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Data Dot

@petermclarty.bsky.social
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Data Analyst & engineer, security nerd, needs to be near the sea in warm places; Husband, dad, bodyboarder, sometimes SUP. Leaning left for good things to happen Comments are my own working at ...

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Data Dot @petermclarty.bsky.social · 4h
I know some who support one nation are self centred. It's all about them, even if the policy doesn't truly affect them
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Data Dot @petermclarty.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Let's make sure we do put them at risk.
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Data Dot @petermclarty.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If there's no balance then the RBA will get it wrong. We can see the impact now of the current actions and how that is right wing thinking. We are basically being pushed austerity by the RBA. They have been pretty slow to debunk the issue is government spending, not corporations #auspol
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Data Dot @petermclarty.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
They get more desperate to hide the bullshit every day #auspol
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Data Dot @petermclarty.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
May Justice for Palestine prevail This is an important case for Australia and will embed what is free political speech into our legal system one way or the other. It may well finish the IHRA antisemetism model with a win by JfP It'll be a big fight by the government to win #auspol
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Data Dot @petermclarty.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Jane is a waste of oxygen. Was she elected, I thought she was a replacement. I doubt she'll get elected again. I hope a lot of LNP voters are seeing this, and understanding how useless that mob is
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Data Dot @petermclarty.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is a fuck up of a magnitude not seen since turning Hitler away from art school. Their primary responsibility is to shareholders. So unless shareholders say very clearly I don't care about my investment, I want a safe world, we are fucked #auspol
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Data Dot @petermclarty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I've seen a couple. The french one where the doctors and nurses leave it's great
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Data Dot @petermclarty.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Our families are as of today rather multicultural diners and would have it no other way
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Data Dot @petermclarty.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I guess my mum either intentionally or accidentally embraced some of the thinking of Don Dunstan's cookbook. We lived in PNG in the early 70s. We had good friends who were Chinese. My mum learned to cook Chinese and we had a wok. We grew up on some of those Chinese meals.
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Data Dot @petermclarty.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I'd agree with most of this except the bit of Dave Hughes being a comedian. Maybe if he used his comedy to promote himself and the Liberal party I'd agree. I couldn't say of seen anything comedic from Hughes in recent times and I never saw his comedy as that great prior to now.
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Data Dot @petermclarty.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I wonder if the same applies to NSW police. I've seen footage of a few Israeli flags. I'd be deeply offended by that
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Data Dot @petermclarty.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A friend on Friday completed filming. Sadly they will be less often with this change
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Data Dot @petermclarty.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
My first take is we keep asking people what that white Australia truly looks like to them. I doubt many people give it a thought as to what that looks like
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Data Dot @petermclarty.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
She's nailed it. It's how the Overton window shifts. First it's some immigrants, then it's other immigrants. Then it's trans people, them gay men. Gay women aren't an issue. Then it's medical. Autism,ADHD, physical disabilities and look we have a terrible society that no one saw coming #auspol
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Data Dot @petermclarty.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Yes, it's a better term as it's truthful and diminishes the hype. If we keep the messages clear of the hype then it's much easier to take people along and help them understand. Then we have a larger army to thwart the fucknuckles
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Data Dot @petermclarty.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
My bad, how could I have mixed those up?
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Data Dot @petermclarty.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It wasn't targeting in the way we think as a case of typical espionage. Agents are autonomous and are provided with tasks and guidance. They have no concept of national boundaries or laws. It's on the operators to configure it in such a way. It'll break laws, as it has no concept
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Data Dot @petermclarty.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Mostly good article, except I disagree with the line "But they now can add "autonomous agent accessing non-public Medicare statistics without being asked" to the list. It was asked, it was never explicitly told that it required only publication available data #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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A gloomy outlook is why Australia can't afford to write off AI
Australia may want AI to live up to its promise, but has just experienced how easily things can go wrong. The challenge now is figuring out how to harness one without getting blindsided by the other.
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Data Dot @petermclarty.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The scaffolding or guardrails as they are known were not there or inadequate. I'm of little doubt they were intentionally left off, as any data extracted potentially ends up in training data. The innocuous question it was asked is a front for extraction of data they haven't access to
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Data Dot @petermclarty.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
That's the illusion. While we have great teachers, I'm not sure the system is anywhere near world class education. That's right the way through from prep to University
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Data Dot @petermclarty.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They were only poor kids, so that's OK. </sarcasm>
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Data Dot @petermclarty.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Didn't they help elect someone complaining about antisemetism?
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Data Dot @petermclarty.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
According to the law right now, if you ask an agent to find the answer to a question, and you don't ask it to explicitly do bad things, then it seems it's legal right now. Get in all your needs for information before the next sitting day in the parliament
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Data Dot @petermclarty.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It's the least I can do for the resistance
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Data Dot @petermclarty.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Great post on not accepting those doing the damage have all the control Thanks @suebarrett.bsky.social suebarrett.substack.com/p/the-conver...
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The Conversations They Don't Want Us To Have, and Why Silence Is No Longer an Option. Find Your Voice.
People Power, Chapter 4: We are not bystanders. Here's what we've been told not to talk about, what our silence is costing us, and how to find your voice and change the system.
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Data Dot @petermclarty.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Perfect pawn, sacrifice yourself to protect the king. Aren't we playing along nicely. If it's not a chessboard, why the fuck are we collecting all the players of one side here in Australia? #auspol
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Data Dot @petermclarty.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Wow, so he been speaking with another criminal. Sam Altmann is responsible for computer crime. He needs to be charged. That will surface the reality of the problem. It's either all bullshit to hype the IPO or a crime has been committed. Which is it? #auspol
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Data Dot @petermclarty.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I'm sure all their employees are railing in thy gains of their 7% pay rise and threatening to get 9%. Oh wait, that's just the executive The only reason there was a 7% rise is they could with impunity
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Data Dot @petermclarty.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Ok, my bad.I was certain someone on TripleJ had said they were related, but apparently not. Anyway her name is Jewel Owusu. Both have Ghanian heritage, hence the surname.
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Data Dot @petermclarty.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If you see her listed to play close check out tickets. They likely aren't expensive and you'll more than likely get to meet her at some point. The small end of the music industry is very accessible
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Data Dot @petermclarty.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What a great artist, brought to you by immigration I met his sister briefly when she played as support for a local act in Meeanjin. She's also very talented, but hasn't broken out as he has done.
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Data Dot @petermclarty.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Is the good Senator going to have an accident near a window soon?
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Data Dot @petermclarty.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I'm old
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Data Dot @petermclarty.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
They knew Trump would say it's censorship. The organisations have provided him with their talking points. Funny that they are not shouting as loudly about the white house ban. Why our government would consider any agreement with a USA corporation, I've got no idea. Expect a watering down #auspol
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Data Dot @petermclarty.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Every nation state would be hacking them. Sure China might, but you can bet every country would do the same if they thought a pair would give up valuable security data. More the problem is that they could be hacked by anyone with less than $100 of tech in their pockets.
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Data Dot @petermclarty.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Imagine how troublesome they'd be if they had a political affiliation or stance
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Data Dot @petermclarty.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Can't admit one without the other. Of course nothing bad happened in Australia, just like nothing bad is happening in Palestine FFS
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Data Dot @petermclarty.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The guy with the most to lose from a slowdown says AI won't kill us. Sure!! I'm not sure I'd trust a rabid capitalist for the definitive statement on whether AI is dangerous or not, especially while he is making an insane amount of money from it #ai #Nvidia
Headline: Nvidia chief: Zero chance AI will destroy humanity
Picture of Jensen Huang NVidia Chief with a thumbs up, wearing his familiar black leather jacket
Start of story: The founder of Nvidia has said there is “0pc chance” AI causes the end of the world by 2030.

