Pick up the nearest book, turn to p 42 and post the second sentence:
'But then the radish market collapsed, and he fell upon hard times and had to catch fish from the river using only his shoelaces...'
Into the Bewilderness by Gus Gordon
Pouring one out for all the librarians and archivists who are now confronting angry patrons demanding to see an item that doesn't exist because "AI told me it does."*
*story just recounted to me by a friend
Luckily there was no far right before the internet.
I'm sure he'll go back to his papal apartments in the Apostolic Palace and contemplate their words as he wanders through the Sistine Chapel or the Vatican Library.
Did The Who write that header?!
Yes indeed! Debating the pope on matters of theology and church history is best left to ex-catholics.
But the one on the left is using uranium enhanced Ivermectin!
Good to know it's foodsafe, I guess.
Small, local cafes are the best.
One of three little peace gatherers.
A crudely made sign stand of bundled bamboo held together with wire, upon which is mounted a roughly made sign of a single piece of wood, painted black, on which someone has crudely written BOOKS with an arrow pointing to the right, in a street somewhere.
When I know it's definitely a trap, but I'm going anyway.
Vanessa Stockard (Australian, b.1975)
"Satan Taking a Break from Hate Crimes," 2022
Oil on dibond
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt #catlover
No indeed. It starts tomorrow and runs til 19 April at Mt Coot-tha gardens in the ultra sweet Richard Randall Art Studio.
Authors are being “strongly urged” to be vigilant amid a rise in scam emails impersonating editors at publishing houses 👇 #BookSky
The gathering of the things.
Lovely work, Kathleen.
Australians are tracking the launch of the escape pod via Parkes. We'll let you know when they
land in the desert with the Death Star plans.
Endemic is correct. It means exclusive to one area and not found anywhere else in the world.
This has nothing to do with dementia. He's your basic genocidal tyrant enabled by a bunch of power hungry grifters, 77 million voters, a massive weapons manufacturing industry, monopolised media and billionaires.
Reaper drones!
Very quick check reveals referrals to news sites have indeed tumbled since Twitter ownership changed hands.
I thought this gorgeous pic was a @secondlina.com thing for a monent.
I wrote a novel using AI. Writers must accept artificial intelligence -but we are as valuable as ever| Stephen Marche The Guardian The, GuardianOpinions
You wrote a novel using AI? Cool. It's like that time I ran a marathon using a Ford Focus.
Senators Penny Allman-Payne and David Pocock, and whistleblowers are among the few trying desperately to keep cruelty and incompetence out of decision-making and yet another Robodebt style disaster from eviscerating families and lives.
Algorithms are never EVER objective.
#auspol
It's all about the base.
As per the 2021 Census, the Aus Bureau of Statistics defines 'generations' as follows;
Interwar - aged 75 and over
Boomers - 55 to 74
GenX - 40 to 54
Millenials - 25 to 39
GenZ - 10 to 24
GenAlpha - 0 to 9
Please adjust your ageism accordingly.
#auspol
Image is line paper with writing showing an English word followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled and pronounced. The words are translated visibility and pronounced dahdahnaytleeyuhskuh-hee guhkaw-wah-duhdee gaysuh-hee
Your Cherokee words for today.
The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.
dahdahnay-tleeyuhskuh-hee guhkaw-wah-duhdee gaysuh-hee
A long time ago when the world was new,
Cover of The Politics of Tim: Gaining Control in the Age of Uncertainty. The background is a colour block of greenish-blue with a single red and white-striped deck chair placed under the title.
Currently listening to Guy Standing's The Politics of Time: Gaining Control in the Age of Uncertainty.
Interesting tidbit so far - The wording of the Lord's Prayer was originally 'forgive us our debts, as we also have also forgiven our debtors.'
Interesting as Bertelsmann has a contract with OpenAI.
#booksky #AI
Penguin to sue OpenAI over ChatGPT version of German children’s book www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Apt shirt.
