Ok but if you had told me that was a stromatolite, I would have believed you.

The more Bluesky tells me that the timeline is "forbidden" the more I'm going to refresh the page.

The 12th Man- Marvellous [1991] YouTube video by dxnerd86

A very specific, dormant part of my mind awakened: it’s my time to shiiiine 😃

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"The National Association Of Burning Clown-Car Operators issued a statement distancing itself from the Victorian Liberal Party. 'Their membership has been suspended' said the President Twiggy Gurgles. 'We want nothing to do with them.'"

💯 I had an exercise physiologist who mostly worked NDIS but took some private clients like me. He was so morally offended by the grittiest of grifters that he refused to charge the NDIS rate for those clients—about double the private fee. He defected to the public service.

Most of us have lived it and might not care to have the obvious sold back to us as content (but great it’s going to a wider audience). But why now? As Mel said, this has been going on for decades. Genuine question.

Screenshot of a Tweet by @TheChiefNerd inclusing an interview with Sam Altman. The text in the Tweet says: SAM ALTMAN: “We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.”

The whole "AI" industry is just based on the hope that they can deskill people fast enough that they'll have to rent back cognitive support systems. Forever.

It's like Uber. Just that they don't try to break existing transportation infrastructures but your brain.

Happy 30th birthday to all Pokemons who like dancing to Enya

Headline image: Woman, 69, in hospital with four broken vertebrae after interaction with police at Sydney Herzog protest

Social Cohesion, one vertebrae at a time, one pensioner at a time, until we all start getting along by thinking what the government tells you to.

I should’ve learned this by now but DO NOT use FedEx. The diseased monkeys I ordered haven’t arrived and I can’t get a straight answer on what happened to them

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

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Apparently my new game is making people awkward at dinner parties when I talk about how little respect I have for anyone using AI

That sucks so bad, I’m sorry the trolls are so predictable. Counterpoint: I absolutely shrieked and jumped out of my seat with joy when I recognised you! “My favourite podcaster!!” Thought you nailed it :)

Finally, these majestic views will be available once more

Open letter against the adoption of the Australian Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism's Plan - Overland literary journal We, the undersigned university researchers, educators, students and professional staff, call on the Australian Government to reject the unprecedented attack on academic freedom and the autonomy of uni...

Open letter against the adoption of the Australian Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism’s Plan: Academics against racism overland.org.au/2025/07/open...

I am going to keep screaming this EVERY time:

do you know how fucking many hoops animal behaviorists have to jump through to get research alleging that animals feel happiness or sadness published

and the WALL STREET JOURNAL prints that LINES OF CODE WITH NO BRAIN STEM can SELF REFLECT

Research reveals a paradox: the more people understand AI, the more hesitant they may become to embrace it.

paradox, you say

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

These people have never clicked on the world news section in their lives

This is actually rather comforting

Shifting the NDIS to the Health portfolio signals a move to a medical model of disability

what i'm hearing from the australians i follow is that peter dutton's pants fell down and he tried to run with his pants around his ankles and he tripped and fell over and rolled down a hill through a bunch of sand and the sand got in his mouth and then he hit his head against a rock

Sandy, I feel this in my bones xx

Image of Trump. Chaser Headline: "Aussies miss when morning routine didn't involve finding out whatever the fuck this cunt did today"

There's always some shit going on with old mate.

Full article here: chaser.com.au/general-news...

ok but what does this have to do with the budget??

REFLECTIONS ON AI IN THE CLASSROOM: How We are Not Using Al in the Classroom By Sonja Drimmer & Christopher J. Nygren Premise Prompt engineering is a term that has become commonplace since the widespread availability of generative Al applications like ChatGPT. The idea is that the outputs of the large language models (LLMs) on which these applications are based are only as good as the prompts that are input: vague prompts result in equally vague outputs. And thus was born the race to train for careers in prompt engineering. Unfortunately, the bubble seems to have burst before even the first generation of students was trained for this career outcome. We were given a prompt as an invitation to participate in this newsletter: "How are you using Al in the classroom?" While we have accepted this invitation, we are engaging in the most humanistic act we can imagine—refusing the prompt.”

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