Please, Australia, don’t buy into this Trojan horse #auspol https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/17/what-is-new-uk-us-tech-deal-ai-supercomputers-investment-economy

FFS. Now GritHub won't let me see the text in a text file without running their proprietary JavaScript, eg; https://github.com/MariaDB/server/blob/main/COPYING (Using LibreFox on Fedora GNU/Linux) Why is any Open Source project still using this rapidly enshittifying monstrosity? There are […]

At first glance, this looks like a great initiative, Really Simple Licensing: https://rslstandard.org It's a simple standard way to embed licensing terms in robots.txt, rss feeds, web pages and more, so that internet crawlers (especially AI bots) can understand the author's intentions, and […]

This is super interesting, using AI to evolve empirical software that can make significant scientific progress. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.06503

They erased Banksy’s mural in London — just like they erase Gaza’s story every day. 💔

Lovely song, with great words, but especially, so many cool rhymes! https://www.youtube.com/shorts/AYm9w6W5B-E

I'm interested in your comments as I'm still improving this model. https://dougiamas.com/how-we-could-build-a-better-future-for-creators-in-the-age-of-ai/ #ai

"Amazon are playing New Zealand for fools" - Catalyst IT's Don Christie RNZ's Kathryn Ryan ran a segment today on Morning Report on AWS's supposed investment in NZ, inviting both Amazon and Catalyst - and Amazon were a no show. That's #chickenshit on the part of #aws Amazon's supposed $7B […]

In case you've not been seeing pictures of the genocide currently going on, this will catch you up. 🙃 The interactive map in the middle shows really well how systematic it is. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-20/israel-evacuation-orders-across-gaza-redraw-map/105630686

I'm proud our government here in Australia is standing up against fascist bullies that are officially committing genocide and causing famine. Even though this is apparently not trendy with governments these days […]

Your occasional reminder that everyone literally sees our world differently because they come from different cultures, have had different experiences and sometimes traumas, have access to different information, and focus their efforts on different things.

Have you been injured by clouds? You may be entitled to condensation

@martin ...similar projects: https://www.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/datascience/projects/nlp/llammlein/ https://allenai.org/olmo

All countries should be working on local #ai projects like this, it respects local culture and improves outcomes. Just also plan sustainable energy and water alongside it. https://restofworld.org/2025/mongolia-egune-ai-llm/

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"Open Source runs much of the world's critical infrastructure. It powers government services, supports national security, and enables everything from public health systems to elections. This means governments must help fund Open Source." #technology […]

I do love this about #singapore: “In 2015, the then Prime Minister, Lee Hsien Loong, who has a first-class degree in mathematics and a diploma in computer science from Cambridge, shared a Sudoku solver on Facebook which he had programmed himself in C, which racked up 36,000 likes and 12,000 […]

Good on you Michelle Ananda-Rajah! That’s what we need to be hearing in our government. More focus on local AI and getting away from the crazy landlords. #auspol #ai https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/13/ai-artificial-intelligence-racism-sexism-australia-human-rights-commissioner

Good to see work being done on this It’s still a bit of mixed bag though. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/aug/14/ai-artificial-intelligence-jobs-cleaning-construction-hospitality-australian-report

This article tracks with my thinking about #openai in general. The way OpenAI it’s structured, the people it hires, and the Silicon Valley and VC culture it swims in, will make it impossible for them to do anything else but jump on the road to insidious #enshittification. Advertising and […]

Ghost (@index) starting to take #fediverse seriously helped me decide to move my old personal site from #wordpress to #ghost this week.

#genie3, wow. Incredible how fast this technology is improving! Please look at this through Philip's lens, he has very good takes on most things: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVHZy-iml5Q #ai

AI is not your personal secret sauce, we ALL have access to it now, so let’s demystify the process, give credit where it’s due, and foster a healthier, more honest relationship with the powerful new creative tools at our disposal. Good labelling helps us all decide better how we want to […]

This is my first post with Mastodon Autopost plugin for wordpress - https://wordpress.org/plugins/autopost-to-mastodon/

Still amazing and fresh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWIKQMBBTtk

Keep up your daily walking everyone! “The researchers found that the people who walked around 7000 steps a day had a 47 per cent lower risk of dying from any cause over the studies’ follow-up periods, on average, compared with taking just 2000 steps a day. They also had a 25 per cent lower risk […]

Yeah of course it is. And that will just get more and more intentional. “He added that the situation made him realize how powerful ChatGPT has become as an influencer of consumer behavior. “It's making product recommendations—for existent and nonexistent features alike—to massive audiences […]

It’s been amazing watching Anthropic speed-run “don’t be evil.” They slid as far as Google, but in a small fraction of the time. Moore’s law, but for the acceleration of tech companies going from “we’re different” to “we must compete in the torment nexus market.”

