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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

One thing that’s become apparent to me as AI generated text proliferates is how much we’re being influenced by short attention span/clickbait styles of writing becoming the norm—or even the new accepted & desirable standard.

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Ms. Kathy Reid (she/her) @kathyreid.au · 04/10/2026

The design of the internet itself was predicated on survivability, routing around degraded infrastructure and being resilient to failure - precisely the conditions of a fast-moving bushfire. What are the opportunities here for self-hosted, federated infrastructure? 4/4 fin

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Ms. Kathy Reid (she/her) @kathyreid.au · 04/10/2026

This article raised very incisive questions about the resilience of our telecomms infrastructure in a crisis, and what planning and co-operation is required for inter-operability and reliable fail over. 3/4

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Ms. Kathy Reid (she/her) @kathyreid.au · 04/10/2026

... and provides a case study of the standalone information displays Shoalhaven City Council have invested in which have backup power, and which can be used to provide access to sat phones. 2/4

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Ms. Kathy Reid (she/her) @kathyreid.au · 04/10/2026

An excellent piece by @ransos.bsky.social for @news.abc.net.au that examines the fragility of telecommunications infrastructure under bushfire conditions, ... www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10... #telecommunications #bushfire #infrastructure #data 1/4

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Mozilla @mozilla.org · 25/09/2026

Middle powers can win by building "roads", and focusing less on building "engines." This builds on the findings of our recent report The State of Open Source AI to argue for investing in the AI harness. Read about it here: bit.ly/46BB4qt

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The Open-Source Route to AI Sovereignty

Capturing AI's economic value means investing in the open tools, standards and infrastructure that turn powerful models into practical applications.

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Cardiff Babylab @cardiffbabylab.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We are very excited to attend #interspeech2026! 🥳 @catiamoliveira.bsky.social will be presenting: "The TinyExplorer Ecosystem: Open tools for studying infants’ auditory and visual experiences" 📍 Show and Tell 3 — Speech and Language Processing for Health and Accessibility

Slide indicating that Cardiff Babylab will be attending interspeech 2026 with some photos taken in Sydney

Slide with details about the event: 👶 The TinyExplorer Ecosystem: Open tools for studying infants’ auditory and visual experiences
📄 Paper ID: 3597
📅 Wednesday, 30 September 2026
🕘 09:00–11:00
📍 Show and Tell 3 — Speech and Language Processing for Health and Accessibility

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Cátia M. Oliveira @catiamoliveira.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If you are attending #interspeech2026, please come and say hi!

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Interspeech 2026 @interspeech.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Contribute to 'TidyVoice Challenge: Cross-Lingual Speaker Verification' at #Interspeech2026! 🗫 More information on the Challenge website: tidyvoice2026.github.io

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Ms. Kathy Reid (she/her) @kathyreid.au · 26/09/2026

Delighted to be co-chairing this Special Session at #Interspeech2026 on Tuesday, fantastic papers and looking forward to the discussion.

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Alice Paver @alicepaver.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Paper accepted for #Interspeech2026 in Sydney this autumnǃǃ SO excited to be going to Australia, and maybe a stop-off back where I grew up in Malaysia tooǃ

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Daniel Duran @simphon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Olcay Türk from the #BielefeldUniversity #Phonetics group is presenting joint work with Stefan Lazarov, Yu Wang, Angela Grimminger, Hendrik Buschmeier & Petra Wagner: “When “yeah” means “not quite”: Multimodal detection of backchannels expressing incomplete understanding”. Sep 30 at #Interspeech2026

interspeech2026.org

Interspeech 2026 - Interspeech 2026

Join us in Sydney for Interspeech 2026, the premier international conference on speech science and technology, celebrating diversity, equity, and innovation from 28 September to 1 October 2026.

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Dave Hall 🌻 @skwashd.wtf · 24/09/2026

Has anyone noticed that’s it’s no longer the sophisticated state actors doing all the hacking? It’s always AI. Maybe, just maybe, none of this was ever very hard. Could it be organisations have always been bad at security?

