David Harrison

@trawg.bsky.social

169 Followers 131 Following

"On the appropriate day (unless, as was frequently the case, there had been some stupid mistake in programming) the right message would be automatically flashed to its destination." Computer user in Brisbane, Australia. Bio in link: https://trog.qgl.org

National Lampoon cover, headline "if you don't buy this magazine, we'll kill this dog"

The True Source of Value
Golden Egg factory
inside the goose
What you see are the eggs
What produces them is the factory itself

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Days of fuel reserves held under minimum stockholding obligation
26 May 2026 December quarter 2025
Petrol 48 38
Diesel 36 32
Jet fuel 30 29

“We know when you increase the cash rate, as we have just over the last few meetings, that that will dampen down activity in that market. So we’re not surprised to see that response. And then... we’ve also got tax changes coming through as well. That’s always a risk,” she told Bloomberg TV on Tuesday morning.

Ben Parker of this alternate universe, Earth-6078, was not killed by a robber as did his counterpart on Earth-616. Thus his nephew, Peter Parker, was not inspired by his death to use his powers as Spider-Man to fight crime. Ben became a widower when his wife May fell down a staircase and died.

After May's death, Peter revealed his powers to Ben and became the professional wrestler/television star known as “Spider-Man,” with Ben receiving a 20% commission as his agent; but as Spider-Man’s fame and wealth increased, his relationship with his Uncle Ben deteriorated. This distanced the two of them to the point that they no longer met each other in person.

Forum thread on Whirlpool with someone asking a question about some API, then 17 years later someone finally replies

Two ABC headlines side-by-side: 1) PM calls second emergency national cabinet meeting over fuel crisis 2) Australian shares soar on Middle East ceasefire hopes

Screenshot from Humble Bundle page for this bundle, as viewed from Australia. Text reads:

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ABC Business headline: "Rate cut predicted for 2026"

Sadly, I have almost come to dread new releases. “What is going to break this time?”, I think. “What random interface changes are they going to introduce?”

Quote from Roblox CEO saying he loves the idea of prediction markets to let kids bet in Roblox

LinkedIn post with the following text:

AUSTRALIA — WAKE UP.
AWS currently has a 25% GPU backlog right now.
That means even Commonwealth Bank of Australia and other global giants are running on shaky ground.
Because the world is starving for compute power.
And guess what? Australia doesn’t own any of it.
While we debate housing shortages, tax breaks, and migration numbers…
💥 AI is exploding at 300% growth per year.
In ten years, the world won’t be divided by borders — it’ll be divided by digital feudalism. Currently:
⚔️ Google owns knowledge.
🏢 Microsoft owns enterprise.
🌐 Meta owns social reality and community news.
🛒 Amazon owns commerce.
⚙️ Nvidia owns the chips.
🧠 OpenAI owns the language of efficient thought.
And us? We’re still shipping out raw materials and calling ourselves “the lucky country.” We’re not lucky — we’re late to the party.
We’re still trapped in old-school economics — governments pulling Keynesian levers to “manage supply and demand,” while the rest of the world is managing the future. We are still a colony that is owned.
AI has already figured it out — the obvious:
Efficiency = own your supply chain.
Power = own your chips.
Influence = own your data.
Meanwhile, our kids are being raised on screens — digitally sedated, dopamine-calibrated, trained to be the “low-volatility” users big tech needs to keep their systems stable.
If we want a future worth living in — we need to build our own AI duchy.
Not another housing stimulus.
Not another resource and green energy boom.
But an end-to-end AI industrial ecosystem built from raw materials to refined intelligence, from processing and manufacturing to innovation and deployment.
We have the materials — lithium, palladium, silver, gold, uranium, cobalt, iron ore, coal, gas, solar, water. You name it, we have it.
We have the ancient wisdom — Indian, Chinese, First Nations, Europeans, Africans, Russians, Asians, Americans — Culturally diverse — tribal Australian custodians, pioneers and inno…

Photo of a runway at an Airlie Beach airport with a highlighted block of land metres from the runway, being sold as residential

Screenshot showing a "Save as Adobe PDF" button in PowerPoint that opens a dialog saying "You can create 1 PDF for free every 30 days on a rolling basis. For unlimited access to create, export, and edit tools, try Acrobat Pro".

Screenshot from Queensland Government tender site showing a tender offering with the following text:

SUPPLY, MAINTAIN AND MANAGE A SHARED E-BIKE SCHEME FOR THE CITY OF GOLD COAST
Posted by: City Of Gold Coast
Open: 04/Jul/2025 2:43:00 PM
Closes: 01/Aug/2025 11:00:00 AM

ABC article saying: "Per person, Australia now produces 1.7 per cent less than it did around three years ago.

On the surface, it's a grim picture, but the details show there is room for some optimism.

First up, Cyclone Alfred brought great disruption and damage to heavily populated areas of south-east Queensland and northern NSW.

The repair jobs to fix that damage will add to GDP over the current and coming quarters."

photoshopped dril twitter post saying: "and another thing: its not a bribe. please dont put in the newspaper that its a bribe"

LinkedIn Post from "Product & Growth - AI Products @ Dropbox" person.

Copy is as follows: "Your UI is being replaced behind your back.

Every AI product that remembers a prompt is rewriting the interface without asking for permission. It’s not just about screens anymore. It’s about sequence, memory, and adaptation.

The work of “design” is shifting from controlling what the user sees to predicting what they’ll need next.

And yet most designers are still clinging to static inputs and tidy grids. They’re trying to map an unpredictable conversation into a known system. That’s not design anymore. That’s denial.

The future UX is not what you click. It’s what the system already knows. What it infers. What it remembers about your last 10 interactions and uses to shorten the next one.

Designers who understand this will stop polishing layouts and start building memory engines.

They’ll collaborate with data and backend teams more than visual ones. They’ll think like systems architects, not screen decorators.

And the ones who don’t?

They’ll wake up one day and realize the product they “designed” is now a layer on top of a memory stack they didn’t build and can’t control."

Screengrab from the Simpsons - Monty Burns in front of the "Don't Forget: You're Here Forever" sign

Photo of a manhole cover in New Orleans, USA.

Screenshot from Fitbit forum showing a post from a user, flagged as being edited by a moderator.