Lani Frank

A quick note to every bank in the world. I'm taking all your money unless you opt out. Cool? Cool.

The word 'crackdown' sure is getting misused a lot in headlines recently.

Threads like this are where i find my people.

Everything in the USA that ever carried an aura of importance or gravity -- the presidency, the white house, the supreme court, the medal of honour, the FBI -- it's all now been cheapened beyond recovery.

See this one crazy trick the rest of the world swears by!

Occam is rolling over in its razor at this latest mental gymnastics about trump.

‘I’m glad we didn’t win’: Liberal campaigners feared Brethren-fuelled Dutton victory The Plymouth Brethren Christian Church was so enmeshed in local Liberal campaigns that they were cleaning candidates’ houses. Now a new inquiry has been launched.

As massively disappointing as the #ALP and Albanese have been, it's still a huge relief that these people and Dutton got smacked down so comprehensively. #AusPol

It's weird that in the USA they're not called jellofish.

Real "where is Kate Middleton" energy in here this week.

I can

I can

Whoa, was that an earthquake in Queensland just now??

A murder of crows? You mean caws of death??

Albanese has been given one of the biggest opportunities in Aus political history to be brave, do big things, make an impact, and instead he's still quivering in the corner hoping no one notices him.

👏 Ffs 👏 do 👏 something 👏 bold 👏 for 👏 once 👏 #AusPol

Paramour is a reader recommended book on Netgalley 💃💃💃 people are screaming for this banshee book!!! Eh? Eh?? Request it now!!! #paramour #newrelease #banshees #netgalley #arcreaderswanted

Australia’s potential surrender of creative content to tech giants for free is shocking. Labor must decide where it stands | Josh Taylor The Productivity Commission appears to have bought into tech companies’ brazen arguments – and caught the Australian government off-guard

"AI" is proof that the "Hurry, hurry! Act now or you'll miss out! Don't be left behind!" pressure-sell scam technique still works like a charm, even on people who should damn well know better. #AusPol

I think the use of chatbots for stuff like this is intended to train people to use it to avoid everything that’s painful or hard. It can write the obituary, the breakup text, the complaint letter. It’s meant to separate humans from their difficult feelings. Seems bad.

[quoting a tweet by fractalcounty that reads, “today I learned that there are actual people irl who get genuinely upset if they catch you using chatgpt. like they view it as a serious moral failing in certain circles”]

If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.

Yay on both counts!!

The Age survey pie chart result for whether readers have any intention of ever listening to Kyle Sandilands and Jackie O's radio show. 98% say no. 1% yes. 1% unsure.

Onya Melbourne.

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Aaaaand now that song is stuck in my head.

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It's like there's this whole cohort of people who believe the world is a giant episode of L&O: SVU, and they somehow convinced themselves Dear Leader is Elliot Stabler when he's actually the incredibly obvious arrogant rich guy perp.

Slow Horses!!!! And Murderbot!

Worth a watch:

Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

My heart goes out to every USian who voted against this shit but was defeated by ignorance, racism, misogyny, and apathy.

Death, taxes, SpaceX exploding.

Australian pollies seem so bloody sure the good ol' US of A will come running to our military rescue if we ever need them, but their 'leader' won't even make the time to meet with ours. Absolute chumps, the lot of them. #auspol #AUKUS #dumpAUKUS

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