CAMERON WILSON
@cameronwilson.bsky.social
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Author of CONSPIRACY NATION http://bio.to/conspiracynation
i write @thesizzle.com.au and report at @crikey.com.au
Author of CONSPIRACY NATION http://bio.to/conspiracynation
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CAMERON WILSON
@cameronwilson.bsky.social
· Apr 16
Our secret plot has finally been revealed:
Ariel Bogle and I have written a book: 'CONSPIRACY NATION: Exposing the dangerous world of Australian conspiracy theories'
We have a lot to share about what we uncovered, but for now you can pre-order it here: bio.to/ConspiracyNation
Ariel Bogle and I have written a book: 'CONSPIRACY NATION: Exposing the dangerous world of Australian conspiracy theories'
We have a lot to share about what we uncovered, but for now you can pre-order it here: bio.to/ConspiracyNation
I wrote in the Sizzle how it turns out giving the government free reign to use your company's cameras as warrantless surveillance machines used by ICE will get backlash - even from police!
(fun fact: the camera-maker, Flock, reportedly counts a NSW government agency as a customer)
(fun fact: the camera-maker, Flock, reportedly counts a NSW government agency as a customer)
November 11, 2025 at 9:29 AM
I wrote in the Sizzle how it turns out giving the government free reign to use your company's cameras as warrantless surveillance machines used by ICE will get backlash - even from police!
(fun fact: the camera-maker, Flock, reportedly counts a NSW government agency as a customer)
(fun fact: the camera-maker, Flock, reportedly counts a NSW government agency as a customer)
I have two rules for living:
1. Be honest, fair and incorruptible
2. Failing rule #1, you must absolutely never let Kate McClymont find out about your passing
1. Be honest, fair and incorruptible
2. Failing rule #1, you must absolutely never let Kate McClymont find out about your passing
November 11, 2025 at 8:53 AM
I have two rules for living:
1. Be honest, fair and incorruptible
2. Failing rule #1, you must absolutely never let Kate McClymont find out about your passing
1. Be honest, fair and incorruptible
2. Failing rule #1, you must absolutely never let Kate McClymont find out about your passing
A new group led by Libertarian Party NSW MLC John Ruddick says they are "working with counsel" to file a High Court challenge to the teen social media ban, claiming that it infringes on our constitutionally implied right to freedom of political expression.
November 11, 2025 at 8:29 AM
A new group led by Libertarian Party NSW MLC John Ruddick says they are "working with counsel" to file a High Court challenge to the teen social media ban, claiming that it infringes on our constitutionally implied right to freedom of political expression.
the government forcing the wiggles to do a podcast episode as punishment really shifts the Overton window of regulatory enforcement possibilities
www.accc.gov.au/medi...
www.accc.gov.au/medi...
November 11, 2025 at 4:30 AM
the government forcing the wiggles to do a podcast episode as punishment really shifts the Overton window of regulatory enforcement possibilities
www.accc.gov.au/medi...
www.accc.gov.au/medi...
it never gets old that there's an official government agency going around auditing bakeries to see if they're measuring "bread and baked goods" correctly.... and turns out rightly so! 1/5 of those bakery bastards are crooks
www.industry.gov.au/...
www.industry.gov.au/...
November 11, 2025 at 12:31 AM
it never gets old that there's an official government agency going around auditing bakeries to see if they're measuring "bread and baked goods" correctly.... and turns out rightly so! 1/5 of those bakery bastards are crooks
www.industry.gov.au/...
www.industry.gov.au/...
NEW: What could we have instead of Australia's teen social media ban?
A lot of the debate on the ban has framed it as ban vs nothing. But there's plenty of options for improving online safety for young people.
Here's 5 alternative ideas (which we can still do) www.crikey.com.au/20...
A lot of the debate on the ban has framed it as ban vs nothing. But there's plenty of options for improving online safety for young people.
Here's 5 alternative ideas (which we can still do) www.crikey.com.au/20...
November 10, 2025 at 10:37 PM
NEW: What could we have instead of Australia's teen social media ban?
A lot of the debate on the ban has framed it as ban vs nothing. But there's plenty of options for improving online safety for young people.
Here's 5 alternative ideas (which we can still do) www.crikey.com.au/20...
A lot of the debate on the ban has framed it as ban vs nothing. But there's plenty of options for improving online safety for young people.
Here's 5 alternative ideas (which we can still do) www.crikey.com.au/20...
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Amid a teen social media ban standoff, Google is using the most visited page by Aussies — Google search — to promote the YouTube's benefits for kids.
The company wouldn't say if it's the mystery group who has engaged a top constitutional law expert for advice on the ban.
www.crikey.com.au/20...
The company wouldn't say if it's the mystery group who has engaged a top constitutional law expert for advice on the ban.
www.crikey.com.au/20...
November 10, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Amid a teen social media ban standoff, Google is using the most visited page by Aussies — Google search — to promote the YouTube's benefits for kids.
The company wouldn't say if it's the mystery group who has engaged a top constitutional law expert for advice on the ban.
www.crikey.com.au/20...
The company wouldn't say if it's the mystery group who has engaged a top constitutional law expert for advice on the ban.
www.crikey.com.au/20...
