Collecting data you don’t need for a purpose you can’t define while storing it forever on a platform that will inevitably be breached is all kinds of lunacy. #cybersecurity #auspol #AgeVerification #privacy #GetAWarrant
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Collecting data you don’t need for a purpose you can’t define while storing it forever on a platform that will inevitably be breached is all kinds of lunacy. #cybersecurity #auspol #AgeVerification #privacy #GetAWarrant
Google’s Sideloading Ban Threatens Open Source Access And Fuels Monopolisation Concerns Google will ban Android APK sideloading from 2026, citing security, but critics warn the move threatens ope... #News #Android Origin | Interest | Match
I hate to agree with Tim Wilson, but where's the evidence of these "bots", and surely if we know they're bots then they're fairly easy to block? Also, introductory fees never last, within a couple of years they'll have quadrupled
The Albanese Government wants to charge Australians for making a freedom of information request. Makes dubious claims about tech being used to overwhelm the system. In truth? Govt workload one of the lowest in the last 20 years.
News Corp's Courier Mail linked a teen girl's suicide bullying on social media as part of its campaign for the <16 ban. But the child's parents said she wasn't bullied on social media. Which News would have known if they contacted them before publishing.
Not just under-16s: all Australian social media users will need to prove their age – and it could be complicated Yoti had results showing an error rate of 34% for 14-year-olds and 73% for 15-year-olds, where the system incorrectly said those users were 16. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
22 year old man whose previous experience is a grocer. The header of counter terrorism. MAGA is Affirmative Action for Mediocre White Men
Is this just an excuse to cover their own incompetence? #vicpol
The scam is the Government’s unrelenting attack on transparency, claiming that putting up barriers to FOI requests will help bureaucrats give “frank and fearless” advice to ministers. If it’s frank, why fear it? #auspol
Every AI chat has a hidden water cost. One ChatGPT conversation? About half a water bottle. Here’s how to calculate the true footprint of your prompts:
Rugby World Cup Round 2 result (pool C): New Zealand 62 - 19 Japan Match report by BBC Sport: www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-... Match highlights: youtu.be/BXEHb3TxajI #RWC2025 #NZLvJPN #womensrugby
PSA for Western Sydney University students and alumni. You'll hopefully have heard from the university, but if you haven't
I started wondering about Trump, did some digging and my suspicions were correct: qz.com/814851/donal...
same thing happened at the 2022 election where anti-vaccine, anti-lockdown groups had a negligible effect. for whatever reason — I'll let you speculate — there are big chunks of mainstream media and politics who elevate extreme anti-migration sentiment as if it is a strongly & widely held view.
Some very cynical comments in this 🧵! 😀
Re Australia's age assurance tech trial report
From pillar to post. My cartoon in today's @theageaustralia.bsky.social and @sydmorningherald.bsky.social
I think that NZ may have an issue with the flag you've given them!
The Western Sydney Airport has been talked about for over 30yrs but noone actually planned for it it seems! #nswpol #auspol Sydney’s new international airport opens next year. But you might have to catch the bus to get there www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
And the Rednecks were a lost tribe, until a Lebanese messiah came among them...
www.laprogressive.com/democracy/ho...
The Australian concept of a ‘fair go’ is a furphy – especially when it comes to tax, education and care Every generation of Australians since the first wave of European settlement has celebrated plunder, dumb luck, and ‘finders keepers’. - Is this ‘a fair go’? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This week’s Just for Skeets and Giggles is out! Have a great weekend. statuskuo.substack.com/p/just-for-s...
Actually, JD is more dangerous because he was risen to power in the Senate with the money backing of Musk and P. Thiel. And their agenda of a NRx oligarch government. Dictator trump was the “ voter fly catcher”. In this system, they appoint a CEO or “ king”. The Constitution is their threat.
This is so delicious. Trump called PM Modi & said that Pakistan nominated him for the Nobel peace prize for bringing peace between the two countries & that PM Modi should also do so. Modi told Trump he had nothing to do with the cease-fire. Soon after Trump increased India’s tariffs. Story…
hall of fame legal AI moment: a judge figures out that someone's court submission was generated using AI because it cites "a wholly imaginary judgment for which the plaintiff claims that I am the author."
It’s 2025 and somehow we still have to explain two basic facts: 💉 Vaccines are safe ⛓️ Slavery was bad
Cigarette prices to jump by almost 7% amid growing concern about Australia’s booming black market Already the highest prices in developed world. It's not just the estimated 20% being sold on black market but the associated rise in gang violence that's a worry www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
As said by Independent Senator @davidpocock.bsky.social
Leavitt fails to see the irony of "believe in the power of prayer" and "prayer works" as she talks about children who were shot to death while praying.
This illustrates the dysfunction and lack of forward planning in both Liverpool Council and Transport for NSW. An intersection in a relatively new suburb already handling triple the original transport estimate. And which contractor just said "yes sir" instead of querying the design?
