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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 30/09/2026

I am pleased that I don't know these people who talk about music creation / listening as a problem to be solved.

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If nothing else AI is making clear that there are people all around us for whom writing, art, and music are not communion with another mind, but just - wallpaper. Just pleasant things to look at. They think AI is conscious because they have no actual grasp of what it is to encounter another mind.

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This should be the first time I've actually seen the term beclowned used.

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Why passengers are being barred from rear carriages on these Sydney trains

If you are wondering why the rear carriages of Sydney trains are closed ATM, it's because idiotic video shorts popularised people breaking into the unmanned drivers cab - and apparently closing the whole carriage even in rush hours is the only way to deal with this 🙄 www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...

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After multiple security breaches, the back carriage has been closed off on many Tangara trains.

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Brick shortage prompts $4 million sweetener to get factory reopened

Am I missing something here? Why is a private company being handed massive incentives to reopen this factory? Surely if the items are viable at that price point from other factories then more factories can be built or prices adapt to make them viable? www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...

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Taxpayers are funding the reopening of the Austral factory, which the government hopes will help address the shortage of bricks plaguing the construction industry.

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How much of that is down to Trump attacking Iran and subsequent oil price rise?

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A handy explanation of Dogging...

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How do I always forget how overwhelmingly huge my wife's family is? Until big events where they all turn up together and then it comes flooding back to me.

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Getting AI 'drunk' makes it more likely to break rules, research finds

"Australian researchers at UNSW told an AI model to act drunk and found it was more likely to break rules or divulge information it was supposed to keep private." www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...

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A study finds AI models are more likely to answer harmful questions or mishandle confidential information when told to act drunk.

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Matthew Taylor @mat8iou.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Does Suella not realise that people like her (both parents foreign born) will be next in the firing line if the revolution she eagerly advocates ever comes to fruition? "A l'exemple de Saturne, la révolution dévore ses enfants,"

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Is it just be, or have data centres become the next 5G masts. I understand the issues with location & impact, but many diatribes about them appear to have lost touch with reality. Also - not every data centre is AI. There were plenty before that - but you wouldn't believe it from current stories.

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Matthew Taylor @mat8iou.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Platforms can't just change their number - they should be made to stick to the one they were born with...

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

New from 404 Media: when you upload images to Copilot, they're not private. Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users' prompts/images, according to internal docs we got And they're horrified at what they're seeing. Bombarded with requests to make sexual AI images www.404media.co/humans-readi...

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Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts — And They're Horrified

Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, according to internal documents obtained by 404 Media. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI...

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Matthew Taylor @mat8iou.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

After years of successively hard line on immigration home secretaries, it is clear the UK far right won't be appeased - so why did parties keep pandering to them, pretending that they will become happy? Also - doesn't his referring to the "Pakistani parasite" come under anti racism laws?

The Russian bots pretending to be Aussies on twitter are desperate to pretend that Albo is a puppet of Ukraine 🙄

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Was there a point in time that I missed when the Restore Party wasn't mostly about racism?

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Daily Express getting angry at the PM for telling the truth.

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 27/09/2026

Entrepreneurs in London can't do any work because of "slow moving traffic" apparently. Have they not heard of online meetings and public transport or cycling? This in London in the 2020s FFS. Proper should mostly not be tied to their cars for day to day travel.

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This is a shopping list of Australian housing myths, including my favourite, ‘there used to be housing commissions’. Yes, and the absence of public housing is a real factor in crisis. But the Cwth and State housing commissions built a tiny fraction of our cities, the vast majority was private built

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It's setting the bar to why you should vote for them fairly low.

AI exec: We may have pulled off “the largest theft of labor in human history.”

"The companies know full well that by ingesting content and training the AIs to spit it back out again, they are destroying the audience for publishers and other creators." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Documents from our lawsuit reveal how tech leaders talk when they think no one is listening.

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There hasn't been a truly terrifying pope since Urban VI. That's not generally seen as a bad thing. Yes - I know Julius II waged violent military campaigns - but I feel like he didn't just delight in agony and torment of individuals the way the former did.

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This display is making my head hurt.

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Has this site turned into LinkedIn when I wasn't paying attention? Also - one again, I feel glad that I live in a country a world away from this sort of nonsense.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

It feels like very different rules are being applied to AI companies doing this sort of stuff compared to individuals (who arguably committed far lesser crimes) in scraping websites. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_S...

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I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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Can someone explain to me how Liz Truss is still giving talks in public - and how people are still paying to listen to her?

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Matthew Taylor @mat8iou.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The last bit of that story is kind of unexpected. After days nearly dying at sea and being rescued, he's going to take the boat to NZ in a few weeks

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I assumed this headline had to be fake - but CNN really did write it.

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Ben McKennaaaargh @benmckenna.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Sometimes you get fleeting little glimpses into the cosy little club all these people belong to.

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Australia is leading the way in MPs using AI generated speeches...

Why does UK Labour have so many MPs using AI to generate their parliamentary speeches?

The advert panels on the side of central Sydney's public toilets run Linux it seems.

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Bowen coking coal - owned by Argos Bowen 2 Pty Ltd - owned by Argo Natural Resources - backed by Mercuria, Itochu, Eclipse Mining, and Talisman Partners. I'm sure there are entities somewhere up the chain that ought to be contributing to remediation rather than tax payers picking up the tab.