RanTLaw

@rantlaw

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

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RanTLaw@rantlaw· 20d

Unhelpfully, I was not affected.

10m ago
13.47 AEST
Josh Taylor
Josh Taylor
Microsoft Teams outage resolved

Earlier we reported there was an outage for Microsoft’s meetings platform Teams, affecting users in the Asia-Pacific region.

The company now reports the issue is resolved.

RanTLaw@rantlaw· 20d

Were we? I read one of his books, thought it was pretentious, misanthropic crap (a frou-frou Christos Tsiolkas) and have thought little of it since.

We were obsessed with Houellebecq in the 90s, but we will have to talk about why, and the direction his novels took, and whether we will ever again live in a world whose best cultural artefact is the novel, another time.

RanTLaw@rantlaw· 20d

That reference to the 'Arab Spring' doesn't fool me. The reference to technocrats and raves shows the author is only interested in the 'West'

t was a time when technocrats took care of business while everyone else went to a rave, and we said history was over. From the crash through to about 2020 (sometimes earlier, this boundary is the most fluid) was the age of anti-politics – a resurgent Tea Party in the US, Beppe Grillo and anti-establishment protests in Italy, the Arab spring, the Occupy movement.

RanTLaw@rantlaw· 22d

Oh, the irony

Screenshot of NYT articles on the effect of google AI on the internet by Kate Conger. In the corner is a pop up inviting me to sign in with Google.

Yeah, nah

RanTLaw@rantlaw· 26d

Lol

RanTLaw@rantlaw· Jul 8

This is how desperate they have become to try to get you to use their shitty product. This happens on every document, even those using my own templates, which already have some text.

Screenshot of the top of a new Word document. In the slightly darker box is written "+ Describe what you'd like to draft with Copilot"

RanTLaw@rantlaw· Jul 7

It's more than 20 years ago for me now.

RanTLaw@rantlaw· Jul 7

Rightio

"They (meaning the USA) are the most popular country that call football soccer."

RanTLaw@rantlaw· Jul 7

I'm going to have to see your receipts for this one.

The word “soccer” originated from the shortening of “association” to “assoccer” (association football). The latter term was further shortened to “soccer” (sometimes spelled “socker”).

RanTLaw@rantlaw· Jul 2

Compare the pair www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8md...

But Starmer disagrees. When asked if children should stay up to watch the game, his spokesperson said: “It is up to parents to make their own decisions. We want everyone to enjoy the game but children should be at school on Monday.”

The race took place off the coast of the US state of Rhode Island, so the live broadcast of the final race in the best-of-seven event wrapped up about 5.30am (AWST) in Australia. Among its viewers was Prime Minister Bob Hawke at Royal Perth Yacht Club in Western Australia. Just six months into his first term in office, he couldn’t have predicted that a booze-infused, throwaway comment to ABC News – “Any boss who sacks anyone for not turning up today is a bum” – would become one of the most memorable moments of his career. Bursting with laughter and wearing a gaudy jacket (borrowed from a university student also attending the event) over his suit, Hawke’s personable charm and cool informality won over the Australian public.

RanTLaw@rantlaw· Jun 24

This sounds like a win-win to me

Labor’s tax deal with the Greens is a crucial win – but its NDIS changes could pay the price
Josh Butler
The victory may have dinged Labor’s chances of easily passing its significant cost-cutting reforms to the NDIS through the Senate in August

RanTLaw@rantlaw· Jun 18

WTF is the framing in this headline from the Graun?

Aftab Malik
"As a Muslim, it is encouraging to hear Pauline Hanson quote from a book"

RanTLaw@rantlaw· Jun 17

Goose meme
First panel "Which constitution?"
Second panel "I said "Which constitution?"

RanTLaw@rantlaw· Jun 17

Key quote here:

She said there were nine police officers at their home for three hours, but they were not arrested, and that while they were there, she told officers to do research about mRNA vaccines and the Constitution.

RanTLaw@rantlaw· Jun 15

Gee, I wonder why fascists are experiencing an ascendency

7:30's Sarah Ferguson in a cosy picture with Steve Bannon. This is the same picture Sarah defended on Twitter.

RanTLaw@rantlaw· Jun 15

This from the person interviewing Richard Spencer about his Pepe pin when he got clocked, is just galling.

We laughed at Trump’s run for president and marvel at the rise of Pauline Hanson. Why didn’t we see the sleeping threat?
Zoe Daniel

RanTLaw@rantlaw· Jun 3

Computer, enhance

Screen cap of opening words of Jason's message. It reads:
"With Reddit serving ass"

RanTLaw@rantlaw· Jun 1

I'm conditioned to seeing a photo like this with a headline about the subject appearing before court. Not next to this headline.

