„Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in the world“ (Anthropic).

Daniel Bellingradt@dbellingradt.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Text mining before the age of LLM training.

'but AI is the only way i can afford to make an event flyer' notebook paper. sharpie. here is my event. photograph with phone. post. be less stupid in the future

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Can you even call yourself a democracy if you don't have compulsory voting?

Rob From Flailthroughs@robflails.bsky.social · 2w ago

A thing I used to tell Dems is their opponent was not the Republican but the mindset of Why Even Bother. More people stayed home than voted for Trump OR Harris, and the more you tell them "We don't care about you, we don't care what you want, your needs don't matter," the more people join them.

.... Wait, pun intended?

Joe Colacrai@ageofuprising.bsky.social · 3w ago

Every photo of Louis Pasteur looks like he's had enough of your bullshit, and I can't blame him.

now I don't know if people not in Australia can access ABC iview, but if you've never seen the hilarious Death in Brunswick with the beautiful Sam Neill and the equally incredible John Clarke, definitely worth a look at a couple of idiot larrikins... iview.abc.net.au/video/ZX0410...

Death In Brunswick

Down-on-his-luck Carl Fitzgerald falls for Sophie while working as a cook, but things get complicated when he accidentally kills a fellow worker. Now he must turn to his best friend Dave to help him d...

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Reminder: Sam Neill requested of the costume designer on 1997's "Event Horizon" that Australia's flag of the year 2047 feature the Aboriginal flag in place of the Union Jack

What might have been www.youtube.com/watch?v=5V15...

Sam Neill as James Bond - Screentest (1986)

YouTube video by Tyrozaphy

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I’m increasingly of the opinion that when AI Overviews disappears we’re going to realize it was the funniest thing ever to happen on the internet Here for instance, it invents a totally new form of literary criticism, without being asked to! (rest of this is all about batteries)

Why yes, that’s a Spain fan air guitarring an inflatable Iberico ham leg. How can you not be romantic about the World Cup.

💾 We often think of online platforms as permanent homes for our photos & videos. They're not. On the Future Knowledge #podcast #VanishingCulture series, Luca Messarra explains why relying on them puts our cultural memory at risk. 🎧 Listen & subscribe: futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/van...

Courtney does not want me to suffer through eight hours of that man’s voice because friends don’t let friends listen to a JD Vance audiobook

My upcoming book is absolutely packed to the brim with em dashes—more em dashes than any well-adjusted human being could possibly need or want—and if any of you tries to claim they are the result of some soulless LLM rather than my own unhinged compulsion I will fight you.

it's not sad at all. it's just not perfect because humans are human. my audiobooks serve an added layer of helping with pronouncing things many readers aren't familiar with, yeah. and my audiobooks are STELLAR, and ALSO not perfect. nothing HUMAN is. that's my point.

These commercials of adults deeply emoting to Harry Potter audiobooks are embarrassing

Absolutely thrilled to share the open access report on my audiobook reader survey, 'Audiobook Reading in Australia', with the good folks of bluesky. The full report is here: doi.org/10.25911/NQJ... or download the PDF directly at: openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstreams/7... (1/?)

Absolutely thrilled to share the open access report on my audiobook reader survey, 'Audiobook Reading in Australia', with the good folks of bluesky. The full report is here: doi.org/10.25911/NQJ... or download the PDF directly at: openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstreams/7... (1/?)

Michael Caine has licensed an AI version of his voice for an audiobook adaptation of Homer’s The Odyssey, released by audio technology company @elevenlabs.io 👇

Michael Caine licenses voice to narrate AI adaptation Odyssey audiobook

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Wait until you discover "blog posts"

Bluesky@bsky.app · last mo.

If you like writing long threads on Bluesky, wait until you discover "blog posts." Start blogging with @pckt.blog, @leaflet.pub or @offprint.app today and get 25% off your first year, on us.

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

Now-annual reminder that if you're at ALA and someone you don't know begins asking you weird questions about book bans and censorship...and they're wearing glasses...they may, in fact, be recording you.

Hooray for this, but it's a bit astonishing in 2026 that you would have three Australian writers spruiking an overseas OzLit festival and not one is First Nations. Nice flags though.

The Bookseller@thebookseller.com · last mo.

A new UK festival celebrating Australian literature and ideas will take place at @foylesforbooks.bsky.social Charing Cross Road, London, on 18th October 2026. 👇

Both totally unnecessary and extremely funny that the Guardian has an interactive graphic for you to change the color of the US flag's blue to the color of the Reflecting Pool from 8 to 19 June and counting

That's enough Death of the Author. It's time for Death of the Audience. Start running fools

This is fairly typical of Australia's peculiar spontaneous racism, that migrants are bad except for the ones I like.

benjamin@benjamino.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Bit going on here

“ATO data shows men earn more than women in almost 96% of occupations” by @grogsgamut.bsky.social for @thepointau.bsky.social In my line of work, 77% are women, earning about 13% less than men. Plus ave women’s salary is about 5% less than the median Aust’n salary, men about 9% more #auspol

Greg Jericho@grogsgamut.bsky.social · 2mo ago

ATO tax stats time, which means we get to look at actual pay gaps and… it ain’t good and it is not getting better. Male midwives for eg have a higher avge salary than women midwives. thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...

As I mentioned in this piece, I sometimes pop work or questions I've already completed into a chatbot to see what type of results it returns (less now bc I think the Q is answered) check out the emissions intensities Claude returns for coal and gas (~50% of actual) newrepublic.com/article/2076...

9. It wouldn’t be awful to tell X, Meta, Google & company to tidy their damn room. ”Move fast and break things” is bullshit, and a government that visibly quails at enforcing existing law on large companies - let alone creating new law to regulate new situations - is sending a message that sucks.

When you write a book you actually write several books. There's the one you know you wrote. Then there's the one your readers bring their experiences to. This is a big part of the magic. As soon as it goes out into the world, your book multiplies & becomes many versions of itself, all equally valid.