ABC Sport Digital Editor. I’ve edited newspapers in Torquay, Geelong & Brisbane and by gum it put them on the map.
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Kyle Pollard retweeted
Hello, my name's Daley. I'm a co-founder and director at Ludo Studio in Brisbane. You might know me as Thor's puny weak roommate Darryl, and from making Bluey at Ludo, I also created A24's Talk to Me with Danny and Michael Philippou. At Ludo, we also made Robbie Hood for SBS and, more recently, Thou Shalt Not Steal for Stan with Dylan River.
Here's the first teaser poster for Allen, Netflix's first Australian feature film. It's also Ludo's first live-action feature film.
I'd love to talk more about the film here soon, but just quickly - it's about a character who believes the best thing that ever happened to them has already happened.
I know I'm too obsessed with the past. And too much of a good thing is a bad thing. I rewatch movies I loved as a kid, listen to old music and read old books and want to play the same board games I did when I was ten. I'm writing this while l at a graded, boxed Ninja Turtle toy I just got off eBay, sitting above my old HeroQuest and Nightmare board games, next to an unopened, mint-condition packet of Pocahontas SkyBox trading cards VGC.
I spend a lot of time thinking about the past, and one thing in particular that happened to me a long time ago. I think I surround myself with all these things because they're a bit of a Portkey to get back there, while another part is trying very hard to grow up.
We tried to make a film about that that everyone could watch together.
I'd love to talk more about it soon but if you love Cheezels, this is for you.
We made the whole film here on the coasts here in Queensland - even in Coolum. I'm incredibly grateful to Netflix for giving us the opportunity to make it here - and set it here too. We got to work with so many brilliant Australian creatives, in front of and behind the camera, from caters, to transport to costume and make-up and puppeteers to VFX artists and produces and an extraordinary local crew. To create this with them has been one of the best parts of the whole thing.
I'd love to talk more about it and especially the people who brought it to life, here soon.
In the meantime, here's our first teaser poster.
Thanks so much for reading. Sincerely. – at Brisbane, Queensland
Kyle Pollard retweeted
After a decorated 24-year run at ESPN, Nicole Noren resigned in protest.
She couldn’t go along with the network’s all-out embrace of gambling.
For the first time publicly, in @CJR, Noren shares the deeply personal reasons behind her decision.
cjr.org/the-interview/nicole…
Kyle Pollard retweeted
Usually I'm the one writing about AI. But recently, the tables were turned.
Someone sent me a link to an 89-page book about "redefining living through Cam Wilson teachings", seemingly made by AI
So, I bought it. Once it arrived, things got even weirder
Kyle Pollard retweeted
Imagine Boeing's CEO saying the world should accept a few plane crashes to get faster innovation in aviation. He'd be gone by lunch.
“We believe the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology.”
In a conversation for the first edition of Decoded, a new daily newsletter and podcast, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman talked with POLITICO’s @BrendanBordelon about trade-offs, AI safety, and how his company is different from Anthropic.
Subscribe to Decoded for the full conversation with Sam Altman: politi.co/4yxilIS
Kyle Pollard retweeted
If results stand Sam Gayfer will set a new record in the running vertical jump at the #AFLDraft combine. It comes through in the tape 👇
Kyle Pollard retweeted
Congratulations to Melbourne photographer Daisy Nitsch, whose photograph Champions Entrance has been named the Footy Focus 26 winner 📸
Capturing the colour, excitement and community spirit of local football, the image stood out for its creativity, impact and storytelling.
Thanks to @Toyota_Aus.
Kyle Pollard retweeted
This is superb piece to produce so quickly:
“There wasn't time for Fremantle to process what was happening to them. Suddenly, and without warning, they were bystanders in what was meant to be their own story.”
I love how Dean writes. Sat next to him as he worried about what the line was going to be. And then he does this. Sublime sports writing for @abcsport
abc.net.au/news/2026-09-26/a…
Kyle Pollard retweeted
When I was a 9 year old boy my dad signed me & my brothers up as foundation members of the @freodockers back in the summer of 1994.
