iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Paul Bamford @paulb237.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Woot! I've got a dental voucher coming in the mail. Goodbye snaggle teeth hello plastic!

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 29/09/2026

Don’t ask an elected official if they “believe” in climate change, it’s not a religion. Don’t ask if they think it’s serious: it is. Ask them what matters most: what are they doing about it? Excellent application here, 10/10 no notes 👏⬇️👏

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Terry Sedgwick 🦘 T.S. un ami. @lordsedgwick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Is Pauline the antipodean Marine le Pen? Same policies that appeal to those feeling disaffected, disenfranchised, threatened and gulled by the usual raft of straw men arguments. Regularly touted as a potential leader of the nation by a meeja enamoured of conflict, yet never gets across the line.

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Paul Bamford @paulb237.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

From an e-mail I got today (I have been doing a bit of complaining): "NSW Government digital systems should be designed in a way which makes these administrative matters more convenient and approachable, not more difficult and stressful."

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Victorian Socialists @vicsocialists.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Australian governments green lighting the AI data centre construction boom across the country:

A cartoon showing a dog sitting on a chair surrounded by flames saying 'This is fine'.

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Nate Cochrane @natecochrane.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is Australian PM & Trump loyalist Anthony Albanese’s & Labor’s go-to every time progressive policies are raised. They have half a trillion dollars to spend on #Aukus even as they kick Aussies off medical programs, and their mismanagement means people must skip meals to pay rent. #auspol

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Paul Bamford @paulb237.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is the man @albomp.bsky.social will crawl over broken glass to get a selfie with.

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Paul Bamford @paulb237.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Junior minister with too much spare time.

Andrew Lee MP humanity invented printing press then works out how to save you turning the pages the shortest history of innovation is now available for audiobook pre-order for anyone with an audible.com account.
Image of the front cover of the shortest history of innovation by Andrew Lee

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

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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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Paul Bamford @paulb237.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

May he die alone, unloved* and in agonising pain with the stink of his own excreta in his nostrils. * He will be - he's an obvious narcissist, all his close personal relationships are transactional.

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Maranoa Girl @maranoagirl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Billionaire Gina & Multimillionaire Pauline are good reminders...every time...

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A real triumph of pretentious style over ignorant substance. (Norwegian Wood? Why is that song running through my head?)

But they’d also be wise to remember that geographically isolated, distant middle power Australia has only been afforded grandiosity on the world stage because in the post-second world war, pre-Trump era, it had the umbrella protection of a meaningful alliance with Daddy America.

Every one of us should back calls to regulate the living bejeezus out of all AI-capable foreign platforms seeking to operate here

And these days it’s Daddy America who’s a rules-free maniac whose sole political calculation is that money equals power and a literal “to the victor the spoils” foreign policy. To imagine Donald Trump’s US state department will be inspired into acts of responsibility due to Australian shaming it for data theft is some high genre alternate history. The man Trump pardoned who ran a stolen-data criminal marketplace spoke at the Republican convention in Dallas this year. Symbolic, no?

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Zenith Radio Nurse - Wikipedia

TIL that the first ever baby monitor was manufactured in 1938. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenith_...

en.wikipedia.org

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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Juggling too many obsessions at the moment and it's getting in the way of doing necessary real world stuff.

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You can read the full US submission/directive here, including the arrogant demands that Australia justify to the US government why it is acting to protect Australians from online harm. au.usembassy.gov/u-s-governme...

au.usembassy.gov

U.S. Government Response to the Australian Consultation on the “Online Safety Amendment (Digital Duty of Care) Bill 2026”

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Kara Jane Adams @ghostinexile.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I seem to have a lot of Ricky Gervais fans in my replies. You can tell they’re Ricky Gervais fans, because they don’t know what a joke is.

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Given that the committee is a stitch-up with desired reccommendations already determined expect a lot of buckets of white wash turn up in the final report.

So much for West Asia's only democracy.

This guy is setting himself up to be replaced by an AI. Nice one, champ. bsky.app/profile/blek...

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Well this suggests all kinds of possibilities, if the ballroom gets built to Trump's specifications.

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Why not the US? Much better place to test their ideas.

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He's an economist ( such a surprise). For economists if there's no money incentive there's no incentive. bsky.app/profile/euan...

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This is one of the guys that the Australian government and state and territory governments want to allow to operate data centers in Australia. What do you call someone who is prepared to be a lackey for a cunt like Karp? A weak cunt.

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Well no-one's going to be ripping me off between now and Friday; the account's only got 35 cents in it.

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Peeve of the day: screenshots of news articles with no links and no alt text are just a useless distraction.

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So, questions: Who, inside the "Trump Administration" came up with this objection? Which social media billionaire techbro instigated the objection? How much did they pay, and to whom? How soon will @albomp.bsky.social fold?

The Trump administration has made an extraordinary public intervention into Australia's debate about its proposed digital duty of care, warning the Albanese government that the policy would be "extraterritorial censorship of protected speech".

It called for the Australian government to exclude US social media companies from its plans to give users the option to opt into algorithmic recommendation feeds — a decision that would effectively neuter the law, removing the biggest platforms from its application.

The rare public rebuke took the form of a response to a consultation on the draft digital duty of care bill, which would force platforms to take actions to mitigate and respond to harms caused by digital platforms.

The submission, published by the US Embassy today, said Washington had "serious concerns" about how Australia would decide what counts as "foreseeable harm".

Our Prime Minister has shown himself to be a very competent hypocrite on too many issues.

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dan @djon3s.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Somebody has been stealing money from me since the 4th of August.

Partial screenshot of my bank statement, filtered for payments to Netflix. It shows the following payments since 30 July, 2026:
Date Description
Thu 03 Sep 2026 NETFLIX.COM Melbourne AU AUS Card xxNNNN Value Date: 01/09/2026
Sat 29 Aug 2026 Netflix.com Los Gatos AUS Card xxNNNN Value Date: 28/08/2026
Tue 04 Aug 2026 Netflix.com Melbourne VI AUS Card xxNNNN Value Date: 01/08/2026
Thu 30 Jul 2026 NETFLIX.COM Melbourne AU AUS Card xxNNNN Value Date: 28/07/2026

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Data Centres could circle us in Space.... **Werner Herzog voice** "But why?"

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For some reason, I don't think that there will be a third series of The Gentlemen. If 21st Century Grand Guignol is your thing, though...

Paul Bamford @paulb237.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Affordable housing, food and other necessities might be even better.

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Paul Bamford @paulb237.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Got this friendly little message from the AEC last Thursday. Ain't Australian democracy wonderful?

You are required by a law to be enrolled to vote you can enroll or check your enrollment details at the AEC website

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 19/09/2026

people are always saying anti-AI arguments don’t understand the full nuances of the technology. which is correct. but only because it stole everyone’s work, exists solely to get you fired, has made the entire internet unusable and has been forced on everyone without consent

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Paul Bamford @paulb237.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"When they go low, we go lower."