erici

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Melbournite Linux fan. #slackware forever!

This account is for ranting about local politics, documenting the smell of my own farts and how they relate to what I ate for breakfast, etc.

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2026-08-27 03:23:39 CEST

Ah, Preston 😭
https://snac.sns.gdn/erici/s/post-3549b4d71069ccfa6d562b8fbdb17b8e.jpg

2026-08-27 03:00:41 CEST

#podcast
Encore: A father and a son and The Odyssey - ABC listen
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/conversations/daniel-mendelsohn-an-odyssey-a-father-a-son-and-an-epic/107059576
> Author and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn was teaching a university class on Homer's The Odyssey, when his elderly father decided to enrol in it. Daniel became fascinated by the stories of the ancient world as a child and grew up to study the classics and then write books and essays to share his knowledge with the wider world. Eventually he began teaching the Ancient Greek epic, The Odyssey, to first year university students at Bard College in New York State. But when his elderly father Jay asked to sit in on the course, it led to a big change in their relationship. This episode was first broadcast in 2020 Further information An Odyssey: A father, a Son, and an Epic is published by Knopf Daniel's latest book is The Odyssey: A New Translation This episode was first broadcast in 2020. It explores the Ancient World, Homer, The Odyssey, the Classics, translation, poetry, writing, teaching, parents, family, fathers, students, New York State, memoir, Odysseus, hero, storytelling, siblings, Winnie the Pooh, emotions, love, books.
https://snac.sns.gdn/erici/s/post-8eff018f1e6be4c6023b78dd3bd05319.jpg

2026-08-22 13:07:36 CEST

> Galaxy Brain: How Social Media Makes Our Lives Smaller
Episode webpage: https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/galaxy-brain/
Media file: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL1130612369.mp3

2026-08-22 12:12:42 CEST

Walked around Maroondah Reservoir.
https://www.parks.vic.gov.au/places-to-see/parks/maroondah-reservoir-park
https://snac.sns.gdn/erici/s/post-2a1403b02e1aeea4df39c3150237232f.jpg

2026-08-21 22:50:43 CEST

> Socially Democratic: Ep. 366: The Royal Commission on Antisemitism: What We're Learning with Lisa Mittelman | Australia's Labor > [> #Podcast](https://snac.sns.gdn?t=podcast )
Media file: https://www.buzzsprout.com/308957/episodes/19678929-ep-366-the-royal-commission-on-antisemitism-what-we-re-learning-with-lisa-mittelman-australia-s-labor-podcast.mp3

2026-08-21 02:57:35 CEST

The Religion and Ethics Report - Separate stories podcast: Catholics and Labor: Is the long affair over? #podcast
Episode webpage: https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/religionandethicsreport/catholics-and-labor/107028420
Media file: https://mediacore-live-production.akamaized.net/audio/02/ne/Z/5d.mp3
https://snac.sns.gdn/erici/p/1787273429.432227

2026-08-21 02:50:29 CEST

Sounds like a very intersting book about Australian politics. #auspol #ALP
https://www.connorcourtpublishing.com.au/Iron-Law-No-More-The-Rise-and-Demise-of-the-Catholic-Labor-Alliance-in-Australia-by-Jeff-Kildea_p_690.html

2026-08-21 01:02:14 CEST

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I think I'd rather gnaw off my own limb than do that for a living.

2026-08-21 00:47:22 CEST

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source: "The Today Show" 2026-08-21 😅
Phones sold, I think. Maybe the rich are buying them all. I just feel like, I hear about the cost of living but all around me I see signs of affluence.I work two low paid jobs, so I am not some kind of elite. I have never spent more than $400 on a mobile. I buy second hand. I see school kids with new iPhones, you know?

2026-08-21 00:29:40 CEST

Apparently most Australians now spend more than $1000 when buying a mobile phone. This blows my mind. So much for a "cost of living crisis".

2026-08-20 12:35:20 CEST

I don't believe them:
OpenAI halts testing, slows development after rogue model hacked Hugging Face - ABC News
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-19/openai-slows-development-pauses-testing-after-hugging-face-hack/107053332
> OpenAI has announced it is slowing the pace of its AI development and pausing its model testing for two weeks while its research and training systems are overhauled.
https://snac.sns.gdn/erici/s/post-adeee0177851aba97797aa1c5e93d357.jpg

2026-08-20 11:55:47 CEST

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Unfortunately the minute Google put a chatbot into their main page she went crazy with it.

