Vanessa Toholka

Digital Intimacies 12 is at the University of Sydney this year from 4-5 Dec! Submit your abstracts on the (broad) theme of Intimately Disconnected by 28 Aug. Digital Intimacies is such a wonderful and generous gathering of scholars - get along if you can 👩‍💻✨💕🖱️💌 digitalintimacies12.wordpress.com

BREAKING: The Chinese government pressured Zambia to screen + exclude Taiwanese speakers attending @rightscon.org, leading to the largest international convention on digital rights being canceled a week before it takes place, the host org @accessnow.org tells WIRED. By @telliotter.bsky.social + me

Great to see Lizzie O’Shea, of @drwaus.bsky.social fame, feature in The Matter of Facts - The Truth According to AI, watch via iview iview.abc.net.au/show/matter-...

Can cities adapt to climate extremes? Tonight Joe Glesta of ClimaSens shares his vision to use climate data to inform better planning & outcomes. 7pm AEDT stream @3rrrfm.bsky.social with @attacus.net Eric and me

bad news! We didn't get enough co-op sign ups, so we're dropping Teledog into a storm drain, and - what's that? We DID get enough signups? We got more than we needed, actually? Sabby's not shutting down?! But then... who's going in the storm drain? Me?! (sabby.gallery/join/)

Relished the chat with @dave.powerhoof.com on Byte into IT @3rrrfm.bsky.social this week. The Drifter game is out now - a gritty, Aussie point-and-click thriller with pulpy noir storytelling & unmistakable Aussie atmosphere store.steampowered.com/app/1170570/The_Drifter/

Tonight ANU’s @kathyreid.au on AI’s insatiable hunger for data and what she has dubbed the ‘token wars’ + @floreani.bsky.social unpacks incoming age verification for search engines & the implications for privacy and inclusion + Mike Bantick & me! @3rrrfm.bsky.social stream from 7pm AEST

Tomorrow! @serenade.games presents Tangents 🍩🎉 @free-play.bsky.social week is here and that means so is Tangents! Jump into your Freeplay week by experiencing some weird and wonderful Aussie games.

Any weekend plans? May we suggest visiting the STRAY GODS EXHIBITION at the Hellenic Museum in Melbourne?? 🙌 Experience the music, behind the scenes insights, and vote for your fav love interest! ❤️💙💚 Open now! 🎤

Uncommon Sense is in its 8th year 👀, and I am just as excited and honoured to be part of the @3rrrfm.bsky.social community, as I was when I first joined as a presenter, and before that as a guest. Thanks for listening to and supporting independent community radio 🫶📻💜 www.rrr.org.au/explore/prog...

Location sharing apps: safety tool or risk? Mandy Gambino from Berry Street Family Violence Team joins Byte Into IT to discuss how tracking tech can become a tool for coercive control— and how we can protect ourselves. @3rrrfm.bsky.social with @attacus.net , @roundabouthere & me stream rrr.org.au

😏 How are emojis shaping the way teens communicate? Linguist Lauren Gawne @superlinguo joins Byte Into IT to decode the evolution of digital language & bust some myths about emoji use. Tune in as we look at what’s really behind those little icons! @3rrrfm.bsky.social with @attacus.net Eric & me

April Amnesty is here! April Amnesty is Triple R’s month-long subscription and donation drive. If you listen to and love the Rs, please subscribe and donate and support Really Real Radio. rrr.org.au/subscribe + rrr.org.au/donate April Amnesty artwork by Cosmo Feltham

The point of the Sizzle is to help inform people about what they need to know about tech in Australia. $6 a month is really good value IMO, but even still I know not everyone can afford it. So, if you're someone who wants to Sizzle but can't or would struggle to afford it RN, hit me up and we'll

Tonight hear @jathansadowski.com in conversation with @attacus.net on his latest 📕 release ‘The Mechanic and the Luddite’. production by @rowenamurray.bsky.social 👏 Dan and me live from 7pm AEDT tonight for tech news & events too! @3rrrfm.bsky.social 📻 ❤️

