Paul Wallbank
@paulwallbank.bsky.social
Weasel word wrangler. Freelance journalist and comms guy. Described by a former Aussie Prime Minister as 'a brain damaged dickhead'.
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The AI has already started making its presence felt on the executive team, sending out a 500-word email about “leveraging holistic verticals for client-centric uplift” that no one has fully read but everyone agreed “sounded important.”
theshovel.com.au/2025/10/07/a...
theshovel.com.au/2025/10/07/a...
AI That Generated Fabricated Deloitte Report Promoted to Partner — The Shovel
Deloitte has promoted the artificial intelligence system responsible for fabricating a government report, citing “unparalleled efficiency, strategic vision, and the ability to work weekends without co...
theshovel.com.au
October 7, 2025 at 8:27 AM
The AI has already started making its presence felt on the executive team, sending out a 500-word email about “leveraging holistic verticals for client-centric uplift” that no one has fully read but everyone agreed “sounded important.”
theshovel.com.au/2025/10/07/a...
theshovel.com.au/2025/10/07/a...
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Another cartoon where I complain about technology? Yes please! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Dear computer boffins please stop trying to fix problems I don’t have | First Dog on the Moon
I don’t want AI in anything and certainly not everything please stop asking
www.theguardian.com
October 3, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Another cartoon where I complain about technology? Yes please! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Jane Goodall is the kind of person that every flag in the world should be flown at half-mast for.
The type of hero that we should inspire young people to look towards.
The type of hero that we should inspire young people to look towards.
"Anyone proposing a master class on changing the world for the better without becoming negative, cynical, angry or narrow-minded in the process, could model their advice on the life and work of pioneering animal behavior scholar Jane Goodall." by Mireya Mayor
theconversation.com/jane-goodall...
theconversation.com/jane-goodall...
Jane Goodall, the gentle disrupter whose research on chimpanzees redefined what it meant to be human
Without formal scientific training, Goodall upended the study of animal behavior. She also inspired countless people to protect nature.
theconversation.com
October 1, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Jane Goodall is the kind of person that every flag in the world should be flown at half-mast for.
The type of hero that we should inspire young people to look towards.
The type of hero that we should inspire young people to look towards.
Gawd. Did my first half marathon in ages and now I want to die.
September 29, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Gawd. Did my first half marathon in ages and now I want to die.
Last footy game of 2025: Grand Final Day at BISP.
September 21, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Last footy game of 2025: Grand Final Day at BISP.
Sydney shining this afternoon.
September 17, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Sydney shining this afternoon.
A container ship on Sydney Harbour. Something you don't often see these days.
September 15, 2025 at 4:57 AM
A container ship on Sydney Harbour. Something you don't often see these days.
Grand final day.
September 13, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Grand final day.
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so called 'affordable' housing is a scam. build more public housing
'Melbourne 'affordable' housing tenants face 17 per cent rent increase'
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
'Melbourne 'affordable' housing tenants face 17 per cent rent increase'
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
'Affordable' housing tenants face $55 per week rent increase
A year after they moved into an "affordable" apartment in a new public-private housing development in inner Melbourne, Alix and Tiarn were told their rent would increase by 17 per cent. They say their...
www.abc.net.au
September 3, 2025 at 11:05 PM
so called 'affordable' housing is a scam. build more public housing
'Melbourne 'affordable' housing tenants face 17 per cent rent increase'
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
'Melbourne 'affordable' housing tenants face 17 per cent rent increase'
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
Back in my happy place. Hopefully we'll see North Sydney pool reopen sometime in our lifetimes.
September 3, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Back in my happy place. Hopefully we'll see North Sydney pool reopen sometime in our lifetimes.
At a corporate event where every one of the speakers - six so far - has been a middle aged male. I'm wondering how this happens in 2025.
September 3, 2025 at 12:17 AM
At a corporate event where every one of the speakers - six so far - has been a middle aged male. I'm wondering how this happens in 2025.
Woke me up too. I left my boots outside as well.
Good morning to everyone except that random storm that parked over Sydney and woke me up around 12:30am with such heavy rain that I had to walk around the house looking for a leak somewhere. The raindrops were that chunky and clapping that hard against the windows that it sounded like it was inside.