"If they keep their promises, by the end of 2025, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Tesla will have spent over $560 billion in capital expenditures on #ai in the last two years, all to make around $35 billion." Just imagine if all that money were invested in making their businesses carbon […]

"You couldn’t imagine a more perverse deal between a big corporation and government" Well, I could, but this is certainly right up there with the worst. Australian taxpayers contractually made to pay for environmental mess made by US oil interests drilling in our country. Chevron should not […]

Never truer http://www.lennartgaebel.com/theyletyoudoit

Australia Institute have started a petition to stop Fossil Fuel lobbyists from subverting the next COP31 climate conference (as they have done in previous years). https://nb.australiainstitute.org.au/ban_fossil_fuel_lobbyists_from_cop31?recruiter_id=1190460 #auspol

Everybody, do yourselves a favour and read this post from @pluralistic . AI is not about the tech. Neither were blockchains and the metaverse. It's always about the economics Pluralistic: When Google’s slop meets webslop, search stops (15 Jul 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow […]

If you're fairly tech-literate, you're probably having a lot of conversations with non tech people about AI, which is good because we all need to be working out where it belongs in our lives. I think it's particularly important that we separate these two things: AI as a concept and a SCIENCE […]

Deafness reversed: Single injection brings hearing back within weeks https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/07/250702214148.htm A cutting-edge gene therapy has significantly restored hearing in children and adults with congenital deafness, showing dramatic results just one month after a […]

Your occasional reminder to eat less meat because it's good for the planet. https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-023-00795-w

#suno now splits generated tracks into up to 12 full stems for local editing / completion in your favourite DAW. This is a total game changer for fine quality control of #musicproduction. if you don't know Suno, here's one of my tracks: https://suno.com/song/c6e44436-1f65-4b85-b2b4-d71b6f73c5f8

Invented a new genre on Sunday https://suno.com/song/431d2de2-aa17-418b-bf4f-f629e21aff35

Web sites are going to become the backwaters of the internet if big tech has its way

When you continuously talk and scheme about wanting global dominance you realise that makes you the bad guy, right? Do you even watch your own movies? https://media.bis.gov/sites/default/files/documents/05.07%20Recission%20of%20AI%20Diffusion%20Press%20Release.pdf #ai

Well, this is quite disgusting. "A new offshore gas rig, built by multinational petroleum giant ConocoPhillips, has been erected to drill deep into the seafloor off the Great Ocean Road. Not only is the gas rig next to a Marine National Park, it now stands as a backdrop to the world famous […]

A weird sort of mind virus has taken over most explainer videos just in the past couple of years. It's the use of "go ahead", as in "so, go ahead and do X" or worse and just as common, "so, now you're going to want to go ahead and do X". It's new […] [Original post on openedtech.social]

I've been spending time this year re-curating my digital diet to prioritise the many great creators of news and entertainment and tools that are NOT based in the US. It became very clear to me that the signal-to-noise ratio coming out of the US (just 4.2% of the world's population) is just too […]

Please stop creating content, folks, it’s just making it harder to finish the internet

Pro drone racing goes to AI pilots https://youtu.be/yz2in2eFATE?si=6SsjSH08ovHF8z69

Billionaire-proof open social media is now mission-critical infrastructure for the future of democracy.

Michael Spencer here encapsulated some of the disgust I feel about #openai distinctly anti-Open monopolistic intentions (which is part of a much larger problem of greed in US corporate culture) https://www.ai-supremacy.com/p/openai-wants-to-ban-deepseek

Don't keep an Amazon Echo (or any smart speaker) in a room where you'll be having sensitive conversations, either with your family or on a work call. Particularly if you're a journalist or activist. #technology https://werd.io/2025/everything-you-say-to-your-echo-will-be-sent-to

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