"are you enjoying duo mobile" does a hamburger enjoy being made of quarks. does a fish enjoy linear time. does the mountain enjoy the first taste of a cup of hot chocolate when you get back to the ski lodge. your question means nothing to me. i couldn't enjoy duo mobile even if i tried

This Pluribus ad on a fridge caused a schizophrenic woman named Carol to be hospitalized.

This is a extremely poor idea: "According to revelations in Guardian Australia this week, there will be no safety net – no scope for either the NDIA delegate or the administrative appeals tribunal to amend the budget. In other words, the computer will have the final say."

📢 The government wants to outlaw drip pricing and subscription traps, targeting manipulative online tactics that cost Australians millions.

The time is upon us once more, godspeed all.

Loving that AI productivity boost! "the more artificial intelligence is used within a law firm, the more lawyers are needed to vet the technology’s outputs." www.afr.com/companies/pr...

Do this even if you are old.

I'm old. If you're not, listen to this. Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder. Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever. It's literally never been more important.

Mood

Part 218 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg dnd Ceramic hedgehog dated to the Neolithic period found at the Hamin archaeological site near Shebotu Town in Inner Mongolia, China

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

Been a bit time poor lately so had to do this in pieces over a few days. I think they’re more of a classic 90s boy band rather than a goth band.

Looks like we're getting an AI safety institute. Sensible. www.innovationaus.com/australia-to...

Privacy and AI Deregulation Will Be Bad for Innovation - my latest Substack open.substack.com/pub/danielso...

Was tickled by these two

If you need me, I’ll just be crumbling into dust like that guy at the end of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other. Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq

Time to move past the neverending trial stage. Yes, basic income reduces homelessness.

This actually brightened my day. You can defeat guardrails on LLM models by making your request in poetry. *cracks knuckles, climbs up library ladder, starts browsing* oh it's on now

Paying a ransomware demand makes businesses more likely to be targeted again despite the criminals’ assurances to the contrary, according to new Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) research that found Australian SMEs receiving multiple ransomware demands www.aic.gov.au/sites/defaul...

New laws could stop bosses using AI to set rosters, says Tech Council of Australia www.afr.com/work-and-car...

One of the lessons of new tech is that your intentions for your product do not matter to the market. People don't care how *you* meant the product to be used. The Street finds its own uses for things. Even propaganda machines.

We absolutely do not 'need humility' to engage with AI. Technology tools need to be designed around user needs, and prioritise user outcomes. And if the tools don't do that, we should not use them. Embedding AI into everything is not a fait accompli. We are doing this to ourselves.

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I’m way too pleased with myself on this one. Anyway, this is Sidney (the aggressor) and Daisy (the innocent party).

Alien (1979)

Oh there’s a crime here alright

techbros have invented...the handbag

VPNs are the cornerstone of all corporate security, so good luck with that.

"Draft changes would create new exceptions for AI companies that would allow them to legally process special categories of data (like a person’s religious or political beliefs, ethnicity or health data) to train and operate their tech" www.politico.eu/article/brus...

the government forcing the wiggles to do a podcast episode as punishment really shifts the Overton window of regulatory enforcement possibilities www.accc.gov.au/medi...

What is ‘prototyping’, a story in three acts.

There is no such thing as "just" metadata. ssd.eff.org/en/module/w...

Weekend painting subject identified.

Client: Our security is great! We don't need an assessment! Also client:

Australia's social media age restrictions, what's in and what's out, updated today. www.esafety.gov.au/about-us/ind...

One month out from the under-16s ban and almost all of the users caught up in the Discord data breach caused by age assurance appeals were based in Australia, OAIC has finally confirmed. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

What a pack of flamin’ galahs

ladies and gentlemen...we got him

I hardly needs be said, but 1) Facial recognition is flawed and does not have 100% accuracy 2) It's generally less accurate on POC 3) Any automated decision-making system needs an appeals mechanism, which would inc. referring to relevant evidence (e.g. ID docs). This is nuts.

Kind of an interesting story of the AFP cracking into a crypto wallet from the new commissioner today, after discovering random numbers in the notes app www.afp.gov.au/news-centre/...

This is like using a rube goldberg machine to open a door, millions of times a day. The power costs of this must be insane.

We can all agree that milestones and anniversaries are arbitrary and a social construct, but I think we should also jump at any reason to celebrate. So, in that vein, it’s been a whole year since I started sketching and painting. Let’s try a retrospective.

Toys “R” Us Canada warns customers' info leaked in data breach

This board game famously does not have any plot whatsoever.

This is deeply unethical

Films: We need to hack a keycard, obtained by seducing one of the guards. We then need to drop in from the skylight after jumping from a plane, and dodge all of the lasers and traps, carefully switching the jewels for fakes that weigh the same to avoid tripping the alarm. Real life:

US credit and data trader Experian has been fined €2.7 million by the Dutch privacy watchdog AP for illegally collecting and selling personal information to assess creditworthiness www.dutchnews.nl/2025/10/priv...

Who exactly is the market for the toilet cam that secures pictures of your bowel movements with end to end encryption?

I feel like there will be lots of submissions to inquiries that will be like this now. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...