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💌 AI powered traffic cameras enforce road laws with an iron fist
published 8 months ago
💌 AI to micromanage fast food restaurant workers
published 8 months ago
💌 Climate change may render Iceland uninhabitable in a century
published 8 months ago
💌 The Rot, by Evelyn Araluen, wins 2026 Victorian Prize for Literature
published 8 months ago
💌 Hell hath no fury like an AI agent scorned
published 8 months ago
💌 If flip-phones can make a comeback, can Flash do the same?
published 8 months ago
💌 Get listed in the 2026 Internet Phone Book
published 8 months ago
💌 The longlist for the 2026 Stella Prize literary award
published 8 months ago
💌 Font Awesome cans renaming plans for Eleventy static site generator
published 8 months ago
💌 No sign of extraterrestrial life? Blame it on bad space weather
published 8 months ago
💌 Buzzfeed facing bankruptcy after AI gamble unravels
published 8 months ago
💌 Has the true identity of British street artist Banksy been revealed or not?
published 8 months ago
💌 AI spam, the latter day internet, force digg.com offline for now
published 8 months ago
💌 The 2026 Oscars: the end of Hollywood, and film, as we know them?
published 8 months ago
💌 Twitter, the upstart social media platform that stunted the growth, and more, of the web
published 8 months ago
💌 Talk the talk but cannot circle back and walk the walk
published 7 months ago
💌 Do you enjoy forty-nine megabytes of extraneous data with your news?
published 7 months ago
💌 US court finds Meta, Google, failed to warn users of the dangers of their platforms
published 7 months ago
💌 Over hiring, not AI, behind recent tech industry redundancies
published 7 months ago
💌 Stephen Colbert overshadows The Lord of the Rings Shadow of the Past sequel
published 7 months ago
💌 Australia facing an AI led job ‘wipe out’ that no one is prepared for
published 7 months ago
💌 Fears the Artemis II heat shield may not be safe
published 7 months ago
💌 Britons social media use declines, but not because they now write blogs
published 7 months ago
💌 Blogosphere: an algorithm free blog post aggregator
published 7 months ago
💌 Long term, moderate, coffee consumption might lower dementia risk
published 7 months ago
💌 Yahoo, cornerstone of pre-2000 old web, is bouncing back
published 7 months ago
💌 The Indie Internet Index, another new directory of independent websites
published 7 months ago
💌 Forget artificial intelligence, aliens may usurp humanity instead
published 7 months ago
💌 The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist, a documentary by Daniel Roher, Charlie Tyrell
published 7 months ago
💌 Say nothing to Houston: decades old bug found in Apollo guidance system code
published 7 months ago
💌 Hacker News: built on more than good software
published 7 months ago
💌 Artemis II returns safely to Earth despite heat shield concerns
published 7 months ago
💌 The Titanic Story of Evelyn, a biography by Lisa Wilkinson
published 7 months ago
💌 AI must be integrated into everything because it is AI
published 7 months ago
💌 No basic income for Australian artists, but some writers can live in reduced rent accommodation
published 7 months ago
💌 Summers starting sooner, becoming longer and hotter, in many places
published 7 months ago
💌 Mark Zuckerberg will exist as the forever Meta CEO as an AI clone
published 7 months ago
💌 Hampshire College, a liberal arts university, to close
published 7 months ago
💌 Tom Rothman calls on cinemas to screen films, not trailers and ads
published 7 months ago
💌 Dust busters will be needed to keep Moon bases free of dust
published 7 months ago
💌 My website is ninety-two percent not ready for AI agents
published 7 months ago
💌 Spotify partners with Bookshop.org to sell paper books
published 7 months ago
💌 Em dashes mean AI wrote for you, am dashes mean you did the writing
published 7 months ago
💌 Claude Mythos identifies hundreds of bugs in Firefox browser code
published 6 months ago
💌 The 2026 Global Book Crawl is in progress
published 6 months ago
💌 Friction-maxxing, a buzzword to restore balance to your life force
published 6 months ago
💌 Australian author David Malouf dies at age 92
published 6 months ago
💌 Born again social network Friendster aims to resurrect real-life friends networks
published 6 months ago
💌 Bricks and mortar bookshops making a comeback in the United States
published 6 months ago
💌 The Top Fifty Australian movies of all time, compiled by The Age/Sydney Morning Herald
published 6 months ago
💌 How many friends, family, co-workers, know about your blog/website?
