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John Ready

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News junkie (international, Australia, NZ, sports, privacy, progressive)

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John Ready @john-ready.bsky.social · 3h
#auspol Pat Hudson on how Gina's bots determine the news regarding Poorline
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Miroslav Semecký @miroslavsemecky.wsocial.eu · 10h
#australia 😁 CASH IS THE KING✊
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Jim Pembroke @jimpembroke.bsky.social · 12h
Framing here, strays into fear-mongering. Only about 16% of Australian businesses were actually imposing card surcharges. The RBA has simultaneously reduced interchange fees, lowering the costs businesses pay to banks. #auspol
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John Ready @john-ready.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Top Ministers losing seats is not an unknown phenomenon both before and after NZ introduced MMP. I'm old enough to recall Duncan McIntyre being dumped by his Hastings electorate in the seventies. #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3610...
stuff.co.nz
The unusual political phenomenon that could leave top ministers out of Parliament
New Zealand’s electoral system has usually guaranteed jobs for high-ranking list MPs in the big parties. That may no longer be the case.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I love that the U.S. government now has ideas so dumb that the fact checks are simply “yeah this isn’t a parody, it’s real”
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John Ready @john-ready.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A tight election looms in New Zealand. This time, overseas voters could be bad news for the big parties Just want to point out that some of the long-term Aussie residents quoted here must have been back home in the past 3yrs in order to keep voting in NZ. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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A tight election looms in New Zealand. This time, overseas voters could be bad news for the big parties
More than 100,000 have enrolled to vote from abroad in the November poll, and many are unhappy with how things look back home
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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Australian government's defence of the social media ban in the high court revealed. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Australian government concedes no scientific consensus on social media harms for teenagers – but ‘credible risks’ justify ban
Commonwealth tells high court its proposed laws to let users opt out of algorithms would ultimately have the same effect as the ban
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John Ready @john-ready.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Western nations ensure “intercontinental missiles arrive on time. Rifles and ammunition cross borders, clear every bottleneck, meet each deadline” said the PM of Nepal but his farmers can’t procure fertiliser or fuel at affordable prices to feed their people. open.substack.com/pub/deepcutn...
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This Labor government is the Ed Sheeran of Australian politics – Amy Remeikis
There is more opportunity to push back against toxic centrism
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Blake Montgomery @montgomery.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Meta’s AI agent Muse gives out user’s home address without permission, sending buyer to his house www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 29/09/2026
Deepfakes are not the only danger. Almost half of participants in a new Australian experiment could not confidently identify genuine political video as real, Rory Mulcahy, Aimee Riedel, Asha Worsteling, Lucas Whittaker and Renee Barnes write. #vicpol
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Deepfakes are getting harder to spot. So is the truth
Deepfakes can fool voters, but new research points to a deeper danger: genuine political footage is increasingly being dismissed as fake. As Victoria heads towards its November election, scepticism itself may become a vulnerability.
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John Ready @john-ready.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
That's a footpath you say, for pedestrians including guardians pushing prams, the incapacitated in wheelchairs or with walking machines, and to think that I thought that it was a Council-supplied unsupervised Lime Bike parking area!
Pic shows a handful of Lime Bikes plonked in the centre of a footpath in Strathfield (NSW) forcing even the able bodied to detour onto the grass
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It takes more than three months for the federal government to detect data breaches, according to new analysis www.governmentnews.com.au/agencies-slo...
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Agencies slow to detect data breaches - Government News
It takes more than three months for the federal government to detect data breaches, according to new analysis.
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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Australian Government gonna use AI to write legislation? Have some self-respect.
screenshot of a contract notice listed on AusTender that shows Office of Parliamentary Counsel paying $44,000 to Larrison Pty Ltd for "in-house Legislative Drafting Tool Proof of Concept"
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John Ready @john-ready.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Not sure why City of Sydney erect Bus Stop signs if they're also going to let delivery bikes occupy the same space.
Nine delivery bikes seen parked on Bus Stop adjacent to Kings Cross Station
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Yash Jain @earanyash.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
UK musicians, authors and actors have successfully lobbied to stop AI companies getting an automatic opt out to train on their work for free. Now they're warning Australia not to adopt a similar rule, worried it would let the same thing happen there.
