Early start tomorrow. Gorn.
“Oh darling, don’t lift that. You’ll rupture your uterus.”
@jpwarren @NicholasFryer @reselsnark Well no. That’s my job.
@jpwarren @NicholasFryer @reselsnark Is it wrong for me to add “A 1990s Lesbian Feminist Punk Band”? Sorta akin to..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…DO
Vincent D’Onofrio!
So “BoJack Horseman” series 4 has just dropped on Netflix.
onThePaepae Men “make points”.
Women, on the other hand, “gesture at” men.
is that perfectly clear, everyone?
cc..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…o9
@NicholasFryer @reselsnark You know they’re not really engineers, right?
waferbot Nope, never live in anything with a roof or water or anything at all.
TheRegister WHO IS TO BLAME FOR EQUIFAX MEGA-HACK?
@seanpryor Note a disc, just the usual set of vertebrae going for a wander. Backs are a rubbish design.
“Out of respect for both sides,” apparently. Well, according to serial twat Zaky Mallah. twitter.com/workmanalice/s…
So I’ll be taking a #purpletrain down to Sydney tomorrow for back repairs. Which means an early-ish start. Sigh.
Fair call. twitter.com/SquigglyRick/s…
@NicholasFryer I support and believe in you, Nick.
phildobbie It’s not right to laugh at other people’s misfortune, but if Irma destroys Mar-a-Lago I’ll make an exception. miamiherald.com/news/weather/h…
@WarOnTheRocks I like the idea that Bob Fosse could sort out Afghanistan. At least I think that was the “Bombshell” proposal.
AllThingsHLS Yeah, that’s what the SEC calls insider trading. twitter.com/marketwatch/st…
KLAXON! KLAXON! KLAXON! New @WarOnTheRocks “Bombshell” podcast: “Lattes at the End of the World”..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…HH
studentactivism You know there’s two Jewish women on the Supreme Court, right? twitter.com/CNN/status/871…
@nazzer @NewtonMark Yeah I see where he’s going with that. God I love troublemakers!
@paulgear1 @PeteLawler True. The end of the world is taking forever.
@nazzer Ones by Geoff. At AusCERT once, @NewtonMark was on after Geoff, so he started with a slide of the calm blue..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…UY
Sure, I guess pond scum can count as sea life. twitter.com/ErikOJensen/st…
@hughstephens @rohan_p No, I don’t answer the phone.
@hughstephens @rohan_p Journalists don’t read email. It’s always full of people wanting something.
@hughstephens @rohan_p Do I?
@hughstephens @rohan_p What have I done now?
@dobes Do I like your owl? Yes, I like your owl.
@andrewdotnich One can only hope.
Der. Do try to keep up. twitter.com/NuclearAnthro/…
I am liking the idea of a Difficult Bird Team. twitter.com/FierceDinosaur…
@surly1 This does not sound helpful.
@WarWraith I was wondering why I couldn’t see that tweet, and then remembered I’d already muted “gay marriage”. Onl..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…44
“Australian minister: “Gay marriage could damage our cattle exports’” (6 Jul 2015) standard.co.uk/news/world/aus… Yay, Ban..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…yU
“Midnight Muffin Bandit” would be a great pop song title though, eh @SnarkyPlatypus? twitter.com/paigeataylor/s…
@surly1 That’d be the “8” bit, I guess. Reports coming in soon. Sigh.
@NuclearAnthro Where are all the boomers, mate?
paigeataylor Q: If you won’t give us CCTV of the electricity thief baking at night will u reenact in your jocks for p1?
A: Okay pic.twitter.com/HJfSOXPClL
@jpwarren CATFACTS: Cats in the southern hemisphere can only turn counter-clockwise. TRACK YOUR CAT WITH CAT TRACK™..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…L9
whiteswine The Australian Broadcasting Commission has a vast web of journalists cast across the country, all competing to report whatever Xenophon says
This is fine. twitter.com/johndissauer/s…
ronanburtenshaw US right-wingers try to print Blue Lives Matter in Irish on some t-shirts, end up writing Black Lives Matter instead thegeekygaeilgeoir.wordpress.com/2017/09/06/eve…
@formalbeer Typical!
@PeteLawler And not before time.
