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Posted on 10 March 202312 March 2023

Digital developments from Canberra 28

Anthony Albanese

Nuclear submarines are the big story this week, but there’s plenty more — including the sudden resignation of our FOI commissioner, predictive policing, and various reports on our surveillance regime.

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Posted on 07 February 202107 February 2021

Weekly Wrap 558: Hosing down a silly idea, starting another Pozible campaign, and more nostalgia

View over San Francisco 2017

My week of Monday 1 to Sunday 7 February 2021 was exactly as described in the headline, plus some rainy weather — but not as rainy as some previous weeks.

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Posted on 31 January 202131 January 2021

Week Wrap 557: Cyberpolicing, quizzing, and nostalgia for the Beforetimes

Approaching BKK

As expected, my week of Monday 25 to Sunday 31 January 2021 was effectively the start of the productive year. It was also another week which was dominated by La Niña, at least in its latter parts. Rain!

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Posted on 29 December 202029 December 2020

The 9pm Year of Brain Worms, Drama, and Despair

Composite image of Mark Humphries, Tegan Taylor, Osman Faruqi, and Yun Liang, guests on this episode of The 9pm Edict.

What a year! At the end of 2020 we can’t even gather people in a pub to talk about how terrible it was. Well we can. But we shouldn’t. So we didn’t. We did this instead.

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Posted on 18 June 202018 June 2020

Talking facial recognition tech on ABC Adelaide

ABC logo

The use of facial recognition technology for law enforcement has been in the media this week, not only in connection with the Black Lives Matter protests in the US, but also in Australia. That made for a good radio segment this afternoon with Jules Schiller on ABC Adelaide.

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Posted on 08 June 202029 October 2020

The 9pm Information Warfare in a Dying Empire

A New York cityscape with a huge TV screen showing the message: Curfew starts at 8pm @NYCGovCuomo.
A digital billboard announces an 8pm curfew in New York City, signed with the governor’s Twitter handle. (@meaganrosae)

In this episode we hear the death rattle of an empire in decline. We hear some examples of 21st century information warfare. And we hear just how important the US protesters are to the American people.

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