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We've formalised our AI policy at @sydneymusic.net In short: we are 100% AI-free.

We've formalised our AI policy at @sydneymusic.net In short: we are 100% AI-free.

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Good to see community gig and event guides springing up. Kudos to @joe.hardy.id.au and team. If you don't know about sydneymusic.net, well, now you do. www.smh.com.au/culture/musi...

I was interviewed in the SMH today alongside some other legends about gig guides

I was interviewed in the SMH today alongside some other legends about gig guides

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Do not understand how you can justify using Anthropic's Claude when this is who they're using for compute expansion www.wired.com/story/xai-ad...

We're going to raffle the Ultimate Sydney Music Tote Bag at a fundraiser event in a few weeks. It's going to be an epic, one-of-a-kind collection. Stay tuned!

Yeah my initial impression from all of this is that the media industry is not covering itself in glory

A few highlights from a quick @sydneymusic.net merch shoot yesterday Merch available from store.sydneymusic.net. Support your local gig guide!

A couple of snaps of James Valentine while sitting in on a jam with his son (not pictured) and friends at the Ev in Redfern. An icon. Vale.

I did regular on-air chats with James a few years back about whatever was in the pop culture discourse that week. The week Will Smith slapped Chris Rock we had a cackling, ranting hour-long call to prep for a 10-minute segment about it. I have never known an ABC without him.

A prediction that I've been sitting on since the start of 2026 is that I reckon Live Nation will get big into drone shows, with a large amount of the creative (music, visuals, drone choreo) being increasingly AI-generated. Just I wanted to write this somewhere so I can point to it if it happens.

This speaks so much to the evolving detachment I see in the world around me. Another way to describe it could be these two figures. They illustrate 2023 v 2025 night time economy spend in NSW (in Australian dollars). Source: NSW 24 Hour Economy Commission

Great story. Shot walking to the "Guitar Gently Weeps" performance at the Hall of Fame!

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We have new merch and it’s shipping next week! @sydneymusic.net's FY27 Fundraiser is live. We critically need to raise $30,000 to cover our budget for the first half of next financial year. Order a tee or some stickers to help us get more people out to shows! Merch/donate: store.sydneymusic.net

Bumping this news about our new tees (and stickers!) SydneyMusic is fundraising for its survival beyond June 30. We need to raise $30,000 in donations in order to secure our future in the new financial year. Hit our store at store.sydneymusic.net Thank you!

We have new merch and it’s shipping next week! @sydneymusic.net's FY27 Fundraiser is live. We critically need to raise $30,000 to cover our budget for the first half of next financial year. Order a tee or some stickers to help us get more people out to shows! Merch/donate: store.sydneymusic.net

Good local gigs at pocket money prices is where a love for live music starts.

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I mean if my CFO's previous IPO (as CEO!) looked like this I'd probably be looking for ways to limit the damage too

I just published a deep-dive into the 250-hour build behind syntaqlite, a SQLite formatter and LSP I built using AI agents. AI agents were the only reason built this after 8 years of wanting but there's a psychological toll to AI-assisted engineering. The post-mortem: lalitm.com/post/buildin...

We're throwing a party on Thursday night at the Gladdy. A lovely arvo: us DJing the courtyard at sunset, followed by four great local bands, then people with great taste playing tunes until sometime in the morn. Don't just sit there, do something. RSVP/info: events.humanitix.com/heathensong-...

This is pretty interesting. I also think it's fascinating that the presentation singles out and pwns Ghost, given that's the publishing architecture that a lot of independent journalism relies on

People should watch this. TLDR: we are globally becoming at risk of extremely serious cyberattacks because AI can find vulnerabilities everywhere. Attackers are powerful at a systemic level now. youtu.be/1sd26pWhfmg...

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IRANIANS ON TEMPORARY VISAS WILL BE RESTRICTED FROM RE-ENTERING AUSTRALIA UNDER CONTROVERSIAL NEW POWERS BEING ROLLED OUT BY THE GOVERNMENT.

I mean the less funny thing to consider is that the reason Sora got discontinued so shortly after OpenAI signed a military contract is that those GPUs are gonna be busy

Finland suspends a plan to move its election platform to AWS, opting to remain on domestic servers through the 2027 general election, as trust in the US frays (Kati Pohjanpalo/Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

my fear from 7 months ago no longer feels like a fear, it’s just increasingly becoming the reality

Read our submission to the NSW Government's Social Issues Committee on “The State Of Live Music” sydneymusic.net/reads/sydney...

Read our submission to the NSW Government's Social Issues Committee on “The State Of Live Music” sydneymusic.net/reads/sydney...

Interesting. Is the crowd turning against Harry Styles? That new song definitely isn't doing well

Love music and in Sydney? @sydneymusic.net is doing a survey to collect feedback on our gig guide, and what our city needs. We'd hugely appreciate your input. Takes 5 minutes: sydneymusic.net/survey

Always good when proof of stupid laws rushed through parliament occurs quickly

Love music and in Sydney? @sydneymusic.net is doing a survey to collect feedback on our gig guide, and what our city needs. We'd hugely appreciate your input. Takes 5 minutes: sydneymusic.net/survey

Pretty good, honestly. Thoughtful presentation, and you might as well go all in on slop if you're going to properly examine it.

I got Claude Code to write me a GUI “Hello World” app in assembly code and... well, I'll be damned

Talking about this (and some great gigs) on ABC Radio Sydney at 9:35

I find this extraordinarily depressing from the NSW government's report on the Night-Time Economy (NTE) Source: www.nsw.gov.au/business-and...

Here's where live music happened in Sydney in 2025 (source: SydneyMusic.net gig guide)