← 2023 September 2023
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Monthly photography revenue: $5 Monthly photography audience: 9 million across Unsplash and Pexels.
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Can someone check on Mark Di Stefano? Surely the trust fund babies have a price on his head now?
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There’s a lot said about how we Aussies are more divided and alone than we ever have been in this country.
But when I see multiple cars across lanes of traffic work together to hilariously block an aggressive driver from getting ahead in the traffic I reckon there’s voice left in us yet, Australia.
Vote yes.
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Show me a more “Aussie” Aussie, than this legit Aussie legend.
I'll wait.
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I have a confession to make: I’ve built an Australian news website that is purely created by large language models. It’s autonomous and although I can edit, delete, and stop it, I don’t unless something bad happens.
It’s been a week so far and honestly, I prefer reading it to the other news websites that inspire it.
It’s public but I’m scared about sharing it just yet.
I’ve also been having an LLM rewrite a friend’s blog and I love it.
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Flying into Sydney over the Blue Mountains from Uluru this afternoon was a visual treat
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Two Google conspiracy theories proven true today:
1: Google Chrome tracks and shares your web browsing for advertising purposes:
Chrome now directly tracks users, generates a "topic" list it shares with advertisers.
2: Google Assistant shares your queries for advertising purposes: Research paper.
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Podcast recommendation for the media, podcasting, and tech nerds in my circles: Really Specific Stories. It’s by @martinfeld of @HemisphericViews on “the narratives of tech-podcast fandom and the role of open RSS”. Two of my favourite episodes so far are with @marco and @jsnell.
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Shane Parrish on playing the long game:
Every action is a step toward the short game or the long game. You can’t opt out, and you can’t play a long-term game in everything. You need to pick what matters to you. But in everything you do, time amplifies the difference between strategies that work in the short term and ones that work in the long term. The long game allows you to compound results. The longer you play, the bigger the rewards.
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Duelling Retro Roos sighting
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Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had. And when you are reading a book, you and the author are alone together—just the two of you. A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question answered. Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people—people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.
– EB White
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Most of us, me included, can barely think past the next three minutes. We operate in this fear of lack, lack of good or sleep or money, that completely ignores the long arc of our life which gives us decades of evidence that we haven’t gone without yet, and all trend lines point to us being fine in the future.
That’s one of the elements of marriage I love so much.
In marriage you’re forced - by its very nature - to acknowledge that your life is far bigger than this three minute period of stress and anxiety we’re currently facing - in fact we have a whole life ahead of us, and considering that big picture, it’d be great to have someone else in it.
I’m so glad I got over myself long enough to realise that my big picture was missing you, Britt, thank you for making it so much better by simply being you.
Happy 11th anniversary xx
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I’ve driven 737km today, I have 93 left, and I just want to say there needs to be a royal commission into the state of servo food in this once great nation.
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I often wonder if Lin-Manuel Miranda is working on a Peggy spin-off
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Many thanks to the airline gods for offering up a new CEO for our national flights of Australia for make benefit glorious nation of Qantastralia! May our new blessed CEO that is the one and only decision maker in the entire organisation, no board of directors or any other executive staff. Make good our glorious airline that can now do no wrong and only make good decisions. Whoever the former CEO was, whatever their name, sexuality, or ethnicity was - I forget - may that bad person be forever gone to go lead some European airline far, far away, from our great nation.
Qantas forever!
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Can anyone I know remember the name of the modern web browser for MacOS System 9? I don't know why this matters to me so much but I need to browse the web inside a virtual machine of System 9 just to feel something today while I wait for news to occur for today's Sizzle.
