We don’t even get the respect of being lied into war anymore. He’s just going to do it.

lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard

I personally do not take the hype seriously. I think the chance that AI will replace most white collar jobs is close enough to zero to ignore. I think erring in the other direction is a much bigger concern.

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

Today is the #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience 👩‍🔬 This graphic highlights women of the periodic table, the elements they discovered, and the two elements named after women. Plenty more graphics on women in chemistry here: www.compoundchem.com/category/wom...#InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience #ChemSky 🧪

Happy #LibSpill Day for those who celebrate.

Stay warm out there, it's Manul Monday!

On the platforms used by real estate agents for renters, documents are exposed and accessible without any form of login, according to research. I was able to view applications and lease agreements among other docs exposed. Most of the platforms didn't respond. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The yanks meddling with our politics again in 2019.

How come we've all had to sit through all these engineers talking about these chat bots as if they have sentience and feelings then when the humanities has had this shit worked out for like a century

NEW: Australia’s sovereign wealth fund now owns more than $100 million worth of shares in Palantir, a controversial tech company that’s powering the Trump administration’s anti-immigration efforts.

This is the robotic book retrieval system at the Shenzhen Library north hall, it has millions of books and can retrieve the one you want i 10 minutes

So initial experiments with Open AI's vibe-coding science tool Prism are going about as well as expected.

Come at me, bro,

The frightening realization that a lot of people believe that AI is intelligent because they don't really understand things either. They just sort of repeat what other people say, and the more often it is said, the more true it must be. Hence, the computer is thinking just like humans do.

with all of the stories about the rise of solar energy we’ve seen in the last few months it kind of feels like America is doing regime change in order to secure the rights to billions of dollars in blockbuster gift cards

I'm here to banish the darkness, if only for a moment. A vaccine for chlamydia in koalas. Developed in Canada by a global team, with help from the family of Steve Irwin. It reduces mortality, reduces disease severity, provides protection for baby koalas. Turning the tide on a deadly disease.

Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.

Too bad, slopguy

whoever is putting these up is a local hero, keep Christchurch weird

Get ready for the most exhausting game of the year: Culture War Bingo

Strolling towards the New Year in style. Happy Manul Monday!

Again,

it's time to make your 2026 bingo card

With enough enthusiasm, you can include any song in the holiday playlist. Make some edits to bring joy to those otherwise suffering through the nightmare soundtrack of shopping in December. This is a fine addition! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Glu9...

At this moment (midday, local time) Western Australia is feeding 620 MW into batteries (maximum rate of 885 MW), while generating 2.49 GW from renewables out of 4.08 GW total (61% renewables).

Every one of these pieces comes down to “what if ai was useful”

A great piece of internet history. We live in very stupid times.

Stealworkers

Some have argued to me strongly that even if Loeb is wrong, he’s getting people interested in 3I/ATLAS and that’s a good thing for science. But Loeb isn't just wrong, he's recklessly following an old playbook that got 39 people killed in 1997. sites.psu.edu/astrowright/...

“Her library estimates that 15 percent of emailed reference questions it receives are now ChatGPT-generated, and some include hallucinated citations for both published works and unique primary source documents. ‘For our staff, it is much harder to prove that a unique record doesn’t exist.’”

crazy to think that the infamous Mark Zuckerberg metaverse Paris picture is actually older than ChatGPT and the entire generative AI boom

I don't speak the language, but it's clear enough

Every ai booster believes that college is about doing homework. They think there’s a homework goblin that pays the colleges for their homework. Their dream is that they can have a machine that you can pay $75,000 to and receive a college degree from in four years.

Political journalists are incapable of understanding climate example #290093 -> Jacob Greber from the ABC insisting that a new environmental law that ignores climate should provide 'solace' to 'doom-fed' young people Patronising AF and representative of Australia's media class archive.ph/EGLFU

I've seen people say that getting attached to ChatGPT is like "believing the stripper really loves you", but that's not true. It's more like believing that the dryer personally composed that little jingle on a lonely sockless night just to win your affections.

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

I have always been terrified and mesmerised by Udo Kier. 🧛‍♀️ Once, in a gay bar in Palm Springs, I turned around and he was just standing there, holding a drink. I checked in the bar mirror to see if he had a reflection. He saw me checking and smiled. It was perfect.

More halite, this time with a beautiful cobalt-blue coloration from radiation in situ.

Shot + chaser

if snl had any fuckin balls they'd bring stavvy in to play bari weiss

That's more than 1,100 jobs lost at the CSIRO over the last two years. "Combined, the staff association estimates that equates to cutting the agency’s size by a third." This is more cuts to the CSIRO than was attempted by the Abbott government. www.smh.com.au/national/csi...

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The golden age of diversity and democracy in Oz.

[To the tune of Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison] 🎵Baba Yaga 🎵Walking down the street 🎵Baba Yaga 🎵House with chicken feet 🎵Baba Yaga

if microsoft just made outlook search not suck they'd see triple the productivity gains of any AI integration

Cooking dirt again

It soothes my bitter heart to know that no matter how much money Elon Musk has, he will never, ever be funny t.co/QhuKU9HCxA

a quick thread of some of the references to Australia in the newly released Epstein documents that I found