By the way, Albo could have avoided all this drama but simply not agreeing to participate in a word association game during an event hosted by the Herald Sun

"It is a hundred and sixty-five degrees on this planet, and I can't hear in this thing! I was just repeating what I thought the guy was saying!" youtu.be/ll-paoQXRSA?...

Whole Foods AI stores were entirely Indians watching on video feeds and ringing you up. Waymos have live human support partially driving them. And the AI that has “Hollywood shaking in its boots” is…stock footage. With face replacement. Yeah. We are sooooooo cooked, AI bros. Call me when it works.

UPDATE: After all that, the Pitt/Cruise AI fight scene appears to have been just digital BG and face replacement on multi-angle green screen reference videos of two real live human stuntees fighting. In other words, like most AI hype — it was a con. www.shokunin.studio/blog/2026/2/...

And even if it worked as a story, it’s still not a viable business model. The technology to take copyrighted footage of Pitt or Cruise and cut them into “your” movie has existed for decades. People don’t do it because they’d get the shit sued out of them. That’s what should happen here, too.

There's a dog on the ski slope, there's a dog on the ski slope! Everyone look, there's a dog on the Olympic ski slope!

Fuck yes bring it #deadlochS2

its wild that australia's most coherent politician is a former professional rugby player who spends half his day posting thirst traps on instagram

Yeah it is genuinely fucking scaring me the degree to which all our cultural output about nuclear war lately seems to present it as a Struggle That Humanity Will Emerge From Stronger. We honestly cannot allow that message to propagate in our fictions, because it *will* doom us. Nuclear War is not…

The Behind the Bastards podcast 5-parter on "The Men Who Might Have Killed Us All" was a terrifying eye-opener for me as a Millennial. Hearing about how much some people wanted an excuse to use them, how lax the controls were, that a power outage could bring us closer to annihilation

Ron Baumann, one of the 4000-odd Jewish people living in QLD responded directly to #Crisafulli's tweet:

Over the past two weeks I've begun to realize that rich people only started funding chatbots once they could no longer email Jeffrey Epstein

Money can buy happiness. If Elon Musk built a rocket and shot himself into the fucking sun that would generate massive happiness.

"AI doesn't work" is incorrect. It functions perfectly as a plausible-looking bullshit generator used by fascists and pseudoscientists to inflict major damage on societies.

Well this is just fucking great

Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.

someone make a fed group chat and just add them all in by themselves and have them entrap each other

LMAO

Finally watched Sinners, whose main message seems to be that Irish people appreciate good music but are not always sensitive to local norms in their desire to join a rollicking party

Australia needs to exit AUKUS and the 5-Eyes, close Pine Gap and end U.S. military training in the N.T.

Huh this kind of works

Look he sounds to be in tune and following the beat, which puts him ahead of every other pollie in this countdown. #Coldest100

I had to look up the full version - unironically love it. #Coldest100 youtu.be/C7bnFPaGnkc?...

COLDEST 100: 2026 EDITION 100. Pub Feed (2022) The Wiggles #coldest100 #hottest100 youtu.be/jS9Z4MfOjSE

won’t somebody think of the childrennnn

Bluesky users: wtf, Trump admin created a coal mascot? Aussies: haha yeah...who does that... Can you imagine... archive.junkee.com/hector-the-g...

Eastern Kentucky coal fair cultural victory, I fear

They had the audacity to claim Bluesky didn't have the juice, but not since peak Twitter have I logged off for an evening and come back to my entire feed speaking in a new language of rapid-fire in-jokes that I have to reverse-engineer to figure out what's happening. That, my friends, is The Juice.

Whoever has sent me a DM on here, I can't read it because I refuse to give my private identity details to an off-shore 3rd party Meaning - BlueSky has disabled the messages feature here unless you provide them with your age However, @bsky.app have farmed age verification out to this crowd 👇🏽

we're getting all the downsides of cyberpunk (social alienation, ruthless hyper capitalism, digital mass surveillance state) but none of the promised upsides (cheap street food, cool jackets, super drugs that make you really fast and strong before they kill you)

Imagine if #Russia would be destroying the headquarters of UN's UNCHR in #Ukraine today. It would be the leading news in the 'West', eclipsing Trump and Greenland. #Israel is today destroying the headquarters of UN's UNRWA (@unrwa.org) in #Palestine. And it goes almost unreported in the 'West'.

So OpenAI wants to license chatGPT generated content under what sounds an awful lot like copyright while their entire product and business model is predicated on using other people's content for free? Are those people listening to themselves?

Cat wandered in front of the camera during the #aurora long exposure

Not sure this counts as a timeline cleanse but check out the weird little cars I made

"Well then what's the point in even going?" chaser.com.au/world/trump-...

"organized gangs of wine moms" These are the women who run PTAs and fundraisers, they manage schedules, supplies, task allocation and communication daily, you bet your ass they're organised

For years I’ve been dodging around staff with huge trolleys stocking shelves at all hours to the detriment of aisle space & customer safety - a job that used to be its own shift, ‘Night fill’. It used to happen AT NIGHT, when the shop was closed. There’s no register staff, no cleaners, no night fill

I just think we all need to take a deep cleansing breath and then calmly overthrow a government

Two Aliens Looking At Bluesky

The dude from OneTel is bang on the money.

The social media ban for under 16s was touted as protecting the kids from online abuse. but really it doesn't stop them being victims of CSAM, from shitbags on X manipulating photos of them, just means that they might be unaware of the abuse. Might be time to ban the use of X in Australia

augh I cannot keep going, there are just way too many. Go read @parkermolloy.com www.readtpa.com/p/grok-cant-...

Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over

Haha predicted this one about a month ago bsky.app/profile/kimm...

It's more than 1,000km from any capital city, but Cameron Corner, at the junction of the NSW, Queensland and South Australian borders, reckons it has one of the best New Year's Eve parties going around because it is a triple celebration over three time zones.