RanTLaw
@rantlaw.bsky.social
Australian law talker. Would prefer to be out on a bike. He/him.
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RanTLaw
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· Aug 17
I love how the orthodox answer to all policy problems in the English-speaking world is “moar capitalism”
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but Australian police don’t need training in bombing all our neighbours and blowing up entire families, their homes, hospitals, ambulances, universities, schools, refugee camps, mosques, churches, bakeries, fishing boats, and food and water distribution points.
www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
Israeli government said it is 'willing to assist' Australian police in countering terrorism
The Israeli government has steeply criticised the Albanese government in a letter to the home affairs minister.
www.sbs.com.au
January 3, 2026 at 1:31 AM
but Australian police don’t need training in bombing all our neighbours and blowing up entire families, their homes, hospitals, ambulances, universities, schools, refugee camps, mosques, churches, bakeries, fishing boats, and food and water distribution points.
www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
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The way the press is treating chatbots, like they have agency and they “know” things all of a sudden, crossed the line recently from dumb and obsequious to something else entirely. Treating them as alive and making conscious decisions is an almost religious belief. It won’t age well.
January 3, 2026 at 2:52 AM
The way the press is treating chatbots, like they have agency and they “know” things all of a sudden, crossed the line recently from dumb and obsequious to something else entirely. Treating them as alive and making conscious decisions is an almost religious belief. It won’t age well.
Introduce yourself with what almost killed you.
I think I have already done this one. That said, I could also do the time I rolled a car multiple times on an outback dirt road.
I think I have already done this one. That said, I could also do the time I rolled a car multiple times on an outback dirt road.
Introduce yourself with what almost killed you.
Making rounds on night watch on an empty wharf in an ice storm I fell and began to slide slowly and unceasingly on a sheet of ice towards the sharp drop off into the freezing river, unable to stand or get purchase to stop myself.
Making rounds on night watch on an empty wharf in an ice storm I fell and began to slide slowly and unceasingly on a sheet of ice towards the sharp drop off into the freezing river, unable to stand or get purchase to stop myself.
Introduce yourself with what almost killed you.
If I had to pick just one? lets go wiiiiith surviving a terrifying car wreck? Or Booze.
If I had to pick just one? lets go wiiiiith surviving a terrifying car wreck? Or Booze.
January 3, 2026 at 2:54 AM
Introduce yourself with what almost killed you.
I think I have already done this one. That said, I could also do the time I rolled a car multiple times on an outback dirt road.
I think I have already done this one. That said, I could also do the time I rolled a car multiple times on an outback dirt road.
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"When you're running, all your troubles and concerns just melt away. It's beautiful. You become really present because running wears away the cartilage in your hip, knee, and ankle joints, which causes such intense pain that you lose the ability to focus on anything else." buff.ly/vv8JElo
You Should Try Running, According to Me, Your Friend Who Won’t Shut Up About Running
Have you tried running? It’s exhilarating. Really, I mean it. Running changed my life. Before running, I’d order pasta without telling everyone I w...
buff.ly
January 3, 2026 at 2:20 AM
"When you're running, all your troubles and concerns just melt away. It's beautiful. You become really present because running wears away the cartilage in your hip, knee, and ankle joints, which causes such intense pain that you lose the ability to focus on anything else." buff.ly/vv8JElo
Dog, who is part blue heeler, does not like Bluey. I assume it's for the same reason I don't like shows about lawyers.
January 3, 2026 at 2:17 AM
Dog, who is part blue heeler, does not like Bluey. I assume it's for the same reason I don't like shows about lawyers.
Satya is about to find out just how much cultural sway the Microsoft CEO has
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says people should move beyond calling AI 'slop'
"We need to get beyond the arguments of slop vs sophistication and develop a new equilibrium ... that accounts for humans being equipped with these new cognitive amplifier tools as we relate to each other"
"We need to get beyond the arguments of slop vs sophistication and develop a new equilibrium ... that accounts for humans being equipped with these new cognitive amplifier tools as we relate to each other"
January 3, 2026 at 2:13 AM
Satya is about to find out just how much cultural sway the Microsoft CEO has
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Having Grok “apologise” for creating CSAM is like punching someone in the face and then having the Sooty puppet on your fist apologise.
January 2, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Having Grok “apologise” for creating CSAM is like punching someone in the face and then having the Sooty puppet on your fist apologise.
Looks like X the everything app has blown past being 8chan and is now, effectively, K1wi F@rms
It’s cool that politicians and media still use it as their primary SM source and outlet.
It’s cool that politicians and media still use it as their primary SM source and outlet.
January 2, 2026 at 9:08 PM
Looks like X the everything app has blown past being 8chan and is now, effectively, K1wi F@rms
It’s cool that politicians and media still use it as their primary SM source and outlet.
It’s cool that politicians and media still use it as their primary SM source and outlet.
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I wrote about Grok's CSAM problem and how journalists keep fumbling the story
www.readtpa.com/p/grok-cant-...
www.readtpa.com/p/grok-cant-...
Grok Can't Apologize. Grok Isn't Sentient. So Why Do Headlines Keep Saying It Did?
Elon Musk’s chatbot has been “undressing” women and children in public. Journalists are letting xAI off the hook by pretending the bot is responsible.
www.readtpa.com
January 2, 2026 at 5:58 PM
I wrote about Grok's CSAM problem and how journalists keep fumbling the story
www.readtpa.com/p/grok-cant-...
www.readtpa.com/p/grok-cant-...
The story illustrates how dangerous American commercial hegemony is to international order.
