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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A choice also, that they presented January 6 in great detail in the film but also never said Trump's name. It was all just "him" and "he just posted again" lol

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Like the two background paragraphs I put into a story blown out to a two hour movie.

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The Social Reckoning is a hard slog as a reporter who covers Meta

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Also clear that a lot of businesses will veer towards open weight models as they become "good enough" at a much lower cost than frontier models and I think this is where the whole bubble lies. That's just a bit of it but anyway.

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The AI sector introduced a let's say novel argument that if they had to pay to licence copyright works they'd also have to talk to spam emailers because spam email is covered by copyright. I feel the government is leaning towards finding a break but not clear how yet

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

But creators see that any weakening of copyright to allow training will allow Australia to become a backdoor way for AI training on copyright works and potentially disrupting ongoing lawsuits in the US.

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It seems (from an outside observer position) that the inquiry will come to a recommendation on copyright and the government will use that to break what they see as a "stalemate". Creators aren't getting paid now, and AI companies aren't training here. The government really wants the latter.

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I've watched four full days of hearings of the AI inquiry in parliament and my brain has melted a bit

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Not sure this is quite a use case for giving an AI agent access to your inbox and bank account because you're too lazy to open the app and see "oh Github charge".

LinkedIn post:

Who's had one of those moments where a notification about a suspicious transaction makes you a little nervous, especially when you've had a card compromised a few months earlier? That was me the other morning.
I've recently been playing around with OpenAl's Dots and have set up my autonomous Al agent, Dottie. Using signals available through my email and an open banking integration, Dottie checked the transaction and found a matching GitHub receipt that explained the charge, all without me having to ask.
You don't need a big, complex use case for Al to be helpful. Sometimes the win a handful of small tasks taken off your hands is enough.

Screenshot of iOS Notification Centre
Dottie 8:04 am:
CommBank asked you to check an A$47.16
GitHub charge from 4:01 this morning. I found a matching GitHub receipt for September Copilot usage and GitHub Pro, so that appears to expl...

CommBank
Unusual activity detected
We've noticed a potentially suspicious transaction on your account.

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I don't think this means all will - it violates their TOS already but I could see X, for example, allowing it - and X loves a legal fight with eSafety.

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Horrified obviously, but it has occurred to me that eSafety would require platforms hosting the footage to block it in Australia, I would think. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Pentagon says execution of Fort Hood shooter will be livestreamed

Nidal Hasan, army psychiatrist who killed 13 people, will be executed by firing squad on 3 December

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Fergus Halliday @cvamped.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

First time I've seen pervert glasses called out at PAX

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

You've got the wrong Josh. Not my story

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Kinda funny watching the AI parliamentary inquiry where a former Stephen Conroy staffer turned MP (Tim Watts) is asking questions to a former Conroy staffer turned data centre group head (Belinda Dennett)

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I feel like he was sick of being yelled at on here about AI.

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

On the scale of chill - from my For You feed on X it was just a lot of people yelling at each other too.

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Also the people (at least from the Australian point of view) who I can see still post there but are not on here are no great loss to the conversation imo.

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Saw a prominent tech reporter have a mea culpa and say he's going back to posting on X as it's where the tech conversations are, so I opened it up to see what I was missing and was immediately presented with an AI video of Hanson making out with a prominent right wing blogger. I'll be alright.

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I can explain that - they got someone to look at the HeyCyan app specifically after my initial reporting on the glasses.

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The federal AI hearing getting underway now. ABC up first. OpenAI/Anthropic et al are later today. Streaming here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzzR...

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Joint Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence | Sydney, NSW | 06/10/2026

YouTube video by Australian Parliament House Streaming Portal

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

My immediate feeling after watching Digger was "what the hell was that?" But as it has sat with me longer it has grown on me a bit. Feeling smug that I hadn't been spoiled but figured it out before the twist.

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I had a random thought today that when I started my career like 16 years ago at ZDNet (RIP) I was writing niche stories about data centres and old government IT. And now I'm doing it all again but it's not so niche.

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In case it hasn't been obvious, a lot of this, and Lyle Shelton's recent missives about rolling back same-sex marriage would suggest they never accepted the outcome of a public vote they demanded. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Inside the group chats of the trash-talking NSW young Liberals who dreamed big – then imploded

The Reformers were once ‘twentysomething-year-old guys’ hoping to shift the NSW party to the right. Their messages show how it all went wrong

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

oh. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

"One possible trigger could be a shift in sentiment towards the Al investment boom, which is increasingly fuelled by expectations of sustained rapid earnings growth and a debt-financing cycle that is becoming more opaque and circularẠạthe report said.

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

How's that social licence for AI going hey www.theguardian.com/business/202...

The RBA board said it voted unanimously for a hike in response to higher prices from the AI investment boom and amid fears that firms would begin passing on rising costs to consumers. Bullock singled out the US war on Iran, saying it could disrupt oil supply longer than expected.

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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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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Breaking: OpenAI has released more info on the agents access of Australian government websites, and has apologised for the incident, and its handling of it. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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OpenAI ‘sorry and working to do better’ after hack of Medicare and other Australian government websites

Artificial intelligence firm to front parliament as it apologises to Australians for agent attack

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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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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Something tells me we are two months out from an election

A Victorian government-funded ad covers the Australian's website in bright yellow saying "PSOs NOW PATROLLING TRAINS AND PLATFORMS". with two images of officers on either side of the news article saying "Patrolling earlier and longer" and "informed by police data"

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Yeah I was wondering where those were

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Not sure which is worse, the crypto dot com banners or the "AI tailored for law" banners.

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

And they correctly leaned into how Melbourne she is

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Now a lot of streamers are back to just releasing episodes weekly, I've noticed a difference in how my view of a show is shaped over time compared to reviewers (who get most or all of the season at once)

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I was just thinking Australia didn't walk out of Netenyahu's UN speech for the same reason.

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My theory about the Trump selfie was it is how he avoids the "Trump snubs Albanese" News Corp news cycle. Though I think he should have learned by now that it won't stop them either way.

News 24 Facebook post featuring the Trump and Albanese selfie at the UN.

Caption reads: Anthony Albanese failed just about every marketing rule in the book by taking a selfie with Donald Trump just as the US and Australia go head to head on the future of the internet, writes James Bolt.

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Yep that's it. I'd have to double check everything and ultimately it's quicker to do it myself.

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

True but the consequences for individuals seem larger.

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