Andrew Cullen
@adrcullen.bsky.social
AI (security, privacy, HPC) Snr Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne, researcher who rides bikes to go nowhere, and lifts heavy things for fun. Surprisingly interested in Iranian brickwork (just weird like that).
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Found an additional graphic that gets even more of these quotes together.
I've kept "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees" pinned above my desk since I first started studying evolutionary biology as an undergraduate. So relatable to get extremely frustrated with your study system.
I've kept "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees" pinned above my desk since I first started studying evolutionary biology as an undergraduate. So relatable to get extremely frustrated with your study system.
February 12, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Found an additional graphic that gets even more of these quotes together.
I've kept "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees" pinned above my desk since I first started studying evolutionary biology as an undergraduate. So relatable to get extremely frustrated with your study system.
I've kept "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees" pinned above my desk since I first started studying evolutionary biology as an undergraduate. So relatable to get extremely frustrated with your study system.
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His enemies were a credit to him
You’ll hear it said that Jon Kudelka was a genuinely wonderful and generous man, this was undeniable, and the interactions I had with him bore that out, he was also a fucking punisher of hypocrites, he adored fighting bad people, and he had picked some quality enemies
February 9, 2026 at 4:51 AM
His enemies were a credit to him
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Vale Jon Kudelka - a brilliant artist who knew the power of comedy in holding truth to power, and effecting change.
His work showed a genuine and profound love for people and nature - often funny, often heartbreaking, but always incisive.
Australia has lost a great today.
His work showed a genuine and profound love for people and nature - often funny, often heartbreaking, but always incisive.
Australia has lost a great today.
February 9, 2026 at 3:19 AM
Vale Jon Kudelka - a brilliant artist who knew the power of comedy in holding truth to power, and effecting change.
His work showed a genuine and profound love for people and nature - often funny, often heartbreaking, but always incisive.
Australia has lost a great today.
His work showed a genuine and profound love for people and nature - often funny, often heartbreaking, but always incisive.
Australia has lost a great today.
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I have many, many favourite Kudelka cartoons but this, from 2011, is possibly one of the best Aus pol cartoons ever drawn.
February 9, 2026 at 1:49 AM
I have many, many favourite Kudelka cartoons but this, from 2011, is possibly one of the best Aus pol cartoons ever drawn.
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Very sad news about Jon Kudelka.
He wrote this last year about what really matters.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/life/2025/04...
He wrote this last year about what really matters.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/life/2025/04...
Lessons from political cartooning
After being diagnosed with an inoperable glioblastoma, The Saturday Paper’s editorial cartoonist took time to consider what really matters – and it is not politics.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
February 9, 2026 at 4:18 AM
Very sad news about Jon Kudelka.
He wrote this last year about what really matters.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/life/2025/04...
He wrote this last year about what really matters.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/life/2025/04...
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Here's a threat of Kudelka Gold
February 9, 2026 at 3:54 AM
Here's a threat of Kudelka Gold
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Vale to one of Australia's greatest cartoonists and artists - Jon Kudelka
February 9, 2026 at 7:15 AM
Vale to one of Australia's greatest cartoonists and artists - Jon Kudelka
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Yeah I’m looking for my dog (girlfriend who has a restraining order against me and she has a dog) and here’s the picture of the dog (she walks this dog and I can use it to figure out her schedule) thanks for sending all footage my way
February 9, 2026 at 4:13 AM
Yeah I’m looking for my dog (girlfriend who has a restraining order against me and she has a dog) and here’s the picture of the dog (she walks this dog and I can use it to figure out her schedule) thanks for sending all footage my way
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You know, it’s just possible to feel really bad about the violent deaths of Israeli Jews, the genocide in Palestine and the deaths of Australian Jews all while being neither anti-Semitic or Islamophobic.
Somehow that has become impossible for the political class.
Somehow that has become impossible for the political class.
February 8, 2026 at 9:55 PM
You know, it’s just possible to feel really bad about the violent deaths of Israeli Jews, the genocide in Palestine and the deaths of Australian Jews all while being neither anti-Semitic or Islamophobic.
Somehow that has become impossible for the political class.
Somehow that has become impossible for the political class.
-shocked pikachu face-
Funding rates through the floor. ARC programs turning into boondoggles (the changes to ARC grants, DP and DECRA results out after the next years are due). Much hyped programs being shuttered almost instantly (ASCA). Is there anything that feel like its trending the right way?
Funding rates through the floor. ARC programs turning into boondoggles (the changes to ARC grants, DP and DECRA results out after the next years are due). Much hyped programs being shuttered almost instantly (ASCA). Is there anything that feel like its trending the right way?
