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@camwilson@mastodon.social · 1d ago

hell yes i love entertainment-led content

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@camwilson@mastodon.social · 4d ago

NEW: The privacy regulator raised concerns Australia teen social media tech trial "overstated" how well these technologies protected people's privacy — especially since it didn't technically test the products' privacy protections or assess them against Australian privacy law.
https://www.crikey.com.au/2026/04/17/teen-social-media-ban-tech-trial-privacy-watchdog-oaic-concerns-ignored/

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@camwilson@mastodon.social · Apr 08, 2026

inside you, there are two wolves

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@camwilson@mastodon.social · Apr 08, 2026

i'm not as good as some at spotting AI writing, but it's funny how often I find myself immediately automatically skimming/skipping ahead of writing that i later find out is (suspected) AI slop. it just has a distinctive lack of grip that makes it slide across your eyeballs without being ingested.

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@camwilson@mastodon.social · Apr 07, 2026

shout out to the australian war memorial media team who probably got an astronomical open rate for the media release about its new exhibition

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@camwilson@mastodon.social · Apr 07, 2026

who else kinda sleepy to start this week

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@camwilson@mastodon.social · Mar 27, 2026

Exclusive: The Albanese government offered to pay pro-teen social media ban group 36 Months to promote policy.

Weeks before the ban began, 36 Months answered a selective departmental invitation to pitch "communications services" to promote the ban, but was unsuccessful.

https://www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/27/36-months-teen-social-media-ban-albanese-government-anika-wells/

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Communications Department offered to pay 36 Months lobby group to promote teen social media ban

The pro-ban group answered the government's call — an unusual one to be extended to an advocacy group — and submitted an ultimately too-expensive bid to do ‘communications services’ for the policy.

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@camwilson@mastodon.social · Mar 18, 2026

YouGov has put out some polling on Australians' reactions to the teen social media ban a month in that shows that people broadly believe it is having a positive effects on cyberbullying, exposure to harm content and mental health:

https://yougov.com/articles/54334-new-yougov-research-shows-cautious-optimism-as-australians-assess-impact-of-under-16-social-media-ban

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New YouGov research shows cautious optimism as Australians assess impact of under-16 social media ba

Most Australians feel the ban is proving effective in controlling the risks children face online

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@camwilson@mastodon.social · Mar 13, 2026

Scoop: Three months into Australia's ban, new data given to Crikey suggests that most teens who were on social media pre-ban are still on those platforms.

While it's just one data point, it adds to early evidence suggesting that there's widespread flouting of the ban.

https://www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/13/teens-social-media-ban-kids-still-using-platforms/

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Most teens on social media pre-ban are still on those platforms, new data suggests

Data provided to Crikey by parental monitoring company Qustodio shows usage among under-16s during the first three months of Australia's teen social media ban dropped only marginally more than the pre

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@camwilson@mastodon.social · Feb 26, 2026

well wrap me in a flag and smear some vegemite on my face, i'm feeling bloody patriotic seeing global investors pouring money into Australian bonds because our economy is less vulnerable to AI disruption because we're dummies who can only dig things out of the ground and sign up for mortages

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@camwilson@mastodon.social · Feb 09, 2026

NEW: A Queensland software engineer has been in a four-and-a-half year long battle with Services Australia to get a look at a MyGov app's source code.

He says we should be able to scrutinise it to make sure it's secure. Services Australia says it's a national security risk.
https://www.crikey.com.au/2026/02/09/mygov-app-code-services-australia-security-fraser-tweedale/

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A software engineer wants to check a MyGov app's code. The government says it's a national security

Fraser Tweedale has spent five years fighting to get access to the MyGov Code Generator app's code to make sure it's secure. Services Australia says that it's been advised not to share it.

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@camwilson@mastodon.social · Feb 02, 2026

thinking about oracle, which now powers OpenAI AND TikTok US, keeling over under all of this debt has me feeling like Tyler Durden at the end of Fight Club

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@camwilson@mastodon.social · Dec 23, 2025

i see a lot of people, frustrated with tech, wanting to "go analog" or give up on tech. i totally get it! a lot of tech we use right now sucks. but my 2026 wish/resolution is to put more energy towards figuring out how we can wrest control of tech from a powerful few and find ways to use it for good

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@camwilson@mastodon.social · Dec 10, 2025

interesting choice to project "LET THEM BE KIDS" onto the Sydney Harbour Bridge as part of the celebrations of the teen social media ban

It's not a line that came from Albanese or the government — it's the name of News Corp's campaign for the ban.

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@camwilson@mastodon.social · Oct 08, 2025

We're now finding out that as many as 70,000 people had their government IDs provided to prove their ages leaked by Discord. Like I wrote last week, this is an inherent risk (and made greater by a rushed process) of getting platforms to do age checks

https://www.theverge.com/news/797051/discord-government-ids-leaked-data-breach

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Discord says 70,000 users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach

The ID pics had been submitted as part of age-related appeals.

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@camwilson@mastodon.social · May 09, 2025

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