A lot of alliteration from anxious anchors placed in powerful posts!

Nick Miller@nickdmiller.bsky.social · 2h ago

News corp is very calm about AI.

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I did not know this.

Heather Burns@heatherburnstech.bsky.social · 2d ago

The most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.

The vulnerable workers bearing the cost of providing Australia with cheap food

The vulnerable workers bearing the cost of providing Australia with cheap food

Behind the fruit and vegetables on Australia's supermarket shelves are workers whose stories are rarely heard.

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Kmart sells out of low-cost rival to Meta camera glasses across Australia amid warnings of ‘privacy nightmare’

Kmart sells out of low-cost rival to Meta camera glasses across Australia amid warnings of ‘privacy nightmare’

Expert says people face being filmed without their consent as $89 Anko smartglasses sell out in stores and online * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Kmart has sold out of Anko-branded $89 camera glasses across Australia, which a digital rights expert says presents a “privacy nightmare” as people face being filmed without their consent. As of Monday, the clear-lens, black-rimmed glasses, which can capture images and record high-definition videos, were sold out at Kmart stores across Australia and online. Continue reading...

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No one likes AI more than musicians with bad goatees and comically large hats. On the @stereogum.com homepage right now:

I came across this a while back and ended up saving it because it was so accurate and depressing

How are these executives not in the clink? www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...

‘What drugs do you want?’: How betting companies lured Luke Bateman into gambling more

“The entire sort of C-suite of the company was there. All the management team administration, and they were sort of all in a backroom doing drugs together,” the former gambling addict said of one even...

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I interviewed Tamra Davis about her cool friends, keeping things messy, and the devastating losses just out of frame. (We also talked about the critical reevaluation of Crossroads, but more about that later.)

Guardian Australia@australia.theguardian.com · 5d ago

On tour with the Beastie Boys, Sonic Youth and Foo Fighters: raw music documentary captures Australia’s ‘best summer’

"What we are hearing from community members and leaders on the ground is that people are now apprehensive or scared to go out, [and] that, on their observation, the drones appear to be used exclusively in the areas of Moree where we have a high proportion of Aboriginal people.”

NSW Police Drone Surveillance Trial in Moree Is Set to Be Rolled Out Statewide

The NSW Police Force is singing the praises of its six-month trial of drone policing in the Moree region, and the authorities are keen to roll out the devices statewide.

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ANYONE REMEMBER WHEN DINNER MEANT EVERYONE AT THE TABLE… NO PHONE ALLOWED, NO DISTRACTIONS, JUST TALKING ABOUT YOUR DAY WHILE SLOWLY, IMPERCEPTIBLY AT FIRST, MORPHING INTO WINNIE THE POOH CHARACTERS? ANYONE REMEMBER THAT??

Jesus Zoidberg: Nobody Likes Me, and I Really Care@jesuszoidberg.bsky.social · 5d ago

Ok, this one might be my favorite, haven't stopped laughing

Using lists of three is not an "AI tell." It's a common trait in human writing because our brains biologically want to make sure there's always one thing to marry, one thing to fuck, and one thing to murder.

it is very important that we have independent media and I am again tapping the sign for you to find billionaire free, worker run news to support how and when you are able

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5d ago

That was fast. Google sent me a statement saying it is now “rolling back“ this AI feature after our demonstration and others from OSINT researchers www.404media.co/google-earth...

A couple of quotes from me in this ABC News story about the recently announced impending closure of MoshPit Bar on South King St in Erskineville.

Are government grants enough to save Sydney's live music scene?

The recently announced closure of a high-profile music venue has the state opposition asking if grant money could have been better spent.

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Jesus died for somebody's sins...but just in case

Rich Raho@richraho.bsky.social · 5d ago

Pope Leo received singer and songwriter Patti Smith in private audience this morning. The Pope and Smith are both Chicago natives. She was accompanied by @antoniospadaro.bsky.social, undersecretary for the Vatican's Dicastery for Culture and Education.

Not only that, but they've signaled they are willing to roll over for anyone with a large enough pot of money to threaten them with. Again, I ask: What is the point of you now?

