This is not the time for wild speculation about what happened. It’s time to bet on Kalshi about what happened

Robey to chooses to bump, leaves the ground, could be in trouble. #afl

I ... It hurts, fam. I am hurt by the way people have devalued themselves. :(

Not one but two clear examples of Betteridge’s law of headlines (if a headline has a question mark, the answer to the question is “no”) in this YouTube clip. #afl

Another of those real stories that feels like overwritten satire.

Just realised Raiders of the Lost Ark came out halfway between now and when it was set. So it is as old now (45 years) as the setting (1936) was when it was made. I feel so old.

The new VERY hagriographic Michael Jackson biopic starring MJ's nephew is out at the end of the month. But back in 2004 an unauthorised and EQUALLY flattering biopic was made in Canada. Here is a clip and I promise you have NO idea where it's going. I haven't done a single edit here.

We didn't create "AI." "AI" is an app that plagiarizes & turns its theft into slop. It's designed to make Boomers think they can code without knowing how to code, create art without ever making a drawing, & write a book with no new ideas or talent. All using water & raising electric bills. 🙄

The conservative / low growth option in my super fund is currently putting 30% in bonds, 30% in property, and 40% in the Bulldogs to beat Essendon at Marvel this weekend. #afl

www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros... is it good to build an entire economy and software infrastructure on this

The more I think about it, the more I hate @lintonbesser.bsky.social's implication here that allowing machine-generated plagiarism and fabrications in media+opinion is somehow "inevitable" Frankly, it seems to go against the entire existence of media watch? www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/e...

"The AI Grad Student": A Harvard professor describes working with Claude. Early on, he describes misconduct that would cause any student to be terminated: "It faked results, hoping I wouldn't notice." But he ends the essay with "Now I'm doing 100% of my research with LLMs". Am I losing my mind?

Big story, this is such an interesting moment. These AI tools are presented as an irresistible flood but the companies can’t afford to keep them open. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

My question exactly. Reminds me how good the old approach was. #afl

EVERY SINGLE PART of a lily is toxic! Petals, leaves, pollen, the water in the vase. You can celebrate someone other ways besides killing their cat. I worked as a vet tech for 10 years. Let me assure you, you don't want to see your cat go through this nightmare.

NACC concludes that Kathryn Campbell didn't lie because she had no motive to They say she had no motive because she was already successful, & wouldn't risk lying for further career advancement. I love it when people with no understanding of greed or hubris run corruption investigations

I say this every year, but: The uni students I'm teaching are thoughtful, intelligent, will make everything they encounter better. With a new addition for 2026: They deeply hate AI.

friends, I have brought you a gift

Cometti was so good. The only caller, I think, who managed to be genuinely funny without it fucking up his call.

Ridiculous decision. Jason Bennett is easily one of the best AFL commentators & has been for a long time. Accurate, incisive, good judge of when to amp it up or back off. Yet Seven have always kept him in the shadows. Not sure what the rationale is but it's a really bad move.

AFL state of origin highlighting one of my most despised advertising practices - computer-generated ads made to look as if they are painted on the turf.

Over the past two weeks I've begun to realize that rich people only started funding chatbots once they could no longer email Jeffrey Epstein

I found the 50 most cathartic seconds of that Angela Collier video I linked earlier. Imagine of we could somehow get this to autoplay for everyone the next time they opened LinkedIn. Full video here: youtu.be/7pqF90rstZQ

Angela Collier is so good on AI. Revel in the righteous anger. Her discussion of the AI users proudly talking about how much they love it especially hit home for me. youtu.be/7pqF90rstZQ?...

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

LOL - although to be fair cracking it and refusing to pay an Adobe subscription is probably the most relatable thing Elon Musk has ever done.

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing. All from his movies.

Every new word in this sentence is worse than the last

slop machines “know” exactly nothing, a simple web search would be a better strategy, slop users <will> cause cultural harm, and people with sufficient knowledge are required to check and correct the slop, again demonstrating slop to be a huge drain on productivity. thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...

The good news just keeps on coming

Yikes.

You could count on the fingers of one hand the number of people* who really wanted this in footy. *excluding anyone who is, or is related to an AFL House or club employee, anyone who is, or is related to an AFL club 'official partner', or anyone involved in an AFL 'broadcast partner' role.

The *default* function of a chatbot will be the fabrication of fake information. This is baked into the core design of the product: so stuff like "please check outputs" and "ethical" AI use are just attempts to broom a tidal wave back into the sea

lol

Pains me to say it but I think this is true. Some of my colleagues in the media who’ve stayed on X don’t even realize how badly its noxious algorithm is skewing their perception of politics and reality. Also, that place seems designed to make you miserable unless you’re a Nazi. It’s just wretched.

The collapse of these AI companies cannot come quickly enough.

Lol I was one of the people who lodged an ACCC complaint about this. Go ACCC! This was outrageous. (For those who don’t know, you can maintain your copilot free Office but the option to do so was hidden.) youtu.be/9lGK5CXtwKo?...

Reading the Wikipedia page about DB Cooper and there is a lot going on in this description of Cooper copycat Glenn Tripp.

Alan Kohler on AI taking his financial analysis to a darker place than usual.

twitter is making mainstream reporters dumber, and because they're all getting dumber together, none of them can recognize it and they actually think they're getting smarter

Zach Merrett should fire his manager. All the strategy and finesse of Leroy Jenkins. #afl

As someone who experienced the 2000 era tech bubble collapse, this is fucking wild to watch. No one wants to pay for this bullshit which is why they keep forcing it on everyone, while spending the GDP of a reasonably sized country to build more of the thing that no one wants. It's fucking absurd

What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy

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