DT5Q8kzI. I want this to be made so bad.

The daily habits of some of history's greatest creatives: visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/upl…

Cheers to bringing forward a future dystopia to a living room near you: thehustle.co/this-tv-could-… I dearly hope people are much smarter than Telly gives them credit for and this idea goes down in investor-backed flames

Fun game from the Washing Post exploring the US $41T national debt. Apparently I believe in bigger government, with new medical, education and climate programs, but I also believe in keeping a ceiling on debt with new taxes on the wealthy and corporations: washingtonpost.com/business/inter…

AI nerds fail to watch The Terminator as kids, get rich while creating dangerous artificial intelligence, sign letter warning of existential threat to humanity. Don’t people ever learn? theguardian.com/technology/202…

Just watched the new #Bluey episode, Cricket, what a tear jerker. Rusty is an absolute legend (and along with Lachy’s Dad and Calypso, my favourite character).

Americans' confidence in higher education is declining across every demographic, but whaddaya know, the Republican-voters hate it the most news.gallup.com/poll/508352/am…

Brazilian singer Maria Rita in a VW ad with her mother, Elis Regina, one of the country's most treasured musicians... The catch being that Elis died in 1982 and has been completely resurrected via AI youtu.be/aMl54-kqphE

Wow, now this is a niche: stripestreetstudio.com is an interior design studio for single men and divorced dads.

AI can apparently do it better: visualcapitalist.com/ai-vs-humans-w… When does design get added to this list I wonder?

Weather House by Mihaly Slocombe dlvr.it/SvSf6F

Labour market outcomes of university graduates by major: architecture grads are solidly middle-of-the-field by all metrics. Not so good, not so bad newyorkfed.org/research/colle…

Check it out, Brunswick East is the sixth coolest neighbourhood in the world timeout.com/travel/coolest…

The 24 hour San Francisco diner that hasn't closed for 50 years altaonline.com/culture/food-d…

The old stage-three cuts are dead. Long live Labor’s new policy, which 90% of Australians will cheer theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

The median house price in the US is 4.9x the median wage, which has analysts over there alarmed. But the median house price in Australia (~ $780k) is 9.4x the median full time wage ($83k)! US: sherwood.news/personal-finan… Australia: abc.net.au/news/2024-05-0… australiainstitute.org.au/post/where-is-…

A useful exploration of the relationship between AI and a universal basic income: theguardian.com/society/articl…