Not at Kawaiicon but wanna see my talk on Bullshit Jobs in InfoSec? They are live streaming it! kawaiicon.org/livestream/ I'll be on around 2:15pm NZDT

1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution. The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵

It's PRE REG DAY! Don't be on time - cause we are running late :D Pre-reg will start closer to 1pm. So grab some lunch, then come by MFC after 1pm!

Last nights conference talk nightmares included: having a dream I forgot my macOS adapter (despite it having inbuilt HDMI) and trying to make last minute changes to include a slide that says “consider becoming a Luddite”. 💀

HELLO WELLINGTON YOU ARE LIGHTLY WINDY

A great talk by @attacus.net from this year's #PyConAU All models are wrong, but some are useful.

Tom Sulston, the head of policy at Digital Rights Watch, said it appeared the industry was giving combatting misinformation a “brush-off” as too difficult to police. But Sulston said misinformation remains a big problem that social media platforms profit from

The Libby app is one of the miracles of modern tech tbh

got old issues of APC magazine lying around? give them to me so I can scan them for the internet archive - I made a list of the issues currently missing, share this post and maybe we can find them and complete the set blog.decryption.net.au/posts/apc-ca...

If blood is 55% water why did the Wicked Witch melt?

“We’re seeing our sales drop, but we’re also seeing a lot of dear friends and colleagues decide to close up shop. It just feels like there is no possible way to proactively comply with the requirements that are being asked of us, and that that’s an intentional move on the part of lawmakers.”

When people say "We used to drink raw milk from our own cow and it was fine," That's... usually not the case! In families w their own cow, the mom usually boiled it before using. We just forgot bc that's a boring chore that mom did. And who pays attention to that? youtu.be/vKDPast9WFk

Thanks for having us! I also made ref to a zine, '40 Ways to Fight Fascists: Street-Legal Tactics For Community Activists' by @transform6789.bsky.social et al, which is a US publication but provides good general principles which can be adapted to the AUS context. justseeds.org/graphic/40-w...

Meanjin is another causality to the anti-critical thought crusade. This is linked to the push to only have degrees that lead to "real jobs", the push to ease copyright laws to assist AI companies & the campaign to silence "dissenting" voices who say free Palestine. Goal: no empathy just obedience

Approximately $1200 per applicant, Commonwealth admits no liability. Is this a good settlement for Robodebt? I don't think so.

Note from my notebook (2017).

Exclusive | Louise Adler told Crikey, “Institutions like Meanjin, and it is an institution, are easy to close down. Their replacements much harder to create."

I’ll be honest I’m going to become that person who has “the printer computer” whose only job is to run the Konica Minolta BizHub universal print driver and no one will be able to touch it except me.

They Vote for You but it tells you if your local member went to a Nazi rally.

There are some big fuck off ravens that hang out at the church across the road. I will make them my friends.

In September I'm running follow up interviews on bullshit jobs and I am considerably worried I will cause at least one existential crisis.

I don’t know how ransom note authors do it! I spent 30 minutes this morning collecting words out of a magazine and I still don’t have enough to write one lousy letter.

Flights booked to Aotearoa so it looks like I'm locked in now.

Key stakeholders in Australia’s social media age assurance trial frozen out amid media leaks and resignations www.theguardian.com/media/2025/a...

IDF statement after bombing a hospital (probably): “They didn’t die from our bombs, they had pre-existing conditions”

Workday: no customer data was accessed… Also workday: customer data was accessed…

If Together was written and directed by a man the ending would have been dramatically different.

I really enjoyed the email is easy quiz, but I implore you to understand that most of those rules are in informational track. They aren’t part of the standards track.

if anyone would like to come work with me, there's a senior engineering manager role open 😎

Glad to see the pushback on payment processors regarding games. But remember, the fight is far from over. There is still an effort to criminalize porn, and hopefully we all know by now that porn can mean anything from OF to books to games to magazine covers. www.thepinknews.com/2025/05/13/p...

We've put together our top tips for journalists to help guide you through the do's and don'ts of reporting on neo-Nazis. Please share it with your colleagues, and feel free to get in touch with us with any feedback. thewhiterosesociety.writeas.com/9-principles...

Remember the ppl I posted about who were screaming about running a lizard brothel? They kicked our new handmade, painted gate. It’s literally less than 24 hours old 💀

"Once you’ve built the system to block kids from YouTube, you’ve built the system to block anyone from anything. And that system will be irresistible to future governments with different ideas about what content people need to be 'protected' from." — @mmasnick.bsky.social in @techdirt.com

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Notes and picture exploring The Majazz Project... www.candicepurwin.com/the-goblin-comic-library/2025/8/5/palestine-sounds-like-resistance

I made a little #zine identifier format because I’m a big nerd. You should read about it because it’s fun and maybe a little cute! #zinester ko-fi.com/post/Introdu...

@greyoctagon.bsky.social and I spoke to @kateconger.com about the bottoms-up to top-down culture change at Google, and how executives are using the threat of job loss to force us to work on AI that they intend to use to replace our jobs. (it's not ready yet! but that future is coming.) gift link:

My bowling average is still piss poor but my line drills are looking good.

Very excited because "Conspiracy Nation" just arrived which is going to help me on my 2025 endeavour of reading more about conspiracy culture. I'm actually really pumped about this one because it's about Australian conspiracy culture. bsky.app/profile/errb...

Tried to lay out where we know things stand with the social media ban after this week. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Literally 20 minutes into war of the world revival and I want to go back to the Tom cruise one… which for record is also really bad

You know how I know War of the Worlds revival is bullshit? Because MS teams call quality is never that good.

On a related note, the Catalyst infoshoppe/social centre in Coburg faces a challenging future. catalystcentre.net

Steam and itch.io have removed thousands of video games in recent weeks deemed to be "adult content" in order to comply with strict rules from payment processors like Mastercard. These policies censor artists engaged in lawful speech. Mastercard shouldn't be the gatekeepers of our digital freedom.

Are you a #zinester? Maybe you just love paper and staples? Good news for you I’ve made a #zine about just that! Paper and staples! And how to make them kisth. • Digital: ko-fi.com/s/ac5577dd04 • Physical: ko-fi.com/s/675a265403 Use the code ILOVESTAPLES for 50% off digital zines.

If the tea app thing has proven anything to me it’s women are damned if they do and damned if they don’t.

I wonder how many reports of ineffectiveness and decreased effectiveness are raised by AFAB people whose GPs and psychiatrists didn’t warn them about menstruation’s effects on effectiveness. 🤪 www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

Heyo #infoSec / #Cyber friends, @errbufferoverfl.bsky.social is doing some research for a talk. Please help them out: cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/for... It takes a few moments and would be lovely for your insights to be included.

#j25antifa Tomorrow, July 25, is The International Day of Solidarity With Antifascist Prisoners. For more infos, please see: supportantifaprisoners.wordpress.com

"She wants to obtain the termination before she begins to show signs of pregnancy, so that her father [is] not alerted to her pregnancy," If this doesn't ring alarm bells for everyone in the session, i honestly don't know what will www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...