Mel Campbell

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I’m Mahmoud from Gaza
a Software Engineer and father of 3.
We lost so much but not our hope. My Family still dream of school and safety. Help me make that dream real again PLZ don@te 💔
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RIP Sean Connery you would have loved saying this headline

Quite apart from anything else, I was tickled that they have such Gen X and millennial names as Bevan and Jordan

Thugs yearn for the jackboot

Public notice: Melbourne CBD - Sunday 30 November 2025 to Friday 29 May 2026 A public notice for Melbourne CBD and surrounds from Sunday 30 November 2025 to Friday 29 May 2026.

FOR THE NEXT 6 MONTHS the cops have 'Designated' Melbourne's CBD & all nearby parkland a 'Zone' where you have to let them search you, empty your bags & pockets, & remove "headwear, jackets, scarves" 🤔 🇵🇸 & any "face covering" that protects you from injurious "crowd-controlling substances" ACAB

Wong can get tf down off that high horse, considering that as Foreign Minister, she refuses to sanction lsraeI for its genocide of PaIestinians – a failure of moral leadership (as well as international legal obligation) that has only emboldened racists like Hanson and Babet

I'd love to have a dilute ginger cat! Like an apricot-coloured cat, or peaches and cream

Israel has violated the U.S.-brokered Gaza ceasefire nearly 500 times in 44 days—killing 342 civilians, including children, women, and the elderly.

That's more than 11 violations every single day.

The genocide never stopped. Palestinians are still being killed.

Just looked up the site and it doesn’t seem Australian to me: the cofounders are French and the team seems to focus a lot on the US (no mention of Australia in any of their bios)

Of course it might still work on Australian products, though

Update November 22. We’ve updated this article after realising we contributed to a perfect storm of misunderstanding around a recent change in the wording and placement of Gmail’s smart features. The settings themselves aren’t new, but the way Google recently rewrote and surfaced them led a lot of people (including us) to believe Gmail content might be used to train Google’s AI models, and that users were being opted in automatically. After taking a closer look at Google’s documentation and reviewing other reporting, that doesn’t appear to be the case. Gmail does scan email content to power its own “smart features,” such as spam filtering, categorisation, and writing suggestions. But this is part of how Gmail normally works and isn’t the same as training Google’s generative AI models. Google also maintains that these feature settings are opt-in rather than opt-out, although users’ experiences seem to vary depending on when and how the new wording appeared. It’s easy to see where the confusion came from. Google’s updated language around “smart features” is vague, and the term “smart” often implies AI—especially at a time when Gemini is being integrated into other parts of Google’s products. When the new wording started appearing for some users without much explanation, many assumed it signalled a broader shift. We’ve revised this article to reflect what we can confirm from Google’s documentation, as it’s always been our aim to give readers accurate, helpful guidance.

If you have been sharing that Malwarebytes article on the Gmail thing, you should note the giant correction up top.

www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...

I bought some ‘keto meal replacement’ powder from Cheaper Buy Miles (for $8; costs $25 at Woolworths) and just decided to try some. My god! I was expecting a shake like other protein powders I have tried, but this is like a pudding. They need to warn people about the viscous texture

I have two things I would really like people to internalize about the fashion industry/garment manufacturing, and they are:

1. Mass manufactured clothes are only ever intended to fit "good enough," and;

2. Everything you wear was made by actual human people.

Consultants love to see dumb government agencies coming

“the cost breakdown included $4.1 million for the redesign, $79.8 million for the website build, and the site's launch and security testing cost $12.6 million”

millions of belles dames a year are avec merci, yet the media focuses on the one or two who are sans merci

Yesterday I was listening to the 2007 Yeasayer song ‘2080’ & realised I’d been singing a mondegreen all this time

Real lyrics: “Yeah, you can have 21 sons and be blood when they marry my daughters”

My lyrics: “Yeah, you can have 21 cents in your bag in American dollars”

Saw that my favourite Finnish rye crackers are back at Cheaper Buy Miles and said excitedly aloud, “OH MY GHODDD” only to look up and see a young man looking at me like 🗿

A cropped screenshot from a Canadian government website with the prompt "What's your occupation?" The answer "Writer" has been provided, generating the red text error response "Please enter a valid occupation."

Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.

Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.

OMG yes! I hadn't even thought to try Trove – I was looking on the Wayback Machine

"Deliver us from evil"

unfortunately there's a little 'twinkle' logo next to the word 'Polish' so I know it's the stupid, completely unasked-for AI

Meanwhile the District 4 ('sea district') tributes are Mizzen & Coral. I'm OK with Coral, but Mizzen is a reference to a mast on a sailing ship. Panem is late-industrial, but it could still be a historical name. But WOULD you name kids after a worksite? Imagine being called Cubicle or Hotdesk

All this is inspired by how annoying I found the names in 'The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes'. A tribute from District 3 (the 'tech district') is called Teslee – an obvious Tesla riff that panders to the reader's idea of 'tech'. But was there ever a District 3 inventor named Nikola Tesla?

I've been watching the new 'Robin Hood' series on Stan, where the Sheriff of Nottingham's daughter is named Priscilla. Like Tiffany, the name seems modern but is very old; Prisca aka Priscilla was an early Christian leader. A loyalist's daughter has a rebel's name => Priscilla breaks the rules

I've forgotten the title & author of a Japanese crime novel I read years ago in translation, but I've always remembered that its enigmatic femme fatale, Fumiko, tells the detective her name uses "the character meaning 'history'," which she traces erotically on his palm. She's a woman with a past…

The author should balance those in-world considerations with the reader's own decoding of the name's meaning within their real-world knowledge. What always annoys me is when the author seems to pander to trendy names they imagine the reader will admire, or when the name feels like a generic label

I always want the name to have a specific meaning in the narrative. It should express the hopes of a parent who named their child… or of a character who chose their own name

Is the name common or rare in this time or place? What does it tell other characters about someone's class or ethnicity?

It always annoys me when fictional character names feel gimmicky, seemingly chosen to sound cool or pretty like a pet's name, for heavy-handed thematic meaning, or to make an in-joke over the character's head, rather than revealing the character's own family, history or culture

Gmail constantly pushes its AI on me by making the word "Polish" hover near the text as I'm writing an email

this never fails to confuse me as for a split second I always think it's offering to translate the email into Polish