Bill Standen

Threads does have a limited ActivityPub implementation. It's not seen much use from either users or Meta as far as I've seen.

Has there been any indication of how eSafety expect enforcement would work on a federated platform as yet?

My first real recollection of a VicPol action is the Richmond Secondary College baton charge. 32 years later and I feel it gave a pretty accurate representation of the force, and the governments that leverage it.

This off the back of yesterdays racial profiling data is on brand, for both parties.

Horcen pops up a bit in Middle English but it was usually horse as a collective singular or horses/horsis since Old English

Imagine having a thumping majority in parliament and deciding to use it for something as squalid as this.

"Other job seekers who fail to meet their requirements are not interested in finding work, either because they have other sources of undeclared income or because they see their payments as an entitlement for which they should not have to do anything in return. For these job seekers, strong penalties are required to send a clear message that those who are unwilling to meet their mutual obligation requirements will not receive income support. Based on these findings, a new compliance system is proposed that will address the weaknesses of the current model and deliver the objectives of this review. This new framework will include: • Greater autonomy and emphasis on personal responsibility for most job seekers. • Better identification of factors impacting job seeker capability before penalties are applied. • Targeting of significantly tougher compliance penalties at job seekers who have demonstrated they are not genuine in meeting their requirements. • Greater simplicity through more consistency in the design and application of compliance rules for different types of failures Recommendation 1: Targeted Compliance Framework The new approach will be based around a targeted compliance framework which consists of two phases – a personal responsibility phase for the majority of job seekers who generally meet their requirements and an intensive compliance phase which will apply strong penalties to persistently non-compliant job seekers. The system will be bolstered by new technologies to assist job seekers in monitoring their requirements, and multiple interventions to identify when factors impacting the job seekers ability to comply or inappropriate requirements may be preventing a genuine job seeker from meeting their requirements."

NEW: I have obtained, under FOI, a secret Department report that initially recommended the Targeted Compliance Framework - aka, the unlawful "mutual obligations" scheme

It reveals that, like Robodebt, they recklessly built this thing to punish "entitled" frauds who never existed

Extraordinary intervention by ombudsman in Victorian youth crime crackdown Marlo Baragwanath warns the state government's crackdown on youth offenders will result in less humane treatment in detention centres.

Good to see the Ombudsman injecting some reality.

“Victoria's prison watchdog has made an extraordinary intervention into Premier Jacinta Allan's crime crackdown, warning it leads to less humane treatment of young inmates, less effective rehabilitation, and no improvement in community safety.”

Post-privatisation, are Victoria’s prisons actually better? Three privately managed prisons house nearly 40 per cent of Victoria’s prisoner population, but research indicates they're falling short of expectations in key areas.

From 2019...

"As a consequence, Victoria has the largest proportion of privately managed prisoners in Australia, while Australia has the largest proportion in the world."

Apple Music notification for a new single by The Sisters of Mercy, but not those Sisters of Mercy

Apple Music be trolling

If cops had any interest in preventing the nazi rally, they'd have told their sons not to attend.

May it be infested with crabs.

Reddit and Kick added to child social media ban Reddit and Kick will be included in the world-first social media ban for children under 16, which begins next month.

It’s just depressing how much this is going to break search in Australia with how dire and reliant on reddit comments search engines have become

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

The senate paper could come on a continuous scroll

A carve out for just those with a physical disability would still cut of their circle any peers without one.

It’s going to be a big impact on isolated kids generally. Remote, or even just outer urban and disadvantaged families who may not have the time and resources to shuttle kids to social events

When TWA 800 went down they had a professor from Uni of Pittsburgh to estimate the chances of a meteorite strike. One incident expected every 59,000 to 77,000 years was the answer.

www.ntsb.gov/investigatio...

I’d think more meteors fall to earth than satellite debris.

I can’t imagine them running on gas looks so great economically either all these years on

“Nowhere near as widely used“ is something that could change in short order.

🚨 NEW: 58% of Australians agree that a genocide is happening in Gaza, according to a YouGov poll commissioned by the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network

88% of Greens voters and 72% of Labor voters were among those who agreed with the UN report on Gaza

I remember seeing something about it not accepting email addresses as the username anymore and needing the ID, but I’m a cantankerous git that’s made it into my 40s without an account

Banh mi

Reddit also regularly coughs up far right extremist subreddits in its default rotation for non-logged in Australians.

Screen replacement will be hundreds and the laptop's already out of OS support. Can you get union discounts on Apple stuff? 13 inch MacBook Air would be around $1490 with them

Banned and offered explicitly as an example

www.etsy.com/au/legal/pro...

You could be a private attorney, an attorney in fact, in business.

An attorney at law was a public attorney.

Is there something out there doing AI continuity? My guess is multiple or interrupted takes glued together

- you clean up that banksy?
- sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

It's going to be a wild time when Epic's KWS has a security breach.

The Egg, a cricket trophy awarded to the winners of Overland vs Meanjin matches, alongside a copy of Jim Davidson's Emperor in Lilliput, the book about magazine founding editors Clem Christesen and Stephen Murray-Smith.

Since our very first issue Meanjin and Overland have been comrades, mates, rivals, and drinking buddies. The UMP board’s decision is a shockingly myopic act of cultural vandalism which will grievously harm the Australian literary community.

— Em dash is long. Denotes a break in the sentence. Use similar to a comma or parentheses.
– En dash is mid length. Used to divide numbers or dates for ranges.
- Hyphen is short. Used to link words or letters.

The AI use thing goes to show just how much formally typeset work they’ve consume.

You would have hoped Australian Labor would have understood how poorly this sort of approach is fairing for UK Labour on every single measure