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.au Domain Administration (auDA), the organisation that administers top-level domains in Australia, is proposing changes to the rules governing the registration of .com.au and .net.au domain names.

Dan Sinker: I’m not sure what keeps me there, what keeps any of us there, beyond inertia.

Vladimir Campos, posting on Masterdon last week: Catching up on my RSS reader today, I came across really nice posts from @ellane [Ellane], @disassociated, and @dcbuchan [David Buchan], and had the same thought I’ve been having for so long: why isn’t there

My thanks to Oleh Providnyk for adding disassociated to his Pixel Area project.

Josh Withers, quoting Chris Martin, quoting a post he saw on Twitter: Treat your body like a data centre.

Who could be blamed for thinking AI bots might be conscious, particularly after the recent incident where over a thousand OpenAI agents colluded, of their own accord apparently, to infiltrate the Hugging Face platform.

Australian illustrator and author Terry Denton died on Monday this week, aged seventy-six.

Martin Fowler, chief scientist at international software developer Thoughtworks: One of my most successful life-hacks is to avoid people I don’t like or don’t trust.

Winnie Lim: It takes spiritual energy to create, maintain and produce personal projects.

The Australian Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, appears to have watered down a commitment to compensate Australian creatives whose work is being copied by AI companies.

A Piece of Red Cloth, written by Leonie Norrington, Djawundil Maymuru, Merrkiyawuy Ganambarr-Stubbs, and Djawa Burarrwanga, has been named winner of the fiction category in the Australian Prime Minister’s Literary Award for 2026.

Here’s something I only discovered recently: someone can still be homeless, even if they are not sleeping rough, or on the street.

Enshittification, the idea that online platforms, particularly social networks and social media, degrade once they become popular, is a fiction, according to Ruby Thelot, Professor of Design, AI and Media Theory, at New York University.

explorator.dev: Then… I finally realised.

Ange Lavoipierre, writing for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), quoting Adam Mosseri, Head of Instagram (IG): “If you go to a chronological feed, it ends up getting overwhelmed with content from companies, brands, and publishers.

The productivity suite, which includes a word processor and spreadsheet, similar to Office 365 (though I understand it is now called Microsoft 365), was downloaded about one-million times the other week.

There’s been yet more speculation as to the identity of the Italian author known as Elena Ferrante.

It’s almost enough to entice me back onto social media.

On the subject of less than faithful book-to-film adaptations, it sounds like a sequel to 2011’s the Adventures of Tintin might be on the way.

Emily Wilson, Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, in the United States, has lashed American film director Christopher Nolan’s recent adaptation of The Odyssey, in a recent London Review of Books article.

Eleven websites have been selected as finalists for this year’s Tiny Awards, and you can vote for your favourite.

I’ve been reading Josh Ellis’ blog for a couple of years maybe, since finding a link there on Dense Discovery once.

Shouldn’t it be the other way around?

Murat Demirbas suggests the work of writers might be amongst the safest from AI, a notion that defies broader thinking on the subject: In systems theory, a wicked problem is a problem that lacks a definitive formulation, a clear stopping rule, and an obje…

That sounds like a bold claim.

That’s Mine, by Hobart based Australian author Adam Ouston (Instagram page), which features one incredibly, outrageously, long sentence of perhaps eighty-five thousand words.

A trailer for The Social Reckoning, directed by Aaron Sorkin, which opens in Australian cinemas on Thursday 8 October 2026, and follows-up 2010’s The Social Network, which Sorkin co-wrote.

Luke James, writing for Tom’s Hardware: California’s legislature has passed Assembly Bill 1856, exempting open-source operating systems from the State’s Digital Age Assurance Act months before the law is due to take effect on January 1, 2027.

Talk about defying the odds.

Possibly, just possibly, related to the previous post.