Modern Media Mastery
Plain-English guides for indie authors, readers and creators: tools, licences, standards and the media landscape, checked and kept up to date.
Tools
A free, offline AI tutor on the family computer, with the parent holding the admin account, the transcript in the house and a VEIL Guardian envelope on the child's account. Ollama, Open WebUI and the right model for your graphics card, step by step.
Audiobooks
Twenty-six free AI voice models checked for one thing: can you sell the audiobook you make with them? The safe list, the ones with strings attached, and the ones to leave alone.
Emergent Tech
Australia runs 1.5 gigawatts of data centres and has approved 3.38 more. The power, water and metal behind the AI build-out, in one place, with sources.
Opinion
Australia's age walls don't keep teenagers away from AI. They keep them away from the safe kind.
Opinion
Australia is locking its teenagers out of the most powerful learning tools ever built — and calling it safety.
Emergent Tech
The International Energy Agency's figures on data centre power, in plain numbers: 415 terawatt-hours today, 945 by 2030, and a thousand terawatt-hours of uncertainty in between.