Grumpybum

Grumpybum

@grumpybum.net

Old Aussie dude into gaming and tech and sometimes politics.

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Tom Studans
@maximumwelfare.bsky.social

Rather than recalculate these, Labor passed new legislation to retrospectively validate debts they had already conceded were illegal. Now people are having to go back decades to find evidence with which to defend themselves. This is beyond indefensible. Spitting in the faces of Robodebt victims.

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Simon Rosenberg
@simonrosenberg.bsky.social

In his second term, Albanese has a thumping 94 seat majority. If he can't find the spine now to stare down basic vested interests and do basic reforms to a broken system, he has confirmed that he is governing for those vested interests. #auspol

Guardian Australia@australia.theguardian.com

Three things the Albanese government could do right now to make people feel better off

theguardian.comThree things the Albanese government could do right now to make people feel better offThere are plenty of reasons why Australians feel ‘mad as hell’ at the moment. These three economic policies could restore faith in politics and bring some relief * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast In the 1976 movie Network, news anchor Howard Beale tells TV viewers to stick their heads out their windows and yell: “I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this any more!” It’s a sentiment that resonates today in Australia and across the world. In October, consumer sentiment at home fell to levels more often associated with recessions, despite the fact that the latest GDP numbers show the economy grew by a real 2% over the year to June (that is, 2% over and above the rate of inflation). Sign up for Guardian Australia’s Politics, really newsletter here Nicki Hutley is a consulting economist Continue reading...

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stranger
@strangerous.bsky.social

Ted O’Brien gets shredded on Today, after being repeatedly pressed, he still can’t explain how the Duty of Care bill is a form of censorship Jeffreys “I’m still not sure how it’s censorship judging by that answer”💥 Shoebridge “It plainly isn’t…”💥 Embarrassing stuff.

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Nick Feik
@nickfeik.bsky.social

Far out. These financials are dire. Quick, let’s override every legal, moral, regulatory and environmental objection and hitch our economy to it…

Reuters@reuters.com

Anthropic logged net loss of over $80 billion in first half of 2026, WSJ reports reut.rs/4z2Zi9J

reut.rsAnthropic logged net loss of over $80 billion in first half of 2026, WSJ reportsAI startup Anthropic recorded a net loss of more than $80 billion ​in the first half of this year, including $72 billion in ‌accounting charges, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing a draft initial public offering prospectus.

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Fiona Katauskas
@fionakatauskas.bsky.social

I'd filed a Hanson/ Lambie cartoon for today but it seemed a bit tin eared with what's happened in Indi so I did a new, last minute one this morning. I had a few ideas about division & dark days but thought I'd focus on something that's bringing people together instead. Here's to Helen Haines.

The Point@thepointau.bsky.social

"A tribute to Helen Haines" a cartoon by @fionakatauskas.bsky.social View the cartoon on The Point: https://thepoint.com.au/new/261020-a-tribute-to-helen-haines

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Violet Blue®
@violetblue.bsky.social

THIS * yesterday in between work and meetings I resubmitted my 36 titles with evidence

Jen Taub@jentaub.bsky.social

Still trying to understand how Napster got shut down, but Anthropic is going public and still hasn’t paid us authors yet after stealing our work.

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Greg Jericho
@grogsgamut.bsky.social

Replying to @grogsgamut.bsky.social

This is not "just another gross thing" of the Trump presidency. This is a stain that will remain.

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Mike Masnick
@masnick.com

Part VI of @kkomaitis.bsky.social series on "the metric is not the mission." This one is on how the data big tech collects about us makes them think they know us, when it just shows how little they know.

Techdirt@techdirt.com

The Metric Is Not The Mission: The Illusion Of Knowing Us The Metric Is Not the Mission is a ten-part examination of how Big Tech moved from building and expanding the open internet to increasingly... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/08/the-metric-is-not-the-mission-the-illusion-of-knowing-us/

techdirt.comThe Metric Is Not The Mission: The Illusion Of Knowing UsThe Metric Is Not the Mission is a ten-part examination of how Big Tech moved from building and expanding the open internet to increasingly shaping it around its own metrics, incentives and assumptions. Across the series, the argument follows the evolution of the platform economy—from the optimism of the early internet to the growing tensions...

