Shaun Lambert

Feel like its a bad sign about the health of the republic that Pritzker has to talk about TX Dems like they’re the Polish government-in-exile in London

The Australian trying to do their best to smear a NSW Socialists member and accidentally making Josh come across fucking awesome is an unexpected event

A photo of a garden covered in white snow.

My parent’s garden, Uralla, NSW, today. ❄️

I think the toilet is my favorite part of this weird AI.

World map with country borders. Different countries are shown in different colours to highlight their dominat export product group with blue for energy, green for agriculture, yellow for mining and grey for non-commodity dependent. Almost all countries in Africa and Latin America are commodity dependent. Above the map is the title "Figure 3. What are the major commodities exported by commodity-dependent countries?"

Map from UNCTAD showing countries dependent on commodity exports.

You can see three broad regions dependent on mining exports: Southern Africa, West Africa and western Latin America.

Orwell? not that he was there for long enough to count for this exercise though I suppose

Repeal Job-Ready Graduates Policy Now: Restoring Equity in Higher Education - Online petition We sign this petition in solidarity with those who signed the Open Letter to the Prime Minister on 28 July 2025…

We are so close to reaching our target of 2500 signatures on this petition calling for the repeal of Job-Ready Graduates! If you care about equity in higher education and want the BA to be affordable and accessible for *all* students, please sign! www.openpetition.org/au/petition/...

WHY DO RICH PEOPLE LOVE QUIET? The sound of gentrification is silence.

Every time I hear someone blaring music on their phone in public I think of this stupid fucking article and want them subjected to 8 hours of the Barney theme song.

Being right wing is so hard bc you’re not allowed to acknowledge any actual phenomena that shape the world, so when you try to describe something you just end up sounding like if a person speaking in tongues worshipped the internet instead of god

honestly difficult to think of something both relevant and so ridiculous to spray paint here

screenshot of said quoted ABC article relevant part is the photo of the graffiti in centre, with "IRAN IS DA BOMB" spray painted in red on the wall, surrounded by a cloud-like line

how do you keep a straight face adding this to the article man, goddamn

Sportsbet advertises multi-bets on AFL website after pulling TV ads due to ‘community sentiment’ Ads encouraging sport fans to ‘bet now’ do not breach any rules but gambling reform advocates say it shows industry attempts to self-regulate have failed

Sportsbet regulating itself is a joke.

The Govt must respond to the Murphy Inquiry and ban gambling ads.
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one of the most indicative traits of an intellectual fraud is their willingness to run off at the mouth about things they very clearly don’t understand. it’s totally fine to not be an AI expert. why are you pretending to be one for your 100k substack subscribers?

Flooding the market with this kind of shit so that nobody can find what they want or would be nourished by reading is truly evil

brings new meaning to the phrase "live by the sword die by the sword"

it's kinda sad overall, because as described, it would be the perfect niche software tool. but it's been pushed so hard and forced everywhere

a tool of choice, cool. something every student everywhere is likely to use 90-95% time for 'learning', that's a big uh oh

I think about this all the time with examples of African-American (Colloquial?) English, and I wanna say Standard American English - two paragraphs meaning the same thing, but received very differently for how they present

from the quoted OP link Yascha Mounk A recent viral essay in The New Yorker provides an extreme, but not an altogether atypical, illustration of the problem. "A.I. is frankly gross to me," its author, Jia Tolentino, avows. "It launders bias into neutrality; it hallucinates; it can become 'poisoned with its own projection of reality.' The more frequently people use ChatGPT, the lonelier, and the more dependent on it, they become." At least Tolentino has the honesty to acknowledge the astonishing fact that "I have never used ChatGPT." 1 Though the author considers herself a progressive, her basic attitude to new technologies resembles that of a reactionary 19th century priest who denounces the railways as the devil's work-before proudly mentioning that he himself has, of course, never engaged in the sin of riding one.

and the fifth paragraph tries to tell us that reading and researching about a text-based machine and not using it is the same as decrying a train and not using it 🤦

a fair comparison would be the priest using VR to experience the devil's work at arm's length

surely computer wouldn’t just make something up!

*putting finger to ear*

I am receiving some new information

Lenovo’s rollable laptop is the coolest computer I’ve used all year Rock and roll

Lenovo’s rollable laptop is the coolest computer I’ve used all year

even funnier then, the Barbenheimer concept, as far as Oppenheimer was about academia lol

Woke did not lead to bad art. Poor attempts to satisfy the demands of woke from insincere executives who did not want to accommodate the demands actual woke artists would place on process and result lead to bad art.

He's not wrong on the left being pretty quiet on sex and relationships stuff tbh. I do this work though and I do it really very well and you can find out more about it and how to help me promote it and fund it here www.bishuk.com/support/ I'll post some more relevant links below

A Fish Falls From the Sky and Sparks a Brush Fire in British Columbia

For a medieval monastic chronicler, a headline to die for

do you use the listifications app as well? I catch so many ones where they a) barely post and b) I have never interacted with them or seen their account before

my best guess is how some people say they block so as not to be tempted to engage. 🤷

Tupou weeps golden tears as Wallabies win back respect in bittersweet victory | Angus Fontaine Prop was brought in from cold for stormy affair that acted as staging post for improvement of Joe Schmidt’s team Taniela Tupou let the tears flow. Months before, the Wallabies prop wondered if he had forgotten how to play the game. The Tongan Thor had been reduced to mortality of late, injuries and errors clouding his mind and finding him exiled by Test selectors. Now he was arm-in-arm with his brothers, singing the Australian anthem in the gold jersey for likely the final time before 80,312 fans. Why not let a few fat salty ones break their moorings? After all, occasions didn’t get much bigger. A full house at Sydney’s old Olympic stadium. Continue reading...

Tupou weeps golden tears as Wallabies win back respect in bittersweet victory | Angus Fontaine

Discovered today that not everyone considers this nine year old viral tweet a seminal text in the field of social media studies but I do

worse, I discovered to my anger that fb messenger has a function where someone can have meta reply as if it's you

I told them where to shove it and never to do it again, that was more than rude 🤕

+1, I went in blind and loved it

We need a planetary system of diplomacy for the 21st century | Aeon Essays We need new forms of global diplomacy to transcend the current pathetic bargaining of national and commercial interests

David Van Reybrouck, who wrote the phenomenal Revolusi, is in Aeon on diplomacy. It is extremely long so haven't fully read yet aeon.co/essays/we-ne...