Kate Littlejohn

Same, she says, looking up from refilling her fountain pens and thinking about new cross stitch patterns

Generative AI will never be able to do research like a PhD student. It will never have that level of self doubt or the urge to take up unrelated hobbies.

The reality is the Canberra bubble was never going to allow their own to face consequences for Robodebt

Trying to get my head around the Anti-Corruption Commission's argument that a corruption hearing of a former prime minister is somehow not in the public interest

The NACC's view here is even funnier when you consider it's about a bloke who secretly appointed himself to multiple roles and thought no-one would find out.

I feel a similar thing as a parent, watching my kids and the other kids they are interacting with and hearing the things they have deal with - I've kind of lost hope that the 'good will prevail' type thing is real. It's not a great feeling.

“A.I. chatbots contain the sum of all human knowledge” is so egregiously wrong that I don’t know what to say.
Chatbots have been trained on corpus of digital(ised) text - ABSOLUTELY NOT the sum of all human knowledge. Paper, experience, embodiment, oral tales all missing.
These people are fools!

I would also read the hell out of this article

screenshot from etsy of an "annotated books" item where this person will mark up emily henry novels for you (???) currently priced at $146.92

Very impressed that someone else's inane annotations in a used book have historically led me to think "ugh I can't believe I paid $3 for this," but on BookTok/Etsy people are paying $100+ for the experience.

Oxblood every day

Imagine the reaction in the US if ~175 schoolgirls had been killed by a targeted Iranian missile. (Or anyone's missile.)

This is an atrocity.

As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy

I remain fascinated by people who are 100% all-in on using LLMs at their jobs (and telling everyone that they're doing it) and who appear to have never paused to consider "what value am I personally adding in here, at this point, and why do I think my employers won't eventually figure this out"

he’s gonna give a speech in front of an AI generated banner that says, “ŃMIMMS1ØN ACĞŒMPLISSHEP”

The caffeinated version of bros complaining they can't lift in a gym full of """yoga moms"""

Hey @albomp.bsky.social, don’t you love those shared values?

Especially something with pretty clear gender undertones - screams of 'the young uppity women with their silly frivolous drinks are in the way of my important man business and my masculine black coffee needs'

This whole thing smacks of gender

I think it's simultaneously this and the fact that many enthusiasts seem to have a narrow sense of what job tasks are/can look like. There's a lot of "you don't understand what AI can do" coming at some of us and a legitimate response is "you don't understand what I can do, and need to, in my job."

It sure seems that way. Like... make your basic coffee at home if it's such a horrific experience, like millions of other people. Exhausting.

It screams 'oat milk as a signifier of woke culture' which just makes me laugh at the absurdity of the world we seem to live in

I can't get past the use of a dirty chai with oat milk as an example of this apparent excess. It's... not a complex drink. Using oat milk takes the same amount of time as 'normal' milk. Dirty chai just means chai with a shot of coffee. It takes *no* longer than a regular latte or whatever.

Trump says the US will kindly give people asylum and Australia is horrible for deporting people to places where they will be killed.

This is a message to those who claim Trump doesn’t know what ASYLUM means.

He knows, he has always known, and he conflates the two separate meanings intentionally because he knows that some of his base doesn’t know.

It’s manipulation, both of supporters and opponents.

A biography that deliberately excludes so-called "petty, demoralizing details" so as not to upset a reader's delicate constitution is not a biography at all; it is fiction. And if a subject is "diminished" by the truth, so be it. Not our job to burnish a legend built on your fantasies.

AI error or not, Iran school bombing is a permanent stain on America’s soul | Will Bunch A debate on AI in warfare obscures the truth about an Iran school bombing. U.S. humans are to blame for this war crime.

They had names. They had beautiful faces. And they had the same dreams as your kids - crushed when American "precision" bombs slammed into their Minab elementary school, killing 175

Don't blame AI for this. Blame the sick humans who see war as a game

My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/iran...

There was a time. My mum’s generation. She went to uni for free and even received a stipend to study. Both my parents were broke poor and they both got free uni education in Australia in the 70’s before I was born

This a thoughtful piece that touches on a lot of the worries I have for my children in this genAI soaked world they are inhabiting.

"A society that gives up on expertise does not become more democratic, it becomes more vulnerable – first to confident nonsense, then to charismatic cruelty"

"Will she read novels? I hope so, because a novel is one of the last technologies that still trains attention as an ethical act. It makes you inhabit another mind without extracting a summary."

Interesting piece that gazes across the epistemic abyss