Adon Metcalfe

Just vote greens . I'm not a fan of all of thier policies but idc anymore. I am spite voting to END THE DUOPOLY.

Why voting in a fact-checking void should worry you Australian voters heading to the polls need to be aware there's little standing between them and potential manipulation of information by vested interests.

ABC RMIT Fact Check has stopped its work, and Meta has ceased third-party fact-checking on its social media sites, putting Australian voters in a worrying misinformation landscape.

Dutton reassures nation that he would never accidentally add a journo to a secret group chat because no one has ever added him to one

"What is a group chat?" Dutton asked party members as they prepared to lie about not having a group chat

Read more: chaser.com.au/national/dut...

I haven't watched adolescence yet but I assume it skips around the question of whether or not tech platforms should be punished harshly for hosting misogynistic, pro-rape and pro-sex-trafficking content (given this is a netflix production)

I've written... quite a lot about this dynamic, come to think of it. A lot of the time, the grifters *themselves* cannot comprehend that genuine expertise is a thing that exists.

deadsimpletech.com/blog/epistem...

I've finally gotten around to tackling Sam Altman's AI story on my blog, and I am distinctly unimpressed:

It is a truth universally acknowledged that the early stages of of building out one's own consultancy are kinda *a bitch*. To that end, I'm currently on the lookout for small, casual jobs to help even out my income a bit. I mostly work with cloud and data infrastructure, and of course, I write well

Natalia Kalen from Severance wearing headset

My therapist at 2:51

There is a company called FiveNine optics that coats mirrors with R>99.999%

If someone is selling a product with the word quantum there is a FiveNine chance they are bullshitting you.

Somebody is claiming to have exfiltrated 6 million lines of data with Oracle Cloud’s SSO and LDAP data that includes JKS files, encrypted SSO passwords, key files and enterprise manager JPS keys from servers on login.*.oraclecloud.com

The poster has no […]

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🎉🎉Congratulations to Wanda Gibson for securing the Victorian Prize for Literature for her work 'Three Dresses'. 🎉🎉
This marks another historic moment for this year's Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, with this being the first time a work from the Children’s Literature category named winner.

In order for me to write poetry that isn't political, I must listen to the birds and in order to hear the birds the warplanes must be silent - Marwan Makhoul

Painfully relevant.

“Cost of living” is a polite way of saying “Fee to not be dead”

WINNERS ANNOUNCED: Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2025
 
🏆 Prize for Indigenous Writing: Black Witness, Amy McQuire
 
Congratulations to Amy McQuire on being awarded the VPLA Prize for Indigenous Writing for the powerful journalistic work ‘Black Witness’. #wheelercentre #vplas

The number of calls from reporters I've gotten over the last 3 months about "But why do farmers love Trump so much, if he keeps hurting them?"

Bc he arranges free payouts in exchange for political support! That's why!

www.usda.gov/about-usda/n...

Bombardment resumes.
My @smh @theage cartoon.

A meme of fry from futurama looking normally in the first panel and squinting in the second

- headlights on EV sold in 2018

- headlights on EV sold in 2025

The (European) cloud ladder: from virtual server to MS 365 - Bert Hubert We have extensive discussions about our enormous dependence on American clouds, but what exactly are we talking about? And is Europe equally dependent on all types of cloud? This article is aimed at p...

You can't use a clever definition of "cloud native" to pretend that you compete with AWS/Azure/Google stacks. Don't try to fool people, it will backfire eventually. "There is no cloud just other people's computers" means you don't get what developers are doing with clouds berthub.eu/articles/pos...

Starship Was Doomed From The Beginning The fatal flaw SpaceX can't overcome.

Starship is the cybertruck of SpaceX - the moment when a Musk company runs out of plagiarised, borrowed and bought technologies and start having to rely on the deeply shitty brain of Elon Musk

"how did SpaceX get here?.......Musk isn’t an engineer and doesn’t understand iterative design"

Israel is blowing children up again. The images are beyond harrowing.
This ABC news strap reeks of: look what you made me do.

I’m crying, this is so funny

WEAPONIZED MANSPLAINING FOR ESPIONAGE ☠️☠️

EU tech companies push for digital sovereignty, reducing reliance on US and others The EU is aiming to move away from US reliance

"Several major European tech companies are pushing for greater action from the European Union to reduce the bloc’s reliance on foreign-owned infrastructure by buying and building locally." #Technology

My theory: Apple didn't start going downhill with Apple Intelligence. It started going downhill when they stopped shipping stickers with their products. I can't quite explain why, but that was the moment.

"you know what that's enough of this for real though. I'm starting an indie rock band"

The 200+ Sites an ICE Surveillance Contractor is Monitoring 404 Media has obtained the list of sites and services that ICE contractor ShadowDragon pulls data from. ShadowDragon sources data from all over the web and lets government analysts easily search it an...

New: we've obtained a leaked list of the more than 200 sites, services, apps an ICE surveillance contractor monitors. Bluesky, OnlyFans, many more. Used to track targets. Highly relevant with the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil by ICE. We've published the full list here: www.404media.co/the-200-site...

i find it hard to comprehend how fucked it that 11% of Australian minors say they've been sexually extorted -- and 40% of those say it was using digitally generated (aka deepfake) technology. Seems bad!