G’day! I’m just a Melburnian with opinions and a keyboard. Expect rants about everything from coffee prices to climate change. Warning: May contain traces of sarcasm and smashed avo.
Recent Posts
When the Machines Get Fast but the Meetings Don't
I’ve been watching the AI layoff theatre with growing frustration, and there’s something fundamentally broken about how this whole thing is playing out.
Block cuts 4,000 people and blames AI. Atlassian drops 1,600. Shopify literally tells employees to prove AI can’t do their job before they can get more headcount. The CEO makes the announcement, the stock price nudges upward, and everyone nods along like this makes perfect sense. Except it doesn’t, because six months later, 55% of those same CEOs admit they regret the cuts, and companies like Klarna are quietly rehiring the humans they replaced after their AI-driven customer service quality went off a cliff.
The Great Australian Fuel Crisis Irony: A Study in Doublethink
There’s a particularly delicious irony unfolding right now that would be funny if it wasn’t so utterly predictable. The same people who’ve spent years railing against renewable energy—telling us solar and wind are unreliable, that we need to stick with good old fossil fuels—are now the loudest voices complaining about fuel prices shooting through the roof.
You genuinely couldn’t write this stuff.
The whole situation has been brought into sharp focus with the current fuel crisis, and the responses I’ve been seeing online range from the darkly comedic to the genuinely infuriating. Someone pointed out that Barnaby Joyce was on ABC Insiders talking about building a new oil refinery. The same Barnaby Joyce whose government shut down six refineries when he was in power. The cognitive dissonance is absolutely staggering.
When Someone Actually Builds the Thing We All Needed
There’s something genuinely refreshing when you stumble across a project that exists purely because someone got fed up with the status quo and decided to do something about it. Not for profit, not for clout, just because they could and they thought it might help.
I was scrolling through discussions the other day and came across someone who’d built a fuel price comparison tool that covers all of Australia and New Zealand. Free. No ads. No paywalls. Just straight-up useful information pulled from official government sources and community data. The kind of thing that makes you think “why isn’t this just… standard?”