@NewtonMark @simonhackett Please say hi to Geoff for me. I’ll be calling him next week to discuss his Modest Proposal regarding DNS.
NuclearAnthro Paul Boyer recounts Atomic Fireball candy maker extolling it’s anti-marijuana virtues.
#WTF
#DeusExAtomica pic.twitter.com/WqTtMoRbaW
JayStephens As if getting married by some guy in a frock who’s taken a lifelong vow of celibacy was natural.
TL;DR: The world is about to end. #Ausnog twitter.com/nazzer/status/…
williamslachlan Urgent shortage of storm metaphors left to describe actual weather as reporting of events in Washington drains supplies
@CrankyDevGuy Kookaburras are arseholes.
geoffbelknap It’s heartbreaking to see this tiny fax machine company botching their breach. If only they had some resources…
[Touches ear]
Oh. I see.
@jpwarren CATFACTS: Cats have, on average, fewer than four legs. BUY CAT-O-LUST CAT TREATS. SMS #STOP to unsubscrib..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…cq
@upulie @JohnBirmingham Mind you, having worked in live radio for years helps. “Well you’ve just heard the Premier’..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…Ar
@upulie I once did the 5-minute-look ten minutes before doing a live radio spot on the new kit. It’s a formula thing. @JohnBirmingham
@JohnBirmingham Where to start, John, where to start…
Hey isn’t marketing automation just the best thing? pic.twitter.com/uDXebQ6bUi
Or I could just sleep in, and spend five minutes looking at the website once I’ve had a coffee. Nothing will be on..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…L4
@JustJimWillDo That’s a point. I was coming straight in, from a sunlit spot while the window was in shadow.
@ResignInShame There’s a pair of Eastern Yellow Robins that hang around this building quite a bit, though this one was alone.
@posty Fair point. I don’t go to Reddit, Hacker News, Whirlpool … I’m sure there’s more on the list.
JazzTwemlow The marriage equality plebiscite is actually about ethics in gaming journalism. twitter.com/lyleshelton/st…
An Eastern Yellow Robin has just decided that flying straight into the window — thud! — will improve its life. Three times in two minutes.
MalwareJake Printing stack traces is indicative of generally bad cyber security practices. Reports of a web app breach at..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…Yv
MalwareJake It seems some people are REALLY mad at #Equifax pic.twitter.com/y8JRldQj2a
cursedimages_2 cursed image 836 pic.twitter.com/PBqceRZKWT
narelle_devine Welcome to Thunderbolt Harbour. #cyberwargames #operationfirstwave2017
cyberwargames.humanservices.gov.au pic.twitter.com/wpkw2RzZKJ
@glengyron @SnarkyPlatypus “Irma: More people dey wait for di worst hurricane ever” bbc.com/pidgin/tori-41…
@glengyron @SnarkyPlatypus The phonetics, certainly. The story mix on the site is West African and Caribbean, it seems.
@glengyron @SnarkyPlatypus The ‘pedia article is a reasonable start en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pidgin and the references are good.
@SnarkyPlatypus @glengyron But to come back to the start, you can more or less read this story. What’s your reactio..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…h9
@SnarkyPlatypus @glengyron Your village’s Swahili speaker is the link out and up.
@SnarkyPlatypus @glengyron Well I know that if you speak Swahili and English (originally German) in East Africa, yo..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…oo
@glengyron See later tweets. Many much clarifications.
@Nyx2701 [Bows]
Note that POTUS doesn’t direct people to official sources, but a bunch of curated tweets about the hurricane. twitter.com/RealPressSecBo…
@chrisjoregan @SnarkyPlatypus I know one sentence of Tok Pisin, tho: Him tok tok long bullemencow [sp?] pek pek.
@chrisjoregan @SnarkyPlatypus Oh thanks. It’s a LONG time since I did my linguistics, and I didn’t dig into pidgins and creoles.
I thought this would be the case. @SnarkyPlatypus twitter.com/rynobi/status/…
@arwon @SnarkyPlatypus Ah, thanks for that clarification. Yes, I’d forgotten that Tok Pisin is now a creole. (“Tok” is “talk”, etc.)
