Stephen Rowley

Ridiculous decision. Jason Bennett is easily one of the best AFL commentators & has been for a long time. Accurate, incisive, good judge of when to amp it up or back off. Yet Seven have always kept him in the shadows. Not sure what the rationale is but it's a really bad move.

Yep, 100%. Same tonight, they disappear every time we go to a slightly different angle. Just another type of enshittification, making the product worse to wring out a few measly bucks.

I don’t love it when they actually paint them in the ground, but… okay. But this really bugs me as it basically falsifies the record of what is happening.

Shot of the AFL state of origin. Ads for AAMI and the event itself have been superimposed, made to look as if they are painted on the turf.

AFL state of origin highlighting one of my most despised advertising practices - computer-generated ads made to look as if they are painted on the turf.

Over the past two weeks I've begun to realize that rich people only started funding chatbots once they could no longer email Jeffrey Epstein

I found the 50 most cathartic seconds of that Angela Collier video I linked earlier. Imagine of we could somehow get this to autoplay for everyone the next time they opened LinkedIn. Full video here: youtu.be/7pqF90rstZQ

YouTube video by Angela Collier this is what 2 years of chatgpt does to your brain

Angela Collier is so good on AI. Revel in the righteous anger. Her discussion of the AI users proudly talking about how much they love it especially hit home for me. youtu.be/7pqF90rstZQ?...

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

LOL - although to be fair cracking it and refusing to pay an Adobe subscription is probably the most relatable thing Elon Musk has ever done.

News Team, Thank you for the notes and texts. I apologize for not reaching out earlier. I learned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight. We (Ori and I) asked for a call to discuss her decision. She did not afford us that courtesy/opportunity. Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now-after every rigorous internal check has been met is not an editorial decision, it is a political one. We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with DHS, the White House, and the State Department. Government silence is a statement, not a VETO. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed to kill the story. If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we

have effectively handed them a "kill switch" for any reporting they find inconvenient. If the standard for airing a story becomes "the government must agree to be interviewed," then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast. We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state. These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless. CBS spiked the Jeffrey Wigand interview due to legal concerns, nearly destroying the credibility of this broadcast. It took years to recover from that "low point." By pulling this story to shield an administration, we are repeating that history, but for political optics rather than legal ones.

We have been promoting this story on social media for days. Our viewers are expecting it. When it fails to air without a credible explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of "Gold Standard" reputation for a single week of political quiet. I care too much about this broadcast to watch it be dismantled without a fight. Sharyn

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

Probably will come across as a contrarian choice, but I think I might say Every Sperm is Sacred. I respect the mix of satire, absurdity, and genuine production value.

Headline: "Microsoft Scales Back AI Goals Because Almost Nobody Is Using Copilot" by Jan Martindale Dec. 10 2025

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

There’s also the fact that I feel like we are perpetually living in a Gaston backstory at this point.

The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing.

All from his movies.

Every new word in this sentence is worse than the last

What teachers need to know before using AI for Indigenous education If you ask ChatGPT to write a Welcome to Country, it might caution that only an elder can deliver a Welcome and instead offer you a template of an Acknowledgement of Country. There’s just one problem:...

slop machines “know” exactly nothing, a simple web search would be a better strategy, slop users <will> cause cultural harm, and people with sufficient knowledge are required to check and correct the slop, again demonstrating slop to be a huge drain on productivity.

thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...

The Age headliner: ‘I wouldn’t move to Victoria’: Pauline Hanson speaks at Melbourne anti-immigration rally

The good news just keeps on coming

Headshot of a woman applying lipstick. It has been used to illustrate a story with the headline “APPARENTLY YOUR PERFECT LIPSTICK SHADE IS ACTUALLY THE COLOUR OF YOUR NIPPLES.”

The worst version of this I have seen in this poor woman whose innocent headshot got made really weird.

Yikes.

Exactly! This is bizarre if true. It’s no different conceptually to coming to terms with the fact that Bond in Casino Royale was new to the job. Audiences understand reboots by now.

You could count on the fingers of one hand the number of people* who really wanted this in footy.

*excluding

anyone who is, or is related to an AFL House or club employee,

anyone who is, or is related to an AFL club 'official partner',

or anyone involved in an AFL 'broadcast partner' role.

YouTube video by Apex Clips 2001: A Space Odyssey 4K HDR | The Shutdown Of Hal

Video walkthrough… youtu.be/UwCFY6pmaYY?...

The *default* function of a chatbot will be the fabrication of fake information. This is baked into the core design of the product: so stuff like "please check outputs" and "ethical" AI use are just attempts to broom a tidal wave back into the sea

lol

Pains me to say it but I think this is true. Some of my colleagues in the media who’ve stayed on X don’t even realize how badly its noxious algorithm is skewing their perception of politics and reality.

Also, that place seems designed to make you miserable unless you’re a Nazi. It’s just wretched.

The collapse of these AI companies cannot come quickly enough.

YouTube video by ABC News (Australia) ACCC sues over Microsoft 365 subscription hikes | ABC NEWS

Lol I was one of the people who lodged an ACCC complaint about this. Go ACCC! This was outrageous. (For those who don’t know, you can maintain your copilot free Office but the option to do so was hidden.)

youtu.be/9lGK5CXtwKo?...

Wikipedia article extract reading as follows: There were no further notable Cooper imitators until July 11, 1980, when Glenn K. Tripp seized Northwest Orient Flight 608 at Seattle-Tacoma Airport, demanding $600,000 ($100,000 by an independent account), tWo parachutes, and the assassination of his boss. A quick-thinking flight attendant drugged Tripp's alcoholic drink with Valium. After a ten-hour standoff, during which Tripp reduced his demands to three cheeseburgers and a ground vehicle in which to escape, he was apprehended. Tripp attempted to hijack the same Northwest flight on January 21, 1983, and this time demanded to be flown to Afghanistan. When the airplane landed in Portland, he was shot and killed by FBI agents.

Reading the Wikipedia page about DB Cooper and there is a lot going on in this description of Cooper copycat Glenn Tripp.