September 1, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Woke me up too. I left my boots outside as well.
Second day of finals. Pulled up much better after 10km.
August 31, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Second day of finals. Pulled up much better after 10km.
And the finals begin..
August 30, 2025 at 4:36 AM
And the finals begin..
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"Without either a Productivity Commission or its neoliberal agenda, the Nordic countries have managed to drive much stronger productivity growth than Australia. Those countries have also delivered stronger wage growth and better quality of life, and managed to tax their fossil fuel industries"
“The Productivity Commission is a taxpayer-funded think tank that promotes small government,” writes Richard Denniss. “To say it is beset by internal contradictions is an understatement.” satpa.pe/Tan3GWq
Economic round table recycles broken ideas
ANALYSIS: To boost Australian productivity, the government must look beyond the lower-tax and free-market solutions that have long reinforced its downward trend.
satpa.pe
August 23, 2025 at 9:04 AM
"Without either a Productivity Commission or its neoliberal agenda, the Nordic countries have managed to drive much stronger productivity growth than Australia. Those countries have also delivered stronger wage growth and better quality of life, and managed to tax their fossil fuel industries"
I wish Australian politicians could come up with campaigns like this..
Mamdani will literally get people running around NYC, making friends, falling in love, & enjoying the city they love. Meanwhile, the current mayor & disgraced former governor will keep banging their tired drum that in spite of their “leadership,” NYC is a vile cesspool everyone should hate & fear
Game on.
August 24, 2025 at 5:45 AM
I wish Australian politicians could come up with campaigns like this..
300th muddy game
August 23, 2025 at 1:04 AM
300th muddy game
A quick glimpse of the future
Unfortunately, Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now, due to a new state law that requires age verification for all users.
While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.
While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.
August 22, 2025 at 10:19 PM
A quick glimpse of the future
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Nicolette Boele and Gisele Kapterian’s legal teams will each begin re-scrutinising 792 votes cast in the 2025 federal election later this month as part of a court challenge to determine whether the AEC correctly determined #Bradfield’s winner.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... #auspol #auslaw
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... #auspol #auslaw
Legal teams will pore over 792 disputed ballots to help decide Bradfield nail-biter
Nicolette Boele was declared the member on 4 June by a slim margin of 26 votes, defeating the Liberal party candidate Gisele Kapterian
www.theguardian.com
August 22, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Nicolette Boele and Gisele Kapterian’s legal teams will each begin re-scrutinising 792 votes cast in the 2025 federal election later this month as part of a court challenge to determine whether the AEC correctly determined #Bradfield’s winner.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... #auspol #auslaw
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... #auspol #auslaw
Gawd - CBA staffer’s ChatGPT error sends customer complaints to wrong small business www.smartcompany.com.au/exclusive/cb...
CBA staffer's ChatGPT error sends customer complaints to wrong small business
A CBA employee has used public ChatGPT to give a wrong phone number, prompting misdirected calls and raising AI governance concerns.
www.smartcompany.com.au
August 22, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Gawd - CBA staffer’s ChatGPT error sends customer complaints to wrong small business www.smartcompany.com.au/exclusive/cb...
Same applies in Australia
If Air Canada or any other company thinks they should be able to offload a responsibility like labour relations onto the government, they should be (re)nationalized
August 20, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Same applies in Australia
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David Pope in Canberra Times
August 19, 2025 at 9:54 AM
David Pope in Canberra Times
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Noting the periodic revelation of yet another newly constructed building with major fail and the countless generally poor constructions in Sydney, let’s indeed press on for less regulation and oversight.
August 17, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Noting the periodic revelation of yet another newly constructed building with major fail and the countless generally poor constructions in Sydney, let’s indeed press on for less regulation and oversight.
It's telling about the contempt the Federal government has for the Australian tech sector when the opening keynote of a tech journalist conference is a Greens Senator.
August 17, 2025 at 12:40 AM
It's telling about the contempt the Federal government has for the Australian tech sector when the opening keynote of a tech journalist conference is a Greens Senator.
Back on the freelance bus - off to the Tech Leaders conference.
August 16, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Back on the freelance bus - off to the Tech Leaders conference.