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Content warning:auspolApparently I've mellowed since last election, no longer right up in the corner.

Content warning:auspol

Apparently I've mellowed since last election, no longer right up in the corner.

The Rhuidean episode of Wheel of Time was the only good episode of all three seasons. It was actually really good.So I expect tonight they...

The Rhuidean episode of Wheel of Time was the only good episode of all three seasons. It was actually really good.

So I expect tonight they will reveal Aes Sedai don’t have toilets, they just go to Tel’Aran’Rhiad and shit in a corner.

Content warning:auspol trump“It probably makes sense, because someday, maybe they’re not our allies” Trump saidALP and LNP compete to...

Content warning:auspol trump

“It probably makes sense, because someday, maybe they’re not our allies” Trump said

ALP and LNP compete to scream "Take my money!" the loudest in 5..4..3..2..1..

https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/u-s-to-reduce-capabilities-of-new-jet-purchased-by-allies/

The Five Stages Of Being A Macchiato Drinker1. Suprised upon first sip; they actually made a piccolo.2. Knowing when picking it up that it...

The Five Stages Of Being A Macchiato Drinker

1. Suprised upon first sip; they actually made a piccolo.
2. Knowing when picking it up that it is too heavy; its a piccolo.
3. Knowing which barista thinks a piccolo is a macchiato and going to another cafe.
4. Carrying A8 sized infographics explaining the difference between macchiato and piccolo (and cortado).
5. Switching to short blacks. #coffee #annoyed

Someone mentioned Elon’s stupid email asking public servants what they had done in the previous week during a management call this...

Someone mentioned Elon’s stupid email asking public servants what they had done in the previous week during a management call this morning.

So I referenced the Luigi Mangione joke: Elon asked for five bullets and Luigi said “I’m on it”.

Turns out it can be hard to tell the difference between a crowd not dangerously online who don’t get the joke, or a crowd that thinks the joke is in poor taste.

One of the upsides of rolling your own software to handle all of your social media and blogging is there is always a fun new bug to fix or a...

One of the upsides of rolling your own software to handle all of your social media and blogging is there is always a fun new bug to fix or a feature missing.

Anyway, https://davidedgar.me/item/item/f3639d5e-1d41-4667-b96e-8dddbc7f8981.

Some quantum of context why I would immediately resile from LLM collaborators https://www.miriamsuzanne.com/2025/02/12/tech-ai-wtf/

Some quantum of context why I would immediately resile from LLM collaborators https://www.miriamsuzanne.com/2025/02/12/tech-ai-wtf/

https://www.theguardian.com/gnm-press-office/2025/feb/14/guardian-media-group-announces-strategic-partnership-with-openaiSubscription...

https://www.theguardian.com/gnm-press-office/2025/feb/14/guardian-media-group-announces-strategic-partnership-with-openai

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Do they still manufacture iron lungs?

Do they still manufacture iron lungs?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-05/record-numbers-of-nesting-loggerhead-turtles-mon-repos-beach/104895950When I was growing up in...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-05/record-numbers-of-nesting-loggerhead-turtles-mon-repos-beach/104895950

When I was growing up in Bundaberg in the 80s you could still pretty much just go down to Mon Repos and walk around amongst the turtles as they were laying and hatching. They locked that down in the 90s, I believe, because turtle numbers were dropping off.

Now record numbers 30 years later. Coincidence? 🤔

As I wait in the car repair place for the assessor to tell me how long for the repair, I have developed a theory. Morning television shows...

As I wait in the car repair place for the assessor to tell me how long for the repair, I have developed a theory. Morning television shows are the result of a capitalist conspiracy to make workers regret using leave to attend to their health or other personal needs. “Oh, you want to steal office hours from me just because you’re quote-unquote ‘sick’? Ok, but here’s some Matt Shirvington to keep you company. You’ll do it in Saturday next time, won’t you?”

I said, "I'm not your manager, we're peers, so I do feel a little uncomfortable telling you how to do your job" after I...

I said, "I'm not your manager, we're peers, so I do feel a little uncomfortable telling you how to do your job" after I suggested a thing we could be doing together and they replyied it was kind of their role.

They said "Sure, but I do appreciate your greater gravitas" and I was suddenly unsure who they were talking to, that it was the first time I've ever been accused of having gravitas, and that it seemed I had the reverse problem of all those GSVs.

