Hugh Mungous

The Hound of Tindolos is a nice touch

This is certainly true in our master's rowing where crews are self selected. No-one wants to be thought of as underpowered and this creates poor situations.

zeldawilliams 20m From Create Mode •• Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want. To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough, , just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it. Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

It was certainly true in the 80s when I was backpacking around Europe. The question was "does the flag mean you're Canadian, or just a self aware American"

A lot of discussion around how to cool 120kW racks, not much on how to generate the power sustainably

At HPE Elevate in Melbourne for two days. The mention of AI/hour is around 300. #HPE

That's the way everyone in Australia says it...

Larger fingers means larger pinches of salt. It's just biology that male baked foods taste better.

Holocaust Survivor Bernard Marks, 87 survivor of Auschwitz & Dachau confronting elected sheriff & I.C.E. Director

Anything with tentacles is chaos

I grew up in the country, so when I came to Melbourne I was determined to live in the inner city. If I wanted space and grass I could have stayed on the farm.

Here in Aus, the emergency stop call is "check it HARD", but tone does play a big part

The "keep it long and strong" approach

I remember a call of "one more turn of the wheels" helping me visualise what I was meant to be doing at the catch, but it did confuse others

Congratulations, a well deserved honour

Getting the foot stretcher in the right place goes a long way towards getting the catch together. Hard to do without a view from outside the boat.

Putting emotional distance between yourself and the people your community is asking you to kill is mental self preservation. Not having anyone your community wants dead is vastly superior, but humans 'eh?

See a beach photo, post a beach photo

Silicon Valley billionaires literally want the impossible Ars chats with physicist and science journalist Adam Becker about his new book, More Everything Forever.

This is outstanding on the vapid scientifically illiterate dreams of the tech overlord class

arstechnica.com/culture/2025...

You are quite correct, curse short form. I was conflating the two ideas of getting a candidate with established credibility to the base and bringing in a candidate who's avoided the potential pitfalls of being LOTO.

Surely they will go the Bob Hawke route and parachute someone popular in 3 months before the next election. I predict Chris Hemsworth. Remember, you heard it here first.

“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.”
- Thomas Pynchon

I think about that a lot these days.

I guess he can work from home all he likes now

#auspol

The Yarra River in early morning with 4 hot air balloons floating above it

Must be a nice morning for a row as the balloons are out .

Two. Hundred.

Just back from a driving holiday to Perth and back. About 7,500km all up. Parts of Australia are amazing. But there's a lot of it...

Wow so the people of Lithuania gathered to mourn and pay their respects to the 4 American soldiers that tragically died there during training…this is what allies do 🫡….meanwhile Trump skipped the dignified transfer at Dover Air Force Base to play golf in Miami with Saudis

We visited the Albany wind farm in WA a couple of days ago. It's amazing looking, and now a tourist attraction

Azure sea and limestone cliffs

Azure sea under blue sky

The highway across the Nullarbor stretching into the distance

Two old people in front of azure sea and limestone cliffs

On the WA SA border, heading west tomorrow