We should not be amazed at what #AI can do.

We should be amazed that any level of functional capability can be encoded as probabilities in a honking great array of multi-dimensional vectors.

That would require impeachment. Super majority in the senate won’t happen in a pink fit. 25th amendment? - nope - man baby hired a bunch of brown nosing sycophants.

Somedays I’d like to forget that Only Fans or sad-fishing are things that exist.

CBD. The centre of this city is pretty vibrant.
Otherwise St Kilda - near 96 tram route.

Ye. This definitely is an issue.

But ‘consultant’ is a sloppy word.

It also includes what would be better described as ‘contractors’ on capitol projects. Always a big % of higher ed budgets.

When you add an extension to your home, you don’t put the chippy on payroll.

It’s the U.S.
The house has to vote to impeach first.
Then a two thirds majority is needed in the Senate to remove the president.
Then it’s hello president Vance 🙄
Not gonna happen.

Amazon already proved Middle Earth is not a magic story pudding.

It’s easy to think of wealth as just a lot of money.

At a certain point - and it’s a l lot less than a billion - money becomes power.

Extreme wealth is control over people and resources that is not subject to anyone’s vote.

Ah… the enduring myth that democracy is a system of competing self-interests 😀

Nearly every last man and woman of us votes for the people we trust the most.

And we ALL (lefties included) find it easier to trust those who talk like us and look like us.

Democracy is a system of competing vibes.

You know with almost any other retailer in the world I can take a faulty product to any register in any store.

But not #Apple.

In a system bordering of commercial facism, I have to book appointments, endure being rerouted to a different store .

And sit for an hour in a sea of bored teal shirts.

"I am thankful that in a troubled world no calamity can prevent the return of Spring."
~ Helen Keller

The best fossil-fuel company executives and right-wing politicians in the world are working on that problem night and day.

One day soon, no one will ever look forward to spring again.

#bluesky is now at a bit more than 42 million accounts.

Which means it now has a nominally larger population than the world’s most populous city - Jakarta

Sign in a cafe that says, “Follow Your Bliss”

Mocking or encouraging….?

Some mornings it’s difficult to say.

A large sprawling multi-level organisation full of people who spent years fighting their own small entrenched corners and jockeying for positions - like, for the sake of argument, the ALP - doesn’t pivot.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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@bsky.app I don’t know how, but you seem to have got control of the catfishing bots.

Thanks.

I’ve never considered myself socially conservative or even prudish.

But still, I was, shall we say discomforted, by the number of young female arse-cracks on display at my local beach this morning.

When did g-strings become mainstream swimwear?

The fact that a private citizen, by virtue of nothing more than wealth, can make decisions directly affecting the course of a war between two nation states is a clear sign something is deeply amiss in how power now works.

Personally I’m on Ukraine’s side - but my point stands.

Xenophobia isn’t a white European trait. It’s pretty ubiquitous.
And emotional self interest is it’s own thing. I’ve met Chinese immigrants who believe ‘foreign’ Chinese investors are why house prices are so high.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It’s immigration. And the polling is clear that without it’s anti immigration rhetoric ON would be marginal.

I’m don’t think immigration is harming anything.

But it is an explanation for so many perceived ills that people find compelling.

The battle isn’t ON. It’s giving people a better villain.

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Good lord 😳
The kid from Harold and Maude just died…. at 70 years of age.

I feel so…..

I understand why ‘information poor’ voters might think immigration is to blame for their problems.

But that’s a very cynical and craven position to take by the leader of a major party - who is anything but information poor.

#auspol

Good to see QUT stepping in to bring Meanjin back from the brink.

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The Gallup decision.

Another brick removed from the Jenga tower of the U.S. political system.

The ALP now sincerely believe that if the richest %20 of the country are doing well they are doing everything right. And government has no ability to “create wealth”.

So fasten your seatbelts, keep your hands inside the ride. The right-wing roller coaster is about to start its run.

#auspol

I was reading an article about a breakthrough gene therapy for leukaemia.

It has the tagline: “Revolutionising healthcare through science”

But as someone who lost his wife to cancer I know it’s a false promise without a revolution in funding, access, intellectual property, and ownership.

I was walking along the Yarra near Fairfield one day and looked up to see literally thousands of bats asleep in the branches above my head.

Awesome- and more than a bit spooky.

#melbourne

Street cafe from outside

My usual cafe is close to repair something. So I relying on the substitute today.

Not too shabby.

Depending on how it is done, biometric verification is potentially more dangerous.
You can get a new driver’s license if that data was hacked. You can’t get a new face.

In the dictionary, under “clusterfuck” it just says, “See Adelaide Writers Week.

#AWW #Adelaidewritersweek

Sounds like the governing council of most Australian universities.. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 🙄