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🚨 World's first social media ban begins: Australian & under‑16? Your social media account is now locked. 🚨

What's next? From Dec 27 #AgeVerification checks for search engines like #Google.

BUT - Once your data is in the system, what's stopping it from being used for surveillance?

And what happened to #Privacy? 🧐

#DigitalID #Australia

YouTube already has it ➡️ tuta.com/blog/how-to-turn-off-…

Notice from YouTube: You must be 16+ to sign in to YouTube in Australia.

YouTube AI Age Verification: What it is & how to turn it off. | Tuta

Did YouTube ask you to verify your age with ID or credit card? You're not alone! YouTube AI is increasingly trying to estimate how old you are based on your habits following the global push for age verification.
Tuta
#google #privacy #australia #digitalid #ageverification

Age verification is the new trend to de-anonymize the web. 😡

🚨Starting Dec 10, #YouTube #Australia will ask for your age.

The Big Tech already started rolling out an AI-powered age estimation system. Adults are being marked as minors & are forced to submit IDs before regaining full access to decades-old accounts.

Learn how to avoid YouTube's #AI #AgeVerification: tuta.com/blog/how-to-turn-off-…

#anonymity #privacy

Screenshot of a Reddit post in the YouTube Subreddit titled: "How do I get past age verification without giving YouTube my id?" with a screenshot of a Google pop up asking how they would like to verify their age.

YouTube AI Age Verification: What it is & how to turn it off. | Tuta

Did YouTube ask you to verify your age with ID or credit card? You're not alone! YouTube AI is increasingly trying to estimate how old you are based on your habits following the global push for age verification.
Tuta
#privacy #youtube #AI #australia #anonymity #ageverification

Meanwhile, in #Australia…

The claw of a male Southern Cassowary!

Photo by Palaeontology PhD researcher, Sarah Davis. Via ABC Perth.

#MeanwhileInAustralia

The claw of a male Southern Cassowary held by a researcher’s purple latex gloved hand. One claw is the length of the entire hand… and there’s three of them!
#australia #meanwhileinaustralia

🚨 AI is a billion dollar bet. And Big Tech wants YOU to pay for it. Now Microsoft got sued for tricking users to pay 45% more for its AI. 🚨

👉🏼 Australia’s competition regulator says Microsoft misled around 2.7 million users into paying more for Microsoft 365 when offering its AI Copilot.

Find out more: tuta.com/blog/microsoft-price-…

#Microsoft #AI #Microsoft356 #Australia

Screenshot of Microsoft's upcoming price changes with a headline Microsoft tricks you into paying more for AI.

Microsoft sued for misleading millions of customers into paying a 45% increase for AI add-ons. | Tuta

Australia’s competition regulator sued Microsoft, alleging it misled around 2.7 million users into paying up to 45% more in subscription prices for Microsoft 365 because of its AI integration. But there’s more to this story than just money.
Tuta
#microsoft #AI #australia #microsoft356

The City of Moreton Bay claims homeless people “consented” to having their tents and belongings – including a woman’s daughter’s ashes – thrown in the bin. This is what passes for policy now?
We’re criminalising poverty, bulldozing dignity, and calling it governance. Fines over $8,000 for sleeping rough, yet zero accountability for systemic failure.
If this is the norm, we’re in deep moral decline.

#homelessness #australia #housingcrisis #humanrights #moretonbay #poverty #socialjustice #brisbane #auspol

abc.net.au/news/2025-07-09/mor…


ABC News

ABC News provides the latest news and headlines in Australia and around the world.
Kenji Sato (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
#HumanRights #australia #socialjustice #auspol #homelessness #poverty #housingcrisis #brisbane #moretonbay

It has been an incredible two years since NV Access founders Mick Curran & Jamie Teh featured on Australian Story: abc.net.au/news/2023-06-05/mic…

The impact NVDA has for blind people around the world has only grown & the need is as great now as ever!

You can watch the Audio Description enabled version of Australian Story: youtu.be/3i7gkN-1sAI

Regular version: youtu.be/jwHbXh3WzSw

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Blind #Accessibility #FreeSoftware #FOSS #Impact #Australia #AustralianStory


ABC News

ABC News provides the latest news and headlines in Australia and around the world.
Kristine Taylor (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
#FreeSoftware #Accessibility #foss #blind #screenreader #nvdasr #australia #nvda #impact #australianstory

Diamond Beach Emerald Sky by Brent Martin

The night was full of colour, with comet C/2024 G3 Atlas and a pink aurora in the early hours, followed by the Milky Way rising amid intense green airglow.

