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Professionals like lawyers should have to disclose this information because holy shit Matilda, your LLM is not doing “research” www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
“I run a law firm and used to lead a team of 10. AI totally changed our practice. Young lawyers and paralegals used to spend weeks researching cases. Now AI does it with the flick of a button.” Matilda, 48, lawyer, WA
November 6, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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Hey friends, it's a great time to subscribe to Overland! Subscriberthon is on until November 7. Loads of major and daily prizes. Plus you get to support publishing local writers in an increasingly anaemic literary environment: overland.org.au/2025/10/over...
Overland Subscriberthon "A collective work of art with..." "A community of sympathetic minds" Subscribe, renew or donate Oct 31 - Nov 7, 2025
November 4, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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Southerly journal has returned with a huge lineup of contributors: southerlylitmag.com.au/announcing-s...

My short story 'we find stories in the columns of light' is another fairly nerdy piece of spec-fic inspired by ham radios, camping and cyberdecks.
An image of a crescent moon on a black background of stars. Text reads: First, The Future. In memory of Charmaine Papertalk Green. Southerly.
October 29, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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God this game is good
Screenshot from the game Isopod. An isopod sitting on a rock says “…better a wizard than a capitalist”.
October 21, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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“world-leading legislation”
Three frame image meme of a cartoon eye rolling so far back it disappears into the person’s skull
October 14, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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Last day to pre-order these gorgeous archival prints of some of Overland's most iconic journal covers at $100 a piece: overland.org.au/shop/merchan...

10% of the profits will be donated to Palestinian causes, such as PARA, Gaza Mutual Aid Collective, Dahnoun Mutual Aid and The Sameer Project.
Three of Overland's previous journal covers, as archival prints. Overland issue 239 by Seth Searle, Overland issue 235 by Sam Wallman, and Overland issue 96 by Rick Amor. Overland issue 253 by Sofia Sabbagh Overland issue 253 by Sofia Sabbagh
October 10, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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I tried to queue up some music in my office the other day on a new device
A screenshot of Youtube. The text reads: channels new to you. Adele & Ed Sheeran - Rest in peace, Charlie Kirk (emotional tribute song), Roblox doors outdoors song
September 22, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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Wow, age assurance on Discord is here. Options are verify your "age group" or log out...
Verify age group We use age groups to determine access to certain experiences. The information you provide is only used to confirm your age group, then it's deleted. Take a video selfie Usually fastest and totally automatic. All you need is a camera. Scan your ID You'll need a driver's license, passport, or other ID. Then a photo selfie to confirm it's you. Log Out
September 19, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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The PC's suggestion that AI could add more than $116 billion to Australia's economy over the next decade feels extremely loose considering the range of estimates they're drawing from (0.5% to 13%).
Box 1.1 – How large is the productivity dividend from AI? AI will likely raise productivity, but there is ongoing debate about the magnitude of this effect. Studies suggest AI could increase multifactor factor productivity between 0.5% to 13% over the next decade (0.05 to 1.3 percentage points annually). After examining the assumptions underlying these studies, the PC considers that multifactor productivity gains above 2.3% are likely over the next decade (0.23 percentage points annually). As a back of the envelope, this would imply labour productivity growth of about 4.3%, which at current levels of population, working hours and employment would imply about an extra $116 billion of GDP over the next decade. That said, there is considerable uncertainty about the precise magnitude of the productivity effect.
August 6, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Same I was like ah yes I have trained for this
A yellow book called “the first book of codes and ciphers”. Underneath the book title is a substitution cipher next to an ink pen. By Sam and Beryl Epstein.
August 4, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Benn's png-on-a-bird video is one of my new favourite things on the internet for many reasons (ornithology! sound visualisation! raspberry pi! esoteric data storage!) but this screen in particular gave me a chuckle
Screenshot of a website selling an X1-Mini microphone, with a black pop up on the screen that says 'wanna get... 10% off. Yeah? Sign up to get the deal.' In the form field the user has typed the words "I HOPE YOU DIE IN A FIRE'
August 4, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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Happy Screen Aus Funding Announcement Day to all who celebrate 🎉

