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Jennifer Mills

@jennifermills.net.au
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Writer, reader. On Kaurna land. Books incl SALVAGE, A Concise Compendium of Wonder, The Airways, Dyschronia &c Chair @asauthors.bsky.social, opinions my own

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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 14h
Perfect example of the principle!
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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 15h
Spend so much of my day to day life trying to improve stuff, it’s great that fiction provides a place to enjoy making things worse (for imaginary people only)
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Min Chao @wordsfromtaiwan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Lin King, who translated Yang Shuang-zi's #TaiwanTravelogue from Mandarin to English, charges an European publisher for copyright infringement over commissioning a translator who cannot read Mandarin to create a third-language translation using King's English text, original footnotes, and afterword.
How is a translated work distinct from the original work? In literature, there is no such thing as an “objectively accurate” translation. Even this statement you are reading can be translated into millions of word permutations. Language is an imprecise human creation that evolves, imprecisely, over time. This is a concept that the public understands in the context of classical texts like The Odyssey, but less deference is paid to a translator’s creative authority in contemporary literature.

一部翻譯作品,如何與原著是不同的個體?翻譯文學中,並沒有所謂「客觀精準」的標準答案。就連您正在閱讀的這段文字,也能被翻譯成數百萬種用字組合。語言本身就是人類創造的不精準產物,且隨著時間不精準地演化。對於《奧德賽》這類古典作品的不同譯本,大眾似乎都能理解這個概念,但是面對當代文學,譯者的創作自主權卻鮮有對等的尊重。
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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 07/10/2026
Yucko! I always imagined it was onomatopoeia for the lovely swishing sound they make in the wind
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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...
Left: A cartoon generated by ChatGPT and signed with Emily Flake’s signature that was posted to a Reddit forum in June. Right: A real Emily Flake cartoon published in The New Yorker on August 20, 2026 and licensed via The Cartoon Bank.
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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 03/10/2026
It’s how the drop bears get so heavy
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Books are ghost magnets. This means every good library has it phantoms. A density of Dewey Decimal Classification is spirits what a saucer of beer is to slugs. Of course we understand ghosts desire to haunt libraries. Thousands of books and the time to read them is a heaven. – #CJosiffe #Ghosts
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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 03/10/2026
Quandong crostata. Neighbourhood tree is having a very good year
A latticed tart filled with quandong jam
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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 03/10/2026
Wish it wasn’t so easy to mock by for eg very slightly dialling up real world levels of sexual harassment
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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 03/10/2026
Started watching Youth last night (Sharon Horgan’s new show) - the relationship comedy is fun but the publishing industry satire is next level
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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 02/10/2026
Customer: I asked ChatGPT what I should read and -- Me: Well I'm sure its advice is *great* because LLMs are all just massive databases of books stolen from me and my fellow writers. Customer: Wow I did not know that. Keep telling people. Also if you want to know what to read, ask a bookseller.
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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 02/10/2026
That is a useful bit of lore!
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Martin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Didn't know this. Hilary McPhee on signing Tim Winton: "Allen & Unwin discovered Tim first, I must make that clear, and looked after him very well. But the big mistake they made was having a policy that they didn’t publish short stories, which hardly any publishers did in those days. And we said,
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 02/10/2026
Humming consensus!
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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 01/10/2026
Better start weight training the carrier pigeon
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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 01/10/2026
Had to print and mail a hard copy form to the ATO to change something minor in a database, can’t wait til we have full AI integration and I get to send them a clay tablet
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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 01/10/2026
Office interruption. We call this move “mic drop”
A blue heeler in a doorway with a freshly dropped shoe and a demanding expression
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The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 01/10/2026
Editorial: As Albanese says he supports coordinated principles for AI, he is considering an opt-out copyright system in the hope of luring AI companies to Australia to train their slavering models. This is called being part of the supply chain. trib.al/nmsB6bx
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Misaligned model activity
Sam Altman is the son of a dermatologist and a real estate broker, which is why he makes your skin crawl. Three years ago, he was sacked as chief executive of OpenAI. The board had concluded he was not trustworthy. He withheld information and was dishonest.
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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 30/09/2026
It’s only SI if the S stands for Stolen
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Together, Steph and I have taken on AUKUS, fossil fuel giants, tech billionaires, and exposed Australia's defence links to Gaza. We aren't here to push Labor to be a little better: we are here to replace them.
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Susan @artlovergirl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A mural in Seattle. #AbolishICE
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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 29/09/2026
Looking at all the stories on the working poor from media outlets that haven’t increased their freelance rates in 20 years
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind
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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In May I covered three datacentre projects across Australia that local communities were fighting back against. Two of the three have now been scrapped. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 24/09/2026
Something like this Medicare breach would surely be enough to make our government understand that flimsy “opt out” mechanisms are not enough to protect our creative work from AI theft Surely
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Alex Zucker @alexzucker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
✨ TOMORROW❗️ A Radical Proposal: Why literary translators should see themselves as workers and how building solidarity will lead to better working conditions across the industry, and ensure a more vibrant, diverse, and sustainable literary ecosystem not only for translators but readers too.
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Australian Society of Authors @asauthors.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The ASA has launched our Annual Survey for 2026 and we need to hear from you! The survey is open to all authors and illustrators, including ASA members and non-members. And please share! For more details and to take the survey please visit: www.asauthors.org.au/news/have-yo...
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 24/09/2026
I think that he should've had Altman arrested for running a company committing cybercrimes
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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 23/09/2026
Good morning to cryptic bird news and cryptic bird news only www.abc.net.au/news/science...
abc.net.au
Video captures ranger's joyful tears on finding rare night parrot chick
New video captures a sighting of the elusive bird in its grassy home in the remote Great Sandy Desert during the day.
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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Happy Wrensday Wednesday! A male white-winged fairywren at the Australian Arid Lands Botanic Garden. #wrensday
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MEAA @withmeaa.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
MEAA members are calling on the government to require media organisations to pay superannuation on top of a minimum fee to freelancers through the News Bargaining Incentive.
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MEAA @withmeaa.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Freelance journalists are contracted as sole traders and paid per word or per piece, rather than per hour. They have no rights and protections under the Fair Work Act and Superannuation Act. Read the report and stand with freelancers fighting for a fair go: buff.ly/2FDX4CK #PayUp
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
Remember folks, take notes here: ✅ When your company hacking another one helps with marketing, its "OMG rogue models gone wild hacking other companies." 😱 ❌ When a hacking incident doesn't raise your valuation but shows you to be massive thieves, it's an internal "ah nice"