#astrophotography
#MilkyWay
#Australia
#GreatOceanRoad

A night full of colour, with comet C/2024 G3 Atlas and a pink aurora in the early hours, followed by the Milky Way rising amid intense green airglow.
#australia #astrophotography #milkyway #GreatOceanRoad

Because life can be full of bullshit, here's some pleasant counterprogramming:

Meet 3.3 m/11 ft #InspectorClouseau

(Old people like me will get the #PinkPanther reference)

First spotted off #Australia in 2015

The only #pink #mantaRay we've discovered in the world, now or ever

Researchers have studied him (yes, a he) as to cause

Diet: no. Stress: no. Toxins: no. Infection: no

They now think it is just a rare genetic mutation

smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/…

#Ocean #Biology #Zoology #Fish #Oceans

a pink manta ray
a pink manta ray
a pink manta ray
a pink manta ray

Rare Pink Manta Ray Spotted Near Australia’s Lady Elliot Island

Researchers suspect a genetic mutation may have gifted the giant fish, named Inspector Clouseau, his rosy hue
Katherine J. Wu (Smithsonian Magazine)
#biology #fish #australia #ocean #zoology #pink #oceans #pinkpanther #mantaray #InspectorClouseau

#podcast #Podcasts #podcasting #health #fitness #australia #wellness #greatauspods #auspods #podcasters

Dutton goes full Trump on climate, energy and industry as Albanese sets May 3 election date

reneweconomy.com.au/dutton-goe…

#Australia #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #IrreversibleOverheating #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate


Dutton goes full Trump on climate, energy and industry as Albanese sets May 3 election date | RenewEconomy

There was a moment in Peter Dutton's pitch to voters when the full Trumpian catastrophe of his climate, energy and industry policies should have been exposed.
Giles Parkinson (RenewEconomy)
#climatechange #environment #Ecology #climate #pollution #australia #globalwarming #massextinction #irreversibleoverheating #globalburning #climatedestruction #climatesuicide

#photo #photography #nature #longexposure #australia #waterfall #landscape #naturephotography #landscapephotography #magic #night #noAI #foto #water #twilight

Interesting to read about this new adaptation of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

Although... am I the only one who remembers ABC radio's Doctor Who parody 'Doctor Poo', and his epic adventure involving 20,000 *Legs* Under the Sea? (It was piloted by the evil Captain Kneemoss - so called because he had moss on his knees).

Just me?

#TV #DoctorWho #Australia smh.com.au/culture/tv-and-radi…

#australia #tv #doctorwho

#australia #audi #s3 #volkswagen #bucketi #cert

We start off the week with #MuralMonday to bring some color to your week and inspire you to take some adventures around your town to find new murals!

🚲 #TernQuickHaul
📍 #Stanmore, #Australia
📸 @glowwormelectricbikes (IG)
🎨 @geebsart (IG)

#australia #MuralMonday #ternquickhaul #stanmore

#privacy #encryption #EU #australia #chatcontrol #5eyes

1.5°C heating passed in 2023
🔥
It's not the distant future, it's now.
Our government is prioritising commercial interests over a duty of care to our children. 
🔥
If you're in #Melbourne, sign up to act on your concern, here: ausrebellion.earth/p/xrvic-reb…
If you're not in Melbourne, but you want to come down, billets abound so get in touch. 
First action tomorrow.
Most Thursday -Saturday 
#climatechange #climatecrisis #auspol #australia #protest #nvda

Rebel for Life Daily Planner - Extinction Rebellion Australia

Extinction Rebellion Australia
#Climatecrisis #climatechange #australia #nvda #auspol #protest #melbourne

#fosdem #australia

#opensource #australia #government

#art #australia #landscapes #landscapephotography

So. thought I'd pen some thoughts here... no, not about birdsite, but about a cool youtube channel I discovered a couple of years ago, The Radio Vault. Its a youtube channel dedicated to #preservation of mostly New Zealand and Australian radio. They recently announced that they've been hard at work, digitizing over 750 #VHS #tapes, and over 1500 #cassettes. Wow! I can't even begin to imagine what 1500 cassettes would look like! I had about 100 when I was younger, but 1500? *head explodes*. Here's the link. youtube.com/channel/UClKbJxBkh… #Australia #NZ #Radio

The Radio Vault

Established in 2007, The Radio Vault is New Zealand's premier collection of radio station airchecks, jingle packages, imaging reels, TV commercials, bumper stickers and other memorabilia.
YouTube
#radio #vhs #australia #preservation #tapes #cassettes #nz

A lot of countries employ voting templates to allow blind votees to cast a ballot in local or state elections. It's the same in Poland and in my experience it has been pretty much prone to mistakes such as the ballot paper slipping a fraction underneath the template. This is why I was happy to learn that Australia and New Zealand employed the "voting by phone" system. Blind citizens of these countries are one of the groups elligible to vote by phone. In order to do that, one calls the central voting committee to register, is assigned unique credentials that allow the person taking the vote to identify the elligibility in an anonymous way. On the day of voting, the elligible person calls another number where only the previously agreed credentials are taken from them, the ballot paper is read and the vote is cast by telling the committee representative. Sounds simple and flawless but perhaps there are some security flaws I am not aware of that made it not a more globally adopted solution. Thoughts?
ecq.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/p…
#Accessibility #Blind #AdventCalendar #Australia #NewZealand #Voting #Phone
#Accessibility #blind #voting #australia #phone #newzealand #adventcalendar

#australia #colonialism #British #firstnations

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