So lemme get this straight... This kid who shot up a church posted about doing this online *for a month*? And no one did anything about this? Isn't this literally the point of homeland security, the FBI, the DoJ? Worthless, the whole friggin lot of em.
Mike Luckovich
Now that the State of Nevada’s computers have been hacked, this story was an “I told you so” moment back in April… www.politico.com/newsletters/...
This is it in a nutshell: firing at a hospital to take out a camera is a war crime, no question and no defence, but the media don't even recognise what they're normalising anymore.
All human beings are entitled to be treated with humanity, especially in times of shared tragedy.
Coalition’s Iran fail is proof of the Australian Opposition's intellectual malaise says @amyremeikis.bsky.social www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...
If a president can fire a Fed governor on accusation, not cause, monetary policy shifts from the Fed to the White House. Goodbye independent Fed; hello maga Fed, and watch decades of hard-won credibility turns to dust. Posting the entire interview on youtube as an experiment. youtu.be/DpSqbqQde3Y
New Zealand’s first ever case of espionage or attempted espionage.
Japan Post has ceased all mail delivery to the US for packages valued over $100. To get around this, a Japanese denim company tells me they'll ship components to US customers one-by-one — fabric, buttons, rivets, a sewing needle, and thread. You then assemble the jeans at home like IKEA furniture.
The enemy of freedom here is Age verification,it will just bolster big tech and make it impossible for upstarts or free sites to survive or even start. But, people are also mad about the vocabulary used when reading the terms of service update it. uses the states language of protecting children.
Most people should use a password manager, but there's no one-size-fits-all recommendation. ssd.eff.org/module/choo...
Why Trump built a staff of incompetent sycophants | Robert Reich www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Kid Rock: “No more music in California.” Scott Baio: “No more acting in California.” Newsom: “Excellent. My policies are clearly effective.”
Kristi Noem and her squad of geniuses are painting the American side of the wall black—apparently to keep us from escaping.
This crazy thing Tina Turner did without a harness, in heels and at the age of 70 ⚜️🎶⚜️💙⚜️🎶⚜️
It's important to remember that Intel spent huge amounts of money on stock buybacks, executive pay packages, and dividends for shareholders - and then its lobbyists got the government to give it billions of dollars of no-strings-attached handouts.
Honestly surprised we're not seeing more incidents like this -- both the masked men impersonating cops and the intended victim shooting masked men.
So, does Google really think that most people prefer phones to tablets, or are they just covering for the fact that they don't make very good tablets nor the appropriate software? www.yugatech.com/go/pd1c
This week’s Just for Skeets and Giggles is out! Have a great weekend. open.substack.com/pub/statusku...
The Australian postal service has suspended delivery of some parcels to the US because the tariffs make the business unviable. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
The most destructive administration enabled by the most corrupt Supreme Court.
We've not only given them access at Pine Gap but it seems we've allowed them to cut off Australian access to certain parts (Per Google AI which may not be entirely accurate but probably explains the gist of the situation)
Hatzistergos is up against the age-old dynamic of cosy relationships: no one on the inside of politics wants to change. It is only the people who are not inside the tent that lose out in a system that is clearly open to corruption #nswpol
Virginia Giuffre’s lawyer Sigrid McCawley reacts to the Maxwell transcripts, saying Maxwell “repeatedly and brazenly lied” to the government and is trying to “recreate history.” Full statement
Bit hard to whistleblow when for instance in NSW Surveillance Devices Act, which makes it illegal to “film acts of animal cruelty without the abuser’s consent” and to “share or even view such footage”,
Google's data center in Council Bluffs, Iowa used 1 BILLION gallons of water in 2024 - enough to supply all of Iowa's residential water for five days. Researchers in water law and policy explain how companies rarely tell the public exactly how much water data centers consume: buff.ly/uRvYWPN
So turn stuff off when you're not using it. Makes the battery last longer. www.itnews.com.au/news/univers...
Ellis does it again! Two overs in a row. Two right-handed batters caught in the deep hooking short balls from around the wicket! Ellis’ variations deny his opponents any consistency, so when he slips in that quicker bumper he can catch them off guard I remember him playing cricket in Sydney
Funny it should still need to be said that there is no such thing
No doubt we'll see a lot more job cuts attributed to AI efficiencies where it's just the usual thing of getting fewer people to do more work
Pedestrian tunnel under Strathfield Railway Station flooded. Warning tape across northern end but you're out of luck if approaching from south! How hard is it @johngrahamalp.bsky.social to hire staff with common sense?
OPINION: As governments across the world accelerate their digitization of public services, it raises some questions: Who has access to our digital footprint? And how can people trust governments to protect it?
OPINION: For all the mystery behind the decision to pull the plug on a Colin Kaepernick docuseries, this might be a clue: It came on the heels of an ESPN-NFL megadeal that requires federal...
Isn't this typical of the Minns govt in NSW? After taking the reins, however, the premier, Chris Minns, sought to redefine his election commitments.
