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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 21/02/2026
This is a serious question and I would be delighted if I only hear great things but, software engineers: both before and after LLMs, how often in your professional lives have you run into software engineers that seem completely useless or lacking in basic knowledge? I hope the answer is rarely
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Antoinette Lattouf @antoinettelattouf.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Justice Rangiah in his own words in Lattouf v ABC penalty decision. The broadcaster has been ordered to pay $150,000. I was previously awarded $70,000 for hurt and distress. ABC has spent in excess of $2 million on legal fees. The real cost to Aunty is immeasurable.
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Osman Faruqi @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
This is a bizarre thing to publish on the day the federal court awarded a journalist $220,000 for being unfairly dismissed from an on-air role for their political views. In Australia it isn't just private companies that cave to pressure, it's the public broadcaster www.smh.com.au/national/why...
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Why Jimmy Kimmel would have never been cancelled in Australia
We need to be careful about how we separate true hate speech from satirical speech. In America, it seems, differentiation is out of favour.
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Loony Left Media 🚨#TaxTheGas + KillAUKUS @loonyleftmedia.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
So much I loved about this live Wheeler Centre ep but what really resonated was mention of an ‘ecosystem’ of independent media and journalism, and independent media supporting independent media. Let’s build a network 🙂 @antoinettelattouf.bsky.social @janfran.bsky.social
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Kimmel complaints go to WRONG ABC + Eurovision Israel Boycott | We Used To Be Journos podacast
YouTube video by Ette Media
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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Today's article is about a form of bad-faith speech somewhat akin to bullshit, which I'm calling (because why not) wank. I don't quite think I've focused the ideas down as much as I can, but I think it says some interesting things regardless:
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An essay on wank | deadSimpleTech
This captures well the uncomfortable, slightly disorienting feeling that wank creates when you're subjected to it, wherein you're expected to speak about and think about the statement as though it say...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
desperately wish I had had this article to read and reference 10 or so years ago, but glad to have it now
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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 25/03/2025
ABC RMIT Fact Check has stopped its work, and Meta has ceased third-party fact-checking on its social media sites, putting Australian voters in a worrying misinformation landscape.
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Why voting in a fact-checking void should worry you
Australian voters heading to the polls need to be aware there's little standing between them and potential manipulation of information by vested interests.
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The Chaser @chaser.com.au · 25/03/2025
"What is a group chat?" Dutton asked party members as they prepared to lie about not having a group chat Read more: chaser.com.au/national/dut...
Dutton reassures nation that he would never accidentally add a journo to a secret group chat because no one has ever added him to one
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 25/03/2025
I haven't watched adolescence yet but I assume it skips around the question of whether or not tech platforms should be punished harshly for hosting misogynistic, pro-rape and pro-sex-trafficking content (given this is a netflix production)
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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
I've written... quite a lot about this dynamic, come to think of it. A lot of the time, the grifters *themselves* cannot comprehend that genuine expertise is a thing that exists. deadsimpletech.com/blog/epistem...
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Who has permission to know things? | deadSimpleTech
Wherein I delve a bit more into the details of epistemic injustice
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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
I've finally gotten around to tackling Sam Altman's AI story on my blog, and I am distinctly unimpressed:
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My Immortal is a better story than Altman's AI slop | deadSimpleTech
In this light, AI-generated "fiction" is already broken from the get-go. What makes fiction interesting and compelling is, in large part, the spark of recognition: of seeing your experience reflected ...
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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
It is a truth universally acknowledged that the early stages of of building out one's own consultancy are kinda *a bitch*. To that end, I'm currently on the lookout for small, casual jobs to help even out my income a bit. I mostly work with cloud and data infrastructure, and of course, I write well
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
My therapist at 2:51
Natalia Kalen from Severance wearing headset
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The Wheeler Centre @wheelercentre.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
🎉🎉Congratulations to Wanda Gibson for securing the Victorian Prize for Literature for her work 'Three Dresses'. 🎉🎉 This marks another historic moment for this year's Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, with this being the first time a work from the Children’s Literature category named winner.
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JA Westenberg @joanwestenberg.com · 19/03/2025
“Cost of living” is a polite way of saying “Fee to not be dead”
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The Wheeler Centre @wheelercentre.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
WINNERS ANNOUNCED: Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2025   🏆 Prize for Indigenous Writing: Black Witness, Amy McQuire   Congratulations to Amy McQuire on being awarded the VPLA Prize for Indigenous Writing for the powerful journalistic work ‘Black Witness’. #wheelercentre #vplas
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
The number of calls from reporters I've gotten over the last 3 months about "But why do farmers love Trump so much, if he keeps hurting them?" Bc he arranges free payouts in exchange for political support! That's why! www.usda.gov/about-usda/n...
