Jared Quinert

Increase in homicides by people with psychosis due to failings in mental health system, experts warn

If I was to ever create a TV sitcom, a main character's job is to be a person who creates stains and grime for TV commercials - that filth that is effortlessly removed with a single wipe to leave a gleaming surface below. The thought that someone has that job has stuck in my mind since I was a kid.

NSW unis alone dudded academics $380m but "spent $139m on consultants in 2025". Big4, McKinsey , KordaMentha Adam Lucas & James Guthrie report #auspol michaelwest.com.au/university-w...

Let’s be clear. AI is not an intelligence; it’s not being trained, it doesn’t think, it doesn’t have agency, it's not gone rogue and it’s not alive. Humanising it helps Big Tech bypass laws they’ve already broken and weaken laws they’re keen to flout. Read on: thepoint.com.au/opinions/261...

We already have gyms for our brains, but just like regular gyms, they're no use if, like Andrew, you refuse to show up and do the work.

Every AI/HCI paper I review now just sounds like this.

They don’t trust Australia to fix a problem when Labor keeps making it worse. Approving NSW’s largest ever coal project just weeks before COP shows how unserious Labor is on climate.

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The Labour share of income has been in long term decline, but rather than control inflation through reining in those that have more control over prices and profits, they screw workers. www.rba.gov.au/publications...

Felt that...

Why doesn't Labor work with the Greens to tax gas? Why doesn't Labor work with the Greens to build public housing? Why doesn't Labor work with the Greens to end AUKUS? Greens are happy to be constructive about things that materially benefit the public. We are not a rubber stamp.

Looking forward to seeing the massive headline in the Daily Telegraph, slamming Australia's biggest bludger. Oh, wait.

The latest corporate tax data just dropped. And congrats to Santos Ltd - 11yrs in a row of no company tax.

As has been extensively argued, public sector pay rates tend to determine economy-wide rates. That Australian rates of pay have fallen far behind profit growth, even behind weak productivity growth, and now behind inflation, is very much because of the games played by operations like the RBA.

We spent $13.48B on Metro Tunnel stations, then gave the land above them to developers. Build public housing on it, keep the revenue. That's real transit-oriented development. Join us to make it happen. #vicpol #auspol

Can’t eat a sandwich until you subscribe to sandwiches. Can’t eat today’s sandwich until it has applied daily sandwich updates. Sandwich now has adverts even though you paid for ad-free sandwich. Can pay again to have less sandwich adverts. Now you can eat the sandwich, but it’s smaller.

the low price point for what Andrew gives you is frankly absurd, trust me this is money well spent

How did Albo and his sidekick Murray Watt manage to approve 37 fossil fuel projects? The sheer scale of it is staggering. Massive coal mines. Oil and gas drilling. Most weeks they approved another one. www.climatecouncil.org.au/resources/al... #auspol

The way insurance works is you want as many people as possible who don't regularly file claims paying into the plan

Chinese AI regulations might be coming soon...

"Yes", "Maybe later" as the only two options. Enshittification at its finest.

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

The 'Infinite Jest' of podcasts. An incredible piece of work.

Someone watched too many '80s movies...

Staying at a motel tonight. This cat was under a car when I checked in. Is not keen on pats, but it seems kitty is super keen on coming into people's rooms.

"Who are these men who we can barely see on the screen? The polite data analysts. The soft-spoken officers.... NAZA asks how these men helped kill tens of thousands of civilians. That’s somehow simpler and less frightening than asking why." #GazaGenocide

Read this so that when you hear the AI solved a complicated maths thing that people failed to, you know ahead of time that actually a mathematician solved it and the AI just claimed credit

“While unlikely, we cannot rule out that de-identified data derived from their usage of our products helped improve our models.”

The US has a dark history of unaccountability.

NT deputy chief minister Gerard Maley's family link at Beetaloo Digital

It's. A. Scam.

When your Excel function gets that complicated you have to lean on ancient memories of functional programming style to safely debug it.

The danger may not be that Australians are suddenly becoming far-right, but that the far right is becoming the organised outlet for economic pain, political alienation and collapsing trust in institutions, Meg Schwarz writes. #auspol #OneNation #FarRight

My student told me he ran his paper through an AI checker to see if it would get flagged even though he wrote it, and it offered to “humanize” his paper by changing the sentence, “Illicit cocaine use is responsible for many potential adverse cardiovascular events” to “Cocaine is a bad, bad drug”

Another in the cascading,endless failures of Houso Albo, who would be hard pressed to deliver a pie from the shop without 40 middlemen and half a dozen spivs looking for a tax on the pastry,and a levy on every bite #LessUseThanASausageSkin #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I called someone named Min on Teams today, and when the call timed out the AI tried to get clever formalising her name and told me "Minute <surname> is unavailable".

One banana, two banana…a brand new bonus episode just dropped! 💥 Andrew’s twenty-minute deep-dive into The Tra La La Song is now available exclusively for backers 🍌🎶 Not on Patreon yet? Sign up and listen today: www.patreon.com/AndrewHickey...

Seems like a simple enough proposition to me…

That still feels like it's going to be fixing at a slower rate than they appear :-/

Just saw Debbie Gibson live and that was a buzz.

AI is going to test AI, I am told...

wow it’s real, now i kinda feel bad for making fun of her weird body

Gas giant Woodside announced its half-yearly profits today, and the results are incredible but not surprising. While Australia suffers through an “energy crisis” the gas companies are reporting record profits, well in contrast to wage growth and inflation. #auspol