Reposted by RanTLawHannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward 11122043369
Reposted by RanTLawdr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 29/12/2025look we're all making a big bet on AI! and if it pays off as big as we hope, well, it's going to make a handful of people super rich and you're going to lose your job but get to watch mickey mouse fuck geralt from the witcher. if it doesn't pay off well then you get to pay for the bailouts 3467671661
Reposted by RanTLaw Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 29/09/2026AI economics is land of make-believe on crack. 6796
RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Looks like I have a new example to give to students when talking about different classes of shares. The reason this is remarkable, btw, is not because it is illegal or unethical. It is remarkable because, in most cases away from tech, investors would reject something over which they had no control. 134
RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Trying to get my head around two things with a new matter: 1) what all these WhatsApp messages mean; and 2) why would anyone try to transfer a lease or sublease a lease (I’m not sure which) via WhatsApp messages 180
RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026static.klipy.comMr Squiggle 80s Upside Down DrawingAlt: Mr Squiggle 80s Upside Down Drawing 0122
RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026At least Victorians will be able to pretend one of their clubs won again 2113
Reposted by RanTLawLiam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 26/09/2026The only greater cause of tears in Western Australia is when someone says ‘renegotiate GST payments’ 3367
RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I haven’t watched AFL on 7 this year. I had forgotten how bad the commentators are. 551
Reposted by RanTLawTim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Reminder that the GF public holiday just restored the Show Day public holiday that Bloody Jeff abolished (and sensibly put it on Friday.) Enjoy the day - and the penalty rates you get if you have to work, you deserve them. 57923
RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I have suddenly gone anxiety of a full October, with overlapping trials, to the anxiety of a completely empty October with no trials. Everything settled. Time to work on some CPDs and coffees, I guess. 2100
RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Another matter settled - I can’t claim this one. Other defendants worked it out. Shame. It would have been a fun one to fight. 020
RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I really wish companies would think about whether their business names are likely to make counsel cringe when they need to use it in submissions. 4120
Reposted by RanTLawLuke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 24/09/2026every conservative pensioner since thatcher and reagan: 039151
Reposted by RanTLawJulia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I’m really not sure that “goes rogue” is an accurate description of a behavior that is apparently both habitual and condoned 381649291
Reposted by RanTLawBen Harris-Roxas @benhr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026If this was a state actor they’d call it espionage. This is amongst the most sensitive data there is. Instead our governments, universities and institutions are lining up for OpenAI subscriptions - there’s something deeply cooked about that. abc.net.auHow OpenAI agents tried to thwart cybersecurity amid Medicare hackOpenAI's rogue artificial intelligence agents appear to have worked together to try to circumvent cybersecurity defences and find ways to access Australian government health data, according to conversation logs. 28622
RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Adult time for adult crime* * will be exceptions for the smol beans in the LLM industry 010
Reposted by RanTLawPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Raise your hand if you already own and carry around a small holdable device that you can pick up 1841744
RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I feel the same about the news about Angry Anderson as I would if it were Dave Hughes. 070
RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026All moved in. The view from the 30th floor isn’t bad at all. 180
RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · 22/09/2026From a New Yorker story on AI. Anyone who quotes a Musk like this without also listing all the others about autonomous self driving and Mars occupation, etc undermines the whole of their work. 260
RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Moving day for chambers tomorrow. Will have to adjust the muscle memory of what building to go to. It has only been about 20 years (with a bit of a break in between) 170
RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I had one of those "have you got time to talk" emails from a spammer pretending to be another member of an organisation I am in. Two problems: the email address is just wrong for the person it purports to be; and it was sent before 5:30am. They didn't seem to even be trying that hard with this one 030
RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The problem with having settled a tricky matter in mediation today is that I now have other work to do and no energy with which to do it. 160
RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026It wouldn't take much of a movement in the Bethesda character creation sliders to get from Bernard Keane to Dave Hughes and back. 1110
Reposted by RanTLawNatacha @natacha.bsky.social · 20/09/2026The question is, why will the AfD being comprehensively *crushed* by the left in Berlin not be reported in the media nearly as much as the AfD “success” in Sachsen-Anhalt…? 817564
RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · 20/09/2026How about we aim at increasing standards at all schools? 280
RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · 20/09/2026The race to the bottom on immigration is so very dispiriting. 0111
RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I see our resident Cassandra has moved on from the existential threat of AI and onto the threat to Europe of Russia. 000
RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The PHON candidates announced really are a slate of absolute dipshits, aren't they? 590
Reposted by RanTLawpetit burgo @burgotastic.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Hey just quickly, if I hacked a company would I face criminal charges? 24111
RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I would prefer a world in which there was an incentive for the models not to be left to hack other companies. 230
Reposted by RanTLawJeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Blue books are a solution to cheating on exams. Exams are not education. They’re a notoriously crappy measurement of education. 615914
Reposted by RanTLawheadfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 19/09/2026also. the thing people hate is not ‘the technology’ it is the tech industry. they hate move fast and break things. they hate having everything they say tracked and processed while companies do whatever they want. they hate every single ideological value that animates silicon valley 153646732
RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · 19/09/2026To sum up, these are the real risks of AI. It is not some omnipotent, omniscient AGI wiping us out. 152
RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · 19/09/2026My favourite part of a MS app is when you are in the middle of typing something when the 'do you love me?' pop up pops up 250
Reposted by RanTLawJordan Carlson @jordantcarlson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026One of my deepest annoyances with the entire field of AI is that these people are building systems while saying the only risk worth considering is human extinction, as they automate mass firings, supply chains, and jobs they know nothing about. “Saving humanity” through mass neglect is not a plan. 215039
Reposted by RanTLawSunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I absolutely promise you that if Dario Amodei says “I’m worried the thing we’re building might kill us all” and we say “okay we’re taking you seriously and that sounds like terrorism so you have the right to remain silent”, he’ll start saying something different REAL fucking fast 2398123
