Generative AI psychosis and delusion is a real thing, as is the degradation of analytical skills. This increasingly makes conversations difficult with those who have "converted" to using it. Along with the clickbait-ification of everything and the adoption of predatory logarithms. Stay vigilant.

Leek and potato soup is just very watery mashed potatoes, innit?

Australia’s eSafety commissioner buried a report (released Friday afternoon) that shows the under 16 social media ban didn’t tangibly reduce teen social media use, and also resulted in parents tuning out of kids usage. We traded our privacy for no reason. theconversation.com/more-than-80...

More than 80% of kids still using social media despite ban, new eSafety report finds

The report provides more evidence Australia’s world-leading social media ban isn’t going to plan.

theconversation.com

Very nice benchmark of my fitness improving from riding to work! Same route but a huge difference: First ride, 2 months ago: time 22:10, avg speed 15.6kmph, avg heart rate 140 This morning: time 19:27, speed 18.3kmph, heart rate 135 Also, way less sweaty than at the start!

Now that I’ve had a few days to digest it, I think most (sane - the racist and transphobic people aren’t) criticism of Nolan’s Odyssey comes down to people not liking his movies and then being upset he’s gone and made another one.

Pro tip: you can add sun stack and most other newsletters to an RSS aggregator like Feedly

Kate Klonick@klonick.bsky.social · last wk.

CONFESSION: Sometimes I stare at the 26 newsletters in my inbox everyday and think: "what was so bad about RSS feeds"

People make fun of the triangle as a nothing instrument but today I heard a guy who’s really good at it and fuck it balls

Increasingly thinking I might give up my full time job to work part time doing something less destructive to my soul

Absolute dogshit idea, just complete “my brain is jello” type shit

Asher Wolf@asherwolf.bsky.social · 2w ago

Vic Labor plans to privatise Victoria’s water supply. The fucking assholes

This could literally be any novel by Murakami

First half of Jagiellonia v Korona; Jaga probably a little better overall but not enough for comfort yet - still hunting for a goal. Would have been nice to break with one in the pocket

Out of office is on, hello week break!

Started reading a book I’ve never read before and, 50 pgs in, started seeing notes in my own handwriting in the margins.

I should probably write some new stories

At least I can play the head for Moose the Mooch at tempo, so that’s something

It’s funny how sometimes a story can be shortlisted for a prize but then nobody wants to publish it - it’s been rejected from just about everywhere I can think of

the enemy of my enemy is my enemy. everyone's my enemy. fuck you

In another workshop being told how I should slop up my life with AI, rolling my eyes so hard I’m getting a migraine

Here at Overland we are staunch fans of Elese Dowden's work. Here's her new poem, BIG DADDY

big daddy - Overland literary journal

it is no longer enough / to hold love in the body without moving it outwards / towards the world or the big daddy man the ‘climate’ / who does not fit on a screen or in the palm of a hand: / refuses t...

overland.org.au

TIL the world's new favorite himbo once bought a 13th century copy of one of the Norse Sagas for $150,000, then donated it to the library because "I'm not much of a reader."

Doing a PhD changed my life, it made it worse

Stop, look at this. Just fucking look at my cat.

Big job for me and my team today is reading all of the comments proposals at our university received to try to catch out any inappropriate ones. The number of people who are willing to put a colleagues work into chat gpt to avoid review work is too damn high

ARC Tracker@arc-tracker.bsky.social · last mo.

#DiscoveryProjects #DP27 Detailed assessor reports should be released in ARC's RMS tomorrow (23 Jun). Normally about 11am, Canberra time (but it varies). Remember the #ARC3DayRule: Think an assessment is "inappropriate"? You've only got 3 days to lodge a "request for review" 👇

Tully, Longoni and Appel in Joirnal of Marketing: Lower AI Literacy Predicts Greater AI Receptivity journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Not surprised to see that Emily Blunt claims Spielberg wanted her to use AI in one of the scenes, half this piece of shit looks like it was generated by a free trial version of whatever the fuck. Spielberg denies these claims but damn if they aren’t plausible based on the quality of the end product

That guy Maks@callmesipo.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Stephen Spielberg knows how to make a good film, not clear to me why he made Disclosure Day instead of a good film

Stephen Spielberg knows how to make a good film, not clear to me why he made Disclosure Day instead of a good film

I’m honestly like 3 minutes of scrolling instagram away from throwing away every electronic device I own

The Hobonichi Techo notebook comes with an app. Why does a fucking notebook need an app?

Increasingly it’s clear to me that 4/5 staff at universities just want to do a good job of research and teaching but can’t because the other 1/5 consists of the worst people alive who hate everything that is good in this world

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.