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David Olsen

@ddsd.dolsen.net
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Craft beer, Pinball, NRL, Startups, Hard Techno - Sydney, Australia.

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Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 21h
The clocks can actually go back whenever you want them to. You just have to deal with the consequences.
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David Olsen @ddsd.dolsen.net · 20h
If only I could use my Nostradamus skills for predicting something useful. craftypint.com/news/4229/yo...
Me in a Slack post from yesterday predicting the thing announced in the link today.
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David Olsen @ddsd.dolsen.net · 20h
Olivia Newton John.. Sci-fi Musical?!?!?
m.youtube.com
TOOMORROW trailer (2026 restoration)
YouTube video by Deaf Crocodile
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Introducing Gurpo
A drawing of a small blobby figure inside of an enclosure with string coming off it, with text saying "introducing Gurpo, the new wearable personal assistant. Gurpo is not a computer program, he's a real tiny guy who is trapped inside your medallion necklace. 
Gurpo hates you, but is incapable of doing anything about it, and he has to answer your questions or he gets electrocuted. It's non-lethal.
If you shake his enclosure hard enough, gurpo will throw up!"
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David Olsen @ddsd.dolsen.net · 29/09/2026
Cybersecurity Awareness Day!
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David Olsen @ddsd.dolsen.net · 28/09/2026
Absolutely bonkers collab.
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David Olsen @ddsd.dolsen.net · 28/09/2026
Yikes.
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David Olsen @ddsd.dolsen.net · 28/09/2026
Governments and the media need to call PVL out on this bullshit. It's going to be NSW, it's always in NSW. End of story.
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David Olsen @ddsd.dolsen.net · 28/09/2026
Maybe Parra should hire Holbrook.
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David Olsen @ddsd.dolsen.net · 28/09/2026
What if they connected all of the Xboxes together into a distributed AI data centre?!?
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David Olsen @ddsd.dolsen.net · 28/09/2026
Did they cut off his other leg?!?
Nafan Cleary on the good drugs in hospital
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Boak & Bailey (Jess & Ray) @boakandbailey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
BLOG POST: Does your AI-generated beer app actually contribute something? Is it meeting a real need, or providing new information? Or did you just get excited about being able to make something with zero effort? boakandbailey.com/2026/09/ai-h...
boakandbailey.com
AI has made it easier than ever to make apps nobody asked for
We’ve been inundated lately with AI-written press releases about AI-built tools and websites focused on beer and pubs. Who is asking for this?
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David Olsen @ddsd.dolsen.net · 27/09/2026
Absolute dog act.
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David Olsen @ddsd.dolsen.net · 27/09/2026
There's one of these at Bar Broadway and it's actually way more fun than it deserves to be.
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David Olsen @ddsd.dolsen.net · 27/09/2026
I'm sure it was a binary choice between turning this skyscraper into a data centre or housing.
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David Olsen @ddsd.dolsen.net · 27/09/2026
Help I'm being attacked.
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David Olsen @ddsd.dolsen.net · 27/09/2026
Sausage Roll crimes.
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David Olsen @ddsd.dolsen.net · 24/09/2026
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Go Outside And Touce Grass
Alt: YIKES
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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 23/09/2026
I think that Andon Labs' Vending-Bench is a nice illustration of the "just don't have that dog in them" theory of LLMs. This is a benchmark where an LLM agent is tasked with running a simulated vending machine, and scored on their earnings. GPT-6 Astra recently set the record at about $15k.
andonlabs.com
Vending-Bench 2 | Andon Labs
We're releasing Vending-Bench 2, a benchmark for measuring AI model performance on running a business over long time horizons. Models are tasked with running a simulated vending machine business over ...
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David Olsen @ddsd.dolsen.net · 22/09/2026
You love to see it. 👀
smh.com.au
Look away, Knights fans: Cleary ditches moon boot for footy boots at Panthers training
Injured superstar Nathan Cleary made a surprise appearance at Penrith training on Tuesday, allaying fears over his fitness ahead of Sunday’s preliminary final.
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David Olsen @ddsd.dolsen.net · 22/09/2026
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I'M Not Mad
Alt: I'M Not Mad that's amazing
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Yale Stewart @yalestewart.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
The official Mister Rogers YouTube channel has been posting full episodes recently, and believe me when I tell you that watching one is a great way to take a break from the general state of things. www.youtube.com/@MisterRoger...
youtube.com
Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
Welcome to the official Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood YouTube channel! For more than 30 years, Mister Rogers created a relationship with millions of children, each of whom felt like they were visiting ...
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David Olsen @ddsd.dolsen.net · 22/09/2026
These are goated tongs.
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David Olsen @ddsd.dolsen.net · 22/09/2026
Inside you there are two brains.
med.stanford.edu
Human brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research finds
Stanford Health Care delivers the highest levels of care and compassion. SHC treats cancer, heart disease, brain disorders, primary care issues, and many more.
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David Olsen @ddsd.dolsen.net · 22/09/2026
Gee, I wonder why this car has such low mileage on it.
