If anyone is wondering how well ‘AI’ in hiring is going:
My partner just tried putting her CV through some ATS checkers that use LLMs. Her name can be turned into a male name by deleting one letter. Doing so caused her score to jump 10 points.
Anyone using these tools for hiring is going to have some massive discrimination lawsuits in their future.
the thing i don't understand about individual vibe-coders working with a personal account is: why are you spending all this time developing work habits with a tool that will absolutely be taken away from you at some point??? there is **zero** chance the subscription model is going to continue to exist. they must know this.
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King parrots flappin'
Rosellas rappin'
Bronzewings boomin'
Kookas laughin'
Rock, rock
Rock lorikeet
Down, down
Lorikeet... rock!
Lorikeet... rock!
Let's rock!
Boys wearing lycra
Girls on mountain bikes
Everybody's rockin'
Everybody's ridin''🎶
All that because I went under a deck, and there I saw a rock. It wasn't a rock, it was a rock lorikeet. Aaaahhhh. 😂
Apologies to the B52s
It’s fascinating to live in a time where the majority of global consumers are just fed up and hate everything new on the market.
Hate removal of physical media
Hate forced AI
Hate video surveillance in cars and homes
Hate micro transactions
Hate digital subscriptions
What a time to be alive!
🧵Spotted at a Matariki* Night Market in Aotearoa New Zealand:
Multiple small humans (1 to 6?) are Brownian Motion in human form as they bounce off each other,
run off in different directions,
then bounce off uncles, aunties, mums, dads,
then back again.
Giggling and snortling.
Breath chuffing in the cold night air.
New friends and play in the new year.
A young human (8?) is being address by his incredulous mum who's saying: "I gave ya $36 dollars! You went to get a donuts! Where's the change?!"
Young Human looks sheepish. "I uhm... got a lot of donuts?"
A tiny human (2?) in a fluffy unicorn onesie has decided that she shall roll everywhere tonight.
Mum and Dad are suggesting that using her feet might be helpful but she's adamant that rollypollying on the grass is the ONLY way to get around on this cold winter's night.
It's the unicorn way!
A stylish woman (40s?) in a tartan coat and beret is rubbing her tummy and laughing as she says: "I didn't mean to eat all the rice pudding, but it was SO GOOD and I ate all the rice putting and now I am made of rice pudding!"
A woman (80s?) wearing a vivid pink coat and a neon blue beanie is complimented on her fashion. She says: "I'm too old to be boring. Life's too short," then breaks into a wide sharky smile.
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I'm happy with that. I would have liked a brighter green but this will do.
#AusMusic / #Olympia / #Melbourne / 2016 <https://youtu.be/WPSsEb_KiYY>
“My personal favourite off Self Talk. Inspired by Larry Walters, the man who flew, and the documentary All This Mayhem, which broke my heart.
4am sessions with Burke Reid, digging and pushing for the strangest vocal melodies we could think of, acting as some unhinged weather reporter with Alex Smith - both people I remain endlessly indebted to for their vision (and, in Burke's case, probably the reason I'm known for endless vocal takes - and why my new work isn't ready yet).
On this track I discovered and fell in love with vintage #synthesisers, thanks to another #musician who shared their collection with us - so elated to find Burke and I in the studio with four vintage #DrumMachines stacked on top of one another.
Sadly, that collection was sold for peanuts on Gumtree years later (and not on police auctions which you may have signed up to) due to a prison stint (not mine).
So many stories behind this #record that are hard to share- some personal, some criminal, some purely musical. Looking back I feel so lucky this record came into existence despite all of it and I wish our #AI overlords best of luck thinking something like this up” — Olivia Bartley
The ten year release date of Olynpia’s album, “Self Talk”. But another reason I buy vinyl and support local musicians.
#SelfTalk / #Olympia / #OzMusic / #Melbourne <https://www.facebook.com/olympiamusic/posts/pfbid02fCMvZQjNyeA84abZzshqf3KR5yPGu2LbcaKeoNwjWwZYuWceyVV6zafguA3CWwp9l>
#Aboriginal #artist combining centuries-old #glassblowing technique with millennia-old #traditional weaving practice.
Reject Modernity, Return to 80s, Learn C.
https://hackaday.com/2026/07/10/reject-modernity-return-to-80s-learn-c/
An excellent piece from Vogue about Meta's continuing attempt to make their "smart glasses" fashionable and cool that makes all of the right points about the ways in which normalizing ubiquitous surveillance creates a world we don't want to live in.
https://www.vogue.com/article/do-smart-glasses-have-a-surveillance-problem
Silence on genocide is support for genocide:
"I find that the MSO did have a policy for not expressing support for either side of the Israel-Gaza conflict," Justice Hill said.
There’s a war going on. Pour us a cuppa please ☕️
#BattleOfBritian / #TheBlitz / #London / #TeaPot / #tea 🫖
#BattleOfBritian / #ChainHome / #AMES #Type1 #CHEastCoast / #radar / #Poling / #Sussex / #UK
#BattleOfBritian / #Blitz / #RAF 1940
“Swinburne University #Professor #AllisonKealy, an expert in #positioning, #navigation and #timing, told the ABC she had raised this exact scenario when she approached Telstra earlier this year while seeking support for a proposed critical #infrastructure #resilience #research centre.
Professor Kealy said the pitch to #telcos and other critical infrastructure operators was that they needed to identify shared points of failure before an outage exposed them.”
"We have been approaching all the critical infrastructure sectors to tell them, we have to act now,"
Priorities set by Business leaders and Politicians
VS
Academics and Engineers.
#NTP / #GPS / #telecommunications / #Swinny / #SwinburneUniversity <https://abc.net.au/news/2026-07-10/telstra-warned-about-vulnerability-before-national-outage/106896906>
