๐ Social Media & Photography ๐ Feat. in Nat Geo, Elle Magazine, The Australian & Channel News Asia. ๐ป Comms. @Kingdomcity
Perth, Western Australia
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Rob Ahern retweeted
Infographic sorts national flags by their age. Have a good look at the graphic. It's crazy to remember how new most flags (and the accompanying concepts of what counts as a nation) is. Source: buff.ly/2pV8lrY
Rob Ahern retweeted
It's crazy how my entire LinkedIn feed is AI-slop content. No one cares to edit AI-written content. Here are 12 AI tells to delete & the 11 skills that fix it:
(all 11 skills are free here โ claude-skills.free)
Delete these from your writing today-
1. "Delve." You've never said it out loud. Once.
2. "Crucial/pivotal." Nothing is that pivotal.
3. "Tapestry." No human speaks like this.
4. "Here's the thing." There is no thing.
5. "Hope this helps." It doesn't. It outs you.
6. "After careful consideration." without considering
7. "to provide a quick update." Just give the update.
8. "Most peopleโฆ" The lazy oversimplification.
9. "Robust / seamless / realm." The corporate AI.
10. Adverb abuse. "X quietly runs Y." Nothing runs.
11. "It's not X, it's Y." The famous AI sentence alive.
12. 'This isn't a budget. It's a statement of intent' No
These are my personally used 11 Claude skills that fix it:
1. /writer
It writes as a first draft with your style, not Claude's.
2. /editor
It removes all the AI dead giveaways.
Every sentence & word earns its place.
3. /fact-checker
Remove fake stats & random quotes.
Say one hallucinated number out loud, and nobody will trust you again.
4. /anti-AI style
The default rewrite. It breaks the obvious AI rythm.
5. /ban-the-AI-words
Audits the classic well known AI words, like "delve," "crucial," "tapestry"
6. /ban-the-AI-patterns
Restructure the go-to AI phrasing "It's not X, it's Y."
7. /sound like your posts
Upload your best written 5 posts, and it will write like YOU.
8. /humanizer
Remove any AI words and phrasing that manage to stay.
9. /red-pen
It will alert the week lines before any readers do.
10. /self-critique
Claude auditing and critiquing Claude.
11. /auto-block-banned-words
The safety net. No words that are on the red list ever get past again.
Want the exact Claude Skills library I use?
It's free here โ claude-skills.free.
Download the skills.
Put your email and verify with an OTP.
Save the downloaded zip file.
Upload to Claude โ Settings โ Skills.
Rob Ahern retweeted
Enhanced to match our contemporary standard of 6000k mental-hospital lighting for all interiors.
Rob Ahern retweeted
Anonymous online accounts threaten democracy and must be banned, say politicians. But now, the Australian government wants to use anonymous "sock puppet" bot accounts as part of its broader push for sweeping online censorship. Terrifying, unprecedented, and Orwellian.
Rob Ahern retweeted
I turned this into a daily game ๐ค
realflagfakeflag.com/
Rob Ahern retweeted
Iโm old enough to remember Channel Nine SACKING Karl Stefanovic after he dared to interview Tommy Robinson.
Now theyโve sent a reporter to America to do a puff piece on the KKK in an attempted stitch-up of Pauline Hanson.
You donโt hate the media enough.
Rob Ahern retweeted
๐จ ULTIMA HORA: metieron a 56 personas en una mรกquina de resonancia magnรฉtica con vรญdeos cortos y grabaron el momento exacto en el que el cerebro apaga su propio botรณn de STOP.
La Universidad de Zhejiang lo acaba de publicar en NeuroImage.
Cuando el vรญdeo gusta, dos zonas caen POR DEBAJO del nivel que tenรญan con la pantalla apagada:
- El cingulado anterior dorsal, la alarma que grita "esto lleva demasiado rato"
- El prefrontal dorsolateral, la mano que ejecuta la orden de cerrar la app
Las dos se van a negro al mismo tiempo.
Y no era sueรฑo ni aburrimiento. El cรณrtex visual seguรญa a pleno rendimiento. Ojos encendidos, control apagado.
Lo que nadie quiere oรญr: ninguno de los 56 tenรญa perfil de adicciรณn. Adultos sanos, 23 aรฑos de media. Esto es lo que le pasa a un cerebro normal en 6 minutos.
Hay quien resiste mejor, y depende del glutamato que tengas en reposo. Nadie elige eso.
El detalle que casi nadie cuenta: usaron clips grabados, ni TikTok ni su algoritmo. El daรฑo no lo hace el feed. Lo hace el formato. Y el formato ya estรก en todas las apps que tienes abiertas.
Rob Ahern retweeted
We found 42,000 accounts automating replies using chatbots and have removed them from the platform.
