Ermagerd the AML/CTF provisions for REAs and Lawyers for property transactions have been so hamfistedly implemented it’s boggling.
Julia D
@juliadassin.bsky.social
Slightly secretive Sydneysider. 🎥 🎶 🍳 🐕 I know a tiny amount about many things so I guess that makes me a scatty fox rather than a deep-thinking hedgehog.
Thinking fast ("wtf?"), then thinking slow ("oh")
“I don’t think there’s such a thing as ‘mass surveillance, but with guardrails.’”
Flock Safety tries to curb police abuse of its surveillance cameras after scandals
CEO announces steps after reports that system is used to target immigrants or people seeking out-of-state abortions
theguardian.com
Ok clock solid advice but look we’re all just trying to get through the day here
To which I offer a very Australian two-word response. 1st word: a commonly used intensifier. 2nd word: 'no'. 😑
Asher Wolf@asherwolf.bsky.social · 3d agoPay with a glance at a screen as biometric technology company begins push into Australian retail www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
I am generally skeptical of boycotts. But I don't think one can overstate the degree to which J.K. Rowling has chosen to make loathing of trans people and cruelty about them into her primary identity. Nobody on earth will suffer from skipping the Harry Potter series. Let's not make her richer.
“Company offering ‘100% human-written, never AI’ medical research is entirely AI,” lol because of course. www.404media.co/company-offe...
Company Offering ‘100% Human-Written, Never AI’ Medical Research Is Entirely AI
Research Gold's team of human methodologists are either AI generated or using the identity of real people without their permission
404media.co
I don’t get what being banned from providing health services achieves if you were never licensed to provide them in the first place. Am i missing something?
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 4d agoSecond alleged fake doctor banned by Victorian health watchdog
Identifying when someone is wearing Meta’s new ‘pervert glasses’ will become easier under a new proposal that will require users to wear a full Rolf Harris costume and carry a wobble board. Read the full story: theshovel.com.au/2026/08/11/s...
My daydream the other morning was, on seeing the garbage truck picking up the food-waste bin and chugging the contents, I thought there should be a sound effect of "OMNOMNOM" to go with it.
Internet promise 1996: "The rise of the world wide web means your writing could be sold to everyone on the planet without needing a publisher" AI promise 2026: "The rise of AI means your writing will be stolen by everyone on the planet and regurgitated in a lesser form without any recourse."
recycled sex dolls you say? I hear NSWPOL has one on offer. *slightly used **may be called to give evidence
"Whenever someone starts talking about the 'free market,' it's a good idea to look around for the man with the gun." — David Graeber, THE UTOPIA OF RULES.
Lol that was the previous one, in 2016. #censusfail “Lessons from the Censusfail omnishambles” (2017) authory.com/Stilgherrian...
Lessons from the Censusfail omnishambles
Poor management helped cause most of the Australian government’s recent string of technology failures. Stilgherrian says that’s often down to cultural issues. When it comes to managing big IT projects...
authory.com
Counterpoint: No The Fuck It Isn't Stop Oversimplifying Space Exploration It's Insanely Fucking Hard
Interstellar Travel May Soon Be Within Reach
Compact sensor-packed probes, propelled by laser- or Sun-powered sails, could be humanity's first scouts to another star system.
gizmodo.com
I think Abundance tripped over the exact same problem Effective Altruism did: many of the people pushing it got immediately bored with what it actually entails and started talking up whatever gets them invited into Silicon Valley WhatsApp groups.
Maia@maiamindel.bsky.social · 5d agoabundance was a very serious attempt to challenge the decaying, intellectually bankrupt orthodoxy of american liberalism and it... went nowhere because normal people want to put san fransicko to the torch
A lawsuit settles what the PM was too gutless to do. (Gift link) www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/22643a...
Will Labor stop the fakery of carbon offsets?
ANALYSIS: Labor has finally scrapped the Climate Active program that allowed companies to falsely claim carbon neutrality – it must now dismantle the offsets framework.
thesaturdaypaper.com.au
An amazing example of shadowing and albedo on the Moon
Aurélien Genin@astroaure.eurosky.social · 2mo ago🌒 En fouillant les images de Yutu-2 🇨🇳, j'ai découvert que l'atterrisseur Chang'e 4 inclinait ses panneaux solaires pour les orienter vers le Soleil 🤯 Cette animation montre deux photos prises depuis le même endroit, à 7 jours d'écart (1/4 de rotation de la Lune, l'équivalent de 6h sur Terre)
A complete failure. Just spitballing, but maybe the Albanese govt should have consulted with experts instead of Fitzy and Wippa
Australia’s under-16 social media ban failing, study shows: What it means
Australia's internet regulator revealed in a recent study that teenagers are continuing to use social media despite ban.
aljazeera.com
Now I’m imagining the future where our clothes go full The Last of Us and use us to walk them around.
This is interesting but I’m not sure I want to deliberately put fungus in my closet in a humid summer. www.dezeen.com/2026/08/05/d...
Dress made of living mycelium can renew and repair itself
Researchers in China have created a textile from living mycelium that is self-cleaning, near self-repairing and can be coloured or made UV protective through "plug-and-play" add-ons of different fungi...
dezeen.com
Prep kids tethered together and all in hi-viz for a brief outing. V cute. We should pay teachers more
