Yes, talk to Murderbot about its feelings. The idea was so painful I dropped to 97 percent efficiency.

Also I really feel that it needs to be taught as part of basic wilderness survival—if you see a creepy wicker effigy, LEAVE AT ONCE. No good will come of it.

if there is a point to AI (LLM edition) it’s this; an excuse to devalue and downgrade the work of experts.

‘the jobseeker rate, which is equivalent to annual earnings of $20,634, has you well in the bottom 10% of all earnings. So, let’s dispense with the bullshit that such amounts in any way discourage people from wanting to work’ www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

techbros: we have created AGI cognitive scientists: you fucked up a perfectly good spreadsheet is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety

Merriam-Webster Accused Of Bias After ‘Dictionary’ Named Word Of The Year

Anyway behold, the light increaseth, if imperfectly. And if that ain't a metaphor for us poor creatures struggling to do our best by one another, I don't know what is.

Will all their big data mining overreaching powers …. Why did ASIO’s machines not pick up a previous POI going to JI training in the Philippines? What is the point of giving up civil liberties if they can’t even stop this? www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

ABC NEWS Verify finds social media posts spreading misinformation about the Bondi attack are receiving millions of views, as a deepfake image depicting one of the victims circulates online. #ai

Building off @cameronwilson.bsky.social's reporting for @crikey.com.au, I highlight how we appear to have a baptist & bootleggers situation in Australia, where it appears the gambling industry was a big force behind the "social media ban for teens" in an effort to kill a plan to ban gambling ads.

Anyone interested in cricket stats should see women's cricket as a great area to get into, as it's still in the exciting, pioneering stage men's cricket went through a century or so ago - compiling and defining the foundational stats - combined with all the tools of the digital age.

this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.

*le sigh*

some days just call for lighting a candle AND cursing the darkness

Choosing to focus, on hearing the news of Rob Reiner's passing, to remember this moment where he was so overcome with joy and laughter that he - the director of the movie - was one of many people banished from the set in order to finish filming.

When Rob Reiner was on his all-time epic run at the start of his career, he had an opportunity to read a script that was looking for a production partner, and he lost his mind for it. He decided Castle Rock had to have it, no matter what.

anyway I’m gonna go cry for a bit

This entire weekend

Rob Reiner was a good guy. He made a lot of movies about good guys, in worlds where not everyone was good and you didn’t have to be good. He made movies about people trying. He was angry, as many hopeful people are. He knew the world could be better and he wanted it to be. His death is devastating.

Happy Chanukah! !א פרייליכן חנוכה

To be confronted with this horrific act of antisemitic violence during the Jewish festival of light and hope is shattering. In moments like this, we hold each other close. We should all be able to gather with our communities, practice our culture, and worship in safety. 3/4

Playing in #WBBL finals series 1x: 55 players 2x: 33 players 3x: 31 players 4x: 19 players 5x: 16 players 6x: 9 players 7x: GHarris BMooney EVillani GRedmayne 8x: JJonassen LaSmith LHarris 9x: HEATHER GRAHAM #WBBL #HHvPS

List of sides yet to win a #WBBL title MELBOURNE STARS List of sides yet to win a #BBL title MELBOURNE STARS

And the results are in! After carefully reviewing the results of a national poll the Board of Directors of the Society for Canadian English (SCE) has determined that this year’s Canadian Word of the Year (CWOTY), the first of its kind, will be “maplewashing.”

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

We all know Clarke's "sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" Well we have corollary:

Let me explain why my reporting isn’t making a consistent case for or against the ban: Because I’m not on anyone’s team. I’m a journalist just trying to report what’s happening and why.

i stand by this statement every year

So annoying that companies that promote GenAI and LLMs called it AI and didn’t differentiate it from the advanced machine learning algorithms and tools that enable so many great things that are also AI but actually solving a problem, and good.

When you want a Starc t shirt but also love women’s cricket 💛 … mum sent me Christmas money today, guess where it’s going!

this isn't even a moral thing, sports gambling just sucks that bad and makes the entire experience worse both for gamblers and non-gamblers

a momentary interlude from the news cycle to share that my book with @arielbogle.bsky.social CONSPIRACY NATION has been shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards non-fiction prize

Thoughts?

When I am finally victorious and my ideological enemies thwarted, all who opposed me shall be lined up and dutifully distributed their equitable share of the rights I fought for and they so vigorously opposed, because That Was The Fucking Point

The voting for our #WordOfTheWeekOfTheYear2025 is going apace. You can vote, but you can also come to the live show if you're a patron — even a free one. Just follow this link to find out when it is, and sign up. Thanks to all our patrons for your support. www.patreon.com/posts/145354...

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar. (Hard mode allows for Shakespeare, fortunately)

"Today’s microwave can cook a frozen burrito. Tomorrow’s microwave will be able to cook an entire Thanksgiving Dinner. Ten years from now a microwave may even be able to run the country."

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

I don't think Netflix should get to eat anything else until it finishes all the prematurely cancelled shows on its plate

starc making more runs than he conceded functionally took 6 for -2

If I was a West Indian cricket fan I'd 100% be posting about how sad it is to see the decline of English cricket and how the world needs a strong England.

@leaguetees.bsky.social any chance of an ‘I’m here to see Alyssa Healy’s husband’ shirt? credit to @crystallised-cricket.com who helped me pin down what I wanted

Ooo look at me, I’m Mitchell Starc and I’m going to win a day/night test match all by myself. Grow up.

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

The Nobel people should start a football prize and just hand it to some random tennis guy

Chico is ready for his close up, Mr Fenelon

He's not going to nuke London, he owns half of it 🧐

It’s time for my annual thread of Australian poetry books you should buy ppl for Xmas. No one buys poetry partly cos it’s intimidating. It rarely makes xmas book guides. But poetry is an ethical gift that: supports underfunded writers; wins brownie points with gift receiver; improves the human soul

Excellent reporting by @joshtaylor.bsky.social and @petrastock.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

the water wars are coming, sign #437