Stuart Horrex
@stuarthorrex.bsky.social
Cofounder ArtSHINE.com | BolshieSuit | BizCoach | Educator | NED | Recovering Restaurateur | ExBanker I #CreativeIndustries #socENT #ImpInv | Half man, half bacon sandwich, wandering the world in a three piece suit **No DMs**
It's difficult for words to convey just how disappointing this NSW Govt decision really is. Apparently, some kinds of hate deserve criminal punishment, while others don't. And the main difference seems to be whether faith groups are doing the hating. #nswpol #auslaw www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...
NSW government rejects own inquiry’s hate speech findings after months of delay
The Minns government will ignore the key recommendation of its own inquiry into hate speech laws.
smh.com.au
An AI-supervised remote exam went so badly that 58,000 students must retake it arstechnica.com/culture/2026...
An AI-supervised remote exam went so badly that 58,000 students must retake it
Top scores increased by 5x.
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NEW: The US military is about to enter its laser war era. @noahshachtman.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/landma...
Landmark Deal Would Officially Add Laser Weapons to US Army Arsenal
Facing a growing drone threat, the Pentagon is poised to sign a first-of-its-kind contract for “Enduring High Energy Lasers”—and make directed energy weapons an official part of the Army’s kit.
wired.com
#VoteBinface www.theguardian.com/food/2026/au...
‘A 99 with a Flake? That will be £7, please’: what’s behind the surge in ice-cream van prices?
From the cost of milk and chocolate to diesel and electricity, every part of producing the summer treat has been hit by the climate crisis and other shocks
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> there is no such thing as automated plagiarism detection software. They are a scam sold by the very same companies that create the AI systems used for plagiarism in the first place. And companies through such so-called tools want to further erode our trust in each other. olivia.science/anxiety/
Anxiety
Reasoning (and crying) my way through fascist AI-induced anxiety.
olivia.science
Melanie Dusseau@melaniedusseau.bsky.social · 2d agoAI detectors are deeply flawed. The same ethical concerns about the training corpus of most commercial chatbots applies to these punitive, unreliable, and potentially reputation-destroying detection technologies. The Atlantic owes HM Wolfe a public apology. www.thebookseller.com/news/tor-bra...
A completely AI song is in the Billboard Hot 100. It's hard to overstate: this is historical. I talked to the company who made the AI engine; they describe it as "exciting" (they'd never heard the song until it was already viral) www.wired.com/story/ai-mus...
Did an AI Music App Just Snitch on the Song of the Summer?
Fenix Flexin’s hit song “Rubberz” has hip-hop fans arguing over whether it was generated by AI. Some say they have proof it’s machine-made, but will anyone care?
wired.com
New Sentinel-2 satellite imagery reveals the extent of damage caused by large scale Israeli detonations overnight on July 30 into July 31st around UNESCO World Heritage site Beaufort Castle in Lebanon.
Banks permitted millions in suspicious transactions tied to Epstein—and former 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi had the story months ago. But the report would never air. trib.al/ZShZlIS
Obviously, the non-American world has a digital sovereignty problem - Trump has means, motive and opportunity to order his tech companies to shut down any public official, large corporation, or individual who displeases him: pluralistic.net/2026/06/18/t... 1/
Can we have this here in Australia? Shoppers should be paid for their efforts in serving themselves #auspol
As we grow and change, so do our beliefs. Every five years, the Census asks about your current relationship with religion. If your beliefs have changed, your answer can too. Find out more: censusnotreligious.org.au #Census26 #NotReligious #Census2026
Andrew Denton reminds Australians to be mindful that the Census question about religious affiliation – ‘What is the person’s religion?’ – automatically presumes everyone is religious. Watch his full video on our website: censusnotreligious.org.au/2026/08/01/a... #Census26 #NotReligious
Author and commentator @janecaro.bsky.social has thrown her support behind our campaign, urging Australians to tick the ‘No religion’ box on the Census “if it’s the truth for you”. Find out more: censusnotreligious.org.au #Census26 #NotReligious #Census2026
Post-Amsterdam #Pride show, Madonna and Kylie are now releasing their first-ever official collab remix of Love Sensation. madonna.lnk.to/LSKylie (out Thursday) This is gonna make a lot of people happy -- it's a great track on #ConfessionII and, um .... Madonna + Kylie! 📸 Madonna Insta
Opinion | Google is continuing the trend of cramming AI slop into every conceivable orifice of its tech — and just as a bonus, the company's emissions are skyrocketing. www.crikey.com.au/2026/08/04/g...
