Scienceworks museum in #Melbourne.

Good stuff.

Moisturised hand; eyeglasses Accidental touch Instant range for the small smudge

Confused about #AI economics? McSweeney's can help. AI Economics for Dummies www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-...

Pie and paracetamol is how I'm making it through work today.

"It strikes me that, if you are going to be a writer, then the process is as important as the product – if not more so. That, after all, is what defines the writer. *How* you get the words down on the page, not *that* you get them down." engelsbergideas.com/notebook/the...

Fantastic, thoroughly explained, well researched/cited post from lawyer Matthew Butterick on the risk that AI poses to liberal democracies. matthewbutterick.com/extinction-l...

ME: Manages to head home from work a little early. THE UNIVERSE:

All these years later and I've spent the day with Cher's "Believe" stuck in my head :) #NotAComplaint Here's the duet from Cher's 2024 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction that prompted this. youtu.be/qYE7EAUL3_c?...

How lucky are we that some artists now proactively release multiple version of their songs. Like Peter Gabriel who, since his 2023 album i/o, has been releasing bright and dark mixes of all his songs. And Dua Lipa released regular and extended versions of Radical Optimism in 2024. 1/2

“When one resists AI, one is making an investment in maintaining the veracity of the world we all experience. As George Bernard Shaw said: “The liar’s punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.”

I was interviewed about Sanctuary Moon and other fake TV shows on TubeTalk: www.tubetalk.media/p/murderbot-...

reminder that this symposium is on Thursday this week. join in person or online. full program and rego link: palestinespeech.my.canva.si

Australia can avoid an US-style backlash against AI if it acts now to keep Australians safe from the harms of the new technology, Assistant Minister Andrew Charlton said as he announced that the government's AI Safety Institute is now up and running.

When the post is one character too long and you have to get rid of the Oxford comma…

Shout out to the frozen chicken that didn't defrost in time for dinner, allowing me to order takeout like I wanted to anyway. Not all heroes wear capes.

My god, Octavia Butler, just miss ONCE

On June 1, 1999, Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning launched the peer-to-peer file-sharing platform Napster. #InternetHistory

There's been a recent influx of Bluesky users joining Mastodon so I figured I'd share this fun rant from Arilin Thorferra 😛 giants-club.net/articles/jus...

"Indeed, people may do well to remember that speaking to a chatbot, especially one with persistent memory, is often less like chatting with friend or neutral arbiter — and more like talking to a hall of mirrors."

"Australia is pioneering a revolution in home renewables and battery use, proving what is possible with the right policies" www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This is Daisy. She doesn't have time for all this pet gate nonsense. Has things to do and places to pee. 13/10 (IG: toyobsessed_and_unimpressed)

Nicely said. Please Use AI – shawnsmucker.substack.com/p/please-use...

Wine display at West Footscray Wines in #Melbourne. (Looks cool in both full-colour and black-and-white so I figured I'd post both!)

Nothing to see. Just a totally normal inspection was carried out here. Move along.

Foul ground below the Jim Stynes Bridge on the Yarra River in #Melbourne.

Nostradamousse: mousse spiked with drugs that make you feel like you can see the future.

Coffee and dessert options at West Street Cafe in Hadfield, #Melbourne.

I've updated my list of favourite font pairings for writing (serif and sans serif; paid and free): www.insanityworks.org/randomtangen...

With its new AI-based "search," Google is literally killing the infrastructure that its entire business is built on. Instead of linking people to the web, it will lock users into an "interactive" mode that slorps up data what is rapidly becoming the now-neglected and unvisited web. (1/3)

Exciting moment tonight at a horror writers’ panel where it struck me that the “you have to set your story in the past cos of mobile phones” era is over, cos now your phone will lie to you, mislead you, freak you out, let you down, and do all sorts of sinister uncanny shit.

YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK

Slightly spoiler-y discussion with Martha Wells about her latest #Murderbot book. Martha Wells on Platform Decay, Found Families, and What’s Next for Murderbot | reactormag.com/martha-wells...

The one highlight of using Windows at work is the occasional adorable animal photos you get when you use Windows Spotlight as your desktop wallpaper :)

Polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS): ‘Unprecedented’ global effort gives new name to polycystic ovary syndrome – and new hope to millions of women www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...

This is so true. Every time I hear someone talking about how they can’t possibly do what they do without AI I want to shake them. Do what you did in 2022 or so! It hasn’t been that long!

A orgy in the midnight grime. But in the morning fresh "one squirt is enough".

[Sliding up flirtatiously to the purple-speckled dish] So, is there a _Mama_ Ghanoush?

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

We got #solar panels! If you want to read a long #blog post about it (how, why, what, ROI), here you go 😃 www.insanityworks.org/randomtangen...

A typical Australian problem, if you don't regularly clean your mailbox.

So much depends… #photography #fujifilm #darktable

List of 9 websites where you can download unlimited books for free: 1. gutenberg .org 2. standardebooks .org 3. manybooks .net 4. openlibrary .org 5. bookboon .com 6. freecomputerbooks .com 7. internetarchive .org 8. digilibraries .com 9. librivox .org

"AI had hooked its tendrils into every corner of my work life. Even if I, personally, abstained from most AI usage, I was steeped in an environment which made it impossible to avoid." ky.fyi/posts/ai-bur...

"A billionaire death cult has its fingers around humanity’s throat. It both causes and downplays our existential crisis. [...] It’s the billions [you and me] v the billionaires, and the stakes could not possibly be higher." Maybe *the* most important article you'll ever read.

Today marks 19 years since I formally started my blog. By "formally" I mean I stopped writing sporadic life updates on my static-HTML personal website and installed WordPress instead. #TimeFlies

Interrupting my sister's cat Henry while he was happily eating his kibble.

Yes this. I have to use AI addled software for work but I run Linux on my personal machine and Libre Office is great.

This girl teaching her new puppy how to go down stairs . 😍