A colleague commented this morning that the Iran war feels vibe coded. I can't stop thinking about this.
Clearing up a couple of misconceptions: 1. There are plenty of businesses like showbusiness. 2. The show need not go on.
Honestly, couldn't be worse than the tomatoes we get in Australian supermarkets right now.
ABC News Bot (unofficial)@abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 7mo agoThe purple tomato was altered to make it taste better and boost nutrition.
CEO of ZeppelinCo says nobody will be driving in six months.
Comedy sci-fi made better predictions about the early stages of AI than "hard" sci-fi did: 1. How annoying the products would be. Like, nobody actually wants a Talkie Toaster.
I believe, but can't prove, that there is an increase in autism in recent decades that is not entirely due to visibility and diagnostic criteria. It's the Internet. The rise of the Internet has made more ways that people on the spectrum can meet and produce children.
Happy Charles Darwin Mood Day to all who celebrate.
I feel like science fiction let us down. No author ever caught that before we get general intelligence, we might get "Dunning-Kruger systems" that show confidence but incompetence. But convincing in the same way that a populist politician or a con man is convincing. (Or a Silicon Valley CEO?)
Dare I read this? Do I really want to know what the robots think of me?
Word on the street is that pencils on strings are back. No more individual little golf pencils at the 2025 Federal Election. Rejoice, Australians. Nature is healing.
A useful rule of thumb: Whenever anyone asks "Why are people upset at person X for doing Y?", the answer is almost always, "It's not Y that they are upset at." If you find yourself ever needing to ask this question, try that on as an answer.
UI/UX tip to the Australian Bureau of Meteorology: put these two notices in the opposite order.
There's a lot of great evil in the world at the moment, but don't neglect the small things. How much e-waste will be created just because one company can't write efficient software, and must include AI slop in every product they make? www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...
Microsoft Warns 240 Million Windows Users—Stop Using Your PC
All change for PC owners as deadline gets closer.
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Look, if I wanted a lecture on the Rights of Man, I would have gone to bed with Martin Luther.
BearAZ05@bearaz.bsky.social · last yr.International Blackadder Status Day 2025! March 14 - March 15 'Tis simple: post a quote from any Blackadder episode on your social media pages. The dialogue is so well-written by Messrs Atkinson, Curtis, and Elton that you’ll never be short of a witty, amusing, or downright hilarious quotation.
@imartayan.bsky.social pronounced my name incorrectly. Is it wrong of me to hope that generations of students and bioinformaticians to come will continue to do so? www.youtube.com/watch?v=35Yg...
Conway-Bromage-Lyndon (CBL): an exact, dynamic... - Igor Martayan - HiTSeq - ISMB 2024
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Some of his readers have asked Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social why his technology news site, Tech Dirt, has been covering politics so intensely lately. www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w... I cannot recommend Mike's reply enough. It's exactly what readers need to hear, what journalists need to do.
DOGE had better not try to cut funding from the Department of Youth. The executive branch no legal standing to challenge the power that was vested in Secretary Cooper by Donny Osmond.
There has been a huge spate of bans today. They seem to be all NSFW-ish in nature, but at least a few are support groups like this one. (None of the ones I moderate, I hasten to add.) The reason given in every case is "being unmoderated", which appears to be untrue.
phantasmAgaric 🍄@lalonde.bsky.social · 2y agothis is really fucking bad
This is the ABC (Australia), but the fact is, it could be any news outlet. A plane crashed, with at least 96 people dead. But, for some reason, a run-out in cricket is "disastrous".
I always feel out of place in Catholic churches. I never know whether to sit, stand, or kneel.
"a computer can never be held accountable, so a computer must never make a management decision" was correct and we should go back to that
Note that remixes are fine ubderWhamageddon rules. youtu.be/3j-DqmOQt1M?...
WHAM!/FEX - Subways of Last Christmas
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