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An excellent article that explains why GenAI produces flat, repetitive and soulless writing with “an abundance of verbs and adjectives and a clear shortage of nouns, a clear sign that they are going around in circles to say little.”

Who supports the Albanese Govt's new environment laws?
• Chevron
• BHP
• the Minerals Council of Australia
• the Business Council of Australia

Who doesn't support the new laws?
• Australian Conservation Foundation
• Greenpeace
• the Climate Council
• the Wilderness Society and more. 🤔 #auspol

The fact a *single* Amazon full-time employee requires SNAP benefits should be a crime. The fact Amazon is the largest employer of SNAP recipients is a disgrace. Jeff Bezos shouldnt be that rich; he should be in jail.

The PM once championed a nuclear weapons ban. What happened? Anthony Albanese and Richard Marles once pledged Labor would sign a treaty to ban nuclear weapons. Why have they walked this back in government?

Bastards.

#AusPol

One, we're never going to shut up about this. Two, this isn't an "I told you so." Here's a simple fact that those making an AI inevitability argument do not want to reckon: it's not too late. Resistance thrives on chaos, and this brand of unmonitored chaos has never met the friction and revolutionary spirit of academic freedom-perhaps the very thing that will cause us to collectively remember that generative AI has no meaningful place in writing pedagogy, no ability to be implemented with integrity, and isn't even passably slay at writing. It is a thieving, hallucinating, biased, data-scraping, ecоdestroying, surveillance bot that will never be able to reconcile the receipts of its unethical origins. Not only are writing faculty allowed to resist, we are now called to do so by our own morals and steadfast, unabashedly idealistic belief in creative craft. Make mine a pour over.

AI "is a thieving, hallucinating, biased, data-scraping, ecо-destroying, surveillance bot that will never be able to reconcile the receipts of its unethical origins."
—A Psalm for the Analog @melaniedusseau.bsky.social

LOOMING: drive.proton.me/urls/JE8JPJR...

www.law.georgetown.edu/privacy-tech...

Microsoft in court for allegedly misleading millions of Australians over Microsoft 365 subscriptions The ACCC has commenced proceedings in the Federal Court against Microsoft Australia and its US-based parent company Microsoft Corporation for allegedly misleading approximately 2.7 million Australian ...

Our very own ACCC is taking Microsoft to court for tricking people into paying higher fees for AI garbage that no one asked for. You love to see it

Great album. Title track is where it’s at. When the drums + vocals kick in = bliss

I’m hitting the library ASAP to print out that zine 🔨

This appears to be good news.

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

I read this recently and was very disappointed. It’s a neoconservative view of the world with no acknowledgment of the role the US has played in creating the autocratic states she writes about. She’s also a massive Zionist and it shows in the book.

A stack of books, top to bottom: One day, everyone will have always been against this / Omar El Akkad Conspiracy nation : exposing the dangerous world of Australian conspiracy theories / Ariel Bogle and Cam Wilson Terra nullius / Claire G. Coleman The idea of Australia : a search for the soul of the nation / Julianne Schultz Taming Silicon Valley : how we can ensure that AI works for us / Gary Marcus Survival of the richest : escape fantasies of the tech billionaires / Douglas Rushkoff Better things are possible : how rebellious hope will change the world / by Jack Toohey The yield / Tara June Winch Living democracy : an ecological manifesto for the end of the world as we know it / Tim Hollo

Current stack! On track to hit my goal of 100 books in 2025. Currently on book number 85.

Full titles in alt text.

#booksky #libraries

Privacy laws can’t keep up with ‘luxury surveillance’ “It’s not clear to me that a small red light would be sufficient notification in some states for someone to consent to being recorded.”

“I think they are a profoundly antisocial technology that should be rejected in every way possible,” said Gilliard. “Their
very existence is toxic to the social fabric.” @hypervisible.blacksky.app
www.theverge.com/tech/807834/...

Daily Mail: extremist left winger who said Israel behaved like ‘terrorist stare’ confirmed as Irish president

A big congratulations and well done to the beautiful nation of Ireland

I was expecting the equaliser but to go and lose it was quite an achievement

Don’t bet on it ☹️

What did I just watch? What an absolute shambles. Still has got a lot of explaining to do. He’s running out of time I reckon. #saintsfc

Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says 'I'd rather die' than use generative AI Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.

“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡

“At this point I am accustomed to the lies, to the cruelty, but I will never understand the detachment. It’s deeply alienating.”

Last night, three Palestinian children were released from Israeli prisons:

Humam Issa Taqatqa (16), hostage for five months.

Mahmoud Salah Hiyan Taqatqa (13), hostage for one year.

Mohammad Moath Thawabteh (15), hostage for one year.

An image of the Trump-Vance presidency smashing a wrecking ball into the White House to build a monument to Dear Leader—during a government shutdown—captures 2025 pretty well

A football. Credit: Wikipedia

Memo to Southampton FC players after drawing 0-0 with Swansea: This is a football. You kick it in the part of the goal where the goalkeeper isn’t #saintsfc

Gah how are we not ahead after that last 10 minutes? Scienza creating chances every time he gets the ball. #saintsfc

35 minutes in and Saints are decent and should probably be ahead if Archer reacts a bit quicker. Swansea offering very little. Come on you #Saintsfc

Manning deservedly dropped - happy to see Welington back.

Natural fit. To be fair the QLD Nationals could easy merge with ON

I assumed the quote was from some rev-head but, no, it’s from ‘WA Road Safety Minister Reece Whitby’. Christ

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Greta Thunberg: “Israeli soldiers hit, kicked, starved, and tortured me”

• They placed a flag next to me, and anytime the flag touched me, they kicked me
• Whenever I raised my head to look at Ben-Gvir, I was kicked
• She was filmed while stripped naked

Aftonbladet: tinyurl.com/a33vxatc

The biggest problem with the ALP right now is it is led by someone who irrationally hates the Greens.

He doesn't really like to "fight Tories"; he loves to fight the party that reveals his actual lack of "left-wing" positions.

Someone needs to tell him to get over his uni politics crap.