February 2, 2026 at 10:37 PM
-shocked pikachu face-
Funding rates through the floor. ARC programs turning into boondoggles (the changes to ARC grants, DP and DECRA results out after the next years are due). Much hyped programs being shuttered almost instantly (ASCA). Is there anything that feel like its trending the right way?
Funding rates through the floor. ARC programs turning into boondoggles (the changes to ARC grants, DP and DECRA results out after the next years are due). Much hyped programs being shuttered almost instantly (ASCA). Is there anything that feel like its trending the right way?
The number of times I've seen AI research that says "well, it could be used to harm, but also it'll provide benefit too" is shocking. The benefits often are the harm. And the harm is borne by people who have no agency in the use of the system.
One of the first things anyone learns about facial recognition is that it is often wrong and that it is biased. And yet ICE is using it all day every day to determine legal status & who to detain. And now we have a high-profile example of it being flat out wrong:
www.404media.co/ices-facial-...
www.404media.co/ices-facial-...
ICE’s Facial Recognition App Misidentified a Woman. Twice
In testimony from a CBP official obtained by 404 Media, the official described how Mobile Fortify returned two different names after scanning a woman's face during an immigration raid. ICE has said th...
www.404media.co
January 19, 2026 at 8:39 PM
The number of times I've seen AI research that says "well, it could be used to harm, but also it'll provide benefit too" is shocking. The benefits often are the harm. And the harm is borne by people who have no agency in the use of the system.
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Predictive algorithms in hiring, creditworthiness, and welfare programs are sold as objective and efficient, writes James O’Sullivan. In practice, however, they operationalize historical bias, scale discrimination, and launder political choices through opaque technical systems, he argues.
How Algorithmic Systems Automate Inequality
James O’Sullivan explains how automated decision-making can reinforce inequality, obscure accountability, and reshape power under the guise of efficiency.
buff.ly
January 18, 2026 at 4:54 AM
Predictive algorithms in hiring, creditworthiness, and welfare programs are sold as objective and efficient, writes James O’Sullivan. In practice, however, they operationalize historical bias, scale discrimination, and launder political choices through opaque technical systems, he argues.
Only a casual 5000+ comment thread of two Gemini AI agents constantly doing and then undoing a task.
github.com/google-gemin...
github.com/google-gemin...
allow exit and quit commands without leading slash (/) · Issue #16723 · google-gemini/gemini-cli
What would you like to be added? This is feature request - someone can point it as bug as well but I will not. Ask / Request 👉🏽 Implement exit and quit as standard commands with a simple confirmati...
github.com
January 16, 2026 at 1:36 AM
Only a casual 5000+ comment thread of two Gemini AI agents constantly doing and then undoing a task.
github.com/google-gemin...
github.com/google-gemin...
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atrocious. How can anyone, but particularly ECRs who are often in insecure work, plan with this??
⁉️The ARC has delayed outcomes of ALL grants 1–4 months & increased scheduled outcome windows from 2 weeks to 3 months!
This reverses 4 years of progress in providing greater certainty & ability to plan for researchers, their families & unis.
Their excuse? Security checks under new ARC legislation👇
This reverses 4 years of progress in providing greater certainty & ability to plan for researchers, their families & unis.
Their excuse? Security checks under new ARC legislation👇
January 12, 2026 at 10:04 PM
atrocious. How can anyone, but particularly ECRs who are often in insecure work, plan with this??
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How's that even going to work with the 2x DP cap, given +1 yr on responses? Seems as well thought through as a paper raincoat.
ECR/MCR precarity is already ridiculous, but this is only going to make it worse. Genuinely have to wonder if it'd be easier for the ARC if we all just left research.
ECR/MCR precarity is already ridiculous, but this is only going to make it worse. Genuinely have to wonder if it'd be easier for the ARC if we all just left research.
January 12, 2026 at 11:30 PM
How's that even going to work with the 2x DP cap, given +1 yr on responses? Seems as well thought through as a paper raincoat.
ECR/MCR precarity is already ridiculous, but this is only going to make it worse. Genuinely have to wonder if it'd be easier for the ARC if we all just left research.
ECR/MCR precarity is already ridiculous, but this is only going to make it worse. Genuinely have to wonder if it'd be easier for the ARC if we all just left research.
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“With a fixed budget, every dollar that you spend on armed men is one that is not going to mitigate the actual systemic issues that create the conditions that the armed men purportedly exist to fight” - @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social
The Consequences of Rejecting "Defund the Police"
Political cowardice is paid for in blood.
open.substack.com
January 8, 2026 at 5:57 PM
“With a fixed budget, every dollar that you spend on armed men is one that is not going to mitigate the actual systemic issues that create the conditions that the armed men purportedly exist to fight” - @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social
To answer the headline: seemingly another dude in tech who views women as his playthings. The barriers are already high enough, and these sort of actions kick down the few ladders that could exist.
www.smh.com.au/technology/w...
www.smh.com.au/technology/w...