As giant AI-obsessed hyperscalers go, Google is top of the charts
Google has been using its Earth program as a major component in its greenwashing tactics for some time now. Was adding an AI tool part of that project?
crikey.com.au
Why radiologists say we should question AI hope and hype www.croakey.org/why-radiolog... #publichealth
Whitlam government opposed US bases on Australian soil: “There should be no annihilation without representation”. #whatisthepointofLabor #Auspol The myth of a joint Pine Gap pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/07...
The myth of a joint Pine Gap
While Washington sets the priorities and commands decision-making, Australian operational staff at the base are outnumbered by Australian 'guards and gardeners'.
pearlsandirritations.com
A flawed Census question has shaped decades of misleading data and funding decisions. The Census religion question that distorts Australia ~ Brian Morris independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...
The Census religion question that distorts Australia
A flawed Census question has shaped decades of misleading data and funding decisions.
independentaustralia.net
Whoever sidles up to Jeanine Pirro at the bar tonight is gonna get some fabulous stories. She could have filed a one-sentence motion to dismiss. She didn’t.
As I veer across the sidewalk, trying to avoid a walker reading her phone, I suddenly recall that as a child I would walk Somerville streets reading a book
‘This was the beginning of what I call A.I. wishing: the belief by company leaders that A.I. is magic, that you can wave its wand toward a hard problem and skip the work of solving it. It is sincere, and that is what makes it dangerous.’ www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/o...
Opinion | I Helped Run Lululemon. The A.I. Revolution Is a Hot Mess. (Gift Article)
The A.I. revolution is stalling because companies don’t want to admit that integrating the technology is expensive and slow and requires human effort.
nytimes.com
Excellent thread on the sleight of hand that is the bastardisation of the Turing Test and leads to Sam Altman proclaiming, "i am a stochastic parrot, and so r u".
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 3d agoThe greatest magic trick of them all is *lying*. The reason you can't figure out that coin vanish even after the conjurer performs it three times in a row is that they *didn't* do the same trick three times in a row! 1/
Something tells me Situational Awareness won't be the last big fund taken down by the crash in the KOSPI crash www.cnbc.com/2026/07/31/l...
How Leopold Aschenbrenner built a $45 billion AI hedge fund — and lost most of it in days
Leopold Aschenbrenner, a former OpenAI researcher-turned-hedge fund manager, saw a dramatic decline this week in his AI-focused fund, Situational Awareness.
cnbc.com
It's insane to me people still champion and defend this policy
Ben Schwarz@benschwarz.bsky.social · 3d agoAustralia’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...
Finally, proof of life
Frontier Myanmar@frontiermyanmar.bsky.social · 3d agoAFP | Myanmar’s detained democratic leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi met with the nation’s Red Cross representative on Monday, the regime president’s office said. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar Read here: www.frontiermyanmar.net/en/detained-...
"Why data centre greenwashing is about to explode” by climate analyst, @ketanjoshi.co Read the full piece on The Point: thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
"Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but most of all, endurance." On Baldwin's birthday, his eternal advice on writing (which applies to all creative work): www.themarginalian.org/2016/02/08/j...
James Baldwin’s Advice on Writing
“Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but most of all, endurance.”
themarginalian.org