So anyway, I immediately displayed my immense and formidable gravitas by editing my profile in the company Slack.

"Hey, your feed is not right, recent posts are missing.""huh, no, they are there in the curl output. And yeah, there in the...

"Hey, your feed is not right, recent posts are missing."

"huh, no, they are there in the curl output. And yeah, there in the feed reader, but out of order. I guess a publish date would help."

/me adds what he _thinks_ is the publish date

"Ok, nope, still out of order. And apparently all published right this second."

/me fixes it properly

"Ok, yep. But feed reader is weird because of those posts 'published' five minutes ago. But real engineers test in production, right? 🫤"

I nearly got into an argument right before Xmas with work colleagues about Gen AI. I had made some snarky comment and got some pushback that...

I nearly got into an argument right before Xmas with work colleagues about Gen AI. I had made some snarky comment and got some pushback that they didn’t understand why I wouldn’t use it because it generates good code if you use it right. I ended up just ignoring the pushback and then the break helped the whole thing go away.

That meant I could avoid getting into the awkward conversation about my reasoning. Because my response would have been that whether or not it is an effective generator of good code is irrelevant to me. My distaste for LLMS are in moral and ethical grounds. The ethics of using a tool built on theft. The morality of using a tool that requires so much waste of water and power in the beginning stages of an existential crisis triggered by climate change.

There’s axiomatically no way to live a moral life in capitalism. So I don’t like to get into that with work colleagues. I’ll tease my friends about their moral failings like working for AWS, but it’s closer to sanctimonious to push that kind of position with people I only know because we have the same employer.

To some extent though I am finding myself the last couple of days wondering how, or if, Deepseek and its apparently significantly reduced impacts in training phase alter the equation for me.

Today Sussan Ley - and really I should know better because she's nothing but a public funded performance artist/troll at this point -...

Today Sussan Ley - and really I should know better because she's nothing but a public funded performance artist/troll at this point - compared "the First Fleet to Elon Musk’s Space X seeking to reach Mars". I recall there was another allegory regarding the colonists coming to Australia. That one also involved Mars, but that one had travel going the other direction and was perhaps a little closer to the mark.

NGL I'm a little conflicted about the lack of local microbes during the actual events.

But also, gee, could you be _more_ obsequious to the Nazi?

What is the statute of limitations on referring to one side of your house as "So and so's side", the family who were there...

What is the statute of limitations on referring to one side of your house as "So and so's side", the family who were there when you first moved in, even if they have moved out?

I try to use NATO phonetics when reading out codes to the drive through at McDonald’s. Tonight I started with ‘Bravo’, but realised I...

I try to use NATO phonetics when reading out codes to the drive through at McDonald’s. Tonight I started with ‘Bravo’, but realised I couldn’t remember what the next letter was so paused and then very sheepishly said ‘potato’.

I think I heard a giggle.

Today Paul Graham issued a plea to the MAGA party to recognise his obsequiousness in the form of an essay on how it is possible to be too...

Today Paul Graham issued a plea to the MAGA party to recognise his obsequiousness in the form of an essay on how it is possible to be too anti-racist. I won’t link to it; it’s easy enough to find if you respect yourself so little. But I warn you, an extremely white man is going to tell you racism is bad but nearly as bad as anti-racists say it is.

It’s kind of astonishing both how desperate these clowns are to be allowed into the club and how they clearly believe it will last forever and their words won’t be held against them forever. And yes, and how profoundly cringe they are: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/16/i-knew-one-day-id-have-to-watch-powerful-men-burn-the-world-down-i-just-didnt-expect-them-to-be-such-losers

But….I’m in Australia. Which despite an abundance of evidence is _not_ the USA. Well shit.And no, not on a VPN.

But….I’m in Australia. Which despite an abundance of evidence is _not_ the USA. Well shit.

And no, not on a VPN.

I don’t want to be another notification for jwz but yes! I was surprised and disappointed when I finally got the Pixelfed app that I...

I don’t want to be another notification for jwz but yes! I was surprised and disappointed when I finally got the Pixelfed app that I wasn’t just using my existing activitypub account. https://mastodon.social/@jwz/113828967578558803