I can tell you’re a sophisticate because you didn’t call it “a red”
30.08.2025 11:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0@davidramli.bsky.social
Sydneysider and Bloomberg News writer in Singapore, previously Beijing. Views expressed here are mine, not my employer's. Email: dramli1@bloomberg.net
I can tell you’re a sophisticate because you didn’t call it “a red”
30.08.2025 11:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0This looks like most of the data they’d have on students? But also hey if the hacker can be rehabilitated…
28.08.2025 04:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Honestly, decades later and the phrase “CHEAP DOORS - ON SALE!” still occasionally pops into my head. Telstra should just chuck them a tenner to make an ad and reap the profits.
11.08.2025 03:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I mean, in a way… direct negotiations with the Taliban and without Ghani certainly sped up an end to the war!
08.08.2025 00:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A *very* Bloomberg News alert.
01.07.2025 06:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0BlackBerry was more than a tiny keyboard.
It was a tiny keyboard with specific indents that your thumbs learned through painful rote until you could file 600 words with your eyes up on a news event.
The Kate Lundy venn diagram was just a little before its time
12.05.2025 07:29 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It was once one of Asia’s top startups, at least on paper, until it all came crashing down.
Read the inside story of how eFishery faked its numbers, based on conversations with the company's founder and dozens of his investors, staff and clients.
I always figured Abby’s long hike through nature with friends would clear her head and lead to mutual forgiveness #blessed
14.04.2025 03:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I never got to finish the game. Guessing Joel and Ellie find the cure, fix society and all ends well, right Josh? Right? Josh?
14.04.2025 03:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Perhaps, perhaps not… but the overtures were always going to raise eyebrows higher than Sydney’s old Centrepoint Tower when accompanied by such statements.
11.04.2025 06:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0My old uni sold the student accomodation I lived in and now it’s so expensive I’d need a full time job just to afford it.
09.04.2025 02:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Guys it’s fine Fort Denison worked on the Russians and it’ll work on the Chinese chill
14.03.2025 10:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I mean, luckily she was also lovely so nobody took offence.
11.03.2025 01:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Former workplace once had a Canadian on a swap and she kept asking Australians in Australia why they didn’t have an Australian accent.
11.03.2025 01:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0ho… how did they even get their graph making software to do this??
07.03.2025 03:44 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0You can’t intifada if you’re too busy being extrafada?
26.02.2025 05:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0(low key though Croatia is *so good* - the people, the food, the sea…)
26.01.2025 06:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I post this knowing that only 0.1% of the TikTok native user base would understand the reference - or even whats going on youtu.be/B1kJhSMuV60
19.01.2025 04:14 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0I mean, Huawei’s first 5G keynote presentation in MWC was all about it underpinning driverless cars. To which my immediate instinct was “hello sir have you met the Australian Parliamentary System?”
17.01.2025 04:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0😂
17.01.2025 02:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 06Gbps in Gippsland holy cow
17.01.2025 02:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Oh hello there, Spam Account followers, haven’t seen you in a while.
16.01.2025 05:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Ice in summer?! Something something “global warming”
15.01.2025 06:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0My main peeve was it just *didn’t* work. Sure, fiddling around with network settings and switching off 5Ghz could help, but post update you’d just constantly lose speakers. They fixated on timers but core functionality remained broken for many.
14.01.2025 04:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0To this day I still remember the 😏 faces of Telstra analysts whenever the execs would try this on.
06.01.2025 06:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0My favourite hype cycle moment was when I covered a tech event in China and the chairman of a booze company went on stage to claim his company was *not* a booze company but in fact a Big Data company (it was, in truth, a booze company)
06.01.2025 06:35 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Seamus you don’t understand. If you studied the subject, learned about neural nets, LLM, understood the peer reviewed literature and worked at the coal face cutting edge of AI…
…you’d know it’s about that sweet, sweet share price jump every time they hit the red button labelled “IT’S AI”
Be the inflation data you want to see, Rick.
24.12.2024 02:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Woke passiona. They’ve finally gone too far.
19.12.2024 07:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0