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RanTLaw

@rantlaw.bsky.social

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Australian law talker. Would prefer to be out on a bike. He/him.

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RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · Aug 17

I love how the orthodox answer to all policy problems in the English-speaking world is “moar capitalism”

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RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · 15h

Also, David Gerard, who leapt to Ed's defence today, is also an acquired taste. Often good but can be abrasive, like any polemicist.

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RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · 15h

Mine was. As I said, I think he is doing good work but it is often quite a commitment to get into.

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RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · 15h

If I tell you it was about AI, I expect many of you will be able to guess who it was.
BTW, it is someone whose work I like but it can be a bit much. Sometimes launching into one of their posts feels like you need to know the whole cinematic universe (but really don't because they will recap)

RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · 15h

Thomas Picketty enters the chat

RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · 15h

Between that and Ill Conceived, you are doing phenomenal work

RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · 15h

Just saw a "You really need to read the author's 18,000 word opus to understand them" comment that wasn't about Jordan Peterson

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RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · 16h

5 years!

What’s the Hold Up Pod Dan @jacketdan.bsky.social · 1d

He did it again for the 5 year anniversary

RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · 23h

Between them and the food delivery bikes, the gig economy has fucked things for otgers

RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · 1d

Rideshare companies are the single worst development for riding safely in the CBD

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RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · 1d

To the Uber driver who stopped in the Clearway, almost doored me, and yelled at me like it was my fault, I hope you scrape your rims multiple times today

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RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · 1d

Share a cartoon from the past that kids today have probably never heard of

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RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · 1d

Every election, we get spam from these guys on our personal devices. Now, they expect us to be worried or sympathetic when someone has published their phone numbers? Spare me.

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RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · 1d

It's a concern they don't give a shit about when it comes to the personal details they collect about voters. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Anthony Albanese, Sussan Ley and Scott Morrison’s private phone numbers exposed on US marketing databases

Richard Marles says investigation under way into how the prime minister and other senior government staff’s phone numbers appeared in the databases

www.theguardian.com

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RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · 1d

Look, they can't sell the investment properties because that would mean they would have realised the profits on those properties and would have to pay tax.

RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · 1d

So, it's pretty easy to keep up to date with Drew these days

LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 1d

Jfc

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 2d

I don't know how many times to point out that is absolutely ghoulish and non-consensual and disgusting behavior.
To exploit the image of a dead woman who was also exploited in real life so you can live out your momentary fantasies of "what is possible" with AI is bad science journalism, also.
Sick.

October 10, 2025

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Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Happen Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Screenshot includes an AI generated image of what looks like a human cross between Daenaerys Targaryen and Marilyn Monroe on the back of a dragon.

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RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · 1d

There are many such cases

RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · 2d

Going back to that AFP investigation, part of me knows its political, another part of me thinks they are opening to be able to close it soon after and juice their clearance stats.