2026-08-19 11:51:16 CEST

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They don't all resign in disgrace though, in many cases they make up some bullshit story about about forgetting to cite and keep their jobs. That said, Arday's bullshit was spectacular and on a whole other level and obviously he should not have got the job.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/aug/08/black-academics-respond-to-jason-arday-affair

2026-08-19 09:14:35 CEST

The new gig worker laws in Australia are going to make a huge difference for food delivery drivers. I even got an email from DoorDash telling me I have a right to join the relevant union which is the TWU! That must really annoy them after their big donations to the Liberals! #auspol #unions
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2026-08-19 08:49:52 CEST

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That is actually ingenious. I feel inspired.

2026-08-18 21:54:04 CEST

Karl Stephanovic's latest #podcast is an interview with cooker Topher Field about the insidious evil that grips Australia known as "THE FABIAN SOCIETY". 🤣 #auspol #labor

2026-08-17 12:34:34 CEST

Early-life sugar restriction causally reduces adult cancer incidence and slows biological aging
Big if true, but I wonder about whether this is actually "causal" and how they could test something like that (I only read the abstract)
#nutrition #food
> Excess sugar consumption is implicated in multiple cancers through insulin resistance, chronic inflammation, and metabolic reprogramming, yet whether early-life sugar exposure causally shapes long-term cancer risk remains an open question. We exploit the abrupt end of United Kingdom sugar rationing in September 1953 as a natural experiment, analyzing 64,761 UK Biobank participants born 1951–1956. Cohorts whose first 1,000 d of life fell under rationing exhibit dose-dependent reductions in adult cancer incidence: liver/intrahepatic bile duct (IHBD) (hazard ratio 0.31), rectum (HR 0.60), lung (HR 0.59), prostate (HR 0.48), and breast (HR 0.64). We uncover two pathways through which this early-life exposure propagates across the life course. First, a behavioral pathway: Rationed cohorts consume less sugar, eat smaller quantities, and maintain healthier, more diverse diets five decades later, consistent with persistent taste preferences shaped during a critical developmental window. Second, a biological pathway: Rationed cohorts exhibit longer leukocyte telomere length (+0.05 SD, approximately 2.2 fewer years of biological aging) and lower Granzyme B, indicating reduced chronic immune activation. These findings provide causal evidence linking early-life sugar intake to cancer and identify a behavioral pathway, consistent with persistent taste preferences, through which early nutritional environments may shape lifelong disease risk. The results carry direct implications for early-life nutrition and added-sugar policy.
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2610287123

2026-08-17 12:16:16 CEST

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Here's an anti FSU take:
https://thespinoff.co.nz/internet/04-03-2025/internetnz-shouldnt-be-the-battleground-of-a-free-speech-inspired-culture-war
Personally, I think I'd tend to be on the side of the FSU, but I'm Australian so it's none of my business I suppose!

2026-08-17 10:19:38 CEST

YouTube Moves to Ban Nerd Reich #Podcast
https://www.thenerdreich.com/youtube-moves-to-ban-nerd-reich-podcast/
https://rss.sns.gdn/share/7957f1575bbde57bb0836778f2bf57bc21df0e69

2026-08-16 07:36:51 CEST

> Past Present Future: The History of Bad Ideas: Short-Form Video
#podcast
Episode webpage: https://www.ppfideas.com/
Media file: https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR4258292137.mp3

2026-08-15 17:01:43 CEST

Dregsy - Small world experience
https://smallworldexperience.bandcamp.com/track/dregsy

2026-08-15 03:27:54 CEST

My daughter says "search it up" instead of "Google it".
Forget how you wear your socks – using this phrase may be the clearest indication of your age
https://www.theage.com.au/national/forget-how-you-wear-your-socks-using-this-phrase-may-be-the-clearest-indication-of-your-age-20260805-p60lmj.html?collection=p60og8&gb=1
> It incorporates 2002’s “most useful word of the year”, yet today’s children never use it.
https://snac.sns.gdn/erici/s/post-46e1ded004b43653dd6e327149d79353.jpg

2026-08-15 01:26:58 CEST

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I found the solution for beehiiv anyway https://kill-the-newsletter.com/

2026-08-14 15:58:38 CEST

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Thanks, I've added it to my feeds.
@npub19ht…qwaj

2026-08-14 15:50:08 CEST

Saw "The Best Summer" movie at #MIFF
It is a home movie of great bands on tour at the Summersault festival in Australia and Asia in 1995-1996. I was at the Sydney show in 1995 so it was great nostalgia. Wearing my Sonic Youth Washing Machine T-shirt which I bought at the show and have kept all these years!

2026-08-14 10:25:37 CEST

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Unless the post is very long or paid I seem to get the full text. And I can share a link to my RSS reader instead of the substack link. E.g. https://rss.sns.gdn/share/d4639be781e6b5a06df89085775781c7aca2065b

2026-08-13 23:55:10 CEST

People complain about #substack, but one advantage it has over #beehiiv is that it provides #RSS feeds for every #blog, whereas beehiiv does not.

