It's absolutely astonishing: In just about 13 years, Norway has skyrocketed from virtually no sales of zero-emission battery electric vehicles to nearly 100% of all new passenger car purchases.

We switched off YT Premium Family because we felt the ads might add some incentive to watch less YT for our teens. Ms16 flagged some really gross ads are starting to appear regularly so we're switching it back on. But bad luck if your kid is under 16 come December. You can't opt out of the ads.

Anyone else stuck in the lobby for rapture tickets? Says I’m 144,005th in the queue. What’s the chance I’m gonna get in? Don’t wanna sit here all day if not.

Adding to the chorus: big part of rise in autism diagnosis is because in less than 20 years we've gone from erring on the side of no verification because "stigma" to giving the verification because it's good for people to know themselves.

Imagine pretending you’re doing science so badly you target a brand name rather than an actual medication.

Head of the AMA, Danielle McMullen: "There are no studies showing that paracetamol use in pregnancy causes autism." Any journalists giving one iota of credence to Trump's claims deserve to be sacked for propagating lies.

Another thousand days of this shit?

Journalists need to be very very careful reporting on the paracetamol story. This is no time for straw man reporting or headlining Trump's statement without commentary, because all most people will see is the headline and take it as gospel. 1/

Bluesky auto mod is hiding almost every image as graphic today. I do like to use ‘warn’ mode but if everything is labeled then it’s more useless than nothing being labeled.

Important: there is a pub in Holborn where a cat wears a ruff. His name is The General

Happy 25th birthday, Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn. A titan of AD&D CRPGing, a game that I was SO excited to play in 2000 and did not disappoint. Higher-level adventures that took us from the streets of Amn to the Underdark and across the Planes. You'll always have a special place in my heart.

I'll be at UNSW Founders next Wednesday talking 'Content Strategy 101' to help folks understand why it's good to write blogs and newsletters for a new business sooner than you might think. All are welcome. Come on down! www.eventbrite.com.au/e/content-st...

I conducted an experiment on what Tiktok and YouTube recommends when not logged in on the app. Given the social media ban only covers accounts, hard not to see this could be the experience for teens in Australia come December. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/s...

How secure do you think Truth Social DMs would really be?

One more reminder that Slack is a terrible choice for communities, and extorts even nonprofits. Even when it’s one teaching teens to code, for free. Hack Club is moving to Mattermost. They really have no choice. Just a poor taste how Slack demands $50K in a week, no real notice

Congratulations to PhD student Caroline Gardam (@cazuarina.bsky.social), Dr Michelle Riedlinger (@riedlinm.bsky.social), Dr Daniel Angus (@antmandan.bsky.social), and DMRC alum Jane Tan for their new paper on the multimodal narratives of climate denial.

Hi Bluesky! The diagram for puzzle lovers. Save it so you can find these games on Steam later 🎮💥 #puzzle #games #Steam #indiegames #puzzles #game #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev #streamers #youtubers #streamer #YouTuber #stream #twitch #youtube

Such creamy muzzle.

I'm so old I can't understand why people post selfies in 'save as appears on screen' mode in public. There's backwards text! Argh!! STOP!!!

I'll be at UNSW Founders next Wednesday talking 'Content Strategy 101' to help folks understand why it's good to write blogs and newsletters for a new business sooner than you might think. All are welcome. Come on down! www.eventbrite.com.au/e/content-st...

The full guidelines for what "reasonable steps" means for blocking under 16s from social media has been released. www.esafety.gov.au/industry/reg...

Just a little observation that the metadata on the website for the National Climate Risk Assessment shows the report was uploaded on Thursday last week, but effectively withheld from public visibility until today.

About eight years ago my smart smoke detector randomly said “hello?” in the deepest hours of the night. Never again since. Rarely a day passes when I don’t think about that real life horror movie moment.

Love it when public officials or prominent figures write op-eds for free to put in major news outlets where the article is paywalled. Excellent public service. Maybe give it to The Conversation next time? Or the ABC? Or demand free access for your free contribution?

Infinity Castle LET’S GOOOOO!!!

it remains absolutely insane to me that the world's major news desks contain almost NO full-time video game experts. Sure might be useful to have experienced journalists on-hand at a time like this!

