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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 7h

We're now finding out that as many as 70,000 people had their government IDs provided to prove their ages leaked by Discord. Like I wrote last week, this is an inherent risk (and made greater by a rushed process) of getting platforms to do age checks

Discord says 70,000 users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach

The ID pics had been submitted as part of age-related appeals.

www.theverge.com

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Buru and The Old People @buruthegame.bsky.social · 1d

Greetings, fellow PAX Aus travelers!

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BarmE 👉🏼 MIGW+SXSW 🤛🏼 @barmearme.bsky.social · 6h

Perfect!

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Back Pocket @backpocket.gg · 1d

Back Pocket is BACK (pocket) for PAX Aus this year, and we've got quite the show for you!

Join us in the Quokka Theare at 7:00PM on Friday, October 10th for our PAX PRIME TIME SHOW with special guests Amelia Tyler and Diana Fay. It'll be a blast!

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BarmE 👉🏼 MIGW+SXSW 🤛🏼 @barmearme.bsky.social · 1d

Didn't pay for free seat and got one anyway lol

BarmE 👉🏼 MIGW+SXSW 🤛🏼 @barmearme.bsky.social · 1d

The combo! Lol

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BarmE 👉🏼 MIGW+SXSW 🤛🏼 @barmearme.bsky.social · 1d

Omg.
They give ya a 20 to secure your booking + 1 more.

Meanwhile I'm being asked if I wanna spend $50 to keep the seat next to me free 😂

What is happening.

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BarmE 👉🏼 MIGW+SXSW 🤛🏼 @barmearme.bsky.social · 1d

New pawjamas DLC just dropped 😂

BarmE 👉🏼 MIGW+SXSW 🤛🏼 @barmearme.bsky.social · 1d

You know it's games week when you see a picture of Pochita but all you see is doggy don't care 😂 @rotub.bsky.social

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Gee’s going to MIGW + PAX @geeofdee.bsky.social · 2d

The 2 days of no MIGW has induced serious FOMO but I’m making up for it with shenanigans across the next couple of days!

Filming for ABC Gamer, getting my rat hands on some indies and playing lots of D&D 💖

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BarmE 👉🏼 MIGW+SXSW 🤛🏼 @barmearme.bsky.social · 2d

Did you throw the bird a vote Josh 😊
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Australian bird of the year 2025: vote for your favourite #birdoftheyear in the Guardian / BirdLife Australia poll

From little penguins to (very big) cassowaries, every bird has its fans. Vote for your favourite in the 2025 Guardian/BirdLife Australia poll

www.theguardian.com

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Paper House @paperhousegames.com · 3d

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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BarmE 👉🏼 MIGW+SXSW 🤛🏼 @barmearme.bsky.social · 2d

Awesome news!

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BarmE 👉🏼 MIGW+SXSW 🤛🏼 @barmearme.bsky.social · 2d

Dogpile lo-fi when @folly.studio

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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 3d

#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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Sasha Mutch @sashamutch.bsky.social · 5d

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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🇵🇸 lisa @MIGW @spacewahine.bsky.social · 4d

kia ora gamers!! i'm going 2 be sharing a talk at GCAP this year, my first time ever!!! it's about cosy games and it will be reall good I have made a mood board of what u can expect so hope 2 see u there :^)

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🕚 wednesday 11am

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BarmE 👉🏼 MIGW+SXSW 🤛🏼 @barmearme.bsky.social · 4d

MHA S8 in 30mins???

all might from my hero academia is wearing a suit and tie and is standing in front of a door .

ALT: all might from my hero academia is wearing a suit and tie and is standing in front of a door .

media.tenor.com

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ally @allyhennessy.bsky.social · 5d

We have an insane number of people on the waitlist for FREAKON, so if you have tickets and can't make it please cancel them so someone else can get in 😇💖
ALSO don't forget the venue is now STUDIO TAKE CARE, same as last year.

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Back Pocket @backpocket.gg · 6d

Do you:
a) Love Pokemon Go?
b) Love Back Pocket?
c) Enjoy talking people’s ear off about either of the above?
Then come on down to Fortress Sydney on Saturday 18th October at 5PM for the official Pokemon Go Community Day! The Back Pocket team will be there, so come and say hi!

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BarmE 👉🏼 MIGW+SXSW 🤛🏼 @barmearme.bsky.social · 6d

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Brennan Lee Mulligan @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social · 6d

Tonight’s #CriticalRole begins in about an hour!

Thjazi Fang, hero (or villain?) of the Falconer’s Rebellion, has been sentenced to death. A host of extraordinary adventurers from across his life converge on Dol-Makjar, the city where the War Against the Gods began… join us!

twitch.tv/criticalrole

CriticalRole - Twitch

Welcome to Critical Role! This is the live home for a bunch of nerdy ass voice actors and all of their debauchery.

twitch.tv

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BarmE 👉🏼 MIGW+SXSW 🤛🏼 @barmearme.bsky.social · 6d

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voiceofobrien.bsky.social @voiceofobrien.bsky.social · 6d

Alright Critters, are you ready to fire up #CriticalRoleSpoilers ?!?!?

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BarmE 👉🏼 MIGW+SXSW 🤛🏼 @barmearme.bsky.social · 6d

a cartoon of a man with the words " i 'll see you when the time is right " on the bottom

ALT: a cartoon of a man with the words " i 'll see you when the time is right " on the bottom

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 7d

'A former deputy head of the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation, McInerney has also argued the White Australia Policy did not go far enough and that white Australians may need to live in separate neighbourhoods as a form of “tactical retreat”.'

www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

The far-right figures teaching students at a Sydney college

The dean of studies says the country will need political parties for white Australians. A senior lecturer wants an Anglo-Celtic club to inspire fear in “leftist thugs”.

www.smh.com.au

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