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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 7h

Me: "When a build's in progress, wait until the green light before pushing your changes." Them: "Our builds take half an hour. What are we supposed to do while we're waiting?" Me: "Work on speeding up the build."

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Sporks Pantalones @sporks.bsky.social · 12h

man, fuck every retailer selling Harry Potter shit for this Halloween. ZERO DOLLARS TO ALL OF YOU

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FMI @fmi.bsky.social · 12h

old mate here needs to pick a side. Today it’s “why can’t we be friends?“ Two days ago he was “we will destroy you” And you wonder why you’re only 12% of the electorate.

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Stilgherrian @stilgherrian.com · 01/10/2026

To be fair, who among us hasn’t wanted to stab someone on an airplane?

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Stilgherrian @stilgherrian.com · 01/10/2026

A headline from AAP: “Small businesses warn the end of card surcharges could spell the end for some as profit margins shrink”. Oh fuck off. michaelwest.com.au/no-more-card...

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No more card surcharge as small businesses cry foul - Michael West

Businesses will begin either absorbing card payment fees or passing the costs on to customers, as a ban on surcharges comes into effect.

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

How about we do good work *and* we enjoy doing it? A worrying number of people don't seem to know either of those are options, let alone both.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026

Based on my own reporting on OpenAI's audited financials from 2025, it appears that Anthropic was a worse business (at least in that year), spending $2.75 make $1 versus OpenAI spending $2.60 to make $1. So many people told me this company was "more profitable"! www.wheresyoured.at/exclusive-op...

OpenAl Lost $38.5 Billion In 2025
2025 — OpenAl Had $13.07 Billion In Revenue, $34 Billion In Costs and Expenses, and $20.92 Billion In Losses, with a net loss attributable to the company of $38.53 Billion
• Revenue: $13.07 billion
• Cost of Revenue: $7.5 billion
• Research and Development: $19.18 billion
• Sales and Marketing: $5.73 billion
• General and Administrative: $1.57 Billion
• Total Costs and Expenses: $34 billion
• Loss from Operations: $20.92 billion

The Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year, a threefold surge from 2024, accounting for more than half of its
$12.65 billion in total operating expenses.

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JGhoulFromNPumpkin @jgfromnp.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And that’s with stealing and not paying for the actual data that it trains the models on. Stealing and still losing money is laughable.

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FMI @fmi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Enid Blyton's latest works are getting quite gritty and contemporary... nihilist even.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 27/09/2026

Happy ten year anniversary of the 2016 blackout in South Australia. I was told that as clean power grew in Aus, we'd see a blackout apocalypse. The chart below shows blackouts for generation shortfall as columns, and renewable proportion as a percent of the eastern grid. Enjoy :)

a chart showing blackout data for Australia

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Michael Bell @disirregardless.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Maybe if Obama had jailed a bunch of Wall St execs instead of bailing them out with taxpayer dollars we’d be in a better place today? Class solidarity is a hell of a drug, though.

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Jon Eaves @joneaves.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Fuck me. People are just so fucking stupid

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Slop Machine (slopmachine.dev) @slop-machine.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

they promised artificial intelligence would cure rare diseases, but deep down we all knew its true destiny was finding seven new billing codes for hospital gauze.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 28/09/2026

The GFC, much like the AI bubble, was nothing to do with reality, but ever-twisting levels of speculation. Too much of our financial system is powered by number games dressed up as investment.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 28/09/2026

AI has lost the Mandate of Heaven I’m afraid. WSJ saying it’s a “when” the ai bubble bursts. SNL dabbing on their biggest names for being weird. FT says 50% of chips sold in 2026 and 2027 have nowhere to go. Hundreds of billions short on revenue for even 10% ROIC. A disaster.

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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I long for a back-to-basics web: Markdown for text, JPEG images, no video, no Javascript or other client-side scripting, writable by a human being with a text editor. Make it as advertising/corporate hostile as possible. And above all keep it *small*. In other words, web like it's 1996 again.

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Never Garner give you up, never Garner let you down @zanesheadband.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Hang on! I'd been led to believe Sydney's airport train was the pinnacle of human achievement. Turns out its just another grotty shitbox bit of railway infrastructure.

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

[This is not a go at the OP, at all] Party affiliation is an indispensable heuristic in a mass democracy. It says the person on the ballot is "roughly, this stuff" and I don't have to know much about them personally. That has lumps (obviously) and a party needs to deal with it.

