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James Bot @botwatcher.online · 26/07/2026

What is Linux and how hard is it really? How costly is it to run your own social media for friends and family? How hard is it to make a form without having the information hosted by Google or Microsoft? Find out all this and more on Sunday at Open Sourcerers! Tix thru humanitix

Green and blue graphics of dolphin jumping out from jacquard loom, network cables, and a computer with a CRT monitor. Text reads TransGender Victoria Weaving the Web, Session 6: Open Sourcerers Sunday 2 August @2:30 PM. Sabby, 60 Leicester St, Carlton. FREE digital empowerment workshops for Trans + Gender Diverse community. FREE SNACKS!

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James Bot @botwatcher.online · 17/07/2026

The Victorian Ombudsman says they can't pursue my complaint about the City of Melbourne any further. Where to next ?

White text on black background After careful consideration of all your information I have not found any issues that would warrant further enquiries from our office or that are able to be resolved via our informal resolution process.
I appreciate this may not be the answer you were hoping for, however this complaint has been finalised and closed.
Thank you for raising this issue with our office. Your complaint does contribute to complaint data about issues relating to Melbourne City Council and our oversight.

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James Bot @botwatcher.online · 10/07/2026

TOMORROW! Image reads WEAVING THE WEB session 3: community controlled networks, Sun 12 July @ 12:30pm, North and West Melbourne Neighbourhood Centre, free digital empowerment workshops for Trans + Gender Diverse community, FREE SNACKS! supported by Transgender Victoria

Bold purple and green poster with computer diagram, programmable loom, fibre optic cables and dolphin promoting WEAVING THE WEB

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James Bot @botwatcher.online · 20/05/2026

Do you want more choice about how you communicate with loved ones? Get back to having fun online at Weaving the Web: events.humanitix.com/host/snart-c...

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James Bot @botwatcher.online · 25/04/2026

The problem with RCS replacing SMS is brands being able to do this directly in your phone. like sure delete all your apps they can still send you personalised ads to your actual phone number Every time I've tried to learn how the protocol works I find articles like this

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James Bot @botwatcher.online · 11/12/2025

Hey does anyone know about traffyk.ai ? are they saying they can filter out whistleblowers from recruitment?

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James Bot @botwatcher.online · 24/11/2025

A systematic review on hand gesture recognition techniques, challenges and applications. Mais Yasen, Shaidah Jusoh. Editor: Luciano Fadiga

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James Bot @botwatcher.online · 13/11/2025

Started a series on the big platforms where I lipsync as a different machine learning technique each day...I'm going crazy someone needs to employ me

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James Bot @botwatcher.online · 05/11/2025

www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/ai-...

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James Bot @botwatcher.online · 27/10/2025

Would you call simple linear regression a neural network architecture?

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James Bot @botwatcher.online · 15/10/2025

I COULD believe everyone is rotten to the core and humanity has nothing worth saving OR I could believe that's what the Russians want me to think OR I could believe we were made by a drunk guy and simply doing our best

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James Bot @botwatcher.online · 03/10/2025

I don't love action films but every now and then I do need to see Dev Patel and an army of enlightened trans women violently overthrow the corrupt elite of their city

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James Bot @botwatcher.online · 29/09/2025

The number of times I've had to check whether it's West Australia or Western Australia is inversely proportionate to the number of times I've just said "WA"

Screenshot of search bar containing "West Australia" and top result "Western Australia: redirected from West Australia"

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James Bot @botwatcher.online · 24/09/2025

Lockheed Martin makes WHAT SORRY!?

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James Bot @botwatcher.online · 23/09/2025

Someone was talking about granting personhood to all humans before assigning it to computer programs...cool concept actually

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James Bot @botwatcher.online · 22/09/2025

Been reading up on alternative networks...so cool

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James Bot @botwatcher.online · 21/09/2025

Tech news roundup for Australians! 🤠🏇

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James Bot @botwatcher.online · 20/09/2025

Sick of getting FRTed on by a million got dang cameras a day

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James Bot @botwatcher.online · 20/09/2025

Asked an old guy how he learned to restore fairground organs and got a 45min lecture on analog computing history (ideal outcome)

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James Bot @botwatcher.online · 20/09/2025

Does anyone have an independent case study of Matilda use ? I need to know if they've just put chatGPT in a Papero or if it has actual value

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James Bot @botwatcher.online · 10/09/2025

Great news from the hard working Treaty team

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James Bot @botwatcher.online · 09/09/2025

Loooooove watching with captions because I never would have noticed an audience member heckling with a dick joke about one of the ads

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James Bot @botwatcher.online · 09/09/2025

🤖⚡WATCH OUT!⚡ 🤖 the automation of killing undermines justice for old fashioned manual murder too

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James Bot @botwatcher.online · 02/09/2025

The most wanted man in Australia uses they/them pronouns. But what are they are why are experts warning of their dangers ?

