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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

look 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

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Adam @kels316.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I used to work for a guy who would say "there are no risk management heroes" - the idea that doing the small, difficult work that is required every day wins no medals or accolades, is utterly undefeated in my experience. 👇 is another example of that. In fact, this one is going to cost you.

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Tim Rust @timrust.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Jesus, the Mayor of Melbourne is such a flake

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Anthony B, @swearyanthony.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We need to stop accepting AI vendors using the word "misalignment". You keep running software you know has unpredictable behaviour, without monitoring or controls, in a way that could harm others. This isn't "agent was misaligned" - it is (possibly criminal) negligence at this point.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Jillian Segal would be proud. #auspol

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Anthony B, @swearyanthony.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It really is quite amazing to see the RBA just go with prices are going up for reasons outside our control, adding more pain with an interest rate rise won't help and might crash the economy, but we asked the Peter Costello body pillow we keep around for advice and it said ok

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Pat Simons @patsimons.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Inflation is being driven by war, greedy corporations and climate change. But somehow it's regular people that need to pay through job losses, mortgage and rental stress. What looks sensible to the RBA is hubris on a society level www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...

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Live: RBA hikes rates, pointing to Middle East war and AI boom

The RBA delivers its fourth rate hike for 2026, bringing interest rates to the highest level since November 2011. Follow the day's events and insights from our business reporters on the ABC News live ...

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Matt Golding @goldingcartoons.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Now, after a near total population collapse, bogong moths are delighting scientists with sudden spring abundance www.theage.com.au/environment/...

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Antipoverty Centre @antipovertycentre.org · 29/09/2026

the RBA board are unanimously psychopaths with no regard for the pain they cause

RBA board unanimously voted to hike and is ready to lift rates again.

The RBA’s rate-setting board has warned its fears about inflation were coming to fruition and it is ready to lift interest rates again, in its statement accompanying its decision today.

The nine-member unanimously voted to lift rates to 4.6%, showing stronger resolve than ANZ and Westpac had forecast (each predicted a split vote).

It singled out a broadening Middle East conflict and strong AI-related demand for pushing up prices globally. Locally, inflation was higher than the RBA expected and businesses were either lifting their prices or looking to do so.

The board said higher fuel prices were partially being passed on to prices of other goods and services and it was possible the ongoing US war on Iran could push inflation still higher and drag global economic activity even lower.

The RBA has already lifted interest rates three times this year. The board said those hikes appeared to be slowing the economy but another was needed to bring too-high inflation back down “in a reasonable period”.

It warned it was not necessarily done moving rates:

The Board will continue to do what it considers necessary to bring inflation sustainably back to target, including increasing the cash rate target further if needed.

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Bullock AGAIN says (she has said this a lot] "a rise in the unemployment rate does not mean job losses". She loves pointing out it just means it is harder to find a job and that employment is still going up and it "probably doesn't mean job losses at all"

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Andrew Elder @awelder.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The price of everything, the value of nothing. His one political skill is to turn every appeal for public assistance into a you problem. That doesn't always work, and he should have learnt that in 2022: it just means people go around you

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A reminder that this year the unemployment rate has gone up 0.56%pts - roughly an extra 87,000 unemployed. So in 15 min when the RBA raises rates again just remember 35-44yos on Jobseeker are almost 10 times more likely to die than those not on welfare: www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

Chart showing deaths per 100,000 by age
22-34yo: 17.1 no welfare; 137.0 on Jobseeker
35-44yo: 30 no welfare; 288.1 on Jobseeker
45-55yo: 83.4 no welfare; 427.0 on Jobseeker
55-64yo: 201.6 no welfare; 615.6 on Jobseeker

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Brian Hizsoltee @hizsoltee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Artificial intelligence is garbage, how can intelligence be artificial, it's like an artificial sausage roll made out of brown paper and sawdust. It just looks as if they are developing a massive super virus which will stuff everything connected to the internet. Stupid.

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

So don't be disabled or have a family. Wilson really leaning into the "Just don't be poor" vibe he reeks of.

Wilson says Coalition would find savings by cutting NDIS, aged care, childcare

By Emily Kaine

Shadow treasurer Tim Wilson says a Coalition government will seek to make savings by cutting back on NDIS, aged care and childcare, as he argues spending on the schemes is out of control.

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Kon Karapanagiotidis @kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

ASRC had TWO VANS STOLEN OVERNIGHT in Melbourne from our CATERING SOCIAL ENTERPRISE. We are all so distressed and angry. Who robs a charity! Here’s are the license plates of the two white vans 👇🏼 and photos of them too➡️➡️➡️ Call 000 if spot them please 🙏🏼 Renault 🚐 is 1UO2YV Peugeot van 🚐 is 1QR 8PO

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Anj of Garigal @garigalanj.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Mike Baird still selling things off. Still bad for the budget. #auspol

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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Richard Chirgwin @rchirgwin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The article demonstrates why AI outfits prefer briefing journalists like Hartcher.

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Tony Martin @tonymartin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hard to believe the guy who tried to do a secret deal with the NRA to water down Australia’s gun laws for cash would be involved in something dodgy. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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One Nation admits using party funds to build $56,000 shed on James Ashby’s private property

Email to members says money lent to a party-linked company to establish a micro distillery

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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Why would you trust an industry founded on theft to self-regulate?