If you’re a podcaster wondering if there are any good ways to monetise, tune into Byte Into IT @3rrrfm.bsky.social tonight as we speak to Lenny.fm cofounder Courtney Carthy, and chat about notable tech news this week. Join @attacus.net Eric and I from 7pm AEDT 📻

Byte Into IT tonight: ACMI is hosting FACT 2025 symposium on the Future of Arts, Culture & Technology we check in with Seb Chan. Also Childlight’s Michael Salter on Safer Internet Day 11 February. Join @rowenamurray.bsky.social Eric & I @3rrrfm.bsky.social 7pm AEDT

We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.

Heads up #MelbWeather folks... I have good news and bad news. Looks like the potential for 4 days in a row over 40c starting this Sunday. (Touches ear) Wait I am getting an update, bringing this to you live right now... there is no good news.

Big day in telco land today. Phil Britt is stepping down from Aussie Broadband (and starting a community telco).

This morning on Summer Breakfasters @3rrrfm.bsky.social Paulie P, Scout Boxall and I were stoked to speak with ‘Orstralia: a punk history 1974-1989’ (and second vol 1990-1999) author Tristan Clark about his thrilling deep dive into local scenes 🙌 Available via orstralia.bigcartel.com

There’s a wonderful free exhibition of work by street artists in Melbourne right now, part of Sandra Powell and Andrew King’s private collection - they spoke with @3rrrfm.bsky.social Smart Arts on Thursday www.rrr.org.au/shared/broad...

Join us today!

Tomorrow on @3rrrfm.bsky.social Breakfasters, we’ll talk about the magical chip that the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company loves 💚

“The workers showed that it’s possible to fight back against the opaque authority of algorithms, creating transparency despite a corporation’s wishes.” spectrum.ieee.org/shipt

AI is not a search engine. Stop using it like a search engine.

Remember a couple of years ago how an AI ethics researcher was sacked from Google for warning about racial and gender bias? And then Google's AI tools ran into those exact issues? That researcher is Timnit Gebru, who is now on BlueSky. Definitely someone to follow if you're interested in AI:

📢NEW: 'Open' AI systems aren't open. The vague term, combined w frothy AI hype is (mis)shaping policy & practice, assuming 'open source' AI democratizes access & addresses power concentration. It doesn't. @smw.bsky.social, @davidthewid.bsky.social & I correct the record👇 nature.com/articles/s41...

A cast of absolute thousands at the last Byte into IT for 2024! Tune in right now!! Catch us all on the air in 2025! @attacus.net @plasmov.bsky.social me, Alexar, Eric and Mike! On @3rrrfm.bsky.social

ClimateSalad: a network championing Australian climate tech companies, speaks with Triple R’s Byte Into IT tonight ahead of their 2024 Climate Tech Connect & Awards. Listen www.rrr.org.au/on-demand 7pm AEDT 📻 #3RRRFM

Ray Hilton talks AI, Deep Tech, and all things data on Make Me Data Literate. "data is relatively inert and doesn't really have much value - the value comes from what you do with it and how you interpret it. And it can obviously be interpreted in many different ways. " adsei.org/podcast/ray-...

The comms minister is now saying ID won't be required for social media access (this is the issue with legislating before the outcome of a trial). www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

What’s challenging about Australia’s proposed social media ban for people under 16? I spoke about it with Triple R’s Breakfasters for Tech Talk Tuesday www.rrr.org.au/shared/broad...

I am reinstating Follow Friday from the ye olde days of Twitter. Let me start #ff @llcord.bsky.social @sjbeach.bsky.social @profmdavis.bsky.social @croakeynews.bsky.social @wyld.bsky.social @beneltham.bsky.social @squigglyrick.bsky.social @plasmov.bsky.social @samcummins.bsky.social