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⭑ salma @whitep4nth3r.com · 1h

a banger morning at @webdevconf.com so far

@strange.website spitting truth bars right here

Henry on stage with a slide that says social media apps are a fucken prison

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Joel from video games @walistudios.au · 11h

Hey everyone!!
Thank you all for saying nice things about our Parallels talk 🥺
It was such an awesome night!
We're going to be hanging out in the Kirrip Wilam room at Pax today if you'd like to say hi! 💕

Sasha Mutch @sashamutch.bsky.social · 6d

Catch Wyrmspace at #migw this year!

We've got our playable prototype set up at the following events:

👔 GCAP Screen Australia's Local lounge - Oct 8th
📐 Parallels (we've on stage too) - Oct 9th
🎮 Pax at the Kirrip Wilam room - Oct 10th - 12th

Come say hi and get your thinky tactics caps on!

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kat @kgt.bsky.social · 8h

Last day to pre-order these gorgeous archival prints of some of Overland's most iconic journal covers at $100 a piece: overland.org.au/shop/merchan...

10% of the profits will be donated to Palestinian causes, such as PARA, Gaza Mutual Aid Collective, Dahnoun Mutual Aid and The Sameer Project.

Three of Overland's previous journal covers, as archival prints. Overland issue 239 by Seth Searle, Overland issue 235 by Sam Wallman, and Overland issue 96 by Rick Amor.

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kat @kgt.bsky.social · 1d

It's @walistudios.au! 🫶🏽

SIFTER @sifterhq.bsky.social · 1d

Wyrmspace Tactics is heists in space and drop the first spreadsheets of the night. Graphs for days by @walistudios.au tactics grids and cards combined #parallels

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kat @kgt.bsky.social · 1d

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm!! 💖

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kat @kgt.bsky.social · 2d

I get it

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kat @kgt.bsky.social · 2d

Okay, small spoilers, but the book I'm working on at the moment features an in-universe video game and I'm at the point of figuring out this manuscript where I think I need to just make the damn game (pray for me)

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Paper House @paperhousegames.com · 4d

A bunch of people working out of Paper House were interviewed for this wonderful piece written by Josefina Huq (@josefinahuq.bsky.social) for Well Played.

The article features a huge amount of insight from local developers and the importance of 'showing up' 💪

www.well-played.com.au/showing-up-i...

Showing Up In The Melbourne Games Ecosystem

Dealing with existential anxieties by being a bum on a seat

www.well-played.com.au

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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 4d

#BREAKING 🚨 Deloitte to refund government, admits using AI in $440k report into mutual obligations issues.

Fake quotes from Federal Court case that ended Robodebt deleted from new report in Friday DEWR dump.

📰 AFR

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HEADLINE: Deloitte to refund government, admits AI errors in $440k report

Deloitte Australia will issue a partial refund to the federal government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a $440,000 report littered with errors including three nonexistent academic references and a made-up quote from a Federal Court judgement.

A new version of the report for the Department of Workplace Relations (DEWR) was quietly uploaded to the department’s website on Friday, ahead of a long weekend across much of Australia. It features more than a dozen deletions of nonexistent references and footnotes, a rewritten reference list, and corrections to multiple typographic errors.

(photo of Deloitte Australia HQ) Deloitte Australia has made almost $25 million worth of deals with the Department of Workplace Relations since 2021. Photographer Dion Georgopoulos

The first version of the report, about the IT system used to automate penalties in the welfare system such as pauses on the dole, was published in July. Less than a month later, Deloitte was forced to investigate the report after University of Sydney academic Dr Christopher Rudge highlighted multiple errors in the document.

At the time, Rudge speculated that the errors may have been caused by what is known as “hallucinations” by generative AI. This is where the technology responds to user queries by inventing references and quotes. Deloitte declined to comment.