It is to Canada's shame we have not spoken out or supported a Canadian judge being sanctioned by the US
Her life is frozen. She cannot use credit cards, travel, move money, or access email. This is not sustainable
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
Her life is frozen. She cannot use credit cards, travel, move money, or access email. This is not sustainable
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
‘It’s surreal’: US sanctions lock International Criminal Court judge out of daily life
Canadian judge Kimberly Prost is unable to use credit cards, transfer money or book everyday services in what she calls an attack on the independence of the judiciary
www.irishtimes.com
January 2, 2026 at 8:49 PM
The story illustrates how dangerous American commercial hegemony is to international order.
Looks like we will have our first 40 degree day later this week. Not looking forward to it.
I hate summer so much.
I hate summer so much.
January 2, 2026 at 8:43 PM
Looks like we will have our first 40 degree day later this week. Not looking forward to it.
I hate summer so much.
I hate summer so much.
We really need legacy media to stop treating gAI as a smol bean
This is a thread of major media outlets falsely anthropomorphising the "Grok" chatbot program and in doing so, actively and directly removing responsibility and accountability from individual people working at X who created a child pornography generator (Elon Musk, Nikita Bier etc)
#1: Reuters
#1: Reuters
January 2, 2026 at 8:35 PM
We really need legacy media to stop treating gAI as a smol bean
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call me crazy but it really feels like “World’s Richest Man Creates AI Chatbot That Generates Child Porn” would’ve been a huge international outrage requiring a governmental crackdown not even 24 months ago
January 2, 2026 at 7:06 AM
call me crazy but it really feels like “World’s Richest Man Creates AI Chatbot That Generates Child Porn” would’ve been a huge international outrage requiring a governmental crackdown not even 24 months ago
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oh you know our boy is thirsty if he's pumping neuralink
Elon Musk says Neuralink plans to start "high-volume production" of brain-computer interface devices and move to a fully automated surgical procedure in 2026 (Reuters)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
January 1, 2026 at 1:53 AM
oh you know our boy is thirsty if he's pumping neuralink
Personally, I think if he made those demands, got Sky to pay for them and ghosted them, that makes him a even bigger Aussie hero
Mark Calvert being so butt hurt he writes an essay about how Sky News’ chequebook is the real victim in all of this is the funniest and most embarrassing piece of Australian journalism in a long time.
December 30, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Personally, I think if he made those demands, got Sky to pay for them and ghosted them, that makes him a even bigger Aussie hero
This is the best description of politics in Australia too
Politicians are terrified of an electorate they think is far more authoritarian and angry and right wing than it actually is, because they are out of touch because the literal media - the thing that mediates between public and polity - is corrupted
December 30, 2025 at 9:55 AM
This is the best description of politics in Australia too
I need Bryan to explain the chemical release that has prompted my feeling of revulsion at reading this. Or, better yet, not bother
I am begging everyone on here to read this new post by Bryan Johnson — the super rich tech guy who is now doing the “never die” protocol.
I need to talk about it with you all.
I need to talk about it with you all.
December 30, 2025 at 9:40 AM
I need Bryan to explain the chemical release that has prompted my feeling of revulsion at reading this. Or, better yet, not bother
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Again: they thought they’d win a shattering court victory with the Harry Potter lady’s money, then the public would rise up in gratitude, salute them as heroes and stomp all over transgender people on their behalf. That hasn’t happened, because the public mostly aren’t vicious cranks, like they are.
December 30, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Again: they thought they’d win a shattering court victory with the Harry Potter lady’s money, then the public would rise up in gratitude, salute them as heroes and stomp all over transgender people on their behalf. That hasn’t happened, because the public mostly aren’t vicious cranks, like they are.
Do you reckon we will ever treat motor vehicles as the weapons they can be?
A man who caused the death of an elderly couple while driving with methamphetamine in his blood is ordered to complete 100 hours of community service and four months of home detention.
Driver on meth who killed couple in bridge crash avoids jail
A man who caused the death of an elderly couple while driving with methamphetamine in his blood is ordered to complete 100 hours of community service and four months of home detention.
www.abc.net.au
December 30, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Do you reckon we will ever treat motor vehicles as the weapons they can be?
This is just hilarious
December 30, 2025 at 4:06 AM
This is just hilarious
Went to the GP for a check up yesterday. GP, who also cycles, was surprised when I told him how much weight I can loose when on the trainer (up to 2kg). He was so surprised, I started doubting myself.
December 30, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Went to the GP for a check up yesterday. GP, who also cycles, was surprised when I told him how much weight I can loose when on the trainer (up to 2kg). He was so surprised, I started doubting myself.
Watching the 2023 version of Great Expectations and a couple of things occur to me: Olivia Coleman is by far the best actor in it; and there are only about 5 or 6 people in England
December 29, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Watching the 2023 version of Great Expectations and a couple of things occur to me: Olivia Coleman is by far the best actor in it; and there are only about 5 or 6 people in England
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If any group in our community needs armed protection they must get it and it must be done by the state and democratically controlled. Any (ANY!) form of sectarian or ethnic militia is a road to madness imho. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Minns government ‘actively’ considering if Jewish security group should be armed after Bondi attack
NSW premier also announces police will carry long-arm rifles at major New Year’s Eve event in Sydney
www.theguardian.com
December 29, 2025 at 10:04 AM
If any group in our community needs armed protection they must get it and it must be done by the state and democratically controlled. Any (ANY!) form of sectarian or ethnic militia is a road to madness imho. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
In all honesty, we really need a permanent Truth and Reconciliation Commission with a broad mandate covering institutional racism more than we need a narrowly focused RC.
December 29, 2025 at 6:55 AM
In all honesty, we really need a permanent Truth and Reconciliation Commission with a broad mandate covering institutional racism more than we need a narrowly focused RC.