Dave Versace
@daveversace.bsky.social
Some guy from Canberra. Writes a bit. Games a bit. Tries not to become infuriated with the state of the world or go outside. Likes dogs. Trans rights are human rights. Science doesn't care about your beliefs. ACAB. AWAWB.
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You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday?
I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.
I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.
October 4, 2026 at 3:29 PM
You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday?
I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.
I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.
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I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
February 8, 2026 at 10:23 PM
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
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Children overboard was not simply a “miscommunication”. A Senate inquiry found Peter Reith deceived Australians and Cabinet blocked key staff from giving evidence, Marianne Van Galen Dickie and Andrew Bartlett write. #auspol #Refugees Parliament of Australia
October 3, 2026 at 12:44 AM
Children overboard was not simply a “miscommunication”. A Senate inquiry found Peter Reith deceived Australians and Cabinet blocked key staff from giving evidence, Marianne Van Galen Dickie and Andrew Bartlett write. #auspol #Refugees Parliament of Australia
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"LLMs are just computers doing Algebra for fascists" is a completely correct take and the only examples anyone provides for why agentic AI is good are basically "it allows me to fuck off at work".
October 2, 2026 at 5:12 PM
"LLMs are just computers doing Algebra for fascists" is a completely correct take and the only examples anyone provides for why agentic AI is good are basically "it allows me to fuck off at work".
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Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow
October 1, 2026 at 10:29 PM
Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow
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"The important question is not which faction supplies the next PM.
It is what substantially different Australia any of the factions proposes to create.
...the problems confronting government are becoming larger as its political imagination becomes smaller."
pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/10...
It is what substantially different Australia any of the factions proposes to create.
...the problems confronting government are becoming larger as its political imagination becomes smaller."
pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/10...
Labor’s Left has won the party. So what happened to the Left?
Labor’s Left has the prime minister, the numbers and formidable control of the party machinery. What it lacks is a program for changing Australia. After decades spent accumulating power, the bigger qu...
pearlsandirritations.com
September 30, 2026 at 8:24 PM
"The important question is not which faction supplies the next PM.
It is what substantially different Australia any of the factions proposes to create.
...the problems confronting government are becoming larger as its political imagination becomes smaller."
pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/10...
It is what substantially different Australia any of the factions proposes to create.
...the problems confronting government are becoming larger as its political imagination becomes smaller."
pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/10...
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In one week I click the button and let slip the dogs of fractal history…
Tuesday October 6
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lam...
Tuesday October 6
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lam...
Coming soon: Microscope (2nd Edition)
The fractal game of epic histories
www.kickstarter.com
September 29, 2026 at 11:35 PM
In one week I click the button and let slip the dogs of fractal history…
Tuesday October 6
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lam...
Tuesday October 6
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lam...
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September 28, 2026 at 2:02 PM
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September 29, 2026 at 1:00 AM
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Millennial bisexuals everywhere arise! The beacons are lit!
September 27, 2026 at 6:56 PM
Millennial bisexuals everywhere arise! The beacons are lit!
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The thing about trying to appeal to right wing bigots is that right wing bigots are all stupid idiots who get 100% of their news from propagandists so they will never actually find out that you were trying to appeal to them in the first place
September 24, 2026 at 11:17 PM
The thing about trying to appeal to right wing bigots is that right wing bigots are all stupid idiots who get 100% of their news from propagandists so they will never actually find out that you were trying to appeal to them in the first place
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This week has seen a sweaty little fascist livestream knifing a dinghy with an RNLI volunteer still in it because FOREIGN PEOPLE and a lot of the media being very scared to call a sweaty little fascist a sweaty little fascist.
So seeing Captain Art Crimes step the fuck up is an absolute joy:)
So seeing Captain Art Crimes step the fuck up is an absolute joy:)
So, Banksy bought a used yacht, repaired it and retrofitted it to serve as a rescue boat to save migrants in the central Mediterranean. The whole project cost the artist $860,000. Since 2020, the boat has saved more than 3,800 people.
londondaily.com/banksy-funds...
londondaily.com/banksy-funds...
Banksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean - London Daily
Exclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities
londondaily.com
September 24, 2026 at 2:31 PM
This week has seen a sweaty little fascist livestream knifing a dinghy with an RNLI volunteer still in it because FOREIGN PEOPLE and a lot of the media being very scared to call a sweaty little fascist a sweaty little fascist.
So seeing Captain Art Crimes step the fuck up is an absolute joy:)
So seeing Captain Art Crimes step the fuck up is an absolute joy:)
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Astro City on Humble Bundle, plus other Buisek-penned books. All 17 volumes of Astro City, which is some berserk value. If you have never had the pleasure, now's your chance.
