Joe Hardy
@joe.hardy.id.au
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I like music. co-founder
@sydneymusic.net
. joe.hardy.id.au cupholder.industries sydneymusic.net
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1 day ago
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1 day ago
US small caps are up 0.5% y/y, worse than cash and bonds and that includes dividends $IJR
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dafuq is going on in here (been following for a while, pretty fun)
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3 days ago
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Live Nation's Q3 financials are out. Interesting that one of their key results is "record stadium show count, up 60% globally"
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Live Nation Entertainment Third Quarter 2025 Results - Live Nation Newsroom
“Strong fan demand drove another record quarter, as we continue to attract more fans to more shows globally. With these tailwinds, 2026 is off to a strong start with a double-digit increase in our lar...
https://newsroom.livenation.com/news/live-nation-entertainment-third-quarter-2025-results/
4 days ago
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software is eating the world yo 🤙
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6 days ago
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It's so weird that we move on from debacles like Crowdstrike or us-east-1 as if they never happened. Surely these should prompt deeper reflection than we've seen.
7 days ago
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8 days ago
More BTIG: “.. we saw a similar set-up into the ’99-‘00 peak. As $NDX saw its final high in March '00, 60% of the Consumer Staples sector was making a 52-wk low. Utilities and Healthcare were also extremely weak.” 👀
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BTIG: “.. S&P 500 hit an all-time high on Wednesday, yet 33% of its components are down 20% or more from their 52-wk high, and 24% are within 10% of a 52-wk low .. “.. Divergences continue to mount .. last Thursday, 9% of the SPX hit a 52-wk low ..”
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In the trenches of information delivery via traditional websites: some good news! 1. We finally grew past the huge traffic loss caused by AI/LLM chatbots to record our best month ever (UBs) 2. # of referrals from chatbots. read as: ppl asking ChatGPT "what gigs are on?" 3. It's all ChatGPT
9 days ago
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New campaign spearheaded by Music Australia. I find the tone a bit weird. Did they actually test this with real Gen Zs? I can't see them going for the message. They want to be inspired, not scolded.
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Ausify
Your destination for searching and discovering Australian music. Find new Aussie artists, bands, and homegrown talent from Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and beyond. Ausify your algo.
https://ausify.com.au/
11 days ago
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This piece doesn't do a lot to discredit Ed's general arguments, just his tone and approach (which I agree is massively offputting), alongside some of his philosophy and - yeah, his PR clients. I do wish we had better figureheads for the AI naysayer role - the guy really gets on my nerves.
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Ed Zitron Gets Paid to Love AI. He Also Gets Paid to Hate AI
He’s one of the loudest voices of the AI haters—even as he does PR for AI companies. Either way, Ed Zitron has your attention.
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-pr-ed-zitron-profile/
14 days ago
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Greg Jericho
14 days ago
Grog's rule of privatisation: "The day you decide to allow the private sector deliver a public service is also the day you should set the future date for the Royal Commission into abuses in the system."
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It was not always so
21 days ago
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The thing I think I'm really wrestling with is how can a "content" company be so shit at making content about themselves
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21 days ago
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Tim Burrowes explores what's going on with Vinyl Group (owners of The Brag, The Music Network, Tone Deaf, and AU/NZ licensees of the RollingStone and Variety names) They've just announced their new "AutomAIt" program for generating "10x the amount of content" Inspiring stuff.
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BotW: Vinyl Group's enslopification; agency extinction and ACMA's email problem
Today: What to make of Vinyl Group’s big AI plan; Mat Baxter’s prediction that holdcos’ extinction-level event is here; and ACMA’s email discipline.
https://www.unmade.media/p/botw-vinyl-groups-enslopification
21 days ago
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OpenAI just sent me their first-ever email comms trying to re-engage users with ChatGPT. I feel like that's an interesting development — but could be any number of reasons.
22 days ago
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phenomenal take. read this.
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24 days ago
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Did not know how much I needed new Gary Larson cartoons. A small good thing, just for the joy of the craft.
