imagine being the guy who accidentally said "weasel" at a weird time 2400 years ago

The devil fetch ye, ye ragamuffin rapscallions; ye are all asleep. Stop snoring, ye sleepers

If you're looking for a sign to switch careers: this is the sign.

As screenwriter of the Labubu movie I want to clear up some misconceptions. Yes, technically they do eat human flesh, but only necrotic tissue around wounds. Doctors use them to clean up injuries and promote positive health outcomes. Labubus are humanity’s allies, except for evil Labubus of course

hey Mom can you come pick me up. yeah everyone on the niche microblogging website is arguing about who has the correct emotional posture to the unknowable future again

AI use for progress notes is causing serious privacy and clinical risks in aged care. Professional bodies need to act. AI shouldnt be used for client notes and reports hellocare.com.au/ai-use-for-p...

Look here, Beelzebub, you don’t do it

GLP-1 agonists (eg Ozempic) are showing promise to reduce alcohol drinking and perhaps opioid use. This is, of course, a potential therapeutic success which arises from the random walking of science, not an “efficient” directed research program.

We used to do real science

Kamosy, a train conductor serow (Japanese goat-antelope), is the mascot for JR Takasaki Station.

You know, I wouldn’t even know writers festivals existed if it weren’t for their regular paroxysms of weird unit behaviour.

I was on Facebook for reporting purposes, and what’s going on over there appears to be Soup Binders.

I'm glad to see this pressure on Google and Apple. If any other company was running an active CSAM generator in public you better believe it would have been removed from their app stores by now www.wired.com/story/x-grok...

not to put too fine a point on it, but this is what the internet is actually for

"A woman dressed as a pink Power Ranger hacked a dating site for far-right extremists. She deleted the entire site, but first she made users fall in love with AI bots she ran, thus obtaining information about them. Over 8,000 far-right profiles have now been mapped."

this is what ye have shipped for, men! to chase that white whale on both sides of land, and over all sides of earth

We had a good run

just checked out recent grok posts and replies and you know i reckon men deserve to be lonelier actually

Sydney primed for her fireworks

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

The bollard hasn’t moved a single inch. Total domination. #WorldBollardAssociation

Not now, haunted Victorian shoes

Neither MUP nor the Melbourne University council even tried to save Meanjin. In fact they chose *not* to pursue offers to help save it. They also actively ignored the advice of the independent review they commissioned into Meanjin's sustainability. They just shut it.

An absolute horrific nightmare of two AI bots caught in a loop with each other is the perfect example of the total nothingness of AI “brains”.

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

All AI images are bad and stupid and fucked but this Australian Christmas poster at a Sydney train station is really something special. My favourite bits are the kangaroo with the face of a koala and the “oops! All Union Jack” version of the flag. www.reddit.com/r/sydney/com...

Terumaru, a bright young lightbulb and the mascot of the Tokyu Denki electric company, trapped in a door yesterday:

Bind fast his corky arms.

This is utterly outrageous by the Group of Eight unis, and deeply insulting and undermining for environment and climate experts trying their hardest to achieve a more sustainable future for society. Shameful stuff.

It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.

TIL Australia used to have 'drop crocs', crocodilic ancestors that would (probably) climb trees then jump down on unsuspecting victims. Shame they died out really. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

this must've been so annoying before computers

Delivering on an election promise by handing over my 2008-2025 election night tie to the Museum of Australian Democracy, Old Parliament House, Canberra. When I paid $20 for it in 2008, never thought it would end up in a museum.

Banao, a banana-headed boy who loves bananas comes from Kirishima City, Kagoshima, where bananas are grown.

An excellent story. Five stars.

Sorry but this is fake news, Wyatt's got this

the duality of man

Komakiyama, a powerful green sumo wrestler, is the mascot of Komaki City in Aichi Prefecture.

The Big Data fallacy 😱 Research by Vosgerau et al suggests decision-makers tend to interpret correlational relationships as causal when sample sizes are large (vs small)—even when given experimental evidence showing no or opposite causal effect: buff.ly/5ZjWJ8E

Managed to introduce "synergistic frictivation" into the company lexicon after using it in a strategy document to test if anyone reads them. Now, senior management uses it in presentations as if it's gospel. Last week, someone suggested we "frictivate our verticals".

I'm shocked, shocked I tell you.

This morning my ChatGPT quota was inexplicably exhausted. It took a while but I pieced it together. Voice mode somehow got activated when I went to bed. The bot then engaged in a 10 hour conversation with my snoring dog, answering questions the pup wasn’t asking and praising him for his insight.