2026-08-13 13:46:10 CEST

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If you had told me that 20 years ago, I wouldn't have believed it.

2026-08-13 13:15:42 CEST

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wow, grass so brown, looks like Australia, not England.

2026-08-13 12:02:11 CEST

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Also www.slackware.com but it doesn't bother me, personally.

2026-08-13 09:26:14 CEST

Did a defensive driving course today and learnt a lot. I highly recommend it!

2026-08-12 09:37:08 CEST

> Decoding the Gurus: Lab Leak Groundhog Day: COVID Origins in 2026 with Worobey, Andersen, and Holmes > [> #podcast](https://snac.sns.gdn?t=podcast )
Episode webpage: https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/lab-leak-groundhog-day-covid-origins-in-2026-with-worobey-andersen-and-holmes
Media file: https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/dd8fd189-2469-4fba-a64b-f14d5f6b700a.mp3

2026-08-08 15:54:20 CEST

I'll always be a killjoy..
Gang Of Four - At Home He's A Tourist (1979)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElhAysq3O6c
https://snac.sns.gdn/erici/s/post-c0548702804c195b87e5f19870d8b2ad.jpg

2026-08-06 05:18:44 CEST

Jane Garrett was a hero. I really hope Ben Carroll rips into the bastards and he will need to make a good show of it for Labor to win now. #auspol
The cautionary tale of a woman who got in the way
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/the-cautionary-tale-of-a-woman-who-got-in-the-way-20260806-p60lx2.html
> Jane Garrett was always a divisive figure, a factional player willing to fight her corner, make enemies and burn bridges. This week, her stance against a powerful union boss has been vindicated.
https://snac.sns.gdn/erici/s/post-414c3bdc92d5590f838523b577a7e10d.jpg

2026-08-05 14:19:36 CEST

COVID Vaccines Did Much More Good Than Harm for Children
https://rss.sns.gdn/share/c23785b6920d17ff8e59b1c38f00edd7cfccece1

2026-08-04 10:24:42 CEST

Feeling a bit like Mr. Bean in my new job as a water sampler.. wandering around forgetting things.. I suppose I'll get into a routine after a while.

2026-08-01 03:27:04 CEST

Inside Fauci’s intensely planned hearing strategy: ‘There was no other option’ | CNN Politics #uspol
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/07/30/politics/fauci-senate-fifth-amendment
https://snac.sns.gdn/erici/s/post-34bf1e2a6cd7702e895e1eff33b12851.jpg

2026-08-01 02:48:05 CEST

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Standard slurs probably. I think censorship only exacerbates the problem in the long term though.
@npub14vr…0w8t

2026-07-31 13:06:11 CEST

Fun times are back in Northland since PSOs were taken off the job on Friday nights.. Teenagers yelling at each other and running around, alarms going off..

2026-07-31 03:28:36 CEST

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By “discrimination”, do you mean ordinary discernment like distinguishing trustworthy from untrustworthy, safe from dangerous, which is socially necessary, or unjust treatment based on irrelevant traits such as race or sex?

2026-07-31 03:21:25 CEST

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2026-07-31 01:41:52 CEST

Australian rock music journalist Glenn A Baker dies - ABC News
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-31/nsw-glenn-a-baker-dies/106980460
So sad. When I was a teenager I loved his shop "Timewarp records" in #Sydney near the QVB. #RIP
> Baker has been remembered by his family as "somebody who absolutely grabbed life" and found "joy" in music after an unsettled childhood.
https://snac.sns.gdn/erici/s/post-6e84cb45ed8180745aa8686ca4712630.jpg

2026-07-31 01:35:26 CEST

> Odd Lots: How Franchise Restaurants Opened the Door to the Gig Economy
#podcast
Episode webpage: https://omny.fm/shows/odd-lots/how-franchise-restaurants-opened-the-door-to-the-gig-economy
Media file: https://podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/tracking.swap.fm/track/UVBrz8bN8aM2Xe47PEPu/traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/8a94442e-5a74-4fa2-8b8d-ae27003a8d6b/2050514a-2131-40e9-bc90-b48f0113d17c/audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=982f5071-765c-403d-969d-ae27003a8d83

2026-07-30 11:25:04 CEST

Pauline Hanson’s racist tweet should still have been legal #auspol
https://www.crikey.com.au/2026/07/30/pauline-hanson-racist-tweet-one-nation-free-speech/
> Words can, of course, cross a legal line. But being ordered to delete political expression — however abhorrent — teeters into something else entirely.
https://snac.sns.gdn/erici/s/post-ca59c9039326e4db4a848e3472b60af3.jpg

2026-07-30 10:41:18 CEST

Zombie Alliance - John Birmingham #auspol
https://rss.sns.gdn/share/7bb95c6c88f8b8d7d0de0c0d9e6abdc41dbf0cbe

2026-07-26 06:00:00 CEST

https://snac.sns.gdn/erici/s/post-031ce009f835456032e6010a831a16a8.jpg

2026-07-25 14:08:53 CEST

Note to self: buy Mudhoney ticket.

