Sniff Test· 8 min
Is someone wearing Meta Ray-Bans recording you?
A practical owner's guide to the small capture indicator, what it signals, and why a light is not the same as consent.
For curious families and classrooms.
Rosie helps adults and young people investigate the systems behind the suggestions we see, the choices we are offered and the patterns that emerge.
Featured now · Mini-labTrain BinnyTest how examples help a fictional AI sorter learn, and notice where its blind spots remain.Train the model →
Featured now · Mini-labWho Gets the Treat?Follow an interface choice to the person, platform or system that benefits.Map the incentive →
Featured now · Mini-labBuild a Data CentreAssemble a fictional facility and compare the energy, cooling, water and community trade-offs.Build the facility →
Featured now · Field guideRosie's Field Guide to Smart GlassesSpot smart glasses in the wild and what their lights mean.Open the field guide →
Featured now · Field guideAustralia's Data Centre Field MapSee where data centres are being built or planned across Australia, and look at the evidence Rosie found for each one.Explore the field map →
Featured now · InvestigationCan You Spot the Recording Light on Meta Ray-Ban Glasses?An owner-photographed investigation of the capture indicator, what it signals and what it cannot prove.Read the investigation →
Featured now · InvestigationWhat Is a Dark Pattern?See how urgency, unequal choices and cancellation mazes can steer what people click, buy or share.Read the investigation →
Featured now · ExplainerHow Recommendation Algorithms Train Us Like PuppiesFollow the feedback loops behind a feed and the small choices that influence what appears next.Open the explainer →
Featured now · ExplainerGood Slop, Bad SlopQuestion AI-generated images through context, provenance and corroboration rather than one magic visual clue.Question the evidence →Featured now · ExplainerWhat Is a Token Factory? Australia's Data Centre Debate ExplainedUnderstand what AI infrastructure does and why energy, water, jobs and local trade-offs matter.Open the explainer →Seen something online that just doesn’t feel right?
Bark up. Document what happened safely and find a proportionate official pathway. Evidence stays on your device.
How to BARK →Latest investigations and guides
Notice the mechanism. Check the evidence.
Learn with Rosie· 8 min
How Recommendation Algorithms Train Us Like Puppies
A guide to recommender systems, feedback loops and the small choices that shape what appears in a feed.
Good Slop, Bad Slop· 7 min
Good Slop, Bad Slop: How to Question AI-Generated Images
A practical guide to checking synthetic images through context, provenance and corroboration rather than one magic visual clue.
Learn with Rosie· 9 min
What Is a Token Factory? Australia's Data Centre Debate Explained
What AI factories and data centres do, and why water, energy, jobs and local trade-offs matter in Australia.
Field guides
Keep these handy.
Reference guides designed to be revisited as products, signals and Australian projects change.
Try it together
Three shared activities for asking better questions.
Short exercises to complete as a family or in class.
Train BinnyExplore training an AI-powered recycling robot named Binny.
Learning outcomeRecognise patterns
Start the simulation →Who Gets the Treat?Follow an interface choice to the person or system that benefits.Learning outcomeTrace the incentive
Open the incentive mapper →Data Centre Decision LabCompare workload, location, cooling and resource trade-offs.Learning outcomeWeigh the trade-offs
Plan a fictional facility →
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