📣 Reportedly only 140,000 out of the 480,000 Robodebt class action members have registered to receive additional compensation in the proposed settlement.
If you're eligible, you have until 4pm tomorrow to register with Gordon Legal:
robodebtsettlement.com.au
If anyone is friends with any Georgian air traffic controllers, buy them a nice bottle of wine. As guardians of pretty much the only narrow gap still available between Europe and Asia that avoids both Iran, the Gulf, Ukraine and Russia, they are under some substantial pressure.
Look can _you_ make danceable grooves using oddball time signatures and quarter tones while wearing daft costumes?
Well?
Can you?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ssi...
Grinning
I enjoyed the first 2 books of their Newtonian magic police series. I have not read their 3rd
What's fascinating to me after reading a bunch of the Epstein files emails from all kinds of senior figures from all kinds of countries is just how many of them were randomly telling Epstein state secrets over unsecured, unencrypted email, and nobody's security services bothered with it AT ALL.
Sorry
Just.Equal Australia has called on the Albanese Government to ensure key initiatives to combat hate speech and violence also cover LGBTIQA+ Australians.
qnews.com.au/national-ant...
At a yalda celebration tonight. We have eaten, danced and drunk tea and now people are reading from the book of poetry for guidance towards the new year. It has been a while and I have missed the sounds of Farsi. I have almost no understanding of it but have always loved the sound of it.
Religion note: Remember that pastor who was arrested protesting an ICE detention facility outside Chicago recently? The one who was photographed on the ground as officers arrested him?
That's Rev. Michael Woolf, and this is his church.
Just listened to Josh Johnson, on a daily show clip, eloquently point out that yes there is a difference but there never a good situation when you have to make that that distinction
shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social • 3m one function of capitalism is to funnel these types into positions of power, because if competent & kind people get into power they start taking from the rich and giving to the poor. capitalist leaders must be either evil or ignorant or both, only by mistake does anyone else get near power Better Things Are... @intern... • 13m What if we could have leaders who aren't either evil monsters or spineless weenies
This is the type of thing I believed in my teenage years. I then spent fifteen years or so thinking it was massively more complex and nuanced and also humdrum than this, and now - having watched this shitshow for about thirty five years - I have concluded that I was correct when I was about 17.
Cyndi Lauper delivered a powerful call to action during her induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
"Look at us: We are a community of light. Don't forget that, in case it gets really dark."
Photo by Kevin Mazur / Getty Images for RRHOF
the onion, too, believes in a thing called love
Melbourne: ever helpful
The Australian Government makes more money from HECS repayments than it does from the PRRT.
‘Norway taxes its fossil fuel industry and gives their kids free higher education… we subsidise our fossil fuel industry and we charge our kids a fortune to go to uni.’
@richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol
Discord said late on Friday that hackers stole users' government-issued IDs (passports and driver's licenses) from one of its customer support databases.
I wrote a few words about the risks of age verification laws, and why collecting people's government IDs is bad for security and privacy.
Learning important life skills of how to work around workplace network restrictions to get the job done.
It's literally the last good web site.
Did I mention my second talk from #PyConAU about Free Software's unwillingness to think about consequences and how we might have learned a small amout from labour organising (and how corporates certainly have)?
It's a good one! You should watch it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsbU...
Just had a lovely and engaging time at Pycon AU this year in Melbourne. Looks like we are heading to Brisbane next year.
Registration is already open 2026.pycon.org.au
I know we call a lot of things Nazi shit these days but this is pure Nazi shit. "Don't show the Fuhrer in an unflattering light!!!"
Excellent op-ed by #CSIRO Chair @mingylong.bsky.social and Deputy CEO, Professor Elanor Huntington on #SovereignAI and the double bind of #data and #AI.
The more business uses foreign-owned #LLMs such as ChatGPT and Claude, the more training data we're giving them.
www.afr.com/technology/a...
Have you read @karenhao.bsky.social's book #EmpireOfAI? Interested in the cult of personality of Sam Altman?
In #Melbourne?
Come see Karen Hao in conversation with @kobotic.bsky.social this Friday night at #RMIT, presented by @readingsbooks.bsky.social. Free!
www.readings.com.au/events/karen...
Today, @anthropic.com announced they will train their #AI on chats and code sessions *unless* you opt out.
What's behind this change? As @connieloizos.bsky.social points out in this @techcrunch.com article, it's all about the #data.
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techcrunch.com/2025/08/28/a...
The stakes are difficult to overstate. Data center building is the foundation of AI advancement, and spending on new centers now displaces consumer spending in terms of impact to U.S. GDP—that’s concerning since consumer spending is generally two-thirds of the pie.
apple.news/AhIFHsal6SAu...
Depends how my knees feel and for how long. One night or knees are painful, bottom. Otherwise top so I can use the bottom as a seat and a space for bags so not working off the floor.
If you're still thinking about #PyConAU in Melbourne this September, I have a discount voucher to make it a bit (10%) easier. There's also speaker codes out there! Price includes food during the day, and chatting with lovely folks.
IKNOWCAITE5-PWDKGMXL5VEQ9KPM
pretix.eu/pyconau/2025...
[extremely on-mushrooms voice] hear me out. what if we destroy capitalism by feminizing having money
Indeed
