Stephen Rowley

Zach Merrett should fire his manager. All the strategy and finesse of Leroy Jenkins. #afl

One of the all time great docos.

Not arguing with the core critique of Albo, but I will say the sequence where he is smart enough not to appear in the documentary always made him look smarter than anyone else involved!

YouTube video by Rob Montz Why Did ChatGPT Hit a Wall? w/ Prof. Cal Newport | The Rob Montz Show

I found this interview with Cal Newport very good: youtu.be/emHCav2pxLA?...

GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment.

An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action.

A disinformation machine as our journalism fails.

A bias machine as fascism takes root.

A job killer in a cost of living crisis.

As someone who experienced the 2000 era tech bubble collapse, this is fucking wild to watch. No one wants to pay for this bullshit which is why they keep forcing it on everyone, while spending the GDP of a reasonably sized country to build more of the thing that no one wants. It's fucking absurd

What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy

The dunks on this in the replies are well worth reading. Heartening to see such contempt.

If "Abundance" isn't an establishment psy-op to trick liberals into being ineffective and derby stooges, I'll be genuinely shocked

CEOs be like: “AI is fantastic. The only things it appears to struggle with are things I am skilled at/knowledgeable about. It’s pretty bad at those. It’s great at all the stuff I’m not well-versed with, though.”

I’ve never been able to. It will ask for the permission if you try. It would be a major security hole in MacOS if it could.

Yep. It will ask for permission the first time you share (on a Mac, anyway).

It’s infuriating that Stewart will miss the GF and they’ll change the timing of the bye next year to avoid it happening again. This was a completely foreseeable outcome 5+ years ago and the #afl just sleep-walked on and let it happen.

YouTube video by Ray Delahanty | CityNerd What Is Livability? A Field Report from Melbourne

That thought is partly inspired by the comments in this video on Melbourne, which amongst many interesting comments includes remarks about how unusually busy our malls are. youtu.be/oUqavm7KhGg?...

YouTube video by Travel with a Wiseguy Arrowhead Mall ||| Muskogee, Oklahoma

This vid about a dead mall in Oklahoma is bananas. It also shows an incredibly grim downtown. Obviously this is an extreme example, but I think in Australia we are sheltered from just how bad both brick and mortar retail, and urban environments more generally, are in the US. youtu.be/RTxwJPrzu08?...

Some sort of automated cost recovery from certain former politicians and public servants would seem to be in order.

Charlie Kirk died in the America he wanted I mourn the loss of human life. I feel compassion, empathy and grief at an inexcusable killing. But I find nothing to lionise in his legacy.

Read @amyremeikis.bsky.social's excellent column on Charlie Kirk that The New Daily saw fit to take down here:

amyremeikis.substack.com/p/charlie-ki...

Shot of an AAMI logo seemingly painted on to the ground in the Brisbane Gold Coast game.

Long shot from the same broadcast showing there is no painted ad on the ground.

Broadcasters (I’m watching on Foxtel) are optically adding an AAMI logo onto the ground. It looks like one of those tricky perspective painted ground ads (which they also have), but it is not there in long shots. What new corporate bullshit is this? #afl

Shot of the Gold Coast Suns in sickly pink gear.

Every Gold Coast player surely got the classic “is that what you’re wearing?” from their partners when leaving the house tonight. #afl

'I felt ashamed': Crows fans hit out at homophobic slurs during QF Adelaide fans are threatening to cancel their memberships after a Collingwood star was targeted during the AFL qualifying final.

Crows did a lot to set this situation up by fighting so hard on the Rankine suspension, which was the opposite of their lip service to accepting he’d done the wrong thing. #afl www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

I know I've posted a lot of words about the booing of Isaac Quaynor but I am just so disturbed by it. It is far too reminiscent of the booing of Adam Goodes. Isn't it a funny coincidence that so many booing targets are players of colour; POC who didn't "know their place" and spoke up #afl

Worst umpiring decision ever (the first of the two Cameron kicks). #afl

This feels a lot like a grand final matchup, with whoever loses tonight going the long way round. #afl

Such a good player.

Will the absence of reliable automatic metro service in the United States mark the moment its citizens notice how far behind their country has fallen?

Why did the Foxtel commentators talk over the soft call? Shut up so we can hear. #afl #aflcrowspies

When all is said and done, the very worst punishment ultimately rests on Linda Reynolds.

There is nothing more terrifying, no more painful punishment that I can think of, that is worse than this for Reynolds . . .

Linda Reynolds has to live the rest of her life being Linda Reynolds.

Perfect end to a cursed season.

SovCits and other unhinged cooker types are the real problem in this country, not people speaking out against genocide who are labelled as anti-semitic by some. Governments need to wake up and get with the programme otherwise reality will continue to bite them on the arse just like it did today.

Terrible. The Age is saying it’s one of these sovereign citizen types. I’m surprised we haven’t seen this sort of event with such people earlier.