In our latest commentary by Dr Sophie Lewis, we look at the Earth’s energy imbalance, an indicator the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has included for the first time in its ‘State of the Global Climate 2025’ report. Read more here: www.accr.org.au/insights/com...
It's a pity that this 'planned obsolescence' decree won't apply to military hardware. We could solve half the world's problems if it did & we could defund the military.
the policy was set in stone when the gig economy was the cash economy, when official figures did not remotely resemble actual economic-exchange-care activity. Now everything is transactionalised.
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A comprehensive, devastating description of Israel’s deliberate annihilation of the conditions of life in Gaza
Adam Morton Chris Bowen to begin Cop31 climate summit president's role remotely Chris Bowen's role as president for negotiations at the Cop31 climate summit in Turkey later this year will kick off remotely. With the fuel crisis raging and Bowen giving daily press conferences on the government's response, the climate change and energy minister said he would not fly to Berlin next week for the Petersberg Climate Dialogue, an annual meeting of representatives from about 40 countries. A spokesperson for the minister said he "considers his travel carefully" and would not fly for the meeting hosted by the German climate action ministry on Tuesday and Wednesday. "In this instance he will take advantage of the virtual attendance and continues to engage closely with all his international counterparts. Australia will also not be represented at ministerial level at the first global conference on transitioning away from fossil fuels in Colombia starting next Friday.
Australia's energy minister is skipping global meetings on accelerating the phase-out of fossil fuels because he has to stay in Australia to deal with the fallout from not phasing fossil fuels out fast enough.
Queenslanders in Brisbane defy Premier David Crisafulli with Two Strong Hearts. The song contains a variant of a phrase banned by the premier under his speech criminalisation regime. #qldpol
A true Labor Govt would dismantle the Productivity Commission and laugh at anyone who suggested it did any good.
more than 70% of incarcerated children and young people in NSW are presumptively innocent (locked up “on remand”). More than half of all incarcerated children, on any given night, in every jurisdiction, are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children.
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Mud map from the PC report on the NDIS from 2011 that From a consumer’s perspective, the NDIS will give them the means to choose supports that best meet their needs that includes "private, for profit firms"
Whenever I see talk about the NDIS I go back to the original Productivity Commission report and I note a pretty obvious issue in the entire construction of the scheme
The Netanyahu regime must be well-pleased with Australian mainstream media.
Here's the national broadcaster's David 'hasbara' Speers, acting as an Israeli megaphone.
And treating the ambassador with kid gloves, rather than as the chief propagandist for a genocidal rogue state. #auspol
A lot of people criticise funding for the arts but those people are WRONG
Too bad that's AI. Here is the real thing.
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Without hearing the fart audio, we can't make claims like this in good faith. Perhaps the vibe was lo-fi and atmospheric with notably consistent tone
A guy asking ChatGPT to review a series of fart sound effects and getting a serious kiss ass response that calls it atmospheric
I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.
An appropriate poleaxing of the Australian Public Service Commission by the ever perceptive Jack Waterford in the Canberra Times today. The Commission is supposed to be the champion of Public Service integrity and professionalism, but underwhelms in that role. 1/2 #auspol
Change the Record, Raise the Age and the Justice and Equity Centre all pointing out how cruel it is to put 10 year old children in jail. So right. A national law saying “no one can torture children” is needed, and just saying that makes real the national youth justice crisis.
Critical Senate hearing today in Parramatta on the national youth justice crisis. Starting with former National Children’s Commissioner Anne Hollands with her call for “help way earlier” rather than the push for more brutal criminal justice responses.
A reliable metric for a losing war: notice how often a combatant describes inputs (ordinance dropped, resources committed, duration of operation) as a substitute for outputs (effects a military operation is intending to produce).
People are starting to lose the ability to distinguish data and understanding from ai slop. It is becoming self reinforcing. "Everyone is using AI and we are falling behind! My AI search queries prove it!" 3/3
Grace Tame Foundation closes amid "funding difficulties". This follows Grace losing speaking gigs after she led a “globalise the intifada” chant.
The foundation drove landmark legal reforms/supported 100s of survivors seeking justice. No doubt the wreckers are 𝘔𝘢𝘻𝘦𝘭 𝘛𝘰𝘷-ing each other ... 🙄
#auspol
After reading the whole article, this image persists in my mind from this description, “chatbots that talk to each other about tasks...”
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Putting aside Sam Altman just continuing to emit huge lies constantly, this is an amazing example of what I mean when I talk about how GenAI is replacing *extremely low energy* digital tasks with *WAY WAY HIGHER ENERGY* replacements that *do not even work*
Why TF is anyone using ChatGPT as a timer!
there has never ever been another man with this many photos where he looks like his mom just walked in on him jerking off
Al copy is dead. It is inert. The reason you can spot it is that it sounds hollow. I don't care if a website says stuff on it because I typed in, just like I don't care if it responds in a way that sounds human, because it all feels like nothing to me. I am not here to give a website respect, I will not be impressed by a website, nor will I grant a website any extra credit if it can't do the right thing every time. The computer is meant to work for me. If the computer doesn't do what I want I change the kind of computer I use. LLMs will always hallucinate, their outputs are not trustworthy as a result, they cannot be deterministic, and any chance of any mistakes of any kind are unforgivable. I don't care how the website made you feel: it's a machine that doesn't always work, and that's not a very good machine.
Perhaps you've found value - congratulations! You should feel no compulsion to have to convince me, nor should you feel any pride in using a particular website. And if you feel you're being judged for using Al, perhaps you should ask why you feel so vilified? Did the industry do something to somehow warrant judgment? Is there something weird or embarrassing about the product, such as it famously having a propensity to get things wrong? Perhaps it loses billions of dollars? Oh, it's damaging to the environment too? And people are telling outright lies about it and constantly saying it'll replace people's jobs? And the CEOs are all greedy oafish sociopaths? Did you try being cloying, judgmental, condescending and aggressive to those who don't like Al? Oh, that didn't work? I can't imagine why. Sounds embarrassing! You must really like that website. (
Working on next week’s free newsletter: I will never respect a website.
Free newsletter: We need to talk about the inherent weirdness of the AI bubble, and how strange it is that an industry that loses billions of dollars to create few productivity benefits is described as a disruptive technology rather than an industry of WeWorks.
www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-really...
I saved money by unsubscribing from The Washington Post.