The incident is embarrassing for Deloitte as it earns a growing part of its $US70.5 billion ($107 billion) in annual global revenue by providing advice and training clients and executives about AI. The firm also boasts about its widespread use of the technology within its global operations, while emphasising the need to always have humans review any output of AI.

SUBHEADING: Deleted references, footnotes

The revised report has deleted a dozen references to two nonexistent reports by Professor Lisa Burton Crawford, a law professor at the University of Sydney, that were included in the first version. Two references to a nonexistent report by Professor Björn Regnell, of Lund University in Sweden, were also deleted in the new report.

Also deleted was a made up reference to a court decision in a leading robo-debt case, Deanna Amato v Commonwealth.

The new report has also deleted a reference to “Justice Davis” (a misspelling of Justice Jennifer Davies) and the made-up quote from the nonexistent paragraphs 25 and 26 in the judgement: “The burden rests on the decision-maker to be satisfied on the evidence that the debt is owed. A person’s statutory entitlements cannot lawfully be reduced based on an assumption unsupported by evidence.”

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Frames @oxinabox.bsky.social · 5d

as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious"

I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge.

We know exactly how LLMs work.

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Sasha Mutch @sashamutch.bsky.social · 6d

Catch Wyrmspace at #migw this year!

We've got our playable prototype set up at the following events:

👔 GCAP Screen Australia's Local lounge - Oct 8th
📐 Parallels (we've on stage too) - Oct 9th
🎮 Pax at the Kirrip Wilam room - Oct 10th - 12th

Come say hi and get your thinky tactics caps on!

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 21d

I'm not sure about this branding but I'm not the billionaire business genius

Mark Zuckerberg presenting his Pervert Glasses for perverts

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kat @kgt.bsky.social · 7d

I need a season of Gogglebox that is all people who have watched AU Bake Off and thought “oh that @tomwalker.bsky.social he’s nice” and decide to put on Very Very. Please I need to see the boomers’ reactions so badly.

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kat @kgt.bsky.social · 9d

Hell yeah

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ally @allyhennessy.bsky.social · 9d

made a playable zine for FREAKON that incorporates a whole heap of stories of how games media helped feed our community

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kat @kgt.bsky.social · 10d

So sorry to break the news this way

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kat @kgt.bsky.social · 10d

Have you considered that these are just bad opinions?

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kat @kgt.bsky.social · 10d

Playing this instead of my morning doomscroll. Really charming and impressive storytelling for a browser-based game. Blew my mind when I saw another player running around...

Aftermath @aftermath.site · 10d

You could play Messenger right now, nothing is stopping you:

aftermath.site/messenger-brow...

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Warwick Gow @warwickgow.bsky.social · 10d

The Riyadh Comedy Festival is a pretty good excuse to talk about art washing and how Australia does many of the terrible things they do.

But also how badass is this photo of Atsuko Okatsuka who turned down Riyadh blood money and leaked the censorship clauses.

thiscouldbeit.ghost.io/riyadh-i-har...

Riyadh, I Hardly Know Her

If you’re as online as I am and if you also like comedy you’ve probably recently been made aware of the formerly, little known place of Riyadh. Pronounced "REE" + "ad" in case you were wondering. Joke...

thiscouldbeit.ghost.io

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 12d

“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.

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kat @kgt.bsky.social · 16d

18-month-old information scraped from a website and sentences that make me feel like I’m having a stroke

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kat @kgt.bsky.social · 16d

Noooooooo

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kat @kgt.bsky.social · 16d

Reading AI slop has made my job orders of magnitude more difficult thanks I hate it so much: "Employees are using AI tools to create low-effort, passable looking work that ends up creating more work for their coworkers."
hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g...

AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity

Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”—content that appea...

hbr.org

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kat @kgt.bsky.social · 16d

+1 codeacademy, I’ve used it for many beginner workshops

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 16d

In my opinion the internet is better when people are on their own little sites minding their business talking to people they’re interested in talking to. It’s worse when there are two websites and everyone on them has been driven insane by an algorithm designed to drive them insane.

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