Digital Intimacies 12 is at the University of Sydney this year from 4-5 Dec! Submit your abstracts on the (broad) theme of Intimately Disconnected by 28 Aug. Digital Intimacies is such a wonderful and generous gathering of scholars - get along if you can 👩‍💻✨💕🖱️💌 digitalintimacies12.wordpress.com

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BREAKING: The Chinese government pressured Zambia to screen + exclude Taiwanese speakers attending @rightscon.org, leading to the largest international convention on digital rights being canceled a week before it takes place, the host org @accessnow.org tells WIRED. By @telliotter.bsky.social + me

The Chinese Government Just Got the World’s Largest Digital Rights Conference Canceled

Access Now, the group that organizes RightsCon, says Zambian officials asked it to exclude Taiwanese participants if it wanted the event to proceed as planned.

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Great to see Lizzie O’Shea, of @drwaus.bsky.social fame, feature in The Matter of Facts - The Truth According to AI, watch via iview iview.abc.net.au/show/matter-...

The Matter Of Facts: S1 Episode 3 The Truth According to AI

Almost all of us are now engaging with AI, whether we know it or not. Hamish Macdonald investigates where this march, into a largely unregulated AI future, might land us. (Final)

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Can cities adapt to climate extremes? Tonight Joe Glesta of ClimaSens shares his vision to use climate data to inform better planning & outcomes. 7pm AEDT stream @3rrrfm.bsky.social with @attacus.net Eric and me

what’s this then www.deadstaticdrive.com/releases remember remember the 5th of november 👀

Dead Static Drive | Coming to PC and Xbox

Grab your bat, steal a car, and take your chances against the unearthly horrors found along Route 666. This is Dead Static Drive.

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bad news! We didn't get enough co-op sign ups, so we're dropping Teledog into a storm drain, and - what's that? We DID get enough signups? We got more than we needed, actually? Sabby's not shutting down?! But then... who's going in the storm drain? Me?! (sabby.gallery/join/)

Relished the chat with @dave.powerhoof.com on Byte into IT @3rrrfm.bsky.social this week. The Drifter game is out now - a gritty, Aussie point-and-click thriller with pulpy noir storytelling & unmistakable Aussie atmosphere store.steampowered.com/app/1170570/The_Drifter/

The Drifter on Steam

A Pulp Adventure Thriller - A murdered drifter awakens. Alive again, seconds before his death. Hunted and haunted, help him untangle a mad web of conspiracy in this fast-paced point 'n click thrill-ri...

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Tonight ANU’s @kathyreid.au on AI’s insatiable hunger for data and what she has dubbed the ‘token wars’ + @floreani.bsky.social unpacks incoming age verification for search engines & the implications for privacy and inclusion + Mike Bantick & me! @3rrrfm.bsky.social stream from 7pm AEST

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digital rights advocate / writer / PhD candidate researching tech + housing justice 🏠 surveillance isn't safety xoxo what would ned ludd do?? samanthafloreani.com

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I'll be chatting with the good folks at @3rrrfm.bsky.social #ByteIntoIt tomorrow evening 7.30pm-ish, all about the #TokenWars and the race for data to train #AI models - with @plasmov.bsky.social and @floreani.bsky.social and crew. Looking forward to it! www.rrr.org.au/explore/prog...

Programs: Byte Into IT — Triple R 102.7FM, Melbourne Independent Radio

Local insights on tech news, with feature interviews and regular guests.

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Tomorrow! @serenade.games presents Tangents 🍩🎉 @free-play.bsky.social week is here and that means so is Tangents! Jump into your Freeplay week by experiencing some weird and wonderful Aussie games.

Any weekend plans? May we suggest visiting the STRAY GODS EXHIBITION at the Hellenic Museum in Melbourne?? 🙌 Experience the music, behind the scenes insights, and vote for your fav love interest! ❤️💙💚 Open now! 🎤

Stray Gods: The Exhibition | Hellenic Museum

Explore the Greek mythology inspirations and peek behind the scenes of the hit video game by Summerfall Studios. Exhibiting only at Melbourne's Hellenic Museum from Saturday 28 June.

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Uncommon Sense is in its 8th year 👀, and I am just as excited and honoured to be part of the @3rrrfm.bsky.social community, as I was when I first joined as a presenter, and before that as a guest. Thanks for listening to and supporting independent community radio 🫶📻💜 www.rrr.org.au/explore/prog...

Programs: Uncommon Sense — Triple R 102.7FM, Melbourne Independent Radio

A weekly conversation about politics and current events, international affairs, history, art, books, and the natural world, to illuminate the issues faced by society and explore them in new ways.