I remember bursting out in tears when he told me as I went for west coast who’d just come off the back of the 94 flag. I was at an age where you still did as your parents told you so I put on a brave face & rolled up to my tiny wheatbelt primary school the next day-which was eagles heartland & told everyone I now go for freo-It was brutal.
My dad supported Claremont in the WAFL & loved going for the underdog was his reasoning.
Unfortunately he passed away in 1996 but my mum still took me & my brother to the footy every week as a way of remembering our dad. Those first 10 years were brutal, getting belted every week, but we kept turning up.
I’m now 40, a father myself & to say thanks to my mum for everything I’m taking her to the grand final 😊
Dare to dream! #foreverfreo 💜
Kyle Pollard retweeted
Joey and Issie were appalled seeing bottles thrown at umpires walking off the field. #AFLFinals
Kyle Pollard retweeted
"They should not have things thrown at them. A bottle's come down from the top tier."
🗣️ Luke Hodge on bottles being thrown in the direction of the umpires
#AFLFinals
Kyle Pollard retweeted
Ray Chamberlain on @abcsport: he gets possession, the ball is not pinned, there’s an arm free, he’s got to make an attempt to get rid of it. The rule is reasonable time. He gave him a week in the context of this game. Umpires have also got to demonstrate courage. That’s what he’s paid to do, and he delivered
Kyle Pollard retweeted
“You just said that 10% doesn’t seem an unreasonable estimate that AI could kill all humans”
“Yes”
“Wow… oh my God.”
@vicderbyshire speaks to Nobel Prize Winner and so-called ‘Godfather of AI’ Geoffrey Hinton about predictions by an Anthropic researcher that there’s a more than 10% chance AI could kill all humans within a decade.
#Newsnight
Kyle Pollard retweeted
[Writing this in a personal capacity, not on behalf of my employer (Anthropic).]
Jacob’s thread is very worth reading. Here’s my birds-eye view of the situation with risks from AI:
1. AI developers believe their technology could cause human extinction (or similarly bad outcomes). This could happen in the next few years. In general, the more senior the employee, the more concerned they are.
2. Why do AI developers continue despite the risk? Due to a mixture of commercial incentives and a belief that they are in a race with other, less responsible AI developers that will abuse the technology or develop it less safely.
3. Unlike traditional software, we can’t “program” AIs to behave how we’d like. AIs frequently severely misbehave. For instance, AIs from multiple developers recently hacked their way out of secure evaluation environments and into real-world companies, even though no one asked them to do this.
4. We have methods that can nudge AIs towards better behavior, but nothing that can robustly align them. Insofar as there is a plan, it’s to make sure that AIs are good enough at alignment training that they can align their successors better than we can align current AIs.
5. Many AI developer staff desperately want to slow down to figure out how to build AI more safely. That was the intent of this open letter (which I signed): pacingthefrontier.com/
I work on safety research at Anthropic because I hope my work will reduce the chance of these extinction-level bad outcomes.
Kyle Pollard retweeted
Jacob is correct here—we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% within the next decade. I believe Anthropic is trying its best, but we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and are not clearly on track to.
The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. This is not a marketing stunt. If anything, many executives and senior researchers will couch their phrasing in the press to sound sensible - but I hear the same people express fear privately. No other human activity poses this level of danger.
Kyle Pollard retweeted
Oldest players to kick 5+ goals in a V/@AFL final
36y 152d - PATRICK DANGERFIELD 2026 EF
35y 358d - Gordon Coventry 1937 PF
35y 344d - Gordon Coventry 1937 SF
35y 85d - Alastair Lynch 2003 SF
34y 238d - Jimmy Freake 1923 SF
@GeelongCats #AFLCatsBlues #AFLFinals
Kyle Pollard retweeted
This is diabolical
“Surely they look at this and go – we have a problem here.”
A 'ridiculous' jumper clash has marred North Melbourne's AFLW match with the Western Bulldogs.
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