Three young men in dark suits with dark ties. Something about them says that this is not their usual attire.
The picture is framed on one of the young men, with the others out of focus.

World Cup 2026
Socceroos squad revealed as Popovic rolls dice with two uncapped strikers.

RanTLaw@rantlaw· May 27

It seems Hume is getting a basic understanding of parliamentary numbers.

Australia politics live
Hume accuses Labor of planning to 'ram' tax changes through Senate with help of Greens

RanTLaw@rantlaw· May 26

LMAO

Australia politics live
Alex Antic cites 'dream team' of Abbott, Canavan and Taylor as inspiration for bid to lead SA Liberals
Follow live

RanTLaw@rantlaw· May 20

Looks like there is. So, there will be a whole day of our heads being in the tuba.

Google search page. Under the 'Google Search' and 'I'm Feeling Lucky' buttons is a couple of icons and "Watch now!
We’re unveiling our latest AI innovations at Google I/O 2026"

RanTLaw@rantlaw· May 10

Once noticed, I can't stop seeing it.

[selected]The Coalition is not in a slump. It is in a structural decomposition. [end selection] After the next federal election, on current trajectories, the Liberal Party will sit in the parliament as a minor party, outpolled on the primary vote by One Nation in significant parts of the country, eclipsed in the major capital cities by a combination of Labor, Greens and Teal independents, and squeezed in regional Australia by exactly the kind of insurgency that just took Farrer.

[selected] Farrer was not the beginning of a uniform national wave. It was the beginning of two diverging ones [end selection] and the wall between them is the most important line on the Australian political map.

RanTLaw@rantlaw· May 10

It is not a coincidence. It is in two successive paragraphs.

"The same product is a contaminant in cohorts where openness traits dominate. Among migrants, among the children of migrants, among the university-educated, among Gen Z, the higher One Nation rises, the harder the bloc consolidates against it. [selected] This is not a mood. It is the central mechanism. [end selection] Every gain One Nation makes in regional Anglo Australia tightens Labor’s grip on multicultural and younger Australia. The trade is structurally fixed.

This is why the RedBridge–Accent data shows eleven-point swings in Labor’s favour the moment One Nation replaces the Coalition as the opponent in voters’ minds. [selected] The wall is not built by Labor strategists. It is built by One Nation itself, [end selection] every time Hanson opens her mouth."

RanTLaw@rantlaw· May 6

The second time I have had cause to post this today

RanTLaw@rantlaw· May 5

There it is:

"Despite M.I.A.’s strong support of MAGA, the British rapper is not an American citizen and would not have been able to vote in the 2016, 2020, or 2024 elections. She was vocally anti-Trump before COVID, after which she began to express vaccine skepticism—even equating celebrity endorsements of its efficacy to Alex Jones’ spreading conspiracy theories about the Sandy Hook massacre in 2022. She appeared on Jones’ Infowars to promote her clothing line two years later."

RanTLaw@rantlaw· May 1

I mean he’s not wrong but his government is not really doing much to put this thought into action

Guardian
News
Labor party
Anthony Albanese says improving voters' lives best way to fight populism and Pauline Hanson
6h ago

RanTLaw@rantlaw· May 1

It reckons it's Melbourne but your idea was reasonable

RanTLaw@rantlaw· May 1

Windows is only out by 10 degrees

A windows weather widget showing the weather as 17 degrees C and cloudy

RanTLaw@rantlaw· Apr 29

This is great stuff

Questions are now being asked about president-elect nominees for the 2026 election, for which online voting closed on Tuesday. No candidates are women.

Among the nominees are Prof Nikolai Petrovsky, who has previously been criticised for advocating for his own Covid-19 vaccine to be approved for use in Australia without making publicly available substantial peer-reviewed clinical evidence to support its efficacy. He has previously said claims Covax-19’s efficacy were unsubstantiated was “an outrageous claim”.

Another candidate is Dr Phillip Morris, whose nomination lists Chandran as proposer, was in 2022 part of a group that advocated “for the medically supervised use of ivermectin-based combinations for the prophylaxis and treatment of Covid-19” – after gold-standard research had found that the antiparasitic drug did not lower the incidence of Covid-19 hospital admissions.

RanTLaw@rantlaw· Apr 23

Me: oh there’s a new M.I.A album. I should read what Apple Music says about it…holy fuck. What does “recently strengthened to protect against 10G” actually mean?