Humble Comic Bundle: Kurt Busiek's Astro City: The 30th Anniversary by Image Comics
Explore the works of multi‑Eisner and Harvey Award winner Kurt Busiek with the Astero City Bundle by Image Comics!
www.humblebundle.com
September 24, 2026 at 8:49 AM
Astro City on Humble Bundle, plus other Buisek-penned books. All 17 volumes of Astro City, which is some berserk value. If you have never had the pleasure, now's your chance.
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In a study of doctors in Poland, using an AI for three months, then ceasing to use it, resulted in a 20% loss of skill and accuracy.
Cognitive systems are metabolically expensive. When your brain knows there's a substitute, it resents not having access to it.
Cognitive systems are metabolically expensive. When your brain knows there's a substitute, it resents not having access to it.
AI Took Something From Doctors and Nobody Noticed. The Lancet Caught It. Here Is the Story
A landmark study in The Lancet measured what happens to a physician’s diagnostic instincts when the algorithm is switched off. The findings…
medium.com
September 21, 2026 at 7:38 PM
In a study of doctors in Poland, using an AI for three months, then ceasing to use it, resulted in a 20% loss of skill and accuracy.
Cognitive systems are metabolically expensive. When your brain knows there's a substitute, it resents not having access to it.
Cognitive systems are metabolically expensive. When your brain knows there's a substitute, it resents not having access to it.
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The worst thing we've done is made fame a middle class job, instead of the toxic runoff of actual accomplishment.
I think we need to take seriously that ordinary folks aren't meant to have audiences in the tens of thousands or more. This is novel and disruptive in human experiences
September 21, 2026 at 3:19 AM
The worst thing we've done is made fame a middle class job, instead of the toxic runoff of actual accomplishment.
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Batman Day isn't fun for everybody. Please check on your superstitious and cowardly loved ones today.
September 19, 2026 at 9:25 PM
Batman Day isn't fun for everybody. Please check on your superstitious and cowardly loved ones today.
Liberal Part grappling: "We know it will be a disaster but we're completely out of ideas."
Liberal Party grapples with promoting Alex Antic at high-stakes AGM
ANALYSIS: Liberal Party grapples with promoting Alex Antic at high-stakes AGM
In a ballot that will have implications in Canberra, the South Australian Liberal Party is set to decide whether its future lies with the controversial right-wing senator.
www.abc.net.au
September 17, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Liberal Part grappling: "We know it will be a disaster but we're completely out of ideas."
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Ed Sheeran losing openers like a 1990s England cricket team
September 17, 2026 at 8:02 AM
Ed Sheeran losing openers like a 1990s England cricket team
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@kurtbusiek.bsky.social's Masterpiece, ASTRO CITY, is available on Humble Bundle. This has my *HIGHEST* recommendation. A life-changing series.
www.humblebundle.com/books/kurt-b...
www.humblebundle.com/books/kurt-b...
Humble Comic Bundle: Kurt Busiek's Astro City: The 30th Anniversary by Image Comics
Explore the works of multi‑Eisner and Harvey Award winner Kurt Busiek with the Astero City Bundle by Image Comics!
www.humblebundle.com
September 17, 2026 at 12:08 PM
@kurtbusiek.bsky.social's Masterpiece, ASTRO CITY, is available on Humble Bundle. This has my *HIGHEST* recommendation. A life-changing series.
www.humblebundle.com/books/kurt-b...
www.humblebundle.com/books/kurt-b...
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The dumbest asshole in the country and the President need to be two different people moving forward
Trump: "If we lose $50 billion a year with a country, and we say 'we're not going to trade with you anymore,' we don't lose $50 billion a year. It's very simple. Right?"
September 17, 2026 at 1:17 AM
The dumbest asshole in the country and the President need to be two different people moving forward
This is nightmare fuel. Australia as a country has a lot to be ashamed of, but this may well be near the top of the list
"Can someone explain why – in an economy in which the central bank has decided we need almost 700,000 people to be unemployed – those people live in such dreadful poverty that it can make you up to 10 times more likely to die in the prime of your life?"
www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
In such a rich country, it is shameful how many Australians on jobseeker are dying in desperate poverty | Greg Jericho
Lifting the abysmally low jobseeker rate to the poverty line would save thousands of lives
www.theguardian.com
September 17, 2026 at 1:04 AM
This is nightmare fuel. Australia as a country has a lot to be ashamed of, but this may well be near the top of the list
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"Can someone explain why – in an economy in which the central bank has decided we need almost 700,000 people to be unemployed – those people live in such dreadful poverty that it can make you up to 10 times more likely to die in the prime of your life?"
www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
In such a rich country, it is shameful how many Australians on jobseeker are dying in desperate poverty | Greg Jericho
Lifting the abysmally low jobseeker rate to the poverty line would save thousands of lives
www.theguardian.com
September 16, 2026 at 10:59 PM
"Can someone explain why – in an economy in which the central bank has decided we need almost 700,000 people to be unemployed – those people live in such dreadful poverty that it can make you up to 10 times more likely to die in the prime of your life?"
www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
www.theguardian.com/business/gro...