2026-07-25 09:10:52 CEST

Health Report - Separate stories podcast: What age is best for a child’s first smartphone?
Episode webpage: https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/healthreport/what-age-is-best-for-a-child-s-first-smartphone-/106955000
Media file: https://mediacore-live-production.akamaized.net/audio/02/mq/Z/iq.mp3

2026-07-25 08:36:03 CEST

> Sliding Into Silence? We Are Speaking 300 Daily Words Fewer Every Year
https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916261425131

2026-07-24 22:32:54 CEST

#podcast
> Too Far with Rachel Kaly and Robby Hoffman: SHE'S TOO AFRAID TO BE ON, ON ACCOUNT OF MY VIEWS
Episode webpage: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2355174
Media file: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2355174/episodes/14910846-she-s-too-afraid-to-be-on-on-account-of-my-views.mp3

2026-07-24 21:49:00 CEST

People post that AI is bad, while others post that AI is good. These posts are all used to train the AI, which trains its users.

2026-07-23 01:22:15 CEST

Aussie investment strategy:
1. Buy average well-kept house in capital city, with garden.
2. Demolish it and remove all life. Ensure not even a cockroach survives!
4. Build grotesque McMansion in security compound with fences, electronic gates and security cameras. Surround with a little concrete and/or AstroTurf, to your taste.
5. Auction prestigious residence at premium price.

2026-07-20 21:58:25 CEST

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Happy Tuesday from Australia.

2026-07-20 21:35:25 CEST

Every Box but One - Hen Mazzig
https://henmazzig.substack.com/p/every-box-but-one
> Barbara Butch survived a year of far-right death threats. Then she signed a letter against antisemitism, and a different crowd showed up.
https://snac.sns.gdn/erici/s/post-b85f43a000f07bd23208163e29f6dfd2.jpg

2026-07-19 06:49:16 CEST

Had lunch at Preston Market #Melbourne "Luis Boss" Korean restaurant. 5 stars!
https://snac.sns.gdn/erici/s/post-83c69c1d1b0da6a58744f033a9024cb6.jpg
https://snac.sns.gdn/erici/s/post-ce8d66de1ddc346206b12c48d3d9a7c0.jpg

2026-07-19 02:40:52 CEST

#bird
https://snac.sns.gdn/erici/s/post-dbe32796b369581c4344230c0651db13.jpg

2026-07-19 02:34:33 CEST

When I heard I wasn't supposed to read it, I just had to buy it! Australian
libraries might learn about the Streisand effect!
> Ben Fordham Live on 2GB Breakfast: EXCLUSIVE - Book banned after exposing woke schools 📚
Episode webpage: https://omny.fm/shows/ben-fordham-full-show/exclusive-book-banned-after-exposing-woke-schools
Media file: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/88b564ea-a9a6-4751-910a-a5d800019396/642954e3-8b20-4240-b2f6-a6d501829706/b8519b3f-fea8-4f20-9c8e-b4880173c294/audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=65b6999e-3a26-402f-900b-a6d6016391f3

2026-07-18 23:44:16 CEST

Catchy
HALCALI - おつかれSUMMER / THE FIRST TAKE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YShE6reM_w
> 「THE FIRST TAKE」は、一発撮りのパフォーマンスを鮮明に切り取るYouTubeチャンネル。第670回は、HALCAとYUCALIによる2人組ガールズヒップホップユニット HALCALIが初登場。今回披露するのは、2003年リリースながらSNSを通じて世界中でリバイバルヒットし、TikTok総再生回数7...
https://snac.sns.gdn/erici/s/post-b1692ec8a14021e51c48aa199d91ad5d.jpg

2026-07-18 10:46:15 CEST

Thinking about running my own #gopher server.

2026-07-18 10:00:08 CEST

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A while back I read about a service that allows you to follow a bot or something that aggregates hashtag posts from many instances. Wish I could remember what it was...
@npub1kmj…r0fr

2026-07-15 12:15:54 CEST

Just discovering "the Usenet Oracle"
http://www.textfiles.com/internet/vm_oracl
https://internetoracle.org/bestof.cgi?N=101-125

2026-07-14 04:47:48 CEST

A nice café in #sunshine #Melbourne called "the usual joint".
https://snac.sns.gdn/erici/s/post-67c3c35f7bc12d6260366a2452e3a039.jpg

2026-05-03 06:50:07 CEST

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found an interesting blog about her https://jackboulware.substack.com/p/jennifer-miro-of-the-nuns