Tracey Spicer AM
@traceyspicer.bsky.social
Global speaker & MC. 2x Walkley Award winning journo & author. Long-time TV news anchor. AI ethics expert. Buy Man-Made here: https://tinyurl.com/mtb8tkjk
What a night! Talk about uplifting. It was one of the greatest joys of my career to emcee the TechDiversity Awards this year. The winners included Indigenous-owned social enterprise, Fire and Wattle, Deadly Coders, Uniting NSW.ACT, My QuitBuddy, and Vantari VR. Onward and upward!
Wow! @antoinettelattouf.bsky.social has done a terrific job with this book. It's fearless and funny and incredibly insightful. Women Who Win takes us on a wild ride, celebrating women throughout history who succeeded against the odds. This is the book we need in these troubled times.
About to emcee the 2026 TechDiversity Awards! Good people doing powerful work. 💪🏼
This is very cool. You can now find my audiobook on the global platform @libro.fm This company was specifically founded in opposition to Amazon to counter its growing monopoly. Choose a local bookstore and they get a portion of your purchases.
I find this quite sickening. Of course, the AI labs need quality training data. But destroying millions of books...? "A US judge approved Anthropic’s $1.5bn settlement over pirated books, and ruled that training on purchased, scanned books counts as fair use." thenextweb.com/news/ai-comp...
AI firms are buying old books for slop-free training data
Broker ISBNdb is selling AI labs pre-2022 print books as the last slop-free training data. Scanning them means shredding the books, quietly.
thenextweb.com
For what it's worth, I highly recommend Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad, a retelling of Homer's The Odyssey. www.goodreads.com/en/book/show...
The Penelopiad
Now that all the others have run out of air, it's my tu…
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Have you seen The Odyssey yet? OMG - THE PIG SCENE!!! It's an outstanding film, centred on the hubris of man and the folly of war. Christopher Nolan has structured the narrative beautifully, like the epic poem. This release is extremely well timed. Wonder if they'll watch it in the White House?
This is a very good initiative. The Fair AI Taskforce is designed to give workers a say in the use of this technology. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...
Labor powerbrokers cut AI deal for workers
Labor will respond to growing anxiety about the rise of artificial intelligence with a new taskforce to give Australian workers a greater say in how the technology shapes the nation.
abc.net.au
Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster A shockingly inefficient trillion-dollar project www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster
A shockingly inefficient trillion-dollar project
theatlantic.com
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This is terribly sad. A lovely man and a brilliant actor. Vale. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...
Sam Neill, actor and star of Jurassic Park, dies aged 78
New Zealand actor built career as dashing romantic leads and charismatic villains across film and television
theguardian.com
I've spent this weekend thinking about how women and girls spend so much time, mental energy and unpaid labour trying to combat sexism, misogyny and unconscious bias from men and boys in their lives. Not sure whether this should be called 'domestic diplomacy' or 'empathy whispering'. Thoughts?
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'There was another whiff of Trump in the sense of grievance and victimhood and the desire to blame the Democratic equivalent of the deep state along with the fake news. At least he stopped short of calling them “the enemy of the people”.'
It’s not me, it’s them: Platner goes down snarling with graceless exit video
The populist Democrat nominee for Senate in Maine bowed to the inevitable but turned his farewell into a pity party
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Was tipped off today that Telstra isn't the first telco to have this issue it seems. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Graham Platner suspended his US Senate campaign in Maine following a sexual assault allegation that caused his support from fellow Democrats to collapse. His exit throws a crucial race for the party into turmoil. bloom.bg/4eTbqCn
BREAKING: Trump says Iran ceasefire is ‘over’ after new attacks, but that negotiations can continue. Follow live updates.
Live updates: Trump says Iran ceasefire is ‘over’ after new attacks, but negotiations can continue
Follow live coverage of U.S.-Iran attacks, the Strait of Hormuz, oil prices, Trump at the NATO summit.
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Australian happiness levels: Why life satisfaction is falling despite a growing economy. This is an excellent explainer from @liammannix.bsky.social www.smh.com.au/national/the...
The science of happiness, unemployment, inflation, populism and One Nation
The paradox is clear: Australia is an extraordinarily rich country, but its residents are increasingly pessimistic.
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Not so much a "signature" as something now indelibly tattooed on all of humanity and the natural world ...
Dave Earley@earleyedition.bsky.social · last mo.Sydney records hottest June since 1859 as expert warns new high a ‘signature’ of global warming
For nearly 4 decades my work has come down to this question: Who is heard, and who is overlooked? It's at the heart of Man-Made, my book about AI. So, when Tech Diversity asked me to host their awards night, the answer was easy. Just a few tickets remain: tech-diversity.com.au/techdiversit...