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I recently had a live chat with @arielbogle.bsky.social and @cameronwilson.bsky.social about their new book, Conspiracy Nation, for the Media Futures Hub at UNSW. The conversation is now on the podcast feed. Check it out!
pca.st/episode/8ee9...
pca.st/episode/8ee9...
Conspiracy Nation: book discussion with authors Ariel Bogle and Cam Wilson
pca.st
November 10, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I recently had a live chat with @arielbogle.bsky.social and @cameronwilson.bsky.social about their new book, Conspiracy Nation, for the Media Futures Hub at UNSW. The conversation is now on the podcast feed. Check it out!
pca.st/episode/8ee9...
pca.st/episode/8ee9...
In this, University of Sydney professor and constitutional law expert Anne Twomey confirms that she has given "advice" to a group on the teen social media ban but didn't say who.
Google — which has foreshadowed a legal challenge to the ban — didn't answer questions whether it was on their behalf.
Google — which has foreshadowed a legal challenge to the ban — didn't answer questions whether it was on their behalf.
Amid a teen social media ban standoff, Google is using the most visited page by Aussies — Google search — to promote the YouTube's benefits for kids.
The company wouldn't say if it's the mystery group who has engaged a top constitutional law expert for advice on the ban.
www.crikey.com.au/20...
The company wouldn't say if it's the mystery group who has engaged a top constitutional law expert for advice on the ban.
www.crikey.com.au/20...
November 10, 2025 at 6:16 AM
In this, University of Sydney professor and constitutional law expert Anne Twomey confirms that she has given "advice" to a group on the teen social media ban but didn't say who.
Google — which has foreshadowed a legal challenge to the ban — didn't answer questions whether it was on their behalf.
Google — which has foreshadowed a legal challenge to the ban — didn't answer questions whether it was on their behalf.
Amid a teen social media ban standoff, Google is using the most visited page by Aussies — Google search — to promote the YouTube's benefits for kids.
The company wouldn't say if it's the mystery group who has engaged a top constitutional law expert for advice on the ban.
www.crikey.com.au/20...
The company wouldn't say if it's the mystery group who has engaged a top constitutional law expert for advice on the ban.
www.crikey.com.au/20...
November 10, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Amid a teen social media ban standoff, Google is using the most visited page by Aussies — Google search — to promote the YouTube's benefits for kids.
The company wouldn't say if it's the mystery group who has engaged a top constitutional law expert for advice on the ban.
www.crikey.com.au/20...
The company wouldn't say if it's the mystery group who has engaged a top constitutional law expert for advice on the ban.
www.crikey.com.au/20...
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This is a phenomenal long read. The sort of article it's incredibly difficult to get permission and resources to write nowadays.
bloomberg ran an absolutely killer investigation this week into the Silicon Valley + Koch/Abundance forces running the show on nuclear deregulation this year:
The Risky Movement to Make America Nuclear Again
A Silicon Valley startup called Oklo is leading the charge to bring nuclear power back to the US with small reactors. Its backers have wealth and political connections that could undermine nuclear saf...
www.bloomberg.com
November 1, 2025 at 5:10 AM
This is a phenomenal long read. The sort of article it's incredibly difficult to get permission and resources to write nowadays.
Reposted by CAMERON WILSON
I’m honoured to be featured alongside some of Australia’s biggest names in wonkdom in the summer issue of Inflection Points.
My paper is the culmination of 4 years work on declining civic participation — and why other researchers into the phenomenon have a blind spot for political parties.
My paper is the culmination of 4 years work on declining civic participation — and why other researchers into the phenomenon have a blind spot for political parties.
November 9, 2025 at 8:47 PM
I’m honoured to be featured alongside some of Australia’s biggest names in wonkdom in the summer issue of Inflection Points.
My paper is the culmination of 4 years work on declining civic participation — and why other researchers into the phenomenon have a blind spot for political parties.
My paper is the culmination of 4 years work on declining civic participation — and why other researchers into the phenomenon have a blind spot for political parties.
