My company now has a “Use AI for writing your self evaluation, but not for providing feedback” rule. I’m sure that won’t change in the next quarter /s

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Happy Trans Day of Visibility! 🏳️‍⚧️ The mere act of existing and being visible shouldn’t be as fraught as it is today. Let’s keep fighting to set things right.

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Fuelling inequality: The brunt of a global crisis should not be borne by people in poverty On 24 March 2020, Scott Morrison took an unprecedented step: at the drop of a hat, he made the activities people on some Centrelink payments are forced to do completely voluntary as the COVID crisis l...

"Fuelling inequality: The brunt of a global crisis should not be borne by people in poverty" @kristin8x.antipovertycentre.org for @thepointau.bsky.social

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Things I do in my spare time, but wish I could do all the time

Fair enough. I should know better than to doubt you 🙂

The software industry is up for interesting times as it becomes easier to make custom solutions.

Overall, it’s a net good, but I will be sad if it means the end of good applications that defined the first 40 years of personal computing

Or at least ask Gemini if such a tool exists?

I feel like there are plenty of tools that could solve this problem, and quickly?

I got my first real job partly because I could manually perform SMTP and POP3 sessions on telnet

Be ungovernable

Nothing has a good soundtrack anymore

PLEASE! Don't buy Ratsak or any other rat poison, at Bunnings or anywhere else: it's killing our wildlife when they eat the rat!

THANK YOU.

Please share.

#auspol

Banning protest in NSW has nothing to do with antisemitism, and everything to do with control New laws to ban assemblies in NSW show that the NSW Government is more interested in the raw exercise of power than in democratic debate.

I feel like Australian governments love having an excuse to crack down on speech and assembly laws. My friend, Nick, wrote a piece #auspol

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Males (Average daily number) Indigenous Non-indigenous 2022 3,881.7 270.8021887 2023 4,119.4 266.419147 Sep-24 4,454.5 263.0404971 Dec-24 4,518.3 259.3942345 Mar-25 4,652.8 265.7101833 Jun-25 4,715.1 269.4114629 Sep-25 4,717.3 267.8862789

The latest corrective services data is out today, and it points a horrific picture of the systemic racism in our judicial system #PointLive
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Jeezus apple. I clicked on “Search”, not “Browse” or “Recommend”

Hyperion by Dan Simmons.

I think about it every day

At $250 million, top AI salaries dwarf those of the Manhattan Project and the Space Race A 24 year-old AI researcher will earn 327x what Oppenheimer made while developing the atomic bomb.

Tech execs: We are trying to be more financially responsible, so we'll have to make adjustments to your bonuses and compensation structures.

Also tech execs:
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I’m on Endeavour. After years of occasional use of Debian descendants, Arch’s rolling release approach can be alien and frustrating, but it works and that’s fine

The kind that took the easiest option so I didn’t have to upgrade Win 10 to 11

Australian anti-porn group claims responsibility for Steam's new censorship rules in victory against 'porn sick brain rotted pedo gamer fetishists', and things only get weirder from there Everyone hated that.

So you know how Steam updates their TOS to restrict "NSFW" content at the request of payment processors like Visa and Mastercard?

The group behind that pressure campaign is coming after Itch.io.

If you are selling books on itch, this concerns you.

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The correct metric for posting is not "is it good" it's "does it expand the possibility for human joy by those willing to receive it"

Trump is threatening 200% tariffs on Australia's 3rd biggest export, pharmaceuticals. US big pharma hates our PBS – it buys medicine cheap & passes savings to Australians.

Aus Gov can look after Australians by standing firm & not subjecting us to US prices.
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I would like for wealthy people excited for tax cuts to sign a piece of paper acknowledging that every dollar they get in tax breaks is going to be paid for by someone else…either someone not getting healthcare or SNAP or some future person paying higher taxes to pay the interest on our new debt.

The stupidest thing wealthy people do is spend all of their money making sure they only ever see other wealthy people. Fucking rots their brains.

Screenshot of the Reachability feature of an iPhone, with the screen slid down half the display so that the top is easy to reach with one hand.

Ever since I moved back to the #iPhone 5 years ago, I've been annoyed by it inexplicably sliding down half the screen. Today I discovered Reachability, and it is the best #accessibility feature for the giant nonsense phone I have. I will probably use it every day.

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Red and orange aurora in a starry sky over a silhouette of a landscape. 🌱🌲🌳🌴🌵🌶🌷🌸🌹🌺🌻🌼🌽🌾🌿🍀🍁🍂🍃🍄🍅🍆🍇🍈🍉🍊🍋🍌🍍🍎🍏🍐🍑🍒🍓🍔🍕🍖🍗🍘🍙🍚🍛🍜🍝🍞🍟🍠🍡🍢🍣🍤🍥🍦🍧🍨🍩🍪🍫🍬🍭🍮🍯🍰🍱🍲🍳🍴🍵🍶🍷🍸🍹🍺🍻🍼🍽🍾🍿🎀🎁🎂🎃🎄🎅🎆🎇🎈🎉🎊🎋🎌🎍🎎🎏🎐🎑🎒🎓🎔🎕🎖🎗🎘🎙🎚🎛🎜🎝🎞🎟🎠

The image I used as input. If you want more of these photos, follow me over at @waxwingsphoto.com or flickr.com/waxwingsphoto

This was not intended as a sneaky plug, honest!

A MacOS shortcut to describe the contents of an image. The AI prompt is "Describe this image for use in the alt text tag on a webpage. If there is a notable named landmark, include the name. If there is a credit or watermark, do not include it in the description. Do not mention the watermark in the description. Limit description to 200 characters maximum. "

My shortcut. I've altered Jason's original prompt to my particular needs. Obviously it needs some tuning. I never thought that I would need to tell it to never give me a long string of emojis

The output of an AI describing a photo: Red and orange aurora in a starry sky over a silhouette of a landscape. 🌱🌲🌳🌴🌵🌶🌷🌸🌹🌺🌻🌼🌽🌾🌿🍀🍁🍂🍃🍄🍅🍆🍇🍈🍉🍊🍋🍌🍍🍎🍏🍐🍑🍒🍓🍔🍕🍖🍗🍘🍙🍚🍛🍜🍝🍞🍟🍠🍡🍢🍣🍤🍥🍦🍧🍨🍩🍪🍫🍬🍭🍮🍯🍰🍱🍲🍳🍴🍵🍶🍷🍸🍹🍺🍻🍼🍽🍾🍿🎀🎁🎂🎃🎄🎅🎆🎇🎈🎉🎊🎋🎌🎍🎎🎏🎐🎑🎒🎓🎔🎕🎖🎗🎘🎙🎚🎛🎜🎝🎞🎟🎠

So I used @snell.zone's excellent idea of using MacOS Tahoe's private cloud compute shortcut to generate image alt tags on some of my photos. Generally does ok, but does occasionally go a bit overboard...

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An illustration depicting the concept of fair pricing. On the left, a laptop with a user icon and stacks of coins is balanced against Kagi's mascot, a happy dog, on the right, with clouds in the background. The phrase 'Fair Pricing' is prominently displayed at the bottom in bold black letters against a yellow background.

Did you know that Kagi has fair pricing?

In months where you don't utilize any searches on your plan, we will automatically apply a full credit to your account for that month, effectively covering your subsequent month's subscription at no additional cost.

At first I was like “How is there an 80 minute video about a B movie series?” By the end, I was convinced that you are a preacher in my newfound religion that our cultural trash is the only actual profundity.