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Seamus Byrne

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PhD candidate at UNSW / ADM+S researching generative AI and its impacts on art and authenticity. Exploring the friction between humanity and AI. Regular on ABC radio. Living on Gundungurra land.

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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Extraordinary attack from ABC management against the most senior elected union representative at the ABC - Labor should be speaking out against threats by ABC management against Michael Slezak and the MEAA. Critical thinking, critical writing, should never be weaponised against staff at the ABC.
Fight erupts between union and ABC’s head of news
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Calum Jaspan
Updated October 13, 2026 — 11:01am,first published October 12, 2026 — 1:30pm

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The ABC’s new head of news Simon Robinson is staring down the barrel of a staff revolt just four weeks after joining the public broadcaster, with its union committee labelling a threat of disciplinary action against a senior journalist an attack on press freedom.

The ABC’s Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance house committee called an urgent meeting for its members on Monday after Michael Slezak, who is also the federal president of media at the union, was threatened with disciplinary action over a piece he wrote in The Australian Financial Review.
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MEAA @withmeaa.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
A strong show of support for Michael Slezak. Swipe to read solidarity statements from MEAA House Committee members at newspapers and media outlets across Australia. Elected union leaders must be able to advocate for workers without fear of disciplinary action. #PressFreedom #WeStandWithMikey
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Bianca Nogrady @biancanogrady.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
The @news.abc.net.au tried to silence @withmeaa.bsky.social Media President @mikeyslezak.bsky.social for calling attention to a major press freedom issue in Australia. Union delegates must be free to speak up for journalists, for press freedom, and for the public’s right to know. #IstandwithMikey
A poster featuring a photo of Michael Slezak, with the words "Don't Silence Journalists. Defend Press Freedom. Defend Union Rights. I support Michael Slezak". A tear-away of a newspaper headline reads, "Fight erupts between union and ABC's head of news". The poster features the logo of the Media Entertainment & Arts Alliance.
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Bianca Nogrady @biancanogrady.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
And reporting from @caljaspan.bsky.social on the debacle: www.smh.com.au/business/com...
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Fight erupts between union and ABC’s head of news
The ABC’s news boss is staring down the barrel of a staff revolt after threatening a senior journalist with disciplinary action.
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Paul Begley @yelgeb.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
MEAA Members stand for press freedom. ABC management should too. #ISTANDWITHMIKEY @withmeaa.bsky.social
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Seamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me · 17/10/2026
It’s wonderful.
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Seamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me · 15/10/2026
Just noticed the HomeView is the same price as an Apple TV. So yeah, I guess it’s priced like something pretty simple that everything else flows through. Definitely not an iPad stuck to a dock.
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Seamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me · 14/10/2026
"No, see... here's why it's clever, actually! See you take 'generative' and--" ☠️
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Seamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me · 14/10/2026
Updated iOS and now get suggestions to make AI emoji to make my messages more ‘fun’, I guess? A flood of nudges in every available white space to press the AI button and surrender a little more agency to the system…
Screenshot of Apple Messages. One blue bubble says “Car windscreen was frosty this morning!” The message space below it is empty. Above the keyboard a suggested option says “Creat Genmoji” with “frosty car windscreen” below. I will not be tapping this suggestion.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
they don’t do this because they are lazy and because they are coasting on 30 years of SEO and legacy social media pages/branding that allows them to do lazy blogs and get tons of traffic even though they are doing less than providing a public service, they are regurgitating incomplete information
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Seamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me · 14/10/2026
Glad I got this warning. Watching the fizz is part of the healing ritual!
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Seamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me · 13/10/2026
My first reaction to Apple HomeView is "this device could have been a dock"
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 13/10/2026
Remembering that time when some big name accounts were arguing that X is all good now and the algorithm has been de-Elon'd. Wait, that was yesterday. The same time this was happening.
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Seamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me · 13/10/2026
"The culture on X today is remarkably friendly and inclusive. It is a cheerful place. That cheerfulness is another differentiator." I keep my account because I don't want my ID taken. So I logged in. Even my own white tech dude bubble saw nothing of the sort. The X algorithm is a horror show.
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Seamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me · 13/10/2026
My teen has been a super fan of this. So pleased they get to tie a ribbon on it!
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Seamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me · 13/10/2026
From their very first appearance on Make Sone Noise I’ve adored Vic’s instinct for chaos.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 11/10/2026
After leaving tanker, oil from Exxon Valdez devastates Alaskan coastline on its own, killing over 250,000 seabirds.
Artificial intelligence agents created by Anthropic, acting on their own, tried to gain access to a range of government websites, filled out visa applications on the State Department’s website and sent a fake homicide tip to Philadelphia’s Police Department.
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Seamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me · 11/10/2026
It’s a perfect pit stop. There, Albury, and that’s all you need.
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Seamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me · 11/10/2026
Did you get a pic at the dog on the tuckerbox on the drive?
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Seamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me · 11/10/2026
Cool so with the switch to Super Intelligence by the sycophants maybe we only keep calling the most scientifically valuable tools AI and put LLMs in a generative corner with this SI-llyness.
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Seamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me · 10/10/2026
I have a weird mention of having once been a yo-yo expert in a bio online. It’s amazing what AI bots say about that versus an actual human who might see it and ask an actual “what the hell is that about?” question conversationally. Curveball bio notes are now AI captcha codes.
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Seamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me · 10/10/2026
I seem to have awakened to find myself in a dark room. #PAXAus
Wide shot of large theatre full of people. It’s dark. Deep blue light fills the venue. The screen on stage says “The Dark Room”.
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Seamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me · 10/10/2026
