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Any lead/principle-ish level engineers looking for work in Melbourne? I know someone that's looking for someone with experience in data warehousing. (You'd be working with me too until February-ish 2026.)

Every day I wake up and attend my Very Important Business Meetings, doing my best to pretend I am a Sober Man of Industry, and definitely did not spend the five minutes before the meeting yelling at a rabbit for trying to nibble my feet while I tried to eat breakfast

Has anyone on here experienced the dread scenario of an interviewee trying to bullshit their way to a job using an LLM during a video call? (Asking for a blog post I'm thinking of writing, you won't be quoted identifiably without express consent)

I have just been introduced to Sharon Goldman's AI journalism and it's some of the funniest shit I've seen in my life. She's really out there prompting ChatGPT to write what reads like Kindle Unlimited-tier softcore erotica and getting paid. Even her "About" page on LinkedIn has two em-dashes and one --, so like, what's going on here? Local journalist can't write five sentences without an LLM? What are we DOING out here?

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The article I wrote for Ed Zitron dropped today!

Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At

The Remarkable Incompetence At The Heart Of Tech

Hello premium subscribers! Today I have the first guest post I've ever commissioned (read: paid) on Where's Your Ed At - Nik Suresh, one of the gre...

Ed paid me to write it, and it's accordingly behind a paywall, but if you're a subscriber (or willing to pay for access) then hopefully you'll enjoy it!

Someone did a writeup of a bunch of "AI-powered" startups attending a pitch competition, and it: a ) is fucking hilarious b ) involves one of the startups accidentally screen-sharing that their patentable technology appears to just be forked from an academic's work with no credit 3) further includes a radiology company admitting they haven't consulted any radiologists lmao

Artificial Innovation | 4u.lol

A critical look at the finalists of the United Nations AI for Good Innovation Factory 2025 startup competition.

This is a serious data question for Mastodon nerds -- is anyone aware of a single data governance product that actually does anything useful? I'm reviewing everything I can find for a client, and not a single one seems to offer any serious benefits over dbt lineage. They don't even seem to support access models more sophisticated than just like, keeping a big table mapping users to tables they're allowed to read.