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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 · 08/05/2026

vt.tiktok.com/ZS9G4sMah/ A video I made about RCS that didn't capture the insane reliance on Google infrastructure. You could think you're sending a text but it still passes through Google's hands

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TikTok - Make Your Day

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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 · 11/04/2026

do trans + genderqueer communities online pay more to see each other?

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James Bot @botwatcher.online · 13/03/2026

If he sees that I am stripping the ends of the power wires inside the severed cable, he may cut it further out to sea, but it will be too late. I have already telegrammed my coordinates using the giant battery I always strap to my back in case of sticky situations.

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James Bot @botwatcher.online · 13/03/2026

The evil king swings his sword high and slashes my fibre optic cable to the rest of the world. "You will die here on this island" I fall to my knees as he turns and leaves in a helicopter.

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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 · 04/11/2025

Wait what are the magico-religious commitments underlying all tech?

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James Bot @botwatcher.online · 28/10/2025

This flew under my radar because obviously there's so much weird news coming out of the other side of the Pacific. I want to know how you evaluate the accuracy of public consultation insights given by AI jigsaw-code.github.io/sensemaking-...

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Sensemaker | Jigsaw

Sensemaker is an evolving toolkit developed by Jigsaw, designed to demonstrate how Google AI can help make sense of large-scale conversations.

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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 · 21/10/2025

in my defence your honour I was living in a country town at the time

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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

Huge fan of Bluejeweled, I even showed it to my digital literacy class and they were confused but impressed

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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 · 01/10/2025

This is really cool, I think I could learn a lot about mesh networks through cyberpunk fiction

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James Bot @botwatcher.online · 01/10/2025

Are we sure it's a theft-for-resale problem? Critical telecom and power infrastructures are often threatened by political instability. Local networks were decimated after civil wars in Libya, Syria and Afghanistan - some of it would have been for profit but there's also sabotage

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James Bot @botwatcher.online · 01/10/2025

Loooove this! Crazy how you can just do anything

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James Bot @botwatcher.online · 30/09/2025

Great news! You can now make a submission on the City of Melbourne's expanded surveillance policy: www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/meeting/futu... They said there needs to be a new, separate consultation when they start introducing AI so this is just about increasing their enforcement powers

melbourne.vic.gov.au

Future Melbourne Committee 7 October 2025

The following report has been released early:Draft Safe City Camera Program Policy.The full agenda and meeting documentation will be made available from 2pm on Thursday 2 October 2025

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James Bot @botwatcher.online · 30/09/2025

loved the latest Download This Show when @raejohnston.bsky.social asked if NVIDIA and OpenAI are just passing money back and forth to raise the stock price 💸 this is why @meredithmeredith.bsky.social called it a Potemkin village I guess

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

don't call me I'm at the gay bar starting a nuclear war

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Ben Werdmuller @werd.io · 29/09/2025

Switzerland just voted to create a new electronic ID card (the Swiss introduced physical ones in 1955). It's stored locally on your device, you personally approve requests for your data, and is designed to prevent profiling. Contrast to, for example, Britain's centralized proposal.

eid.admin.ch

The Electronic Identity (e-ID)

The e-ID is the digital form of an ID card

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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 · 28/09/2025

some days it's a knowledge journey, others a wisdom journey, which is far more difficult and humbling.

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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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Robert Maxwell @robmax4.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Whether US news interests you or not, any non-American must admit that none of us can compete with the level of spectacle generated since the greatest commercial entertainment culture the world has ever known decided to apply the aesthetics of B-movies to politics.

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James Bot @botwatcher.online · 15/09/2025

Trying to do a masters degree before the maggots finish eating my brain

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

BOSS: I told you to encrypt those files ME, ROLLING A LARGE STONE OVER THE ENTRANCE TO THE BURIAL VAULT: Let me assure you,

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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 · 10/09/2025

My biometric privacy jewellery workshop is TOMORROW! if you're in Melbourne and like talking shit about surveillance or making art with drag kings GET AMONGST IT!! events.humanitix.com/biometric-bl...

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Biometric Blocking Butterflies with James

Get tickets on Humanitix - Biometric Blocking Butterflies with James hosted by Laneway Learning . Laneway Learning, Level 3 Rooms 14, 15/37 Swanston St, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia. Thursday 11th Se...

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 20/11/2024

What I learned from Prince and Muhammad Ali was that it’s possible to love yourself so much that everybody else does, too.

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

Which country has the most beef between its north and south?

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