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+1 I would buy an ebook immediately but the shipping is too high for a hard copy

Pouring one out for all the girlies still dealing with arrogant AI grifters

One of the biggest challenges of working in tech was dealing with (predominantly) men who refused to admit when they didn’t know something and now LLMs have made that SO MUCH WORSE. I respect “I don’t know, but here is how I would try to figure it out” far more than relentless bullshitting.

The world wants to ban children from social media, but there will be grave consequences for us all | Taylor Lorenz Age-verification systems require collecting sensitive data to support the biometric information. In no time, the internet will become a fully surveilled digital panopticon, says technology journalist ...

"The world wants to ban children from social media, but there will be grave consequences for us all" #moralpanic www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Can you try putting alt text on your images? That feels like it would be in the spirit of New Public

If you're looking to support Indigenous game makers Sept 30th as part of National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada here's a thread of where you can start:

Applications close in 3 days! 👀
👉 www.screenaustralia.gov.au/funding-and-...

Oh thanks, I'm so glad! Decent albums are absolutely critical to my writing process 🙏

How You Been, by SML 13 track album

SML's How You Been was one of my favourite albums of last year. Good kind of chaos, there's a lot going on: intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/how-yo...

For Olivia, by Jessica Carlton Quintet 4 track album

Locking in because I have a manuscript to finish so here's the 2026 listening thread 🧵

Jessica is an incredible jazz trumpet player and this EP is lush and expansive (perfect for floating through space). 'Egerny' is my favourite track.
jessicacarlton.bandcamp.com/album/for-ol...

Evelyn Araluen wins $125,000 for ‘politically uncompromising’ poetry at Victorian premier’s literary awards Poet’s second collection The Rot won the Victorian prize for literature and the Indigenous writing category

Fuck yeh Ev

www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...

You simply can’t 'offset' strip mining the only jarrah forest on Earth Australia’s environmental laws are meant to protect the irreplaceable, not offer accounting tricks that allow their irrevocable destruction.

You simply can’t 'offset' strip mining the only jarrah forest on Earth
Australia’s environmental laws are meant to protect the irreplaceable, not offer accounting tricks that allow their irrevocable destruction.
thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

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This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to ...

NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.

Alcoa under investigation over more alleged tree-clearing breaches Just days after being hit with a $55 million fine for unlawfully clearing a jarrah forest, it is revealed US mining giant Alcoa is under investigation for alleged breaches of its agreement with the WA...

And yet, Murray Watt allows Alcoa to continue destroying habitat.

"Alcoa has been granted a temporary "national interest" exemption to continue clearing land for its bauxite operation while an assessment of its "cumulative environmental impact" is completed."

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

Thank you, you get it

ship customisation is very important to me

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

Again, I cannot emphasize enough: do not go to the US even if you're privileged enough to have never been scared or worried of a border crossing in you're life. Do not go ESPECIALLY for something as optional & outrageously expensive as GDC.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

how to be as happy as alysa liu looks

This is such an incredible failure. We've lost 2,100 hectares of old growth jarrah forests, home to nationally protected species, and Alcoa get a $55m slap on the wrist. They won't stop.

New: Internal gov documents show how OpenAI lobbied Australia's top public servants & politicians — and how they responded, including:
- Treasury pouring cold water on OpenAI's claims of AI's economic benefits
- meeting with the prime minister's intelligence agency
- & more
www.crikey.com.au/20...

The brightest minds of my generation are figuring out how to make AI psychosis more efficient instead of building solar panels and high speed rail

An image featuring tiles of released games funded by Screen Australia.

📣 Hey Australian gamemakers!

Screen Australia's Games grants close in 2 weeks! A reminder to get your applications in! 🫶

🛠 Games Production Fund - up to $100,000
🎨 Emerging Gamemakers Fund - up to $30,000

📆 Applications close Thu 5 Mar, 5pm (AEDT)
👉 www.screenaustralia.gov.au/funding-and-...

Would-be tenants queried on 'lifestyle' in 50-question rental applications Tenants are being forced to hand over excessive personal data when applying for rental properties, with new research warning that applicants' personal information could be at risk.

Renters in 🇦🇺 continue to get an incredibly raw deal as this AHURI research shows.

Renters shouldn’t have to handover unnecessary amounts of personal data to companies often exempt from our (already inadequate) federal privacy laws.

National cabinet was supposed to deal with this in 2023…🦗

I keep coming back to the fact that we pretty easily solved poverty for around 6-12 months in 2020, and a lot of rich dudes are petrified of anything like that ever happening agin.

A screenshot of Godot with four cel-shaded objects on a yellow background: a hot pink spacehip, a brown cube, a yellow sphere, and a multicoloured cone shape.

A screenshot of Godot with four cel-shaded objects on a light blue background: a multi-coloured orange cube, a pink sphere, and an orange cone shape.

Fiddling with distance-based posterisation for v2 of WORL, instead of applying a shader material to each mesh (by adapting this shader, bless the Godot community: godotshaders.com/shader/outli...)

Tech companies and policy-makers are currently rolling out online safety mechanisms for protecting children that directly conflict with all of the copious research and expert opinion on what they should be doing instead to prevent child harms. No one cares about the research.

Every time Albo asks to “turn the temperature down” I wonder what ghouls our political class are to have cauterised their humanity so completely that they are no longer affected by the sight of genocide