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Early voting in the federal election is open. This Wednesday 7pm AEST Byte into IT speaks with one of the brains behind Build a Ballot so we can vote with confidence! 🗳️ Tune in or stream via @3rrrfm.bsky.social

Exclusive: BoM planned to charge for climate data www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/environ...

Exclusive: BoM planned to charge for climate data

The Bureau of Meteorology made plans to charge for access to critical climate data but shelved the plan following concerns from scientists.

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Location sharing apps: safety tool or risk? Mandy Gambino from Berry Street Family Violence Team joins Byte Into IT to discuss how tracking tech can become a tool for coercive control— and how we can protect ourselves. @3rrrfm.bsky.social with @attacus.net , @roundabouthere & me stream rrr.org.au

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Community media on 102.7FM, 3RRR Digital in Melbourne & worldwide via RRR Apps

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😏 How are emojis shaping the way teens communicate? Linguist Lauren Gawne @superlinguo joins Byte Into IT to decode the evolution of digital language & bust some myths about emoji use. Tune in as we look at what’s really behind those little icons! @3rrrfm.bsky.social with @attacus.net Eric & me

Tonight on Byte Into IT 🌐 New digital accessibility guidelines - @intopia.bsky.social experts Sarah Pulis & Andrew Arch explain what they mean for your apps, sites & services. 📻 7pm AEST on @3rrrfm.bsky.social w/ Eric, Mike &me #ByteIntoIT #3RRR #TechForGood

April Amnesty is here! April Amnesty is Triple R’s month-long subscription and donation drive. If you listen to and love the Rs, please subscribe and donate and support Really Real Radio. rrr.org.au/subscribe + rrr.org.au/donate April Amnesty artwork by Cosmo Feltham

The point of the Sizzle is to help inform people about what they need to know about tech in Australia. $6 a month is really good value IMO, but even still I know not everyone can afford it. So, if you're someone who wants to Sizzle but can't or would struggle to afford it RN, hit me up and we'll

Tonight hear @jathansadowski.com in conversation with @attacus.net on his latest 📕 release ‘The Mechanic and the Luddite’. production by @rowenamurray.bsky.social 👏 Dan and me live from 7pm AEDT tonight for tech news & events too! @3rrrfm.bsky.social 📻 ❤️

If you’re a podcaster wondering if there are any good ways to monetise, tune into Byte Into IT @3rrrfm.bsky.social tonight as we speak to Lenny.fm cofounder Courtney Carthy, and chat about notable tech news this week. Join @attacus.net Eric and I from 7pm AEDT 📻

Byte Into IT tonight: ACMI is hosting FACT 2025 symposium on the Future of Arts, Culture & Technology we check in with Seb Chan. Also Childlight’s Michael Salter on Safer Internet Day 11 February. Join @rowenamurray.bsky.social Eric & I @3rrrfm.bsky.social 7pm AEDT

We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.

Announcing the Data.gov Archive | Library Innovation Lab

Today we released our archive of data.gov on Source Cooperative. The 16TB collection includes over 311,000 datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025, a complet...

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Heads up #MelbWeather folks... I have good news and bad news. Looks like the potential for 4 days in a row over 40c starting this Sunday. (Touches ear) Wait I am getting an update, bringing this to you live right now... there is no good news.

Big day in telco land today. Phil Britt is stepping down from Aussie Broadband (and starting a community telco).

This morning on Summer Breakfasters @3rrrfm.bsky.social Paulie P, Scout Boxall and I were stoked to speak with ‘Orstralia: a punk history 1974-1989’ (and second vol 1990-1999) author Tristan Clark about his thrilling deep dive into local scenes 🙌 Available via orstralia.bigcartel.com

There’s a wonderful free exhibition of work by street artists in Melbourne right now, part of Sandra Powell and Andrew King’s private collection - they spoke with @3rrrfm.bsky.social Smart Arts on Thursday www.rrr.org.au/shared/broad...

Shared moment from SmartArts – 2 January 2025 — Triple R 102.7FM, Melbourne Independent Radio

An episode of SmartArts on 2 January 2025

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It’s a bit like trying to shovel the walk in the middle of a blizzard, but @alexhanna.bsky.social and I are going to attempt to clear the backlog of Fresh AI Hell in our next Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 live stream: Monday, Dec 9, noon Pacific www.twitch.tv/dair_institute

Tomorrow on @3rrrfm.bsky.social Breakfasters, we’ll talk about the magical chip that the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company loves 💚

“The workers showed that it’s possible to fight back against the opaque authority of algorithms, creating transparency despite a corporation’s wishes.” spectrum.ieee.org/shipt

Shipt’s Pay Algorithm Squeezed Gig Workers. They Fought Back

When their pay suddenly dropped, delivery drivers audited their employer

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