Tom Sulston
@tom.sulston.net
Digital rights, bicycles, cats, kitchens.
Don't blame my employer for my bad choice of words.
Don't blame my employer for my bad choice of words.
Come on, authors. You heard the man. Get to it.
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Come on, authors. You heard the man. Get to it.
I worked for Neville Roy Singham for a number of years and am now the regional branch manager for antifa. AMA.
October 17, 2025 at 4:26 AM
I worked for Neville Roy Singham for a number of years and am now the regional branch manager for antifa. AMA.
It's galling to see the Albo government paint the U16 social media ban as a great success when there are expert organisations working with vulnerable children queuing up to demonstrate how it will make young people less safe online.
Children will suffer as a result of the social media ban.
Children will suffer as a result of the social media ban.
October 13, 2025 at 2:33 AM
It's galling to see the Albo government paint the U16 social media ban as a great success when there are expert organisations working with vulnerable children queuing up to demonstrate how it will make young people less safe online.
Children will suffer as a result of the social media ban.
Children will suffer as a result of the social media ban.
Honestly mind-boggling that after a 30-minute conversation, the @qantas-official.bsky.social call centre doesn't know the answer to my question "Does my booking give 30 or 60 status credits?"
October 13, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Honestly mind-boggling that after a 30-minute conversation, the @qantas-official.bsky.social call centre doesn't know the answer to my question "Does my booking give 30 or 60 status credits?"
Oh, come on. If a company's systems and processes are so fragile that a single "human error" causes such an outage, their systems and processes are manifestly inadequate.
Human error caused deadly outage: Optus CEO
Investigation underway as previous $100m 'unconscionable conduct' fine upheld.
ia.acs.org.au
September 25, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Oh, come on. If a company's systems and processes are so fragile that a single "human error" causes such an outage, their systems and processes are manifestly inadequate.
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Just a reminder that no politician or bureaucrat has ever faced any charges for Robodebt
September 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Just a reminder that no politician or bureaucrat has ever faced any charges for Robodebt
Surely there are better sites than Github to ban teenagers from? What about Hawthorn FC, aph.gov.au, realestate.com.au, and Jim's Gardening?
Australia’s under 16s social media ban could extend to Reddit, Twitch, Roblox and even dating apps
Lego Play and Steam among the unexpected additions to the list that includes Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and X
www.theguardian.com
September 24, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Surely there are better sites than Github to ban teenagers from? What about Hawthorn FC, aph.gov.au, realestate.com.au, and Jim's Gardening?
Good work, the Indie. Can’t wait to see the choreography for “Lick my love pump”.
September 18, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Good work, the Indie. Can’t wait to see the choreography for “Lick my love pump”.
A bold political gambit. (They're not wrong)
September 8, 2025 at 12:04 AM
A bold political gambit. (They're not wrong)
Waiting for Bandcamp Friday to start before hitting the checkout button on some shiny new tunes for the weekend.
a man wearing a suit and tie is standing in a field of yellow flowers
Alt: Mr Bean, a man wearing a suit and tie, is standing in a field of yellow flowers. He checks his watch.
media.tenor.com
September 5, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Waiting for Bandcamp Friday to start before hitting the checkout button on some shiny new tunes for the weekend.
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i actually think brits aren't especially bad on the whole, so why all 3 parties are chasing the 35% of people who are assholes and no one else is a mystery!
August 31, 2025 at 8:22 AM
i actually think brits aren't especially bad on the whole, so why all 3 parties are chasing the 35% of people who are assholes and no one else is a mystery!
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I think if Britain colonised your country of origin you should get free BBC iplayer.
August 29, 2025 at 7:51 AM
I think if Britain colonised your country of origin you should get free BBC iplayer.
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A postcard from Denmark, a terrible woke snowflake lefty-liberal yoghurt knitting country where everyone can access everything they need safely and without a car, urban and rural; there's free lifelong learning, free healthcare, a pro-tenant rental landscape, and wealth redistribution. Horrible.
