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Shelley Hepworth

@shelleymiranda.bsky.social

Head of multimedia, Guardian Australia

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Brendel@brendelbored.bsky.social · 3w ago

It’s hard to explain but tv was better when you couldn’t watch the show you wanted whenever you wanted to watch it and most of the shows were worse and the TVs were worse and the entire experience was worse, that’s when it was better

Drew Harwell@drewharwell.com · 3w ago

New: We found 50 cops who misused Flock cameras and other license-plate readers for personal purposes, often to spy on their girlfriends or ex-wives. He "watched every single move I made. ... Who do you turn the chief of police in to?" wapo.st/3S6rTuo

She left her ex. He secretly tracked her through a network of policing cameras.

Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems.

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Jason Rabinowitz@airlineflyer.net · 2mo ago

A $3 @mta.info subway fare and some good Q train timing can buy you one hell of a view of the July 4th fireworks and the Brooklyn Bridge light show! Huge shoutout to the train operator for slow rolling over the Manhattan Bridge and the conductor for announcing it.

Josh Taylor@joshtaylor.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The uni vice chancellor using AI for an opinion piece got me thinking about how people are using AI more (according to Roy Morgan) but also not trusting it at all... and the lack of disclosure not only affects that, but also now forces us to question everything. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

A uni professor admitted using AI to write an opinion piece. Here’s what it revealed about trust in the technology

Without disclosing that work has been generated using the technology, faith in existing industries will continue to be undermined

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Mark Harris@markharris.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This is dead on. If the Democrats retake the House and Senate--or even just the House--it could mark the beginning of the end of a 50-year Republican project. If they can't? The GOP will spend the next 2 years destroying all remaining guardrails. Most important midterms of our lives, no question.

Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The Roberts Court, the Trump White House, and the national GOP are acting like this is their one big shot. Either they secure the lasting end of US Constitutional democracy, or they’re in very serious trouble from the backlash. And they’ve already gone so far that there’s no other possibility.

Jenny Difficult-Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithPalestine🍉🍉@joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 4mo ago

“In my lifetime I have witnessed a terrible decline. In yours, you could and should witness a wonderful recovery.” What an immense privilege it has been to be alive at the same time as this incredible human being—David Attenborough. #Happy100thBirthday🥳 www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

‘The greatest ambassador for life on Earth’: Tributes paid to David Attenborough on his 100th birthday

Naturalist says he has been ‘overwhelmed by greetings’ as milestone is marked with event at Royal Albert Hall

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Emily Nussbaum@emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I honestly think that real, busted faces are going to come back into vogue & Instaface is going to be the equivalent of skinny jeans… it’s going to be hip & fashion-forward to have a wrinkly forehead, starburst eyes & jowls, so get ahead of the curve!

Guardian Australia@australia.theguardian.com · 4mo ago

‘On the inside I felt a rage’: Antoinette Lattouf on emerging from her bruising battle with the ABC

‘On the inside I felt a rage’: Antoinette Lattouf on emerging from her bruising battle with the ABC

The former presenter says she took strength from other women’s achievements as she researched her new book during federal court case * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Most people facing a gruelling federal court trial, hostile press and the glare of the public spotlight would hesitate to add more challenges to their load. But for journalist Antoinette Lattouf, the public drama she was starring in and the “molasses of multiple legal battles” she faced was a good time to become “match fit” by taking on tough physical challenges and start writing a book. Sign up for a weekly email featuring our best reads Continue reading...

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Mar Hicks@histoftech.bsky.social · 4mo ago

“Take a moment to think before you dive in. That’s the best advice for Google Photos users, as the company confirms its latest update can scan all your photos to “use actual images of you and your loved ones” in AI image generation.” www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...

Google Starts Scanning All Your Photos As New Update Goes Live

Google wants its AI to see all the photos of "you and your loved ones." Billions of users must now decide.

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Guardian Australia@australia.theguardian.com · 4mo ago

Behind this door is the huge fatberg that can’t stop depositing poo balls on Sydney’s beaches

Behind this door is the huge fatberg that can’t stop depositing poo balls on Sydney’s beaches

Guardian Australia tours problematic Malabar wastewater plant where some accumulated fats, oils and grease can’t be accessed – let alone cleared * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast “This,” says Fiona Copeman, the hub manager of the Malabar wastewater treatment plant, “is what you would call our four-bus area.” Copeland is gesturing to a model of the plant on a table inside the facility itself. She’s referring to a 300 cubic metre underground chamber that houses, as Guardian Australia revealed in January, a “fatberg the size of four buses that likely birthed poo balls that closed Sydney beaches”. Continue reading...

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Tech Policy Press@techpolicypress.bsky.social · 5mo ago

AI systems aren’t just supporting decisions—they’re structuring how public authority is exercised, writes Michael A. Santoro. “Human in the loop” isn’t enough. Accountability must be built upstream through guardrails embedded in system design, not added after the fact, he argues.

Where is Accountability When Governments Deploy AI?

AI systems now structure public authority; human-in-the-loop oversight is insufficient, requiring upstream guardrails argues Michael A. Santoro.

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Mark Harris@markharris.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The Birdcage opened thirty years ago today, so in its honor, I want to share one of my favorite stories about Mike Nichols that didn't make it into my biography. This is from an interview I did with Nathan Lane.

It was going on one, two in the morning, and we were shooting what I felt was an important scene for me, when he makes an attempt to be quote-unquote straight, in a suit, and at the end of it he gets emotional and locks himself in the other room. And I felt like, I’m not getting what I want—I’m not happy with it. Mike was happy with it. He called me the next day and said, “I know you weren’t happy with the scene last night. Believe me, we wouldn’t have gone home if I had felt we weren’t getting it.” And then he sort of became my psychiatrist and said, “You find it difficult to be happy, don’t you? You find it difficult to enjoy things.” And I said, “Well, sometimes. Last night was about feeling too tired and not feeling I was reaching what I needed to reach for the scene.” He talked to me then about when he was making, I don’t know whether it was Virginia Woolf or The Graduate. He said, “I didn’t enjoy it for a second. I was worried about so many things.” And then he said, “You know, this is never going to happen again quite this way. You should try to allow yourself to enjoy this more. Take a minute a day, and then add a minute the next day, and another minute. Pretty soon, you’ll have hours of happiness.”