Doug Miller

But it will surely end the current approach (LLMs etc). Who is going to want to or be able to fund the giant data centres after the bubble bursts?

Penguin, Tasmania?

I would have less offended if they just gone with “Celsius 233”.

In case it isn’t obvious “values rooted in blood” means you should have the right genes. And they are not talking about DNA testing. Having the right “blood” is based on your appearance or perceived background, i.e., this is just racism, exactly the same as when the Nazis used the same language.

Screen shot of bom.gov.au on mobile device that displays the text “Discover your weather” and nothing else.

Completely non-functional on my mobile. It seems the Bureau can’t make a website that complies with basic web standards.

In the absence of relative stats I went looking for absolute stats. In Australia to date there have been 6 cases of battery thermal runaway of a parked EV. In 4 cases the cause was an external fire. The other 2 cases are still under investigation. So risk of spontaneous fire seems to be aprox. zero.

Also, I’d like to know what the relative stats are for a *parked* car. Because I am much more scared of a fire in my garage than anywhere else!

Headline says "Thieves still Victorian town's sign..."

Over the last few years I've been noticing with dismay the increasing quantity of typos, spelling errors and ungrammatical gibberish published at www.abc.net.au/news/justin. But this must be a new low in quality control:

And not necessarily that common. My assumption is that all parts of constructing the LHC required highly skilled people, including the concreting!

Agreed, both points.

Maybe. But the process of deciding what’s in scope is going so slowly that it doesn’t look like everything will be included by the nominal start date in December.

There is a draft list by the E-safety Commissioner showing sites they consider could be in scope of the under-16 ban. The latest version I saw didn’t include BlueSky. Presumably they think not enough Australian children use Bluesky for it to be prioritised (yet).

I’ve played it through a couple of times now. After each CD I put it back into a different slot in the sleeve, to honour the “no particular order” diktat.

This hype seems related to bogus software development metrics like “coding 80% complete” which had already been debunked in the 1970s by people like Fred Brooks of “Mythical Man-Month” fame (“80% coding complete” might mean you are 10% of the way to a working product).

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Yes, completely innumerate nonsense from Brandis.

Conflict of interest over IGADF? Brereton’s view seems to be IDGAF.

Everybody’s gotta have a hobby.

Yes, I was appalled by the 7.30 story. It was fact-free scaremongering. They didn’t attempt to compare the new system with the old system, and hence there was no clarity on who might be paying more and who might be paying the same or less.

#ABC730 covering the cooker protesters in Melbourne. One speaker says vaccines kill you overnight, 2nd says double murderer cop killer Dezi Freeman ‘was a good man’, third bloke is a English immigrant with a thick northern accent telling us he’s not a Nazi but immigration is bad. 🙄 Embarrassing.

Don’t forget if you’re eligible for the shingles vaccine please get it done cause it’ll save you a world of pain. Believe me,you don’t want shingles. Ian

That headline *really* should have started with “Late try by Will Warbrick…”.

Have to disagree with you there Lynton. Sharri Markson is a deeply unserious journalist. A parody of a journalist. An offensive propagandist. #mediawatch

I’m curious about the provenance. It would seem to be too old (>5 years) to be a ‘Mercy’ or ‘Poptical Illusion’ outake. Which begs the questions of how it came to be recorded and how come such a good track was unreleased.

John Cale “Mixology Volume 1”, CD edition

“They say these floods are devastating but they never talk about anything that is good or important about water."

Unless you get the CD version; seems to have the same deluxe packaging as the vinyl version, at a price barely more than the digital-only version.

Naturally, the LNP desperately reach for the fear trigger by publicly ‘condemning’ a united stance against one of the worst acts of genocide and inhumanity in modern history

What a soulless bunch of pointless grubs the LNP are

Peter Dutton in front of Australian flag. Headline reads Dutton says he'll never stand in front of an Aboriginal flag as PM.

He got that right.