Both the "Continue" button and the "Try it now" button do *the same thing* in what is the clearest example of a dark pattern I've ever seen. Imagine someone is getting metrics about the "number of Google Docs users who are using AI" and all the numbers are total bullshit.

Cool to see a PM celebrating a complete disgrace for his party, a mob-affiliated fixer and the spore of mould at the heart of NSW Labor that rotted it out for twenty plus years. You can't defame the dead which means you absolutely don't have to talk them up.

Go visit one of my toons for me! And all the other much more glorious ones

A reminder Japan on-sells more Australian gas to other countries than is consumed on the entire East Coast of Australia. We don't need *more* gas, we need to tax our gas exports properly

Championship level thread

Adam Hyde/Keli Holiday seems like he's probably nice enough but it's hard to take a man who looks like the personification of the "extremely mad, red and nude online" meme too seriously

The gambling help line message at the end of gambling ads may be the most effective public service announcement. It always makes the ad seem like an absolute joke afterwards, to the point of absurdity

shame on sectors like Tennis, Laptop, Cow and Microphone

Congrats on complying with the law, I guess?

I wish I loved anything as much as podcasters and editors love the word "enshittified"

Why do we continue to spend money hand over fist to have US artists (film/music etc) visit and make their own music, rather than supporting our own artists - who desperately need it www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

Gotta say, it squandered its lead in terms of cultural impact, but Stranger Things still looks a billion times better than almost anything else shot for Netflix

@slate.com have you thought about month-to-month Slate Plus memberships? Mine recently lapsed and I'm freelance atm, but would love to continue contributing — annual, even at a reduced rate, isn't viable.

Rather keen to get satanic in that headline, someone wants to do the 80s/early 90s all over again

Stephen Miller’s ancestors were Jewish refugees from the pogroms in czarist Russia. They came to the U.S. in the early twentieth century, even as racists said this same stuff about them.

every AI advocate is like "look out specific industry, AI can now create a weird facsimile of what your specific industry makes, very poorly... looks like it's over for your industry"

Nowadays, everybody wanna talk like they got something to say But nothing comes out when they move their lips Just a bunch of gibberish And motherfuckers act like they forgot about Dre

Get some Christmas cards with cranky Aussie animals!

Matthew Rhys is really on The Beast Inside Me with enough makeup to be a silent movie era starlet, and I don't understand if the show runners realised people would be watching this in 4K on their 12km wide televisions, 15cm from the screen

No need to head to a bio here! Pre-order some Christmas cards, offensive or tame, here: www.wesmountain.com/prints Get a nice Australian-made, Australian printed card from a local artist and give your friends and family something unique!

So she said what's the problem, baby? On the internet no one knows that you're a dog

Every 40 minutes someone is launching the new worst fucking plan I’ve ever heard

Two thoughts on House Made Of Dynamite: 1) Did Bigelow/Oppenheimer make up an unnamed podcast just so Idris Elba's character could say the title of the film? 2) Why does Idris Elba shave so far below his natural beardline to achieve such a depressing looking moustache?

If you have reach in Australia, I’d really appreciate a repost! 🙏 I’m nowhere near the numbers I need and will need to extend the prize draw if I don’t get more participants. Also, if you’re willing (and allowed) to pop up a physical flyer near you, DM me and I can post it to you/send the PDF :)

What the absolute hell is going on in the UK? Starmer is trying to Reform himself into simultaneously giving none of the change he might have been able to achieve (and was voted in on) and lining up policies for the far right to call their own when they ride him and inevitably blame him anyway

"'What if Jason Biggs' character in American Pie didn't just want to fuck, but actually marry the pie?', I asked my allegedly progressive friends around an inner Western Sydney bbq table" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I feel like we can refer to Wuthering Heights as "Australian film, Wuthering Heights" given it has both Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi in it

Interesting to see at the Amyl and the Sniffers gig at Fed Square... People are calm but confused, still turning up

Fun tip for InDesign updaters out there – it now defaults to preserving InDesign editing when you export to PDF, so suddenly a single page could be 30MB. Tick that off when you export, you'll save yourself a headache.

Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.

What we think of neo-nazis

Victoria, be careful following David Crisafulli & Queensland down the singular, slogan based punitive approach to youth justice. Consult widely, look at all solutions. Don't let other crimes such as DV & sexual assault be pushed aside in the election frenzy. #springst

The ASD is hammering the ads on LinkedIn atm, and it's curious because if you click through you will see there are just two roles available... and one of them is an open call to sumbit your CV, complete a form and agree to being vetted. Is this the easiest intelligence fishing expedition in history?

The Allan government is so desperate to hang on to power they're pushing a 1990s era policy in suggesting kids over 14 could get LIFE for violent crime. It's broken logic to suggest that because someone has done a violent crime they have taken on that responsibility and should be treated thus

Do not vote into office people who literally do not understand how negotiations work What an utter embarrassment Shaheen is to the entire state of New Hampshire

WHAT'S up YouTube, it's your boy Bartleby the Scrivener here, coming at you for another day of the I Would Prefer Not To challenge. Be sure to SMASH that subscribe button and hit that bell so you don't miss a single video. If you saw last week's video, you'll know I am now SLEEPING in the office.

It's cool how Australian governments' answer to them simply not using existing laws is to demand more police powers

The boyfriend of a friend of my son's has spent several weeks in a psych ward due to Chat GPT induced psychosis. He isn't suicidal but AI encouraged him down a toxic and paranoid wormhole until he became completely delusional. Evil stuff.

You (a fool): The LLM is an all-knowing oracle, on its way to godlike intelligence Me (dumber): The LLM is Indra’s Net, each fundamentally empty token a multifaceted jewel in whose surfaces the reflections of every other jewel arise in mutual interdependence The LLM: You can eat that rock

"Ruthless"? Dude would have been fired 30-40 years ago in a normal job.

And people say Australian regulators have no power. A good reminder that using your powers rather than being afraid of your own shadow is always the better option.

Once more, for old times’ sake

RIP Dick Cheney. He's shooting friends in heaven now.

Aus is supposed to be a country where the rule of law & natural justice applies. The Gov’s sneaky attempt to strip welfare from people before they’ve been convicted of any crime is a fundamental breach of these principles. We may as well dissolve the court system. #auspol #politas

imagine you’re at a bar and some weenie introduces himself as the “head of generative AI at coca cola”

I've been seeing the "We Live In Time" posters and ads for like a year now, and I still can't read it as anything but a "We Live In A Society" joke

Keep seeing this photo and thinking, "oh cool, someone's making onigiri!"

It's interesting that the Youtube channel of a Canadian motorsport retailer has put together possibly the best condensed explanation of why ad sales on the internet (and their alleged empiricism vs traditional ads) are a scam that's leaching off legitimate sales www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfNI...