I was overseas when the Bondi shooting happened and there was a stark difference in how media was pushed to me between earlier in the week in Denmark and now that I’m back in Australia.

Gave a talk this morning about how AI FOMO isn't a strategy and several Qs afterwards were asking if may be FOMO *should* be the driving force. But if 89% of the public think proven safety should come first, then it feels like a good idea to respect that

I don’t know what algorithmic magic pushed ‘I Thought About That A Lot’ under my nose a few weeks ago. But I’m glad they did. It’s an anonymous essay a day in the lead up to Christmas. An essay advent calendar, if you will. And it’s great. www.ithoughtaboutthatalot.com

Is… The New Yorker ok? If you have fans of digital surveillance on your gift list, may I suggest backing away slowly?

“The debt of gratitude Australians owe CSIRO for Aeroguard alone can never be repaid. Which is why it’s so alarming to watch its funding – and its people – bleed away,” writes Ebony Bennett, Deputy Director at The Australia Institute.

Read the full op-ed: australiainstitute.org.au/post/who-nee...

Book club nerds of Canberra unite!

Australia news live: Husic says ‘driest minds’ in treasury and finance need to see science as an investment not a cost after CSIRO jobs slashed
👏🏼 Preach. Don’t they know the fine folks at CSIRO invented WiFi?👏🏼

Hello EU/UK #STS and #digitalsociology folks! I’ll be in the area in April 2026 to host a symposium in London and am looking for some side trips to make it worth the CO2. If you or your research group have a symposium / workshop / conference etc worth my time then I’d love to hear from you.

It’s a hard no from this card carrying Anglican and digital sociologist.

I’m currently reading a benchmarking report about digital government from the year 2000 and it’s rather jarring reading about the internet and pre-euro currencies in one document.

Obligatory Aurora Australis pics 💁🏻‍♀️

Data colonialism in the most literal sense

When deception’s more profitable than honesty, users lose.

Internal documents suggest that Meta earns $3.5B(!) every 6 mo. from scam ads, revealing a deeper systemic problem: the economic incentive to tolerate “higher legal risk” content still outweighs any penalty. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

A soggy mortarboard fished out the creek is surely a metaphor for something. Just not sure what 🤔

On this very day, the 1st of November I heard the first Christmas song blared over the speakers at the shopping centre. Thankfully it wasn’t Last Christmas so I didn’t lose Whamageddon before it even started 😑

Book launch o’clock! DOUBLE book launch o’clock! Anna Munster’s ‘Deep Aesthetics’ and Adrian Mackenzie’s ‘1000 Platforms’.

I attended an event yesterday about creative bureaucracy and I posed the question to senior public servants on the panel: Creativity is perceived as something only middle/upper class have the luxury of doing. How do you give licence for all your staff or colleagues to be creative in their roles?

I haven't posted anything yet! Quick! I'll do 9 fun facts in honour of my 9 followers/bots who followed me sight unseen.
1) I'm currently listening to a Father John Misty song.