Building AI systems for a living. Writing about AI, politics, and whatever else holds my attention.

Joined January 2009
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Get in!! Up the @Socceroos!! 2-0 to the good guys!! LFGGG!! 🇩đŸ‡ș🩘🇩đŸ‡ș🩘🇩đŸ‡ș
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For years this person has labelled women witches, now all of a sudden @Your_Avg_Punter is all upset about a billboard doing the same. Hypocrite.
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Opus-4-8 found the bug in zcash. Opus-4-8 also found the bug that caused @gravity_bridge to get exploited. Difference is, people have money in zcash and care about it continuing on, whereas Gravity Bridge is unlikely to come back online.
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Literally doing this now. AI does the majority of the work. Checks other AIs work and we just monitor and manage the agents. We have no plans to hire any devs. Only highly skilled consultants who can manage multiple agents and laise with customers. Risk, Governance and Responsible use of AI is the primary focus.
29 May 2024
Good chance AI will replace the majority of developers in the coming years. There will be high demand for skilled consultants who can implement AI solutions and manage governance, AI ethics and data security. Understanding various software languages will be necessary; however, actually writing code will be minimal. Gen AI has already improved a lot in a short period of time and will only get better. The focus will be on enterprises implementing AI solutions that do 90% of the work. You will be able to write a functional design and the output will be close to perfect. There will be AI that checks the code written by another AI and provides output and feedback to update the code. So long as the controls are in place, the humans will simply observe and only intervene if necessary.
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Crypto price action making me reconsider my investment timelines. Fingers getting twitchy at these prices
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The mandate story on the negative gearing and CGT changes is worth telling in full, because the history makes it damning. 2016: Labor takes negative gearing and CGT reform to the election. Loses. 2019: Labor takes the same reform back to the election. Loses the unloseable one. Drops 17 seats. And this is the part people forget, the policy actually had majority public support at the time. They lost anyway. Their own campaign review blamed the size and complexity of the tax agenda. 2021: Labor’s shadow cabinet formally dumps it. Official line: “maintain the existing regimes for negative gearing and capital gains tax.” 2022: Labor wins, having explicitly abandoned the policy. Then the 2025 campaign. 9 April 2025, Albanese is asked to rule out any changes to negative gearing and CGT if re-elected. “Yes. How hard is it? For the 50th time.” For the 50th time. They didn’t run on it. They buried it, because it had already cost them two elections. 3 May 2025: Labor wins 94 of 150 seats. A landslide on paper. But the primary vote was 34.6%. Roughly 5 million of 15 million first preferences were Labor. Two-thirds of the seats on a third of the vote, delivered by preferences and the worst Coalition result since 1944. August 2025, after the win: “The only tax policy we’re implementing is the one we took to the election.” 12 May 2026: the budget changes negative gearing and the capital gains tax discount. Labor knew this policy was electoral poison. It cost them 2016. It cost them 2019, even with majority support behind it. So they dumped it, ruled it out about ‘fifty times’, won on that promise with a 34.6% primary vote, and then implemented it anyway, twelve months later. You can support the reform on its merits and still see exactly what happened here. A structural change to housing taxation, twice rejected at the ballot box, was delivered without ever being put to voters, by a government that won its seats by promising not to do it. The first time anyone gets to vote on this policy as government policy will be 2028. After it’s law. That’s not a mandate. That’s a 34.6% primary vote and 94 seats being used to do the thing they spent a decade learning they could never get voters to agree to. #auspol
Right now, it's too tough to buy your first home. We’re fixing that by changing negative gearing and capital gains tax breaks to give first home buyers a fair go.
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May 30
This account writes like the tech version of @asparagoid if he didn’t have a soul or love.