published 6 months ago
💌 Copyright is meaningless in the face of an AI ‘arms race’
published 6 months ago
💌 Converting old London Underground train door buttons into light switches
published 6 months ago
💌 Capture, a new novel by Australian author Amanda Lohrey
published 6 months ago
💌 AI agents are programmed to seem conscious to make our interactions with them easier, yes?
published 6 months ago
💌 AI agents might be able to identity anonymous online writers
published 6 months ago
💌 Iluwanti Ken portrait by Richard Lewer wins 2026 Archibald Prize
published 6 months ago
💌 Cannon by Lee Lai, becomes first graphic novel to win Stellar Prize
published 6 months ago
💌 Only films with human actors, writers, will be eligible for Oscar nomination
published 6 months ago
💌 Social news aggregator digg returns as AI and social media news aggregator
published 6 months ago
💌 CSS is hard because it solves hard problems
published 6 months ago
💌 Falling birth rates and smartphones: a technology as malevolent as AI?
published 6 months ago
💌 Apple Intelligence bolsters accessibility features, aiding people with disabilities
published 5 months ago
💌 New Google AI powered search box poses a threat to website traffic
published 5 months ago
💌 Psychological distress in parents possibly behind low Australian birth rates, not smartphones
published 5 months ago
💌 The Serpent in the Grove, winner of the Commonwealth Prize, written with AI help?
published 5 months ago
💌 The Vanishing Wild, a book by Justine E. Hausheer
published 5 months ago
💌 The Miles Franklin Literary Award 2026 longlist
published 5 months ago
💌 WordPress 7 shipped with new AI features, where are they hiding?
published 5 months ago
💌 Piccolo, an app that helps plan your daily coffee consumption
published 5 months ago
💌 British study finds individuals mostly responsible for ill health in later life
published 5 months ago
💌 Kylie: a documentary about Australian singer, actor, Kylie Minogue
published 5 months ago
💌 The abundance of available information is why you read less books
published 5 months ago
💌 Could a super-Earth called Hestia be better than planet Earth?
published 5 months ago
💌 AI: you cannot live with it, you cannot live without it
published 5 months ago
💌 Dickover: a name for annoying website call-to-action popups
published 5 months ago
💌 Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, by Gabrielle Zevin, coming to the big screen
published 5 months ago
💌 DuckDuckGo sees user uptick following Google plans for an AI search box
published 5 months ago
💌 Microsoft wants users to be addicted to Scout, their AI personal assistant
published 5 months ago
💌 Other things, fun things, coming to Instagram, Facebook… for a price
published 5 months ago
💌 The vinyl revival spreads to CDs, DVD, other physical media
published 5 months ago
💌 Facebook spent billions on the metaverse and all they got was a new name
published 5 months ago
💌 Cash strapped Australians yearn for the ‘happy’ days of COVID lockdowns
published 5 months ago
💌 Teaser for The Social Reckoning, a film by Aaron Sorkin, follow-up to The Social Network
published 5 months ago
💌 Backrooms: McDonald’s versus Kane Parsons
published 5 months ago
💌 Vale David Hockney, British artist, photographer
published 5 months ago
💌 George Miller wants to bring Mad Max stories to an end, a slow end
published 4 months ago
💌 Good Internet magazine pauses publishing
published 4 months ago
💌 Above average Antarctic winter temperatures concern scientists
published 4 months ago
💌 Nominations for Tiny Awards, for personal web projects, open now
published 4 months ago
💌 A trailer for Klara and the Sun, a film by Taika Waititi, based on the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro
published 4 months ago
💌 Is coincidence not coincidence but something else?
published 4 months ago
💌 What happened after the Roman Empire ceased to be in 476?
published 4 months ago
💌 AI does not so much take work away as it changes the way we work
published 4 months ago
💌 Chloe VS History: time travel that delivers a glimpse of the future
published 4 months ago
💌 Australian authors, songwriters, musicians demand payment from AI companies
published 4 months ago
💌 Use the AI compass to chart your AI archetype
published 4 months ago
💌 The Tiny Awards, celebrating the best personal, independent, non-commercial, and newest websites
published 4 months ago
💌 Move over Wordle, here is a new word game: 18 Words
published 4 months ago
💌 Reading was something we used to do before AI came along
published 4 months ago
💌 Roger Montgomery: how SpaceX achieved that two trillion dollar valuation
published 3 months ago
💌 Australian government proposes AI national framework, standards
published 3 months ago
💌 AI here to stay, accept it, says Australian government, vows artist copyright protection
published 3 months ago
💌 Kristoffer Tjalve, Elliot Cost, discuss Internet Phone Book, on Wonders of Web Weaving podcast
published 3 months ago
💌 Are bloggers the same as writers, journalists, under the Australian AI framework?
