We have a new winner of the Clickbait Oscars.

Our supermarket coffee taste test is not only a service to drinkers, but also a spiritual tale of extraordinary achievement, dedication and raw courage. www.theguardian.com/food/2025/se...

so bizarre that this was the same day. Pretty much exactly 34 years since music's big 90s divorce.

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...

When asked “How many Ds are in DEEPSEEK?” the DeepSeek-V3 model with 600 billion parameters “returned ‘2’ or ‘3’ in ten independent trials” while Meta AI and Claude 3.7 Sonnet performed similarly, “including answers as large as ‘6’ and ‘7.’” www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

Nearly drove into a moving car because I was distracted by my phone. Other driver was too busy looking at their phone to notice.

“I can instantly disable critical infrastructure in such well-known US states as Delsware, Manytand, Tonnosee, and Califiorrfffff”

amid the noise and news, this piece was beautiful today www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Trump in July: "I hear Jimmy Kimmel is next.”

From the sounds of it, it should have been called Paddington Bear Deliberately Gets Very Drunk

For some reason I'm not unhappy that I live in a country where people still rock up to the prime minister's house after the footy with a slab of cheap beer. (scroll down to Sept 15 post) www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/sc...

Beautiful story, beautifully written. observer.co.uk/news/interna...

Increasingly feels like Starship Troopers and Robocop are the ideal and possibly only reliable references for understanding America.

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It drives me absolutely nuts that politicians can resist doing much of anything about climate change for decades until the consequences are extremely dire, then dismiss credible predictions of these consequences claiming they sound too extreme to be believable.

Gadzooks!

Definitely one of the cuter and more chonky flying foxes, if not the cutest and chonkiest. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Our national obsession is grimly hilarious

when I saw the embargoed lines I joked that the SMH would headline on the effect of the climate crisis on property prices. Then...

Vote now or risk the wrong bird winning. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Tuned in briefly to the Australia Unites rally feed and heard from a speaker that "One in three children get trafficked every 5 seconds all around the world" and this is due to "demonic forces". Tuned out.

I've always loved court artists. This interview with the woman who drew Erin Patterson is a fascinating insight into the trade. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Bluesky sure picked the right week to switch on an apparently new mass moderation system that doesn't work.

I was at NPR when we incorrectly reported the death of Gabby Giffords in part due to an erroneous government source. Nothing is confirmed until it is actually confirmed.

Cripes. Poland confirms it is shooting down Russian drones in its airspace.

The only thing less surprising than ChatGPT giving inaccurate legal advice is that people will take it.

Apple: Buy our new Airpods they do live translation! AMAZING! Apple in the fine print: Your old Airpods also do it.

I have an iPhone 12 Pro, it's working fine, and Apple still hasn't given me any good reason to upgrade.

A judge rejects Anthropic's $1.5B copyright settlement over concerns that class lawyers are striking a deal behind the scenes that will be forced on authors (Annelise Levy/Bloomberg Law) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

My Genre Grapevine analysis of the Anthropic AI settlement with authors. Overall, most authors got screwed with the settlement payments barely covering 7% of the books Anthropic pirated to train their generative AI system. 1/ www.patreon.com/posts/138349...

the journal not only publishes trump's epstein card/confession but provides an analysis to demonstrate its veracity. impressive. [gift link]

I'm dying from laughing.

Top 5 stories on Guardian Aus this morn are environment and climate related. To mark this occasion, a thread.

TIL Chris Uhlmann has never heard of a thermometer.

Babe, new candidate for "most unfathomable spatial comparison" just dropped.

The true purpose of Bluesky has been revealed and it's Michael Stipe telling us the lyrics to It's The End Of The World As We Know It

Ok its ‘feed it off an aux, speak, grunt no strength, the ladder start to clatter with fear fight down height, wire in a fire representing seven games, a government for hire and a combat site’.

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Good Beast today. Do read. Interesting that after we contacted news dot conspiracy theory amplifiers dot com about their awful Antic story this morning it's disappeared from their splash and slumped all the way down to the 'Technology' (?1?) section... www.theguardian.com/media/commen...

Meanwhile in Australia... our own Border Force is doing surprise raids in a crackdown on migrant workers. **To make sure they're being paid enough.**

This, from Jonathan Green, pretty much sums it up: “Meanjin’s financial demand is trivial … a few hundred thousand dollars … the cultural loss of its death is as significant as it is tragic.” www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/04/m...

Totally not a concern, barely a blip on the horrific-ideas-that-will-keep-me-up-at-night-o-meter

It takes some reading but good lord this is a *magnificently* bitchy footnote.

Kids under 16 should get notified by platforms they'll be kicked off prior to 11 December and told how to download their data before then, according to esafety. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I’m the son of an immigrant and my mother is Indigenous. This is the racism I experienced photographing a March for Australia rally

spy balloons?

The PC report has an appendix B.3 called "Measuring the benefits of digital technology, including AI, on workforce tasks" where they provide an alternate rationale for the 30% (based on two other papers' estimates of how much of a health professional's work was estimated to be able to be automated)

It's going to be so funny if we just never have a Gen X president. I'm guessing it's going to go: President JD Vance (Millennial, b. 1984) followed by President Rachel Griffin-Accurso (Millennial, b. 1982) then President Jimmy Donaldson (Gen Z, b. 1998)

A look at Radio Garden, a free website and app launched in 2016 as an art project, which streams feeds from 37K radio stations worldwide; the app has 3M MAUs (Sebastian Modak/Wall Street Journal) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink