Chris Mitchell

My 14-yo-son has recreated the climax of Back to the Future in gingerbread and I thought you should know.

Was 2025 Oscar Piastri’s best chance at an F1 title or a prelude to glory? | Jack Snape The young Australian is a gifted driver racing in an exceptional car, but was prone to error this season and in 2026 will face new adversity Tumbling from the Formula One precipice, ultimately Oscar Piastri was not the first Australian in 40 years to be crowned world champion. The man from Melbourne finished a narrow third in the driver standings this year behind his McLaren teammate Lando Norris and four-time champion Max Verstappen. Now, he is back to square one. Midway through the season Piastri lead Norris by a comfortable 34 points and Verstappen by a chasm. But a run of six rounds without a podium left him on the outside looking in, and by the end at Abu Dhabi he finished 13 points behind his teammate. Continue reading...

Was 2025 Oscar Piastri’s best chance at an F1 title or a prelude to glory? | Jack Snape

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Come up to sunny Brisbane! There's a few that I'm sure would love you to present!

McDonald’s AI Hiring Bot Exposed Millions of Applicants’ Data to Hackers Who Tried the Password ‘123456’ Basic security flaws left the personal info of tens of millions of McDonald’s job-seekers vulnerable on the “McHire” site built by AI software firm Paradox.ai.

McDonald's uses an AI bot called "Olivia" for hiring. A pair of hackers found they could access every conversation job applicants had with it—including all the personal info they shared—by exploiting security vulnerabilities as basic as using the password "123456". www.wired.com/story/mcdona...

apart from its inherent qualities as a comic strip, I really appreciate that Watterson resisted the urge to franchise and merchandise C&H. There's no animated movie, no tv show, no line of toys, no ipad game.

it exists in its entirety as a comic strip written and drawn entirely by one man.

It's a shame you're not coming to Brisbane!

5-panel comic. (1) [teacher with long hair next to whiteboard] TEACHER: I’m supposed to give you the tools to do good science. (2) [teacher addressing students] But what *are* those tools? Methodology is hard and there are so many ways to get incorrect results. What is the magic ingredient that makes for good science? (3) TEACHER: To figure it out, I ran a regression with all the factors people say are important: [embedded list in sub-panel, cut off at end] Outcome variable: correct scientific results. Predictors: collaboration; skepticism of others’ claims; questioning your own beliefs; trying to falsify hypotheses; checking citations; statistical rigor; blinded analysis; financial disclosure; open data (4) TEACHER: The regression says two ingredients are the most crucial: 1) genuine curiosity about the answer to a question, and 2) ammonium hydroxide. (5) STUDENT: Wait, why did *ammonia* score so high? How did it even get on the list? LONG HAIR: ...And now you’re doing good science!

Good Science

xkcd.com/3101/

Out of respect for Antony Green, on his last hurrah, let’s pretend it’s a cliffhanger

Theo is a grey Russian blue cat with white paws, laying on the carpet and looking like a potato, while looking upside-down and backwards at the camera.

This is Theo. He helps me edit my free, weekly cybersecurity newsletter ~ this week in security ~ (so you know who to blame for any typos). It's out every Sunday, and has all the cyber news that you need to know, plus the happy corner, and a featured cyber cat.

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Welcome to Australia, I hope all goes smoothly!

Well I follow both of you, just intrigued as to why.

Thanks for explaining!

Sorry, but why is this a link to your website that is then a link back to Blue Sky? Why not link directly?

Concerned about the quality of a thing or situation? DEI was not involved. D E and I are three good things that we should all strive for.

OpenAI scraped the internet and copyrighted material, and now it’s suddenly concerned about plagiarism ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

This is the way.

Yellow Delivery Truck 60440 | City | Buy online at the Official LEGO® Shop AU Fun LEGO® toy delivery adventures

This one is a good build but may be a little young: www.lego.com/en-au/produc...

A group of homophones is called a heard

Aloha!

Thank you both for providing some direction!

Now I need to go read that paper!

Adam Boileau is now on Bluesky! (@metlstorm.risky.biz)

a coupon which says "10 likes*" and then in fine print says "* does not give you likes"

Due to the server issues some of your recent posts may have gotten fewer likes than they deserved

Please accept this coupon to rectify this, which allows you to imagine you got 10 more likes on your post than you did

Is it too late to nominate Xodus as Word of the Year?

Quite a lot of discussion around @bsky.app here at #KubeCon, and consensus that it was @kelseyhightower.com 's clear exit from the other place that was the tipping point for the cloud native community coming over here en masse. Thank you Kelsey for your leadership in this and so many other ways.

I can only hope the sky remains blue, so far this has been wonderful.