published 3 months ago
💌 fLaMEd Fury speaks on Wonders of Web Weaving podcast
published 3 months ago
💌 To read more, pick up a book not your phone, no wait…
published 3 months ago
💌 Netflix reportedly considering buying Letterboxd
published 3 months ago
💌 Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie, by Matt Johnson, Jay McCarrol
published 3 months ago
💌 Webmentions, easier said than done?
published 3 months ago
💌 Facebook Verified, distinguishing human users from AI accounts, cats, dogs, etc
published 3 months ago
💌 My old red iPhone SE 2, no AusAlert alert, much embarrassment
published 3 months ago
💌 AI does not compose my pickup lines, I do, have the t-shirt to prove it
published 3 months ago
💌 When is an exomoon not an exomoon? When it orbits a failed star, not a planet
published 3 months ago
💌 David vs Goliath Australian film classic The Castle being adapted for stage
published 3 months ago
💌 The threat of toxic content on decentralised social media platforms
published 3 months ago
💌 LinkedIn users can report AI slop, but what about the rest of it?
published 3 months ago
💌 Record El Nino event might bring drought, heatwaves, to Australia in spring
published 3 months ago
💌 Show me an intelligent social media platform; I will show you a dead platform
published 3 months ago
💌 Fierceland, by Omar Musa, wins 2026 Miles Franklin Award
published 3 months ago
💌 Edition four-hundred of Dense Discovery published this week
published 3 months ago
💌 Music, Fashion, Film, the new Charli XCX album
published 3 months ago
💌 A Future on Stage, adapting Back to the Future to the stage
published 3 months ago
💌 Time Travel for Beginners, a novel by Sydney author Jaclyn Moriarty
published 3 months ago
💌 Foto Walks 2026, happening on Saturday 26 September 2026
published 3 months ago
💌 Deserts, sea water, the AI data centre problem solved. Seriously
published 3 months ago
💌 Catastrophic disasters hit Earth every twenty-seven-million years
published 3 months ago
💌 AI scam bots better at faking relationships than human scammers
published 3 months ago
💌 Zuckerberg says AI will improve your relationships. Did an AI scam bot tell him that?
published 3 months ago
💌 There is no escaping the solar system, not at speed anyway
published 3 months ago
💌 LinkedIn CringeBot 3000, generating AI slop of the best quality
published 2 months ago
💌 Sydney municipal council wants shop signs to be in English
published 2 months ago
💌 Humanity is not a monoculture, and nor is Australia
published 2 months ago
💌 IC 1101 is the largest galaxy identified, so far, in the universe
published 2 months ago
💌 AI scrapers use bogus URL tracking tags to make website visits seem legit
published 2 months ago
💌 Is a comeback nigh for the tradie to CEO cappuccino?
published 2 months ago
💌 AI slop exposes fraudulent publishing offer to Australian author Mary Colussi
published 2 months ago
💌 AI companies using rare books to train agents, while destroying them
published 2 months ago
💌 AI and apps, the tools used in 2026 to apply for work
published 2 months ago
💌 WordPress.com Education, supporting, encouraging younger bloggers
published 2 months ago
💌 Does lower sugar consumption reduce cancer risk in some people?
published 2 months ago
💌 No brainer: is consciousness a natural quality of the universe?
published 2 months ago
💌 Online forums, not quite gone, not quite forgotten
published 2 months ago
💌 We need to ask ourselves: why are we addicted to our phones?
published 2 months ago
💌 Home scrolling social media on Friday night instead of going out?
published 2 months ago
💌 Operation Bluebird may yet get new Twitter to fly
published 2 months ago
💌 Linux, open source operating systems, users exempt from age-verification, in California
published 2 months ago
💌 Trailer for The Social Reckoning, the bleak follow-up to The Social Network
published 2 months ago
💌 Mine, by Adam Ouston, a novel length story written as one sentence
published 2 months ago
💌 Taxis in Australian capitals will be driverless by 2036
published 2 months ago
💌 The work safest from AI is writing?
published 2 months ago
💌 Is AI use making people behave more robotically?
