Dorian

I've written about "disordered counterpublics" groups that reinforce shared delusions Here, the LLM becomes a 1 person counterpublic. It mirrors assumptions, absorbs contradictions, & provides the sense of a responsive, confirming audience.
It is the architecture of disordered discourse, automated.

Cricket Australia is the first Chump to evolve into a Champ and then revert back to a Chump again.

Dropped Alinta sponsorship 2023
New Origin sponsorship 2025

Global heating caused by fossil fuel companies like Origin will kill cricket.

This is sad. Vale their values.

www.chumpslist.org/chumps

A cartoon drawing of three wolves surrounding an early home computer with a slot in the top for a slice of bread. Two using the computer hold a stack of cut bread and hold bread in their mouth, respectively, while looking at a bespectacled wolf stating "Mom says it's my turn on the VideoGrain™." In the background, a television monitor displays a Pong-like videogame, with the text "03 Butter 01" at top, and a pat of butter and a figure holding a piece of toast as the sprites. Below, three drawings with inset text are present. The first shows a dog holding multiple loaves of bread with the text "We're in our no loaves refused arc." The second shows the same dog with his legs spread wide atop a giant loaf of bread, with the text "You'll 'spread' joy this holiday season with VideoGrain!" The third shows various animals gleefully eyeing both a giant potato and a television set displaying a live video image of potatoes au gratin. Text reads "See also: VideoGratin™"

Banner displaying International Transgender Day of Remembrance. In blue and pink letters.

Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance. The first time I heard about it was in 2016 when Jeff was the Trias Writer-in-Residence at Hobart-Wiiliam Smith College and we were living in Geneva, NY.
#TransgenderDayofRemembrance

How Catastrophic Is It If the AI Bubble Bursts? An FAQ. The AI industry's most important product is not a chatbot or a video generator; it's the story the AI industry is telling about itself

"The AI industry’s most important product at this moment is not a chatbot or a video generator; it’s the story the AI industry is telling about itself"
www.theringer.com/2025/11/04/t... #AI

We will struggle to explain to future generations how something so transparent and stupid was able to take place youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...

An Important Information Film. Please share widely so that more people receive the information.

Tickets: www.mickperrin.com/tours/alasdair-beckett-king-king-of-crumbs

What many politicians don't realise - or want to understand - is that many of the "highly-skilled" immigrants whose labour they crave were raised by the same asylum seekers and refugees they openly despise. They take the racist political rhetoric personally, and act accordingly. Why wouldn't they?

This is a remarkably consistent story across so many once-helpful digital tools: text-to-speech, speech-to-text, spellcheck, grammar check etc

All have become infected with this aggressive inventiveness that either (a) adds hours of work or (b) puts you at massive risk of using fabricated content

The world is quietly winning on climate. “Five years ago, the most ambitious emission reduction plans laid out by governments would have resulted in about 3 degrees of warming by the end of the century. We’re now staring 2.3 degrees of warming — a still-disastrous change, but one that’s moving ever closer to the place well below 2 degrees where we need to be. The 2015 Paris Agreement, dismissed at the time as a “fraud” and “dangerous incrementalism,” is actually working. As solar panels, wind turbines, electric vehicles and rechargeable batteries remake our power systems, the energy transition is on the brink of victory. Ignore the doomsayers who can’t see it.” (Source is Bloomberg)

Happy Friday, here’s a little excerpt from this week’s Fix The News for you ♥️

while I’m being cranky, access journalism needs to go. When the president does his “I’m alpha because I insulted you” thing somebody needs to fall on his sword and say “what the fuck is wrong with you, old man?” on a hot mic. the hero of the wizard of Oz is Toto.

It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.

Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.

Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.

Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq

The hardest working font in Manhattan A story of a 150-year-old font you have never heard of – and one you probably saw earlier today.

I was linked to this essay on Tumblr, and now I have to put it here, because I feel like I'm permanently changed after reading it.

if not paying your writers is part of how you “set yourself up to publish for years to come” then you’re not set up correctly

The news has been coming so fast, I did another later which might not otherwise see the light.

“The debt of gratitude Australians owe CSIRO for Aeroguard alone can never be repaid. Which is why it’s so alarming to watch its funding – and its people – bleed away,” writes Ebony Bennett, Deputy Director at The Australia Institute.

Read the full op-ed: australiainstitute.org.au/post/who-nee...

Excellent piece

You absolutely wanna read the replies to this.

I don't know who in Canada needs to hear this, but the greatest threat to you is the alignment of state and corporate interests and not anything foreign.

John Oliver did a segment on this

I'm quote tweeting not as a dunk, but there's an influencer who got offered a free IV drip and as a result has been dealing with the flesh eating bacteria for years now.

A lot of these medi-spas are not well regulated and opening your arm to them has real infection risks.

thestreet.com Andrew Tate gets 'hyperliquidated' as Bitcoin crash wipes out his entire balance Andrew Tate was not spared by the crypto market's wrath. MEHAB QURESHI • NOV 19, 2025 6:01 AM EST

thestreet.com "ANDREW TATE: HYPERLIQUIDATED. Andrew Tate deposited a total of $727K to Hyperliquid and as of today, has lost it all - without making a single withdrawal. He also claimed a total of $75K as referral rewards from traders using his reflink. He has lost all of that trading as well."

oh no anyway www.thestreet.com/crypto/marke...

Remember that "I challenge you to identify one thing in this picture?"

the way jack dorsey can jingle his keys at millennials and have them come running, don't trust this "new vine" shit lol

Oh boy, Cloudflare is suffering a hiccup and now a huge chunk of the internet is fucked. Who's idea was to shove it all into like, 3 or 4 big-ass companies?

With this news of Larry Summers "stepping back from public engagements" but still teaching, sometimes I think about how with all of the horrific stories of abuse of female students in academia, the only marine biologist I know of who was banned from taking future students is a woman.

this labour government is far right.

Clicked over to The Independent, since it's part midnight here & updates are scant. Fantastic news:
"there is no sign that [the problem will] be fixed soon. Cloudflare [previously] suggested they had been fixed when it hadn’t, which suggests it is a big and perhaps hard to grasp issue."
WOO

Can't find out if Cloudflare is down because Cloudflare being down has taken out DownDetector, along with half the internet.