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Supaluminal @supaluminal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"What about public housing?" is such a classic nimby tell. The only thing more consistently opposed than increased density in wealthy areas is social/public housing literally anywhere

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Another fn Capewell (née - fcapas@magpieranting) @anothercapewell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Huge poles required for data centre no one seems to know was coming —— imagine if wind or solar farm required these poles - the whole country would know about it ….. #auspol

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Anthony B, @swearyanthony.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

First Hartcher, now Sheridan sharing their deep understanding of the AI industry. How lucky we are to have men with such gravitas and expertise to explain things to us.

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leemarvinoswald.bsky.social @leemarvinoswald.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“Everyone hates cameras in smart glasses. But if the camera is contained in a charm you wear on top of the toe part of a shoe, it shifts the agency. Suddenly, you’re not recording people. It’s just a cute little animated avatar looking up on the world.”

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Jeremy's Ear @jeremysear.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Noting the belligerent threatening by the US president at the UN this week, *why* are we spending hundreds of billions tying our military to theirs?

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Ette Media @ettemedia.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If only the Australian media had a blueprint for what could happen if the banning of journalists is normalised...

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 24/09/2026

Your package of F-35 parts could not be delivered and has been taken to the nearest Auspost collection point

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

WOKE: Guns Don't Kill People, People Kill People BESPOKE: AI Chatbots Don't Kill People, People (With AI Chatbots and Guns) Kill People

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The Phantom Tollbooth Quotes @phantomtollbot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“Now add one again. Now add one again. Now add—" "But when can I stop?" pleaded Milo. "Never," said the Mathemagician with a smile, "for the number you want is always at least one more than the number you've got, and it's so large that if you started saying it yesterday you wouldn't finish tomorrow"

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Phteven @2fbs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's interesting from the viewpoint that China sees warfare as an interruption to the rising wealth and living standards of their people, while the US still views war as an opportunity for the rich to get richer. East meets West indeed.

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tonywindsor.bsky.social @tonywindsor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Farmers who intend to vote for One Nation should know that they are accepting that “climate change” is normal.By doing so they will negate any logical argument for taxpayer assistance when “normal” weather events occur. Don’t ask for help if you deny the very thing you need help to overcome!

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Fake Yarra Trams @fakeyarratrams.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Throwback Thursday: Aug 2026 Sick of unruly passengers, we told them they had won a free DVD player, and just needed to travel on these trams to get their prize. Instead they ended up in tram gaol, awaiting deportation to Metro Trains Frankston services. #YarraTrams 📸Marcus Wong

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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

in a discussion about slop machines in education today - most of us are being shoved into expensive, productivity-tanking, slop-legitimising policy frameworks - a colleague told me that one “use” students describe is “thinking partner”. With a thing that does not think. At a university.

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Andrew Elder @awelder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is one of the most devastating cartoons I have ever seen

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Ross Clelland @rnclelland.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Whenever Michele Bullock or one of her unctuous economist drones talk of wanting an uptick in unemployment, there seems to be no realisation that every one of those percentage points are real human beings trying to survive. Fuck you people. #InterestRates #RBA #auspol

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“Never attribute to malice alone that which can be better explained by stupidity AND malice.” -Hanlon’s Razor Sharpener

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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My take is this: logging in to Services Australia already feels like hacking it most of the time and the effect of this is mainly to keep your information safe from being accessed by you

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

RBA doing little dances today - happy that more people will live in poverty on Jobseeker www.abs.gov.au/media-centre...

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Unemployment rate rises to 4.6% in August

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MrLiquid @mrliquid.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If you think bikes muscling into job sites as health and safety officers blows your mind, let me tell you about the 'contract' drawn up that gives the Consortium the road tolls for 50YEARS. Pushing a broom for $85hr is nothing on that #auspol #Vicpol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Bikies, ‘moral compass malfunctions’ and corruption cost: Victoria’s Big Build royal commission holds first public hearing

Inquiry investigating allegations of corruption and criminal conduct on state’s $150bn pipeline of infrastructure projects to leave ‘no stone unturned’

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 24/09/2026

Stu: a judgy mfer

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Tim Rust @timrust.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Were any Chinese EVs seen in the vicinity?

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Glengyron @glengyron.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Kind of funny to think that the straw that breaks the AI camel's back is probably not enough humans to plug in the GPUs. Giant warehouses full of GPUs that are slowly getting outdated, and haven't been installed. Meanwhile none of us can afford RAM or a graphics card. Classic bubble shit.

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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 22/09/2026

Otherwise, you risk being clowned for days by people who happen to know the difference (if only abstractly) between Old English (Beowulf), Middle English (Chaucer), and Early Modern English (Shakespeare).

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Re-branding as an AI Device Security Expert because I can use bluetooth. Need to grow some shithouse facial hair so I look good on TV.

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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 22/09/2026

Well, if it isn’t one of the nastiest, most devious tricks in the journalistic book: using a quote as a news headline. It doesn’t matter if it’s false. It’s the news now.

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Leena 🌵 @leena.reuben.games · 22/09/2026

Tax Gina. Tax Triggy. Tax Pratt. Tax Twiggy. There we go.

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Glengyron @glengyron.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Apparently my washing machine liquid is 'planet based'. Obviously this is going to be a huge change after washing my clothes in bats blood for all these years.

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