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greatgenes
@greatgenes.bsky.social

Dear Reserve Banks of the world, Why can’t you just be honest & admit raising the rate will only make inflation worse? Why raise the rate & make it worse? I get it you only have a hammer in your toolbox! Doesn’t mean you gotta use it! 🕊️💙🦋 (Economics lesson in attached thread)

greatgenes@greatgenes.bsky.social

Nerdy Thread: Economics Lesson 1/ As a student of economics I learnt that increasing the cash rate reduced inflation by lowering demand which led to lowering prices. Makes sense. That’s because my textbook was written at a time when the economy sorta ran on credit…

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Crikey
@crikey.com.au

The Trump administration could forward your biometric data to a third country under a deal the Albanese government won't tell you about. www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/28/a...

crikey.com.auThe US could send Australian personal data to third countries under secret 'partnership'While the Albanese government stays silent on plans to hand citizens' biometric data to the Trump administration, the Europeans have publicly released a framework that illuminates what the US is…

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John Delmenico
@thebigjohnnyd.bsky.social

nice to see prime minister is putting his foot down and making it clear that if you hack the Australian government, he will say it is ‘concerning’ then roll over and continue with his plans to change the law so you can steal from Aussie artists

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Senator David Shoebridge
@davidshoebridge.bsky.social

This is an extraordinary act of direct foreign interference by the US embassy in domestic Australian politics. The Australian government should publicly respond by rejecting efforts by the US embassy to dictate how Australia legislates for a digital duty of care.

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Twang 🍉
@twangmaker.bsky.social

TRANSLATION: The Reserve Bank is going to deliberately cause over 100,000 Australians to lose their jobs. This will please their corporate masters, who want the unemployment rate to rise above 4.5% in order to keep worker's wages low. #auspol

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Ed Zitron
@edzitron.com

Free newsletter: The idea that we're nearing the creation of AI systems that we can't control and that pose an existential threat to humanity is a lie and a distraction from the tangible harms and problems caused by LLMs and AI labs' near-unlimited resources. www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-alread...

wheresyoured.athttps://www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-already-in-dangerous-hands/If you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter, and you can subscribe on the following links: $70 a year, $18 a quarter, or $7 a month. In return you get a weekly newsletter…
Grumpybum
@grumpybum.net

Damn straight!

Jessica D. M. 🇺🇦 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 🇵🇦 🇬🇱 🪃 🟧@jessicaperthwa.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne.... #Auspol #news It's important that father's and other males in teenage boys lives talk to them about respecting girls and women and treating them well. Men need to set the example for boys from Birth

theguardian.comAustralia news live: teenage boys fed misogynistic content within 23 minutes of joining social media, Plibersek saysFollow the day’s news live.

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Bloke
@mike1965sa.bsky.social

Hey @albomp.bsky.social Marles does not speak for me either.

Michael Dowling aka MeckeringBoy@meckeringboy.bsky.social

Marles does NOT speak for me. He has zero mandate to claim that Australians want closer ties and loss of sovereignty to the US military industrial complex. Tell Richard Marles to pack his bags and move to the US if HE wants closer ties with the demented IS regime. Leave us in peace, Dickie.

Grumpybum
@grumpybum.net

Nobody saw this coming. /S

Krebs on Security [Unofficial]@krebsonsecurity.com.web.brid.gy

krebsonsecurity.comFBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers LicensesA new identity theft service launched on the dark web this week is selling digital scans of more than 153 million drivers licenses from people in the United States and Canada. Based on interviews with individuals whose licenses are available for purchase on this service, it appears to be siphoning images collected by a widely-used identity verification company based in Louisiana. KrebsOnSecurity also has learned that the New Orleans field office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) today launched an official inquiry into the source of the images.

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dan ozzi
@danozzi.bsky.social

my tv is currently restarting because its terms have changed and i need to accept the new agreement. a tv shouldn’t have terms of agreement. it should be a tv.