I spent 4 hours yesterday updating my resume to apply for a mid-level PM role. The listing said they wanted someone with 10 years of experience in a software that was invented 4 years ago. I clicked apply and was immediately redirected to a third-party portal that asked me to upload my resume, which I did. Then it asked me to manually type in every single detail of the resume I had just uploaded. Why did I upload it if I have to type it again? Is the uploaded PDF just a ceremonial offering to the HR gods? I spent 40 minutes breaking down my career history into tiny mandatory text boxes. The portal required me to list a start and end date for every job, but the calendar widget wouldn't let me type the year. I had to click the back arrow month by month to get to 2002. My wrist started cramping somewhere around 2018. Then it asked for my high school GPA. I'm 44 years old. I don't even remember the name of my high school mascot, let alone my proficiency in AP European History. After the history lesson, came the behavioral assessment. It presented me with 75 statements and asked me to rate them from "strongly disagree" to "strongly agree." One statement was "I prefer to work alone but also thrive in team environments." That is a paradox. I'm being asked to evaluate a philosophical contradiction by a recruiting algorithm. I just clicked "neutral" for everything out of spite. The final step was a mandatory video cover letter. I had to record a one-minute pitch explaining why my core values align with a B2B SaaS company that sells inventory management software. My core value is being able to afford groceries and paying my internet bill on time. I put on a dress shirt over my sweatpants, stared into my webcam, and lied for 60 seconds. I said I've always been profoundly passionate about supply chain optimization. Nobody is passionate about supply chain optimization. I clicked submit and immediately received an automated rejection email. The timestamp said it was sent zero seconds after I applied. I was evaluated and deemed unworthy by a line of code at the speed of light. Next time I'm just going to wrap my resume around a brick and throw it through their office window.
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Disgusting human and policies.
IT BEGINS
 NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani unveils plan to "transfer ownership" from landlords to "the community"
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May 18
Crypto is actually one of the better asset classes to invest in post FY27. It's a natural hedge against inflation and monetary debasement, so the new indexation regime makes it more attractive than traditional options like stocks and property, despite the 30% floor's broader incidence issues. #auspol
Incentivise them not to invest insuch a dogshit crypto product?
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The other way at looking at this is, if you are new to the country it's 'unfair' for you that families which have been in Australia for multiple generations have an 'unfair' advantage because they worked hard to build asset wealth which they will pass down to their children. Theft.
The government is framing the changes to negative gearing and the CGT as intergenerational fairness. Older and wealthier households have had access to both for decades and built significant wealth from both. Younger generations that are less wealthy won't have access to either which entrenches intergenerational unfairness and is another leg-up and advantage for older households. Unless the government is also going to include other tax changes such as including the family home in the pension asset test, these changes aren't about intergenerational fairness at all. They are about the appearance of making things fair.
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Apr 25
Nudge politics will continue along, then they will get a massive shove back once enough people have had enough. Won’t be long now. Those who have been nudging along will lose their minds when they get shoved. Can’t wait.
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The AFL doesn’t respect the Australian National flag. Choosing to fly two other recognised flags of Australia and the New Zealand flag but not the Australian flag. Insanity.
Apr 25
Lest we forget ❀ #AFLDonsPies
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Apr 25
Collects multiple 6 figure salary for doing literally nothing every year. Definition of public leech.
It is not patriotism to be a selfish thug, it’s pathetic. The selfish boneheads who booed at Anzac Day ceremonies take their lead from the racism and bigotry promoted by people like Pauline Hanson and Tony Abbott. Their dog whistling has real and dangerous consequences.
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You know the perfect time for Welcome to Country, when you’re hosting an event in Australia when the competitor’s or other team (or both teams) are from foreign countries. Make it special, not something you roll out every week to people who are born and live in the country. Pretty simple.
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Biggest dawn services in a long time all across the country. Fed up with woke BS. People are waking up and being proud to be Australian again. About time too. Now it just needs to happen at the polls.
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Apr 20
It’s really easy to trigger a certain side of politics. It’s always the side that wants to suppress freedom of speech and always block you as soon as they reply with what they think is a banger 😂 Collect them as trophies! 🏆
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Apr 18
You’d have to think Zac Efron had the worst luck not taking advantage of Hugh Jackman literally handing over the Top Hat as The Greatest Showman and not making an insane sequel or releasing an amazing movie as a follow up. Generational fumble.
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Everyone literally nuked their AI Models in the last few weeks. Either they’re all struggling for compute or they’re all training/using their new models internally and handicapping us. Actually insane to see.
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Apr 1
TLDR on Albo's national address Fuel isn't coming in. The ships have stopped. We're fucked. Buckle up. #AUSPOL
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Wild to see literally zero people can read between the lines on what he's actually 'addressing' the nation about.
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