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it may look funny to you but this horse and rider can never move again now

Cheaper power for renewables neighbours has been much requested, but difficult to do. A startup says it can make work for both communities and developers.

I read they granted one of these to Jehan le Bond, Baron de Skeyfall (motto: Agitatus, Non Motus)

Death of baseload: World's biggest isolated grid is reaching 84 pct wind and solar almost daily
reneweconomy.com.au/death-of-bas... @gilesparkinson.bsky.social @reneweconomy.com.au

And batteries surging in Western Australia, too
Battery dispatch now greater than utility solar generation in WA

Melbourne’s first G Class tram arrives at purpose-built depot Melbourne's first G Class tram arrives at purpose-built depot https://bit.ly/46TYXKM

Melbourne's first G Class tram arrives at purpose-built depot https://bit.ly/46TYXKM

Good morning to everyone except those who choose to keep shilling for M*rcedes-B*nz Gr*up Akt*engesellsch*ft

The ACT government’s early push to 100 pct renewables is looking like the smartest policy of all – with one wind farm paying consumers $50/MWh in the last quarter.

One of the conspirators who helped Gavrilo Princip shoot Archduke Franz Ferdinand survived to see the breakup of Yugoslavia. He could conceivably have watched the Neighbours episode where Scott and Charlene got married

We often call better city-building ideas bold and visionary when they’re really just common sense given the real-life crises that cities are facing. But true common sense isn’t particularly common these days, so it’s considered bold.

Correct map of the Hutt Archipelago, sometimes also known as Aotearoa or New Zealand

Personally, though, I observe the Hutt rite, 14 April (1874, first steam train from Lowerer Hutt to Lower Hutt). Those who live in the Hutt Archipelago and believe that a mythical South Island exists observe 1 December (1863, a fable about a steam train in “Christchurch”, wherever that is)

Let us not forget the Lancashire rite that recognises 15 September (1830, first steam-only modern intercity railway)

Victorian rite recognises 12 Sep (1854, first Melbourne-Sandridge train) whereas the British tradition (first steam train in the world) is 27 Sep (1825).

Ancient greek orthodox gunzels would recognise the Diolkos of Corinth (I presume this should be a ‘Kings Birthday’ style fixed date of 4/12)

Happy Orthodox Gunzelmas to all who observe!!!

UPDATE: they are back for another season!

I love 99% of this yarn from @australia.theguardian.com… except for the incorrect use of hyphens when referring to Melbourne tram classes. Per almost a century of longstanding style practice it is “E Class” not “E-class”; Wikipedia is wrong. I will not be taking further questions at this time

*Melbourne Tram Museum (in Hawthorn)

MSG stands for
Mmmm
So
Good

First G has been delivered to Maidstone.

1st Official World Tram Driver Championship YouTube video by TRAM-EM

World Tram Driver championships now LIVE from Vienna. Featuring a team from Melbourne.
www.youtube.com/live/smp0voL...

The Bernie Sanders request meme with caption text overlaid at the bottom reading “I am once again asking” and then in a different smaller font added later “…gunzels, nerds, and others to stop incorrectly and unnecessarily adding a hyphen when referring to Melbourne tram classes per longstanding house style”

eight decades of M&MTB annual reports can’t be wrong

Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Close view of a pull-up banner with a printed photo of a KMart K-hub store and staff standing in front of the entrance under the sign

in the khub, we all fham

AI Eroded Doctors’ Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study Artificial intelligence, touted for its potential to transform medicine, led to some doctors losing skills after just a few months in a new study.

“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”

"It’s clearer than ever that, like so many well-capitalized tech ventures, OpenAI’s aim is simply to create a product that is either addictive to users to maximize engagement or to dully automate a set of work tasks, or both. It’s clear that it is succeeding, to some extent, in each endeavor."

Whilst texting over lunch, I somehow managed to elbow and spill leftover bún (Vietnamese noodle salad) dressing all over my work trousers. Unsure if sad or proud that my immediate thought was “nước mắm, no hands”

hello i am part of a group of extremely cool and smart public servants who have seemingly managed to achieve something even cooler and smarter 😎

Come launch our Taylor Swift book with us! This book has everything — from using Swift to fight fascism, to inspiring drag queens, and whether Swift lyrically supports public transport. It’s all here. Bookings: www.readings.com.au/events/taylo...

I believe this is the emergency ramp for aiding a mobility aid user and their device to alight?

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