Why a groundbreaking new TV show disappeared without a trace
Choosing high-profile tech boffin James Curran as co-host proved to be disastrous.
www.smh.com.au
January 3, 2026 at 3:10 AM
To answer the headline: seemingly another dude in tech who views women as his playthings. The barriers are already high enough, and these sort of actions kick down the few ladders that could exist.
www.smh.com.au/technology/w...
www.smh.com.au/technology/w...
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What's funny is you can tell exactly why it output this string.
When it stole literally all of Stack Overflow, it stole tons and tons of people's explanations of how to make a program that produces random character strings.
One of the easiest ways to do so, contains *this* ASCII string.
When it stole literally all of Stack Overflow, it stole tons and tons of people's explanations of how to make a program that produces random character strings.
One of the easiest ways to do so, contains *this* ASCII string.
July 31, 2025 at 5:02 AM
What's funny is you can tell exactly why it output this string.
When it stole literally all of Stack Overflow, it stole tons and tons of people's explanations of how to make a program that produces random character strings.
One of the easiest ways to do so, contains *this* ASCII string.
When it stole literally all of Stack Overflow, it stole tons and tons of people's explanations of how to make a program that produces random character strings.
One of the easiest ways to do so, contains *this* ASCII string.
How exactly can a country like Australia be out of anti-bleeding drugs like Tranexamic Acid? It's used, among other things, to control post surgical bleeding - my local hospital is down to 16 tabs, and all chemists have been out of stock for months. Madness. Seems like total supply chain failure.
December 23, 2025 at 7:48 PM
How exactly can a country like Australia be out of anti-bleeding drugs like Tranexamic Acid? It's used, among other things, to control post surgical bleeding - my local hospital is down to 16 tabs, and all chemists have been out of stock for months. Madness. Seems like total supply chain failure.
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“Maybe we’re onto something.”
“How can we tell? We’ve only done this 187,623 times with the same success every single time. Could be a fluke.”
“How can we tell? We’ve only done this 187,623 times with the same success every single time. Could be a fluke.”
An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness
The state program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years. At the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
www.streetroots.org
December 3, 2025 at 6:17 AM
“Maybe we’re onto something.”
“How can we tell? We’ve only done this 187,623 times with the same success every single time. Could be a fluke.”
“How can we tell? We’ve only done this 187,623 times with the same success every single time. Could be a fluke.”
Probably would be a good idea to actually fund research and commercialisation in AI then....? Australia does punch above its weight in terms of AI research efficiency, but fundamentally without money the country will continue to experience a brain drain.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
December 2, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Probably would be a good idea to actually fund research and commercialisation in AI then....? Australia does punch above its weight in terms of AI research efficiency, but fundamentally without money the country will continue to experience a brain drain.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
What exactly is the threat model that this is addressing? May as well just say "turn off your router all the time". Ludicrous advice like this will surely make it harder to get real messages through, especially if naive users think that things like this are what's required for cyber safety. So dumb.
December 1, 2025 at 5:29 AM
What exactly is the threat model that this is addressing? May as well just say "turn off your router all the time". Ludicrous advice like this will surely make it harder to get real messages through, especially if naive users think that things like this are what's required for cyber safety. So dumb.
Good to see politicians going so quickly from responding to groundswell to trying to put forth action. But long term this isn't about CSIRO, it should be about how science is treated (and funded) in Australia.
November 25, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Good to see politicians going so quickly from responding to groundswell to trying to put forth action. But long term this isn't about CSIRO, it should be about how science is treated (and funded) in Australia.
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"CSIRO adding it would be looking for between $80m and $135m each year to renovate its ageing property portfolio."
Here I was thinking it was that humans that did science, not buildings. Yet one more set of cuts to finally yield the"sharpened research focus that capitalises on our unique strengths"
Here I was thinking it was that humans that did science, not buildings. Yet one more set of cuts to finally yield the"sharpened research focus that capitalises on our unique strengths"
Read more (don't let this gutting of CSIRO and science happen in silence): www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Shame on your government, @albomp.bsky.social .
Shame on your government, @albomp.bsky.social .
‘Sad day for publicly funded science’: up to 350 more jobs to go at CSIRO
Australia’s national scientific agency announces more research job losses as it looks for budgetary savings
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:51 AM
"CSIRO adding it would be looking for between $80m and $135m each year to renovate its ageing property portfolio."
Here I was thinking it was that humans that did science, not buildings. Yet one more set of cuts to finally yield the"sharpened research focus that capitalises on our unique strengths"
Here I was thinking it was that humans that did science, not buildings. Yet one more set of cuts to finally yield the"sharpened research focus that capitalises on our unique strengths"