disassociated.com
John Lampard — Web designer and independent publisher, Australia
Long-running indie blog on digital culture, tech policy, and internet commentary from Australia.
disassociated.comOne of the longest-running indie blogs on the internet — self-published since 1997. John Lampard covers digital culture, tech policy, science, and Australian media with the unhurried perspective of someone who's been watching the web evolve from hand-coded HTML to whatever we're doing now. The tone is thoughtful and skeptical without being cynical, like catching up with a well-read friend who actually remembers what the internet used to be.
Written by John Lampard since 1997.
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The Rot, by Evelyn Araluen, wins 2026 Victorian Prize for Literature
Naarm/Melbourne based Australian poet Evelyn Araluen has won both the Victorian Prize for Literature, and Prize for Indigenous Writing, in this year’s Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, for her second collection of poetry, The Rot. Araluen won the Stella Prize, one of Australia’s major literary awards in 2022, for her debut poetry collection, Dropbear. Her win in the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards surely puts The Rot in good stead to be awarded the Stella Prize aga...
Climate change may render Iceland uninhabitable in a century
Chico Harlan, writing for MSM: Sometime over the next 100 years, human-driven warming could disrupt a vital ocean current that carries heat northward from the tropics. After this breach, most of the world would keep getting hotter — but northern Europe would cool substantially, with Iceland at the center of a deep freeze. Climate modeling shows Icelandic winter extremes plunging to an unprecedented minus-50 degrees Fahrenheit. It is possible the scenario will not come to pass, but authorities...
AI to micromanage fast food restaurant workers
Emma Roth, writing for The Verge: Burger King is launching an AI chatbot that will live in the headsets used by employees. The voice-enabled chatbot, called “Patty,” is part of an overarching BK Assistant platform that will not only assist employees with meal preparation but also evaluate their interactions with customers for “friendliness.” Before the AI powered robots are able to take the place of people working in front line roles in restaurants — the day cannot be t...
AI powered traffic cameras enforce road laws with an iron fist
Emma Wynne, writing for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC): When Perth mother Lisa Taylor’s 11-year-old daughter slipped one arm out of her seatbelt, the family had been on the road for over two hours, returning from a holiday in Dunsborough over the Christmas period. The transgression was picked up by one of WA‘s new AI safety cameras, which detect people not wearing or incorrectly wearing seatbelts and using mobile phones. Police in the Australian state of Western Aust...
Toxic people, or hasslers, reduce life expectancy of those around them
People unfortunate enough to have one, or more, toxic people in their lives, are more likely to experience accelerated biological ageing, according to research published by PNAS. This is, no doubt, something anyone subjected to the malevolence of a toxic person could have told you, even though biological age is not readily discernible. Biological age refers to the condition of your body, including organs and cells, and can differ from chronological age, being actual age. If you happen to be for...
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