this is how you become an internet sensation for turning into a pancake 3500m under the Atlantic

I am almost totally financially illiterate and I understand tax better than this

Doesn't feel too out there to say that every hour of work "saved" by AI just becomes someone else's hour of work.

AI techbros have no idea how much everyone hates their new idiocy 😂

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The only "AI literacy" we need to teach kids is that it's really super easy to just not use it and they won't be missing out on anything whatsoever and then if somebody wants them to use it it's totally fine to just be, like, "nah, I'm good. Thanks."

Once again: there is no *ethical* use of AI. Universities "exploring ethical uses" are cashing in and trying to grab money to survive in the face of government shortfalls. You cannot "ethically" use a machine that steals art, energy, water, and land. Using AI to "make art" is exploitation and theft.

I am rereading Never Let Me Go for work reasons and I am finding it less satisfying than I did when I first read it years and years ago. There are some huge plot holes??? Also, go read The Book of Guilt by Catherine Chidgey.

I saw a something recently that said members of fandoms no longer exist as fans but believe they are stakeholders. They believe that their opinions and feelings have weight and influence. So they engage performances like they’re directing or a part of the production. It’s wild.

A month of so behind on this but let me also observe that Lena Dunham's memoir is excellent.

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There are ten million things wrong with this but can people please stop bringing shame to the Russo name 😭

Hey I was just looking up the book Ellie Crookes & I co-edited in 2024 and the hardback is on sale! It is SUPER PRETTY (and contains some absolute bangers) so if you want one for £36 rather than £85, have at it

AI is so great and smart!

I doubt we’ll ever give the Ronettes the credit they deserve, may her memory be a blessing, thank you for everything

Meritocracy!!!

The ease with which writers, artists and venues have been silenced reflects the precarity of creative work in this country, and the government's utter disregard for culture and the arts. This has gone on for so long we barely remember an alternative state of affairs. We can barely imagine it.

Pope Leo has lost the Protestants, I repeat Pope Leo has lost the Protestants, this is unpreced— <wait my producer is just whispering something in my ear> Apparently this is precedented

This is genuinely insane if you have even a passing knowledge of how Sparta has been weaponised by fascists: www.shrine.org.au/exhibitions/...

We are now allowed to create tutorial plans and other teaching materials with GenAI … if you can’t plan a tutorial what are you doing with your time and your career

The fucking contempt of these people.

Living for the Community Note that got added to Reese Witherspoon's A.I. sermon bullshit

The AI rollout is an incredible test case for the power of capital to overrule everything in its way. An overwhelmingly stupid, obscenely polluting, and wildly dangerous set of technologies are being brute-forced into every part of our lives because money says so.

Absolutely terrible news - bad for students and for the community.

It's Antipope time

no one is doing it like jd vance, a loser across three continents in a single weekend

If suburban high streets are massive traffic choke points (like they are in Marrickville and Campsie in Sydney), they should be pedestrianised with the exception of buses.

Funny how the money is always available for Exec retreats

Putting aside Sam Altman just continuing to emit huge lies constantly, this is an amazing example of what I mean when I talk about how GenAI is replacing *extremely low energy* digital tasks with *WAY WAY HIGHER ENERGY* replacements that *do not even work* Why TF is anyone using ChatGPT as a timer!

"we need kids to get an early start operating machines that are routinely wrong and may try to coax them into suicide and/or psychosis" is a fun education perspective i disagree with actually

77 million people voted for this. And most of them are still good with it.

One of the best shows I have ever seen. Go support Australian theatre telling Australian stories!!

Truly disgusting of the National Press Club to platform this filth

Surprise, Dylan is trash

This is the best thing I have ever seen

Use AI, beclown yourself.

My year 6 class passed a copy of Flowers in the Attic around to each other and we were all the better for it

Yesterday I came across an article Leigh Sales wrote on Thursday when the ABC was on strike. It is one of the worst commentary pieces on Australian political-economic history I've read. It was clear no one of quality was around to check her work or prevent it from being published. 1/13

I am genuinely sick to death of pretending this is somehow normal or expected. If you use LLMs to do any part of your writing, thinking or synopses (let alone art) you should be embarrassed and out of work.

Great move by Wikipedia! Love to see more of this.

okay so AI is absolutely cratering imminently and I need all of you to PROMISE me you won't take the high road, and will laugh and rub it in their faces as much as possible. I need you to laugh and go 'WE TOLD YOU SO, BITCH" at every opportunity, PLEASE be extremely mean and ruthless

Bridgerton season 5 announcement got me fighting deranged stans in various Reddits like I'm 17 again

Long, ,but excellent read. AI is evil and I would happily see every bit of it thrown into the sea and all involved with the development of it mocked and shouted at for eternity.

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Thanks to Cam Rogers on Facebook for articulating exactly the issues around the new animated Firefly that's been announced.

Remember when the metaverse was sold to higher ed as an essential part of the future of learning (especially online)? And how colleges and universities should go all-in on the metaverse so they could be "pioneers" of this new technology? There's a lesson here for those who choose to learn it.