You can/should read Emily Wilson's latest take on the Odyssey, but I'm logging on to convey my hairdresser's reaction. She was AGHAST that Nolan, with his million $ budget, gave Matt Damon ONLY 6 hair extensions. As a result, his hair did not blow around properly, & that ruined the film for her.

If you're a South Australian game developer heading to #MIGW this year, then with the support of South Australian Film Corporation I've got your prep covered! Doing GCAP, PlayNow, or PAX - there's something here for you. Register now, it's completely FREE. www.safilm.com.au/latest-news/...

Commercial in Confidence: Prepare for MIGW 2026 with Jon Cartwright - SAFC

Calling all South Australian game developers! Heading to MIGW 2026? Get the most out of your week with this free online workshop led by games industry veteran Jon Cartwright. Melbourne International G...

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I appreciate people who forget to log out of hotel streaming apps.

Australia 2026 A social cohesion envoy who is the largest driver of social disunity An anti corruption commission being investigated for corruption A sovereign program that builds the sovereign capability of other nations A defence Minister who increases our likelihood of being attacked

Is $1.65 trillion a lot

Timnit Gebru@timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 7d ago

"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Spotted at Adelaide airport.

One more Pitch Workshop for NSW developers left ahead of MIGW. Registrations are still open here: gameconsulting.com.au/nsw-pitch-wo...

Same.

Stuart Romeo-Richards@stuartrichards.bsky.social · last wk.

Re the #Ausalert: I quickly hit the X button because I wanted the sound to stop before I read any of the information and then found it impossible to get that info back up on my screen. I would be doomed in an emergency. Why can't it also be a text message that we can refer back to?

HEARING AID USERS The national alert that is going off today at 2pm will affect hearing aids if they’re connected via Bluetooth to your phone. It is advisable to disconnect your hearing aids from Bluetooth temporarily because the alarm is very loud. #NationalAlert /nicked from FB

measuring data centres by "chadstones" is the most terrifying unit of measurement possible in australia

Tim Baxter@timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au · 2w ago

For those who don't know Melbourne's south east, this is a data centre that is six times larger than the largest shopping centre in the southern hemisphere (and worst in the world).

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MIGW Women in Games Event EOI

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“The discovery of layers of grass ash stretching back 25,000 years suggests that a cave in south-eastern Australia was home to elaborate rituals for over 1000 generations of Indigenous inhabitants. www.newscientist.com/article/2580...

Magic rituals took place in an Australian cave for 25,000 years | New Scientist

Preserved plant cells show that grasses were brought into Cloggs cave in Australia and burnt over many millennia, revealing the ancient origins of rituals practised by the GunaiKurnai people

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Yes. Using a computer now feels like this at all times.

Pavel@spavel.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Thinking about why women might not want to use a product that has forced itself into every software interface to confidently shout things that are wrong

Australian devs, anyone know any Unreal engineering freaks looking for short-term contract work?

Phew

Mephisto, by Joaquín Espalter y Rull, 1872, 📸 by Dan Mullan

we've all learned one thing this weekend and its that football is much better when there's zero stakes and no one cares and not a single person can be bothered to play defence

Here's your reminder that somewhere today, someone smiled because another human was kind to them. Be that human if you can. 💚

Thanks so much for penning this incredible piece @austingallagher.bsky.social! I live in hope for the day that Inf Lives has the funds to run much, much longer pieces at a fair rate for writers! We’ll get there!

Austin Gallagher@austingallagher.bsky.social · 3w ago

I wrote a piece for @harrisonpolites.bsky.social's Infinite Lives. Lots of cool people took time out of their busy schedule to talk to me about Game Jams (this could have been three times as long with the wealth of information and insight they provided). Check it out! substack.com/home/post/p-...

Amazon, Microsoft and Google now pump out 119 million tonnes of CO₂ a year from AI and cloud, about a THIRD of France’s ANNUAL emissions. Tech for the common good would slash emissions and protect communities, not hide a new fossil‑fuelled footprint in distant data centres.

GenAI is Joe Rogan for intellectuals.

Hello! I'm looking to update my Women in Games contact list for #MIGW26. So if that's, please feel free to add yourself. Thanks! I'm already looking forward to catch ups. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

MIGW Women in Games Event EOI

If you are interested in being invited to a Women in Games event to be held on Monday 5 October 2026 in Melbourne as part of Melbourne International Games Week (MIGW), please complete this form. Invi...

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Hello! I'm looking to update my Women in Games contact list for #MIGW26. So if that's, please feel free to add yourself. Thanks! I'm already looking forward to catch ups. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

MIGW Women in Games Event EOI

If you are interested in being invited to a Women in Games event to be held on Monday 5 October 2026 in Melbourne as part of Melbourne International Games Week (MIGW), please complete this form. Invi...

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in a world of Lindsey Grahams, be a Sam Neill

Something that often goes unsaid: We're against using genAI in our work, and we've also blocked AI crawlers from finding and stealing our work. Even Google. We're not traffic-driven, but in 2026 this has a big impact on how people find us. So, simply following us and sharing our work means a lot 🙏

This Week in Videogames@thisweekinvideogames.com · 4w ago

This Week in Videogames is a reader-funded website, and our independent, commercial-free nature is only possible due to paid subscriptions. By popular demand, we've just launched a Discord community as a new perk for financial supporters. We'd love for you to be a part of it.

Australians don't hate Jews, Josh Burns MP. Australians hate GENOCIDE. The dehumanisation and diminishing of Palestinian experiences at the hands of Israel has to end, as does the GENOCIDE, the APARTHEID, the TORTURE & the ILLEGAL OCCUPATION. #auspol www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Antisemitism isn’t always overt. A torrent of suspicion is questioning Jewish Australians’ loyalty to the country we love | Josh Burns

We don’t want debate to be silenced. But the dehumanisation and diminishing of our experiences has to end

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Telstra Is Down Australia Wide Affecting Mobile Phones, Trains And Eftpos Machines press-start.com.au/n...

Negotiations are taking longer with Arkane because of "strict French labor laws" just means Msft can't do whatever they want in countries with reasonable protections for workers. Something to think about.

Looking forward to the World Cup final featuring a US team with 13 players, refereed by Barron Trump