I stumbled across an interesting discussion online the other day that made me pause mid-sip of my latte. Someone was asking whether they could join in on the workplace banter about attractive celebrities, seeing as their female colleagues were openly discussing Jason Momoa in the team chat. The twist? They wanted to share their own list, which included… well, let’s just say it escalated from Margaret Qualley to some rather specific fantasies involving WWE wrestlers and, bizarrely, Pauline Hanson.

There’s a statistic doing the rounds that’s been gnawing at me for days now: nearly half of all full-time workers in Australia earn over $100,000 a year. When I first read that, my initial reaction was disbelief. Then I remembered what my salary was a decade ago, what it is now, and how much less I seem to have in my pocket at the end of each month despite earning considerably more on paper.

Right, so I stepped away from my desk for a latte run this morning – proper batch brew from the little place down the road – and came back to discover that not one but two major AI models had dropped. Anthropic released Sonnet 4.6, and apparently Grok 4.2 decided to join the party. The AI world moves at a pace that would make even Melbourne’s weather changes look predictable.