@SnarkyPlatypus Of course. So did others. Even Swahili started as Pidgin German. pic.twitter.com/BMDPGunpLZ
@SnarkyPlatypus “A creole develops through a process of nativisation of a pidgin when children of acquired pidgin-s..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…Pk
@SnarkyPlatypus A pidgin is created to be a second language. A creole is an organically-created first language. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pidgin
@CyberTaters @SnarkyPlatypus So would I.
Who is this arsehat shouting at us? #ozpod2017
Pidgin is such a patronising colonial racist language, but I’m glad the BBC uses it ‘cos it reaches many people. twitter.com/JoshButler/sta…
paulkidd Caller on @abcmelbourne says #SSM will lead to gay terrorists sponsoring their same-sex terrorist partners through the immigration system. 😂
GreenJ in which @MikeStuchbery_ gets stuck in … twitter.com/MikeStuchbery_…
DarthPutinKGB Fun fact. You can fit an entire lifetime’s supply of polonium in a single tea cup.
alicegoldfuss EQUIFAX: we may have leaked your SSN
ALSO EQUIFAX: give us your SSN to see if we leaked it
ILLUMlNATI We are all a little broken. But last time I checked broken crayons still color the same.
@glengyron @spottytwit May I also invest in this excellent* idea?
@DrRhysPockett @freakboy3742 Of course.
@SnarkyPlatypus @glengyron More true than false.
FionaPattenMLC It is just ridiculous that schools in victoria still don’t allow girls to wear shorts and pants #girlsweatpantstoo pic.twitter.com/cbtiKccesA
@whereisdaz Yeah but clearly Vegemite Science is better than Marmite Science.
HAHAHAHA! There’s three different hashtags. #ozpod #ozpod2017 #ozpod17
Actually, seeing as it’s a podcast conference, here’s a podcast about survivorship bias. youarenotsosmart.com/2013/05/23/sur… #ozpod2017
Can we also hear from some of the people who went splat? See also, survivorship bias. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivors…..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…vR
And they call ME the DreamCrusher… #scienceisbullshit twitter.com/whereisdaz/sta…
adamgartrell Eric has been in the Senate for 23 years and a minister for 8 of those but he’s not a political elite you’re a poli..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…0d
I just heard the phrase “telling brand stories”. OK then. I’ll go put a coffee on. #ozpod2017
I might adopt the label DreamCrusher. twitter.com/glitteratichic…
@SnarkyPlatypus @getkrackinshow Well there’s a dream that needs to be crushed quick smart.
@SnarkyPlatypus @getkrackinshow Perhaps you need to be involved with @getkrackinshow.
@glitteratichic Most people’s dreams deserve to be crushed. They’re usually self-indulgent and ridiculously unreali..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…3O
@SnarkyPlatypus Did you see this week’s @getkrackinshow and the segment on surgery to be less Asian?
glengyron My gay phrenology start up is going well. First major deployment to Chechnya ready to go live!
jeanburgess What is fascinating and terrifying to me is how badly people want neo-phrenology to be a thing. twitter.com/freakboy3742/s…
BradSearleAU @freakboy3742 The latest AI found that this bird is gay! pic.twitter.com/zIiRHXkqRX
freakboy3742 And that’s before you get to the classic academic AI publication bias: “detect a red plane on blue sky” => “we can detect planes in images”
freakboy3742 NO, IT FUCKING CAN’T. It can identify features like “puts product in their hair”, and make wild generalisations bas..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…Le
Important thread. The hype is like the amazeballs about “bloggers” a few years back, and “desktop publishing” in th..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…Wx
podnewsnet At OzPod - and want the detailed ABC podcast data? It’s all here. You’re welcome! podnews.net/update/austral… has links. #ozpod2017
@georgepnott Goddammit now I feel old.
@jpwarren @SnarkyPlatypus You can do better than that.
