Stevie the black cat stretched out on the bed right next to me
first sign of autumn...i start waking up to this
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Stevie the black cat stretched out on the bed right next to me
first sign of autumn...i start waking up to this
in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy
No, they don’t.
Firstly, they’re not trained on everything ever, even the criminals in charge of AI companies haven’t managed to steal everything yet.
Secondly, knowledge doesn’t derive from the statistical proximity of word and sentence fragments.
"...the thing is, photographs are historical evidence and once you start messing with that (using #AI) and falsifying that, you are falsifying historical evidence.
"That's the problem."
Dr Gilly Carr of
Cambridge University on the scurge of #AI fake images of the Channel Islands Occupation.
cannot stress enough that "separate the art from the artist" was meant for private individuals reconciling the art they love with its flawed creators and not meant for the ceo of a company driving a dump truck of money up to a bigot's front porch
www.theverge.com/podcast/8914...
just one principle. please. i'm begging. one. a crumb of principle. you can do it.
the rank hypocrisy of granting visas to the Iranian footballers for optics while already working to make sure that door is shut as tight as possible for everyone else, if that doesn't sum up this Labour government what does
The hypocrisy is so dangerous. While signing us up for an illegal war & claiming it champions human rights of the Iranian people, the Albanese Gov is ramming thru new laws to ban people from #Iran with valid visas from entering Australia.
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
*Sees unhappy cat with claw stuck in arm of sofa*
"Let me help you there, my friend."
*Gently and patiently rescues cat from its uncomfortable predicament, with enormous care*
Cat (leaving): "I will never forgive you for this, for as long as I live.
Australia’s blind refusal to question Trump’s bombing of Iran risks ensnaring us in a dangerous folly | Paul Daley
"NO CHARGES WILL BE LAID" against a man who terrorised & threatened children and violently attacked people? Told to 'move on'?! No search for drugs? What the hell, @victoriapoliceau.bsky.social? Doesn't look like identifying him will be a problem.
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
Littleproud resigns after realising he would have to have meetings with Angus Taylor
"I'm buggered. Can't we just tell him I'm sick or dead or something?" he said to staffers. chaser.com.au/national/lit...
Me in @crikey.com.au today:
Albanese leveraged high profile young women to build his reputation as a leader who "got it". Now those same women tell me they feel the trust is gone, they've lost their patience and believe the PM's mask has slipped.
#auspol
www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/10/a...
Australia needs more checks and balances before a prime minister can take the country into a war.
It should require a majority vote from both houses of parliament.
At the moment, war can happen just at the whim of the prime minister, who might want to curry favour with an overseas actor.
#auspol
we need more places where he can exist in public without being expected to buy anything, not fewer
My brother, we had to explain a 1/3 pound burger was bigger than a quarter pound burger and still failed
packaging labelled "flexible crevice tool"
that sounds like something Malcolm Tucker would call you as an insult lmao
Australian gas producers reap windfalls as Iran war chokes global supply Angela Macdonald-Smith Angela Macdonald-Smith Senior resources writer Mar 6, 2026 – 1.38pm Save Share Gift this article Listen to this article 7 min Australia’s biggest gas producers are cashing in on the conflict in the Middle East and the suspension of Qatari LNG production, which has disrupted global supply, with deals struck at more than double recent market rates. Santos, the country’s second-biggest listed oil and gas producer, finalised a deal with a commodities trader on Wednesday for the sale of an LNG cargo at about $US25 ($35) per million British thermal units (MMBtu), according to market sources, who were not authorised to speak publicly.
Not a single soul on the planet happier about bloodshed, conflict, uncertainty, rising energy bills, fuel shortages and cost of living collapse than the CEO of a fossil fuel company
The worse the death and destruction, the happier they (and the shareholders) get
www.afr.com/companies/en...
*Alysa Liu voice* that's what I'm fucking talking about
Yes. And we have to talk about this now, because talking about it is the first step to making it seem like a callous crime rather than a surprising emergency.
yeah exactly, i know we're all a little hair trigger around this shit but this is wildly out of pocket
Sorry Reuters you’ve already been scooped by No Shit Magazine
Demographically, most progressive defectors are frustrated lower middle class Millennials - not affluent urbanites or a PMC ‘lanyard class'. Though they have liberal social values, many are frustrated graduates; Millennials with a mortgage or rent they are struggling to afford - primary school teachers, IT support or clerical workers. In short, the face of the modern social democratic voter.
Labour is losing voters to progressive parties disproportionately.
And they are not mainly "lanyard" professional or working classes, the oppositional forces of Blue Labour and right discourse.
It's squeezed millennials in service careers. Which our politics ignores.
Guardian headline: “Bob Carr, ‘a masterpiece’ and a hornet queer fantasy”
And this, kids, is why we need Oxford commas…
i feel like I'm losing my mind, I've read and re-read the article and just do not see where it's doing that
Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM
it's satire
A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.
Greg Davies: Can’t fault you for effort, well done that man.
Sisyphus: What kept me going was knowing everyone else was also pushing that boulder uphill every day.
Alex Horne: Ah. Well, I’ve got some bad news there.