Reposted by Dave VersaceArs Technica @arstechnica.com · 16harstechnica.comCommand-line tool quickly removes Apple Intelligence from macOS 27The tool can free up over 12GB of storage. 14498203
Dave Versace @daveversace.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Worse still he's a piece of shit who only knows other pieces of shit so thinks everyone else is like that too (to the extent he thinks of them at all) 110
Reposted by Dave VersaceGail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it. 5439211176
Reposted by Dave VersaceNick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 08/02/2026I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds. 268196346043
Reposted by Dave VersacePearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 03/10/2026Children overboard was not simply a “miscommunication”. A Senate inquiry found Peter Reith deceived Australians and Cabinet blocked key staff from giving evidence, Marianne Van Galen Dickie and Andrew Bartlett write. #auspol #Refugees Parliament of Australia 25124
Reposted by Dave VersaceK.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026"LLMs are just computers doing Algebra for fascists" is a completely correct take and the only examples anyone provides for why agentic AI is good are basically "it allows me to fuck off at work". 317233
Dave Versace @daveversace.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Based on the bits of trailer I've seen, this is objectively the case 010
Dave Versace @daveversace.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I mean, I absolutely refuse to watch it, but I can't imagine a world where it's even remotely interesting 010
Reposted by Dave Versacehammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow 358208055007
Reposted by Dave VersaceSimon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"The important question is not which faction supplies the next PM. It is what substantially different Australia any of the factions proposes to create. ...the problems confronting government are becoming larger as its political imagination becomes smaller." pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/10...pearlsandirritations.comLabor’s Left has won the party. So what happened to the Left?Labor’s Left has the prime minister, the numbers and formidable control of the party machinery. What it lacks is a program for changing Australia. After decades spent accumulating power, the bigger qu... 73614
Dave Versace @daveversace.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Without knowing a damn thing aout the guy, I somehow already knew this 000
Dave Versace @daveversace.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I see the BBC is continuing its rich history of appointing senior managers who don't have a fucking clue what Doctor Who is 31602
Reposted by Dave VersaceBen Robbins is launching M2 @lamemage.com · 30/09/2026In one week I click the button and let slip the dogs of fractal history… Tuesday October 6 www.kickstarter.com/projects/lam...kickstarter.comComing soon: Microscope (2nd Edition)The fractal game of epic histories 3237105
Dave Versace @daveversace.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Unheard and out of camera shot, a small, insane terrier is just chewing his ankle down to the bone 040
Reposted by Dave VersaceAftermath @aftermath.site · 28/09/2026Slow Roads is a game for drivers, not racers: aftermath.site/slow-roads-imp... 1648677
Reposted by Dave Versacetrif @trif26.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Luke Plunkett nails it. So glad I subscribe to aftermath.site You should too.aftermath.siteAftermathVideo games, the internet and what comes after 0499
Dave Versace @daveversace.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Good for her I guess, but literally none of those things helped me for any of my 50 undiagnosed years. What helped me was medication. 010
Reposted by Dave VersaceJess 💖 @jessicajrossana.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Millennial bisexuals everywhere arise! The beacons are lit! 231630348
Dave Versace @daveversace.bsky.social · 27/09/2026If I were a "science" "magazine", I would probably hesitate to publish an article regarding findings that were "not peer reviewed" and were also self-evidently fucking nonsense 0110
Dave Versace @daveversace.bsky.social · 27/09/2026If you put all your faith in nostalgia, it will hold you down and kick you while it picks your pockets clean 000
Dave Versace @daveversace.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I'll submit that it has never occurred to Chris, 69, even once, ever, that he is part of the problem 0300
Dave Versace @daveversace.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Someone already posted Romy and Michelle, so I'll say this one:static.klipy.comAidan Gallagher & Umbrella Academy DanceAlt: Dance off to the tune of Footloose between two different Umbrella Academy family groups 1140
Dave Versace @daveversace.bsky.social · 26/09/2026By the numbers as a military parade and dumb as a box of hammers. I enjoyed it a lot. 000
Dave Versace @daveversace.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I genuinely think when all this comes out we're going to lose count of all the different kinds of fraud he's committed 020
Dave Versace @daveversace.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Din't think the better team won on the day, but then again that's not really how this works #aflgf 020
Dave Versace @daveversace.bsky.social · 25/09/2026They look like a retired middleweight boxer and his accountant 011
Dave Versace @daveversace.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Australians hate it when the US starts listening to its worst grifters because we know we'll be adopting the same snake oil six months later. 0211
