The obsession with #AI power consumption is a complete distraction from the real challenges. We're not stopping AI and if we want kids to make a real difference to the planet we'd be much more effective getting kids politically engaged and get them to educate their parents.

"Gender-affirming communication can preserve the sacredness of patient-clinician relationships." This Viewpoint discusses the role of affirming language and actions. ja.ma/3GQFcZP

Who is studying public/patient use of chat interface LLMs/genAI to self-diagnose, interpret findings, or triangulate clinician info? I’d love to connect, or cite you! #HealthAI #HealthIB #LIS #eHealth #MedSoc

Eh, one day there will be a metmucil shortage and the shit from The Oz will stop...

all you #AI skeptics really ought to watch this youtu.be/K0h_PS_1XiE?...

He’s not wrong. Anyone who thinks this election is some kind of repudiation of Australia’s ingrained reactionary racism is deluded. It’s worse than ever.

There was zero reason to dump Husic. He is an effective minister. Great when speaking on policy to media. Had to eat the biggest shit sandwich imaginable and he did it for the party. And this is the reward. Gross stuff.

"....the extremist populist left..." 🤦 Australia's Greens aren't extremists, their tax policy is to *limit* negative gearing Extreme left would be taking the 4th, 5th, 6th etc investment properties OFF people, & housing the homeless Extreme left would be taking half Gina's bank account by force

just filing these suggestions for... um, no reason...

Greg nailing #auspol. Absolutely bang on.

They are the types who think the first order of business after this wins is to bash the Greens and the hope to spend the next 3 years playing uni politics against Tim Wilson. Meh. Be gone with you. The ALP needs to leave them behind and change the country from the own John Howard changed it to.

I'd rather be part of the "extremist populist left" than be part of what the ALP has become. I care about the homeless, those living in poverty, climate, environment, and I really fucking care about the Palestinian genocide.

Study authors argue progressive taxes on wealth and carbon-intensive investments could provide a solution.

The world is changing fast, we're gunna need more tWh, and we need to adapt and support those most impacted by the transition. Labelling recent AI advances as a techbro crypto style hype exploit is grounded more in bluesky groupthink and the seven stages of grief than it is in reality.

This is, unfortunately, typical of interaction on bluesky on the topic of LLMs and AI. I get that people who make their living from creating content are deep in the seven stages of grief, and are rightly angry at those they feel are angry at those that harvested exploited their work.

It has to be said if we're training peeps to do a job that an LLM can do, then we might not be doing students a favour. The question is how do we train students to do the things that AI can't do? And, what even are those things?

This is incredibly powerful from the WHO’s Emergencies Director, Dr Mike Ryan, on the world doing nothing as the children of Gaza die. “This is an abomination.” (🎥 Middle East Eye)

It's tough to overstate just how shockingly unusual an article like this is. Despite the fact that this is the response of the vast, vast majority of neighbours for both wind and solar farms, they are mostly erased from existence in coverage of attitudes of neighbours to utility-scale renewables

So...............just kinda pause here. Did you see a *single article* highlighting the fact that nuclear power was verifiably at record low levels of power generation, when the blackout occurred in Spain? I definitely didn't. It feels kinda important!!!!!!!!!

Anyway - have a read, and share if you enjoyed it - I think it's an important issue and I remain pretty stunned at how bad the financial / business press in particular has shockingly botched coverage of this incident and its fallout. ketanjoshi.co/2025/05/05/w...

The climate movement rallied effectively to defeat Dutton's nuclear fantasy, but we need to get much better at championing our own proactive vision while holding Labor's feet to the fire on fossil fuels this term.

How you treat the most vulnerable in society is how you should be judged. And governments and societies that treat the most vulnerable with abuse never stop with that one group. I mean FFS. Read the f*cking poem again.

Means testing is expensive and degrading. As much as possible, use the tax system. Labour is so disappointing and comments this morning indicate that they don't have a clue.

Means testing is pseudo-religious and based in puritan thinking. It is utterly regressive, and yes expensive and degrading. Most of Labour have no idea of what progress means. They have lives too comfortably middle class in the main to get it. The Greens are more socialist than Labour since Blair.

#auspol, you get this right?

And I am an expert and analyst, and a big chunk of what I say about EU transport policy now doesn't get seen by EU policymakers 🤷‍♂️ Musk broke a lot

Just passing along some friendly advice on how to approach potential changes to the Australian health care system @drruthmitchell.bsky.social

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just felt the urge to remind you that the owner of baker’s delight is a major funder of advance australia #auspol

I also think it’s silly to write off the Coalition. Elections are increasingly less about how coherent an opposition is. If politics continues to fracture, people still feel disenfranchised, and the Liberals put up a vaguely sensible person (big TBC though), their return is possible.

The missing fact is the rate of marriage breakups and psychosis in three community. We'll know if the rates go up. Lonely and delusional people will be drawn to sycophantic #LLMs, so the challenge is to differentiate a correlation being a symptom or a cause.

I really wish Matthew Berman would join Bluesky. His analysis of the events at the bleeding edge of #ai development are excellent. His final thoughts on this video point to a looming issue with manipulation of the vulnerable with "AI companions."

Yes, I think that’s true and basically what meant here and in other pieces about them still having sway over the political class. Labor and Greens could ignore them—even challenge them—if they got their minds right.

in other developments, in case you missed it, the #robots have arrived 😬 the future is now? youtu.be/7LNRDPoqbGA?...

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Cheryl Kernot: let’s hope Labor does not misinterpret this result. Milbo and Michael West in unison: they will. #SundayShot

A few days ago, President Trump issued an executive order seeking to block all federal funding to NPR, the latest in a series of threats to media organizations across the country.

Hey Aussies what are you doing tomorrow? Put on your favourite coloured shirt, get outside and achieve something! It's good for you! #auspol

This is good!

Brave kids ♥️

there are forms of trolling that the bluesky nuclear block cannot possibly prevent, and they are upsetting and dangerous trust and safety is hard, no place is perfect

Yes bluesky is sweet and all, but struggles to get into any nuance or sophisticated conversation around #ai and #llm beyond one of the seven stages of grief.

Been saying this and telling people for months now. And look for Topham Guerin’s part in the PR machinery. They were always going to play dirty, because they have the funds for it. Billionaires fund it but the world pays, in the end.

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Every election, we've made a video to help voters understand how our preferential voting system works. This is for the 2025 election. If you find it helpful, pls share with your family, friends and pets. Good luck Australia! 💛🗳️ 📌 ICYMI: this is satire, NOT official electoral advice!

Sponsored by the fossil fuel industry… reducing emissions isn’t enough anymore so why bother? Coral restoration only works at small scales and it costs a fortune. See www.cell.com/one-earth/pd...

'Have you noticed that things are getting a little Trumpian in Australia?' Damon Gameau looks at Atlas and Advance #auspol > youtu.be/ecqDvx9HMhs?... Let's share this - a lot!!! 🙌 🙌

Our economy is not our problem. Our problem is growing wealth inequality, a housing crisis, and hijacking of our media by selfish billionaires desperate not to pay tax while pillaging the planet with criminal disregard of the climate crisis. #auspol

A short monologue from me, on why we have really badly failed to hold centre / centre-right governments to account on climate, out of fear of angering them or losing privliged access. With some numbers on Labor's climate record, and thoughts on the feedback loop created when we mute criticism

This is great. Been losing my mind at the absolutely woeful, milquetoast “campaigns” from big enviro groups which are basically just scorecards deliberately designed to make Labor look less bad on climate and enviro policy.