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Announcing Buru and The Old People! 🌳 Explore the hand-drawn world 💬 Chat with quirky locals 🎲 Encounter D&D inspired mini-games Uncover the truth in this short, narrative adventure about the connection between the characters and the land. Wishlist on Steam: tinyurl.com/3c4nva83
With folks in Oz (rightly) concerned about the Kmart pervert glasses, it's a good time to learn about how insidious surveillance tech the cops use is. Latest ep of Last Week Tonight is a great intro. (Privacy protection lesson 1, use a VPN to watch it)
Police Surveillance Technology: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
John Oliver discusses the tools police are using to keep track of civilians – whether or not they’re suspected of a crime – and some creative ideas about how to use wigs. Subscribe to the #lastweektonight YouTube channel for more almost news as it almost happens: www.youtube.com/lastweektonight
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trying to choose my favourite audio responsive moments from Fantasia between shimmering flowers and "very low note"
Australia’s eSafety commissioner buried a report (released Friday afternoon) that shows the under 16 social media ban didn’t tangibly reduce teen social media use, and also resulted in parents tuning out of kids usage. We traded our privacy for no reason. theconversation.com/more-than-80...
More than 80% of kids still using social media despite ban, new eSafety report finds
The report provides more evidence Australia’s world-leading social media ban isn’t going to plan.
theconversation.com
Absolutely killer piece from @katydidinoz.bsky.social on the problems in the genre fiction publishing pipeline in Australia.
Tough love
Kate Cuthbert considers the ways that genre fiction is forsaken by the Australian publishing industry.
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the fact that Gen Z and Alpha are not allowed to fail and they are now put off even trying is because our governments allowed tech to panopticon the shit out of things
starting to really pmo whenever I'm listening to music and think "ooh that's a great sound" and it's a vintage harmony stratotone I want one so bad
It seems to me breathtakingly audacious to complain about being “cancelled” for being outed as a member of a group dedicated to targeting people in the press and mass-emailing their employers and funders in an attempt to destroy them and their livelihood. The DARVO happened almost instantaneously
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 6d agoAntisemitism inquiry hears from Jewish Australian artist 'cancelled' after private group chat doxxing
Effective July 1st, we are pleased to announce an increase in contributor rates across all categories, reflecting our ongoing commitment to paying writers and artists fairly for their work.
These "we have made an AI so powerful" warnings are straight-up advertisements, btw. No different than "we have made an Oreo so delicious all other snack artists must relent."
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · last wk.OPENAI, ANTHROPIC STAFF CIRCULATE PETITION URGING US TO SUPPORT INTERNATIONAL EFFORT TO 'DELIBERATELY PACE' FRONTIER AI DEVELOPMENT, WARNING OF RISK IT ADVANCES FASTER THAN HUMANS CAN CONTROL; LETTER ALSO SHARED WITH GOOGLE DEEPMIND STAFF, EXPECTED PUBLIC THIS WEEK
I dunno. I feel like we should wait for literally any evidence from anyone except stakeholders with a commercial stake in all of us thinking genAI is capable of doing this before we get too excited about genAI supposedly doing this.
CAMERON WILSON@cameronwilson.bsky.social · last wk.AI has just had its Sarah Connor moment. Last week's rogue AI story has been dismissed by some as marketing. But even a cynical read of the news & other evidence suggests it should be a "warning shot" for the serious disruptive threat of AI that will soon be widely available www.abc.net.au/news/...
There are nine(9) sleeps until Big Walk comes out on August 4. aksfx are releasing new Big Walk music every day until launch. Each release is a radio station that you can listen to in the game. The first one, Lobby, is out now. youtu.be/mWFpjyAX_D8
Lobby (Big Walk Radio) - aksfx
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The energy I’m bringing into this financial year is booing a grown man to his face for suggesting ChatGPT will revolutionise NPC dialogue
I love this game so much
Pete from Fuzzy Ghost@fuzzyg.host · 3w agoHappy four year anniversary to our beloved Queer Man Peering. A game that completely changed the trajectory of our lives. 😘😘 It was such a difficult development, but after four years of working on Janet I’m starting to think that maybe that’s an ‘us thing’. store.steampowered.com/app/1711420/...
