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David M

@meacod.bsky.social
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Build things, mostly teams and software, occasionally civilisations or medium tanks. All views my own.

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David M @meacod.bsky.social · 1h
I suppose all those wickets Pat Cummins takes are the fault of woke too?
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David M @meacod.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Maybe this whole "fascism is happening" thing is an overreac- oh
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max power 🌌 @sneptech.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026
ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)
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Pyke Redrock @pykeredrock.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Happy “Haha, no, really, what are Australia’s time zones?” Day to all who celebrate.
Map of Australia’s Daylight Savings Timezones. Southeast Australian states are UTC+11, while Queensland is +10. South Australia is +10.5 while the Northern Territory is +9.5, and then Western Australia is +8.
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David M @meacod.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Ah shit, someone's been vibe coding the accelerator again #F1
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Bouphe @bouphe.co.uk · 01/10/2026
Back in my day the relentlessness occasionally relented. And Freddos were 10p!
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Equisapien Replicant of the Falcon Cult Replicants @eqspnrplcnt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
They are testing the limits of what the establishment media will help them get away with.
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David M @meacod.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
One of the best ever GFs though?
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David M @meacod.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Nostradamus over here
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David M @meacod.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Lol shortest wharfie time ever #aflgf
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Bits @bitshammer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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John Delmenico @thebigjohnnyd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
nice to see prime minister is putting his foot down and making it clear that if you hack the Australian government, he will say it is ‘concerning’ then roll over and continue with his plans to change the law so you can steal from Aussie artists
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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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David M @meacod.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Do the Radiohead queue dance
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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Truly wild to have lived through moral panics about teenagers wearing hoodies and Muslim women wearing the head dress to now experience 'but is a large group of organised far right activists in balaclavas really that scary'
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David M @meacod.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Top tier thread, no notes. Just Jimmy Barnes.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
However much you hate British media, it is not enough www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09...
How having a disability became cool
Young women, nicknamed ‘sickfluencers’, are turning chronic illness into a lifestyle trend and entrenching a culture of economic inactivity

Young women are also more likely to get caught up in “social contagion” – the spontaneous spread of behaviours or emotions previously observed by sociologists in “outbreaks” of bulimia, self-harm and transgender ideology. What may have otherwise been transitory feelings are seized upon and obsessed over until they form a central pillar of a person’s identity. A chronic-illness influencer won’t want to get “better” any more than a female-bodied transgender person would want to re-identify with their sex.
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David M @meacod.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Radiohead Aussie tour site from Frontier Touring genuinely recreating the authentic experience of buying big day out tickets online
504 Gateway Timeout error
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Grady Booch @booch.com · 05/09/2026
I do not fear the rise of artificial intelligence. But I do fear the rise of a small set of billionaires and companies who seek to build such things to increase their power and their wealth, all without transparency or accountability.
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David Brady @antiprofessor.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
If you take nothing else from this piece, treasure: "Up shit creek in a barbed wire canoe" "Not here to fuck spiders" "Belted from arsehole to breakfast"
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David M @meacod.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Australia rn #AUSvBAN
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Michael Jordan: It Became Personal
Alt: Michael Jordan: It Became Personal
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David M @meacod.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The ABC cricket score centre is a mood.
Two cricket game scorelines - in one a cricket Australia eleven filled with second stringers and youngsters thrash Bangladesh. In the other, Bangladesh are beating Australia's first line team.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/08/2026
I understand that funding bodies want to go all in on AI as the shiny new innovation thing. But if all the grants start going to AI at the expense of everything else then the research sector is going to end up looking like a farm with dozens of threshers hacking away in a field with no wheat.
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David M @meacod.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Belligerent ghouls Run world cup pools Spineless bastards all
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Listening to The Cure and thinking about The Bomb @thewrongnoel.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Seeing all the sleaze from the gambling industry in the senate inquiry has reminded me of one of the funniest things I ever saw in a job. It involves a whole bunch of people walking away with loads of cash from the pokies. It’s also a cautionary tale for business owners of all kinds. 1/?🧵
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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 25/07/2026
Nope. No, you haven’t.
r/WritingWithAl
u/Dazzling-Major-5620 • 13h
ChatGPT not letting you emulate specific authors anymore
Prompting
Join
I've been writing my book for several months now, paid for a more advanced model. Took a break. Came back.
Now Ms. GPT says she can't generate content in the style of specific authors. My prompts were soooo specific and I got exactly what I wanted out of them. For example,
'rewrite in the literary style of 'author here' with abundant dialogue and detail avoiding staccato prose. That was my go-to. Or 'please write and flesh out in the style of
'author' etc. they tightened the ropes. I have no idea how to get around this other than maybe feed it prose I already edited that's technically mine? Fuck.
& Locked post. New comments cannot be posted.
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 21/07/2026
Alessandra Galloni examines the implications of AI for journalism in 2026 Andrew Olle lecture
abc.net.au
Can journalism reinvent itself before AI completely upends it?
What will a trusted, sustainable, global news organisation look like in an era of agentic AI? And can we reinvent ourselves before someone else builds a less trustworthy, more dangerous alternative?
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 19/07/2026
Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out.
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The Socialist Dad @thesocialistdad.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Oh god 🤣
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Thread. Rapists running a coercive sex ring AND transmitting CSAM AND inducing other men to abuse women and girls in turn. The alleged behavior is legitimately monstrous and it’s a HUGE deal that the Trump regime is undermining law enforcement to help/free them. Epstein in real time
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David M @meacod.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Ah yeah guys I don't know if it's just the lettuce hey
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@lizglab.bsky.social @lizglab.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
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David M @meacod.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
If we lose, it's a win! Says man totally not desperate
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alexis simpson is confused by display name changes @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
my god, this is amazing. apparently from a NY Times interview with Neill and Goldblum. Resharing with alt text so everyone can enjoy
How long has it been since you've seen the original "Jurassic Park"?

