Justin Warren
@jpwarren.pivotnine.com
Principal analyst and managing director at PivotNine.
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Scoop: the pro-teen social media ban lobby group 36 Months was funded & co-staffed by its co-founder's ad production firm that was simultaneously making gambling ads
The federal government has ignored calls for a gambling ad ban while pursuing the social media ban.
www.crikey.com.au/20...
The federal government has ignored calls for a gambling ad ban while pursuing the social media ban.
www.crikey.com.au/20...
December 12, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Scoop: the pro-teen social media ban lobby group 36 Months was funded & co-staffed by its co-founder's ad production firm that was simultaneously making gambling ads
The federal government has ignored calls for a gambling ad ban while pursuing the social media ban.
www.crikey.com.au/20...
The federal government has ignored calls for a gambling ad ban while pursuing the social media ban.
www.crikey.com.au/20...
The latest issue of The Crux is out: React2Shell, Cloudflare outages, Micron abandonment issues, price hikes, and neat HTML/CSS/SVG tricks that go boing. https://pivotnine.com/the-crux/archive/change-your-mind-with-ease/
December 9, 2025 at 9:13 PM
The latest issue of The Crux is out: React2Shell, Cloudflare outages, Micron abandonment issues, price hikes, and neat HTML/CSS/SVG tricks that go boing. https://pivotnine.com/the-crux/archive/change-your-mind-with-ease/
The latest issue of The Crux is out: Solar-sensitive airplanes, suing your customers, beer malware, financial shenanigans and Special Coping Spoons. https://pivotnine.com/the-crux/archive/solar-malware-shenanigans/
December 8, 2025 at 9:14 PM
The latest issue of The Crux is out: Solar-sensitive airplanes, suing your customers, beer malware, financial shenanigans and Special Coping Spoons. https://pivotnine.com/the-crux/archive/solar-malware-shenanigans/
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The federal government has rolled out a new cloud policy www.digital.gov.au/cloud-policy
December 8, 2025 at 2:33 AM
The federal government has rolled out a new cloud policy www.digital.gov.au/cloud-policy
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Sydney Water has estimated up to 250 megalitres a day will be needed to service datacentres planned by 2035, more than Canberra's entire drinking water.
Second feature with @petrastock.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Second feature with @petrastock.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Thirsty work: how the rise of massive datacentres strains Australia’s drinking water supply
The demand for use in cooling in Sydney alone is expected to exceed the volume of Canberra’s total drinking water within the next decade
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Sydney Water has estimated up to 250 megalitres a day will be needed to service datacentres planned by 2035, more than Canberra's entire drinking water.
Second feature with @petrastock.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Second feature with @petrastock.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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NEW PODCAST: “The 9pm Social Media Ban and the Special Duck with Justin Warren” @daedalus.eigenmagic.com (1h14m42s) the9pmedict.com/edict/000258/
Look for “The 9pm Edict” in your podcast app.
Like it? Please tell your friends and maybe even pledge your support at the9pmedict.com/summer2025.
Look for “The 9pm Edict” in your podcast app.
Like it? Please tell your friends and maybe even pledge your support at the9pmedict.com/summer2025.
December 3, 2025 at 10:24 AM
NEW PODCAST: “The 9pm Social Media Ban and the Special Duck with Justin Warren” @daedalus.eigenmagic.com (1h14m42s) the9pmedict.com/edict/000258/
Look for “The 9pm Edict” in your podcast app.
Like it? Please tell your friends and maybe even pledge your support at the9pmedict.com/summer2025.
Look for “The 9pm Edict” in your podcast app.
Like it? Please tell your friends and maybe even pledge your support at the9pmedict.com/summer2025.
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NEW PODCAST: “The 9pm Miracle Medical Reality with Dr Trent Yarwood” (1h00m15s) the9pmedict.com/edict/00257/
Look for “The 9pm Edict” in your podcast app.
Like it? Please tell your friends and maybe pledge your support at the9pmedict.com/summer2025.