John Lees@johnlees.bsky.social · 5d ago

Amnesty are about to learn the hard way that apologising to JKR and her TERF minions doesn't end their vendetta against you, only emboldens them to ramp it up.

I've written to Amnesty to cancel my donations, which I've given for over 2 decades. Admittedly it's not only due to them caving in to odious TERFs, but that was the final trigger. Will continue with mutual aid to Palestinian families, direct support of trans & non-binary orgs & peeps and so on.

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 6d ago

Amnesty have issued an apology to JK Rowling and the rest. Adjust your expectations, and donations, accordingly www.amnesty.org.uk/latest/an-ap...

e.g. the social model of disability doesn't propose getting rid of social constructions of disabledness, it proposes an en-abling construct. "social construct" is a fucking neutral term!

there are a lot of philosophical concepts that get egregiously misused out of the seminar room (and in the seminar room, to be fair). but in terms of sheer pernicious misuse "social construct" has gotta be top 5 somewhere and it's not number 5

Scott Bryan@scottygb.bsky.social · last wk.

Channel 4 has announced documentary “The Great ADHD Myth?” It “seeks to determine whether ADHD is a genuine neurodevelopmental disorder, or a social construct.”

Hold on now. Let's not blame the factory when deregulation is clearly the problem.

Nathan Daniel Hernandez@natedhernandez.bsky.social · last wk.

Gotta shut down the factory that makes this kinda guy

Having people who can hyperfocus on weird shit is an evolutionary good for a species. It’s not Cheetos and public school doing this, you dolts.

mcc@dryad.technology · last wk.

It was never going to stop at trans people.

My own theory: everyone watched governments move quickly to take care of people (social security increases, job guarantee, eviction moratoriums) after years of being told it was impossible. After, it was all immediately yanked away. Worse, politicians have gone back to pretending it's not possible

The Fig Economy@figgityfigs.bsky.social · last wk.

One of my Crank Theories of Everything, at least of Everything in the Recent Past, is that we are dealing (badly) with COVID trauma we’d mostly prefer to pretend never happened.

Me: Wow, it’s hard to know what to ask you first. Your music has meant the world to me and… well… everyone like me 2001 Julian Casablancas, vibrating in superposition between Rizzo the Rat and the Spirit of Human Sexiness: ᵃᵒʰʰˀ

Incredible stuff from Avalon Nursery.

Another one bites the dust. Just *do the work* you lazy poseurs. You want all the laurels of scholarship and publication without the labour.

Dorian Lynskey@dorianlynskey.bsky.social · last wk.

I've written a few books and checked all the quotes (deleting some bangers because I doubted their authenticity) and if you're letting fabricated ones slip through then you're cutting corners in an egregious way. It is not the copy-editor's job to check every source, it's yours. Do the damn work

Israel is giving Trump's former campaign manager millions of dollars to fill the internet with pro-Israel articles written by AI, not so that anyone will actually read them, but so that *LLMs will train on them* & regurgitate their perspective. This is the future of the information environment.

Israel Is Paying Millions to Train AI Chatbots How to Talk About Gaza. It's Working.

Former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale is overseeing an operation posting hundreds of blog posts on behalf of Israel, with the goal of infiltrating artificial intelligence.

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Brutal news about Glen Hansard. Every once in a while I'll rewatch this opening scene to Once, which is obviously of a time, but is still awfully beautiful. Watched this at a little movie theatre and had no idea what it was about and was just blown away by the electricity of it. RIP.

Once (2006) - Say It To Me Now (by Glen Hansard)

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Help @wired.com figure out what working in tech is like -- especially if you are not a man -- in the age of AI! We need to hear from the people. Take this survey, send it to your friends and foes, sing it from the rooftops, tattoo it on your body, etc., etc. se1.decipherinc.com/survey/selfs...?

I loathe the take of “well every writer is using AI and afraid to say it”. Like, that’s only true if your sample group is tech reporters and various hacks. Writers that don’t give a shit about writing, they just know they need a newsletter to make money, use AI. That’s a big fucking difference