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Anthony Horton @spacelizard.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

I'm very proud of my colleagues from our Research Data & Software group. One of the young female software engineers gave a seminar yesterday about the modernisation of our 30 year old in-house library for telescope & instrumentation control, and afterwards someone asked about using LLMs for this […]

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Bernard Sheppard @bernardsheppard.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

I'd like to wish Pauline Hanson and Angus Taylor in particular an acceptable day, and if Anthony Albanese doesn't harden the fuck up, he can have an acceptable day, too. #auspol The High Court, on the other hand, can have a fantastic day […]

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Bernard Sheppard @bernardsheppard.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

And in today's medical expenses news, our out of pocket expenses for the year to date are: PHI: $6,552 (annual, couple, silver, hospital & extras) Medicare out of pocket: $2,826 (over the safety net threshold) Private hospital excess $450 (once only, first visit, two subsequent visits free) […]

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

The "AI changes everything" people rhyme remarkably well with the "blockchain changes everything" people.

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flere-imsaho 🇺🇦 @mawhrin.fedi.circumstances.run · 20/09/2026

there's not many things that get me going so fast as hearing that LLMs are useful as accessibility tools. they aren't. where they somehow work, they are _at best_ adequate. and it's never done with accessibility as a main goal, usually just something half made-up to make the detractors shut up […]

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

It's nowhere near the worst or most consequential thing he's done, but I think Trump's threat to demolish the Kennedy Center if he isn't allowed to name it after himself is the clearest demonstration yet that he's gone mad with the imagined power of his office. It doesn't advance any policy […]

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Terrible Maps :bot: @terriblemaps.zpravobot.news.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Which Australian capital city is closest to you

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AJ Sadauskas @aj.gts.sadauskas.id.au.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages, it's all true! It's now basically inevitable that we'll have AGI superintelligence by the end of 2024. And there's a 10% chance this AGI superintelligence, which will basically be LLM software running on physical hardware that fills a […]

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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

But together Talwani’s and the 1st Circuit opinions make a resounding judicial case for leaving the temporary injunction in place. Whatever the Roberts Court does, Talwani and the First Circuit have preemptively made crystal clear how corrupt it would be for the Roberts Court to stay the […]

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Bernard Sheppard @bernardsheppard.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

Dear #auspol, my algorithm appears to be broken. The only thing that appears in my #fediverse feed on my #tusky app are things that I am interested in, in the order that they were posted. There is no rage-bait (other than that boosted by people who I choose to follow). Am I using this […]

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Bernard Sheppard @bernardsheppard.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

Barnaby Joyce is on the piss at Parliament House; when welcomed to #abc730 he said "it's an absolute welcome to be here" and continued a little later, "I'll be happy to explain that to your listeners". Either on the piss, or on the way to dementia. #auspoI

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Bernard Sheppard @bernardsheppard.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

I can't tell if this is dodgy photoshop, generative #AI slop, or something that @NanoRaptor would have dreamed up as an example of the new CYMK chemistry for long term storage (Carbon - of course: graphite, Yttrium - both for the LEDs and the electrolyte, M as a bit of a generic "is it Manganese […]

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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

The best subhead I’ve seen in a while: “Republicans Remind Everyone That Number of Supreme Court Justices Is Not in Constitution” talkingpointsmemo.com/the-brief/rep…

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William Pietri @williampietri.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

I liked the Turing Test better when it was an interesting conceptual exercise, not something I needed to perform on every bit of electronic communication from a stranger.

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Bernard Sheppard @bernardsheppard.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

Must Read. Brilliantly written. The Analysis paragraph on the first page is the hook, and the last sentence is magic: "While the planned change of the NTP server chassis was the trigger point to begin the Outage, the steps leading to that point go back many years, as far back as 2020 […]

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Bernard Sheppard @bernardsheppard.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

@fakeyarratrams highlight of my evening - seeing a Tesla heading down the tram tracks, headlights bouncing up and down as it drove over the sleepers as it headed down to where the tracks split between the 96 to St Kilda and 109 to Port Melbourne. I am guessing […] [Original post on mastodon.au]

Map with dropped pin showing roughly where a Tesla was driving on tram tracks.

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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

Tyrannical governments are those that put themselves above the law. Judge Talwani cannot make the Roberts Six abide by their own words or by the precedents of the Supreme Court. But she can and is positioning her rulings so that no matter what the lawlessness of the Six will be manifest if they […]

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Bernard Sheppard @bernardsheppard.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

So, as I opened the mail, squinting at it (left my glasses somewhere), confirming that it was worthless, but still confidential, I fed the no transactions, zero balance statement into the shredder. I get three statements a month, for three accounts, that I can't close, for reasons. I have tried […]

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Nonilex @nonilex.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

Unbelievable #KennedyCenter Board Decides to Inscribe #Trump Name on Building The vote to add “Restored and Renovated by President Donald J. Trump” is an aggressive test of a judge’s order to remove his name [& false since he’s done neither yet] #law #CourtOrder #Constitution […]

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Bernard Sheppard @bernardsheppard.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

Did my community thing today: uploaded CCTV footage of neighbor's car being stolen, including images of the faces of the thief, the accomplice, and the rego of the accomplice vehicle. That should make it simple to rock up to the registered owner's address and nab them. But that won't happen […]

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Melissa BearTrix @melissabeartrix.gives.hugz.online.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026

BTW. This device has not been connected to the ATO for 5 years ... One would think the ATO would automatically remove devices that haven't been connected for 24 months And it's, unless it has changed, you need the device to remove the device Hugz & xXx

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Ko Simon toku ingoa :tinoflag: @simonchulse.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

@mattblaze I’ve begun taking an extension cord *and* multibox with me whenever I travel for precisely this reason.

