Dr Semiosmith

Let That Sink In! 👇🏼👇🏽👇🏾👇🏼👇🏾

We're probably weeks away from a Fox News chyron about whether Italians are "white"

The WHITE HOUSE The White House V* @WhiteHouse X.com OPERATION MAKING D.C. SAFE & BEAUTIFUL ARRESTED CARRYING A PISTOL WITHOUT A LICENSE The WHITE HOUSE 2:01 PM • 8/11/25 • 1M Views

The White House’s official X account has a long thread in which they’ve posted pictures of people arrested during the feds’ occupation of the city. Every single person in the thread is a person of color.

@garybutler.bsky.social

“The sad story of our misadventures in ensuring the nation benefits from the export of its gas is told in a report by the Australia Institute.”

Read Ross Gittins' op ed in The Sydney Morning Herald on untaxed gas exports and why the Government won’t change this.

@rossgittins.bsky.social #auspol

the whole purpose of AI is for jealous tech bros to finally eliminate expertise

Four frames. Title: “HOW TO BOOST YOUR PRODUCTIVITY” 1. “Profits down? Workers slacking off? You need a productivity stick!” Be-suited chap whacking person at desk over the head with a stick. “Work harder!” (Whack!) Worker: “Ouch” 2.”Lack the imagination to innovate? You need an IP sucker, to monetise other people’s genius” Machine called OPEN AI like a vacuum cleaner attached to wall and to worker’s computer. Worker looks vacant. Machine goes “Chugga chugga”. 3.”Taxes eating a hole in your company profits after all that whacking and sucking? You need a tax break!” Boss in suit salutes tax man as he passes tax envelope over - while tugging string - “yoink!” - pulling bundle of cash out of envelope. 4. “Remember, productivity is all about making more from less. Just like when your workers have to water down their soup.” Scene man woman child at table with bowls, holding spoons and looking bleak.

Boost your productivity!
My @smh @theage cartoon.

neither does he

it's just a giant machine that we don't know how to turn off

'employee and customer resistance' is a wonderful euphemism for it doesn't work

with a twist in the tail

C P Snow would like a word

I'm already totally sick of AI and of hearing about it

the triumph of the quantitative over qualitative is going to kill us if we're not careful

created by, in fact

assuming Trump even turns up to the correct venue

why not, it's a worthless coin now anyway

the passengers not only think they can fly the plane, they want to be able to vote on cockpit decision-making

I have a feeling Trump really will go to Russia because he thinks that is where they are meeting and there is no-one who will tell him he is wrong

welcome back to royalty, USA

Beatless

Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you:

Our funding depends on usage.

So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.

We could be losing thousands and thousands of species right now without knowing

The FBI came to my house to intimidate me because I’m critical of Trump.

And they wouldn’t let my girlfriend take a picture of their badges.

They had printouts of my posts.

wow - USA, you've really done a number on yourself there old mates

observer effect

AI doesn't have the capability to sense what is happening

The highest crime rate in DC was on January 6th, 2021. Fact.

The old ‘sons of the soil’ bullshit

- I have seen organisations do this before with an outgoing leader: get them to do all the dirty work before taking over