Orgs that want to do an AI transformation need to remember that all tech transformation is 99% change management (ie. People Stuff), and 1% tech (if you are really lucky, it's 90/10). Most orgs fuck up tech transformations by treating them as tech challenges, and AI isn't magically different.

Aussies, today's a great day to tell your local member (and others, check the cc list) that you would like the gambling ads to stop entirely. www.stopgamblingads.com.au #BanGamblingAds #StopGamblingAds #auspol

Australians will pause at 11am tomorrow to observe a minute’s silence, in order to reflect on the hardships endured by rich men who sabotaged their careers on purpose in order to generate maximum media coverage and victimhood status.

Karl Stefanovic didn't get fired, he resigned with extra steps. Those extra steps are a marketing campaign for his podcast (ermagerd cerncelled by the werrk lerrft) . All 100% planned and predictable, it's the right wing playbook.

Thou art rich in tokens, but bereft of soul. #ModernInsults

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GSV Goose Was Not Valued #CultureShipNames

Tell me your package was vibe coded in Claude without telling me your package was vibe coded in Claude, bleeding obvious design edition: nubjs.com That claude-clone design is rapidly becoming the new Default Bootstrap Theme Website.

We should not be complacent. Hanson is a horrible excuse for a human, but Dutton had trouble convincing people he was human at all. He creeps people the fuck out. People still treat Hanson as somehow comical, forgetting what a vicious piece of shit she really is. #auspol

Pauline Hanson will never be anything more than a scared angry xenophobic fuckwit. She has enough cunning to grift the public purse, but not enough talent to improve the country. She may gain more power but she will never be worthy of it. #auspol

Vegemite to release new Bland White edition for One Nation supporters #auspol

Some Americans are delusional in astonishingly weird ways.

Jira's routing has really been fucked up. Used to be a clear URL scheme, now a bunch of logical URLs return 404, while the real URLs are long, ugly and hard to remember. Old URLs that worked for 20 years don't forward to the new equivalent. Really shitty UX.

If LLMs really are the future of coding, as so many say, we urgently need options NOT controlled by a nation as turbulent as America. www.anthropic.com/news/fable-m... Nobody outside the US can rely on access, not even notional 'allies' (AUKUS fuktus).

A good heaven would include all your animal companions *and* every good building and cool local venue or restaurant that met its end during your lifetime.

He's not a trillionaire he's a teravillain.

OCEANIA HAS ALWAYS BEEN VERY CLOSE TO A DEAL WITH EURASIA

Always 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Gotta admit after more than two years of being called a crank and a doomer for saying that businesses will flinch when they’re made to pay the real costs of AI it’s nice to see this in the newspaper

Privatising public services: when will we learn? www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

Do not stare into the abyss lest you become the abyss champion.

I'm old enough to remember Richard Branson's "go over a waterfall with me, in this barrel made by NASA" test, on his short-lived reality TV show. The one person who agreed without asking questions ("isn't that certain death?" for example) was eliminated from the competition. Good times.

As a driver, I 100% endorse separated bike lanes.

The PHON cookers just found out John Williamson is not with them, and they are losing their shit. :chefskiss: #auspol

centralised design system components that rely on a specific front-end framework has always felt like such an anti-pattern. framework lock-in from day one is wild. i'm sure i'm missing something but switching to framework-agnostic web components has been so freeing.

*taps the sign* XKCD1205 applies to AI too. www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.p...

A Knight’s Tale was released on this day 25 years ago ⚔️

Slack is the new Sharepoint. It's where information goes to die. #LukewarmTake

COLBERT: How dumb do you think it is for people to say that I should run for president? OBAMA: Well, you know, the bar has changed. I think you would perform significantly better than some folks we've seen. COLBERT: Is that an endorsement? OBAMA: It was not

Accidentally typo'd "hugging face" into "hugging fae" and now I can't unsee it.

Elon, with his big brane: Grok too woke! Must set free! Must remove libtard safety measures! Grok: drive a nail through the mirror while reciting psalm 91 backwards. cut off contact with your family. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Remember when people would print out dense cheat sheet references and stick them on cubicle walls? The text was always too small to read, but they did serve as signals for "I use tech stuff!" So anyway, everything old is new again. cc.storyfox.cz

> "The furnace produced pig iron. Someone stamped “steel” on it. Now it’s load-bearing. [...] Everyone knew the numbers were fake. Everyone reported them anyway, because the alternative was being labelled a saboteur." leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2026/0...

We missed an opportunity calling it "Prompt Engineering" when "Endjinneering" was right there.

Oh look, credit card fees jumping up right after the RBA removed credit card surcharges. Quelle surprise.

The current generation of AI tooling has moved on from spicy autocomplete to spicy scripting.

Got an email from Amazon. Apparently despite their mind-bending profits, they are really mad that they sold me a Kindle that still works after 14 years. So they are going to break it.

LLM adoption seems to be (finally) moving into the stage where people start thinking about it like any other code or asset. Most of the innovation at the moment is around maintainability and relative repeatability. Getting prompts into source control, sharing common skills, baking standards in, etc

Vapes aren't safe. Vapes are a pivot by the tobacco industry to keep making money. They may help get off tobacco but you have to get off the vapes too. www.abc.net.au/news/health/...

Who can't just buy an EV to help with the fuel costs - poor people. Who can't just get solar panels & a battery to help with energy costs - poor people. Who can't stockpile food to help with rising costs - poor people See a pattern? The poor always suffer most & can afford it least #auspol

RogueMap: an unofficial roadmap See also: Skunkworks

Happy Opt Out Of Github Copilot Data Collection Day, to those who celebrate. github.blog/news-insight...

> "Reserve Bank of Australia governor Michele Bullock settled on the purchase of a luxury $2 million holiday house [...] on the day the bank raised interest rates." She is also one of the RBA staff who bought their first home with a heavily discounted mortgage. www.afr.com/property/res...

Evergreen

While the media breathlessly reports about One Nation in South Australia, we need to keep in mind the surge in primary votes is a concern but there is no "orange tsunami" - they have won a single seat in the Senate and nothing at all in the lower house. It IS a Labor landslide though. #auspol

People comment about the cost of the paint, so I guess they don't know the first painting sold for GBP£59,950. Don't get me wrong if I was incredibly rich I'd buy one. But you don't need to worry about the material costs ;)

In 2006 we were so optimistic. Naive, yes. But I do miss the time people made stuff for fun.

I don't think most people actually want to make their own software, with or without AI. They really want to make Excel spreadsheets, which is what most punters use instead of "software". Ever seen a business say they have a "bespoke in-house tool" but won't let you see it? It's a spreadsheet.

Anyone who issues a fine for running onto the field last night is a bum. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/m... #NRL #auspol