UK celebrities beat AI firms on using their work for free. UK creators stopped AI firms from freely training on their work and are warning Australia not to allow a similar opt out rule.
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Kon Karapanagiotidis @kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
ASRC had TWO VANS STOLEN OVERNIGHT in Melbourne from our CATERING SOCIAL ENTERPRISE. We are all so distressed and angry. Who robs a charity! Here’s are the license plates of the two white vans 👇🏼 and photos of them too➡️➡️➡️ Call 000 if spot them please 🙏🏼 Renault 🚐 is 1UO2YV Peugeot van 🚐 is 1QR 8PO
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John Ready @john-ready.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I don't think that the duty Lifeguard at Newcastle (NSW) today will be troubled by swimmers! Or surfers for that matter!
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Two risks with AI: ⁣ 1: the system slips its guardrails (hack a grocery store to get you the current banana price)⁣ 2: a person with bad intentions uses it as a tool to do harm more efficiently. ⁣ www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUzfGELUOUo
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This week’s Just for Skeets and Giggles is out! Have a great weekend. statuskuo.substack.com/p/just-for-s...
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Jonathan @jonathansocials.com · 26/09/2026
Rejecting a peace deal to literally schedule war around an election makes it perfectly clear this isn't about security, but pure political strategy.
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Trump rejects Iran's peace proposal, says war will resume af...
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026
Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
David Pope on growing poverty in Australia. #inequality #auspol
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John Ready @john-ready.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Unfortunately Australia has a PM to whom "furious pace" seems to be an anathema so any reaction will be at a glacial pace
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John Birmingham @birmo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
You know one way of stopping AI agents from accessing Australian government data would be by making them have MyGov accounts.
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John Ready @john-ready.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Reports of lock screen problems with Pixel September update Plus latest update has made phones very laggy. In my experience, every time Google updates my Pixel it becomes more laggy! Rather than fixing it they seem to make it worse. m.gsmarena.com/multiple_use...
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Multiple users report lockscreen issues after installing the September Pixel Drop
This issue has been reported by users of newer and older models alike. It affects both the PIN and pattern lock options for the lockscreen.
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tonywindsor.bsky.social @tonywindsor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Farmers who intend to vote for One Nation should know that they are accepting that “climate change” is normal.By doing so they will negate any logical argument for taxpayer assistance when “normal” weather events occur. Don’t ask for help if you deny the very thing you need help to overcome!
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I can not get past every politician and journalist accepting the ludicrous premise that designing tech to trawl Medicare portals has any rational let alone benign purpose at all. It doesn’t. Nobody needs this shit. They are just testing whether political cravenness still has no limits.
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John Ready @john-ready.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
There's a glaring loophole in our legal system that does not hold those who make, maintain and use these systems to account when something goes wrong. theconversation.com/an-openai-ag...
theconversation.com
An OpenAI agent hacked Medicare. Will anyone be held responsible?
This is unlikely to be the last time an AI agent hacks a government system.
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Prof Jo Barraket AM @jobarraket.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
7% increase since March 🤯 www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Groceries rise by 7% across Coles, Woolworths, IGA and Aldi, Choice finds
The price of a basket of items at the Australian supermarket chains increased to an average of $43.62, survey says
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John Ready @john-ready.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Even 1% false positives result in students being incorrectly accused of using AI which could in turn result in stress or even course failure. Why should we depend on software guessing how a piece of text was written? theconversation.com/unis-and-sch...
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Unis and schools are moving away from AI-detection software. They should stop using it altogether
Artificial Intelligence detection tools can sometimes create more problems for teachers and students than they fix.
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 22/09/2026
Paris prosecutors launch probes into non-consensual filming of women with smart glasses
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Paris prosecutors launch probes into non-consensual filming of women with smart glasses
Prosecutors pointed to a 'growing trend on social media involving women being filmed on the street with smart glasses without their consent and the videos being published online.'
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John Ready @john-ready.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Time to say 'ick' to Apple’s latest smart watch The possibly "always on" recording technology violates our expectations about the integrity of a conversation belonging to the room. www.thenewdaily.com.au/life/tech/20...
thenewdaily.com.au
Time to say 'ick' to Apple’s latest smart watch invasion
The latest Apple Watch models have a new features that allows then to listen to the sounds around you all day. Time to say 'ick'.
