Is it weird to do fan art of a random cat you see on the internet sometimes? Thanks @cait.bsky.social

Research confirms that the more skilled professionals like doctors and software engineers rely on AI, the more their skills degrade. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This is… not new. The entire discipline of digital forensics focuses on digital and online activity. This is merely a new data source.

If there’s anything that indicates that this policy is underbaked, it’s this. Find me a 15 year old that uses Bluesky. I double dog dare you.

Google found liable for bad AI Overview results. Let’s play Truth Or Consequences

When you build a system - any system - you must contemplate the possibilities for abuse, and build in mitigations. This is not a new problem, and the lack of controls is obvious and egregious incompetence.

RIP Icelandic singer songwriter Laufey's mentions.

I am honored to return to the God of War saga, as the composer of God of War Laufey. I’ve been working on this for years with a stunningly talented team of developers, musicians, performers, and singers, and look forward to sharing more of all our work with you soon!

My partner is very into ceramics, and she's making interesting portrait sculptures and other little guys, but what I really want is recreations of historical chonky pigs.

Very much the Web at the end of the world. Just shuddering at the inference costs.

Accelerando (2005) by @cstross.bsky.social

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

My little community of tech ethicists and futurists has been yelling about this for years and basically nobody listened. This was the obvious and inevitable use case for video generation and voice cloning. And here we are.

Kids say they can beat age checks by drawing on a fake mustache

Robodebt for the environment - Rushing AI into EPBC Act assessments could repeat past policy failures biodiversitycouncil.org.au/news/rushing...

Me attempting to run a 5K.

Don't let the bot play doctor! AI gets early diagnoses wrong 80% of the time

This is ghoulish. The dead cannot consent to this. This isn't acting, it's a golem reading lines - extruded product. There's no intention, no feeling. No one and nothing to connect to. It's also displacing a living actor who could have played this role.

The Federal Court has released its 'Generative Artificial Intelligence Practice Note' www.fedcourt.gov.au/law-and-prac...

Super cute page from a PC Engine CD (Turbografx CD) manual explaining how to take care of your CD ROM.

*sigh* This is one of the few statements about law that is probably wrong across nearly every theory of jurisprudence, and that's actually pretty impressive.

A 'new analysis'? Every expert in the field has been warning this for years.

This is a poor idea. If your system wants to handle personal info but it can't be privacy protective, then your system should not exist. AI is not special or magic in this regard. If it can't comply, then it shouldn't be used.

Concept to execution.

Wrote about yesterday's social media ban data showing more than two thirds of teens still have accounts. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

AI and a newish radiologist said the growth in my breast was benign. It was v small, circumscribed. A 2nd radiologist with decades of experience said, “it looks fine but I still don’t like it. Get a biopsy.” It was triple neg breast cancer. We need more experts. radiologybusiness.com/topics/artif...

Good

Sometimes, you go to the gym. And sometimes you skip the gym to sketch the neighbour’s dog who has decided his toddler’s sunglasses are actually his.

I would like to say this is good news, that the only actual use case for this product was misinformation, abuse and fraud. But there are numerous other video platforms now, and this won't even move the needle.

In my 20s, I would be mad if i didn’t have epic plans for my weekends. In my 40s, here’s how I spend my weekends.

Incidentially, I tested Claude on basic elements on the Corporations Act this morning. It misquoted provisions, hallucinated sections and subsections. It did so with 100% confidence. Only an actual lawyer with some experience in the field would identify the errors.

This isn't even a new risk. US soliders were mapping and publishing the perimeters of based in Afghanistan on Strava, years ago. If militaries aren't going to ban fitness trackers, at least make it policy to have private accounts.

Scoop: eSafety warned X in January amid the Grok scandal that child abuse material was ‘systemic’ on the platform. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

It’s Saturday. So here’s three views of the same dog, with different pens. Brush pen, needle point, and old school dip pen

Policy making is easy. Policy *implementation* is hard. You can’t just make a blanket declaration - your policy has to be grounded in reality. And in this reality, the users disagree with the policy, and VPNs exist.

“Refuge, the UK’s largest specialist domestic violence organisation, has revealed that referrals to its Technology-Facilitated Abuse and Economic Empowerment team rose by more than 62% in 2025 compared with the previous year.”

Opinion | The National Anti-Corruption Commission’s reasons why Scott Morrison did nothing wrong on Robodebt are extraordinary and delusional, writes Bernard Keane. www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/11/n...

A classic rite of passage. Ginger beer will be weird for you forever now.

Bunnings ruling no ‘green light’ for facial recognition ia.acs.org.au/article/2026...

Thoughtful critique of age verification requirements by @taylorlorenz.bsky.social Age verification is a big privacy threat, with the costs worth more than the benefits. The best approaches to protect children online involve privacy protections. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If I feel like I have not been sufficiently productive of a weekend, a bit of doodling helps fight the ennui. This is called “Once, we were hunters”.

Markwayne Mullin

Studiously ignoring world events. Here’s a cat I met on my way home today.

This is amazing! I read about this in film school, back when dinosaurs roamed the earth.

It's illegal for individuals to do medical work unqualified, so just how ChatGPT can do this without authorities stopping it is a mystery to me.

I’m sure that more than a few Australian technical specialists are still mad about the time that Australia proposed this. I still am.

Incredible work on this

There's a particular pose that every dog can strike that makes them look like they're running for mayor. Not so much HOPE AND CHANGE, but more PATS AND TREATS.