@SnarkyPlatypus So, much like this: “Teenage boys wear skirts to school to protest against ‘no shorts’ policy” (23..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…CL
OzPodConference Our first panel for #OzPod2017 I Gave Up My Day Job pic.twitter.com/uB8jA6cslt
Another hint for podcast success: Have a presenter who’s already built up a massive national and international media profile. #OzPod2017
@riskybusiness I hope you’ve stocked up on popcorn up there.
nktpnd Read this first as an argument about nuclear attack submarines and was thoroughly confused. twitter.com/keegan_hamilto…
Agreed. Particularly when he then says they’ve got a producer to put it together. #OzPod2017 twitter.com/LindsJGreen/st…
As with any media, it’s not about the technology. It’s about how what you do fits into and improves the listener’s life. #ozpod2017
Or maybe smart speakers are an indulgence bought by a tiny proportion of potential listeners. Don’t assume all are gadget fans. #ozpod2017
@domknight @riskybusiness “Entry via application” helps keep the riff-raff out.
@SnarkyPlatypus I’m waiting to see what the SEC thinks of this classy behaviour.
Was there just a dig at @VictoriaPolice for having only one episode up? The one that was only launched a few days ago? #ozpod2017
JoelRheinberger @JamesCridland - take the iTunes chart with a grain of salt. It’s about trends, not total numbers.
#OzPod2017
JessHinchy Australians’ top ten podcast subscriptions in Pocket Casts @serial still number one @OzPodConference #ozpod2017 pic.twitter.com/zlz90aWH6Q
benjnielsen iTunes top charts in Aus #ozpod2017 pic.twitter.com/mvYTl9GEwB
@meadea It’s fine out here on the internets. #ozpod2017
@riskybusiness @domknight Same here. I’m listening to the livestream. I’m curious to see who’s there and who’s not.
@SnarkyPlatypus Welcome. Equifax has lost all their data, but their execs dumped shares first, then announced the b..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…F8
Looks like the livestream from radio.abc.net.au/stations/extra… is buffered by about two minutes, which is typical. #ozpod2017
These figures for podcast awareness and listenership. Were non-English speakers included in the research? #ozpod2017
Ah. He’s a futurologist. I was wondering why he started by spending so much time talking about himself. #ozpod2017 twitter.com/TheDanBarrett/…
OzPodConference ABC Announces One Million Dollar Podcasting Fund #ozpod2017 radio.press.abc.net.au/abc-announces-…
So @OzPodConference is now starting on ABC Extra. Live stream at radio.abc.net.au/stations/extra… or on the ABC Listen app. #ozpod2017
Yeah, if I were the kind of turd who dumps shares before announcing a breach, I’d post the breach report while a hurricane destroys Florida.
RMac18 the company’s twitter account was telling people that it was site maintenance as its execs were dumping shares twitter.com/askequifax/sta…
RMac18 So here’s the timeline:
-Equifax discovers hack on July 29.
-Here are SEC listings of all share sales since then pic.twitter.com/gRTONbLac2
“Anemones can detach from rocks and swim, and it looks hilarious” blogs.discovermagazine.com/seriouslyscien… youtube.com/watch?v=-6lMD9…
@corduroy I’ve had it save my laundry once already, so in terms of removing one headfuck from my day it’s paid for itself.
vpkivimaki Where Russia’s nuclear weapons are, as per recent UNIDIR report. unidir.org/files/publicat… pic.twitter.com/SwwvlIk0K8
TryCatchHCF Well this destination from Equifax’s “See If You’re Affected” link sure doesn’t blend well with everyone’s anti-phi..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…vB
@HappySinger @joshgnosis HAHAHAHAHAHA. Have you been drinking?
PPantsdown I’m here for 57yo virgins describing, preferably in crayon, what happens when men & women “do what they do”. pic.twitter.com/5ekZraVDmP
And here’s a picture. twitter.com/markets/status…
“Three Equifax Managers Sold Stock Before Cyber Hack Was Revealed” bloomberg.com/amp/news/artic… #cyber #hack #cyberhack
joshtpm Upside of Equifax story is that there probably aren’t many more identities to steal so the whole identity stealing industry may collapse.
Fri plan, draft: Story pitches; write for @zdnetaustralia (maybe on Equifax); logistics, probably; oh I don’t fuckin’ know gimme a break.
TheRegister To avoid hackers, ensure you use lower and uppercase characters, and at least one symbol, in your social security number #equifaxadvice
@corduroy Do you have Rain Parrot in there?
