Playing this instead of my morning doomscroll. Really charming and impressive storytelling for a browser-based game. Blew my mind when I saw another player running around...

The Riyadh Comedy Festival is a pretty good excuse to talk about art washing and how Australia does many of the terrible things they do. But also how badass is this photo of Atsuko Okatsuka who turned down Riyadh blood money and leaked the censorship clauses. thiscouldbeit.ghost.io/riyadh-i-har...

“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.

Reading AI slop has made my job orders of magnitude more difficult thanks I hate it so much: "Employees are using AI tools to create low-effort, passable looking work that ends up creating more work for their coworkers." hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g...

In my opinion the internet is better when people are on their own little sites minding their business talking to people they’re interested in talking to. It’s worse when there are two websites and everyone on them has been driven insane by an algorithm designed to drive them insane.

The other thing I don't think many really appreciate yet is you can't check the age of teenagers without checking the age of everyone. This will impact the online privacy and experience of everyone. bsky.app/profile/came...

I tried to queue up some music in my office the other day on a new device

Under 16s social media ban is going to: - Push kids into worse, more dangerous content - Risk the privacy of every adult Australian via botched age verification - Limit Australian technology sector development Why are we doing this again?

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...

Wow, age assurance on Discord is here. Options are verify your "age group" or log out...

ANTIFA?? Oh you mean Porco Rosso?

Trailer for our new #inidegame called Penguin Colony! We are collaborating with Lenval Brown (Disco Elysium, Ultrakill) to bring this unique re-imagining to life www.youtube.com/watch?v=aylG...

SLIME! I have a Physarum polycephalum-inspired piece of workplace satire in the latest edition of The Suburban Review, amongst some other talented friends: thesuburbanreview.com/issues/39-cl... (Support ozlit, especially when it's weird and slime thanks x)

“If we’ve learned anything from the recent slew of Zionist attacks on culture in Australia, it’s that institutions — mainly universities — are often a poisoned chalice for writers and editors.” Deputy editor Eli McLean on the closure of MEANJIN.

In no way should it take a UN body to issue a report for people to accept this, *but* this does clearly does help get the normies activated and aware (particularly when published on an outlet like the ABC). Send it around! www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

If you submit your stuff to us you help us fulfil our longterm goal of making Americans confused by ANZ summer

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What legend at Media Watch came up with “The Benjamin Button of late night TV” to describe Caleb Bond

The federal government wants fewer FOIs. Crikey wants more. We know filing FOIs can be daunting — so let us do it for you! For the next few weeks, we're accepting ideas for requests that we'll take, shape, file and then will keep you in the loop when we hear back. www.crikey.com.au/20...

With Meanjin, my guess is that MUP are just waiting till the fuss blows over. To help keep the fuss going, you could write directly to: -the chair of the MUP board, Warren Bebbington [email protected]. -the Vice-Chancellor, Uni of Melbourne, Emma Johnston - [email protected].

After a year of work I've finally released my adventure game. It's called Maura and Ash, and it's designed for MS-DOS. You can download it or play it in the browser right now! moralrecordings.itch.io/mauraash #msdos #pointandclick #adventuregame

It’s ludicrous and insulting to suggest that the richest university in Australia can’t afford the two part-time wages to run Meanjin. Also: did they even try to save it? Donation drive? Philanthropic efforts? Offering it to another institution? No. The university council shut it down intentionally.

A lot of people trying to "well actually" me on this post and what you have to understand is I had a martini but I still think generative AI is largely rubbish

I'm looking for stories about how AI is killing creative work, and I'd love to hear from you—artists, writers, illustrators, actors, designers, editors, voice actors and narrators—if your job or practice has been hit. This is going to be a big one. [email protected]

“People doubted the Internet, too” no we doubted NFTs and the metaverse and other such bullshit these snake oil peddlers tried to hustle shut up

This collection has been such a dream experience for my first piece in print (Mykaela is an amazing editor, the UQP team are champions, lineup of some of the best writers I know) and seeing people continue to engage with the stories is such a nice reminder of why we make art.

If indie/alt writing in Australia has ever had a great champion, it’s Dan Hogan, one of the best Australian poets of all time. To have them review and love Nock Loose so brilliantly means the absolute world to me. Check it out! overland.org.au/2025/09/prou...

And I wrote a kind of eulogy for Graeber, as his death really bothered me. (Rubbish timing Dave, by the way. We could really use your voice & activism now). overland.org.au/2020/09/vale...

I don't get how people don't realize that a technology that replaces junior and entry level positions in a field destroys that field. There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.

Report here: ageassurance.com.au/report/

Report here: ageassurance.com.au/report/

I think if Britain colonised your country of origin you should get free BBC iplayer.

Promise?????

Ruby's interaction& visual design for this work is next level. Literally built a system from scratch. Live performance + u get to be on ur phone all the time...how can u miss this?? <3

I think it’s safe to say: this is the biggest pro-Palestine rally that this city has ever seen. Brisbane Sanctions and action now @albomp.bsky.social #Auspol #MarchForPalestine #Genocide

Melbourne turns out against genocide. People of the world are waking up as a genocide against one people is a genocide against humanity as a whole.

The Productivity Commission talks a big about living standards… talk is all it has, tbh

"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense

If the investors/publishers/capitalists want to make new precedents that they don’t have to fund the development of games anymore. It is up to developers to set a precedent that we are not offering 30% for that kind of deal #indiedev #gamedev

"Maybe you will build those toxic – emotionally, spiritually, environmentally – simulacra engines and suck up all the water and tank the energy grid w/ the demand for the worst art ever made." @squigglyrick.bsky.social takes on AI slop (unlike AI slop, it's ace) rick-morton.ghost.io/crumbs-at-th...

"I am a visionary disruptor who is always looking to improve. THEY are recalcitrant Luddites who refuse to change." No, Dave, they just think the chatbot sucks and your work has gotten sloppy and unreadable.

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newsletter.lifewithmachines.media/p/why-ai-is-... from @lifewithmachines.bsky.social

Right. And with the current moves of the State, folks who hold on to the permitting of such moves will be stand for *literally* nothing.

Sadly “AI is the future” is true in the same way as “gas is a transition fuel”; not because of any science-fictive ability to predict the future, but it can be made true by the billions spent on marketing and the capture of governments.

why is "Harvard dropouts launch" always followed by "a wearable Torment Nexus" and not "themselves into the sun".

MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.

Invisible ink, key cryptography, hosting, probing state surveillance mechanisms, and other acts of care... read the Advanced Secret Keepers dispatch written by Seldom Chen, where she reflects on privacy and intimacy in the context of her class: sfpc.study/blog/advance...

Are there any companies that have guidelines discouraging employees from outsourcing their critical thinking skills to a chatbot, or are we just going to have to sit around until the bubble pops?