Reposted by Dave Versacemaple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The thing about trying to appeal to right wing bigots is that right wing bigots are all stupid idiots who get 100% of their news from propagandists so they will never actually find out that you were trying to appeal to them in the first place 7164871221
Dave Versace @daveversace.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Wake up babe new pointless expense for dickheads has dropped 000
Reposted by Dave VersaceAlasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com · 24/09/2026This week has seen a sweaty little fascist livestream knifing a dinghy with an RNLI volunteer still in it because FOREIGN PEOPLE and a lot of the media being very scared to call a sweaty little fascist a sweaty little fascist. So seeing Captain Art Crimes step the fuck up is an absolute joy:) 27324
Reposted by Dave VersaceKieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Astro City on Humble Bundle, plus other Buisek-penned books. All 17 volumes of Astro City, which is some berserk value. If you have never had the pleasure, now's your chance.humblebundle.comHumble Comic Bundle: Kurt Busiek's Astro City: The 30th Anniversary by Image ComicsExplore the works of multi‑Eisner and Harvey Award winner Kurt Busiek with the Astero City Bundle by Image Comics! 88831
Dave Versace @daveversace.bsky.social · 22/09/2026That "could be" is doing some serious lifting there bro 110
Reposted by Dave VersaceElf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 21/09/2026In a study of doctors in Poland, using an AI for three months, then ceasing to use it, resulted in a 20% loss of skill and accuracy. Cognitive systems are metabolically expensive. When your brain knows there's a substitute, it resents not having access to it.medium.comAI Took Something From Doctors and Nobody Noticed. The Lancet Caught It. Here Is the StoryA landmark study in The Lancet measured what happens to a physician’s diagnostic instincts when the algorithm is switched off. The findings… 115583
Reposted by Dave VersaceJohn Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The worst thing we've done is made fame a middle class job, instead of the toxic runoff of actual accomplishment. 161668342
Reposted by Dave VersaceAnnie Wu @anniewu.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Batman Day isn't fun for everybody. Please check on your superstitious and cowardly loved ones today. 01077308
Dave Versace @daveversace.bsky.social · 17/09/2026If it's any consolation I've found that anyone arguing with you is a pretty reliable indicator they can be blocked without further review 100
Dave Versace @daveversace.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Liberal Part grappling: "We know it will be a disaster but we're completely out of ideas." 000
Reposted by Dave VersaceBex Luther @superbreeze.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Ed Sheeran losing openers like a 1990s England cricket team 2041335
Reposted by Dave VersaceAdam Lance Garcia @adamlancegarcia.bsky.social · 17/09/2026@kurtbusiek.bsky.social's Masterpiece, ASTRO CITY, is available on Humble Bundle. This has my *HIGHEST* recommendation. A life-changing series. www.humblebundle.com/books/kurt-b...humblebundle.comHumble Comic Bundle: Kurt Busiek's Astro City: The 30th Anniversary by Image ComicsExplore the works of multi‑Eisner and Harvey Award winner Kurt Busiek with the Astero City Bundle by Image Comics! 0103
Reposted by Dave VersaceGrudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The dumbest asshole in the country and the President need to be two different people moving forward 18195021814
Dave Versace @daveversace.bsky.social · 17/09/2026This is nightmare fuel. Australia as a country has a lot to be ashamed of, but this may well be near the top of the list 040
Reposted by Dave VersaceGreg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 16/09/2026"Can someone explain why – in an economy in which the central bank has decided we need almost 700,000 people to be unemployed – those people live in such dreadful poverty that it can make you up to 10 times more likely to die in the prime of your life?" www.theguardian.com/business/gro...theguardian.comIn such a rich country, it is shameful how many Australians on jobseeker are dying in desperate poverty | Greg JerichoLifting the abysmally low jobseeker rate to the poverty line would save thousands of lives 40459222
Dave Versace @daveversace.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Nuts. Because the whole thing about Miracleman was that the character was one of a dozen blank slate nothingburger Superman knockoffs, and literally the only thing elevating it was Moore's writing and the art. There's nothing there that couldn't be done by a good team with a new character. 031
Reposted by Dave VersaceDystopian Arthur Wyatt @arthurwyatt.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Oh hey want to be intensely angry about some shit for the rest of your life? youtu.be/8BIcAZxFfrc?...youtu.beVaccines and Autism: A Measured ResponseYouTube video by hbomberguy 083
Dave Versace @daveversace.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Everyone should read El's book about the demented Silicon Valley tech mythos. Then read it again because on the first pass you won't quite accept it as the thought processes of real people who have a regrettably outsized influence on your survival prospects. 030
Reposted by Dave VersaceElizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 15/09/2026The problem is that "while you weren't looking the tech industry was comprehensively taken over by a cult based around a piece of Harry Potter fanfic" is self-evidently an absolutely ridiculous claim that can't possibly have happened, which is a real problem given that it 100% did happen. 4429431011