Jensen Huang, the chip giant’s chief executive, said claims from leading figures in the tech industry that AI could kill all humans were “completely false” as he branded them “doomsday narratives”.
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Data Dot @petermclarty.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
What an amazing and terrible article. So well written, with such terrible news. Got to say a few commenters are on point
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Data Dot @petermclarty.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Nothing like the receipts
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Data Dot @petermclarty.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Good summary of Trumps shit show known as the Iran war
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Data Dot @petermclarty.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Time for the left to show some courage and start disrupting this government. It seems appeasement isn't working for the people. Stupid if they thought it would. I'm sure we'll get some great agreements for billionaires to safely flee to Australia when the pitchforks come out in the USA. Terrible
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Data Dot @petermclarty.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
To add to existing today type problems, we have the existential threat of humanity ceasing to exist in 10 years. I'm sure many have mentally written of 10%, but it's something that should have every government concerned for their population and the lack of them doing so is a dereliction of duty
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Data Dot @petermclarty.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
That would be all the pins that were bought by Coles and Woolies as a start. I can see them looking and going the kitchen is a risk to the bottom line. Let someone else deal with that problem.
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Data Dot @petermclarty.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
They go hard early on the lies in that one,. Unsurprising for the Israelian for this one,. Dolly Parton never stayed out of politics. She just did what she did differently. Many things she did were political We aren't cancelling EdSheeran, we are choosing to support other acts. Maybe cowardice
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Data Dot @petermclarty.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I'm going to bet some of this comes from Project 2025. Australia has never been this far right on politics. Some other agenda is driving it. That would also explain the refusal of our government to pivot away from the USA
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Data Dot @petermclarty.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
You can quote a pollie daily #auspol
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Data Dot @petermclarty.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
If I was an Oracle employee I'd ask for the person who made the call on data centres how that is making it better for customers The waffle will be telling #database #ai Oracle Says 'Doing More With Less' Isn't the Answer in All-Hands After Layoffs - Business Insider share.google/Av9RWT1hY9AX...
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Oracle CFO says 'doing more with less' isn't the answer in all-hands after layoffs
The remarks came a day after Oracle began a new round of layoffs, following cuts earlier this year.
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Data Dot @petermclarty.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
They knew what they were doing and did it anyway If anyone else did it you'd be looking at 50 years in jail @albomp.bsky.social of your going to be complicit in this theft resign. You're not working in Australia's interests #auspol techcrunch.com/2026/09/17/m...
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Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,' new unredacted filings reveal | TechCrunch
Newly unsealed court filings show Microsoft privately called OpenAI's data practices "theft" while both companies scraped paywalled Times content, built datasets from it, and warned internally it woul...
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