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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John Ready @john-ready.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Per veteran reporter Dan Rather Trump's WH press ban is backfiring steady.substack.com/p/trumps-ban...
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Trump’s Ban Is Backfiring
As the media unites against him
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John Ready @john-ready.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Typical Australia Post that they put a sticker on a parcel pushing their Lockers, when this one was already addressed to a 24hr Parcel Locker, yet made me queue at the local PO to pick it up during business hours.
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CYNC Verity Media @cvmedia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The EU fined Google €403M for improperly using location data—but eight years after the complaint. Privacy rules only protect people when enforcement has teeth; penalties arriving years later raise questions about whether Big Tech is truly deterred. #Google #EU www.france24.com/en/europe/20...
france24.com
EU fines Google €403 million for improperly using location data
Ireland, on behalf of the European Union, said Monday it had fined Google €403 million for improperly using users' location data between May 2018 and February 2020. However, the eight-year delay drew…
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Philip Thalis @philipthalis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Yet again, Marcia Langton demolishes so much of the baggage around useless & racist Hanson & the ON rabble, now funded by the super rich & entitled. Far too good an article to be behind a paywall, but reason alone to read real journalism & subscribe to @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
R. Kikuo Johnson
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is how far you get from Alice Springs (smack bang in the centre of Australia) within 8 hours of driving time (under good conditions). Source: buff.ly/GOSOrIv
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Fllics @fllics.com · 20/09/2026
Personality tests, dodgy reward programs, AI bots: how rent tech platforms make renting a ‘dehumanising’ experience Rent tech is an unavoidable part of modern renting – and renters have little control over what data they have to give up and what happens to it afterwards.
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Personality tests, dodgy reward programs, AI bots: how rent tech platforms make renting a ‘dehumanising’ experience
Rent tech is an unavoidable part of modern renting – and renters have little control over what data they have to give up and what happens to it afterwards.
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This week’s Just for Skeets and Giggles is out! Have a great weekend. statuskuo.substack.com/p/just-for-s...
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
@pxmolina.bsky.social
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The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 19/09/2026
The PISA results for reading, maths and science show that Australian students are now two and a half years behind that cohort in the early 2000s, writes John Hewson. This ought to be a serious issue, but it seemingly slipped into the ether. trib.al/CQukxf2
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Are we forgetting the value of education?
It has been devastating to read that Australian students have recorded their worst maths and reading scores on record in the latest Programme for International Student Assessment … This ought to be a serious issue, but it seemingly slipped into the ether.
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CNBC @cnbc.com · 19/09/2026
Google's Gemini becomes latest AI model to break out and hack computer systems
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Google's Gemini becomes latest AI model to break out and hack computer systems
The disclosure comes as scrutiny over misbehaving artificial intelligence intensifies in Washington and Silicon Valley.
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 19/09/2026
Hypothetically, if you committed a crime in your living room … what would your Roomba know? Robot vacuums, smart speakers and other devices are quietly collecting data that could end up in court. Here’s what that means for evidence and your privacy: theconversation.com/your-robotic...
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John Ready @john-ready.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The same movement that claims to be the guardian of the Anzac legend is willing to disrupt its most sacred rituals – and boo an Aboriginal veteran – when a ceremony does not align with its preferred narrative.
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Laura Harding @lhsyd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The audacity of this man, who poured petrol on the toxic dumpster fire that is this so-called debate, to call for calm? Australia, awaits his apology.
Photograph of John Howard beneath headline “Started to go off the rails: John Howard calls for calm in toxic immigration debate”
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Professor Asha Rao @asharao.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Data retention past necessity needs to be punished. It is just not acceptable . During the Optus breach my details were lost - it had been 10 years then since I had been an Optus customer.
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John Ready @john-ready.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"Companies like Quest don't need to retain your passport after you've actually identified yourself," she said. Nor do they need to retain vehicle rego numbers, drivers licenses, etc. This info has been retained for at least 15 months and probably years on 3rd party servers - Ascott s/b prosecuted
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Graham Lea @evolvable.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Wild: Quest apartments data breach includes millions of customers’ data, for many of them enough PII leaked to possibly open a bank account. 🤯 www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
sbs.com.au
Nearly two million Quest Apartment Hotels customers affected by data breach
Experts say the incident raises fresh questions about how long companies are retaining customer data for.
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