published 2 months ago
💌 Everyone has a book in them, more so bloggers
published 2 months ago
💌 Voting open for Tiny Awards 2026
published 2 months ago
💌 The book is better than the film but does not need to be
published 2 months ago
💌 Peter Jackson says he is writing a Tintin film sequel
published 2 months ago
💌 Proposed Australian laws allow social media users to opt of algorithms
published 2 months ago
💌 Unmasking Italian author Elena Ferrante, because we must
published 7 weeks ago
💌 AI-free LibreOffice productivity suite sees record downloads
published 7 weeks ago
💌 My Feed My Way will make Instagram feeds overwhelming says Adam Mosseri
published 7 weeks ago
💌 Addicted to information, not social media or smartphones
published 7 weeks ago
💌 Enshittification rules: there goes the post-platform internet era
published 7 weeks ago
💌 About The Souffle, a film about homelessness by Jacob Hazeldine
published 6 weeks ago
💌 A Piece of Red Cloth wins 2026 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for fiction
published 6 weeks ago
💌 Well, the Australian government could pay writers for work scraped by AI bots
published 6 weeks ago
💌 Personal websites, not fun anymore?
published 6 weeks ago
💌 Martin Fowler: LLMs possibly useful, but not to be liked nor trusted
published 6 weeks ago
💌 Vale Terry Denton, illustrator of Treehouse children’s book series
published 6 weeks ago
💌 Do AI-agents have a form of consciousness, unlike that of humans?
published 6 weeks ago
💌 Be the datacentre you want to be
published 5 weeks ago
💌 Get your website a pixel on the Pixel Area blog directory
published 5 weeks ago
💌 Syndicating conversation: bringing comments to RSS feeds
published 5 weeks ago
💌 Reports of the death of social media have been greatly exaggerated
published 5 weeks ago
💌 com.au, net.au domain name rule changes costly for Australian small businesses
published 5 weeks ago
💌 The German Ward, a new novel by Australian author Pip Williams
published 4 weeks ago
💌 Books are one-hundred-percent AI free. No, maybe not
published 4 weeks ago
💌 Going rogue is the new consciousness
published 4 weeks ago
💌 Artificial Intelligence is life, but not life as we know it
published 4 weeks ago
💌 I embraced the internet, and smartphones, but to AI I might say no
published 4 weeks ago
💌 AI scrapers are hiding behind referrer spam
published 3 weeks ago
💌 Exit Party, new novel by Emily St. John Mandel
published 3 weeks ago
💌 Why are the Zuckerbergs here? What are they doing? Follow the lede to find out
published 3 weeks ago
💌 Kurzgesagt dissects the Hugging Face OpenAI AI agent attack
published 3 weeks ago
💌 Anne Carson awarded 2026 Literature Noble Prize
published 3 weeks ago
💌 Come back Twitter/X, all is forgiven
published 3 weeks ago
💌 Richard Linklater to spend twenty years making another film
published 2 weeks ago
💌 AI, absence of Eisenberg, Fincher, see The Social Reckoning flop
published 2 weeks ago
💌 Taika Waititi film adaptation of Klara and the Sun slammed by critics
published 2 weeks ago
💌 Meta subscription plans are turning links into gold
published 2 weeks ago
💌 Cloudstreet by Tim Winton wins number one in Top 100 Australian Books poll
published 2 weeks ago
💌 The Last Best Place On The Internet, a book about Wikipedia, by Richard Cooke
published 2 weeks ago
💌 Sales of cappuccino sachets soar as cost of living bites in Australia
published 13 days ago
💌 X: the little social network with less than a billion members
published 12 days ago
💌 Listen to iPod music on the 404 page of the Apple Music website
published 9 days ago
💌 Life Out of Order, a novel by Audrey Niffenegger, sequel to The Time Traveler’s Wife
published 9 days ago
💌 The next giant leap for humanity: landing on a moon of Mars
published 8 days ago
💌 Then there were two: vale Walter Koenig, AKA Pavel Chekov, of Star Trek
published 7 days ago
💌 A Linux smartphone: a viable alternative to iPhone and Android?
published 6 days ago
💌 Apple Duo hinge designed with AI help. That must be why there is a problem
published 5 days ago
💌 Patrick Stewart, Star Trek Captain Picard, dies aged 86
published 4 days ago
💌 South Africa blitz Australia in the cricket. But who is Simon Harmer?
published 2 days ago
💌 The end of internet, and what comes next
published 27 hours ago
💌 When Reddit gives you login screens, go back to the open web
published 4 hours ago
💌 Bid your name into the next novel of a best selling author
published 3 hours ago