Cockatoos have learned to operate drinking fountains in Australia https://www.science.org/content/article/cockatoos-have-learned-operate-drinking-fountains-australia #Crikey!
#crikey
👀 👀 🥪 🤖 #Crikey
Wallace & Gromit contraption in real life! - Joseph's Machines https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv7WVaoJJ0Y&ab_channel=Joseph%27sMachines
Thanks to @camwilson, @masek & Crikey for bringing the SMH/AFR subscriber S3 bucket breach into light and getting it fixed.
First announced at https://infosec.exchange/@bucketchallenge/114186026451954362
#crikey:
> Last year, Nine bragged about having first-party data including “demographic, content consumption and behavioural information” on 22 million users, and combining that with third party data, to create “rich, detailed, real-time profiles of audience members”.
There's a new notorious namesake on the blog today.
It's crazy to think that there is a new generation of young adults who didn't live the Steve Irwin experience.
Miss you, Steve.
https://matildaslab.wordpress.com/2025/03/20/steve-irwin-crikey-steveirwini/
#steveirwin #crocodilehunter #biology #snail #crikey
Oh, FFS - I hadn't realised they've done that. I lost respect for #TheGuardian generally because of their pro-establishment campaigning against Corbyn. I have been making a monthly contribution (not subscription) directed to #TheGuardianAU, but partnering with #OpenAI and buying into #genML hype is a red line for me.
On #TheGuardian and #OpenAI, here's a little from #Crikey:
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/02/20/guardian-artificial-intelligence-openai-news-corp/
Sorry, @VoordeMus - are the lay-offs separate or explicitly linked?
@camwilson I have to ask - why no mention of Mastodon?
Delighted to see Johan heading up journalism at Monash - was privileged to learn the craft of radio from him as a media student many, many moons ago at Murdoch Uni.
Movers and Shakers: What's in the media diet of journalists?
https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/12/19/crikey-movers-and-shakers-media-diet-australian-journalists/
#Crikey #AustralianJournalism #journalism #AustralianMedia #MurdochUniversity
Droppie [infosec] 🐨♀:archlinux: :kde: :firefox_nightly: :thunderbird:🦘:vegan:MsDropbear425@infosec.exchange
2024-11-18
The real threat to refugees like me is politicians who give the green light to neo-Nazis
https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/10/28/refugees-neo-nazis-visas-immigration/
I got a letter in Crikey. Apols if you don't have a subscription. Not sure if this is accessible. #trump #crikey #uselection #auspol
Anybody know what's going on over at #Crikey ? I've tried to subscribe with an age discount, but they said they were having problems with new subscribers and would get back to me. Crickets so far. I'm very keen on supporting #independentmedia but I'm getting impatient. #auspol
Dear #crikey part II
re. "You will now be receiving:
The Daily: Crikey‘s lunchtime package of deeply independent journalism, every weekday: the insights, the analysis, the ideas and the latest, freshest investigative stories just out of the oven.
The Weekender: catch up on what you missed and relax to the best of Crikey each week. Arriving Saturday morning, Weekender is a lazy morning read. Like the old days, but on your screen."
How about NO
What part of DID NOT SUBSCRIBE do you not get?
Dear #crikey, I unsubscribed from everything
I do not want your daily message
I did not sign up for your daily message
I do not want your "unsubscribe" link in the email to result in:
"upstream connect error or disconnect/reset before headers. reset reason: connection timeout"
#NewsCorp #boss #apologises for #Nazi #salute.
The #Foxtel #boss - a majority #NewsCorp-#owned #cable #TV company in #Australia - "unreservedly" #apologised after an #image showed him doing a #Nazi #salute. Mr Delaney claims the #photo, first by #Crikey, was "completely #inconsistent" with his "#values, #beliefs, and #family #connections."
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Australia #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Nazis #Media #Hatecrimes
Truly bizarre piece from Jason Murphy in #Crikey claiming that inheritance reduces inequality, because the average rich person has more than one heir.
The implied comparison is to a world in which billionaires live forever and continue to hold their wealth.
The correct comparison is to a world in which inheritances are heavily taxed.
some Australian youtubers who are mostly known for shitposting made a surprisingly candid and informative video about how the military whistleblower David McBride has been sentenced to prison time for exposing war crimes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYt4CxFfQUU
There's a link in the comments to donate to his legal fund so that he can appeal the ruling.
@paulwallbank @franksting @unionagainstdhmo @firstdogonthemoon @stilgherrian @mpesce Crikey/Private Media really could (and probably should) be a much bigger company than it is, just it's been really horrendously managed.
Hopefully Will Hayward is doing a better job, because many of his predecessors have left a lot to be desired.
For most of its life, Private Media barely turned a profit, and that's been with Crikey subscriptions and SmartCompany basically carrying the various other websites that have come and gone over the years.
Many talented young journos have worked there, only to move on to the Nine newspapers or the ABC after a year or two.
You had the former CEO who one day was running cables through the ceiling of the old offices next to the Immigration Museum.
You had the other former CEO who loaded the organisation up with sales staff, only for them all to be made redundant within six months.
You had ideas that could have made money (spin out Patrick Stafford's SmartCompany tech newsletter into its own small business tech publication) knocked back, while vanity projects with no business model (remember Paul Barry's Power Index?) got the green light.
At one stage, Crikey used a heavily hacked WordPress as its content management system. SmartCompany and LeadingCompany used Joomla!, and StartupSmart used FlexiContent. All self-hosted out of a Port Melbourne data centre.
Despite owning a digital media company, the people in charge at the time didn't know enough about digital tech to know what a massive resource black hole this was.
(Eric Beecher had to bring in consultants to tell him!)
I could go on...
#Auspol #Media #Politics #Crikey #Politics #Business #Melbourne #Sydney #Fairfax #Economics #Journalism #Vicpol #NSWpol
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