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Alice Clarke

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Multi-award winning freelance journalist specialising in technology, games, entertainment and opinion. Co-curator of the PAX Together area at PAX Aus.

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Alice Clarke @alicedkc.bsky.social · 1m

We had a good time

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Checkpoint Gaming @checkpointau.bsky.social · 2d

PANEL ALERT!!

Saturday, 12:30pm PAX Together Theatre - Out, Loud, and Critical: Queer Journalists Changing Games Media

Join host @checkpointboss.bsky.social and awesome journos @alicedkc.bsky.social, @nomibelle.bsky.social, @jesszam.bsky.social and @sifterhq.bsky.social for a brilliant discussion!

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Alexis Pink @alexispink.bsky.social · 3d

So the prep is all done, the questions are written, and the interface is perfect*. It's time for another year of QueryI at #PAXAUS! Friday at 12:30pm in the Together Theatre!

The theme this year? Terrible Australis

Come join the fun!

*for interpretations thereof

Alice Clarke @alicedkc.bsky.social · 5d

I haven’t seen any of them yet! I’m hoping they’re along the same lines as the descendants

Alice Clarke @alicedkc.bsky.social · 5d

Zombies 4: Dawn Of The Vampires sounds like a fake movie from 30 Rock or something. I love that it's real.

Alice Clarke @alicedkc.bsky.social · 5d

HWC seems to be more "we are having a great time, yay!" while Wood is more along the lines of "your dick fixed me and now I want to have a lot of children with you"

Alice Clarke @alicedkc.bsky.social · 5d

It's like when you see a video of a stranger's toddler having a meltdown: behind that video are the decisions to get out the camera to record, & then to post it.
A celebrity releasing a song about a specific person's penis isn't just "here's a song about a penis", there's more context you can't see.

Alice Clarke @alicedkc.bsky.social · 5d

When I first heard people talking about the song being about his penis I was like “surely it’s more subtle than that”. But then it’s called Wood and goes downhill from there.

Alice Clarke @alicedkc.bsky.social · 5d

Were there any euphemisms they or their reps rejected? Why is this the only penis she’s sung about? Did he ask her to write this song? What was his reaction when he heard it? He’s now going to be asked about the song about his penis in every interview for years, was that considered?

Alice Clarke @alicedkc.bsky.social · 5d

My thought process when a major celebrity releases a song about her famous fiancés penis:
How many meetings did her publicity team have to have with his publicity team about this song? She wrote that song with two other writers, what was that conversation like? What was the editing process like?

Alice Clarke @alicedkc.bsky.social · 5d

My thought process when an indie artist releases a song about their mystery partner’s genitals: unexpected. Glad they’re having a good time. Perhaps more details than I needed. I hope their partner enjoys the song and signed off on it. Good for them for being so sex positive.

Alice Clarke @alicedkc.bsky.social · 6d

There are a few good songs on the album, don’t get me wrong. But it would have benefited from having more people in the room willing to push back and challenge her on some of the weaker and more formulaic songs.

Alice Clarke @alicedkc.bsky.social · 6d

During this time when the richest and most powerful people in the world are claiming to be silenced victims, I have less patience for literal billionaire Taylor Swift’s brand of ‘poor me’ pop.

Alice Clarke @alicedkc.bsky.social · 7d

I got new bar tape today after riding on ripped bar tape for months. It’s basically a new bike now. Had a great time on it this morning.

A red Trek Domane with black bar tape featuring lighting in a contrasting black.

A red Trek Domane SL6 with black bar tape featuring lighting in a contrasting black.

Alice Clarke @alicedkc.bsky.social · 7d

I think you just get to pick something. If store bought language doesn’t have what you need, homemade is fine. but you can always continue with the captain theme

Alice Clarke @alicedkc.bsky.social · 9d

I hosted the final episode of Road To Games Week for ScreenHub. You can watch it here:

Ep 2: Road to Melbourne International Games Week with Johnny Galvatron from Beethoven & Dinosaur

YouTube video by ScreenHub

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Teresa Heffernan @tjheffernan.bsky.social · 9d

It would be really nice if academic institutions and governments pushing "AI is the future" stopped buying the hype and admitted they were conned, so we can get back to thinking through useful solutions to world problems.

Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 9d

"Microsoft says its Agent Mode in Excel has an accuracy rate of 57.2%" 😶

I often wonder how these corps would have turned the world upside down if genAI was actually accurate and useful. they've lost their minds over shoddy and mediocre tools

www.theverge.com/news/787076/...

Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word

Vibe working is all about Office’s new Agent Mode.

www.theverge.com

Alice Clarke @alicedkc.bsky.social · 9d

Yep. It's the worst of all worlds. I just want my previous cards to complete in this dex, so then I'm only chasing the star cards. That would feel better.. I'm only missing one diamond card from the previous sets, so having these gaps is going to feel so bad.

Alice Clarke @alicedkc.bsky.social · 9d

If I haven't opened an Oak in the next 10 packs I'm just going back to chasing a second golden poke ball.

Alice Clarke @alicedkc.bsky.social · 9d

Except it won't patch holes in the dex. Getting a card in the new set doesn't help with older sets. That's what's so annoying.

Alice Clarke @alicedkc.bsky.social · 9d

One month, limited set. Over 300 cards. Most of them doubles from previous sets but still show up blank in the Dex. I've opened 40 packs without getting a single actually rare card. It's going to be the first set I don't 100% and it feels gross.

Alice Clarke @alicedkc.bsky.social · 9d

This latest Pokemon TCG Pocket set is bad and who ever came up with it should feel bad.

Alice Clarke @alicedkc.bsky.social · 12d

Sleep is expensive

Alice Clarke @alicedkc.bsky.social · 12d

The bad news is a good Australian wool comforter will have the tariffs :( the good news is that our dollar is worthless, so your money will go further.

Alice Clarke @alicedkc.bsky.social · 12d

Yeah. This doesn’t bode well for