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Bombardment resumes. My @smh @theage cartoon.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 19/03/2025
- headlights on EV sold in 2018 - headlights on EV sold in 2025
A meme of fry from futurama looking normally in the first panel and squinting in the second
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Bert Hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @berthubert.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
You can't use a clever definition of "cloud native" to pretend that you compete with AWS/Azure/Google stacks. Don't try to fool people, it will backfire eventually. "There is no cloud just other people's computers" means you don't get what developers are doing with clouds berthub.eu/articles/pos...
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The (European) cloud ladder: from virtual server to MS 365 - Bert Hubert
We have extensive discussions about our enormous dependence on American clouds, but what exactly are we talking about? And is Europe equally dependent on all types of cloud? This article is aimed at p...
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 18/03/2025
Starship is the cybertruck of SpaceX - the moment when a Musk company runs out of plagiarised, borrowed and bought technologies and start having to rely on the deeply shitty brain of Elon Musk "how did SpaceX get here?.......Musk isn’t an engineer and doesn’t understand iterative design"
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Starship Was Doomed From The Beginning
The fatal flaw SpaceX can't overcome.
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Antoinette Lattouf @antoinettelattouf.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Israel is blowing children up again. The images are beyond harrowing. This ABC news strap reeks of: look what you made me do.
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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
I’m crying, this is so funny WEAPONIZED MANSPLAINING FOR ESPIONAGE ☠️☠️
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Ben Werdmuller @werd.io · 17/03/2025
"Several major European tech companies are pushing for greater action from the European Union to reduce the bloc’s reliance on foreign-owned infrastructure by buying and building locally." #Technology
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EU tech companies push for digital sovereignty, reducing reliance on US and others
The EU is aiming to move away from US reliance
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JA Westenberg @joanwestenberg.com · 15/03/2025
My theory: Apple didn't start going downhill with Apple Intelligence. It started going downhill when they stopped shipping stickers with their products. I can't quite explain why, but that was the moment.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
"you know what that's enough of this for real though. I'm starting an indie rock band"
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
New: we've obtained a leaked list of the more than 200 sites, services, apps an ICE surveillance contractor monitors. Bluesky, OnlyFans, many more. Used to track targets. Highly relevant with the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil by ICE. We've published the full list here: www.404media.co/the-200-site...
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The 200+ Sites an ICE Surveillance Contractor is Monitoring
404 Media has obtained the list of sites and services that ICE contractor ShadowDragon pulls data from. ShadowDragon sources data from all over the web and lets government analysts easily search it an...
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Pfffffffffffft. Well done, The Age, really taking a strong stand there! Enthrallingly pathetic.
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It's FOSS @itsfoss.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Linus Torvalds shares why he is passionate about open source software and why it’s a smart career move. 🐧🔥 Video Credits 👉 YT/The Linux Foundation
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The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 12/03/2025
Research shows a possible return to society of $1.24 for every dollar invested in increasing the JobSeeker rate.
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Despite recent increases, JobSeeker still leaves people below the poverty line. Here’s why that affects us all
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Just to say this very clearly: the arrest and detention of Mahmoud Khalil was a horrifying new step forward in US fascism + we should be (and are) in the streets for him. The fact that it was legally justifiable does not make it ok, and I am not ok with it. I just want you to know how bad the law is
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
I never turn on photo backup on my Pixel phone because I don't want my photos on the cloud. Google TURNED IT ON FOR ME, flooding my Google account with my photos, and then had the fucking audacity to try to scare me into buying more storage space because THEY used all mine up WITHOUT MY PERMISSION.
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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 10/03/2025
Please imagine life outside the cybersecurity pipeline. I beg of you. Living is its own job experience. You can't follow my path, but I did Helpdesk for 10 years. I thought it was a shame. And now I'm proud of it and advertise. I didn't have the perspective to know what it gave me. You don't either.
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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 02/03/2025
You should know that a big part of 18F's work was to make sure multi-million to multi-*hundreds*-of-millions dollar contracts at fed *and* state level didn't go to shitty enterprise IT consultancies that *repeatedly* delivered tech that didn't work, was late, or didn't even do what it needed to
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Jordan Bowie @jordanbowie23.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
If I was briefed to design a campaign that would guarantee both failure & entrenched racism it would have looked a lot like Yes23 If I was briefed to design a campaign that would fail while intentionally inflicting damage on blakfullas, Labor & Greens it would’ve looked exactly like Yes23 #auspol
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Workers surveyed have a spot-on understanding of how AI will be used in the workplace: They're concerned it will be used to automate their work, perpetuate biases, monitor and surveil them, and that any productivity gains it *does* create will be captured by their employer, not them.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
"did you make that logo signifying Europe's grim duty to rearm in the face of a hostile United States and expanding Russia?" "Sure did boss, made it real goatse just like you asked,"
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