The dunks on this in the replies are well worth reading. Heartening to see such contempt.

If "Abundance" isn't an establishment psy-op to trick liberals into being ineffective and derby stooges, I'll be genuinely shocked

CEOs be like: “AI is fantastic. The only things it appears to struggle with are things I am skilled at/knowledgeable about. It’s pretty bad at those. It’s great at all the stuff I’m not well-versed with, though.”

It’s infuriating that Stewart will miss the GF and they’ll change the timing of the bye next year to avoid it happening again. This was a completely foreseeable outcome 5+ years ago and the #afl just sleep-walked on and let it happen.

This vid about a dead mall in Oklahoma is bananas. It also shows an incredibly grim downtown. Obviously this is an extreme example, but I think in Australia we are sheltered from just how bad both brick and mortar retail, and urban environments more generally, are in the US. youtu.be/RTxwJPrzu08?...

Some sort of automated cost recovery from certain former politicians and public servants would seem to be in order.

Read @amyremeikis.bsky.social's excellent column on Charlie Kirk that The New Daily saw fit to take down here: amyremeikis.substack.com/p/charlie-ki...

Broadcasters (I’m watching on Foxtel) are optically adding an AAMI logo onto the ground. It looks like one of those tricky perspective painted ground ads (which they also have), but it is not there in long shots. What new corporate bullshit is this? #afl

Every Gold Coast player surely got the classic “is that what you’re wearing?” from their partners when leaving the house tonight. #afl

Crows did a lot to set this situation up by fighting so hard on the Rankine suspension, which was the opposite of their lip service to accepting he’d done the wrong thing. #afl www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

I know I've posted a lot of words about the booing of Isaac Quaynor but I am just so disturbed by it. It is far too reminiscent of the booing of Adam Goodes. Isn't it a funny coincidence that so many booing targets are players of colour; POC who didn't "know their place" and spoke up #afl

Worst umpiring decision ever (the first of the two Cameron kicks). #afl

This feels a lot like a grand final matchup, with whoever loses tonight going the long way round. #afl

Will the absence of reliable automatic metro service in the United States mark the moment its citizens notice how far behind their country has fallen?

Why did the Foxtel commentators talk over the soft call? Shut up so we can hear. #afl #aflcrowspies

When all is said and done, the very worst punishment ultimately rests on Linda Reynolds. There is nothing more terrifying, no more painful punishment that I can think of, that is worse than this for Reynolds . . . Linda Reynolds has to live the rest of her life being Linda Reynolds.

SovCits and other unhinged cooker types are the real problem in this country, not people speaking out against genocide who are labelled as anti-semitic by some. Governments need to wake up and get with the programme otherwise reality will continue to bite them on the arse just like it did today.

One of the most irritating things about management edicts re: uni teaching is how often they come from people who actively avoid teaching, who've forgotten what the inside of a classroom looks like, and whose views seem derived from decades-old memories of a bad lecturer or their own bad lecturing

Bulldogs weirdly reluctant to rely on Essendon beating Gold Coast. #afl

Turned on the TV to watch the #afl pre-game and it’s halfway through the first quarter. What crazy time did this game start?!?

Pleasing to see the broadcast getting stuck into the Rankine verdict. #afl

Garbage League

AFL will want to have a bloody good explanation of how Rankine got a week off the previous normal suspension. Especially since Adelaide’s approach this week indicates a lack of remorse. #afl

Laura Loomer, who the president has consulted for decisions on who to fire, is arguing with a chatbot

Planners embracing AI solutions.

The link is well worth reading. There’s a lot of detail in there that gives a sense of how bad these chat bots are.

Woah.....this article was published 113 years ago!!!!

RIP the legendary David Stratton who not only was monitored by ASIO for suspected communist sympathies but also once gave a film - 'The Replacements' - zero stars because "It is a film which celebrates strike-breakers and scabs". Read the transcript here: letterboxd.com/margaret_dav...

Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.

Post to this to your family Facebook and Instagram. Take screenshots, post quotes. Make them see it. Make everyone see it.

Monica Lewinsky would like a word, Jay. Oh, that's right, she was totally powerless, so it was okay to shit on her and call her trash on TV. Take your Dancing Itos and your phony outrage and your warehouse full of cars and shut your fucking giant mouth.

Oh, I have some feedback for you alright @paramountplus.com

Here's Colbert on July 14 making fun of Paramount for paying Trump $16 million. It's hard not to see CBS canceling his show through this lens. "I believe this kind of complicated financial settlement with a sitting government official has a technical name in legal circles. It's big fat bribe."

This is fascinating: www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/s/I... Someone “worked on a book with ChatGPT” for weeks and then sought help on Reddit when they couldn’t download the file. Redditors helped them realized ChatGPT had just been roleplaying/lying and there was no file/book…

I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

Messaging from Essendon seems appropriate tonight. Team full of kids, some positions may be filled by cardboard cutouts with crudely drawn players on them. #afl

This alert will never not feel weird.

Again... DO NOT USE AI - IT REMAINS SHIT "Attackers embed a prompt in an email, and when users click on Gmail's new feature "Summarize this email," Gemini dutifully follows the hidden instructions and adds a phishing warning that looks like it came from Google." Google's AI feature is an exploit

Me reading the latest Essendon injury bulletin. #afl

tl;dr - AI MAKES THINGS WORSE

Yeah so Grok is really going for it now

Say what you like about ChatGPT and other LLMs, but they have achieved things scholars previously thought impossible. Like making content on LinkedIn worse.

Here’s a thread of cheese fries you can get at soccer stadiums in the U.K.

"The problem with AI isn't that it can do your job. It can't. The problem with AI is that your MBA-brained boss's boss doesn't know how your job works and thinks AI can do your job at fractions of a penny on the dollar, and hears the siren song of 'maximize shareholder value'." MBA-brain is real.

I’m all for a Short Round film but otherwise, I’m not sure there’s actually a meaningful Indiana Jones product without Spielberg, Ford or John Williams. We have that already! It’s Romancing the Stone, it’s The Mummy, it’s National Treasure, it’s The Da Vinci Code, etc.

I too am traumatised that the em- dash (which I have taught myself to use more in writing because it is good) has been sucked into the trenches of the war against AI slop.

they call him "Mr. Priorities"

To think I nearly tipped Carlton tonight. #afl

*pigeon doing a slow mournful double take over a Hans Zimmer vwooommmmmmm sound*