SAM NEILL: The last time I watched it in its totality was sitting beside Princess Di at Leicester Square at the London opening. On the other side of me was my son Tim he was 11 and completely swept away by it, but about the time the T-Rex turns up, Tim started to fart. And the draft was drifting across me to royalty! I spent the whole film in a muck sweat, thinking, "Princess Di is being exposed to the horrors of a little boy's fart, but she's going to think it's me. I am going to be subliminally blamed for my son's crimes, and I don't think she'll talk to me afterwards." But she was well brought up and never mentioned it.

JEFF GOLDBLUM: I love that story, Sam. I've heard him tell that a couple of times, and it's just amazing the lengths that he will go to still blame the boy.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Looking forward to Argentina vs. Switzerland: Who Holds More Nazi Gold?
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David M @meacod.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Well well
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David M @meacod.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Pelanty. Go on Kane, give Bellingham your kick. #NORENG
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David M @meacod.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Bellingham is having a special tournament #NORENG
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David M @meacod.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I wanted a full energy, end to end game with two good attacks and shonky defences. Somewhat disappointing so far that both teams have been reasonably solid at the back. #NORENG
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David M @meacod.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Second half, same as the first #NORENG
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David M @meacod.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
@noscoredraws.com picture of the Norway manager throwing a water bottle into his own staff member please
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David M @meacod.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Jeez he's having a tournament and a half #NORENG
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No Score Draws ✍🏻⚽ @noscoredraws.com · 11/07/2026
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Simpsons: Homer and Bart Say 'Join Us'
ALT: Simpsons: Homer and Bart Say 'Join Us'
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Sonia Silva ❤️ @vallygirl.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The complete elimination of Meta would yield unambiguous, far reaching benefits for global society.
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Aoḋán Ó Conġaile @tinydonkey.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Been learning to do cryptic crossword clues lately, and Google AI has been a really big help 👍
Google just absolutely fucking up a cryptic crossword clue that *it came up with itself*. 

It thinks "Keen These" anagrams to "Geneva"
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David M @meacod.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Trump so incensed by no world cup matches today he decided to bomb a country again
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David M @meacod.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Man. What a belter between Egypt and Argentina.
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