#melbourne folk: some friends and I are aiming to try European cuisines we haven’t had before. What are some good places serving European food types less common in Melbourne? (so not Italian/greek/french)
Dear marketers in the northern hemisphere: if you have an international customer base referencing the upcoming summer is a sure way to annoy your southern hemisphere customers dreading heading into winter
There should be international regulations about how many countries a band has to be performing in before they’re allowed to call it a world tour. US, Canada and the UK shouldn’t count as a world tour
The #mebourne I love is a well attended mid week talk on Singaporean literature where the Indigenous Acknowledgement of Country is delivered in English, Malay and Tamil
I wonder how much of the current anti-social silliness around AI tools is that our culture has so glorified working in tech as the ultimate job that people are inventing pointless and unhelpful things to have an excuse to stay in the field rather than moving on to something more useful?
So weird hearing people still using the phrase “avoid it like the plague” when we’ve conclusively established most people aren’t that committed to avoiding plagues
Today I learned the Australian government designates a selection of phone numbers that look real but will never be actually active for use in TVs or movies. Could be useful if you ever need a fake number to sign up for something but don't want a stranger getting spammed https://www.acma.gov.au/phone-numbers-use-tv-shows-films-and-creative-works
There should be a law that streaming platforms cannot increase their prices without providing verification of a corresponding increase in payouts to artists/content creators
Kinda cool to see a stream train on the #melbourne Metro network but I have questions about who thought it was okay to run it under the southern cross roof where it made the air visibly dirty