Cail Young

Finally drew a stupid comic I have been making in my head over the past week after seeing one too many 'bogan moth' comments on social media lol

Huge if true

Ow, my bones

I’m not being rude, I’m just correctionally direct.

Happy ten year anniversary of the 2016 blackout in South Australia. I was told that as clean power grew in Aus, we'd see a blackout apocalypse. The chart below shows blackouts for generation shortfall as columns, and renewable proportion as a percent of the eastern grid. Enjoy :)

It is critical to understand how difficult it can be to remove the use of a computer program once a dependency on it has been created or normalized. The sale of many computer programs relies on the buyer or user not thinking this far out in time. lesscomputer.ca/computer-care/

Grateful for the State Library of Victoria for supporting my need to exhaustively source all claims in my talks

Listen to @boontavista.com

Once again blown away by the production design for @boontavista.com

Finally!

"Wake up, babe! New Cage chord just dropped!" Always happy for a chance to share this from @themountaingoats.bsky.social -- one of my favorite pieces of music writing ever.

ICYMI the CFP for DDD Melbourne 2027 is open and we want to hear from you! If you've been waiting for someone to say "that's a great talk idea"....welllll "it IS a great talk idea". Everyone has something unique to share don't think about it just submit it 👉 sessionize.com/ddd-melbourn...

And so what I'm describing here is how folks (in the Naturalistic Decision Making branch of expertise research) take the underlying mechanism behind 'osmosis', and then systematise it across entire militaries / companies / organisations. And it's something you can do too.

Was tipped off today that Telstra isn't the first telco to have this issue it seems. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Outstanding, and one I will try to keep in mind for my next talk!

This is known in the literature as the Badder-Minionhof Effect

Just listened to John Cage’s 4’33”. Great piece, no notes.

🚨On Monday July 27 at 2pm AEST, every phone in Australia will get very loud. 🚨 If you are vulnerable, with a phone as part of your escape plan, please make sure that you take steps to protect yourself. If you aren't vulnerable, please help get the word out to protect those who are.

I spent the last month obsessed with finding colors that can't be displayed on a conventional screen. This is what I found. moultano.wordpress.com/2026/06/19/w...

I think it's really really important to understand GenAI as a shockingly effective tool of social corrosion: the reason it is a huge problems is because accepting a massive drop in quality, accuracy and meaning as a trade for convenience is a deal SO MANY PEOPLE are happily taking

McSweeney's on "AI finances" goes harder than most business publications. https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-economics-for-dummies

hi Irish and UK SRE friends, @honeycomb.io is hiring an SRE in the UK or Ireland! You'll get to work with (IMHO) one of the best SRE teams in the industry, and help level up the rest of industry on o11y and SRE! job-boards.greenhouse.io/honeycomb/jo... job-boards.greenhouse.io/honeycomb/jo...

ACTUAL GOOD NEWS ALERT 🍾 battery discharge on Australia's main grid just overtook gas peaking plants. Not long before it overtakes *all gas combined*. Not long before renewables overtake coal, too. None of this was meant to be possible!!!!!!!!!!!! explore.openelectricity.org.au/energy/nem/?...

Now here’s an acronym I can get behind

Got a theory that we are all living through a crisis of agency, at least online. Bots, algorithms, clip armies, & the flood of AI stuff have scrambled notions of popularity, turned everything into a ‘psyop’. AI tools/ agents are reversing the fundamental human, collaborative promise of the internet

“The AI Bubble — No One's Happy” https://nooneshappy.com/article/the-ai-bubble/ > The buildout is underwritten by an implicit guarantee that none of the people who made the bet will be the ones who pay for it.

@kevinr.free-dissociation.com feel free to say “I don’t work for free”; do you know of any good material on the trade offs of “public” network access v VNet/VPC only for orgs that don’t have any on-premises network at all? i.e. if you already have systems relying on auth what does IP routing change?

Introduce yourself with 10 bands you’ve seen live. SUNN O ) ) ) David Bowie The Basics The Chemical Brothers The Bamboos Paul Kelly Montaigne Clare Bowditch The Cat Empire The Whitlams

@grimalkina.bsky.social have you come across the “SCARF” model in software team psychology before? If so, any thoughts? Work is running some of us through some research material and training around it.

enough. i’m tired of github actions. it’s time for github consequences

My new forever answer to "What is the root cause?"

your software is not conscious, you absolute weirdo

@evolutionise.bsky.social urgent

"The basic strategy of all addictive technologies is very simple. They make you feel extra capable, they addict you, then they make you feel inadequate without them." How to smoke

FRIENDS Here's my great big story about my experiences deep in the guts of the "wind turbine syndrome" debate. What I fucked up, what I learnt, and what it tells me about the growing fears around data centres and inaudible "infrasound" Make some tea, sit down, have a read (thread coming later) ❤️

New blog post about Erik Hollnagel's Safety-II model: surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/04/26/t...

github status page: "We have identified a regression in merge queue behavior present when squash merging or rebasing." reality: you merge a pr and a random sequence of commits on your main branch are reverted as part of the commit that actually lands. you are not told about this

After three decades of advocacy, and for the first time in my life, I was able to donate blood today. Thank you to everyone who helped make this possible. More here: ymlp.com/zcgz8Z