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Belinda Barnet
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Belinda Barnet
@manjusrii
Snr Lecturer digital media Swinburne Uni, chicken whisperer. Smells books. Find me on Bluesky, it’s much better bsky.app/profile/manjus…
- What other kind of product is so *embarrassing* that people feel compelled to explain it? No, no I didn’t really buy this thing. Honestly I didn’t. Twitter Blue will be a marketing case study for years to come
- Good morning Australia. Penny Wong will be our Foreign Minister. This makes me inexplicably happy
- 5yo: I am building a semi ominous vehicle out of cardboard Me: You mean semi autonomous 5yo: You don't understand my technology
- Early unit of computing power: one "kilogirl" was equivalent to a thousand hours of manual computing labor
- If Gladys had locked Sydney down as soon as the first couple of cases emerged in Bondi—rather than waiting 12 days because it was a “too much of a burden”—the rest of Australia wouldn’t be in lockdown too. NZ wouldn’t be in lockdown.
- I will never get used to these high daily death counts, nor will I accept them as a reasonable price for “living with covid”
- Katie Hopkins published a video where she explains how she’s deliberately exposing our quarantine hotel workers to risk—by not wearing a mask and not waiting 30 seconds to open the door. Throw the book at her Australia. She’s taken the video down now but it’s archived.
- It’s really hard to listen to Frydenberg as he touts economic strength and more jobs etc: over 40,000 of my colleagues in higher education have recently lost their jobs due to the coalition’s absolute hatred of universities.
- The Berejiklian government GAVE US this outbreak. We owe them nothing. They could have locked down when there were only a couple of cases in Bondi and kept Australia at covid zero. They didn’t. So here we are.
- Imagine if the Australian grid was *already* running on 100% renewables. We wouldn’t be at the mercy of global energy markets and supply. It’d be cheaper too.
- It just boggles my mind that people who are literally descended from immigrants are protesting immigration in Melbourne today. Unless you’re an indigenous Australian you came from somewhere else.
- Jo Hildebrand: See! lockdowns don’t work!! Australia: you mean they don’t work in NSW. They’ve worked in every other state.
- The irony of a Silicon Valley guy tweeting “I got a higher credit limit on my Apple Card than my wife did” and it finally draws media attention to algorithmic bias is not lost on me