LLMs just aren’t capable of producing anything anywhere near as good as “milquetoastify boringify language”.

bit rusty on the "principles & values Jesus lived by" but astounded tt they now include: ☠️ militarily & politically supporting genocide, scholasticide & ecocide ☠️ cruel, pointless, indefinite detention of asylum seekers ☠️ punitive immiseration & perpetuation of Robodebt on people on income support

Omg I’m dying 😂😂😂…so…So Emily Austin, a right wing 'influencer' who works for Bibi and the GOP, launched 'Hot Girls for Cuomo'. Guess who didn't bother to register the URL when she did that? What do you think Hot Girls for Cuomo dot com leads to now?... 😄 Enjoy. [ HotGirlsforCuomo.com ]

Hmm 🧐

Ms Rachel for the win.

“I want forty op-eds belittling Mamdani on my desk by 5pm!”

Posting this again because it’s 🔥 “And even as it consumes those who use it, even as the scammers become their own marks, even as it is sustained by exploited workers slotted in as human filters for algorithmic abuse – some people want to have a little, as a treat. As a joke.”

The whole system should be nuked. For profit companies just won’t get people into work. Increase unemployment benefits, no suspensions, no mutual obligations and a *government* employment service to help people get work. It can’t possibly be any worse and we won’t be throwing money at grifters.

In case you’re worried about the synthetic text extruders becoming conscious and farming us Matrix-style: this is an excellent and very accessible piece on why those concerns are probably overblown. 👇

Never take seriously those who ridicule low income people for having a smartphone or laptop. “If they’re so poor how did they buy an iPhone???” Because they’re trying to escape poverty, not the 1700s, genius. If you think basic tech access is luxury, survive a month without it.

No media about this? NSW Police investigated 14 incidents of alleged antisemitic attacks and found NO evidence of Iran or any other foreign agent acting in relation to the 14 alleged antisemitic incidences The Minns and Albanese govts both exploited this falsehood to further their own agendas .

“If you think cancelling the subsistence people on Centrelink are forced to live on will make a domestic or family abuser more likely to hand themselves in, and not subject their loved ones to an even more extreme, or possibly final, form of abuse, you do not understand abusers, or living with one.”

Grace Tame. 🔥 as always: “Ultimately, it is the all-but-dead Liberal Party, for which Abbott still acts as chief necromancer, that prevails as our supposed moral and economic compass.” www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/life/2025/11... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au

Weather bureau warns of hail, flash floods and tornadoes as storms hit Queensland and northern NSW

The problem with experiments like forcing someone to read a thread before they can reply is that they attempt to manipulate user behavior while removing user agency, which is anti-human design. The alternative is to give users way more agency in controlling allowable interactions

$11.5 billion. That's how much Australia's teachers contribute in unpaid labour every year. Our teachers are overworked, undervalued and facing increasingly difficult and unsafe classroom conditions. It's no wonder they're abandoning the profession in droves. #WorldTeachersDay

get in losers, we're doing 2008 again but with graphics cards instead of houses

The AI industry wants us to believe AI superintelligence is the real threat from generative AI. But that narrative was crafted to distract from the many ways genAI is being used to tear our societies apart, as we saw this week when a deepfake video rocked the Irish election. It must be reined in.

A hard truth is that the search for artificial general intelligence as a commercial tool is fundamentally a reproduction of slavery. Not because computers are people or anything so silly, but because of the impetus: To acquire the products of humanity without the need for a human to consent.

No sé en qué siglo está España, pero el derecho al aborto no tiene ningún sentido sin médicos con voluntad de hacer el procedimiento. Y otra vez son las mujeres que sufren.

@tseikkis.bsky.social here is a much better explanation about why I don’t use AI.

If I can manage to not use the synthetic text extenders to screw up my humble teaching job, surely the (checks notes) Supreme Court can manage to do the bloody same! I mean, they’ve already got a gajillion *human* ways to make stupid decisions. It’s not like they need the help…

He [Duolingo CEO] has joined the club. The billionaires who claim to be solving problems while profiting from them. The CEOs who talk about mission while optimizing for margin. The capitalists who promise benevolence while squeezing every last dollar from people just trying to learn a language.

"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness) As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)

The ChatGPT subreddit is absolutely hilarious. LLMs just output statistically likely responses, and a statistically likely response to being asked to do some work is "I'll have that done by...". So apparently in some cases ChatGPT had just been telling users it'll get back to them later. 1/2

Warning: put down hot drinks and refrain from eating while scrolling this 🧵. You have been warned…

idk why i noticed this but these crabs and celebrities look like they share a stylist: thread

More and more I feel like I need to end these conversations by saying "it sounds like you've made up your mind to rationalize your choices despite knowing what the harms are, and that's very unfortunate because I thought you had better judgement than that"

Nazis attacked our community: targeting Aboriginal elders at a sacred site We are demanding it be investigated as a hate crime. Please sign, if you want to see Nazis face consequences for assaulting innocent people. #auspol #antifa #antifascism #solidarity #nzpol secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...

The question to ask all young men is 'how many people have you helped this week? how many have you cared for?"

Here's me. '“People aren’t buying their shit anymore”: They think they can make you forget what you’ve seen'

“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.” Happy Birthday Ursula K Le Guin

This hasn’t happened in Australia. Yet…. Hoping that teachers’ unions will be strong enough to resist here. I’ll certainly be doing my part. ✊

It is grimly amusing that Australia’s second largest Defence acquisition deal ($46bn!) was referred to the NACC - for good reason - but the Commissioner won’t look at it bc he’s still a ranking ADF officer. Readers will be astonished that this referral two yrs ago has yielded nothing yet.

Examples of how fascist untruths get regurgitated as fact by LLMs are ubiquitous, but this one is really jarring. The Harvard Kennedy School article Gemini scraped is entirely about how the claim is false. Gemini cannot parse this, instead sharing DHS propaganda as fact when you search her name.

If you are interested SYDNEY this is a must go to....All eyes on Gaza: public meeting with Chris Hedges share.google/SmdRZdcunt6i...

No Kings! Only Timelords. A thread for people wondering if they would enjoy the inflatable-costume-at-a-protest:

Anyways, I don't care if the feds see this, today is a good day to follow independent, worker-owned, and reader-funded media: go.bsky.app/2Fq4P6e

Which is to say in the classes I’ve allowed AI use, I’ve actually been more successful at getting them to NOT use it because I show them what they’re supposed to do, they can’t get their AI to do it, they realize the AI is trash, they write the papers themselves, everyone is happy

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The LLM is *not* being tasked with a difficult job - sorting and grouping mandatory lexical items for students - yet it fails miserably. It’s unable to even maintain the integrity of the original list, adding and deleting items. We need to resist their use in schools (and everywhere).

As Anti-Poverty Week unfolds, we need to talk about the part of poverty the public conversation always avoids: the prison system. 🧵

Boooolean logic

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵) www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

«The input does not cause the output in an authorial sense, much like input to a library search engine does not cause relevant articles and books to be written (Guest, 2025). The respective authors wrote those, not the search query!» via @olivia.science via#2 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social - thank you

1/ The March for White Australia RETVRNS this Sunday, OCT 19. Below is a list of counter-protests, organised under the banner of 'No Room For Racism & Fascism' /// 'No White Australia. Counter The Far Right.'

The documentary I made with Miss Major 10 years ago is on Vimeo on Demand. If you want to spend some time with her on screen tonight and learn some abolitionist trans history while you're at it, it's free to rent with the code "shinebright" vimeo.com/ondemand/major