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Rugby league diplomacy means that now that the NRL has seeded a team in Papua New Guinea, other countries know we have the power projection capacity to deliver rugby league players anywhere in the world. That's a powerful deterrent.

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

zinger banh mi it isn't fair i've had enough now I want my share

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

head of absurdly over-endowed security service calls for criminal charges against newspaper editor, you’ll come a waltzing with me

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

will not engage in cabana discourse, refuse to engage with cabana discourse, absolutely no cabana discourse, none

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

"You'll be visited by three spirits." The three spirits:

submitted 67 days ago • 4 comments

this problem is described far too often as webpages “disappearing” and links “breaking” like it’s some kind of mystery, rather than what is really happening, which is webpages are being removed, and links destroyed, more often than not at the behest of graphic designers

submitted 71 days ago • 1 comment

Another point I have tried to make repeatedly. So many of these internet regulations are going to simply lock in that the only people who can run a website are the big tech giants. Think about that the next time you demand "there ougtta be a law to stop bad stuff online!"

submitted 74 days ago • 14 comments

As if 2024 didn't have enough great news, today the admin of the london fixed gear and single speed (lfgss) forum has announced they're forced to shut down by the looming online safety act, enforced by @ofcom.bsky.social . Admin doesn't have the resources to manage the new regulation so off it goes.

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

Newsletter: Our digital lives are unregulated growth-hacked ecological disasters. The modern tech ecosystem's growth-at-all-costs mindset is actively harming billions of people, pushing them toward authoritarianism for profit. We must fight back. www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/

submitted 74 days ago • 200 comments

I have quibbles here and there but this is one of the best things I have read this year. One of those essays we’ll still be linking to in a decade (assuming ghost still exists, see article enclosed)

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

I’ll tap that goddamn sign, the only reason we need what amounts to a ballot for housing in this city is because we do not build enough of it, if this place looked like kowloon tenants would be filtering potential landlords with AI instead

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

I’m in the arena trying stuff (Myer giftorium)

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

a particular favourite subgenre of mine is ‘curmudgeonly staff writer at the new yorker complains about grammar’, and so, behold: www.newyorker.com/culture/anna...

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

The AFP say they had "no choice" but to start using AI given how much data they're collecting in investigations. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

submitted 80 days ago • 5 comments

There is not a Party in Australia which is honest with itself about housing. The Libs just want the money tap to flow votes forever. Labor wants prices to rise and come down at the same time. The greens want massive public housing builds but without actually altering any suburbs. None of it is real

submitted 80 days ago • 8 comments

Nothing gives you more confidence about Australia’s counter-terror laws than the fact an attack becomes designated “terrorism” following days of political debate, and is designated by politicians responding to media queries, as opposed to any actual security analysis.

submitted 82 days ago • 7 comments

sydney build a train to the beach challenge 1831-2024 (impossible)

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

A lot of you have never worked in the service industry and it really shows.

submitted 83 days ago • 93 comments

boland takes a wicket on his first delivery, we're so back, off a no ball, it's so over

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

Mark Latham PM's XI in Canberra wrapped

submitted 86 days ago • 4 comments

straight up misleading to call this city a rat race when its inhabitants genuinely could not move any slower

submitted 86 days ago • 1 comment

finally finished downloading my limewire wrapped after 20 years

submitted 86 days ago • 374 comments