Who else has read The Invisible Library by @genevievecogman.bsky.social …

@maxbarry.com Max, perhaps you ignore this account, so forgive me. I am listening to Discordia and I need to know - is the first line about Diego digging a hole a reference to The Castle or have I just projected this onto the text? (Slash audio)

Recently in Chicago I met a man in a bar. My friends and I have dubbed him “Budget Nick Miller”. That’s all I’m going to say.

Petition for @georgiatennant.bsky.social to narrate all the Rutshire Chronicles for Audible after doing Rivals. I desperately need it so I can listen to the rest of them from her fantastic voice.

I really can’t decide

Why do so many Australian men in their 30s decide they are DJs

We’re crossing a critical threshold where everyone now has an account they hate on here. The Age of Blood has begun

I’m enjoying the burst of old Twitter people—does anyone have a list going of Oz Media/Politics/those interested etc Twitter folk going yet?

Whitlam photo of the day: all best friends need the tall grumpy one and the small happy one (Willow is also very happy but just doesn’t look it in this photo)

I am going to a wedding party in a couple of weeks and out of 70 people myself and one other are the only ones not in a couple 🙃

My special talent is being upbeat and happy and enthusiastic to everyone I see in person when actually I’m very depressed and want to cry all the time

Whitlam the Corgi photo of the day—being a pirate after his bath

“But what if there’s an even better boy?”

Whitlam the corgi photo of the day—having an existential crisis

WHAT IS HAPPENING

Whitlam the corgi photo of the day— blocking the path so he can ensure he gets pats

Very apt that this was the first message sent using networked electronic devices

Whitlam the corgi (throwback) photo of the day—three years ago when I tried to dress him up as a lion and he was not impressed

Made slow cooked BBQ ribs, mac and cheese, and cornbread for lunch. It’s a public holiday tomorrow and I am now in a food coma. Bliss.

I forgot how much slower the internet is in Australia and it SUCKS

Whitlam the Corgi photo of the day—being spoilt and getting to have some custard (which he is obsessed with)

Whitlam the Corgi photo of the day— suspicious of why his photo is being taken

Whitlam the Corgi photo of the day— enjoying his walk and all the puddles created by London’s winter rains

Whitlam the Corgi photo of the day- looking for squirrels and guarding his duck toy

Three years ago today Whitlam decided to take a mud bath 😂

If you train a LLM on text that includes texts written by LLMs, it gets weird. If you train a LLM on texts that include texts written by LLMs that were trained on LLMs, it gets even weirder. After a few iterations, it goes foom.

The reason this is happening all over the place, btw, is that large pre-2023 corpora of text written by actual humans is the low-background steel (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-bac... ) of LLMs right now -- if LLMs continue to exist in another 5, 10 years, they will be forever frozen in 2023.

Period pain SUCKS. That is all.

“I’m not experienced with old cameras and these tape looking things have photos embedded in them”

“People started snapping their fingers in acclimation” come the fuck on

(1/) One thing I wish more people knew about the Belgian genocide of the Congo is how one woman who heard something incredible at a dinner party and took it seriously was singlehandedly more responsible for ending a genocide than anyone else I can name in history. Meet Alice Seeley Harris.

not sure whether it's intentional or not (article is behind paywall) but this artwork is pretty ridiculous when you're aware of the fact that all 3 of these actors have vocally denounced JKR's unapologetic transphobia...

I JUST WANT A CALENDAR APP THAT DOESN’T RELY ON ME IMPORTING EXISTING CALENDARS OR ASSUME I AM USING IT FOR 9-5 WORK. This is brought to you by me downloading many calendar/AI to do list apps that are all terrible.

Why does 33 feel so much older in Canberra than it does in London

Bonus Whitlam the Corgi today— happy on his walk because he got so muddy

Whitlam the Corgi photo of the day— baby Whitlam giving a big smile

What in the actual fuck. How could anyone think that criminalising homelessness would be a good idea?

Whitlam the corgi photo of the day: super stoned post going to the vet and getting his stomach pumped, all because he ate some of a chocolate scroll off the ground

Bonus Whitlam the corgi for today— hanging out with his sister Cheddar

Your daily Whitlam the corgi for this Monday morning—on his Sunday walk getting all muddy

Love this story: Air Canada's chatbot gives false advice on booking a bereavement ticket, guy gets screwed, then Air Canada then argues its chatbot is a SEPARATE LEGAL ENTITY FROM THEM THAT IS RESPONSIBLE FOR ITS OWN ACTIONS. lol wut anyway they lost the case hardcore www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

*taps sign*

Whitlam the corgi photo of the day: having fun at daycare.

I am going to be going off social media for two weeks now because I am too depressed that I don’t have Taylor Swift tickets

It’s your daily Whitlam! This time a throwback to when he was a tiny puppy

Pls give me advice: has the mullet become cool just for millennials or are the Gen Zs wearing them too?

Good morning! Your Daily Whitlam is here. This is him with his favourite toy (a kookaburra sent from my mum)