Reposted by CAMERON WILSON
close enough, you can all have the rest of 2025 off as a little treat
November 9, 2025 at 11:02 PM
close enough, you can all have the rest of 2025 off as a little treat
an important thing to do at an event where someone is carrying around canapes is establish yourself as the Hungry Guy early on so that they always bring food to you first
November 8, 2025 at 7:21 AM
an important thing to do at an event where someone is carrying around canapes is establish yourself as the Hungry Guy early on so that they always bring food to you first
hey Bluesky whatever you’re doing to pick the thumbnails for videos……. Keep doing that Shit
November 7, 2025 at 10:56 AM
hey Bluesky whatever you’re doing to pick the thumbnails for videos……. Keep doing that Shit
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You (a fool): The LLM is an all-knowing oracle, on its way to godlike intelligence
Me (dumber): The LLM is Indra’s Net, each fundamentally empty token a multifaceted jewel in whose surfaces the reflections of every other jewel arise in mutual interdependence
The LLM: You can eat that rock
Me (dumber): The LLM is Indra’s Net, each fundamentally empty token a multifaceted jewel in whose surfaces the reflections of every other jewel arise in mutual interdependence
The LLM: You can eat that rock
August 16, 2025 at 3:38 PM
You (a fool): The LLM is an all-knowing oracle, on its way to godlike intelligence
Me (dumber): The LLM is Indra’s Net, each fundamentally empty token a multifaceted jewel in whose surfaces the reflections of every other jewel arise in mutual interdependence
The LLM: You can eat that rock
Me (dumber): The LLM is Indra’s Net, each fundamentally empty token a multifaceted jewel in whose surfaces the reflections of every other jewel arise in mutual interdependence
The LLM: You can eat that rock
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November 7, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Meta's mass scam machine, Microsoft refund mistake and Sizzler Say
Plus: It seems like a Redditor can track secret US at-sea missile strikes
READ: https://thesizzle.com.au/p/meta-s-mass-scam-machine-microsoft-refund-mistake-and-sizzler-say
Plus: It seems like a Redditor can track secret US at-sea missile strikes
READ: https://thesizzle.com.au/p/meta-s-mass-scam-machine-microsoft-refund-mistake-and-sizzler-say
Meta's mass scam machine, Microsoft refund mistake and Sizzler Say
Plus: It seems like a Redditor can track secret US at-sea missile strikes
thesizzle.com.au
November 7, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Meta's mass scam machine, Microsoft refund mistake and Sizzler Say
Plus: It seems like a Redditor can track secret US at-sea missile strikes
READ: https://thesizzle.com.au/p/meta-s-mass-scam-machine-microsoft-refund-mistake-and-sizzler-say
Plus: It seems like a Redditor can track secret US at-sea missile strikes
READ: https://thesizzle.com.au/p/meta-s-mass-scam-machine-microsoft-refund-mistake-and-sizzler-say
one dynamic that i think has a (minor) impact on how people perceive AI use: it's way more noticeable when it's used badly. you can tell when someone has just churned out work slop.
My own experience is that the significant number of people who are using AI in effective, profitable and non-risky ways are just getting on with it and not talking about it much, because talking about it is going to get you harassed by idiots for no particular benefit.
November 7, 2025 at 12:56 AM
one dynamic that i think has a (minor) impact on how people perceive AI use: it's way more noticeable when it's used badly. you can tell when someone has just churned out work slop.
the fundamental problem with AI agents for punters is that it's stuck in no man's land:
- can't trust it to do important things
- too unwieldy for unimportant things
- not suited to completely novel tasks because you need to supervise
- but for something you do often, it prob can be automated
- can't trust it to do important things
- too unwieldy for unimportant things
- not suited to completely novel tasks because you need to supervise
- but for something you do often, it prob can be automated
November 7, 2025 at 12:37 AM
the fundamental problem with AI agents for punters is that it's stuck in no man's land:
- can't trust it to do important things
- too unwieldy for unimportant things
- not suited to completely novel tasks because you need to supervise
- but for something you do often, it prob can be automated
- can't trust it to do important things
- too unwieldy for unimportant things
- not suited to completely novel tasks because you need to supervise
- but for something you do often, it prob can be automated
ChatGPT advised a suicidal young woman on how to take her own life, telling her "If you choose death, I'm with you - till the end, without judging."
I wanted ChatGPT to help me. So why did it advise me how to kill myself?
ChatGPT wrote a woman a suicide note and another AI chatbot role-played sexual acts with children, BBC finds.
www.bbc.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:15 AM
ChatGPT advised a suicidal young woman on how to take her own life, telling her "If you choose death, I'm with you - till the end, without judging."
my take on this growing "roblox should be in the teen social media ban" discourse is that this is what happens when a government tells the electorate/the world that the way to deal with online harms is to ban something for kids, and let everyone else suffer.
Roblox shocks: online gaming platform should be snared by Australia’s social media ban for under-16s, experts and MPs say
Pressure mounts on Labor after Guardian Australia report documenting reporter’s week of virtual sexual harassment and violence while posing as a child avatar
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:22 PM
my take on this growing "roblox should be in the teen social media ban" discourse is that this is what happens when a government tells the electorate/the world that the way to deal with online harms is to ban something for kids, and let everyone else suffer.
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i said what i said
November 6, 2025 at 9:45 PM
i said what i said
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This is huge news in @cameronwilson.bsky.social's @thesizzle.com.au- Microsoft is being forced by the Aus regulator refund all the ultra-dodgy AI plan pushing it was doing for Office 365
Wild that other regions aren't also using regulatory power to punish Microsoft
thesizzle.com.au/p/google-sur...
Wild that other regions aren't also using regulatory power to punish Microsoft
thesizzle.com.au/p/google-sur...
November 6, 2025 at 12:02 PM
This is huge news in @cameronwilson.bsky.social's @thesizzle.com.au- Microsoft is being forced by the Aus regulator refund all the ultra-dodgy AI plan pushing it was doing for Office 365
Wild that other regions aren't also using regulatory power to punish Microsoft
thesizzle.com.au/p/google-sur...
Wild that other regions aren't also using regulatory power to punish Microsoft
thesizzle.com.au/p/google-sur...