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From a recent survey with 363 respondents:
• 84.3% of readers see more live music because of the gig guide
• 87.6% discover new music thanks to the gig guide
Help us with our mission to increase local engagement with grassroots music. Become a supporter today!
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We have new merch and it’s shipping next week!
@sydneymusic.net's FY27 Fundraiser is live. We critically need to raise $30,000 to cover our budget for the first half of next financial year.
Order a tee or some stickers to help us get more people out to shows!
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Good local gigs at pocket money prices is where a love for live music starts.
great to meet you!! huge fan of their work
Yup! Skramz is full of endless innovation
for anyone else following along: joe.hardy.id.au/doris-es-mus...
those gigs rule!! amazing community around those bands
that's the one
I remarked to an employee (senior executive) that if you wanted kids to fall in love with live music as a lifelong passion, you'd find a way to flood the ecosystem with affordable shows
"but I don't want 15 year olds going to $15 shows, I want them going to my shows" was the reply
They're gouging fans, it's obscene. Here's Ticketek crowing about what they consider to be metrics demonstrating success.
(From their submission to NSW Parliament last month)
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👍 context helps
you're talking about the journalist
my guy that's a Nine publication
I mean if my CFO's previous IPO (as CEO!) looked like this I'd probably be looking for ways to limit the damage too
I just published a deep-dive into the 250-hour build behind syntaqlite, a SQLite formatter and LSP I built using AI agents.
AI agents were the only reason built this after 8 years of wanting but there's a psychological toll to AI-assisted engineering.
The post-mortem:
lalitm.com/post/buildin...
CUPHOLDER INDUSTRIES AND THE LORD GLADSTONE PRESENT A PUBLIC HOLIDAY BLOWOUT AT CHIPPO'S MOST SINFUL PUB Heathensong LOUISA INIMATA ALTA RICO CTRL PACH WITH DJ SETS FROM CUPHOLDER DJS CHONZU • MYERS TAY FROM FVNERAL + OTHER FRIENDS THE LORD GLADSTONE APRIL 2, 2026 • 7PM-VERY, VERY LATE FREE ENTRY BEFORE 9PM $10 ON DOOR AFTERWARDS
We're throwing a party on Thursday night at the Gladdy.
A lovely arvo: us DJing the courtyard at sunset, followed by four great local bands, then people with great taste playing tunes until sometime in the morn.
Don't just sit there, do something.
RSVP/info:
events.humanitix.com/heathensong-...
This is pretty interesting. I also think it's fascinating that the presentation singles out and pwns Ghost, given that's the publishing architecture that a lot of independent journalism relies on
![Nicholas Carlini - Black-hat LLMs | [un]prompted 2026](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gfrmhdmjvxn2sjedzboeudef/bafkreickb7rp4eb72a5pddfpodxotsyt2q726y73wucqeffroeyoyl7hiq)
People should watch this.
TLDR: we are globally becoming at risk of extremely serious cyberattacks because AI can find vulnerabilities everywhere. Attackers are powerful at a systemic level now.
youtu.be/1sd26pWhfmg...
the kids are alright
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IRANIANS ON TEMPORARY VISAS WILL BE RESTRICTED FROM RE-ENTERING AUSTRALIA UNDER CONTROVERSIAL NEW POWERS BEING ROLLED OUT BY THE GOVERNMENT.
I mean the less funny thing to consider is that the reason Sora got discontinued so shortly after OpenAI signed a military contract is that those GPUs are gonna be busy
Finland suspends a plan to move its election platform to AWS, opting to remain on domestic servers through the 2027 general election, as trust in the US frays (Kati Pohjanpalo/Bloomberg)
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my fear from 7 months ago no longer feels like a fear, it’s just increasingly becoming the reality
Read our submission to the NSW Government's Social Issues Committee on “The State Of Live Music” sydneymusic.net/reads/sydney...
Read our submission to the NSW Government's Social Issues Committee on “The State Of Live Music” sydneymusic.net/reads/sydney...
Interesting. Is the crowd turning against Harry Styles? That new song definitely isn't doing well
