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Porn not ‘inherently harmful’, says first inquiry of its kind in Australia The first ever state-based inquiry into the impacts of porn challenges simplistic ideas in favour of nuance, and calls for better sex ed.

Summary: Open eyes education, at school and home, reduces the negative impacts on growing minds theconversation.com/porn-not-inh...

Corn, debt and doubt: A record harvest rattles Trump’s farm economy In an industry battered by debt and sagging prices, this year's bounty is more bad news.

Seemingly counterintuitive, but when supply exceeds demand the economics of production collapse www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Dodo and iPrimus hack hits more than 1,600 internet and mobile customers More than 1,600 Dodo and iPrimus home internet and mobile customers were impacted by a hack of the telco's email and mobile services, the company confirms.

Just saying… low cost providers often have low cost security systems: “unauthorised access to approximately 1,600 email accounts, leading to unauthorised SIM swaps on 34 Dodo Mobile accounts” www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

I had assumed they were already doing this in some form

What does halal mean? It’s about more than just food Halal is not just avoiding certain foods and drinks. It’s also about living an ethical and meaningful life, both for oneself and others.

A primer on halal as an ethos that goes beyond food: “Halal is that which God has permitted in His Book, and haram is that which God has prohibited in His Book. As for what He has chosen to remain silent about, it is exonerated.” theconversation.com/what-does-ha...

When this EV maker collapsed, its customers became the car company Meet the Fisker Owners Association.

@918digital.bsky.social EV paradigm has progressed to having enthusiast car clubs that keep models running after the manufacturer has gone AWOL www.theverge.com/transportati...

4 sets of iPods lined up with cases op

New AirPods Pro 3 are now my “all day” hearing aids - with AirPods Pro 2 as backups.

Pocket Casts free lifetime subscription - when my dentist guaranteed my significant dental repairs “for life” I didn’t get an answer to my query as to whether he meant my life or his!!

AirPods Pro 3 - Hearing Health All-in-one hearing health experience: scientifically-validated Hearing Test, clinical-grade Hearing Aid and Loud Sound Reduction.

A couple of days into owning #AirPodsPro3 and using them in hearing aid mode… they are definitely a step up from AirPods Pro 2 so as to make them suitable for “all day” assistance to my “challenged” hearing
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I guess your phone is really anxious about the changes you forced upon it with iOS 26?

Tesla’s self-driving mode is coming to Australia amid controversy – but it won’t create true driverless cars Tesla’s ‘full self-driving’ mode is set to arrive in Australia. But it’s not autonomous – drivers have to pay attention.

@918digital.bsky.social Some Australian flavour (flavor) to self driving progress, including: “As Tesla pushes towards self-driving, the company faces a class action from thousands of Australian drivers over alleged phantom braking … risking rear-end crashes” theconversation.com/teslas-self-...

Officially, the unemployment rate is 4.2%. But that doesn’t count all the hidden workers in Australia Unlocking this hidden workforce could be a game-changer in strengthening Australia’s social fabric.

Systemic hurdles for employers & employees: “As a newly completed PhD, a migrant woman of culturally and linguistically diverse background, and a mother of two young children … “willing and able to work”, I was underemployed, unemployed and then discouraged“ theconversation.com/officially-t...

China's green energy boom could spell the end of the fossil fuel age China has put its economic might behind renewable technologies in a desire to stop relying on imported fossil fuels.

Deniers like to claim China has growing emissions that negate any renewable installs in Auatralia, but… www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

Stop the free ride: all motorists should pay their way, whatever vehicle they drive A new road charge mooted for electric vehicle drivers is based on a fundamental misconception.

“The payment [for all vehicles] should be based on a combination of vehicle mass and distance travelled. That’s because damage to roads is overwhelmingly caused by heavy vehicles.”

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Why Gareth Ward’s challenge to the power to expel him from the NSW parliament failed Ward’s lawyers argued the politician’s convictions were not enough for him to lose his job. The NSW Supreme Court disagreed, and Ward has now resigned.

