This makes me so angry. Every story like this make me angry. My non law followers have to understand: an associate to a high court justice is one of *the* most prized graduate positions on finishing law school, if not the most. (THREAD)

https://twitter.com/katgallow/status/1274962962759864321

Around Australia, law students from every school apply. Because it’s such a prized position, students who are offered these positions usually have a bunch of offers to pick from (because they’re the best). And because it’s prestigious, other offers will typically work around it.

Looking across state bushfire maps this morning. On the list of things to review when this crisis is over is a federally coordinated standard for describing and visualising fire movements. Just have a look: Here is the Victorian government bushfire map. There's a lot going on. Note that the visualisation of bushfire hazards stops at the Victorian border, so the south coast looks hazard free. emergency.vic.gov.au/respond/#

Last week I travelled to Adelaide for events with @AICollaborative and @TheAIML, organised by @yolandasamy, @nlothian and @MsAliAnderson. I left buzzing with energy and full of thoughts about community engagement in Oz (thread). @AICollaborative are based in Adelaide. For my overseas tweeps, Adelaide is on the coast kind of halfway across Australia - 3.5 hours by plane from Perth (on the west side) and 2hrs by plane from Sydney (east side).

Making me uneasy right now: tech "solutionism" extending to tech ethics. I've spoken to several tech teams, in different organisations, who are developing their own ethics principles/frameworks without doing any ethics research or engaging with ethicists. 1/ The terminology can be alienating, and there are rarely clear answers, but choosing not to acquaint yourself with the field at *all* in translating ethics for tech is...naive at best, arrogant/ignorant at worst.