Dynamic Rüd adjourned.senate.gov.au/2025/

For anyone not following the Senate Dynamic Red today, please check it out and click on item 16 and enjoy the Dynamic Rüd. Such a shame there isn’t a Senate account here for me to tag and applaud

Seeing the “USian” vs “American” disagreements in my feed and thinking, “Yank” is the solution 😉 - fewer characters too

"Generative AI is just like calculators and people criticised them too!!!!" NO www.instagram.com/reel/DRQAZDj...

A fun(sarcasm) way of wasting environmental resources is to prompt the gen Al I have access to at work to summarise something for me and then submit the same prompt again to get a completely different response. Both complete with mistakes. Pointless and resource wasting.

Flip Out has very opportunistically sent an SMS encouraging visits while school’s out…

Found time to watch this yesterday and now I understand Canberra’s problems

Always the cover up

Adding alt text for screenshots is super easy! On iOS: 1: attach pic to skeet 2: tap “+ALT” 3: find the button with horizontal lines inside four corners. That’s the OCR—tap it 4: text will light up. Press on it and a menu will appear 5: tap “select all” then tap “copy” 6: paste into alt text box

Imagine a UK where alcohol harm is rare and everyone has an equal chance of good health. That’s the vision behind the new report 'A Healthier Future', which sets out the roadmap - and how cross-government action can make it happen. 🗺️ View and share 👉 www.ias.org.uk/report/a-hea...

The David Hume Institute has investigated the the legacy of the philosopher who gave it its name. The results are well worth your time. www.thetimes.com/article/c4b0...

Learning how many Australian animals/birds ended up in the UK has convinced me that the Loch Ness Monster really was just a swimming emu imported by some laird

It’s so bad my teen gave up on it. No redeeming points, just super bad

This is a very good move

Going to "yes and" this by @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social and say there's also a GenX turn to the left - ppl who once thought themselves centrist seeing things they took for granted disappear. Eg last night's Hopeful Technologists meet-up had a distinct GenX flavour www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We are hate watching All’s Fair (the Kim K divorce lawyer drama) and omg it is bad, so bad

good morning gang, let’s all suffer together

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

28g (1oz) uranium contains ~20,000,000,000 kcal, making it an incredibly cost effective source of calories

This is what you really need to worry about this Halloween.

Experts find flaws in hundreds of tests that check AI safety and effectiveness Scientists say almost all have weaknesses in at least one area that can ‘undermine validity of resulting claims’ www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Scary party with scary guests

Still baseballing I see

Is the baseball finished? Is it safe to come back?

Did anyone dress up as an ICE agent for Halloween?

I think Kim Kardashian is fake

Brain too out of brain juice for social media

The presentation of a gold crown by South Korea brings to mind an early season South Park episode

My brain has run out of brain juice this afternoon and I can no longer comprehend stuff

Maybe time for a little donation from people with means to do so to support the value we get from Wikipedia …

I reckon Janice didn’t hypocritically rely on the State in her old age after wanting to deny others from doing so either

potential geographic bias is probably the least of their concerns if they are using generative AI to give them legal advice

found the reference to ‘rat’ in this headline confusing (‘people choose a chilli product to poison rats with’ wasn’t the point of the article I learned upon reading)

Using AI to make inspirational quotes for work - they are delightfully banal

Always, ALWAYS go back to the source. A thread for #AcademicSky and #MedSky 🧵. I was surprised to see Black women excluded from a treatment that provides relief from menopausal side effects. I won't cite the paper, as my intent isn't to embarrass anyone. 1/5

I don’t think for a second Barnaby will actually retire from politics, he’ll stand for One Nation

I now make a point of adding Wikipedia to my search term to bump up their search result (and choose it over AI generated summaries of their content)

My workplace is sapping my will to live

Feeling quite Madder Carmine today

Is this some sort of retaliatory ocean floor tariff from @heardislandgov.bsky.social ?

Enjoy the weather, it’s very nice today

Besides being just f-ing racist, people who oppose migration also have no f-ing idea about how society actually works

Have spent a bit of time visiting someone in hospital lately and without migration, the health system would not function. Just not at all. I imagine it’s the same for the aged care system too.

Really going with that don’t be evil vibe

Happy National Poetry Day to all those who celebrate. This year’s theme is ‘play’ so here’s a poem which plays with some letters. It’s called ‘The Problem of Writing Poems in the Shape of Deciduous Trees’.

Feeling great about pine gap et al

A gentle reminder. If you call a political party racist, it can’t sue for defamation. If you call a particular politician racist, they can. They might well lose - Lozza Fox has failed more than once - but they can sue, and they might win. This is one of the reasons people are wary of saying it.

Would it be right to assume there would be some republican lawmakers who would be not unhappy about a government shutdown?

‘Farage boats’ is a good line

Carl Benz has an idea