Australian urban planning, public transport, politics, retrocomputing, and tech nerd. Recovering journo. Cat parent. Part-time miserable grump.
Cities for people, not cars! Tech for people, not investors!
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Guess how much jail time for - through a red light, wrong way down a one way street, crashes, takes one year old out of the car, reverses over it causing fractured skull and broken ribs, drives on and crashes again. All while drunk.
20 Months and a 3 year ban.
Expensive school uniforms don't make kids better at maths, so why are schools so focused on them? (www.abc.net.au)
Adobe Photoshop's AI tools put women politicians in bikini bottoms and their male colleagues in suits (www.crikey.com.au)
After Nine blamed an 'automation' error in Photoshop for producing an edited image of Georgie Purcell, I set out to find out what the software would do to other politicians.
Does the way you say 'France' rhyme with 'pants' or 'aunts'? How the Australian accent is changing (www.abc.net.au)
Since colonial times Australia has been an incarceration nation where lock ’em up is preferred to rehabilitation – Julianne Schultz (www.theguardian.com)
The fearful reaction to the high court decision that people cannot be held in indefinite detention is a classic example
Employers push for staff to return to the office after working from home as commercial property values plunge (www.abc.net.au)
Brad Pitt in a chicken suit and rating friends: jobseekers believed ‘condescending’ courses required to get payments (www.theguardian.com)
Sleeper trains are making a comeback. Why are ours being axed? (www.smh.com.au)
One solution to fight climate change? Fewer parking spaces - Grist (grist.org)