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New Work by Gary Larson | TheFarSide.com
Get an exclusive look at brand new cartoons and artwork from cartoonist Gary Larson, creator of the iconic comic strip The Far Side®.
https://www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/
25 days ago
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I've finally hit the dreaded midway inflection point of SXSW where the free drinks are no longer currency of value
25 days ago
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"early figures supplied by SXSW Sydney show 11 per cent of this year’s ticket holders are from overseas, and 21 per cent of domestic ticket holders are from outside of NSW" good investment of $12m of taxpayer dollars from Destination NSW!
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Taxpayers forked out millions to host this world-class ‘festival of festivals’ in Sydney. Was it worth it?
The state government refuses to confirm its level of investment, and the pay-off, of its gamble. That’s only one element shrouding SXSW Sydney – and its complicated web of stakeholders – in mystery.
https://www.smh.com.au/culture/art-and-design/taxpayers-forked-out-millions-to-host-this-world-class-festival-of-festivals-in-sydney-was-it-worth-it-20251009-p5n19b.html
26 days ago
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Joyce Park
27 days ago
If Garbage can't really afford to tour any more, and are warning that smaller bands REALLY can't... Where is the music industry gonna go?
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remember when X was going to be where all job marketplace activity took place?
28 days ago
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Paul F. Tompkins
28 days ago
Christ these two
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Chris Davis of the Uptown Davises
about 1 month ago
A tragedy: under plutocratic ownership media bias shifts from economic to political and traditional objectives fade. But, yes.
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SydneyMusic.net
about 1 month ago
Steal our code! Start your own guide! Instructions here:
github.com/sydneymusic-...
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Just learned that
@sydneymusic.net
has been forked to create gig guides in Saigon and Hanoi. How fucking cool is this!!
noisesaigon.com
noisehanoi.com
about 1 month ago
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Really worried that an AI crash will trigger an immediate selloff that gets transferred into crypto (which is also conveniently completely reliant on GPUs) to consume the compute power that has already been provisioned or committed to. Effectively this becomes a trojan horse for crypto ...
about 1 month ago
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Sydney band Parades (2008-2012) have just put their entire back catalogue on
@bandcamp.com
Go (re)discover — one of my favourite acts from an incredible era in Sydney. The members went on to perform in bands and projects like Party Dozen, ARSE, Scarpin, Au.Ra, Jonathan Boulet, Light Giant ...
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forgotten tapes, by PARADES
20 track album
http://parades-archive.bandcamp.com/album/forgotten-tapes
about 1 month ago
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You'd better believe my kid got stickers!! Listen to Flouia at
www.abc.net.au/triplejunear...
about 2 months ago
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Thank you to Pat Bowden for producing this amazing document of a fraction of Sydney's live music scene. a gorgeous zine featuring (mostly) film photography of a range of spaces and artists. You can contact Pat about getting a copy of this zine on his Instagram at
www.instagram.com/patographics
about 2 months ago
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Reckon
@gruber.foo
is right on this. We badly need self-owned publishing of video content. Something like Ghost, with a variety of adapters that publish to different CDNs. And then we need to figure out how to bring RSS back.
daringfireball.net/linked/2025/...
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‘Jimmy Kimmel’s Suspension Is a Wake-Up Call’
Link to: https://politicalwire.com/2025/09/18/jimmy-kimmels-suspension-is-a-wake-up-call/
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/09/23/goddard-kimmel
about 2 months ago
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My kid is playing their first gigs in Sydney! After years of working on music in their bedroom, busking at the Busselton jetty, playing every open mic and school event they can — they finally get to play live in the city where they saw their first shows. Listen:
www.abc.net.au/triplejunear...
about 2 months ago
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honestly it feels like there's kind of an economic rapture taking place right now unfortunately we are the left behinds :/
about 2 months ago
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Super fun gig guide segment on ABC Radio Sydney's Saturday Breakfast with
@domknight.bsky.social
this morning! Played tracks by: • Folk Bitch Trio • Maddy Jane • Genesis Owusu • Sarah Belkner • Blain Cunneen • Ian Moss Heaps of great Aussie music to discover! Listen here @ 3hrs 30mins 43secs
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Saturday Breakfast - ABC listen
Breakfast has everything you need to enjoy your weekend
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/sydney-saturdaybreakfast/saturday-breakfast/105781680
about 2 months ago
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Ollie is a great human, has a very thoughtful approach to these complex topics and has deep experience in the intersection of computing and creativity. Highly recommend if you're looking for a forum that will tackle these subjects head-on.