Also: it’s harmful + naive for the govt to conflate machine learning for cancer research with sycophantic chatbots. This broad “AI” umbrella terminology is some misleading spin that only benefits companies like Anthropic.
Deepcut News@deepcutnews.bsky.social · 3w agoAlbanese's AI investment won't create mass jobs - the 'big AI boost' is essentially imports to plug into data centres, writes @grogsgamut.bsky.social. www.deepcutnews.com/p/albaneses-...
Another reminder for anyone who needs to keep their phone secret to turn off the phone or switch to aeroplane mode one hour before the test and for 24 hours afterwards on 27 July. The test will override the privacy and the silent settings and emit a loud beep.
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 3w agoDV advocates warn AusAlert system could put regional women at increased risk
“.. I asked a few AI researchers whether they could name any other real-world software that scales so poorly. None of them could think of any. “.. By economic and engineering measures, generative AI might be the worst technology ever deployed.” @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
He's calling this an AI plan for Australia, but the future he's mapped out is controlled by American billionaires, not Australian communities. What we got today was a red carpet for Meta, Palantir and Amazon, leading straight to the PM's office.
“greater clarity and speed for (data centre) approvals, and a streamlined process for verifying compliance” sounds a lot like waving through the worst shit imaginable in return for baubles
Anthony Albanese maps out AI future with new national framework
Labor will develop a new national framework in response to artificial intelligence as it seeks to address the technology’s growing economic and social impacts.
abc.net.au
The 2026 Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers is CLOSING THIS FRIDAY 11:59PM! Make sure to get your poetic entries in, and spread the word! Link to submit → overland.submittable.com/submit/24622...
'Police were told of unspecified threats before the 26 January rally but did not meet with organisers until after, parliamentary inquiry into racism told.' www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
‘We should be dead’: Perth’s Indigenous community felt ignored after alleged Invasion Day bombing attempt, inquiry told
Police were told of unspecified threats before the 26 January rally but did not meet with organisers until after, parliamentary inquiry into racism told
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My favorite Sam Neil fact will always be that he designed a future Australian flag that replaces the union jack with the aboriginal flag for Event Horizon and insisted the film use it.
With growing calls to address the viability of local literature, we asked people across the book industry their thoughts on the pace of Australian publishing. Featuring publishers, agents, writers and more: bit.ly/4aOWpza
Things that are inevitable rarely announce themselves as inevitable. In fact, AI seems to already be slowly dying and here's why you should help it go away faster. Full ramble here: thiscouldbeit.ghost.io/nothings-ine...
Nothings Inevitable
Things that are inevitable rarely announce themselves as inevitable. In fact, AI seems to already be slowly dying and here's why you should help it go away faster. Over the past few weeks I've sadly ...
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Tony Burke is on the radio saying universities have to “ensure Jewish students feel safe” which “universities have failed to do”. He is advocating for universities to “adopt” the IHRA definition of antisemitism and claiming “you can within that definition criticise Israel”.
Karlie said it best theconversation.com/thousands-of...
Thousands of satellites are polluting Australian skies, and threatening ancient Indigenous astronomy practices
A growing number of satellite ‘mega-constellations’ are being deployed. Will a starry night sky soon be a thing of the past?
theconversation.com
Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷@paullecomtephoto.nz · 4w agoAt the turning of the millennium there were 769 satellites in space, 2026 there are 14,500 satellites. I spent 7mins photographing the Milky Way rising above Poatiri Mt Charles Hoopers Inlet, on Muaupoko (Otago Peninsula) this evening. Ōtepoti Dunedin, NZ #Photography
