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Rose Mackenzie

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Publishing FOI Weekly (all the Federal gov depts new FOIs summarised and linked) at: https://anilabs.news/recordradar/ Plus other Aus gov tracking newsletters to come.

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Rose Mackenzie @rosemackenzie.bsky.social · last mo.

Just sent this week's FOI Weekly newsletter. We found 34 new FOI releases from the Australian federal departments and eight key agencies, with busy weeks for the AFP, the RBA and Defence: bit.ly/4wfuBN4 #foi #freedomofinformation

Rotation 011 · 2026-07-19

The 34 new FOI releases from Federal government departments and eight key agencies from 12 - 19 July 2026 are summarised below.

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Rose Mackenzie @rosemackenzie.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Bit slow to share this one, but there were 54 new federal FOI releases last week, with Home Affairs, Defence and Climate/Energy having big disclosure weeks: record-radar-foi-weekly.ghost.io/rotation-009/

Rotation 009 · 2026-06-28

The 54 new FOI releases from Federal government departments and eight key agencies this week, 21 - 28 June 2026, are summarised below.

record-radar-foi-weekly.ghost.io

Rose Mackenzie @rosemackenzie.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Fresh FOI Weekly email went out last night: 32 new federal FOIs this week including Treasury's Microsoft defence lines, surveillance tools used by Education and Environment without policies, and cannabis companies targeting veterans: record-radar-foi-weekly.ghost.io/rotation-008/

Rotation 008 · 2026-06-21

The 32 new FOI releases from Federal government departments and eight key agencies this week, 14 - 21 June 2026, are summarised below.

record-radar-foi-weekly.ghost.io

Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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Asher Wolf@asherwolf.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“Why didn’t we see the sleeping threat?” The media class used to take a little narrative direction from civil society and it acted like an early warning. But lack of investment in democracy building, cost of living and constant attacks on leftists have had a chilling effect

Rose Mackenzie @rosemackenzie.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New FOI Weekly just sent. The Federal Government (16 departments, 8 key agencies) published 33 FOI releases last week, all of which are summarised and linked here: record-radar-foi-weekly.ghost.io/rotation-007/

Rotation 007 · 2026-06-14

The 33 new FOI releases from Federal government departments and eight key agencies this week are summarised below. Notable this week: five releases relating to the NDIS including more detail on a cro...

record-radar-foi-weekly.ghost.io

Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 3mo ago

OAIC Consultation on Guidance for Transparency in Automated Decision Making - closing date is 15th June 2026 for submissions www.oaic.gov.au/engage-with-...

Consultation on Guidance for Transparency in Automated Decision Making

OAIC invites industry, civil society, academia and other interested parties to respond to the Issues Paper that will inform our Guidance for Transparency in Automated Decision Making.

oaic.gov.au

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 3mo ago

Extremely fun paper demonstrating that if you think your Claude subscription is conscious, you should think Age of Empires II is also conscious arxiv.org/abs/2605.31514

Much research has been carried out on large language models (LLMs) and LLM-powered agentic workflows. However, many works within the field state emergence of, ascribe to, or assume, generalised anthropomorphic attributes to them (e.g., morality or understanding of natural language). Our goal is not to argue in favour or against the existence of these attributes, but to point out that these conclusions could be incorrect. For this we build and train a simple neural network on the videogame Age of Empires II, and note that any entity in a sufficiently-powerful substrate, such as LEGO or the Greater Boston Area, could also present such attributes. Hence, the purported anthropomorphic attributes of LLMs are empirically non-unique: although some properties (e.g., responses to prompts) could remain constant, others, such as the interpretation of their perceived behaviour, might change with the substrate. Thus, any empirically-grounded discussion requires explicit measurement criteria; otherwise the interpretation is left to the representation. We then show that assuming that these attributes exist or not in a system, independent of the substrate and in a generalised way, leads to either circular or uninformative conclusions, regardless of the experimenter's viewpoint on the subject. Finally we propose a 'null' assumption, where one assumes LLM non-uniqueness instead of assuming anthropomorphic attributes to set up an experiment, along with examples of it. We also discuss potential objections to our work, briefly survey the field, and prove that Age of Empires II is functionally- and Turing-complete.

Proof. By construction (Figure 1). A full proof is in Appendix B.
The implementation proposed by Lemma 1 are minimal and not practical. Our construction from
Figure 1 is better geared towards automation, and, although complex, builds a circuit less vulnerable
to asynchronicity.
Figure 1: NAND gate in AoE II’s
editor, designed to show its internal workings–simpler implementations are possible. Every bit is represented by two rails (grass for 0, a
bridge for 1). Only one rail is active at a time, with a goat acting as
the signal carrier. When the gate
fires, the bit-goats are removed and
a new bit-goat is placed in its respective output rail. To avoid race
conditions, ‘gate ready’ rails (ice)
are set, with a signal-goat in the rail
closest to the gate indicating that it
can start the calculation.

Rose Mackenzie @rosemackenzie.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The 27 new FOIs from Federal gov depts from June 1-8, summarised and linked. Big release week for Infrastructure and Attorney General's departments including "bot-generated FOIs" claim still not substantiated, Anthropic lobbying + NDIA governance gap: record-radar-foi-weekly.ghost.io/rotation-006/

Rotation 006 · 2026-06-08

The 27 new FOI releases from Federal government departments and eight key agencies are summarised below. This week: big release week for Infrastructure and Attorney General's departments; Mark Butler...

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