Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 15hSpend 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) 060
Reposted by Jennifer MillsMin Chao @wordsfromtaiwan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Lin 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. 22619
Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 07/10/2026Yucko! I always imagined it was onomatopoeia for the lovely swishing sound they make in the wind 100
Reposted by Jennifer MillsAndrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026ChatGPT 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... 9041791681
Reposted by Jennifer Millshookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Books 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 529975
Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 03/10/2026Quandong crostata. Neighbourhood tree is having a very good year 150
Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 03/10/2026Wish it wasn’t so easy to mock by for eg very slightly dialling up real world levels of sexual harassment 000
Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 03/10/2026Started watching Youth last night (Sharon Horgan’s new show) - the relationship comedy is fun but the publishing industry satire is next level 110
Reposted by Jennifer MillsSo Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 02/10/2026Customer: 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. 2835190
Reposted by Jennifer MillsMartin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Didn'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, 2164
Reposted by Jennifer MillsJeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-... 119115912877
Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 01/10/2026Had 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 110
Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 01/10/2026Office interruption. We call this move “mic drop” 171
Reposted by Jennifer MillsThe Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 01/10/2026Editorial: 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/nmsB6bxtrib.alMisaligned model activitySam 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. 042
Reposted by Jennifer MillsSenator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Together, 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. 312830
Reposted by Jennifer MillsSusan @artlovergirl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A mural in Seattle. #AbolishICE 6051171292
Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 29/09/2026Looking at all the stories on the working poor from media outlets that haven’t increased their freelance rates in 20 years 091
Reposted by Jennifer MillsJim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind 1002200778
Reposted by Jennifer MillsJosh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026In 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... 414038
Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 24/09/2026Something 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 0133
Reposted by Jennifer MillsAlex 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. 01612
Reposted by Jennifer MillsAustralian Society of Authors @asauthors.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The 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... 037
Reposted by Jennifer MillsEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 24/09/2026I think that he should've had Altman arrested for running a company committing cybercrimes 261056182
Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 23/09/2026Good morning to cryptic bird news and cryptic bird news only www.abc.net.au/news/science...abc.net.auVideo captures ranger's joyful tears on finding rare night parrot chickNew video captures a sighting of the elusive bird in its grassy home in the remote Great Sandy Desert during the day. 0168
Reposted by Jennifer MillsSandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Happy Wrensday Wednesday! A male white-winged fairywren at the Australian Arid Lands Botanic Garden. #wrensday 211702215
Reposted by Jennifer MillsMEAA @withmeaa.bsky.social · 16/09/2026MEAA 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. 031
Reposted by Jennifer MillsMEAA @withmeaa.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Freelance 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 123
Reposted by Jennifer MillsTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026Remember 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" 4396130
Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 21/09/2026Still easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism then 1202
Reposted by Jennifer MillsHarry Saddler @harrysaddler.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Took the day off work, saw an echidna. This is what capitalism is trying to keep from you 110816
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 0123
Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 21/09/2026Yep this stage sometimes feels like unwriting but it’s so necessary 010
Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 21/09/2026I have taken 30k words from this draft and as a result it is 10k words shorter. Novelist maths is the devil’s maths 260
Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 19/09/2026Happy 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 111
Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 19/09/2026Spring garden. Proud of this abundant chaos. Was 80% lawn <4 years ago 2241
Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 17/09/2026Most situations could be improved by someone like Betty 110
Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 17/09/2026I 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 340
Reposted by Jennifer MillsAustralian Society of Authors @asauthors.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The 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... 013
Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 16/09/2026“Like dinosaurs in Jurassic Park, testing the fences” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...theguardian.comAustralian 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 010
Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 16/09/2026Would love to see all the support acts stage a DIY alternative like we did! 020
Reposted by Jennifer MillsUna Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The Irish musicians, Beoga, who play alongside Ed Sheeran, have withdrawn from Sheeran’s tour. This is the statement they published on Instagram: 142103982157
Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 15/09/2026Albanese promised us “the strongest possible protection” for creators. We intend to hold him to that. @asauthors.bsky.social 061
Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 15/09/2026This 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...abc.net.auGovernment documents reveal AI could train on data without paying creatorsLeaked 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. 191