@durhampsych.bsky.social current has 5 (FIVE!!) PhD studentships being advertised! 3 to work with me on children as agents of cultural evolution 2 to work with @drboothroyd.bsky.social on examining school-based body image interventions. Please share and apply! www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT! @mahliann.bsky.social, @marcuscarter.com, and myself have combined our collective brains and written a wide-reaching introduction to the complex and interdisciplinary field of Game Studies in this forthcoming book for Polity. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

Saying the closure of Meanjin is on “pure financial grounds” feels more callous than some other reason. Yes, we put a price on our custodianship of this home for thought and literature. We decided it is not worth even a small fraction of our marketing budget nor a slice of one executive salary.

It is easy to dismiss this as a single publication ending, but it’s a wider _infrastructural_ loss - and as Louise Adler says, easy to close, very hard to rebuild. These decisions have disastrous long term consequences beyond a single slice of the cultural sector

Pie Shop Simulator

Went to Truth Social to verify if a weird thing doing the rounds is real, but wow is the advertising quantity and quality on there something to behold.

Chatting on ABC Evenings NSW shortly for my usual Monday night tech download. Age verification tech trial, meta's dodgy celebrity chatbots, Grok suing Apple and OpenAI, and Uni of Melbourne reprimanded for using wifi to ID protesters. Wall to wall "tech is not as fun as it used to be" bangers!

A good thread, one thing I’d recommend is that if you make a demo, set a time limit or an end point and make it SHORT Otherwise you will have the same people hanging around your booth when you’re trying to show your game to more people. And put a call to action on the demo end like a QR code link

Sub-editor: "Hey, just fact checking this part of your story. Where did you get this statistic?" Me: "Ummm... yeah, I've checked my draft and that wasn't in there. Someone else added that after I submitted it." Just the funnest topic of conversation.

Arnott’s new packet design looks like a default font accidentally printed the biscuit name.

60 years on and it’s clear that film posters have died as an art form.

Dear journalists: The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her. Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.

I’ve cried at the end of some amazing novels but I never stopped to think the book might be alive.

Spent the last two weeks in World of Warcraft raiding for the first time and discovering I'm really bad at raiding. But everyone has been really nice and forgiving of my terrible performance so that's good. We killed Dimensius but I was lying in the dirt for most of the fight.

I’m really confused why they’re not sending the military into states like Tennessee, Texas, Florida, Alabama, Missouri, and Louisiana, for example, that all have cities with violent crime rates far higher than Chicago. So curious…

The big tech era continues to feel like it’s built on the idea that enabling crimes at ungodly scale means they aren’t crimes anymore. Scams? Abuse? IP theft? Do it 10 times and you go to jail. Do it 10 billion times and it’s a business model.

Altman is too fast to accept criticism. It’s obviously an internet defence mechanism to avoid abuse. But bad leadership. I’ve seen good arguments for why GPT5 is better on key issues (eg, hallucination). The fact he is more often quoted accepting criticism than defending choices is weak leadership.

New ADM+S Podcast episode: PhD researcher Samantha @floreani.bsky.social explores her study on the growing influence of digital technologies in the residential real estate sector. 🎧 Listen now: admscentre.org/461k5OE

South Australia's government has introduced legislation that will impose some limits on the documents landlords and agents can demand + include rules about protecting and destroying tenant information www.premier.sa.gov.au/media-releas...

Every self-identified artist should get free subscriptions to the maximum pro tier of every AI tool. What do you mean that would overload their AI data centres and make the tech unviable? Hmmm... I thought AI and creative industries were meant to make hard decisions to support each other?

Flipside to context collapse is that these people forget that the podcast they feel comfortable saying wild things on will be visible beyond that show's core audience. Which is probably helpful because we get to see just how captured they are by their own hype.

This is a really nice article about the early days of one of the great sport sims. Definitely a formative gaming experience for me - I remember my mind being blown that this could even be a thing when I first found it. Nice one @keefstuart.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/games/2025/a...

My favourite part of Productivity is when management get out of the way of staff so they can Do The Thing, and give them the resources and support systems they need to Smash The Thing. Is that on the table in Canberra this week?

The phrase "productivity slump" I keep hearing in news bulletins sure seems to be designed for a certain kind of approach to thinking about the purpose of work, worker rights, and worker pay.