Look for “The 9pm Edict” in your podcast app.
Like it? Please tell your friends and maybe pledge your support at the9pmedict.com/summer2025.
November 28, 2025 at 1:52 AM
NEW PODCAST: “The 9pm Miracle Medical Reality with Dr Trent Yarwood” (1h00m15s) the9pmedict.com/edict/00257/
Look for “The 9pm Edict” in your podcast app.
Like it? Please tell your friends and maybe pledge your support at the9pmedict.com/summer2025.
Look for “The 9pm Edict” in your podcast app.
Like it? Please tell your friends and maybe pledge your support at the9pmedict.com/summer2025.
To fabricate a report with AI once, Deloitte, may be regarded as a misfortune. To do so twice looks like carelessness. theindependent.ca/news/lji/maj...
Major N.L. healthcare report contains errors likely generated by A.I. – The Independent
$1.6 million Health Human Resources Plan from Deloitte cites research papers that don’t exist, making it the second major government policy paper called into question in as many months
theindependent.ca
November 27, 2025 at 1:57 AM
To fabricate a report with AI once, Deloitte, may be regarded as a misfortune. To do so twice looks like carelessness. theindependent.ca/news/lji/maj...
The latest issue of The Crux is out: Cloudflare joins the outagepalooza, Oracle underwater, more Salesforce breaches, SOPS for secrets, Pebble problems and open source grues. https://pivotnine.com/the-crux/archive/load-bearing-connections/
November 25, 2025 at 12:34 AM
The latest issue of The Crux is out: Cloudflare joins the outagepalooza, Oracle underwater, more Salesforce breaches, SOPS for secrets, Pebble problems and open source grues. https://pivotnine.com/the-crux/archive/load-bearing-connections/
A new subscriber to my weekly newsletter #TheCrux emailed me to say how much they enjoyed it. It is always lovely to get that sort of email.
If someone makes a thing you like, do tell them. You will make their day.
If someone makes a thing you like, do tell them. You will make their day.
November 25, 2025 at 12:18 AM
A new subscriber to my weekly newsletter #TheCrux emailed me to say how much they enjoyed it. It is always lovely to get that sort of email.
If someone makes a thing you like, do tell them. You will make their day.
If someone makes a thing you like, do tell them. You will make their day.
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Ignoring his prior acts, this is just a bat sh*t crazy thing to say.
It's textbook sunk cost bias.
It's textbook sunk cost bias.
Dude who just got the SV Bank bailout two years ago is back banging the cup. It’s a tell.
November 24, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Ignoring his prior acts, this is just a bat sh*t crazy thing to say.
It's textbook sunk cost bias.
It's textbook sunk cost bias.
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I get so many reports about how businesses need to adopt AI quicker in Australia and the tone is becoming increasingly desperate.
November 24, 2025 at 11:05 PM
I get so many reports about how businesses need to adopt AI quicker in Australia and the tone is becoming increasingly desperate.
People who are agog at the BoM website rebuild costing more than they expect should remember that every IT project goes well over budget, especially if a consultancy is involved. Public or private sector, it doesn't matter.
November 24, 2025 at 2:44 AM
People who are agog at the BoM website rebuild costing more than they expect should remember that every IT project goes well over budget, especially if a consultancy is involved. Public or private sector, it doesn't matter.
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Women and older career switchers are generally not even exposed to red team as an option of interest that they’d be good at using socialized skills, which is kinda crazy when the most ignored people in society who can pretty much walk in anywhere are older women. Instead we portray it like esports.
November 22, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Women and older career switchers are generally not even exposed to red team as an option of interest that they’d be good at using socialized skills, which is kinda crazy when the most ignored people in society who can pretty much walk in anywhere are older women. Instead we portray it like esports.