August 19, 2025 at 4:14 PM
A postcard from Denmark, a terrible woke snowflake lefty-liberal yoghurt knitting country where everyone can access everything they need safely and without a car, urban and rural; there's free lifelong learning, free healthcare, a pro-tenant rental landscape, and wealth redistribution. Horrible.
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Copyright and AI have been all over the dial recently. We're going to talk with some smart people about the AI threats to creative Australians. Join us for this zesty online briefing on the 12th August.
We'll discuss:
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We'll discuss:
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August 11, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Copyright and AI have been all over the dial recently. We're going to talk with some smart people about the AI threats to creative Australians. Join us for this zesty online briefing on the 12th August.
We'll discuss:
1/4
We'll discuss:
1/4
I hope that now the mushroom trial is over, Simon can get some normality in his life and back to his regular job of presenting Hard Quiz.
August 8, 2025 at 2:34 AM
I hope that now the mushroom trial is over, Simon can get some normality in his life and back to his regular job of presenting Hard Quiz.
WTF, Ikea? That's a pretty dank dark pattern.
July 8, 2025 at 2:06 AM
WTF, Ikea? That's a pretty dank dark pattern.
Hasn’t the world suffered enough?
July 5, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Hasn’t the world suffered enough?
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You don't understand! The ALP government has to support Israeli genocide, US war crimes, the destruction of the rule of law, and the north west gas shelf, because it only has a 51 seat lead on the Coalition. Something something Murdoch. They're really progressive, I swear.
June 22, 2025 at 11:11 PM
You don't understand! The ALP government has to support Israeli genocide, US war crimes, the destruction of the rule of law, and the north west gas shelf, because it only has a 51 seat lead on the Coalition. Something something Murdoch. They're really progressive, I swear.
MOAR!
some good news - in the centre of London, cyclists are on track to outnumber motor vehicles (cars, buses, lorries) within a couple of years
anecdotally it has got a much more pleasant place to walk around in the last decade […]
[Original post on masto.ai]
anecdotally it has got a much more pleasant place to walk around in the last decade […]
[Original post on masto.ai]
May 30, 2025 at 12:22 AM
MOAR!
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I believe this means the sun will set over the entirety of the British Empire tonight for the first time in several hundred years. Chagos is the dot below India on this map. Sunset in the Pitcairns (dot in the Pacific) will happen ~40 minutes before sunrise in Akrotiri and Dhekelia (dot on Cyprus).
May 22, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I believe this means the sun will set over the entirety of the British Empire tonight for the first time in several hundred years. Chagos is the dot below India on this map. Sunset in the Pitcairns (dot in the Pacific) will happen ~40 minutes before sunrise in Akrotiri and Dhekelia (dot on Cyprus).
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"I am getting very sick & tired of having to go onto news programs because journalists aren't allowed in to point out what is happening here... this is a televised slaughter. History will not judge us kindly."
I spoke today to Dr Tom Potokar, UK surgeon in Gaza:
Full intv: zeteo.com/p/televised-...
I spoke today to Dr Tom Potokar, UK surgeon in Gaza:
Full intv: zeteo.com/p/televised-...
May 20, 2025 at 11:57 PM
"I am getting very sick & tired of having to go onto news programs because journalists aren't allowed in to point out what is happening here... this is a televised slaughter. History will not judge us kindly."
I spoke today to Dr Tom Potokar, UK surgeon in Gaza:
Full intv: zeteo.com/p/televised-...
I spoke today to Dr Tom Potokar, UK surgeon in Gaza:
Full intv: zeteo.com/p/televised-...
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Fun fact: until I was appreciably into my 20s, I thought they were called oncologists because they were always “on call.”
i was unaware of how many oncologists were on this website
May 19, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Fun fact: until I was appreciably into my 20s, I thought they were called oncologists because they were always “on call.”