My copy "Mileships" by Ian McQue has arrived, and it's absolutely magnificent! Ian McQue is best known for his work as a Concept Artist for films ("Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse", "Mortal Engines", various "Star Wars" projects), computer games ("Grand Theft […] [Original post on aus.social]

UPS emailed me to say they're about to deliver a parcel "Sat, 12th April". Or, maybe part of their system is cursed and uses middle-endian date format, which screwed-up how about part of their system parses dates, and the parcel is due to arrive today? 🤷🏼‍♀️

A photo gallery from the 10-year construction of the Melbourne Metro railway line, for gunzels and umarell, from @wongm: https://wongm.com/2025/12/metro-tunnel-ten-years-in-the-making/

The day has only just begun, yet I already find myself brainwormed by Rob Zombie's "Dragula".

Oh look, Arduino immediately turns evil after being acquired by corporation with doubleplusingood track record of openness. This is my shocked vid/pid: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/11/21/adafruit_makers_unhappy_with_arduino/

In which @benno pitches the next bryan cranston AMC crime drama

Happy Life Day to those who celebrate — particularly all you fans of the "Star Wars Holiday Special". #starwars #starwarsholidayspecial #lifeday

I’ve been testing a theory: many people who are high on #ai and #LLMs are just new to automation and don’t realize you can automate processes with simple programming, if/then conditions, and API calls with zero AI involved. So far it’s been working! Whenever I’ve been asked to make an AI flow […]

Astrophotographer snaps 'absolutely preposterous' photo of skydiver 'falling' past the sun's surface | Live Science This photo is breaking my brain. 🤯 https://www.livescience.com/space/the-sun/astrophotographer-snaps-absolutely-preposterous-photo-of-skydiver-falling-past-the-suns-surface

Doctor Who legend Tom Baker, 91, dons iconic Fourth Doctor costume as he receives MBE in style https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/doctor-who-tom-baker-costume-mbe-newsupdate/ #doctorwho #tombaker

If asked "Where do you see yourself 12 months from now?", it's difficult to give a better answer than "One light-day away from Earth." https://www.iflscience.com/on-november-13-2026-voyager-will-reach-one-full-light-day-away-from-earth-81432 #voyager1 #nasa

The thing about immortality is the perspective; over the course of eighty billion years we watched the universe expand and thin, dimming as more and more galaxies accelerated beyond the visible horizon. Those of us who didn’t give in to ennui or retreat into simulations eventually saw the words […]

Major train, road delays after truck strikes two bridges near Melbourne CBDhttps://amp-9news-com-au.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/amp.9news.com.au/article/0a45a33a-3355-47f0-8ba6-8aaa4751d608 Usually it's the other way around, and @MontagueStBridge collects two trucks in one day!

Is it just me, or is YouTube glitchy today? The "Playback Speed" feature is broken on multiple desktop browsers. Has Google gone to war against web browser adblockers/plugins again? #youtube

Before another planet smashed into ours and formed the moon, Earth was a primitive lava hellscape sometimes called “proto-Earth.” Now geochemists have uncovered ancient rocks in Greenland, Canada and Hawaii with telltale potassium signatures that don’t match modern rocks or meteorites […]

I’m featured in issue 95 of Make Magazine (@makemagazine). They picked¹ my most mad-scientist out-take from the photo shoot as the hero image, of course! The article is about how I (ab)used esphome and ESP-skainet to add voice control to my workbench gadgets. ¹ […] [Original post on aus.social]

The existence of hiccups implies the existence of hiccdowns.

Gluten sensitivity: It’s not actually about gluten https://www.unimelb.edu.au/newsroom/news/2025/october/gluten-sensitivity-its-not-actually-about-gluten Lead researcher, University of Melbourne Associate Professor Jessica Biesiekierski, says there's a popular belief that most people with […]

Looks like the weather just hit this neighbourhood. The Bureau of Meteorology is projecting wind gusts later this afternoon over 90 km/h. #weathertoot #melbourne #melbourneweather #wimdy

AWS us-east-1 had a wobble, and that's causing a cascade of sad times for websites and infrastructure that rely on the internet, such as Signal. And a fair chunk of Mastodon. Amazon cloud platform and several other websites experiencing outages […]

Hacker gets annoyed at Amazon’s Kindle apps, reverse-engineers the Kindle web reader’s protocol (which basically sends each page as a set of glyphs in a deliberately broken variant of SVG). Such obscurity, much security. https://blog.pixelmelt.dev/kindle-web-drm/

If you use Google Search, you may notice they've inserted a new "AI Mode" on the Search Results page. This fresh piece of enshittification consumes prime real estate in the UI: the first menu item. It's another example of a Big Tech company pushing AI hype and […] [Original post on aus.social]

The layout of this paper is expert level trolling! https://journals.uc.edu/index.php/vl/article/view/5765/4629

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I guess I haven’t clearly articulated this in writing, but friends do not let friends without substantive IT work experience and/or a credible IT degree take cybersecurity career bootcamps in 2025. They are up to no good. Shenanigans. Malfeasance. They are not a safe way to get a job.