The latest issue of The Crux is out: Samsung, SK Group, and other major South Korean corporations have pledged to invest billion of dollars in South Korea after South Korea arrived at a trade deal with the USA. https://pivotnine.com/the-crux/archive/remembering-time-in-the-sun/
November 18, 2025 at 10:31 PM
The latest issue of The Crux is out: Samsung, SK Group, and other major South Korean corporations have pledged to invest billion of dollars in South Korea after South Korea arrived at a trade deal with the USA. https://pivotnine.com/the-crux/archive/remembering-time-in-the-sun/
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I could not possibly be more fucking tired of hearing the word "agentic" on keynote stages
November 11, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I could not possibly be more fucking tired of hearing the word "agentic" on keynote stages
The latest issue of The Crux is out: Python donations, cyberslop, Microsoft backpedals, sharp Ansible edges, breaches galore, and a sad Line. https://pivotnine.com/the-crux/archive/beware-sharp-edges/
November 11, 2025 at 9:13 PM
The latest issue of The Crux is out: Python donations, cyberslop, Microsoft backpedals, sharp Ansible edges, breaches galore, and a sad Line. https://pivotnine.com/the-crux/archive/beware-sharp-edges/
"Creating and publishing software under an open source license is an act of contribution to the digital commons. Finding and publishing information about security issues in that software is also an act of contribution to the same commons." Maybe, but these contributions are not of equal value.
November 11, 2025 at 8:31 PM
"Creating and publishing software under an open source license is an act of contribution to the digital commons. Finding and publishing information about security issues in that software is also an act of contribution to the same commons." Maybe, but these contributions are not of equal value.
Fun* fact: in Australia, over 87% of the people who have data exposed in a data breach do so because it was in the ~3 very large data breaches we have each year. (On average, since 2018)
November 11, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Fun* fact: in Australia, over 87% of the people who have data exposed in a data breach do so because it was in the ~3 very large data breaches we have each year. (On average, since 2018)
The latest issue of The Crux is out: More cloud outages, Pythonic leadership, Canva pricing, tech earnings, sovereign tech stacks, and the utility of utility. https://pivotnine.com/the-crux/archive/earning-your-sovereignty/
November 5, 2025 at 9:13 PM
The latest issue of The Crux is out: More cloud outages, Pythonic leadership, Canva pricing, tech earnings, sovereign tech stacks, and the utility of utility. https://pivotnine.com/the-crux/archive/earning-your-sovereignty/
What if we could search across disparate tools and data without having to build complex data normalization pipelines first? https://www.forbes.com/sites/justinwarren/2025/11/05/tackling-cybersecurity-data-sprawl-without-normalizing-everything/
November 5, 2025 at 8:43 PM
What if we could search across disparate tools and data without having to build complex data normalization pipelines first? https://www.forbes.com/sites/justinwarren/2025/11/05/tackling-cybersecurity-data-sprawl-without-normalizing-everything/
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love to see government media releases just make shit up
November 4, 2025 at 10:45 PM
love to see government media releases just make shit up
The Python Software Foundation turned down a $1.5m grant rather than betray its mission or its values. https://pivotnine.com/blog/python-software-foundation-shows-everyone-what-integrity-looks-like/
October 28, 2025 at 9:13 PM
The Python Software Foundation turned down a $1.5m grant rather than betray its mission or its values. https://pivotnine.com/blog/python-software-foundation-shows-everyone-what-integrity-looks-like/
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Wow, Services Australia spent three quarters of a million in legal fees fighting a losing FOI fight against @daedalus.eigenmagic.com
October 28, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Wow, Services Australia spent three quarters of a million in legal fees fighting a losing FOI fight against @daedalus.eigenmagic.com
"It is telling that this act by the PSF is so remarkable. It stands in stark contrast to the actions of many other larger and better funded organisations. It is easy to talk about leadership; it is much harder to actually lead." pivotnine.com/blog/python-...
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October 28, 2025 at 4:00 AM
"It is telling that this act by the PSF is so remarkable. It stands in stark contrast to the actions of many other larger and better funded organisations. It is easy to talk about leadership; it is much harder to actually lead." pivotnine.com/blog/python-...