Jeanette
@jeanette555.bsky.social
formerly known as @rabbit1080 on twitter. she/her. Perth, Western Australia.
The reason I know they’re playing is because not one of these guys has ever meaningfully given a flying shit about abusive or cruel behavior toward actual people
The Verge@theverge.com · yesterdayOver the past year, Anthropic has repeatedly flirted with the idea that its AI models could be conscious in some way. In February, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said on a podcast, “We don’t know if the models are conscious.”
hey journos, maybe do the "this policy proposal is not costed, or at all feasible" articles BEFORE you do the "let's compare how these policy proposals stack up FOR YOU" articles
Leena 🌵@leena.reuben.games · 2d agoDeeply unserious people. Imagine pitching *anything* in your job and hand-waving the money part. You’d be fired. They won’t.
(OK I lied about the last epic post being my last) I also learned that if you are sure it's a fracture don't apply ice since it will cause contraction & increase the pain, and the instructor didn't answer my question which was "what if you DON'T like the person..."
Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form.
i have no opinion on the quality of this bulk cooking oil but the company name is very funny.
oh right, just after they've reduced the supply of books to drive up the price.
Matt Binder@mattbinder.bsky.social · 3d agothe tech industry is about to invent books
Yesterday we were divided. Today let’s reunite against the indignity of US County Fairs calling them “Australian Battered Potatoes” and serving them with flags and ranch dressing.
Max the Cat@maxthecatrules1.bsky.social · 3d agoHere they are called neither & are only seen at County Fairs as Australian Potatoes. Served with Ranch Dressing and/or Cheese Sauce. I probably shouldn’t have a say in this but.. I say Scallop. Cake implies something like a potato pancake vs something sliced & battered. *Backing into a corner* 😬
who knows if jackson can win this thing but i am glad that he is making clear that susan collins's whole scam is to do everything she can to make life worse for mainers and then take credit for mitigating it in the slightest way possible
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d agoTroy Jackson after Collins takes credit for rural healthcare cuts in big beautiful bill not being as bad as they could've been even though she voted to advance the bill: "Sen. Collins is like an arsonist who helped set the fire, and then she wants credit for bringing a cup of water to put it out"
The problem I have with articles like this is that it treats readers like mugs. Taxable income for every company in Australia is calculated after the depreciation of previous capital expenditure. Every business that has large capital costs, has large gaps between revenue and taxable revenue.
Information Age@information-age.bsky.social · 4d agoSome of Australia’s biggest data centre operators paid no tax in the 2024-25 financial year, despite reporting hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars in income as construction of new facilities accelerates across the country. Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2026...
Moth 🔦 first picture in my October series!
#FunFact: Yes, it's now possible to drive a standard, mainstream EV from New York to Los Angeles in a reasonable amount of time without getting stranded with a dead battery and WITHOUT having to use a Tesla station!
This starts out like a typical McSweeney’s piece, with some lighthearted-seeming absurdity. It ends up serious as a heart attack. Well done.
S.J. Pearce@homophonous.bsky.social · 4d ago“Your students study astrophysics… philosophy, artificial intelligence, and something called Operations Research and Information Engineering, which I do not understand but assume is more complicated than calling 911.” Congrats, Cornell, you’ve killed satire on top of everything else.
Looks like there’s an mRNA vaccine against pneumonic plague. Eat your heart out, RFK Jr. advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Novel Bivalent mRNA‐LNP Vaccine for Highly Effective Protection against Pneumonic Plague
The study investigates mRNA-lipid nanoparticle vaccines targeting Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of plague. Combined F1+LcrV mRNA vaccination elicited robust immune responses and protected mice....
advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
I'd suspect a vast majority of the heterosexual community would be stunned to hear that up until *1992* consensual homosexual activities could be prosecuted as service offences under Australian military discipline law. Or that only *now* can such convictions be removed.
You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.
Good write-up of the batshit Wharfie Time footie shenanigans.
Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social · 7d agoTODAY! IN! SPORTS! is about the #1 sports story that I have witnessed since I started writing this newsletter The saga of Wharfie Time, the moment an Australian football team played their team's in-stadium hype video at the exact worst possible time
ME: *muttering about deadlines* STEPKID: Ah, I see they’ve moved from ambient horror to jumpscare.
yes keep banning good posters over the mildest shit about dipshit tech billionaries that are responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths, that aren't even on here, that'll help your platform.
Aura/Moom@moomanibe.bsky.social · 5d agoThey suspended fucking Bruno Dias? Coward shit
Looking at this accidental thread, it reminds me of my belief that a lot of smart people who don’t make engineering things in their day jobs understandably have the idea that, as in human affairs, things like electricity and chemistry have some room for negotiation. Alas, it ain’t the case.
seeing conservative men debate how to dress online is very funny. can't dress up or wear interesting casualwear bc you've made any visible interest in dress to be a sign of homosexuality. but you feel the need to dress better bc you've linked dress to respectability. a prison of your own making.
Okay. So here's what I know - I lost my day job. - I hated my day job. - I liked having a lot of money and health insurance. - But a lot of money never made me happier, I just owned more stuff. - I do still need health insurance. - I'm really fucking good at lettering comic books.
Apparently my EV conversion is triggering some old snowflakes so here it is again. 😁