NSW doesn't have any of the country-club type correction centres that you can find in parts of the USA. He'd be low risk so minimum security probably (Rivkin, Einfeld, etc as examples) unless they feel he needs protection.
theconversation.com/who-will-win...
Allan Moir . . . .
🚨 Age checks kill anonymity 🚨 🫣 IDs link you to every click 🫣 Centralized databases risk leaks & abuse ❌ No anonymity possible Politicians want to trade #privacy for “protection.” Read the article by @annaroseiovine.bsky.social : mashable.com/article/age-...
WH correspondent: "This display, especially in front of foreign leaders, is so embarrassing. Many of the questions aren’t designed to get answers, but to create another confrontation or make Trump look good. That's not journalism. High schoolers could do a better job than some of these people."
Key stakeholders in Australia’s social media age assurance trial frozen out amid media leaks and resignations
Yes, why would the technology needed to enforce a LAW about age compliance need to be accurate? Near enough for jazz.
Does it work the other way? Could a 9yo pass as 16 and so access social media in Australia after the age ban?
The problem with this record fine for Qantas in the Australian courts is that they're saving about $100M pa from their illegal actions so are still financially ahead even after fines and legal costs so not much of a deterrent theconversation.com/the-wrong-ki...
Maybe this is why Putin went to Alaska to remind Trump why he has to force Ukraine to capitulate.
Another progressive country not enslaved by Big Oil and a billion dollar donation. 🤬
“They reneged on us as an advisory board.” Australia’s $6.5 million social media age-check trial has been rocked by expert resignations and secrecy. Cam Wilson reports.
Qantas has been fined $90m for illegally firing 1,820 baggage handlers and other ground staff in 2020. The judge said he had “hesitation in reaching a conclusion” as to whether Qantas was “truly contrite or rather engaging in performative remorse”. 🔗👉 www.theguardian.com/austral...
Labor 94/150 House majority and it celebrates by promising to ‘cut red tape’ - Coalition policy for decades. Young people being told that intergenerational 🏠 inequality is the result of red tape - not housing taxes delivering for the wealthy that have driven up 🏠 demand and prices. Flabbergasting.
"The better way to understand Anchorage is not as the start of something new, but as the culmination of a longer process. As the U.S. dismantles its foreign-policy tools, as this administration fires the people who know how to use them, our ability to act with any agility will diminish"
I really can't emphasize enough that it takes only about three pieces of information about someone to re-identify them. None of us are particularly anonymous if we have any sort of sustained online presence
![6. The TXFC observed a post on the Bluesky account stating that his birthday was June 15th. Additionally, the Bluesky account user self-identified as 38 years old, indicating a likely date of birth (DOB) of 7. The Bluesky account user made additional posts about being in Cincinnati, Ohio. 8. The TXFC observed an additional post by the Bluesky account user regarding the death of his on 2025, at the age of years old. 9. The TXFC conducted open-source queries of obituaries matching the date of death of 2025, and likely location of Cincinnati, Ohio, and observed an obituary for [REDACTED] with a date of death of 2025. 10. Kelly’s obituary was reviewed, which included a listing of all grandchildren by name. The TXFC conducted Accurint searches for the last name [REDACTED], DOB of and location of Cincinnati, Ohio, and returned a match of [REDACTED]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uyqnubfj3qlho6psy6uvvt6u/bafkreibjdjnelpwwouimu63kvtyhi2g6g27brmlc55kcos6eppjvh6rwte@jpeg "Click to view full size")
This week’s Just for Skeets and Giggles is out! Have a great weekend. open.substack.com/pub/statusku...
Happy Anniversary to my favourite Twitter interaction
newrepublic.com/article/1991... Fetch my smelling salts! As someone who’s lived nearly seven decades without once setting foot in an airport lounge—not because I’m poor but because they’re a waste of money—I was appalled by Mack’s complaint. I was also puzzled by Mack’s
“In Europe, if we’re late, we’re paying passengers cash. Here, it’s a shrug," one pilot tells Crikey.
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Exclusive: A long-hidden report by Deloitte into Australia’s private job service providers found the government would be “significantly constrained” in trying to defend individual decisions made before a court, tribunal or indeed the Commonwealth Ombudsman. satpa.pe/abc8u3L
The whole Alaska Summit could have been concluded in two texts. TRUMP: "Will you PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE help me look good in the light of all this Epstein stuff???" PUTIN: "No."
Exclusive: The $6 billion system of outsourced employment services is on the brink of collapse due to a series of policy, leadership and technology failures revealed in new documents, obtained by Rick Morton. satpa.pe/zqL1AIp
Terrible pic I'm afraid but a bit worrying when the train steaming through your station is extremely old! I think it must be train heritage weekend here in Sydney. Lovely to look at but those carriages pre-date air conditioning so not for me.
Esp as Putin was stationed in Britain at one stage of his time with KGB