Jamie Hall
@jamiehall.cc
Absolutely. Here’s a bio which balances audacity with polish, while covering up the weak points and anxieties you mentioned. You can paste it directly into Bluesky, or let me know if you’d like edits or changes:
My background blends high-stakes strategy,
My background blends high-stakes strategy,
PLANNERS: Economists shouldn’t comment on housing markets, they don’t understand the nuances and it’s outside their area of expertise
ALSO PLANNERS: Hold my beer while I reason from a price change
ALSO PLANNERS: Hold my beer while I reason from a price change
Responding to our 'More homes, better cities' Grattan report, Professor Nicole Gurran wrote that our plan to boost housing supply needed a 'reality check' in part because 'building completions fall when prices stagnate'. Here's why that argument misses the mark. 🧵
November 11, 2025 at 8:36 PM
PLANNERS: Economists shouldn’t comment on housing markets, they don’t understand the nuances and it’s outside their area of expertise
ALSO PLANNERS: Hold my beer while I reason from a price change
ALSO PLANNERS: Hold my beer while I reason from a price change
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Wrote about the teen social media ban, specifically Reddit www.theguardian.com/media/commen...
From AusLegal to AmItheAsshole: why I’m downvoting the social media ban on Reddit | Deirdre Fidge
We know young people are dancing on Tik Tok, and doing whatever the hell is happening on Kick, but my sympathies are with those about to be booted off Reddit
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November 11, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Wrote about the teen social media ban, specifically Reddit www.theguardian.com/media/commen...
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there’s all kinds of stuff (transportation, education) you need tons more of than you did 100 years ago to live a remotely welfare comparable life. /fin
November 9, 2025 at 7:42 AM
there’s all kinds of stuff (transportation, education) you need tons more of than you did 100 years ago to live a remotely welfare comparable life. /fin
Left-wing NIMBYism is the most depressing NIMBYism. After guns and drugs, housing is the #3 most tightly regulated market in Australia. To look at the current pile of policy failures and blame “the free market” takes a huge amount of motivated self-delusion
November 9, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Left-wing NIMBYism is the most depressing NIMBYism. After guns and drugs, housing is the #3 most tightly regulated market in Australia. To look at the current pile of policy failures and blame “the free market” takes a huge amount of motivated self-delusion
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I've long criticised the dehumanising and patriarchal partner income test embedded everywhere in the Australian welfare state. The tax on love really does hurt families, and has a real impact on relationship formation or termination.
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November 7, 2025 at 2:39 AM
I've long criticised the dehumanising and patriarchal partner income test embedded everywhere in the Australian welfare state. The tax on love really does hurt families, and has a real impact on relationship formation or termination.
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This is quite brilliantly written. A far better piece of journalism than anything you will find in the NYT
I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 8, 2025 at 11:44 PM
This is quite brilliantly written. A far better piece of journalism than anything you will find in the NYT
💖 When the Gruaniad’s Blind Date people pash, it means you’ll have good luck for the rest of the week ✨ www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Blind date: ‘The most awkward moment? Trying to get the lighting right for our cute little selfie’
Will, 33, a government officer (left), meets Fred, 29, a business analyst
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November 8, 2025 at 6:25 AM
💖 When the Gruaniad’s Blind Date people pash, it means you’ll have good luck for the rest of the week ✨ www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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This ridiculous post (the answer is clearly his own tariffs) made me learn about “Boxed Beef”, a fascinating turn in intensive beef production that reminds me of what has happened to poultry. Sci-fi authors who thought we’d be eating vat protein got it wrong.
November 8, 2025 at 2:16 AM
This ridiculous post (the answer is clearly his own tariffs) made me learn about “Boxed Beef”, a fascinating turn in intensive beef production that reminds me of what has happened to poultry. Sci-fi authors who thought we’d be eating vat protein got it wrong.
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the message that people should take away from sandwich guy is that getting blackout and picking fights with cops always ends well. I am a lawyer* and this is legal advice**
*this is disputed by the bar, whose legitimacy I do not recognize
**for the court of life, before which all are plaintiffs
*this is disputed by the bar, whose legitimacy I do not recognize
**for the court of life, before which all are plaintiffs
November 6, 2025 at 11:30 PM
the message that people should take away from sandwich guy is that getting blackout and picking fights with cops always ends well. I am a lawyer* and this is legal advice**
*this is disputed by the bar, whose legitimacy I do not recognize
**for the court of life, before which all are plaintiffs
*this is disputed by the bar, whose legitimacy I do not recognize
**for the court of life, before which all are plaintiffs
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Betoota Advocate, open your comments 😇 flatkopi.substack.com/welcome
November 6, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Betoota Advocate, open your comments 😇 flatkopi.substack.com/welcome
This is one of those LLM results which on the surface looks amazing but, when you look at it closely, is in the “no shit” category. (The _hidden states_ are invertible, not the output tokens.)
LLMs are injective and invertible.
They show that different prompts always map to different embeddings, and this property can be used to recover input tokens from individual embeddings in latent space.
Paper: www.arxiv.org/abs/2510.15511
They show that different prompts always map to different embeddings, and this property can be used to recover input tokens from individual embeddings in latent space.
Paper: www.arxiv.org/abs/2510.15511
October 30, 2025 at 5:14 AM
This is one of those LLM results which on the surface looks amazing but, when you look at it closely, is in the “no shit” category. (The _hidden states_ are invertible, not the output tokens.)