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Re: ppl who are certain OpenAI was targeting health data for malicious reasons: it’s capitalism and they were looking for POC of application to automation of government research in large datasets

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Wikimedia Australia @wmau.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Congratulations to Pru Mitchell! Wikimedia Australia is pleased to announce that Pru Mitchell is the winner of the 2026 Craig Franklin Award. This award recognises an individual or organisation that has made a positive impact on the Wikimedia movement in Australia. wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Craig_F...

wikimedia.org.au

Craig Franklin Award 2026

Congratulations to Pru Mitchell

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Tim Sherratt @wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

I gave a presentation this morning on working with GLAM data for the ARDC / Research Data Alliance Roadshow at UTas in Hobart. Here's the slides: slides.com/wragge/rda-roadshow-hoba… #GLAM #openData #digitalHumanities

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Working with GLAM data

Presentation for the RDA Roadshow, Hobart, 22 September 2026

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Child: This is my first time meeting a mayor. Mamdani: Wow, have you ever met a prime minister? Child: No Norway PM Jonas Gahr Støre: *walks over*

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Tim Stephens @proftimstephens.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

“Activist groups are using artificial intelligence to target the ABC’s coverage of the Middle East with accusations of bias.” AI is making society ungovernable. #auspol www.smh.com.au/business/com...

smh.com.au

Activist group using AI to flood ABC with thousands of bias complaints

The AI system lets campaigners deliver thousands of messages from their supporters with different language, tone and length but the same meaning.

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ANU Research School of Physics @physicsanu.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"My favourite thing was I spent lots of time at both ends of the theoretical-applied spectrum, dipping my toes in both abstract quantum field theory & experimental work." James Monro, winner @aip.org.au Laby medal best hons thesis Congrats! physics.anu.edu.au/news_events/... @scienceanu.bsky.social

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Ms. Kathy Reid (she/her) @kathyreid.au · 15/09/2026

Every time Trump comes out with an assinine statement, I am reminded of Neal Stephenson's novel "Interface", and wonder who's at the controls.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"During Pride, SFPD used drones to follow and arrest people in my community for having the audacity to exist in public, I wanted to exert control, I wanted to become the one who surveils instead of the subject of surveillance." –– @cara.city

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artist's statement
When I first heard drones buzzing around the air in Oakland in the late 2010s, I confess I just found them annoying. In the early 2020s, they felt threatening, a sign of someone watching me in ways I couldn't control. But when, during Pride, SFPD used drones to follow and arrest people in my community for having the audacity to exist in public, I wanted to exert control, I wanted to become the one who surveils instead of the subject of surveillance. So, I bought a used DJI drone off of Facebook Marketplace. And my drone's target was the embodiment of commonplace surveillance in America today, Flock cameras. These little devices send data back to police departments, which then use them for everything from arresting people for loitering, to tracking people who have had abortions.

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Researchers across the country are turning to side hustles to fund their work. Behind the cuts sits a bigger shift: whether American science can still sustain durable research capacity. @lindseydcameron.bsky.social and I examine the stakes in a new piece @science.org: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

science.org

The wrong platform for science

Daniel Blumstein recently sat in a Colorado meadow waiting for yellow-bellied marmots to appear, as the ecologist and evolutionary biologist had done many times before, the New York Times reported. Bu...

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Mozilla @mozilla.org · 03/09/2026

As it turns out, not every design choice deserves to exist😬 @nabiha.bsky.social puts it simply: Does it help us become better humans? Dream? Connect? Great. And if not? "...throw it into the ocean." 🎧 Full ep w/ Hala Hanna now live bit.ly/3UzgpAy

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Ms. Kathy Reid (she/her) @kathyreid.au · 06/09/2026

This is the damage being wrought to #infrastructure in the the #TokenWars - the desire for, and predation of, publicly accessible #data tokens for feeding into #ML models. How are crawlers and bots and scrapers influencing information architectures & re-shaping what it means for data to be open?

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Ms. Kathy Reid (she/her) @kathyreid.au · 06/09/2026

Even after deploying anti-scraper tools such as #Anubis, Ryabitsev estimates that: "With a bunch of generous assumptions, legitimate requests are only about 2% of git.kernel.org traffic — everything else are scrapers.

git.kernel.org

LF git repositories

Browse git repositories hosted by the Linux Foundation.

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Ms. Kathy Reid (she/her) @kathyreid.au · 06/09/2026

In one of the best things I've read this week, @mricon.kernel.social provides a deep dive on the infrastructure that is under pressure from bots and scrapers at The @linuxfoundation.org - specifically the #linux kernel's git repository. people.kernel.org/monsieuricon...

git.kernel.org

LF git repositories

Browse git repositories hosted by the Linux Foundation.

