For me, this is one of the most powerful Calvin and Hobbes strips.
Richard Chirgwin
@rchirgwin.bsky.social
Former tech writer specialising in telecoms and infosec. Still an aspiring guitarist at over 60. Nothing I do or say is licenced to anyone scraping social media accounts to train AI.
I'm so sick of men getting a pass for being hurr hurr creepy. A 'daggy uncle' making sex or breast jokes isn't funny. At best it's telling girls they can be deliberately embarrassed & disrespected even by family & at worst it's grooming. Melons? FFS it's not 1978. www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
Albo’s melons moment is no outrage. He’s more ‘daggy uncle’ than misogynist
Lord knows I have wanted to punch my own face many times when Anthony Albanese is on telly. Zero charisma. But Melon-Gate is completely overblown.
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The world started going to shit when governments began defunding humanities and suggesting STEM is all we need to encourage.
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NSW Government introduces sweeping new laws to target organised crime
New legislation introduced to Parliament will strengthen the powers of police and the NSW Crime Commission to investigate organised crime, access critical evidence and disrupt criminal networks.
nsw.gov.au
If I start losing the memories of my lovers, I no longer wish to live.
First, I don't like the term "influencer", it's a bullshit term coined by marketers, to ensure a positive spin that makes more people want to be that. Corporate shills, playing you for a fool, is what they are. Solution is simple, ban the fucking pervert glasses, problem solved.
‘I’ve definitely lost followers’: influencers face backlash over Meta ‘pervert glasses’ content
Using ‘spy glasses’ made by Facebook owner leads to floods of negative comments, say content creators
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Fressoz blurts out lines that fossil fuel companies can use to present fossil fuels as inevitable and unavoidable, but the reality is every day is made up of decisions that end up deciding the shallowness or steepness of the curve: and the resulting damage we suffer Ignoring that is dangerous, imo
"You’re talking about a number that is potentially half a percent of global electricity consumption by itself just for data centres in Alberta" A REALLY WILD update on Alberta's fossil-fuelled data centre plans www.desmog.com/2026/07/23/a...
‘Absurdly High’: Alberta Considering Almost 21 GW of Gas-Powered Data Centres
Expert warns that would require 200 billion litres of water and explode Canada’s emissions.
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Christ, Murray Watt is a profoundly stupid individual. Someone sucked the brains out of a Newtown bubble tea.
My complaint about the census: It asks if you need supports to do activities of daily living. It doesn't ask if you have those supports. Big difference. It's keeping people like me completely invisible. Still unsupported.
We shouldn't need a brand name to be heard - Normal Ness
Recently on Instagram I pulled together some posts. And I want them saved here, for ease of access in the future. I referred to this post, where I wrote to opposition Minister for NDIS to remind her...
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The Parliamentary Budget Office has failed to inform Senate estimates of whether it complies with Essential Eight cybersecurity requirements www.themandarin.com.au/317943-pbo-s...
PBO shuts down Hume’s questions on cybersecurity hygiene
The Parliamentary Budget Office has failed to inform Senate estimates of whether it complies with Essential Eight cybersecurity requirements.
themandarin.com.au
We estimate the cut to the NDIS in 2029-30 of $16.4bn is equivalent to around 52,000 jobs in the care sector - around 94m hours of paid care. Those care needs will not disappear they will just fall on families (especially women) live.thepoint.com.au/2026/08/the-...
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The story is likely nonsense, but in any case "random gym website had insecure WordPress package" isn't exactly leet haXor skills. I suspect someone from the AFP ringing the AI bro, to ask about the criminal act he has admitted to, might result in a quick clarification.
CAMERON WILSON@cameronwilson.bsky.social · yesterdayNEW: A man asked his AI assistant OpenClaw to book a gym class. It found a exploit in the gym website, got around booking restrictions and kicked someone off the waiting list to move him up a spot It's the first known Australian case of AI agents autonomously hacking! www.abc.net.au/news/...
1. AI bots are hacking services 2. It's not hacking, the front end guys just put a curtain over an open safe and called it security. Any idiot could do it 3. That's what hacking actually is and now any idiot can do it.
CAMERON WILSON@cameronwilson.bsky.social · yesterdayNEW: A man asked his AI assistant OpenClaw to book a gym class. It found a exploit in the gym website, got around booking restrictions and kicked someone off the waiting list to move him up a spot It's the first known Australian case of AI agents autonomously hacking! www.abc.net.au/news/...
Palantir have the contract for ID verification with AUSTRAC. From July 1st 2026, it includes ID verification for services provided by real estate agents, banks and accounts
My @deepcutnews.bsky.social column - in the late 1970s neoliberal con artists unleashed their cancer in to society. Fuck them and the horse they rode on. www.deepcutnews.com/p/neoliberal...
Neoliberalism has destroyed our social fabric in the name of profits – Greg Jericho
Privatisation has failed. It's time to put public services back into public hands
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Australia has often sought to reassure itself that at least the nation is untainted, unlike Britain and the US, by a heinous history of slavery. But “the evidence of the Australian slave trade through blackbirding is everywhere – it hides in plain sight”, Davis says.
Sydney’s sugar rush: how the colony’s most powerful profited from Australia’s slave trade
Australia likes to think its history is untainted by slavery but a new book traces how a who’s who in the NSW capital profited from the capture and sale of ‘blackbirded’ Pacific Islanders
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I feel a lot of "AI" technocratic bros are actually neo-Gnostics at heart: the physical is not "real", and secret hidden knowledge they alone (can) possess will allow them to ascend to something akin to godhood
Matthew R Francis@bowlerhatscience.org · 2d agoexactly, the "AI" diehards not only believe in strict mind-body separation, but that the physical aspects of humanity are a barrier to "advancement"
This isn't a test for a chef. "Can you make toys from food?" #Masterchef
You can’t appease power. In 1938, the head of the BBC assured the Nazi ambassador to Britain the UK broadcaster was ‘not anti-Nazi’ and willingly censored BBC news. Appeasement doesn’t work www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2026...
Appeasement of authoritarian voices dooms us to repeating history
No matter how much we know about history, we are doomed to repeat it. Appeasement of authoritarian voices will get us there faster.
thenewdaily.com.au
AUKUS turns Labor politicians into blithering idiots. Roger Cook the latest to deny reality and treat us as fools The AUKUS Public Inquiry is a forum for truth, democracy and transparency. Tomorrows hearing features Malcolm Turnbull, Bob Carr, experts, unions and the community.
Nurses sleeping in campgrounds, shops shutting and two-hour school buses: what the closure of Victoria Pass means for the Blue Mountains
Nurses sleeping in campgrounds, shops shutting and two-hour school buses: what the closure of Victoria Pass means for the Blue Mountains
The main road through the region will be closed for at least another year. Communities who rely on it say they’re already at breaking point * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast When Fran* finishes a late nursing shift in the Blue Mountains, there is no comfort in driving home. Since the Victoria Pass closed on the Great Western Highway this year, her 45-minute commute has ballooned to two hours. Desperate to avoid the journey, Fran – a New South Wales Nurses and Midwives Association member from the Lithgow hospital branch – sometimes sleeps at a free local campground with cold showers. Continue reading...
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Exacerbated environmental racism is one of the major very real harms of data centers, and something that people who've been studying & discussing this for over a decade have long pointed out. It gets put in communities already most disproportionately harmed by pollution like emissions & waste heat.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3d ago“This is very real redlining…It is appropriating rural, Black-owned land and converting it for industrial purposes, and it’s being done by people who have no historical or cultural tie to the land. These are not people who are local, developing their land for industrial use.”