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

My hotel room has a very nice table that's perfect for setting up with my laptop. Except it appears to have been placed at the geometrically farthest point from any power outlet. I thwarted them by traveling with an extension cord.

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Microsoft @microsoft.lea.pet.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

like this post to opt-out of being used as biofuel for copilot

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Bernard Sheppard @bernardsheppard.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

Apparently I could have turned off the #AusAlert today if I had gone looking more carefully...

Wireless emergency alerts - disabled?

Apparently I could have turned them off.

AusAlert from the Wireless emergency alert history - the same section that can be disabled entirely - at least in theory.

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Bernard Sheppard @bernardsheppard.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

The enshittification of Commsec by #AI in four (limited Alt Text) pictures. Commsec (the trading platform of the Commonwealth Bank in Australia) has added a clearly AI driven "Stock Story" button which, when clicked on a stock that has been suspended for nearly […] [Original post on mastodon.au]

Is CTD profitable?

Corporate Travel Management Ltd's net margin is 14.40%.

Yet the scandal is that its margin is based on false accounting.

And it hasn't lodged accounts for more than a year.

So yeah, nah, it's probably not profitable.

What is Corporate Travel Management Ltd?

Inaccurate peers : Flight Centre Travel Group Ltd (FLT) (true)
Guzman Y Gomez Ltd (GYG) (false - burritos)
Tabcorp Holdings Ltd (TAH) (gambling, FFS)

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How is CTD performing?
CTD is up +2.36% over the last year.

Sure, but it's been suspended for 11 months, FFS!

How much debt?

Not such a breezy report.

So much that it's in safe-harbour provisions, and the banking syndicate is reportedly unlikely to finance it.

Does CTD have strong earnings?

Sure, if you ignore the fact that it hasn't reported for 12 months, and previous reports were fraudulent.

And a dividend payout rate of 0.000%.

Maths aint mathing.

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

There is also (often redacted) intelligence analysis of foreign espionage operations against state/local election systems, mostly voter registration databases. But no evidence that these operations succeeded in (or even attempted to) alter votes. In fact, to the extent they present conclusions […]

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

But the rest of the tranche doesn't employ this kind of motivated reasoning. Instead, the docs support different conclusions than the president said they do. For example, it's persuasively established (both in the documents and elsewhere), that there ARE vulnerabilities in state and local […]

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

That document asserts that they identified 28,000 noncitizen registered voters, but the methodology seems to have been based on name matches where for 28K voters, they couldn't find positive proof that those names were of citizens. But that doesn't actually mean they aren't. And then they […]

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Bernard Sheppard @bernardsheppard.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2026

If you are not subscribed to the Betoota newsletter, you should be, if only for gems like this:

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Bernard Sheppard @bernardsheppard.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 17/06/2026

@SecureOwl another domain to consider for your plexfiltration project: bogus@bogus.com used by Sofitel (at least Fiji - possibly others) when they don't know the guest's email.

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Bernard Sheppard @bernardsheppard.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 16/06/2026

Fuck Ticketek and their shitty website. What now? Power just went out at the hotel we're stuck in at Fiji due to bad weather. That's neither here nor there, but with it, the internet, so I switch to the hotspot on my phone, and the 5GB eSIM that I had for just really just in case for a 7-day […]

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Bernard Sheppard @bernardsheppard.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 06/06/2026

Well, blow me down with a feather: the AFR has published an article pointing out that a drop in house prices as a result of changes to CGT and NG doesn't actually matter: AFR article […] [Original post on mastodon.au]

Image from AFR article: picture of a house.

Headline: Economists say property prices might fall 10pc. So what?

Leader: With property prices up 400 per cent since 2000, what does a 10 per cent drop actually mean? And what happened the last time governments made major changes to property taxes?

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Bernard Sheppard @bernardsheppard.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 29/05/2026

Any email sender that requires me to put my email address into a form to unsubscribe instead gets fed to the #spam filters - maybe that will help you understand that unsubscribe is one click and done, or you're the problem. I'm looking at you, today, Twilio. Of all companies, you should know better.

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Bernard Sheppard @bernardsheppard.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 12/05/2026

Now we get soft #sarahferguson delivering softball easy questions to #dimtim #auspol #ausbudget. Biased, much, Sarah? #abc730

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Bernard Sheppard @bernardsheppard.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 12/05/2026

Oh, great, now we've got #abc730 #sarahferguson wasting her interview trying to win points on broken promises rather than ask about the budget. What a fuckwit she is. Why doesn't just jump ship to #skynews #auspol #ausbudget

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Bernard Sheppard @bernardsheppard.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 29/04/2026

Fuck Barnaby Joyce. Fuck One Nation Fuck Pauline Hanson Fuck Gina Rinehart Barnaby Joyce complaining about people (his constituents, voters, the public) wanting to talk to him to tell him what they want: "they insist on talking to you to tell you what they want" justify a private plane […]

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Bernard Sheppard @bernardsheppard.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 09/04/2026

Oh, #AI hallucinations now with ads. The #enshittificaton deepens. The losses continue and the grasp for paying customers continues.

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Bernard Sheppard @bernardsheppard.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 04/04/2026

@fakeyarratrams Now that there is free public transport in Victoria, why have you sent crews to Hiroshima to disrupt their trams, rather than disrupt #Melbourne #trams? Their trams are better than ours, so maybe that is why they need more disruption. Cheaper, too: ¥240 is around $2.18

More tram track work in Hiroshima. Better class of barriers that you see in Melbourne.

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Bernard Sheppard @bernardsheppard.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 21/03/2026

Almost as if I planned this trip six months ago to arrive at exactly the right time. #sakura #Japan 🇯🇵🌸

A notification from an app (Navitime) telling me that Sakura season will peak the day after I arrive in Tokyo.

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