The debate should be clear that when Hastie says *people feel like a stranger in our own country* he means this. And Box Hill and Preston and Harris Park and Springvale and lots of other great neighbourhoods. Nobody should mistake what he said.

It's always the most recent student who's the new kid in school, and it's always the latest artform that's distained and "not art". I dunno if slop will be profound but I would put money on people increasingly using it to create meaning and feeling, see video games as an example.

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If you use any of my How LLMs Work blog posts in your classes, could you please let me know. I'm applying for a thing 🙏. The Intuition Behind How Large Language Models Work medium.com/@mark-riedl/... A Very Gentle Introduction to Large Language Models without the Hype medium.com/@mark-riedl/...

"Why are capitalists investing in AI when it's almost guaranteed to lose money?" Could be: - They are not investing, they are spending money on a product they want. No money returns expected. ~ or ~ - they expect everything to lose money and NN software to lose the least %

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"humans deduce extremely powerful ways to calculate about the world but it's a decade or two too early to really have enough renewable power for it and it's privately owned by people who want to control the world" is like a wish gone wrong www.ft.com/content/ae1c...

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yeah they're just murdering random people on these boats

there are almost certainly more people — more blue collar laborers, specifically — involved in the cultivation and production of chardonnay grapes and wine than in coal

i don't mean to single out baseball fans here, because you see this in lots of fan communities, but in certain corners people talk as though baseball is real. they think all the players are real people and the stadiums are places you can actually visit. to each their own, but that cannot be healthy

the hyperfixation is not autism it's because the thing being fixated upon is just really cool and great

One of the touch points of all my talking about AI these days is “do not imagine a future world where the only difference is now you are using AI.”

...in particular, marx's theory of style as status signaling. gates and buffet don't have to *signal* that they have infinity money. so they can dress however the fuck they want. the gold-plated bling is signaling for *new* money that still needs to prove something www.amazon.com/Status-Cultu...

Great article! There are so many proven solutions that Australia should be getting on board with *now* if we want to meet the (pathetic) climate targets announced by the government. Can't hide the transport emissions behind carbon offsets, we need to actually just reduce our emissions.

I've had to take very strong allergy medication before bed lately, which has resulted in weird dreams. I also started my yearly fall horror movie binge. So last night I had a vivid dream that I worked at a "Babadook reserve." People kept bringing me their Babadooks and I had to manage them in a zoo.

In some versions of the predictive programming conspiracy, it’s part of galactic or interdimensional contract law (rooted in black magic) that they have to tell you what they are going to do before they can do it. Your inaction at seeing it in a movie is construed by demons as consent.

*Trump says he’s going to give everyone a magic bed that cures all disease* Hakeem Jeffries, probably: Trump is promising medbeds when he should come to the table and discuss our bill to give $200 tax credits to any small business that invests in an unserved rural community for at least 8 years

I can’t tell you how much good could be done right now by average citizens socially cold-shouldering anyone tangentially working for ICE.

RIP tony harrison - "I believe life ends with death, and that is all. / You haven't both gone shopping; just the same, / in my new black leather phone book there's your name /and the disconnected number I still call."

Why did these women not simply apply for asylum in the UK using the HM Government Online Portal? BECAUSE NO SUCH THING EXISTS. Because you have to be *physically* in the UK to apply for asylum and you can't get here on a plane or ferry. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Sky News and the BBC repeatedly mention the "migrant crisis" in doing so they are normalising and legitimising far right talking points. There is no "migrant crisis", there is only migrant hysteria, which the British media is feeding into instead of countering.

I have no evidence for this so take it with a thousand grains of salt, but we know prominent online influencers are frequently radicalized by their own audience and if that audience is largely bot networks, we need to consider which is the cart and which is the horse.

There are ethical concerns, sure, but I truly believe there is not a parent in America who would not pull the lever on a vat of scientific goo into which a baby could be placed in a safe and temporary state of suspended animation

the political policy cure for “male loneliness” is - more time to hang with the fellas (4 day work week) - more money to spend with the fellas (higher wages) - more things to do with the fellas (taxing the rich and building 3rd spaces)

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If they had a right-wing, “tough-on-crime” coded mayor there would be endless national profiles about him and how he finally brought sanity back to Chicago.

After over 2 years cooking in Steam Early Access, Mars First Logistics 1.0 is finally here! Engineer your little rover and deliver lots of silly stuff!

"If there’s any fact we know about history, it’s that everybody’s been moving everywhere and having sex with everybody, forever." — Paul Spickard, professor of history, UC Santa Barbara

The white supremacist conceit that everyone in antiquity was living under some kind of global jim crow segregation is just complete bullshit news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Sometimes you read an article that makes you feel like... idk... 15 years ago, some of us got on an express train and saw what was on the tracks ahead. And now we're on a call to the people on the slower train, now approaching, and they cannot comprehend the landscapes we describe as familiar.

It's never "the surprising new workplace trend of good pay and excellent benefits," is it

I saw someone say "LLMs can be confidently wrong when their logic demands it. Humans are confidently wrong when their egos demand it." true, but LLM logic is trained on what humans did, so they repeat the wrongs that ego made, and then add their own weird wrongs to the mix.

This is why the olympics was so good. A massive brownfield regeneration project masquerading as a sporting event. It would’ve been better value if we just did the regeneration without the billions in sport but that’s illegal

You can't just tell your dog he's handsome all the time, you also have to compliment his job performance

things this large and powerful should be democratically controlled. Nationalise the data centres and give them to public universities to do research with.

so most antis I've encountered hate needles but they also hate pills. they don't trust/like fixes that are cheap and easy.

who would win, humanity's urge to anthropomorphize everything or some funky math that breaks your brain if you anthropomorphize it

It'd have been more helpful if the West recognized the very obvious and uncontestable genocide, instead of recognizing Palestine just long enough for Israel to massacre it completely.

if you don't like disney and never liked disney that's fine. it's completely irrelevant to the current situation where people are canceling weddings and shutting down their creator channels as part of an antifascist boycott.

disney adults are currently doing pretty much exactly what they should be doing, and dumping on them is super counterproductive.

i dont really think that hallucination preprint getting an article is gonna change much but it does feel like many people are starting to get a bit more wise to the limitations of llms and i hope they will be relegated to the places where you can actually do stuff with them

The first thing I get from it (slide 3- connections not content, deals, networking, b2b) is that they very much want people to do their bizdev on site, not in hotels and the park.

Some day Nintendo fans will understand that Nintendo treats its universes as piles of beloved music and iconography to be remixed and recontextualized into fun new games and not an interconnected linear narrative linked by causality But it is not this day

Yet again, machine learning — even gussied up via the transformer architecture — encodes and reinforces societal biases. This study reveals that LLM-based peer review relies heavily on author institution in its decisions. arxiv.org/abs/2509.15122

It's pretty instructive how much goes into trying to make sure people think "marches and speeches" and not "a garbage strike that actually threatens power" when ya say Nonviolent Resistance.