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about 2 months ago
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Forthcoming album from BAYANG (tha Bushranger) & Nerdie [of 1300, Xiao Xiao, koreancrashout] is not mucking around
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WAR WITH CHINA, by BAYANG (tha Bushranger) & Nerdie
10 track album
https://datuizm.bandcamp.com/album/war-with-china
about 2 months ago
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Yesterday
@caitlinwelsh.bsky.social
and I were invited to speak to the students at Oxford Creative Academy, sharing our insights from running Sydney's most comprehensive gig guide. Was a phenomenal discussion! Slides available on request. Love doing these talks, hit us up if you're interested.
about 2 months ago
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East coast (VIC, NSW, QLD) waste disposal company BINGO Industries have consolidated their environmental reporting data and published it as a public portal. You can look at various measures related to quality of air / water / noise / etc Interesting
bingoindustries-public.esdat.net/locations
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ESdat
https://bingoindustries-public.esdat.net/locations
about 2 months ago
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Had a really great time speaking to students at the University of Sydney Conservatorium of Music yesterday. Phenomenal discussions, lots of candid insights from the room and a lot of great ideas and solutions explored. Slides available on request!
2 months ago
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the Mountain Goats
2 months ago
Yeah they said this about DATs and I believe Albini’s quote was “it is almost criminally irresponsible to do final mastering to DAT,” and he was right
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If this were in fact possible it would torpedo the entire AI industry, for which hundreds of USD$billions of apparently endless datacenter hyperscaling has been required to get the tech to where it is today And $10m for copyright? For what? What would that achieve? The fuck are you people on about?
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‘We can do it for under $100m’: Start-up joins race to build local ChatGPT
Sovereign Australia AI has unveiled plans to build Australis, a local alternative to the AI models of tech giants OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta.
https://www.afr.com/technology/we-can-do-it-for-under-100m-start-up-joins-race-to-build-local-chatgpt-20250908-p5mt5o
2 months ago
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DJing at the Oxford Art Factory 18th birthday with
@caitlinwelsh.bsky.social
this weekend. Should be a rager. Come thru! RSVP here:
moshtix.com.au/v2/event/%E2...
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SydneyMusic.net
2 months ago
Is there a gig guide in your part of the country? So far we've found 19 community-run gig guides across Australia. Explore here:
everycorner.au
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Dare Obasanjo
2 months ago
Please, we’re so close.
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Dare Obasanjo
2 months ago
America’s in a “sex recession”, adults having sex weekly dropped from 55% in 1990 to 37% now. Key culprits are smartphones and the pandemic. Social time has tanked too, young adults went from 13 hours a week with friends to just 6.5 by 2019. The loneliness epidemic keeps manifesting in new ways.
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tokens are getting more expensive
"language models will get cheaper by 10x" will not save ai subscriptions from the short squeeze
https://ethanding.substack.com/p/ai-subscriptions-get-short-squeezed
3 months ago
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Ketan Joshi
3 months ago
"The most accurate model was the reasoning-enabled Cogito model with 70 billion parameters, reaching 84.9% accuracy. The model produced three times more CO2 emissions than similar sized models that generated concise answers" "Reasoning" models are just brute-forcing info like Bitcoin mining
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Hidden Cost of Smart AI: 50× More CO₂ for a Single Question
Some AI models burn through 50× more carbon to think through a question, yet don’t always offer better answers.
https://scitechdaily.com/hidden-cost-of-smart-ai-50x-more-co%E2%82%82-for-a-single-question/
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3 months ago
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If you need to give your evening a kick along: POLTERGEIST 9000 — “Higher Frequencies” Newcastle yob-electro-clash-punk swimming in the soup of a frankly astounding scene. Newie is on one. It's so cool. Playing this Saturday in the CBD at Chuck Trailer's with mumfighter for free
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Poltergeist 9000 - Higher Frequencies (Feat. Finlay Ross)
YouTube video by POLTERGEIST 9000
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orK6roI1J7w
3 months ago
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Hot tip: more and more light leaking through the cracks on American business cable channels. I've taken to watching CNBC late at night. The in-studio interview last night with OpenAI's CFO (who was previously CEO of Nextdoor for 6 years) was deeply strange and quite entertaining.
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3 months ago
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