I offer email marketing (newsletters), and always walk clients through the implications of CAN-SPAM. However, over the past 12 months or so I've also been saying, "On the other hand, do laws matter much anymore?" I'm only half joking. It seems absurd the current US govt would care about spam.

Nancy Pelosi’s trades over the years have been so good that a startup was created to allow investors to directly mirror her portfolio.

Betoota Advocate, open your comments 😇 flatkopi.substack.com/welcome

The Economist going all-in on phrenology and race science like it is 1930 again. What an amazing time to be alive.

President Trump is seen in the Oval Office after a man collapsed during a White House event. The event on lowering the costs of weight loss drugs resumed after an attendee collapsed, prompting administration officials to pause the event and usher reporters out of the room. nbcnews.to/47KinRo

"people are so desperate for health services that they turn to turbo-eliza; government continues to refuse to fund these services." there we go, first draft of a revised blurb, you fuckin dipshits.

i said what i said

Just, not amongst them

AI-tainted Deloitte report was worse than previously thought: "Department of Employment and Workplace Relations staff identified 59 potential errors in a 'quick review' of the report" after The AFR first reported claims that it included AI-induced flaws. www.afr.com/politics/ai-...

A new FOI into the Deloitte nonsense has revealed: -there were MORE AI errors in the Deloitte report than previously admitted -DEWR knew about this for weeks & did nothing -DEWR's Secretary lied in Estimates, when saying Deloitte never apologised to her archive.is/F8qtG#select...

Not at Kawaiicon but wanna see my talk on Bullshit Jobs in InfoSec? They are live streaming it! kawaiicon.org/livestream/ I'll be on around 2:15pm NZDT

Had the @ehlersdanlos.bsky.social blocked on Twitter and had unsubscribed, but they just used fundraise.org to send an unsolicited email - with no opt out - for a promo event for a ($179) online Will kit aimed at posthumous philanthropy

Kudos to @mattbevan.bsky.social for making a good fist of examining the caveats to power/water usage claims associated with AI use. Is this the new carbon footprint?

I’m not a millionaire tech bro, so I could be completely wrong on this, but hear me out. Sending your lawyers after your community doesn’t feel like a winning strategy. www.404media.co/automattic-a...

BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Animals and plants aren't automatically taken off most national and state extinct species list in Australia if they are rediscovered, leaving them without protection as threatened species.

Artificial intelligence chatbots like ChatGPT are embedded in modern life, with some Australians using them to help work through PTSD and toxic work environments.

Vice Admiral Jonathan Mead's retirement will come just a year before the first US nuclear-powered submarine is due to be deployed to Western Australia in 2027 under the AUKUS agreement.

It's impressive that Wired and Ars Technica continue to have the integrity and output they have given the ownership wonder how long the brunchlords will allow that to last before converting both into hollow corporatist infotainment mills

(Reuters) - Meta internally projected late last year that it would earn about 10% of its overall annual revenue – or $16 billion – from running advertising for scams and banned goods, internal company documents show. $META @reuters.com www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Monumental hubris, every detail is jaw dropping. ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...

Some on the far right want to repeal the 19th amendment. Many more share a coercive, patriarchal view of women. I wrote about this and how the far right sees subjugating women as key to building the sort of electorate they need to win. @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/women-should...

I think Kid caught something while at ED. He just has the most terrible cough. 1am

The best part of this story is the instruction to “[bring the data] back here”. That’s extremely not how this works!

This times a bersquillion. People need other people to hear them, understand them, believe them. Otherwise we may as well all be fridges connected intermittently to the internet for no apparent reason.

would be bonkers if a bunch of rocket scientists had to leave the US for Europe because of fascism.

Gaming regulator announces temporary halt on accepting bribes www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Labor finally running to Sky News for one crumb of reactionary media support fully one week after the horse has bolted:

Currently trying to buy Kid a gravel bike, and he has read too far through Google and has criticisms of basically everything secondhand online under $1500. We are not buying a bike for $1500

Bribes. Say it, say bribes. Bribes. #AusPol

“‘Everything that is wrong with the human race’: inside Hollywood’s war on the leaf blower. For 18 years, Cate Blanchett has railed against the hated garden gadget. From Hugh Grant to Danny DeVito, the blower has united stars in furious contempt.” www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

This guy is real. Real guy.

#BREAKING 🚨 FOI documents show AI-tainted Deloitte report was 'much worse' than previously thought (by YOU?) or disclosed. It appears DEWR Secretary Natalie James may have misled the Senate in relation to the conduct of her previous employer. ✍️ @paulkarp.bsky.social www.afr.com/politics/ai-...

The last couple of weeks I have been juggling two jobs plus side hustle and sole parenting and finishing my final essay for the year. Ffffuuuuck it has been a lot Oh and the incident with Kid breaking his arm

Man at Qantas’s international business lounge caught fire after a powerbank in his pocket ignited, forcing an evacuation of 150 people www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

While I appreciate the aim of these efforts to use AI to simplify reporting of human rights breaches, I think it fundamentally misses the fact there is a psychological component to seeking justice: most victims want to be heard *by other people* www.justice.org.au/national-jus...

Refund requests flood Microsoft after tricking users into AI upgrades www.afr.com/technology/m...

If you can use generative AI to adequately do your job, generative AI can be used to replace you

64.3% of Australian managers who responded to the Australian Digital Inclusion survey have used generative AI v 29.6% of drivers / labourers

Most public servants don’t know what they don’t know about their personal obligations under privacy law, writes Chris De Havilland www.governmentnews.com.au/when-public-...

Victoria’s Essential Services Commission fined Momentum Energy for failing to safeguard the confidential information of three customers affected by family violence on 19 occasions between May 2022 and January 2025 esdnews.com.au/momentum-ene...

Australia has imposed financial sanctions and travel bans on four entities and one individual linked to North Korea's cryptocurrency theft operations www.itnews.com.au/news/austral...

The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) unveiled a newly established department named Enterprise Risk, Change and Integration www.itnews.com.au/news/new-ato...

Because AI training data is thin on Australian named entities, particularly indigenous place names like Wagga Wagga and Canberra, the speech engines will usually get them wrong www.smartcompany.com.au/artificial-i...

A senior federal bureaucrat who dismissed her own department's cybersecurity advice and ordered a trove of parliamentary emails be released to a private company previously hacked by Russian criminals says she believed the risk assessment was "overrated" www.9news.com.au/national/jaa...

Discord breach hits 68,000 Australians ia.acs.org.au/article/2025...

Sydney Centre for Ear, Nose & Throat warns patients of potential email data breach www.cyberdaily.au/security/128...

Junk AI reports harming NDIS users: disability groups www.afr.com/politics/jun...