google drive is down?!?! but all my stuff is there
Nick Evershed!?
@nickevershed.bsky.social
Data and interactives ed. at the Guardian Aus dataviz, music, investigative journalism, programming etc work: nick.evershed@theguardian.com tip-offs: nick.evershed@protonmail.com latest: https://www.theguardian.com/profile/nick-evershed
Morph.io needs your help! Are there any Ruby developers who could volunteer to help OpenAustralia with morph.io? www.linkedin.com/posts/ben-fa...
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Writing this post was a bit embarassing, but I think it's important to know when to put your hand up and ask for help. Why is why I'm asking if there Ruby developers here who could help us with morph...
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3M knew for more than 50 years that its products could harm humans, Australian government alleges in court documents www.theguardian.com/environment/...
3M knew for more than 50 years that its products could harm humans, Australian government alleges in court documents
Exclusive: federal government court filings claim internal company documents included warnings about products being toxic
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Guardian analysis finds one section of age assurance technology trial report includes links to academic articles that do not exist, but authors deny the references were made up by AI. Story @joshtaylor.bsky.social and me www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Report supporting Australia’s teen social media ban appears to contain AI hallucinations, Senate hears
Exclusive: Guardian analysis finds one section of report includes links to academic articles that do not exist, but authors deny the references were made up by AI
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New: The authors of the age assurance tech trial report underpinning the social media ban have conceded ChatGPT was used in editing the report but denied citation errors discovered were due to AI hallucinations (w/ @nickevershed.bsky.social ) www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Report supporting Australia’s teen social media ban appears to contain AI hallucinations, Senate hears
Exclusive: Guardian analysis finds one section of report includes links to academic articles that do not exist, but authors deny the references were made up by AI
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![Single frame. Title - instruction: “[place cartoon here - ed]”. Appearance of yellow torn out lined note paper held in place by sticky tape. Text: “The Herald-Sun has this week published an AI cartoon, where previously they might have commissioned one of their (dwindling) stable of artists. And it makes sense. (Not the cartoon.) After all, what is a cartoon, but a picture with a caption and maybe some helpful labels to make a point? In this case, a point the editor who prompted it wanted to make.
I mean, how hard can cartooning be? We would all be doing them if it weren’t for our lack of drawing skill (and some cartoonists aren’t very skilled, let’s face it), and AI means nobody has to pay the outrageous fees that “artists” charge, while they can “borrow” their existing work to train AI. It’s literally a no-brainer!” (Small picture of a brain crossed out) “We can only hope they can keep up the quality, once the AI can only be trained using other AI cartoons.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:udzkh2jubo3w6ei42ftanhhj/bafkreienll3o4kbt6srhmsbo3wzlxmns7h6sjewulopapubzjbgjqtaovq)
re-posting this banger from 2024 in light of recent Liberals' comments www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
That the projected house price fall are not huge in the grand scheme of things does not mean the cutting CGT tax has not had a big impact. By my calculations the next 2 years (if ANZ's projections come true) will see a record improvement in affordability www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
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Andrew Curry@andrewcurry.com · last wk.The man's skeletal injuries looked like a train hit him, but he died in 1304 CE. At #ppa26Berlin last week, @uniofbradford.bsky.social scientist Jo Buckberry concluded he was likely whacked by a flying boulder, making him the first confirmed trebuchet death in the archaeological record. @science.org
The man's skeletal injuries looked like a train hit him, but he died in 1304 CE. At #ppa26Berlin last week, @uniofbradford.bsky.social scientist Jo Buckberry concluded he was likely whacked by a flying boulder, making him the first confirmed trebuchet death in the archaeological record. @science.org
Shattered skeleton in Scottish castle is first confirmed death from trebuchet
“Devastation” across body of 14th century warrior indicates horrific demise from flying boulder
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donald duck without a shirt is somehow more obscene than og donald duck
Screamer Jim@screamerjim.bsky.social · 2w agoLike true American soldiers
great work from ABC story lab on the rise of illegal tobacco, which includes this bonkers chart (note that this is overall nicotine consumption measured from wastewater and doesn't 1:1 convert to ciggies) www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
Rhys left a cafe in Melbourne where he'd been working remotely when he got a message on Grindr. It was a photo of him taken surreptitiously by a stranger with Meta glasses. My weekend story. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
This man was secretly snapped by someone with smartglasses. He’s not alone in calling that a violation of privacy
The backlash to what some dub ‘pervert glasses’ is growing – but people living with disabilities point out the new tech can also be life-changing
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We are hiring a graphics editor at Guardian Australia! This is a great role for someone with a track record in news graphics, cartography, and datavis and will involve working on big, global breaking news stories workwithus.theguardian.com/job-search/d...
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I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.
Update: Google just sent me a statement saying it is “rolling back” this AI feature that let anyone make completely bullshit satellite images. Comes after our demos of the tool and those from OSINT researchers. One of the worst AI tools I’ve ever seen bsky.app/profile/jose...
Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 3w agoNew from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...
The State Department said it takes "full responsibility" for "hastily" altering and then presenting a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference that mislabeled every single country it highlighted. An analysis by Reuters found a watermark in the map image that suggests it was made with OpenAI.
In @karlbode.com's scathing write-up of the "OpenAI rogue hacker" marketing stunt, he highlights the underreported detail that this extremely responsible AI company ran their exploit kit with safety guardrails disabled. Once again, I ask: why haven't they been charged? karlbode.com/ai-doomsday-...
AI Doomsday Bullshit Is Getting Tired
The "rogue AI" narrative continues to help obscure very ugly and avoidable human failures.
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SPOILERS (lol it's only ~2,700 years old but hey just in case) Lots of people die in the Odyssey. Here's how Odysseus' crew declines over time, and how they all died 📊 www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
Emily Wilson DESTROYS Zoomer culture with one cutting remark
Sobering to see in one chart how June temperature records have been broken this year in so many European countries www.ft.com/content/5f06...
i googled "gen z" to get the age range (btw the concept of generations are all bullshit) and the headlines box is deeply funny
