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The saga of Waverley Park — Melbourne's car-dependent suburban AFL stadium with a planned seated capacity of over 150,000 (not a typo!)
  • @ajsadauskas @awelder @jedsetter @nictea @philip @fuck_cars And Perth doesn't even have much of a pre-car inner-city, so it's dominated by car-friendly suburbia. The new train lines are good, but it's a pity they run between freeways and thus miss out on local walkable neighbourhoods around them.

  • In an age of LLMs, is it time to reconsider human-edited web directories?
  • @ajsadauskas @degoogle I actually contributed to one! I was a writer at LookSmart for four years; we manually created categories and added websites to then, with short descriptive reviews. Though an algorithm listed more sites below our selections, we could force the top result, eg we'd make sure the most relevant website was the first result of a search on that topic. Old-skool now, but had better results in some ways.

  • Is the 'Change the Date' movement gathering momentum?
  • @whybird @skribe @ajsadauskas @eatham @unionagainstdhmo As someone said the other day - let's go for the existing Wattle Day on 1 September!

  • Is the 'Change the Date' movement gathering momentum?
  • @ajsadauskas @eatham @unionagainstdhmo I think 9 May, when federal parliament first met in 1901. It's the right year, and more convenient than 1 Jan.

  • With BlueSky moving towards finally opening up federation, I'm interested in how people feel about it?
  • @ajsadauskas @fediverse I'd quite like to be able to link up with people I miss who are on other platforms.

  • Melbourne Airport Rail workers redeployed as project officially paused.
  • @ajsadauskas @fuck_cars @australia Jeez they should just halt all the level crossing upgrades for the time being. We've been waiting for this airport rail link for 60 years.

  • timrichards Tim Richards @aus.social

    Travel writer living and working on Wurundjeri land in Melbourne, Australia. Rail travel expert, current books on sale include Heading South and Ultimate Train Journeys: World. See my published writing at iwriter.com.au.

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