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Novels by men who take up writing as a second career

m8 you can just help the families doing it tough, you don't need a corporate chainstore middleman

Videogames is the creative field where creatives are least recognised, most of the time their names are hidden away on the finished product. This is obviously deliberate on the industry's part but the audience enables it when they fail to care about the people who make this stuff.

this is the good kind of pedantry

Carn Victoria, don't fuck this up

wowee. another election where the techbros heavily interfered, but failed.

at a certain level I feel like a lot of the AI hype/skepticism comes down to "people who spent the last 15 years promoting an ideology that 'coding' is the highest form of human intelligence see an LLM that can code and declare that it can do anything"

Let me tell you a story about the politics of Australia: Over the last 28 years generally, but over the last decade particularly, I've done a lot of politics outside of Australia. Last week, an organisation I work with called me in for a meeting mostly among people like me around the world /n

I feel like all the Bioware retrospectives have not yet dwelt enough on what an absolute watershed Femshep was in terms of female playable protagonists

Labor MP Paul Edbrooke threatened with etched bullet found on car

Fuck off, AirBnB. If I wanted a list of chores to do, I'd stay home.

Can confirm that this is a real trailer of the Mass Effect game that BioWare was developing up until its closure yesterday www.reddit.com/r/masseffect...

The largest fine to ever hit Meta came after a jury found the tech giant guilty of nearly 44 million violations of state consumer protection laws: arstechnica.visitlink.me/q8iZm-

as they say in poker, going 'all in' works every time but once

AI firms want you to believe their fraud bot is alive so they won’t be held responsible for the fraud bot’s crimes. But there is no gray area here, they hold the on/off switches in their very human, very prosecutable hands.

Another Liberal poison pill that Labor inherited

Jim’s Browser History

Ban on KPMG getting government work extended to February after audit leaks scandal

In the springtime, we'd make meat helmets

‘Polarization’ has become the master concept for diagnosing our current democratic crisis. But this is not polarization. It is the radicalization of the political right. By misdiagnosing it, we risk becoming complicit in the crisis. 🧵 Just out in Perspectives on Politics doi.org/10.1017/S153...

what exactly DOES happen to materials from a major studio that’s closed? where do physical hard drives, documents, etc go? who maintains all this pointless secrecy? if you know or have stories, get in touch: nathan@aftermath.site, nathangrayson.666 (signal), aftermathdotsite@proton.me (proton mail)

#OtD 21 Oct 1929 anarchist, feminist, sci-fi and fantasy novelist Ursula K. Le Guin was born in Berkeley, California. We have made available some of her little-known works in our online store. Check them out here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

Another mainstream media article forgetting the attack on Camp Sovereignty.

Today is a poke in the eye for all the RBA haters who say it's inflexible, that it has one trick it keeps playing (raising rates), even though it's not helping. Today, we see RBA's real flexibility: a different person is announcing the rate rise www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

Senator #LidiaThorpe today shared publicly that to stay safe she wears a disguise to supermarkets, has been subjected to threats of gang rape and had to leave her home address for four months after #AFP warned she was in danger. #AUSPOL #SpringSt #HelenHaines #Indigenous #Aboriginal #Sexism #Racism

Remember the story we at #4Corners did about Channel 7, 2 years ago? About soul-crushing culture of sexism & exploitation, particularly of young women? Their internal review has vindicated our reporting, despite legal threats at the time (which went nowhere). Report: www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

It's time for a zero-tolerance policy on misogyny, in public and private, even (especially) 'joking' misogyny Fuck this guy off, for starters www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

The critical defining feature of violence in Australian society is that it is, almost entirely, male. Pointing fingers in every direction (media, social media, gaming, gambling, porn, politics, whatever) will achieve nothing if it isn't also accepted that the problem is fundamentally a male one.

Gulf band DMC Boys dreaming big after King Stingray gig. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

Let me get this straight. Colonisation, The Black Wars, murder, dispossession, the Stolen Generation, the over-representation of Aboriginal prisoners in jails, none of this was political violence? Or is this another one of those transgressions that can only be applied to white people?

I wrote about Elon Musk's fake flying car and its mid-air collision with lazy "CEO said a thing!" pseudo-journalism: