Dec
2025
20 Years of Digital Life, Gone in an Instant, thanks to Apple
Summary: A major brick-and-mortar store sold an Apple Gift Card that Apple seemingly took offence to, and locked out my entire Apple ID, effectively …
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Rant
Nov
2025
Slop for the People
The Australian Public Service’s (APS) official culture of AI adoption is not found in the glossy press releases of its ministers. But …
Nov
2025
Australia's social media ban… A looming implementation disaster
Australia’s world-first ban on social media for children under 16 takes effect in just over a month on December 10, 2025, yet nobody knows …
Aug
2025
CommBank's AI boyfriend
CBA has been naughty, and too reliant on their AI boyfriend. Here’s what happened: A CBA customer contacted bank requesting contact details for …
Jul
2025
We're all adults here
The recent delisting of over 17,000 games from the independent platform Itch.io wasn’t a content moderation decision made by the platform …
Jul
2025
(Gradient) Descent into Mediocrity
While the rest of the world loses its collective mind over artificial intelligence, Tasmania is sitting on an amazing competitive advantage… …
May
2025
Don't use Wise
Wise has stolen more than $60,000 AUD from us, and refuses to let us access it. We’ve had a Wise account for around 5 years (since they were …
Mar
2025
Constraints are the Point
I get it. I disagree with it, but I get it. The tech industry is throwing obscene amounts of money at LLMs. VCs are salivating over AI startups. The …
Mar
2025
Beyond Bad Output
The Deeper Problems with AI in Creative Work “But AI will get better at writing stories, won’t it?” This response to my rant about …
Mar
2025
The Empty Promise of AI-Generated Creativity
“Are you going to add AI writing to Yarn Spinner?” It’s a question I hear almost weekly these days. Whether at game development …