“The people of the electorate of Kiama will now be able to exercise their democratic mandate in a by-election, to choose a representative who can serve them in the NSW parliament, rather than a prison cell.” theconversation.com/why-gareth-w...

Copy of text message confirming delivery of Dell consignment

Very happy with #Dell support for my 27” monitor that crapped out 38 months into a “bonus” 48 month warranty period. Replacement arrived 9am next business day.

World Athletics’ mandatory genetic test for women athletes is misguided. I should know – I discovered the relevant gene in 1990 World Athletics says its genetic test for women ensures ‘the integrity of women’s sport’ – but science does not support this overly simplistic idea.

“Using SRY to establish biological sex is wrong because all it tells you is whether or not the gene is present. It does not tell you how SRY is functioning, whether a testis has formed, whether testosterone is produced [nor] whether it can be used by the body.” theconversation.com/world-athlet...

Cartoonish representation of Outlook application icons disheveled and burning

There is a dominant theme when I get asked to help clients that are using Windows

Despite $22bn promise, Adani has paid zero corporate tax in Australia and experts think it won’t ever pay a cent Adani’s Australian assets regularly report annual losses despite strong revenue, in part due to big related-party payments

The promises of employment & tax benefits should be enforceable: “The related-party transactions are so big and wild and all over the map that this company will never make a profit on paper and will never pay a cent of tax.” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Heating test results as shown in a decibels graph and a summary of mild hearing loss in both ears

Finally got round to doing a reset on my AirPods Pro Gen 2 so that they would do their own pre-diagnostic overnight… that then allowed me to run the iOS Hearing Test… with results about the same as I got from the free Mimi app

The first video of Earth’s surface lurching sideways in an earthquake offers new insights into this force of nature Earthquake scientists rely on distant seismic instruments to infer how faults rupture during large earthquakes. This video provides the first direct evidence.

Earthquake analysis by video… not of shaking buildings but of the actual earth sliding along the fault theconversation.com/the-first-vi...

Maybe it’s difficult to get the scale from the photo, but the mounting bars look to be quite high up. Too high for some people/kids perhaps?

And then when I asked why, it told me I had used my limit of data analysis!!

ChatGPT acting like a gifted but uncooperative teenager today… saying it’ll notify me when it has completed the task at hand, but pointedly not notifying me that it was *unable to complete* the task.

So… Severance… I dragged myself thru all seasons 1 & 2. That is a very long, very slow, visual delivery of a concept meriting only a short story in a sci-fi anthology!!

Short USB-C to USB-A charging cable

Frustrating to have to isolation test a charging dock problem down to this crappy little charging cable that is causing all connected devices to have to renegotiate power levels every 60 seconds

EOFY Deals | Aussie Broadband Save BIG with these EOFY Broadband and Mobile offers. Now that's a Big Deal.

Pays to keep an eye on the deals. For 6 months I can get an NBN 1000/50 plan for the same price as my current NBN 100/40 plan (BTW - I can give you a signup referral code to save us each $50) www.aussiebroadband.com.au/lp/eofy/

'Completely worthless': Flawed abortion pill 'study' cited in parliament A recent US report on an abortion pill which experts have called "misinformation", "not scientific" and "scaremongering" has been cited in NSW Parliament by no less than 11 MPs across the spectrum.

There’s a reason why reputable journals require their papers to be peer reviewed: "This [paper] is completely worthless as evidence and should be ignored by anyone who is interested in accurate health information."
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Weird? That’s now two M4 iMacs I’ve seen, delivered new, that have booted up with a message indicating macOS Sequoia needs reinstalling. Choosing Macintosh HD as startup disk and rebooting then works OK. Leftover gremlin from factory test perhaps?

Actually, Gen Z stand to be the biggest winners from the new $3 million super tax Rather than being the biggest losers from super tax rates not being indexed to inflation, younger Australians are the biggest beneficiaries.

“Generous tax breaks for super savers mean other taxes (such as income and company taxes) must be higher to make up the forgone revenue. That means the burden falls disproportionately on younger taxpayers” theconversation.com/actually-gen...