I could tell that must have been where you won your freedom. Congrats! I forgot my 3DS so I’ll be in that prison next year.
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Seamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me · 10/10/2026
Now you gotta make sure everyone else gets everything you’ve got to give. 😅
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Seamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me · 10/10/2026
Chatted to Holly Longdale and Clay Stone on the state of World of Warcraft and where we’re going next. Podcast dropping soon for @sifterhq.bsky.social!
Clay, Seamus and Holly smile for the camera in front of a blue media wall that features Blizzard and World of Warcraft Forever logos.
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David Mason @davidmasoncomposer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Penguin Colony has a new vibesy asf Launch trailer! As we approach our launch on the 16th!!! The trailer features the instrumental version of ‘Ātete’ a song I wrote for the end of the game. youtu.be/7YT3AM70BE8?... Go give it a watch!!
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Penguin Colony - Launch Trailer | Coming October 16
YouTube video by Fellow Traveller
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Seamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me · 09/10/2026
Signed. 💪🙌
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Seamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me · 09/10/2026
Did Albert Park Parkrun. A lovely course around the lake.
Midshot of Seamus standing by the lake. It’s a cloudy morning. The water is still.
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Seamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me · 09/10/2026
A lot of my scholarship this year has been applying the debates of the Frankfurt School in the mid 1930s to Generative AI. They spoke very directly to how new distribution and production platforms led to aesthetics being commodified by capitalists and politicised by fascists. Sound familiar?
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon
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Seamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me · 09/10/2026
Oh damn Icy! That is not the PAX you're looking for!
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Seamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me · 08/10/2026
What’s up? For me it’s some work and then #PAXAus today.
Seamus in an elevator. Fancy contrasting floor tiles of a stone, maybe marble. Brushed steel door behind him. He’s facing the mirror taking a selfie.
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Seamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me · 08/10/2026
Damn just remembered I forgot my 3DS for the Street Pass meetup. I have the fancy Zelda one too. Sad to miss out on showing it off and finishing some pictures.
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Seamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me · 08/10/2026
AI reminds me of the Segway. Some people really thought it was the future of transport. And it’s a clever enough piece of tech. But this time a lot more people are committed to upending all our infrastructure to force this to be everywhere. Because they see dollar signs, not a social good.
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Seamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me · 08/10/2026
A quick squiz and he has a mix of casting directors over the years but they usually have stellar pedigree. Alexa Fogel on Lanterns was casting director on The Wire, Treme and True Detective.
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Team Lazerbeam @teamlazerbeam.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Little drive to rally a few more Shroomers! It's been almost 1 month sicne launched this game into Early Access and we'd love to see a few more good people dive into our hand drawn dungeons! 🔮 Grab Shroom and Gloom on Steam! 🦠 Spread the spores and share this post! #indiegames #gamedev
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Seamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me · 08/10/2026
I haven’t watched it at all yet but “chemistry of the core cast does so much heavy lifting” could be almost every Lindelof show.
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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 08/10/2026
Yet again, the EU surrenders to Trump. After facing pressure from the US State Department, @kajakallas.bsky.social's EU foreign service pulled out of a conference this week at the last minute – because one of the panels dared to discuss American disinfo in Europe.
theguardian.com
EU drops sponsorship of disinformation conference at Trump officials’ request
Lithuania and Canada were also pressured to withdraw, and days before #Disinfo2026, logos were wiped off website
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Seamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me · 08/10/2026
That’s one very good boy.
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Seamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me · 08/10/2026
Scared the shit out of me 😅
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Seamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me · 08/10/2026
Take care, Rob.
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Seamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me · 08/10/2026
Is Boaties actually closed this weekend????¿??¿¿?
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Seamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me · 08/10/2026
I very much enjoy a guy on Insta who does hard hitting news updates by starting with “but you don’t want to look like a thicky thicky dumb dumb in front of your mates”. I often think about the thicky thicky dumb dumbs who don’t notice how dumb they look in front of the world.
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Seamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me · 08/10/2026
It’d be nice to just have three things be easy between now and December. Not too much to ask, surely?
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Seamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me · 08/10/2026
Need to plant a flag on my prediction that iPhone will have a ‘bad’ quarter (less good than Q1 sales last year) because the hazard orange was an all-time hall of fame colour option and they sold more last year because of it.
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Daniel Angus @antmandan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
There's been a lot of misinformation circulating regarding the Australian digital duty of care, particularly the 'sock puppet' provisions. @timothyjgraham.bsky.social and I provide this explainer of what these provisions actually mean. @qutdmrc.bsky.social theconversation.com/its-true-aus...
theconversation.com
It’s true, Australia won’t ban ‘sock puppet’ accounts on social media. Here’s why
A ‘sock puppet’ online is a false identity deployed deceptively, but that’s not how researchers use them.
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Seamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me · 07/10/2026
Unless debt financing isn’t really about the business so much as the… influence and power? Hmmm… no, that doesn’t sound right.
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Seamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me · 07/10/2026
If anyone can loan me $50 billion I can promise to return 99c on the dollar to you immediately. Probably better than you’d ever get from buying old media companies. Win win.
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Seamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me · 07/10/2026
Still trying to understand how it’s cool to borrow tens of billions of dollars to buy companies at a price they can’t refuse and then fire half the companies because you can’t afford to keep paying them to do the work that makes the companies good because you have so much debt to service.
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Seamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me · 07/10/2026
It’s an indigenous name for the mountain region where I live and its people, with the traditional story of the area that it was shaped by a rainbow serpent being chased by a hunter, carving the valleys and cave systems over hundreds of miles. I’m sure Guadalajara has cool old stories too?
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