When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

Who COULDN’T use some good news? ‘ Scientists with the Yurok Tribe say that two of dozens of condors released to the wild in Humboldt County since 2022, to reestablish the endangered birds, have paired up, built a nest in a redwood tree and appear to be tending to an egg.” #californiacondor

I cleaned a lot today and it made me feel better. At least something

I continue to be fascinated by the phenomenon whereby an expert engages with any of the LLMs on their field of expertise and is instantly horrified by the wrong answers, and then goes on to use it for things they are not experts in as though it won’t be just as bad for those.

I'm so over this bullshit sweat fest weather. Yes it's now rained but it's 30° at 7pm and ridiculously humid. I didn't move to Melbourne to suffer in this particular manner

It's Mandatory Monday and AI is clearly the future. mandatoryrollercoaster.com/post/8081046...

Handprints on cave walls in a largely unexplored area of Indonesia may be the oldest rock art studied so far, dating back to at least 67,800 years ago. https://to.pbs.org/49InZww

Finally the future we were promised!

A picture of my cat when he was a tiny baby cat. This is the photo he will use on the jacket of his first book

I'm watching the most recent Jurassic Park film. It's not very good. I liked seeing the mosasaur having a good time though.

Just found a millipede in the house. They're good guys though so it's just a bit odd rather than alarming

Galahs enjoying the rain

Someone's just announced it's great using AI to produce their music. I can't get a grip on people being ok with this. It's really depressing. Why don't they care?

Yet another Craft

Feel like this birthday arrest of Andrew would have been peak old Twitter. Luckily a friend informed me of the terrible photo so I could enjoy it too.

Your physical limit is not your mental limit! Happy year of the horse? And also pancake day youtu.be/zkp2Zi54LxQ?...

Had a snorkel at fossil beach. Didn't find any fossils but did see squid and a seahorse

Just discovered all my friends are using AI to do everything from write emails at work, to give people amateur legal advice, to writing a bedtime song for their kids. 🤢

I watched Dog Park and cried. Fair warning.

Such riches

An upset stomach really ruining my day here.

I've started watching vikings (idk) and shout out to that one flock of geese that appears in every village/town/monastery. Hope they got credits and paid well 🪿 #honk

It happened again! Paul confused the moon with a streetlight again! 😄

Went tidepooling today. Saw the best octopus.

Is there a drag king called Open Mike? I hope so

I went swimming 🏅

Bored in the house. Too many heatwaves

Went for a snorkel. Felt a bit chilly though it was 19° in the water. Saw some massive dusky morwong and a variety of file fish plus banjo sharks

It's too bastard hot

Early #SundayFishSketch in the heatwave. New pens (Oblique banded sweetlips)

Did some sleep hygiene (a phrase I hate) and was rewarded with the most dog shit night ever. Perfect.

We will remember

But it's a nice day, not too hot yet, walking the dog in the park, had a coffee, and got a free book from the exchange

The algorithm has, for the first time, started offering me right wing content. I've had crusty anti vax seed oil crap, Australian anti immigration crap, and a woman calling on Trump to kidnap more prime ministers. I don't know what I did to provoke this bullshit.

Better visit the chickens then

Gave an Australian an explanation of Bonfire Night. I think I was quite comprehensive thanks to having recently listened to an After Dark ep on it

We went out more. Last night I went to bed at 3am. It's 30°. I think I'm probably 20 mins away from passing out

It's international penguin awareness day tomorrow and I have never been more aware of penguins #penguinawarenessday

That was an unwelcome doomscroll.

We've been out so much this week I'm shattered.

Last night we went to see ten thousand hours, an hour of acrobatics at Melbourne Arts Centre. It was a good time and a cool venue. Then I had some really good ramen, well I liked it. I don't get to eat it often as it's hard to find it with non meat broth but still good.

For my birthday Paul took us to dinner at the aquarium and there was no one else around (a party on another floor left early) so we had the entire place to ourselves. Incredible times

Friends fear she's eating compost again

Today we went for a normal innocent walk to a beach and all came back aching and tired. I've pulled a muscle in my shoulder blade. I saw some washed up squid eggs though

Also saw Ned Kelly's armour. I mostly feel confused about all the Ned Kelly stories. Every time I encounter one I get more confused I think.

We went to this exhibition at the state library today Make Believe | State Library Victoria share.google/NpyPAO75jZEQ... I found it 1/4 great, 1/4 interesting, 1/4 simple, 1/4 mediocre. The video section was very when your teacher would wheel in a TV and then you'd have to do a worksheet after

Gone a bit stir crazy shut in the house against the heat.

I think I need to stop thinking about death so much.

Also we're about to have a terrible heatwave. Hoping not to burn to death. Air con in the car is broken so at least we won't be going anywhere that might catch on fire I guess. The dog is a Senior Dog now and got too hot today even though it was only 22°C. The dog is now on lockdown.