X's core value is providing an authentic pulse on humanity -- and using AI to programmatically engage with users without a human in the loop runs counter to our mission.
Rob Ahern retweeted
We're launching The Neutrality Project ๐, an independent, open-source research collective making AI influence measurable.
AI models answer billions of questions daily. They all come from somewhere: they validate certain options, treat particular middles as reasonable, and leave things out. That influence has been invisible until now.
Founded by @CardilloSamuel, @kaiostephens and @DJLougen, with the help of early contributor @andrewgzavalag1
Rob Ahern retweeted
Governments and regulators globally increasingly shape what you can see, say, and share online.
Across the @StateDept, U.S. diplomats are championing free speech and privacy in digital spaces.
Follow @State_DF for the latest on our fight to defend digital freedom.
Rob Ahern retweeted
๐จ JUST IN: Instagram Hit with 3 Critical Exploits in 2026 ๐จ
Metaโs platform has been a complete mess this year. Three major security flaws exposed users for days โ some still active.
Exploit 1: Meta AI TakeoverHackers simply chatted with Metaโs AI support and got full account access. High-profile accounts (even Obamaโs White House IG) were hijacked. โ
Patched (but damage already done).
Exploit 2: Mass Ban Exploit (Still Working) Just report a target account for โscam & fraudโ multiple times and watch it get disabled. No real verification needed.
Exploit 3: Phone & Email Reveal Exploit (Still Working) Sensitive backup phone numbers and emails exposed uncensored. Arabic hackers reportedly scraped millions of accounts already.
The bare minimum Meta could do right now is offer fast unsuspensions + proper support for everyone affected.
Instead, it looks like Mark Zuckerberg is staying silent and hoping it all blows over. ๐ถ
This is unacceptable from a trillion-dollar company.
Tag a friend who got hit. Drop your stories below. #InstagramHack #MetaExposed #InstagramDown #Zuck #AccountHacked #MetaFail
Rob Ahern retweeted
Meta allowed my single character Instagram username (@i) to be stolen through an exploit in their platform, dating back to February this year.
My email, password and phone number were never compromised โ yet somehow a hacker was able to gain access to my account ๐งต
Rob Ahern retweeted
Today Instagram had this massive exploit where hackers were just stealing rare handles left and right. Hundreds of accounts gone.
People losing handles theyโve owned since 2010, some worth hundreds of thousands.
I own a few rare ones so I was actually stressed watching this happen in real time, which I havenโt been in years.
Obama White House account got hit.
These arenโt some random new accounts, these are verified, locked down accounts and they still got compromised.
The thing is the exploit is so simple itโs almost funny. Attacker goes to Forgot Password, says their account is hacked, turns on a VPN to match the targetโs location (which now you can find on the about section of the page).
Instagramโs AI support flow asks them to verify with a selfie.
They grab a photo from the targetโs profile, run it through an AI video generator to make an animation of the personโs face moving around, upload that to Metaโs AI as proof.
And Metaโs AI just accepts it because it canโt tell the difference between a real selfie and an AI-generated video of someoneโs face
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Once verified they change the email to theirs. Password reset link goes to their email. They own it now. 2FA gets bypassed somehow in the process but honestly I donโt know exactly how, just that it did.
Point is even locked down accounts went down.
Then you try to recover your account and youโre talking to a chatbot that has zero ability to help.
You canโt escalate to a human. Youโre just stuck. Your asset is gone and thereโs no one to call.
The whole thing just highlighted how stupid it is to automate account security without any human in the loop.
One AI fooling another AI while thereโs literally no person anywhere to catch it.
Meta took hours to even acknowledge it while accounts were getting stolen every minute.
Now thankfully itโs patched but I donโt think it will be the last one. Stay safe!
Rob Ahern retweeted
This is how Meta is dealing with victims of the attack.
"That sounds impossible" So even if you get through to a human agent its just as useless.
Rob Ahern retweeted
#BREAKING One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has declared sheโs ready to be the โPrime Minister of Australiaโ and is seriously considering running for a seat in the House of Representatives.
Her comments come after a recently published Redbridge Accent Research seat by seat projection showed One Nation could win more than 50 seats at an election.
In the wake of the polling, Ms Hanson said she believed she was capable of leading the country as the Prime Minister.
"Do I want to be Prime Minister? Well, I tell you what, I won't knock the job because I believe that I have the ability to do it," she said.
"I'm not going to underestimate myself or say, no, I can't do it, because you know, have a look at what we've got now. That's why we're in a mess."
Hanson went on to describe the Albanese Government as the "worst" she had ever seen in her 30 years of politics.
โI see the destruction that's happened hereโ
โThis isnโt the country that I grew up inโ
Under the latest modelling, One Nation would form official opposition if an election were held today, winning 53 seats compared to just 12 for the Coalition.
Sheโs got my vote.
