In Greek we say "my tongue has grown hair from repeating this" but I'll keep doing it: guardrails are literally a lie. bsky.app/profile/oliv... 3/n

A disrespect for me as an educator means that a basic piece of sociality and trust has been broken and so I don’t owe anyone generous feedback. But I don’t need to be punitive either. That’s what those who are selling these products want. They want to exhaust us into resignation.

Just a thought… but maybe let’s not have massive data centres sucking up water, gutsing on electricity and destroying the social fabric. Could be an option?

Excellent piece (as usual) from @jennaprice.bsky.social www.canberratimes.com.au/story/912684...

It’s no accident that foreign streaming services do little to promote Australian music and podcasts to Australians…and it’s no accident that our governments have chosen not to do more to fix it. Local content matters more in the digital age than ever thepoint.com.au/news/251204-...

Sigh, give a ‘security guard’ a high vis vest with SECURITY across their back and get a fascist wanna be wanker.

Even if you ignore the insane power usage, and the IP theft, and the workforce damage, the amount of fraud and abuse that gen ai enables is inexcusable and inextricable from the technology as long as it exists.

Me on ABC's AM today - talking about Defence's reforms from the DVSRC. What did not make the cut are my comments on the need for much, MUCH more transparency about what they are doing, how and why. I see a lot of flash bang at the moment and not enough substance. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Urban Wronski has outlined the 3 stages of 'told you so' with the upcoming social media ban for his latest article > #auspol > davidjohntyler.substack.com/p/ban-it-and...

AI is an absolute net negative for humanity. So of course govts are clamouring for more of it. I don't want to be too judgmental, but every single proponent of the glories of AI is a complete wanker www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

What could go wrong? My @smh @theage cartoon.

Here I am, a conference presenter who makes sure they stay to time wishing others would too. Sigh.

Then why are you shoving it down our throats; greedy hypocrite “The head of Google’s parent company said people should not “blindly trust” everything AI tell them…Pichai..said AI models were “prone to errors” & urged people to use them alongside other tools” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Yep, 100%... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Disgraceful & tragic what governments have done to this once science powerhouse! www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11... "Federal Science Minister...Tim Ayres said the cuts were aimed at refocusing the efforts of the CSIRO towards research priorities, such as critical minerals, iron & steel...in Australia."

lieber.westpoint.edu/mission-comm... Interesting piece. #MissionCommand #Profession

Shutting down sustainable industry to protect a filthy one

I know authors can be desperate, but seriously, one look at those images and a glance at the text and it all stinks of Slop. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

Maybe it's my Autism Brain or whatever, but I don't really get why anyone who had access to this stuff wouldn't have splashed these horrific revelations literally everywhere the second you knew about them. Take these fuckers down.

The only net zero the libs are keen to commit to for 2050 is seats held

xkcd nails car bloat xkcd: Car Size xkcd.com/3167/

Talk about a cursed set of words

@kythera.bsky.social thank you!

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How do universities justify signing multi million dollar deals with this company when it is nothing more than a thief and liar?

Fuck 'em up.

I pledge to block every single Youtube channel I see posting AI generated science or history slop. Not because the AI imagery is misleading trash--which it is--but because the content is vapid and dubious. Give me kids who's passion for science or history pays for their home any day.

They are brilliant - if you’ve never listened do now! www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...

ALWAYS! Stand up for trans rights now, because they're your rights too. Trans rights are human rights.

causing poverty - a primary outcome of criminal law - does not support victims of sexual violence. Expanding police powers has never in the history of patriarchy reduced, halted, nor prevented sexual violence. Increasing inequality in fact strongly correlates with higher rates of violence.

Gee, if only we could actually enforce copyright and stop them stealing our creative output then we wouldn’t need this…

Maybe the thing that gives me a pulse-pounding throbbing headache is when I think of how techbros sold ChatGPT to universities as ‘revolutionizing’ higher education and our institutions just forked over money without even asking for actual evidence

Every week a new battery miracle, with the simplest use cases of all. But we're only allowed to talk about the chatbots that do your homework (but take longer and do worse) or write your code (but take longer and do worse). And it's not like for every tenth battery in use, someone kills themselves.

It makes me egregiously angry that our elected officials can just choose to ignore the very best scientific research and that they can choose to continue to do harm to our society with impunity. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Out of all the real issues the opposition *should* be attacking the Gov on and they choose, checks the notes, a t-shirt. Sigh.

the repost on this I just shared I completely agreed with, the last half of the movie had me repeatedly shouting at the screen - "you just wait to respond...!", . The single missile does not require immediate counter-strike (especially as there was no origin source). www.netflix.com/tudum/articl...

How does the US "have only 18 minutes to respond" if a single nuke is headed for a city that is irrelevant to our nuclear force??? 18 min to try to stop that nuke sure, but our ability to retaliate would be exactly the same after the detonation. www.netflix.com/tudum/articl...

boiling the earth so the dumbest person alive can write emails that make them sound like the third dumbest person alive.

Nationals MP Barnaby Joyce says it's an honour to conclude his term in a "dignified manner". Also Barnaby: #auspol

Abolish private schools and condemn anyone who sends their kids to one in the meantime.

Give the head of the ABS danger pay.

Counting what doesn’t count: How consultants are hollowing out the university

AI – you cannot escape it! And now the internet claims many people don’t even care. What is going on?! | First Dog on the Moon

There's that post/engagement bait going around at the moment asking for your niche yet serious ethical stance, and mine is: you are a bad person if you own one of these monstrosities (By this measure, Perth is veritably the belly of the beast)

Academics and other researchers: How are you handling the GenAI convo with collaborators? Got this growing feeling that I’m going to have to chat about or even formally write down rules around AI use on collab projects. Because I’m seeing a lot of my colleagues jump on the GenAI bandwagon.

Australia and gambling is like the US and guns: we know how harmful it is, but our politicians refuse to do anything about it.

Artisanal bespoke erotica is a tool of liberation. Extruded slop erotica is a tool of oppression. It's no surprise that oppressive institutions want what they want.