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Ms. Kathy Reid (she/her) @kathyreid.au · 03/09/2026

Updated my display name to show as "Ms." Kathy Reid in honour of #GloriaSteinem

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Dr Zena Assaad @zenaassaad.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

New #ResponsibleBytesPodcast episode is now live, featuring @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social talking about military AI systems and why human control is not enough. 🎧Listen anywhere you get your podcasts. 📹 Full episode is also up on our YouTube channel.

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AARNet @aarnet.edu.au · 01/09/2026

We're looking forward to being part of #AusNOG2026 this week! Join us on Friday for our session on securing a modern telco network, where we'll explore what's new and why it matters. We hope to see you there! 🔗 www.aarnet.edu.au/ausnog-2026 #research #education #AusNOG

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Dr Zena Assaad @zenaassaad.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

What I think should be a greater focus of this incident is the fact these Russian drones used Nvidia hardware. From a geopolitic and security perspective, that's a much more pressing issue than the imaginary boogeyman of "killer machines". /7

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Linux Australia, Inc. @linuxaustralia.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

An important #FOI case about source code transparency will be heard by the Administrative Review Tribunal this week in Melbourne. Fraser Tweedale is seeking access to the #myGov Code Generator app's source code. More info on the hearing and background: openmygov.au/posts/2026-0...

Supporting #MyGov transparency through #FoI

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Australian National Dictionary Centre @ozworders.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Our 2026 annual appeal is asking for your regional Australian English terms. And no, it's not all about potato scallops vs potato cakes. history.cass.anu.edu.au/centres/andc...

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Wikimedia Australia @wmau.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

👩‍🔬Wikipedia's gender gap is reversing in places! New research shows that US female biology professors are now 25% more likely than men to have a Wikipedia bio, thanks to a decade of work by WikiProject Women in Red💃 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped... #WomeninRed #Wikipedia #KnowledgeEquity

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Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2026-08-24/Recent research - Wikipedia

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

“Thin” as a marker of social status becomes redundant when anyone can achieve it. Hence the bitter desperation to maintain gatekeeping to “acceptable” routes of access

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Tech execs do not have, like, a theory of mind for people who aren’t tech execs. If they did, they wouldn’t be so frequently baffled by how repulsive normal people think their whole deal is right now

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Ms. Kathy Reid (she/her) @kathyreid.au · 22/08/2026

So what will happen with this amount of funding in Australia's second biggest state is that it will be exhausted within months but prove its value in reduced acute medical episodes. They're building the case for dental in Medicare. Kinda like the strategy.

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Ms. Kathy Reid (she/her) @kathyreid.au · 22/08/2026

One of the key open problems in Automatic Speech Recognition is #CodeSwitching - where speakers use different languages or dialects in the same utterance. This competition focuses on code switching in 3 languages - North American Spanish & English, Indonesian & Javanese and Spanish & Nahuatl.

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Ms. Kathy Reid (she/her) @kathyreid.au · 22/08/2026

Are you into #NLP #ML or #ASR? Mozilla Data Collective is running a model #competition with $USD 20k in prizes 💰️ 💻️ Build ASR systems that accurately transcribe natural, code-switched speech across these three under-served language pairs. competitions.mozilladatacollective.com/competitions...

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Lost In Transcription: Advancing Speech Recognition for Underserved Linguistic Contexts

This competition evaluates performance on real-world bilingual dialogues in Indonesian-Javanese, Nahuatl-Spanish, and Spanish-English.

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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 20/08/2026

When an LLM answers a question, is it reasoning like humans, or just producing text that looks like reasoning? Computer scientist @melaniemitchell.bsky.social weighs in on the latest episode of The Joy of Why: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

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Are We Thinking Correctly about AI Intelligence?

Podcast Episode · The Joy of Why · August 20 · 52m

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Firefox @firefox.com · 10/08/2026

Our support for uBlock Origin isn't going anywhere.

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Dr Zena Assaad @zenaassaad.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I've created a starter pack for guests who have been on the #ResponsibleBytesPodcast. I'll update the list as often as I can. go.bsky.app/UcNWxVQ

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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

This very personal speech from Jacqui Lambie won't get anywhere near as much attention as it should - but again goes to choices about who we care about. No one should have to go through this live.thepoint.com.au/2026/08/the-...

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

wE hAvE tHe tOOLs dO yr oWn rISk aSseSsmEnT

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 17/08/2026

"perfect or dead" pretty much sums it up

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I am a non-responder to the measles vaccine: no seroconversion. When you get immunised it helps protect me, because I am not protected by the vaccine

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