Adrian

Ai is neither intelligent nor artificial.
Behind it is a mount of human labor. Stolen, underpaid, exploited human labor

I abhor fascism, in all its forms.

So why do I find such comfort in bingeing episodes of Nothing to Declare Australia?

And knows how to use an apostrophe.

I appreciate your good intentions, and maybe my personal experiences of the software industry have left me too cynical, but I’m wary of letting the architects of surveillance capitalism get too involved in the development of atproto.

I have this book. It’s hilarious.

A sign reads "Please wait patiently for the failure of the system" with Chinese characters above.

our patience has been rewarded

I appreciate your good intentions, and maybe my personal experiences of the software industry have left me too cynical, but I’m wary of letting the architects of surveillance capitalism get too involved in the development of atproto.

Is this bait, or are you just being American?

Google destroyed the business model of journalism, which used to help us keep politicians and others in power accountable.

Do you really think their intentions here are noble?

As an Australian, I wholeheartedly agree.

Keep it going…

You came here to have a go at me, so it’s surely your question to answer.

A particularly obnoxious American?

Let me guess… You’re American?

And you seem to have really misunderstood the question.

Also, wasn’t asking you.

In the parts of the world I’ve lived in, Burger King is consistently far superior to McDonald’s.

My goodness, it must take a lot of effort for a global news organisation to be this stupid.

I have to ask:

If “McDonald’s burgers are pretty good as burgers go”, then what are the lesser burgers you have in mind?

‘The most bitter news’: Iran reels as more than 100 children reportedly killed in school bombing The building appears to be among many devastated in Trump’s ‘major combat operations’ as long expected attacks arrive

Murderous ghoul. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

If having expectations above rock bottom mass-produced garbage is “pious snobbery”, then I’m fine with that label.

‘The most bitter news’: Iran reels as more than 100 children reportedly killed in school bombing The building appears to be among many devastated in Trump’s ‘major combat operations’ as long expected attacks arrive

Murderous ghoul.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

“McDonald’s burgers are pretty good as burgers go.”

You cannot be serious. Have you never eaten real food?

I sense a great disturbance in the force like thousands of centrists cried out and then everyone laughed at them.

On that occasion, I experienced nothing but a bemusing phone call.

But my partner’s apprentice suffered a serious bashing, and the physical and mental scars that come with that.

I was writing for him and everyone in our community whose suffering is seen as acceptable.

I have personally experienced this side of Albo before…

Sixteen years ago, I very unexpectedly received a phone call from him.

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Teachers furious over gay lesson ban - Star Observer The state government’s decision to ban an anti-homophobia teaching resource is disgraceful and cowardly, according to the NSW Teachers Federation. The Federation’s comments came as NSW Education minis...

Here is some contemporaneous coverage of the situation.

www.starobserver.com.au/news/nationa...

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Albo was not calling me to find any solutions to these problems. He called me to berate me for writing the letter and to tell me how much his then wife had done for “you people”.

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I explained that her capitulation would, rightly or wrongly, be interpreted by the apprentice’s attackers as an endorsement of their views.

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I explained to her that my then partner’s apprentice had very recently been the victim of a violent homophobic assault on the grounds of his TAFE college (for which she was the responsible minister).

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