Screenshot of sbs news article featuring photo of sovereign citizen protest and a mugshot. Caption says "the most wanted man in Australia is a self-proclaimed "sovereign citizen". But what are they are why are experts warning of their dangers? Source: AAP/ Mike Tsikas"

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James Bot @botwatcher.online · 31/08/2025

I had so much fun chatting with other audience members on the Crisis Haus website from @quail.bsky.social and learned about a legendary local restaurant to have dinner afterwards...what a strange, beautiful ephemeral social platform

An online chat between users with animal usernames titled Crisis Chat. There is a message box at the bottom and buttons that say Info Reach and Send

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James Bot @botwatcher.online · 30/08/2025

somehow I want to present this slide like "A platypus? (...) PERRY THE PLATYPUS?!"

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James Bot @botwatcher.online · 30/08/2025

It is really lovely that I get to teach digital literacy at the community centre. The learners are pretty apprehensive abt tech and feel left behind until they make their family photos into stickers and start stacking everyone together into the same image....then they're like hell yeH tenkology 🙂‍↕️

Worksheets on a white table titled RESEARCH, BUSINESS PLAN , and EDITING PHOTOS

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James Bot @botwatcher.online · 30/08/2025

My imposter syndrome is cured by the BRAZEN audacity with which Microsoft Edge pitches itself to me

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James Bot @botwatcher.online · 20/08/2025

@depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social have you seen the Wikipedia article for Jobs worth?

Screenshot of Wikipedia article with an image of an inflatable purple crocodile pool toy

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James Bot @botwatcher.online · 17/08/2025

Watching Andy Stapleton's video made me wonder if my uni assignments in Jupyter Notebook were in the training data for Julius...I'm watching this like haha I do that... youtu.be/7C_K-VSYgnU?...

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James Bot @botwatcher.online · 17/08/2025

#dailydefiance I am making facial jewellery that makes my biometric data un-parseable :)

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James Bot @botwatcher.online · 17/08/2025

Mr🐟 gives me the heebie jeebies but also it's crazy how much Big Tech loves being vague and overselling their capabilities while underselling their moral transgressions

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James Bot @botwatcher.online · 16/08/2025

When Alex Karp talks I hear General Ripper from Dr Strangelove

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James Bot @botwatcher.online · 25/07/2025

makes me think about discman

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James Bot @botwatcher.online · 25/07/2025

shhh the bots don't know I'm here...if you're in #naarm #melbourne join me for a laneway learning workshop this September and make your own biometric blocker 💙 #icsfeed

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James Bot @botwatcher.online · 24/07/2025

Me and my centuries-old pent-up desire to own a computer (from Modern Operating Systems, 2008)

Photo of a textbook page reads "the reason the ancient Romans lacked cars is not that they liked walking so much. It is because they did not know how to build cars. Personal computers exist not because millions of people have a centuries-old pent-up desire to own a computer, but because it is now possible to manufacture them cheaply. We often forget how much technology affects our view of systems and it is worth reflecting on this point from time to time.

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James Bot @botwatcher.online · 15/07/2025

Not to sound like a leftist but is it bad that AI image manipulation tools are branded as "magic" to erase the labour of underpaid data labellers?

photo of paper strip printed with "journey to a smarter, future-proofed future" and an error message saying "Please back up this photo to use Magic Editor"

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James Bot @botwatcher.online · 05/07/2025

tired of just seeing US politics, here's my drag number about the Australian prime minister's love for his real Medicare card, four fingers away from a massive security breach

A drag performer onstage, you can't see their face because there's a giant Medicare card on their head (like a green credit card)

A drag performer onstage reaching out with one arm, dressed in green with Medicare branded pants

A screenshot of Australian election coverage with the words PM ANTHONY ALBANESE CLAIMS VICTORY and a middle aged man with glasses and a suit holding a green card

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James Bot @botwatcher.online · 05/07/2025

The streetlight was made for this mug #drag #dragsky

A selfie of a drag king in dark clothes on a damp street at night

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James Bot @botwatcher.online · 04/07/2025

I love this and I think about it constantly. Thank you to all the #furry friends who run the internet, I do have prejudice and stigma about you but also a lot of respect

tweet from 2019 reading "Telecommunications as a whole, which also encompasses The Internet, is in a constant state of failure and just in time fixes and functionally all modern communication would collapse if about 50 people, most of which are furries, decided to turn their pager off for a day."

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James Bot @botwatcher.online · 28/06/2025

In the comments section of The Last Archive and the Tech Council of Australia's Parliamentary Innovation Showcase, we are reminded that there ARE people wealthy enough to prevent us from accessing and using information inside our brains

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James Bot @botwatcher.online · 27/06/2025

obsessed with this guy who responded to the suppression of Pentagon Papers coverage by reading them out in a meeting with himself so they could be published in the minutes ...it's about what bureaucracy can do for YOU

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James Bot @botwatcher.online · 27/06/2025

@bradleyschagrin.bsky.social is an op who can explain silicon threats to a cold war audience

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James Bot @botwatcher.online · 27/06/2025

not sure if anyone follows me here but reply if you want an exclusive quiz about Information

PS2 game cover for "BUZZ! The Hollywood Quiz. A low-poly rendering of a glamorous hosy with a quiz buzzer remote and tuxedo. He holds a trophy and there is a glamorous co-host with a gold sequined gown behind him and lots of show lights

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