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Generative AI film finalist sparks backlash against Tropfest A completely AI-generated film was selected among 16 finalists out of 700 entries at the recently returned short film festival.

“Tropfest founder and director John Polson said the film SYD CONFIDENTIAL complied with the rules, which allows for AI to be used in entries.”

Oh good we all get another reason to mock John “I know Tom Cruise!” Polson

“I didn’t do it. AI did”.

Sweet baby cheeses the people who use these plagiarism machines really are just vacant spaces…

operation blowing up residential buildings because a dozen rich old guys got caught molesting teenagers in the 90s

It’s the picard_facepalm.jpg that never ends.

Can’t speak for the US, but down here I find folks like that are fond of casually enforcing binaries in more than just politics.

Vaping Increases Risk of Looking Fucking Ridiculous, Study Shows — The Shovel The Federal Government will ban all non-prescription vaping products, after evidence emerged that using the products could make you look like a dickhead.

Vaping Increases Risk of Looking Fucking Ridiculous, Study Shows

Yeah, there a bigger issues in the country than the walloping we take for making beer, but my point is that he’s always been an insincere, jelly-backed opportunist. His idiotic pot shots at Grace Tame and David Pocock aren’t new traits he’s developed since becoming PM, it’s who he’s always been.

Albo spent years ingratiating himself with indie brewers in Grayndler, selling bold excise reform while carefully cultivating his working class, everyman persona. The moment he became leader and the donations from the resource lobby arrived he dropped us like a paper bag full of hot turds.

Whenever @kalelpug.bsky.social and I get around to opening a taproom (likely in Grayndler lol) Grace and Poey drink for free.

Brave stance from a bloke whose own electorate has the highest concentration of brewing businesses in the country…

Absolute class. Flav regularly does a ton for women’s sport.

David Pocock is right: more tax is raised from beer than from petroleum resource rent tax (PRRT) Senator David Pocock has produced viral social media content claiming that Australia’s beer tax raises more revenue than the gas industry pays in Petroleum Resource Rent Tax (PRRT). Can more public mo...

This is a major part of why we indie producers get so animated about excise: our industry is being taxed into oblivion while massive polluters are *subsidised* to kill the planet. And we’re the ones told by government that excise is a vital revenue stream tied to specific initiatives, so no relief 😡

I don’t have a favourite Jon Kudelka cartoon to share, because they were all incredible and skewering in *just* the right way. Someone who helped not just me but many others understand that better things are ALWAYS possible.

Vale Jon, and my sincerest condolences to your family ❤️

Yeah I noticed afterwards that someone beat me to it!

There are definitely rights issues with titles which show up in the app’s search results (available for purchase vs only streaming), but making the app impossible to navigate and use effectively makes it all the more frustrating.

Screenshot of a movie tile on Apple TV highlighting the ellipsis menu

It’s an OS 26 blunder (among many). If you click on the title’s ellipsis menu it presents you with the “play” option. Apple TV devices should work as normal, but this is the new (borked) normal on iPhone and iPad

Just gonna come straight out and say it: never been happier to have quit the ALP

Noise cancelling headphones on and I can STILL hear this blowhard trying to pick up the woman seated next to him in this doctor’s waiting room.

Wednesday is TRANSPHOBES ARE TRASH DAY!

Congratulations to those who celebrate this wonderful day.

Also, every other day is also Transphobes are Trash Day, I forgot to mention that.

Call me a scold, but I feel the most appropriate way to support a local cartoonist after their publisher threw them under a bus to appease a foreign state’s local lobbying arm is to share the original work which includes said artist’s name, not a garbage AI “reframing” which removes that attribution

If the victims had been *anyone* other than muslims we’d have had the report injected directly into our eyes and ears within minutes, with today’s breakfast news shows live broadcasting from different eastern Sydney cafes to provide rolling updates on the respective owners’ feels.

Grass roots.
My @smh cartoon.

Following marginalized voices makes you smarter and better informed than a million hours of consuming any Murdoch-owned news media.

The spinal integrity of a nematode

Counterpoint: no you wouldn’t

And here I was thinking I’d explore more modest behaviours this year…

Minns government ‘actively’ considering if Jewish security group should be armed after Bondi attack NSW premier also announces police will carry long-arm rifles at major New Year’s Eve event in Sydney

In a fortnight overrun with spectacularly dumb ideas, you have to work REALLY hard to come up with the dumbest yet…

Segal “threatening Australia’s freedoms and democracy”, Jewish groups warn - The Klaxon A group of Jewish organisations has labelled Envoy Jillian Segal's "Antisemitism Report" an attack on Australia's “democracy” and “freedoms”, and say it must be rejected.

🚨Nine Jewish groups are urging the Government to reject Jillian Segal's "Antisemitism Report", saying it's an attack on Australia's "democracy" and "freedoms" – benefitting the state of Israel.

Segal must be given zero powers, they warn. Explosive...

theklaxon.com.au/22ti

AI Bro from yesterday blocked me. I get that he was upset that people mocked his profession and said it was bad and useless.

There’s no way that would ever happen to me, someone with a theater degree

lol it’d be more like “your tastes are bad and you should feel bad”