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Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

Quick reminder: the proportion of private schools which are fully funded or overfunded by the state is officially 98%. The proportion of public schools of which the same is true is 2%. This was a couple of years ago so it's definitely gotten worse.

The NT court is telling everyone you are allowed to murder Indigenous people with your car, and you don't even lose your licence.
Structural, systemic racism is at the heart of colonial institutions of power. #auspol

One of the workshop organisers yesterday said “you do not need to facially perform engagement” on a zoom call and it changed me

+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…🦗