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Anthony B, @swearyanthony.bsky.social · 5d

As someone who experienced the 2000 era tech bubble collapse, this is fucking wild to watch. No one wants to pay for this bullshit which is why they keep forcing it on everyone, while spending the GDP of a reasonably sized country to build more of the thing that no one wants. It's fucking absurd

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Reality Winner @reazlepuff.bsky.social · 5d

What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 5d

NEW YORK (AP) — Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs sentenced to 4 years and 2 months in prison in case involving sex workers, violence and ‘freak-offs’.

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Stephen Rowley @sterow.bsky.social · 12d

The dunks on this in the replies are well worth reading. Heartening to see such contempt.

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 12d

AI can’t raise the dead, but it might do the next best thing on.ft.com/4gFXyus | opinion

AI can’t raise the dead, but it might do the next best thing

Rapid advances in generative AI and voice technology mean communicating with the deceased will no longer be sci-fi

on.ft.com

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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 12d

If "Abundance" isn't an establishment psy-op to trick liberals into being ineffective and derby stooges, I'll be genuinely shocked

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Nissa Mitchell @nissamitchell.com · 15d

CEOs be like: “AI is fantastic. The only things it appears to struggle with are things I am skilled at/knowledgeable about. It’s pretty bad at those. It’s great at all the stuff I’m not well-versed with, though.”

404 Media @404media.co · 15d

A new study, based on a survey of 1,150 workers suggests that the injection of AI tools into the workplace has not resulted in a magic productivity boom and instead increased the amount of time that workers say they spend fixing low-quality AI-generated “work.”

🔗 www.404media.co/ai-workslop-...

AI ‘Workslop’ Is Killing Productivity and Making Workers Miserable

AI slop is taking over workplaces. Workers said that they thought of their colleagues who filed low-quality AI work as "less creative, capable, and reliable than they did before receiving the output."

www.404media.co

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Stephen Rowley @sterow.bsky.social · 18d

I’ve never been able to. It will ask for the permission if you try. It would be a major security hole in MacOS if it could.

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Stephen Rowley @sterow.bsky.social · 18d

Yep. It will ask for permission the first time you share (on a Mac, anyway).

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Stephen Rowley @sterow.bsky.social · 20d

It’s infuriating that Stewart will miss the GF and they’ll change the timing of the bye next year to avoid it happening again. This was a completely foreseeable outcome 5+ years ago and the #afl just sleep-walked on and let it happen.

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Stephen Rowley @sterow.bsky.social · 20d

That thought is partly inspired by the comments in this video on Melbourne, which amongst many interesting comments includes remarks about how unusually busy our malls are. youtu.be/oUqavm7KhGg?...

What Is Livability? A Field Report from Melbourne

YouTube video by Ray Delahanty | CityNerd

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Stephen Rowley @sterow.bsky.social · 20d

This vid about a dead mall in Oklahoma is bananas. It also shows an incredibly grim downtown. Obviously this is an extreme example, but I think in Australia we are sheltered from just how bad both brick and mortar retail, and urban environments more generally, are in the US. youtu.be/RTxwJPrzu08?...

Arrowhead Mall ||| Muskogee, Oklahoma

YouTube video by Travel with a Wiseguy

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Stephen Rowley @sterow.bsky.social · 22d

Some sort of automated cost recovery from certain former politicians and public servants would seem to be in order.

Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 22d

Cost of the NACC’s robodebt investigation reaches $1.9m www.canberratimes.com.au/story/906764...

Cost of corruption watchdog's robodebt investigation reaches $1.9m

Contracts for legal advice have been extended.

www.canberratimes.com.au

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 24d

Read @amyremeikis.bsky.social's excellent column on Charlie Kirk that The New Daily saw fit to take down here:

amyremeikis.substack.com/p/charlie-ki...

Charlie Kirk died in the America he wanted

I mourn the loss of human life. I feel compassion, empathy and grief at an inexcusable killing. But I find nothing to lionise in his legacy.

amyremeikis.substack.com

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Stephen Rowley @sterow.bsky.social · 26d

Broadcasters (I’m watching on Foxtel) are optically adding an AAMI logo onto the ground. It looks like one of those tricky perspective painted ground ads (which they also have), but it is not there in long shots. What new corporate bullshit is this? #afl

Long shot from the same broadcast showing there is no painted ad on the ground.

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Stephen Rowley @sterow.bsky.social · 26d

Every Gold Coast player surely got the classic “is that what you’re wearing?” from their partners when leaving the house tonight. #afl

Shot of the Gold Coast Suns in sickly pink gear.

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Stephen Rowley @sterow.bsky.social · Sep 5

Crows did a lot to set this situation up by fighting so hard on the Rankine suspension, which was the opposite of their lip service to accepting he’d done the wrong thing. #afl www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

'I felt ashamed': Crows fans hit out at homophobic slurs during QF

Adelaide fans are threatening to cancel their memberships after a Collingwood star was targeted during the AFL qualifying final.

www.abc.net.au

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Eddie Ford Clinic 🌹 @eddiefordclinic.bsky.social · Sep 4

I know I've posted a lot of words about the booing of Isaac Quaynor but I am just so disturbed by it. It is far too reminiscent of the booing of Adam Goodes. Isn't it a funny coincidence that so many booing targets are players of colour; POC who didn't "know their place" and spoke up #afl

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Stephen Rowley @sterow.bsky.social · Sep 5

Worst umpiring decision ever (the first of the two Cameron kicks). #afl

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Stephen Rowley @sterow.bsky.social · Sep 5

This feels a lot like a grand final matchup, with whoever loses tonight going the long way round. #afl

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Stephen Rowley @sterow.bsky.social · Sep 5

Such a good player.

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tom westland @tomwestland.bsky.social · Sep 5

Will the absence of reliable automatic metro service in the United States mark the moment its citizens notice how far behind their country has fallen?

The Economist @economist.com · Sep 5

Will the absence of robotaxis in Europe mark the moment its citizens notice how far their continent has fallen behind?

Robotaxis will be the Sputnik Moment for a declining Europe

A slow-motion car crash on Europe’s roads

econ.st

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Stephen Rowley @sterow.bsky.social · Sep 4

Why did the Foxtel commentators talk over the soft call? Shut up so we can hear. #afl #aflcrowspies

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Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · Aug 27

When all is said and done, the very worst punishment ultimately rests on Linda Reynolds.

There is nothing more terrifying, no more painful punishment that I can think of, that is worse than this for Reynolds . . .

Linda Reynolds has to live the rest of her life being Linda Reynolds.

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Stephen Rowley @sterow.bsky.social · Aug 27

Perfect end to a cursed season.

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Luke Foley @lukefoley.me · Aug 26

SovCits and other unhinged cooker types are the real problem in this country, not people speaking out against genocide who are labelled as anti-semitic by some. Governments need to wake up and get with the programme otherwise reality will continue to bite them on the arse just like it did today.

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Stephen Rowley @sterow.bsky.social · Aug 26

Terrible. The Age is saying it’s one of these sovereign citizen types. I’m surprised we haven’t seen this sort of event with such people earlier.

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