The 9pm Chickens of Cyber Necromancy with Justin Warren

Justin Warren smiles as he summons the spirits of dead computers at a conference. (Photo: Supplied)

It’s the final episode of the spring series, finally. And with all the weird digital policy action in Australia in recent weeks, I figured we’d better chat once more with Justin Warren, “consultant, freedom of information tragic, hexagon enthusiast, and creator of the CyberRatingâ„¢ labelling scheme“.

In this episode we talk about Australia’s newly-legislated social media ban for under-16s, sure. But we also talk about something called “systems intentionality”, product safety, the new AI tool from MyHeritage that turns old photos into videos, and wine decanters,

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