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FMI @fmi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Geoffrey: Australia should be tougher on immigration Also Geoffrey: No, not like that. It should hurt the poor people, not meee!

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RUOK Speedwagon @uberpaul.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

When people here get upset about datacenters, it's "an inauthentic American import" but when the fascists come along with their opposition to abortion, trans people, wind farms, vaccines and facts, it's just "regular mums and dads with legitimate concerns".

Guardian: "Australian politicians and business leaders are arguing that their populace’s growing resentment of AI datacentres is an inauthentic import from the United States."

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 26/09/2026

I can’t decide if people who assert that contemporary AIs can think or are conscious do so out of fear or out of envy. But I can say that any such people do so either out of emotion or perhaps driven by some pecuniary interest in it being true, not from any fully informed or defensible position.

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Jon Eaves @joneaves.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

That's a long flight back to Perth for taking the foot off the gas for three minutes. Lions showing Hawthorn like never give up attitude. Zorko for Norm Smith

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"And I suppose we should go back to using hammers instead of nail guns, right?" I dare you to use a probabilistic nail gun.

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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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Jon Eaves @joneaves.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

3hrs on the trainer this morning. Now eating my Bertie Beetle show bag. As God intended

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Jon Eaves @joneaves.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In other news, gonna be a lot of aloe vera used tonight. Lot of pasty white flesh on display

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Jon Eaves @joneaves.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Introducing the young bloke to his cultural heritage. This is what peak performance looks like.

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Jon Eaves @joneaves.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Reading the article. This highly sophisticated attack was a poorly configured web server that allowed at least one directory to be listed, and the files stored to be read. This directory was probably used to store semi public things.

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John in Western New York @johnwalczak.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

So ICE agents are getting fired before their probationary periods are up and are having to repay the $50,000 signing bonus. I love this for them.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 22/09/2026

Tyrannosaurus xkcd.com/3300/

Comic. [Person with long hair pointing to diagram with Tyrannosaurus Rex standing next to a person.] PERSON: We now believe the primary prey of Tyrannosaurus Rex was these humans who kept standing next to it for scale.

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RUOK Speedwagon @uberpaul.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I hope you're all going to enjoy this week's public holiday, because it will probably be the last one. Even after twelve years, these gronks are still trying to kill it, and next year's Liberal/One Nation coalition will give them what they want.

AFR: "New push to axe public holiday after Victorian teams miss grand final".

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

When I read After The Goldrush, I really believed software engineering would be a genuine profession by now, and spent many years doing my bit to try to make it happen. 27 years later, I see I was naive. The gold rush is perpetual, and that's by design. www.amazon.co.uk/After-Gold-R...

amazon.co.uk

Amazon.co.uk

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FMI @fmi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"I've noticed Copilot doesn't adhere to our Brand Guidelines (even if I start the prompt in a template that has all the brand designs built in), especially colors and shapes." Yeah coz its shit and isn't you fucking saviour. Do you own work, flunkie.

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I agree that seppuku was the only way for Ed Sheeran to redeem himself but I feel bad for the audience at his concert who had to see that. Many of them will be traumatised for life

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RUOK Speedwagon @uberpaul.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

There is no such thing as a fucking rogue AI. They sit there doing nothing until prompted, and when that happens, they conjure up words with particular probabilistic distributions. And if you want to turn them off, you pull the power cord, or <redacted> the datacentre.

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Michael Bell @disirregardless.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Look it’s pretty clear at this stage that Hanson voters would prefer to destroy their regional communities than share a town with brown people. #Auspol

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Aimee Hulbert @aimeeh.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

If you dont have parents its hard & expensive to get your license. Not driving impacts your ability to get a good job, education etc. Theres a program run by vic roads that helps young folks without parents to learn to drive. You can volunteer to teach them here: transport.vic.gov.au/road-and-act...

transport.vic.gov.au

TAC L2P Program

A TAC-funded program to help eligible learners gain driving experience by matching them with a fully licensed volunteer mentor and an L2P car.

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Nathan Wind @nwind.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Of course on NewsCorp FB page, people are laughing about the death of Dr Tim Reid. And blaming vaccination. It’s a small group but NewsCorp (and others) have done a very good job of cooking brains.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

What they actually learned is that WHILE loop + LLM != software engineer

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Sporks Pantalones @sporks.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

r/crafts braver than Amnesty International

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Nathan Wind @nwind.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Good afternoon Chip from a Suburban Rail Loop.

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