Some good news!!!!

The #Copyright Amendment Bill 2026 passed both houses yesterday.

This might sound like an incredibly niche and boring thing but this will have huge positive ramifications for Australians' access to collections in libraries and archives, and make online education much safer from copyright trolls.

https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislation/Bills_Search_Results/Result?bId=r7402

Most notably: Once this is signed into law it will be legal to copy/publish orphan works after a diligent search for a copyright owner. This will impact thousands of works currently sitting in copyright limbo.

Thanks @Trishh for the heads up.

I was just in a meeting where someone used a thing called Fathom to get an 'AI' summary of the meeting. Aside from some understandable typos arising from not understanding terms of art and replacing them with common English words, one of the key points that it concluded was that A was faster than B. It reached this conclusion because it missed one of the digits in the time for A. This completely inverted the key takeaway from one important section of the meeting.

Do not use plausible-nonsense generators for anything important.

the more you try something the more you appreciate professionals.

I started music lessons and now appreciate what it means to be a musician.

I started vibe coding and have a renewed and even greater than before appreciation for professional developers.

In fact, all my experiments with vibes have lead to same conclusion on their use in a corporate environment: easy to impress up where everything is abstract, impossible to convince down where details matter.

The vast majority of people who will be impacted by trans bans in sports will be little girls with short hair or arms that are "too muscular."

It will also mean that when a woman is good at her sport the disgusting grumbling and whispering about "may she is he" gets taken more seriously.

This happened with Paula Radcliffe for running marathons too fast. If it helps you to think of a white cis woman being the victim of this.

Of course little black girls will take the brunt of this. As ever.