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These jobs are an instance in which people would be typically interacting face-to-face, so there’s a peer relationship there (despite power imbalance). This puts a mask over that interface, so only one of the participants is human. The other can’t really communicate and is swapped out as needed
October 30, 2025 at 2:37 AM
These jobs are an instance in which people would be typically interacting face-to-face, so there’s a peer relationship there (despite power imbalance). This puts a mask over that interface, so only one of the participants is human. The other can’t really communicate and is swapped out as needed
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Ad Rock: Look upon my works, ye mighty and
All : DESPAIR
Mike D: nothing remains but a wreck, boundless and
All: BARE
MCA: there’s nothing left here but round
All: DECAY
Ad Rock: the lone and level sands stretch far
All: AWAY
All : DESPAIR
Mike D: nothing remains but a wreck, boundless and
All: BARE
MCA: there’s nothing left here but round
All: DECAY
Ad Rock: the lone and level sands stretch far
All: AWAY
March 18, 2024 at 3:42 AM
Ad Rock: Look upon my works, ye mighty and
All : DESPAIR
Mike D: nothing remains but a wreck, boundless and
All: BARE
MCA: there’s nothing left here but round
All: DECAY
Ad Rock: the lone and level sands stretch far
All: AWAY
All : DESPAIR
Mike D: nothing remains but a wreck, boundless and
All: BARE
MCA: there’s nothing left here but round
All: DECAY
Ad Rock: the lone and level sands stretch far
All: AWAY
“What if the entire game was LadderGoat?”
Oh my god some fucking tech dingdong posted this on Twitter with the caption "AI games are going to be amazing" totally seriously, you have to watch it. You have to. In full screen.
October 25, 2025 at 8:25 AM
“What if the entire game was LadderGoat?”
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how it feels explaining early 2000s hipster history to young people
October 25, 2025 at 5:04 AM
how it feels explaining early 2000s hipster history to young people
You love to see this. Extra taxes on investors + fewer restrictions on building = cheaper housing. It’s not rocket science www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Once Australia’s second priciest city, Melbourne has become more affordable. What happened – and will it last?
More homes and less property investor activity has seen Victoria’s capital rise up the affordability rankings
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October 24, 2025 at 10:06 PM
You love to see this. Extra taxes on investors + fewer restrictions on building = cheaper housing. It’s not rocket science www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Anthony Albanese made a big show (and good on him) for heading to Jakarta asap after winning the election this year. This post from Tempo made me realise Prabowo has gone literally everywhere BUT Canberra lol
October 18, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Anthony Albanese made a big show (and good on him) for heading to Jakarta asap after winning the election this year. This post from Tempo made me realise Prabowo has gone literally everywhere BUT Canberra lol
I’ve got to hurry up and finish my bracket for this year’s October Madness
A key meeting of the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee is expected to include a major shake-up of President Xi Jinping's inner circle.
China's Communist Party expected to get 'largest' shake-up in modern era
A key meeting of the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee is expected to include a major shake-up of President Xi Jinping's inner circle.
www.abc.net.au
October 18, 2025 at 6:37 AM
I’ve got to hurry up and finish my bracket for this year’s October Madness
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This is not true. Reckless driving in an F150 is much more dangerous than reckless driving in a small car.
I don't think I'll ever get used to the idea that it is good journalism to repeat such bullshit without any effort at qualification. "He falsely claimed" would have fit a word count.
I don't think I'll ever get used to the idea that it is good journalism to repeat such bullshit without any effort at qualification. "He falsely claimed" would have fit a word count.
October 17, 2025 at 6:35 AM
This is not true. Reckless driving in an F150 is much more dangerous than reckless driving in a small car.
I don't think I'll ever get used to the idea that it is good journalism to repeat such bullshit without any effort at qualification. "He falsely claimed" would have fit a word count.
I don't think I'll ever get used to the idea that it is good journalism to repeat such bullshit without any effort at qualification. "He falsely claimed" would have fit a word count.
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A reporter from the Australian is one of the group of signatories to the Pentagon's new press corps rules which prompted a universal walk-out from credible news outlets.
October 16, 2025 at 11:59 PM
A reporter from the Australian is one of the group of signatories to the Pentagon's new press corps rules which prompted a universal walk-out from credible news outlets.
That’s spot on. Australia needs broader and higher taxes to fund the generous welfare state and boring social democracy we deserve. If your main goal is that “the rich [or ‘the corporations’] should just pay their fair share” then you’re not being honest with yourself
Aside: of course there is, despite the grotesque wealth of billionaires, none rich enough to actually fund a functioning State let alone a military in the Roman way. It’s the limit of ‘tax the rich’: obviously they should be taxed, but there aren’t enough of them to get away from taxing *everyone*.
October 15, 2025 at 1:47 AM
That’s spot on. Australia needs broader and higher taxes to fund the generous welfare state and boring social democracy we deserve. If your main goal is that “the rich [or ‘the corporations’] should just pay their fair share” then you’re not being honest with yourself
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Classic literature has no relevance to contemporary readers. Even novels published last month are full of outmoded conventions. Only fiction that is written literally right this instant can capture the zeitgeist of the present moment
October 14, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Classic literature has no relevance to contemporary readers. Even novels published last month are full of outmoded conventions. Only fiction that is written literally right this instant can capture the zeitgeist of the present moment
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October 13, 2025 at 10:44 PM
I loved this book. If you enjoyed The Calculating Stars then you will too.
September 30, 2025 at 11:53 AM
I loved this book. If you enjoyed The Calculating Stars then you will too.