As they say in the Victorian Liberal Party "that's a nice headlock, sir. Ah yes, I see that you know your judo well"

Research finds an interesting correlation between confidence in AI output and belief in the paranormal. Another correlation I'm seeing with belief in the paranormal is the use of rhetorical tricks to flip the burden of evidence on to the person asking for it.

Tonight's the last out-of-hours Specification By Example workshop. So much more than a Gherkin tutorial! Driving designs from end goals, MVPs, and rapidly iterating designs in thin vertical slices. And there's *one more chance* to join us for the extended version of *all* the workshops next week.

Hectares of this nonsense. It's simple. He's some blend of cooker and chancer. The exact titration matters not at all.

Won't somebody think of the shitposters?

I think about this CONSTANTLY. I am old enough to remember when teens accessing porn was going to destroy the world. Turns out the real threat of the internet was Boomers getting endless meme-ified confirmation of their priors on FB.

The whole AI thing is shit, but the content flows are incredible.

No one wants our loose cops carrying, let alone ethno-religious cults with shooters. Get fucked.

Cordially inviting Moira Deeming to go back to the 1800s or wherever the fuck she came from

"World leading legislation" that hasn't worked at all. Ok. Have a biscuit.

The biggest datasets from outfits who are in a position to collect hard data from real dev teams, like Faros and CircleCI, show beyond any reasonable doubt that the *average* team that uses AI for code generation is outperformed in software delivery by the average team that doesn't. True story.

Same for Victoria please

Anecdata from a waiting room: our health system is fucked without migration.

Periodically in the history of the Commonwealth of Australia the 'mainstream' conservative force has lost or collapsed, and then mated in a bucket with who was around and re-emerged with a new name. I just didn't really think I'd see it happen live.

Housing prices having more than trebled in the past 20 years, this is wonderful news for young people and renters, at last. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

Some amazing quotes in this article about how Ford replaced hundreds of engineers with AI, which broke a bunch of shit causing billions in damage and forcing them to rehire those people. www.the-independent.com/tech/ford-ai...

I'm not going to be schooled on ‘Monoculture’ by a Queenslander who thinks daylight savings is too much diversity.

NANCY PELOSI: We must find the next generation of Democratic leadership. Young, charismatic and exciting candidates who can energize the party. People that voters love because they're not 80 years old and sold out to big capital. CHUCK SCHUMER (behind sniper rifle): Found one PELOSI: Take the shot

You, and your robot friend. Apologies TMBG. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Yet more evidence for a Facebook ban on over 50’s

So many of them. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Whatever the hell *all this* is, according to ABC news just now it is actually a good thing for the Victorian Liberals when you really think about it as they can unite around their leader. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Jacinta Allan has been attacked plenty, but the record matters: thousands of new homes, major regional investment, rail upgrades, and big infrastructure already delivered or underway. You can argue about politics, but you can’t pretend there’s no substance. She’s been working for Victoria.

Every AI booster who hand waved away the issues with data centers is also responsible, every one of them claiming this capex is reasonable, rational or necessary too. What an ugly, wasteful and destructive era, almost entirely powered by deception and theft.

instead of crushing feral kids ebikes they should crush the RAM truck their dad undoubtedly drives

'Unless they bring back the guy who likes Nazis, they've lost me!' tvtonight.com.au/2026/06/ill-...

If it turns out a false police report was made that person needs to face the full consequences of the law. Victims have a hard enough time as it is. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

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It's wild to me those pushing it don't see the similarities with Uber. It's heavily subsidised by venture capital at the moment and they'll want returns. That will only come from turning the screws on customers who got rid of all their staff because of the cheap and supposedly efficient AI available

The cost of tokens is not taken into account. Let alone the increasing reports of people having to clean up AI slop code affecting productivity. www.cio.com/article/4189...

Ninefax running the names, not sure why the Guardian isn’t. I guess some legal Guy there is Deeming it prudent.

Opposes GCT, opposes prosecuting wage-thieving employers, opposes restricting political donations so the worst of big money can control outcomes. Centrist me arse. Liberal light blue.

A lot nervous about this Tour De Chi ride. If I can complete it, it'll be my longest ride by a fair bit (116 to 145). But what an achievement.

One thing this era of "AI" is revealing is just how few orgs' product design processes involve users, like, at all

I argue that in 2026, no change in Australian daytime tv can be considered a ‘major’ shake-up. It’s like saying there’s a major shake-up of deck chairs on the titanic

A message for progressive parties from Hunter Biden.

Good stuff from Mr Marlborough here. I feel like this reason highlighted below is behind most things that are shitty in Australian politics/culture/society.

Portable rental bonds commence in Victoria from July 1. A decent reform that will improve people’s lives. From the government people are keen to vote out.

Solid piece of empirical research out of NIC-D today. Turns out graphs > vectors for building agentic systems, and sometimes raw LLMs > vectors (interesting). Graphs make agents both cheaper and better which is quite an unusual result. Read more: neo4j.com/whitepapers/...

As LLMs are extremely unlikely to get significantly more reliable, extending the horizons of autonomous coding agents becomes predominantly a testing problem. But even if we could build agents with infinite horizons, we'd be walking into a trap. codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/06/24/e...

Government by the boomer nostalgia Facebook pages, of the the boomer nostalgia Facebook pages, for the the boomer nostalgia Facebook pages

About time someone came for the babies and their disastrous impact on social cohesion

Funny. And feels 100% correct. "The only trait that consistently predicted objections to remote work was narcissism — the tendency to be self-centered and entitled." The Secret Reason Bosses Want Everyone Back in the Office, Every Day of the Week www.nytimes.com/2026/06/22/o...

Hell hath no fury like a person in a dead-end job who's been given a small amount of discretionary power.

Just 2 spots left on my 3-day Code Craft workshop, July 7-9. Will there be vibe coding? No. Will there be Spec-Driven Development? No. Will there be time-tested techniques we know accelerate delivery cycles, shrink lead times & improve release stability? Could be. See profile for details.

Translation: Rich pricks don’t like paying tax