NicholasFryer Because fuck you, that’s why. twitter.com/abcnewsAdelaid…
@vealmince Thanks. And yes, Reddit is bullshit, which is why [REDACTED IN CONSIDERATION OF SECTION 474 OF THE CRIMINAL CODE ACT 1995].
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Ah, you people break me up! twitter.com/MelinAnders/st…
free_facts You can explode at any moment
@jennylmackinnon I’m waiting for somebody to say “wake-up call”.
Meanwhile, Rep McCaul seems to have missed noticing the most common trigger signalling device for IEDs. Bonus point..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…uH
@munin This is very true. There’s a lot of dumb “understandings” of identity, especially amongst people working on alleged identity systems.
@tqft9999 @jpwarren My answer is this thread. twitter.com/stilgherrian/s…
Very proper fucked, is what I assume. twitter.com/BundyB/status/…
Oh, fellow Australians? Our mandatory data breach notification laws don’t come into force until Feb 2018. We’ve no idea how fucked we are.
I take that back. There is an answer. And this is the answer. twitter.com/MalwareJake/st…
We don’t know how to fix this. Systems that are now unfit for purpose, totally broken, are at the core of all the things. It gonna be hard.
ATTENTION ALL THE MEDIA! Any “experts” proposing specific solutions to the Equifax problem are either selling something or full of shit.
Not withstanding that “a Reddit user” is not quite a citation or credit (why not just link) this is a fair summary..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…6I
In slightly better news, a family of yellow-tailed black cockatoos just languidly screeched their way past. A moment of joy.
kennwhite Really, Equifax? (this is the consumer login page) pic.twitter.com/V0S9yt04Sk
@KrazyKarl910 I gave up following NBN in a journalism sense when technology choices became party-political. I’m rea..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…LJ
kennwhite Free credit monitoring for those aff—oh.twitter.com/CNBCnow/status…I
@KrazyKarl910 Indeed.
@KrazyKarl910 That means that NBN management was working within the wrong kind of constraints, under both Labor and Coalition versions.
@KrazyKarl910 Now that’s a complex question, but the short answer would be that the overall strategies from the sta..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…7G
nevona someone has been replacing the NYC MTA ads with their own way more subversive (and subtle) versions pic.twitter.com/cXtfVn3UfV
This too is fine. twitter.com/CNN/status/905…
@KrazyKarl910 There’s a bunch of stories like this around. I’ve no idea what proportion of connections they represe..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…tt
@NeerajKA Nice.
NeerajKA How verrit could have saved Equifax
That’s just an article on what big data brokers like Equifax do that popped up early in a search. Please tell me about any better ones.
“How your bank spies on your exact monthly income — and shares it with other firms” (13 Aug 2016).twitter.com/i/web/status/9…9K2
That’s the one. Equifax is (one of) the people who do credit ratings and the like, so they have A NORMOUS AMOUNT OF..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…A3
@valkenburgh I’m just grumpy and need coffee. I’ll read your stuff properly later up, when my brain starts working.
@valkenburgh My point, though, is that while blockchain may be (part of) A solution, saying it’s THE solution is ge..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…80
@valkenburgh That’s just “blockchain magic” with more buzzwords. (I accept this stuff won’t fit into a tweet, and I..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…be
Correct. Change all the things all the time. And then never do anything, ever. twitter.com/SarahJamieLewi…
fancynancynyc That’s how it’s done. twitter.com/mollycrabapple…
We seriously need to get rid of the idea that blockchain is automatically the best solution for problems. It’s like..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…To
@BXGD Most people are kinda sketchy.
@garystark I’m having trouble with the term “Trump”.
@karinakeisler I imagine so. Your TGIF today will be well-earned, I think. #nbnfuntimes
This is probably not fine, but I can’t help laughing. twitter.com/annalecta/stat…
This is fine. twitter.com/CNBCnow/status…
wsvn Doggy school dropout: police dog fired for being too friendly wsvn.com/news/us-world/… pic.twitter.com/1XK4JlWoSu
kylegriffin1 Steve Bannon tells CBS Catholic Bishops are opposed to what’s happening on DACA because “they need illegal aliens t..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…pV
free_facts One cigarette is more healthy than sucking diet piss out of dog
Friday. That wig is not as convincing as you’d hoped. Friday.