Matt Stoller
@matthewstoller
OpenAI's President Greg Brockman, when told his company had hacked the NYT paywall to scrape the site, responded with "ah nice."

That's a straightforward criminal violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. OpenAI executives in jail.

quote tweeting Jason Kint @jason_kint



Jason Kint
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woah. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. 
Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
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Straight from OpenAI's Brockman and Microsoft's Nadella - 'doom loop' for the entire web [as they vacuum up and substitute the work of journalism and threaten their economic foundations]. /2
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Not good, OpenAI. "Read this NYTimes" article.. "Summarize" this NYTimes article... (NYT content in red). /3
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Jason Kint
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Blood boiling. Not a good look for OpenAI or Greg Brockman here:
 "ah nice" in response to "a hack to get around nytimes paywall" in his efforts "to scrape" The Times website. After many points on his bragging about OpenAI's substitution for news. /4

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The character of Defendants' conduct weighs further against fair use.
The transgressive and deceptive nature of Defendants' efforts to acquire Plaintiffs' content confirms that their purpose in doing so was fundamentally to avoid the cost of acquiring lawful
copies. OpenAI employees devised and implemented strategies to circumvent paywalls without
detection when scraping websites. For example, when Nick Ryder informed Mr. Brockman about
, hack to get around nytimes paywall" to help with Mr. Brockman's efforts to "scrape[]" The
Times's site, Mr. Brockman responded "ah nice." SF791. OpenAI's corporate representative on
the subject was unaware of any "method for detecting paywalled content" in its da…
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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 21/09/2026
Still easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism then
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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 21/09/2026
A sound editorial strategy for sure
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Harry Saddler @harrysaddler.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Took the day off work, saw an echidna. This is what capitalism is trying to keep from you
Am echidna with its head buried in the ground: a ball of yellow and brown spines about the size of a football, in the understorey of a grassy forest.
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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 21/09/2026
“Something we have decided is that we’ll be paying writers MEAA rates. We’ll pay $1.12 a word. And we’ll pay ASA rates for the illustrations and graphic storytelling as well... We’d like to honour appropriate remuneration of creatives in Australia.” 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 @asauthors.bsky.social
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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 21/09/2026
Yep this stage sometimes feels like unwriting but it’s so necessary
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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 21/09/2026
I have taken 30k words from this draft and as a result it is 10k words shorter. Novelist maths is the devil’s maths
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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 19/09/2026
Happy bees, birds, butterflies and dog :) We pulled out a square metre at a time, mulched and planted competitors. Still pulling it out but it’s less of a job each year
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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 19/09/2026
Spring garden. Proud of this abundant chaos. Was 80% lawn <4 years ago
Sprawling backyard full of natives, vege beds and flowers
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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 17/09/2026
Most situations could be improved by someone like Betty
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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 17/09/2026
I went to the dentist today, I mostly go to visit the resident wellbeing chihuahua Betty. Betty is close to retiring so now they have a new dog they are training up for the role: a TEACUP chihuahua. I am going to have the best teeth
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Australian Society of Authors @asauthors.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Australian Society of Authors is delighted to announce the shortlist for the 2026 Barbara Jefferis Award. The winner will be announced at ASA's Colin Simpson Memorial Keynote event in Sydney on Tuesday 10 November 2026. For more information please visit: www.asauthors.org.au/news/announc...
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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 16/09/2026
“Like dinosaurs in Jurassic Park, testing the fences” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
theguardian.com
Australian politics live: PM distances himself from sacked Play School host turned Labor staffer; Lambie says AI companies ‘like dinosaurs in Jurassic Park testing fences’
Follow the day’s news live
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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 16/09/2026
Would love to see all the support acts stage a DIY alternative like we did!
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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Irish musicians, Beoga, who play alongside Ed Sheeran, have withdrawn from Sheeran’s tour. This is the statement they published on Instagram:
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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 15/09/2026
Albanese promised us “the strongest possible protection” for creators. We intend to hold him to that. @asauthors.bsky.social
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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 15/09/2026
This is a leak of a proposal and not set in stone. The ASA is currently providing feedback on this proposal. We know it’s inadequate & are saying so. More to come! www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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Government documents reveal AI could train on data without paying creators
Leaked government documents reveal AI companies would be allowed to train their models on online content without paying its creators as long as they struck deals with enough rights holders.
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