Totally unsurprised by the people on the group ride who have gotten themselves the Meta glasses.

Can he do it? Can he out Streisand, Streisand?

This is why it's important authors read a lot, Murakami has no idea this has been done already

Welcome to Country booing @ Dawn Service was organised by the exact same group of people who arranged the last round. The whole crowd was not booing. If I am with a small crowd booing and I record myself it sounds like the whole crowd is booing. It's called camera perspective bias.

So, I have turned off predictive text for Word on my iPad both in the app and in the iPad settings and yet I AM STILL GETTING SWIPE TO COMPLETE SUGGESTIONS. I hate the form of technology we have been lumped with.

It's always fun seeing Americans realising that words can have different uses and meanings outside their country. Some even don't cause the same kind of offence

Side scrolling photos are awful

The biggest win for AI boosters was to convince people that near enough was, in fact, good enough.

I’m still going through the Going Rogue back catalogue. But that will have to wait for this new series.

There should be a word for being content but also terrified by the fact Melbourne is experiencing a couple of weeks in the mid-20s in late April

Me: oh there’s a new M.I.A album. I should read what Apple Music says about it…holy fuck. What does “recently strengthened to protect against 10G” actually mean?

Pure, uncut, Vegemite

“It’s just an application of Pythagoras’s Theorum” Yep. And I remember what that is.

JKR fans (you know the ones) crowed when a boycott of Hogwarts Legacy “failed” but this Jackson whitewash will do gangbusters and Kanye is selling out the gigs that aren’t banned. Most people will choose fandom over morality any day

Kid is studying for a maths test today. I probably should have done some revision myself before they brought their questions over to me, waved them under my face and said “is this right?”

If only the Knights Templar thought of this

The usual pathway is wellness to fash, not necessarily the other way around

That workout was harder until I put Robyn’s ‘Body Talk’ on

A new drilling method has been discovered with all the spinning George Orwell and Eileen O'Shaughnessy are doing in their respective graves.

I had to also listen to the Frente! cover

I agree with the Knowledge Fight boys. How will the Onion hope to satirise this?

That's a weight-bearing 'could' there, particularly in the absence of any evidence to support the statement.

@grogsgamut.bsky.social tells me he has seen another suggestion on here - Labor Always Makes Excuses - L.A.M.E

This feels like a good afternoon to listen to New Order

"High Jacking" is *chef's kiss*

There is a blue corvette parked outside the vsc. It’s plate is ‘L4WM4N’ Really leaning into the arsehole aesthetic aren’t you, dude?

My phone case is starting to wear, so I have been using my phone in its uncased form today. It is so much better. Why have we accepted buying something so desirable that we want to preserve its original form so much that we never use it in that form?

This is a very good piece on the uncertainty surrounding concussion recovery. A lot of us, as spectators of sport, think of a concussion as something that can be played through or quickly recovered from. Those views are conditioned by historical treatment of concussion.

A naive question: How do you model something when you don't know the criteria you are going to impose?

Just caught up on some of the announcements. I guess it's continued anxiety for anyone on the NDIS until the government works out how to assess their functional capacities. Awesome. Way to show you are caring.

This is not a subtweet of any speech. I assume from a response I received, Butler and/or Chalmers is/are speaking. I am talking about the media campaign against the NDIS and the potential reception from the gen pop

A fundamental problem with the NDIS is that many people can only conceive of those needing support within the system as those with profound disabilities. So, it makes the stories of rorts make them think of user-fraud rather than supplier fraud.

I have spent much of the morning trying to reconcile a client's invoices for a debt claim. This is after I lost another morning recently failing to do the same thing for them. I sincerely regret the choices that have brought me to this moment.

Awesome. Great. Good job to all concerned.

The ABC's piece was straight out of Morrison's "Labor want to take away your weekend away" campaign and John does a great dissection of it.

I’m sure their insurers are fine with this

I’m glad a couple of people got the joke. I thought I might be being a little too obtuse

Having a manifesto is a bit of a red flag

'Good thing is bad really because good thing happened at an event owned by a bad person (which everyone should know)' is a peak Bluesky argument

Someone asked me if I’d take a deal where I got $50k, but my worst enemy got $100k. I said, “sounds amazing. I’ve always wanted $150k."

I haven't heard a single post about this anywhere-- disney's had their animators reanimate some of their recent iconic songs in ASL?? here's "we don't talk about bruno"??? this is amazing??? www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBrv...

When you have to do the work to just be able to understand a text like the MCU is when I check out

For shits and giggles, I thought I would try getting Claude to write an account of the night I got shot. It was laughably bad and overwritten.

They made fencing into rhythmic gymnastics

Means testing is one of those things that sounds good in theory but, if you look at it long enough, you notice more and more problems

Here's their target: "Meanwhile, in-kind transfers like government-subsidised education, disability and healthcare are increasing." Public Education Public Disability Care Public Health care They want to be America.

The dim-bulbs would means-test reticulated potable water if they were one day visited in the night by the Consistency Of Thought Fairy.

Great piece that reiterates something everyone who is not a weird bay area freak or sucked into the AI hype cycle understands implicitly. There's no magic left, these people have barren imaginations.