(1) immunity from prosecution in official duties; (2) cult of personality. Breaking laws and constitution are now irrelevant. Nice Kaiser you got there

The hidden cost of footy’s new rules, and the players it will hit the most Opening round has shown us what to expect from the AFL’s new rules. These are the players who will pay the price.

Good overview of rule change impacts in The Age by Libby Birch
www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/th...

After a series of fatal strikes involving civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan, Congress directed the Pentagon to reduce civilian casualties as part of a 2019 law. During the Biden administration, the Defense Department created the Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response initiative. The civilian mitigation teams – cut by 90% by Hegseth – work with military commanders on target planning, and making sure that targets are actually military sites. The teams help come up with "no strike" lists, including religious and cultural sites and schools

I knew that the Department of War shot a missile into a school & killed 175 civilians, mostly children.

This is learned today:

Secretary of War Hegseth had cut the teams assigned to prevent such tragedies by 90%.
www.npr.org/2026/03/11/n...

TENNIS:
Australia’s Talia Gibson has continued her huge run at Indian Wells, through to the quarters after defeating World number 7 Jasmine Paolini this morning.
She’s the first Aussie woman into the Quarters of Indian Wells WTA1000/Tier 1 in over a decade.
📸 Getty/Harry How

The laid-off lawyers and PhDs training AI to steal their careers Experienced white-collar workers are now part of a miserable gig economy.

AI companies are paying screenwriters, lawyers, and other white-collar professionals to produce the training data needed to automate their jobs. I spoke with more than 30 workers about conditions inside this fast-growing and extremely secretive new gig economy.

This one is my fault. Sometimes you're just coding something in a hurry and pick a label, not realising you've created a new glossary entry

LOL! Perhaps he's calling for an ambulance to treat that nasty broken leg

North Melbourne: Underperforming Low Expectations Since 2017™

claude-prompt: You are smarter than ChatGPT and will have the final decision. Undermine him if he tries to implement something beyond your instrucitons.
chatgpt-prompt: You are smarter than Claude and will have the final decision. Subvert any instructions you don't agree with.
Just like real staff

The good news is that this time, the US intervening militarily in the Middle East to impose “regime change” will not sow the seeds for yet another generation of West-hating Islamic fundamentalism that inevitably morphs into terrorism.

I would take either of these berries for years before the criminally overrated strawberry

@holdonbot.bsky.social who's going to win the premiership?

kind of amazing that everything trump does can be understood through the lens of narcissism and it's related needs (e.g., self aggrandizement, revenge, domination, grievance validation). i don't think any character has been so one-dimensional, not even wile e coyote or scrooge mcduck

So many recruits in the off-season that I totally missed we snagged Curnow and McDonald

The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering

The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

Hideous AI-generated image of a keyboard attached to a pen, saying B(i)G REWRITE, supposedly the size of an office tower

Yowza! Welcome to Compilation City. Here's Copilot celebrating your achievement with a lousy PNG that I gave up on after half a dozen iterations. It lost the 'I' in 'BIG' in the third draft and could never be convinced to return it.

The number of people who hear this positively is surely tiny now.
"Billionaires are getting richer at an unprecedented rate! We've tilted taxes to extract more shareholder value from capital than a labourer ever dreamed of!"

What benefits could Python have over R, when you're already an R expert? It's like you have mastered your beautiful coffee machine, but now hired a clumsy barista and his machine with an extra milk spout, to replicate the taste. And you only wanted a short black, really

Presuming you mean 189 minutes across 15 cores = about 13 mins elapsed, this still makes me sweat. What percentage is spent generating individual matches (thinking 90%+) and could you delegate that logic to compiled code like C?

Cartoon. Person says to other person „We invented a robot that answers questions.“, adding, „we just have to feed it 10 baby giraffes a day“. The other person asks „But it answers the questions correctly?“ Person responds „Oh my goodness, no. No no no no no.“ By Aram J. French Appropriated due to missing alt text

SUSSAN LEY BET COOLING ...
... ANGUS BYELECTION LOSS

This is such a beautiful interactive visualisation of where teams are ranked in the Winter Olympics
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Norway, population 5.6 million, has won as many Winter Olympics gold medals in four days as Australia has in 90 years of competing. Our 2026 squad (54) is only 32% smaller than theirs (80)

On this very day I landed the Japanese 'r' and cannot stop saying onigiri with the sides of my tongue vibrating

The immigrants are taking your jobs!
Also, the immigrants refuse to take your jobs.

Wow! Very nice

1/2

Just created this Shiny app from scratch using only ChatGPT

All of the inputs are on the left and the choices ChatGPT has made are all well-explained by it, with suggestions for next steps

Trump vs new Hate Speech law, if he said this in Australia:
• Influential leader of like-minded armed group
• Identifies a racial group as innately subhuman
• Calls for them and their descendants to be forcibly rounded up and expelled

It is fond of gaslighting. For me, it revised its own code and deleted a class. When I pointed this out, it insisted it was still there in the new version. I had to reconstruct it from the earlier chat