how about you care about actual fucking people on this planet before you start wondering if your toaster has a soul. Once everyone materially demonstrates they care for all people on this planet and we deal WITH ALL THAT and all the animals too then we can talk about your nonsense.

I feel like I should see more of Australia, the pacific islands, and Asia in 2026. What conferences should I submit papers to?

Dear computer boffins please stop trying to fix problems I don’t have | First Dog on the Moon

I have way too much experience with depression to romanticize it or think it's somehow a sign of clear-eyed realism. Depression has blatantly lied to me about my situation on many occasions.

"Every age assurance vendor that we tested had one bypass that was easily accomplished with things that you could buy at your local $2 shop," said Professor Shaanan Cohney from the University of Melbourne. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

In case anyone is wondering why I'm so mean and hostile to AI nerds, it's not just the blatant theft and unsustainability it's this ⬇️

In food history, we notice how super-refined foods--gelatin, vienna sausage, white bread--lose class and become horrifying once they become industrialized. Suddenly, fingermarks in bread dough demonstrate skill, not clumsiness. Post-chatGPT, I'm feeling this about writing. Smoothness feels gross.

Mamdani managed to get the NYPD defunded just from the threat of winning election. What a result!

Bin-go

Hey @legaleagle.tv When was the last time anyone brought a case over 4 US § 8 , particularly (i) and (j)? Who has the right / authority to bring such an action?

has there been a good technical piece written about the Optus shit? I want/need to know what's actually failing.

When you get made redundant because of an AI but you can't collect unemployment because of another AI so you try to go see the latest movie, written and generated by an AI, but the bank customer service AI can't help you unfreeze your account, will you get it? Because it's not in 10 years. It's now.

ok fine redbubble.com/shop/ap/17447768…

vulnerability is an enormous aspect of love and its hard to understand just how *physically* vulnerable our pets are and what it means for them

“I am unlucky” - woe is me, let me place you a song on the world’s tiniest violin, etc “My luck was needed elsewhere” - gives a sense of cosmic awareness, a sense of peace, what does he know that I don’t?

The fascists went to Newcastle. Newcastle said gan an fuck yersells.

One thing I've learned from the Internet is that a lie needs 0% proof to be believed, but the truth requires thousands of pages of proof and still won't be believed.

when people read a post about fascism in tech and treat it as a personal attack on their tech choices, that's a tell that saves a lot of time going forward

Aotearoa moves to daylight saving time tonight, so here's your reminder to ⏩ 🕑 Set your clocks forward 🪫 🧑‍🚒 Check the batteries in your smoke detectors 🎟️ 👕 Get your Kiwi PyCon Tickets, Workshops and T-shirts 👉 shop.kiwipycon.nz

Oh, come on. If a company's systems and processes are so fragile that a single "human error" causes such an outage, their systems and processes are manifestly inadequate.

Just a reminder that no politician or bureaucrat has ever faced any charges for Robodebt

Time spent scritching animals is not deducted from your lifespan

Just a reminder for the Melbourne cybersecurity people that we run a meetup for OT cybersecurity education at our Cremorne office every other month. There are community speakers and food & drinks. I am setting up the snacks right now: meetu.ps/e/PbvYT/6xCRH/i

One for law/criminal justice/"AI" fans: www.reddit.com/r/publicdefe...

If your intended audience can't understand your instructions, can't be bothered to carry out your instructions, and/or following your instructions fails to actually solve the problems that they have, you're just masturbating.

2. Do not give advice you haven't tried implementing yourself. Eat your own dog food. 3. Get feedback on your guide from your target audience before publication. 4. Incorporate that feedback. This is not an optional step.

There is a lot of demand for digital privacy and security advice out there right now and lots of people are giving advice and writing guides. I beg them to do a few things: 1. Be explicit about the threat model your advice is meant for.

Wouldn't it be nice if @atlassian.bsky.social would stop gradually making their products worse? Apparently a +24 / -41 PR is "large" ... far too large to show all at once. Makes you wonder who screwed up their rendering so much that this is now a performance limit for them...

So if you’re a member of Professionals Australia they have a member-run Discord you can join. If you can’t find your way in then PM me and I’ll hook you up.

A clean energy source I did not have on my bingo card. 🧪 newatlas.com/energy/elect...

ok I know I've already posted this one but I really gotta link to it again bc we've seen panel seven play out a couple times this week already, and this "White House raises questions about Trump's signature" bullshit is a prime example of panel six. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Holy crap, Darwin folks, are you aware of this shitfuckery in your neighbourhood???

You don’t have to be over 50 years old to get access to free health screenings: www.health.gov.au/topics/cance...

If anyone wanted to explain to me how you get a synthesiser to make the sound used in the bass line of Front 242's "Headhunter" I'd love to know. One of the all-time banger bass lines in every way.

Key of Breath ☁️

Last night, representatives from anti-fascist groups, socialists, Indigenous activists and unionists, came together to discuss how we can defeat the far right. 1/3

As far as I can tell this Manchester UK guitar player hasn’t made an album since 2017 and never got any kind of attention but I randomly found his stuff and it is astonishing. If anyone knows anything about him I am all ears youtu.be/2ntX6cjGht4?...

Celebrated Navajo (Diné) artist Marilou Schultz recently completed a striking weaving. Although this rug may appear abstract, it is a representation of the wiring inside an integrated circuit. It shows the 555 timer, said at one point to be the world's most popular IC. Let's take a closer look...

Attention fellow AUSTRALIANS! 🇦🇺 We now have an official petition to parliament to STOP MASTERCARD and VISA from its campaign of censorship, restricting what legal products we can buy. Please sign it now, and if you're not an Aussie, spread the word! www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...

such a classic scene

Federal public servants are about to start bargaining for our new EBA, so make sure you fill out the survey that was sent by the CPSU and use the free text fields as much as you want! - if you're not a member or want to get more involved, join up and email (link to both in bio) youtu.be/vtUKjpPd5RI

The only things I find myself wanting an AI summary of is excessively verbose documents produced by another AI. 🤔

Aaaaand the main business case for consumer LLMs is revealed. It's for gathering data on users, creating profiles, and targeting us with ads and propaganda. Hooray -- it's Web 2.0 with chatbots!

We learned 30 years ago with command injection and SQL injection that you can NEVER mix code and untrusted data safely. It took forever to get people to adopt safe APIs that don't. The AI jokers have built systems that provably CAN'T separate code and data. "Can you prompt inject? YES, always"

I wrote a bit about options for phones at protests, explaining the benefits and drawbacks, and added some security tips at the end.

in security circles, they have a saying: Never write your own crypto that's why I get ChatGPT to write crypto for me!

Ethics, social studies, and history should all be mandatory learning. "But I'm an engineer" or "but I'm a scientist," they'll say, " those are humanities subjects "... Yes, that is literally the point. Everything you do affects humanity, and that impact needs to be understood by everyone involved.

Western Sydney University has advised thousands of current and former students to take action after multiple cyber attacks saw sensitive personal information leaked to the dark web www.news.com.au/national/nsw...

"Computer science isn't political!", they said. "I'm just going to develop AI products for startup cash and to draw cute girls", they said. "You're over reacting and making everything political", they said. We need ethics training in engineering.