Josh Taylor

Josh Taylor

@joshtaylor.bsky.social

Technology reporter at the Guardian, in Melbourne, Australia. Tech, infosec, FOI, politics, media 🌈 (he/him) https://linktr.ee/joshtayl0r

11,621 Followers 729 Following 3,335 Posts Joined May 2023
6 hours ago
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Robodebt was the great test of Australia’s accountability mechanisms – and they failed The final report into the Centrelink debt recovery process that wreaked havoc on the vulnerable is not the full-stop many wanted. It has not restored the trust that was so fundamentally broken * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The whistleblower’s message landed just before Christmas. It was 2016, now a distant memory. Continue reading...

Robodebt was the great test of Australia’s accountability mechanisms – and they failed

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8 hours ago

They probably have a candidate running in the seat, but it's the Hanson way for a ditched Lib candidate to become One Nation, dating back to her....

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8 hours ago

Well that's over bsky.app/profile/6new...

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11 hours ago

It just has that Trumpian swerve Katter also has

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11 hours ago

Katter?

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14 hours ago

Oh wait, I get what you're saying.

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14 hours ago

Apparently Trump is gifting it to them and doesn't ask their shoe size, just guesses, and so they have to wear to impress him lol

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15 hours ago
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Foreign Facebook pages have been promoting One Nation. It wants them to stop An ABC NEWS Verify investigation uncovers a raft of foreign Facebook accounts targeting Australian users. And they're just the tip of the iceberg.

Malcolm Roberts in the climate misinfo hearing labels the ABC "notorious propaganda" and questioned this (very good) ABC story for claiming the support for One Nation on FB was "Vietnamese bots" when it is "quite natural and truthful" www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

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17 hours ago
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Snapchat told an Australian mother it would not delete her son’s account because his listed age was 25 Parents have been told to report accounts missed in Australia’s under-16 social media ban – but eSafety is ‘concerned’ some platforms aren’t complying

I kinda think parents should parent but the government promise in the social media ban was that they would not worry about that with social media so this is what happens. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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1 day ago
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Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

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1 day ago

If we're doing it right

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1 day ago

See the most trusted side in the link for one of them

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1 day ago

Kinda like Temu

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10 most distrusted brands in order: Woolworths, Optus, Facebook/Meta, Coles, Temu, Tesla, Qantas, Telstra, X, Shein

Australians distrust Tesla more than X, according to Roy Morgan. www.roymorgan.com/findings/101...

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1 day ago

Sloppelganger is perfect.

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a close up of a man in a military uniform looking at the camera with a serious look on his face . ALT: a close up of a man in a military uniform looking at the camera with a serious look on his face .

"youth-oriented social media website MySpace"

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Ms Hudson
26 It is unnecessary to chart Ms Hudson's career as a solo artist in detail. It is
sufficient to record that in November 2007, in advance of the planned release of
an album, Ms Hudson's single "Ur So Gay" and music video were digitally
released on the youth-orientated social media website, MySpace. The song was
immediately popular and "went viral". An extended play including the single was
subsequently released and, from January 2008, was available for purchase in a
compact disc and in a seven-inch vinyl version.
27 On 17 June 2008, Ms Hudson released her second studio album, "One of
the Boys", which included the singles "Ur So Gay", "I Kissed a Girl", "Hot n
Cold", "Thinking of You" and "Waking up in Vegas". The album and the singles

Once again enjoying High Court dryness in discussing Katy Perry (she lost the trademark case) www.hcourt.gov.au/sites/defaul...

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1 day ago

Also different AG... I was wondering if it was just Dreyfus preoccupation, but apparently not.

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The Royal Commission found that “Robodebt was a crude and cruel mechanism, neither fair nor legal” and “a costly failure of public administration, in both human and economic terms.” The Royal Commission made 56 recommendations, all of which were accepted or accepted in principle by the Government.

The government is still persisting with the claim that there were only 56 recommendations out of the robodebt royal commission, when there were 57 and they just didn't like that last one.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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1 day ago

Yeahhh it was pretty bad and predictable towards the end.

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2 days ago

Watching Gone, and I know he was the fake-out regen, but David Morrissey would have made a good Doctor.

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2 days ago

Same line youtu.be/Dt--SGmIKIQ

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3 days ago

Is it gaming if that's the whole point of it?

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3 days ago

someone at the pentagon frantically typing “Claude, open the strait of Hormuz for me, quickest possible strategy, make no mistakes.”

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3 days ago

The reply was that they were aware of Agro via those clips lol

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3 days ago

Oh yeah X-men and Spider-man too... still (mostly) hold up rewatching them now.

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3 days ago
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Entertainer Jamie Dunn, voice behind beloved puppet Agro, dies aged 76

I was trying to explain Agro to a gen z person and all I could say was he was "the puppet on the cartoon show we watched before we switched to Cheez TV because they had Pokemon and Dragonball Z" www.9news.com.au/national/jam...

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3 days ago

I really want to say "who could have seen this coming" but phrasing.

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3 days ago
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VPN apps rocket up download charts in Australia as porn websites begin blocking users Proton VPN moves from 174th to 19th place as NordVPN goes from 189th to 13th, as porn websites in Australia start requiring age verification for users

X users in Australia were also reporting over the weekend that they were being asked to verify their age for each piece of adult content they tried to view, or get Grok to generate. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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3 days ago

He at least got someone with knowledge of code to check it... a plus.

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