Josh Taylor

All that is missing is "Australian Peace Prize" written on the side.

It's so cringe but then Trump loves that sort of thing, and they know it.

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Turns out the cloud is still a physical place

Motion by leave A motion moved to suspend standing orders by Senator Gallagher was agreed to. Senator Gallagher moved a motion to discharge the Freedom of Information Amendment Bill 2025 from the Notice Paper - debate in progress

We love to see it. ⚰️

Even those who have strongly pushed for the ban say it will take time to see any changes. Jonathan Haidt, the author of The Anxious Generation, recently told the Hard Fork podcast that if nothing "budges" in five years in terms of mental health improvements for Australian teenagers, his campaign to restrict social media access would have been proved wrong. However, there is a caveat: it will depend on whether the ban is sufficiently enforced - Haidt says 70% of the population needs to comply with the ban for it to be deemed effective.

Homer sitting in front of the TV saying, angrily: "I told you last night, no!"

Being an Australian tech reporter RN means: "Can you say if the social media ban working yet?" every couple of weeks. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Kyle sues, gets comfortable exit package, launches Rogan-style podcast

In May '25, a beloved Australian games website was sold off. It went dark then, a month later, rose from the dead but stuffed full of gambling links and AI authors.

It wasn't the first time, or the last time, this exact thing had happened. And it's still happening.

My months-long investigation 👇

Green party wins Gorton and Denton byelection, pushing Labour to third place in blow to Keir Starmer Hannah Spencer elected as party’s first MP in northern England, as Labour sees a 25.3% drop in vote compared to 2024

Look at the Greens+Labour vote in Gorton and Denton and a Reform win should never have been in play. 1st past the post is truly mad. Be grateful for the Aus electoral system. Etc.

Not an original thought, not the main story here, but worth saying again and again.
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Same... I haven't seen Our Town but now I kinda want to.

lol every day I get some vendor-commissioned study on how we're not adopting AI quickly enough

Beloved Australian drag queen and Drag Race Down Under star, Maxi Shield, dies aged 51 Shield appeared in closing ceremony of 2000 Sydney Olympic Games and was a mainstay of the city’s drag scene * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast One of Australia’s best-known and loved drag queens, Sydney’s Maxi Shield, has died following a diagnosis with throat cancer, prompting tributes from around the world. Kristopher Elliot, who performed drag under the name Maxi Shield, was 51. She was a mainstay of the Sydney drag scene, and brought Australian drag to the world as contestant in season one of RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under. Continue reading...

Beloved Australian drag queen and Drag Race Down Under star, Maxi Shield, dies aged 51

Oliver said he'd post it but only aired a few hours ago so they haven't yet.

Often the case with LWT. But they're aiming at people who aren't chronically online.

I was trying to figure out why everyone was talking about Twitter again but then saw the John Oliver segment.

OpenAI considered alerting Canadian police about school shooting suspect months ago Company behind ChatGPT last year flagged Jesse Van Rootselaar’s account for ‘furtherance of violent activities’

So they could have but did not. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

So SAD (Sky After Dark) becomes NAD (News24 After Dark)

Looks like variations of it are expired/never registered except for ABC News 24 (which is still active). search.ipaustralia.gov.au/trademarks/s...

Sky News Australia’s unlikely standoff with clothing giant Zara over ‘Lefties Losing It’ brand | Weekly Beast Australia Channel and Agenda among Sky’s other proposed trademarks as the network prepares to lose its naming rights. Plus: Aaron Patrick’s column on Sussan Ley provokes outrage

Yeah I know... Assumed might be one of these but I guess putting "Australia" in the name would also hurt their YouTube views among MAGA people www.theguardian.com/media/commen...

Sky News is rebranding as... News24?? www.skynews.com.au/business/med...

X punishes outside links tho. So given our not posting on there, it suggests it's a fool's game to try to use the site to reach audiences.

Wild that Guardian is ahead of the others on X traffic despite us not having a presence on there for a year and a half

A few weeks of X’s algorithm can make you more right-wing – and it doesn’t wear off quickly Elon Musk’s social media platform is boosting conservative content – and it’s having long-lasting effects on how users see the world.

Latest article from me in The Conversation this morning.

I discuss a new Nature study that finds X's algorithmic feed is politically biased (surprise, surprise!). I explore the idea of social media platforms as faulty infrastructure in need of a fix.

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Meta wins patent for AI that could post for dead social media users The company says its just a concept, and doesn't plan to advance the idea.

You know I'm dead if I suddenly start posting on Facebook more than like once every two years. mashable.com/article/meta...

Yes

Australia Post doing NFTs while arguing delivering the mail is becoming too expensive.

There will have been a longer time period between Buffy ending and coming back than there was between original Star Trek and Next Generation...

Wild to see the actor who played that doctor who temporarily replaced Crusher in TNG in TOS like 20 years earlier... but now I calculate the time difference it would be like a 2000s show actor appearing in the 2020s reboot.

Binge Joshua, here's your special offer. Open now to find out.

They're trying to sneak it in now with deceptive subject lines so they still get that email click rate high.

If nothing else than to stop Binge trying to push Kayo on me, when my viewing history would suggest I absolutely have no interest in Kayo.