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Hey there! I'm one of the blind folks who read alt text on here. I'd like to say thank you for adding that so that I can also enjoy images of cartoon animals. A little effort from you means a world of difference for people like me #accessibility #alttext #blind

PSA: if you think it's funny to joke about people asking you to use Alt-text, wake up to yourself. You're normalising bad netiquette and making people with disabilities the butt of your joke, so you just earned yourself a block. #alttext #usealttext

If you're looking for alternatives to Adobe for photography and graphic design, @ewen has excellent advice. https://social.ewenbell.com/objects/eeb61a36-0988-4988-b9f5-e1f6477a5cef I'm strong believer in the right to buy software once rather than get gouged repeatedly by a subscription. The […]

“Rise and shine, kiddo, we got a catch operation on runway 22. 1700pax onboard.” “Second one this month. Heckin sloppy, boss.” “You know, they used to just land airplanes on the belly if the landing gear got stuck” “That’s wack. Surely it’d wreck the plane?” “Pretty much yeah. They had the […]

Vale Jane Goodall. As a primatologist, Jane Goodall helped to reshape how we think about chimpanzees, and she was so much more: a public educator about science, the environment, and conservation. She improved our understanding and care for life on Earth […]

[CW: sex, robots, side-boob, The Sun, Twitter] It's ten years to the day since The Sun published this article that exemplifies their standard of journalistic integrity: "We'll Be Having Sex With Robots in the Next 10 Years". How time flies! Back then, we relied […] [Original post on aus.social]

Yeah thanks internet random for replying to my question on reddit with what #chatgpt says is the answer. Relaying my question to the stochastic misinformation machine is truly helpful, and you've saved me much time and effort. #ai #slop

Here at the Post Office physical research laboratory we do real science. Our package accelerators have allowed us to make genuine advances in the field of logistical mechanics. We have proven the Heisenberg-Comstock conjecture¹ , and also shown that the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Aramex limit applies to […]

Reasonably sure Mastodon peeps like libraries and might like a peek at this wowzer I stepped into today. #dascdmx

This satirical blog post really illustrates the problem with a lot of technical writing. Amazing technical writing is so good and then everything else reads like this https://anniemueller.com/posts/how-i-a-non-developer-read-the-tutorial-you-a-developer-wrote-for-me-a-beginner

I'm going through and re-doing a lecture I last gave 6 months ago, and astronomers are discovering too many new moons!!! (A good problem to have, but still a problem for keeping lectures up to date!) In the last 6 months: Uranus has gone from 28->29 […]

A very merry Hobbit Day to all who celebrate, and happy birthday to Bilbo and Frodo Baggins! #hobbitday #lordoftherings #thehobbit

Usually, I am loath to quote News Corp articles because I loathe their bias, but I'm sharing this screenshot for the fabulous typo. #newscorpse #Thisisnotjournalism

[CW: AI, genitals, and possible injury] Yikes! https://wandering.shop/@cstross/115230982476433006 #artificialintelligence #ai #llms

Why not both? 😜😂 @galacticwriters @writers @writingbooks @keepwriting @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @aiop #WritingMemes #Memes #Humor #Humour #Author #Authors #IndieAuthor #IndieBooks #AmWriting #Writerdons #Writers #Writer […] [Original post on mastodon.art]

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An example of enshittification and how badly Google has broken its core reason for existence, search: Google is using an LLM to "hallucinate" postcodes. I dunno about other countries, but in Australia, if you get someone's postcode correct and a detail as simple […] [Original post on aus.social]

Some news I know @joannaholman will be happy about: The world tram championships are coming to Melbourne: https://www.premier.vic.gov.au/melbourne-host-tram-driver-championship-2027

So help me, I laughed #shitpost #meme #distractedboyfriend

Re-posting due to current events. The secret language of coders, part N of many. Today: "npm"

Everyone wins! #alttext #accessibility

Today, I noticed a sign we've reached a point of inflection in the AI Hype Cycle. It goes something like this: (1) Tech companies have been shoving "AI" into everything. Even if new features are the result of improved algorithms or automation, it's often […] [Original post on aus.social]

Like not just letting the bubble collapse to some "normal level" of market presence in the aftermath, but having it seen as an extreme cognitive & psychological harm that was imposed on people without consideration of known risks, on the level of asbestos or radium, so that the pushers face […]

I want us to be at the point where "Were you exposed to AI brainrot in the workplace? You may be entitled to compensation" ads by lawyers are filling all the top ad slots.