Stoked to be able to work on Wyrmspace Tactics with @walistudios.au for the next while!
WYRMSPACE TACTICS Wali Studios Genre Card Game, Story-driven, Strategy Art Director Sasha Mutch Producer Joel Davison Writer Kathryn Gledhill-Tucker Composer Jess Cerro UX Designer Olivia Ong Lead Programmer Adam Matthews Platform PC Synopsis Wyrmspace Tactics is a game about traumatised space pirates committing faster-than-light heists! Heists play out in tile tactics card gameplay where every card is a crew member's memory.
July 21, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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I have a new chatbot for the AI pilled execs to try out
A notes app screenshot that says “your a big smart boy ⭐️”. “Your” is intentionally misspelled.
July 21, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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Light spoilers on the piece of fiction I'm working on rn
An Obsidian network graph of interlinked nodes, with one green node in the middle labelled "#slime"
July 20, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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'Unhype Artificial 'Intelligence'' by Francis Hunger is another good primer on the ways that the words we choose to use can feed or resist that hype: zenodo.org/records/7524...
1. Artificial Intelligence => Automated Pattern Recognition 2. Machine Learning => Machine Conditioning 3. Neural Network => Weighted Network 4. Deep Learning => Deep Conditioning 5. Neuron => Weight (Hunger 2021)
July 12, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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According to the eSafety Commissioner, in a stroppy letter to DIGI, age assurance will not require platforms to verify all their Australian users, and I would like to know what planet she is living on in which that would be possible www.esafety.gov.au/about-us/ind...
I was particularly concerned about this quote: “There are persistent tensions between privacy and safety – for example, the social media minimum age law, which will come into effect in six months, will see Australians of all ages having to verify their age with increased personal information across a range of services.” What concerns me is that this statement implies that the obligations on industry to take reasonable steps to prevent children under 16 years of age from having a social media account will require providers to age verify all their Australian users, when that is not the case.
June 26, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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LIKE THE ANCIENT GREEKS jfc
The Joe Rogan Experience” could be understood as a couple of guys around a campfire, passing on knowledge through conversation, like the ancient Greeks.
June 22, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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Dear lord, I accidentally opened YouTube in a new browser and the recommended videos are full of the most horrendous garbage. Endless AI slop filled with comments from people (presumably) who do not clock that it's AI, with one small 'Altered or synthetic content' disclaimer.
YouTube page featuring a video titled 'Meghan Markle Kicked Off Stephen Colbert's Show After Fiery Comments'. Description reads: 'What started as a routine celebrity interview quickly turned into one of the most shocking moments in late-night television history. When Stephen Colbert decided to ask some tough questions about Meghan's past, she completely lost control and launched into a series of personal attacks that left the audience stunned.' In the sidebar is a list of recommended videos title 'Prince Harry Takes The Colbert Questionert', 'Gary Sinise Speaks Out About His Son's Death & Why He Left', 'Megyn Kelly SLAMS Meghan Markle Over Her Netflix...', 'Johnny carson HATED These Talk Show Moments', 'Meghan Markle BABY Trick Gets EXPOSED As Piers And...', 'A MILLIONAIRE TOOK A HOMELESS WOMAN TO HIS'
June 9, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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If they add a chat function to FlightRadar it’s over for my screen time.
Screenshot of FlightRadar24 over the North Atlantic Ocean. There are lots of yellow plane icons.
May 31, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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Incredibly grateful to Michelle de Kretser for using her Stella speech to speak truth to power: "In Australia today it isn’t those applauding mass murder who have cause to be afraid, but those speaking out against it."

stella.org.au/2025/05/mich...
Recently, two groups of women have been on my mind. In the first group are Jo Case, Sophie Cunningham, Monica Dux, Christine Gordon, Foong Ling Kong, Rebecca Starford, Louise Swinn and Aviva Tuffield: the founders of the Stella Prize. My respect and gratitude to those eight women, who rejected business as usual, who decided to make the world a more equitable place, and whose activism resulted, against the odds, in the Stella Prize and the transformation of our literary landscape. Even if I knew the names of everyone in the second group, there wouldn’t be time to read them out, for they’re the women and girls of Gaza. They’re the women and girls murdered, maimed, starved, raped, tortured, terrorised, orphaned, bereaved, incarcerated, dehumanised, displaced, in business as usual for Israel’s genocide and ethnic cleansing – war crimes for which Australia provides material and diplomatic support. That complicity has had serious consequences for Australian democracy. We’ve seen scholars, creatives and journalists silenced, their funding revoked and their contracts cancelled for expressing anti-genocide views. We’ve seen precious rights eroded and authoritarian laws rushed in on the flimsiest of pretexts. We’ve seen our institutions and our media betray the principles they’re supposed to uphold. We’ve seen language suffer Orwellian distortions. We’ve seen our leaders pander to the anti-Arab racism of that global bully the United States. And all of this damage has been done to prop up Israel: a brazenly cruel foreign power, whose leaders are internationally wanted criminals. A crucial aim of this program of suppression is to intimidate. In Australia today it isn’t those applauding mass murder who have cause to be afraid, but those speaking out against it. Principally targeted are Palestinians, Arabs, Muslims, First Nations people, people of colour, queers. All the time I was writing these words, a voice in my head whispered, You will be punished. You will be smeared with labels as potent and ugly as they’re false. Career own goal, warned the voice.
May 24, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_c...
Glass cliff Workplace phenomenon affecting women in leadership roles This article is about workplace discrimination. For the similarly named developmental psychology experiment, see Visual cliff. The glass cliff is a hypothesized phenomenon in which women are more likely to break the "glass ceiling" (i.e. achieve leadership roles in business and government) during periods of crisis or downturn when the risk of failure is highest.[1][2] Other research has expanded the definition of the glass cliff phenomenon to include racial and ethnic minority groups.
May 13, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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omg it's happening again.
Fremantle Josh Wilson (Labor Party) 45,117 Kate Hulett (Independent) 45,313
May 5, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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Since 2020, Perth has overtaken Sydney as the nation's least affordable city to rent www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
Bubble graph of Perth postcodes in 2020. Label reads "2% of postcodes are out of reach". Text reads "At the start of the pandemic, just 2 per cent of postcodes were out of reach for the average income rental household. (A postcode is considered out of reach when the median rent reaches 30 per cent or more of household income before tax.)" Bubble graph of Perth postcodes in 2024. Label reads "68.7% of postcodes are out of reach." Text reads: "Four years later, close to 70 per cent of postcodes are beyond reach, according to the latest data."
April 8, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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Source: diff.wikimedia.org/2025/04/01/h...

Image with alt text:
Since January 2024, we have seen the bandwidth used for downloading multimedia content grow by 50%. This increase is not coming from human readers, but largely from automated programs that scrape the Wikimedia Commons image catalog of openly licensed images to feed images to AI models. Our infrastructure is built to sustain sudden traffic spikes from humans during high-interest events, but the amount of traffic generated by scraper bots is unprecedented and presents growing risks and costs. The graph below shows that the base bandwidth demand for multimedia content has been growing steadily since early 2024 – and there’s no sign of this slowing down. This increase in baseline usage means that we have less room to accommodate exceptional events when a traffic surge might occur: a significant amount of our time and resources go into responding to non-human traffic.
April 3, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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I'm working on a talk to be delivered to a group of very brilliant artists who are interesting in emerging and immersive technologies. Alt title could be "Please don't design the Torment Nexus".
"make art, not surveillance" in black text with yellow highlight, "data ethics and emerging technologies" in black text with purple highlight on a beige background, with a dithered image of an old PC in the background
March 18, 2025 at 10:10 AM