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David Olsen @ddsd.dolsen.net · 21/09/2026
Obama finally takes on Adobe Illustrator.
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g0m @g0m.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A world where a twist ending is repurposed as a video title. where a thing's climax has been removed, leaving an advertisment for the gap where it used to be. such things are commonplace in. the twilight zone
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David Olsen @ddsd.dolsen.net · 20/09/2026
Ok but for real, this meditative podcast about breakfast cereals is actually really great to fall asleep to.
creators.spotify.com
One Hundred and Thirty Five by The Empty Bowl
This is the one-hundred and thirty-fifth episode of The Empty Bowl, in which Dan gets a little kooky, Justin gets a new favorite spoon, and our show gets a new URL.Catch up on our cereal rankings at ⁠...
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David Olsen @ddsd.dolsen.net · 20/09/2026
Where were these guys during COVID.
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David Olsen @ddsd.dolsen.net · 16/09/2026
✨ Kick Off with Brandy and Jimmy: The key numbers and stats behind set restarts with Rugby League Eye Test (16/9/26) ✨ Media file: www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect...
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Every other headline now is "Huge liar who's financially motivated to lie says"
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David Olsen @ddsd.dolsen.net · 14/09/2026
static.klipy.com
Big Oof Size Meme
Alt: Big Oof Size Meme
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David Olsen @ddsd.dolsen.net · 14/09/2026
Did his dealer cut him off?
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The Rugby League Eye Test @leagueeyetest.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
There were only 3 set restarts in the Panthers/Roosters game after both teams conceding 15 in Round 24 Did you know that there are fewer set restarts during a 2pm/4pm Sunday game than any other timeslot? Some actual truths about set restarts www.rugbyleagueeyetest.com/2026/09/14/s...
rugbyleagueeyetest.com
Some actual truths about set restarts in 2026 - The Rugby League Eye Test
Hi, I’m the Rugby League Eye Test. You might remember me from such set restart posts as “Six again? More like 2.3 again”, “The NRL’s setrestartmaxxing era and the value of consecutive play the balls” ...
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David Olsen @ddsd.dolsen.net · 14/09/2026
I know there are long running wastewater testing programs in Australia for illegal drugs (NDARC regularly publish data on this) plus infectious disease level monitoring (more so since COVID). But is Australia monitoring wastewater for anything else?
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David Olsen @ddsd.dolsen.net · 14/09/2026
I'm sure left turn on red (after stopping) used to be a thing in NSW when signposted? Is it not anymore? I've not seen signage for it in years.
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Ben Paddon @benpaddon.net · 13/09/2026
An AI flyer is a brown M&M test. If your event or business is cutting corners by using an AI flyer, where else are you cutting corners? What else are you cheating out on? Why should I be bothered to go somewhere you couldn't be bothered to promote with a little of your own personality?
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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
In rebuttal to “legal? ai is getting there” I offer www.damiencharlotin.com/hallucinatio...
damiencharlotin.com
AI Hallucination Cases Database – Damien Charlotin
The most comprehensive database of AI hallucination cases in law: legal decisions from courts worldwide, searchable by country, party, AI tool, and outcome. Updated daily.
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David Olsen @ddsd.dolsen.net · 12/09/2026
If not friend, why friend shaped?
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David Olsen @ddsd.dolsen.net · 12/09/2026
Technically it's mackeral. Which is the best kind of mackeral.
ft.com
UK canned ‘mackerel’ now contains no mackerel
Critics say switch to tins comprising more sustainable species risks confusing consumers
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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
“Mathematics only makes sense as a gift economy. It has no trade secrets. Substituting a monetizable ersatz culture for the one evolved through historical experience is a particularly insidious form of knowledge collapse.” Mathematician Michael Harris on the AI companies coming for math:
bostonreview.net
Knowledge Collapse
AI companies are racing to mechanize mathematics. Where does that leave human understanding?
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David Olsen @ddsd.dolsen.net · 09/09/2026
💡👀🦋
Email subject: What's on this moth?Distracted boyfriend meme.. but the boyfriend is a moth + distracted by a lamp.
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David Olsen @ddsd.dolsen.net · 08/09/2026
Busted.
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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Dancing very very VERY close to saying “OpenAI stole our almost-complete proof of Navier-Stokes from internal access to our ChatGPT sessions because they were desperate to scoop Anthropic” which is absolutely 100% a believable thing OpenAI would do right now cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/st...
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🏵️ ☾ɾყ⳽tаℓ 🏵️ @crys134.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place.
chair with a "face"
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David Olsen @ddsd.dolsen.net · 07/09/2026
Omg they made a BarbWire pinball machine?!?
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David Olsen @ddsd.dolsen.net · 07/09/2026
Did the LLM labs release a new model? Seems way more AI psychosis on the TL than usual.
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Alder Cheems @aldercheems.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
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David Olsen @ddsd.dolsen.net · 07/09/2026
Backrooms 2: Electric Peekaboo
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