Do not messe wyth writers. Thei are the kyndeste and meanest and weirdest folk on Earthe. Thei kan create a person yn a second, or make a partye be rememberid for two thousande years. Thei kan stitch and unstitch worldes. Thei give names to emociouns we do not yet understande. Odd people, mightye.

This cause deserves attention - please sign: petitions.getup.org.au/petitions/de... @getup.org.au

Demand Kmart take the Anko surveillance glasses off the shelf

Camera glasses are moving quickly into the mainstream. Meta has sold more than 7 million pairs and hired Kylie Jenner to sell more. At $89, against several hundred dollars for the Meta version, the te...

petitions.getup.org.au

Walking with my dog at the beach today. Just a glorious winter day. People out. Couple of nudie kids on the beach. That’s just how it is when you’re little. No swimmers. No problem. So this is just to say the 1st person i see with those perv glasses i’m going to publicly shame back to the dark ages.

Experience nothing: compete to experience nothing. Who will do nothing the most? nothingness.bisks.net

nothingness

a website that really demonstrates the concept of nothingness.

nothingness.bisks.net

We have seen a rapid escalation of H5N1 bird flue cases in Australia in recent days, and now we have (probably) the first of what will likely be many, many mass mortality events in wildlife. Story from me.

First Australian mass mortality event suspected as deadly bird flu virus rapidly escalates among native birds

Helicopter surveillance finds dead and dying greater crested terns off South Australian coast as H5 virus spreads

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Does anyone know if there’s a feature in Apple Music to identify ai content? Eternal gratitude if you can inform me.

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

🙏 m.moshtix.com.au/v2/event/kir...

There’s still time. 41 minutes to be exact. Get to it!

Rising Tide Australia@risingtideaus.bsky.social · last wk.

🚨REPOST THIS! Hey friends, I really need your help with something today. I have made a submission to the IPC in opposition to HVO - a huge coal mine expansion and I’m asking you to please do the same. ⏰ Deadline: August 2nd 📲 Click this link👇 www.risingtide.org.au/hvo

I swear i would dedicate myself to writing am incredible ai free manuscript if given 2.5 million to get started. My dm’s are open friends. I’ve got ideas. Just not indulgent time & extreme wealth motivation.

KJ Charles@kjcharleswriter.com · 5d ago

So...the book was worth $2.5million...but the bidders hadn't actually read the manuscript?? the agents hadn't read it? How tf do you get to a 14-way auction for millions and *then* turn round to say "terrible prose, reads like slop"?

Does anyone know if there’s a feature in Apple Music to identify ai content? Eternal gratitude if you can inform me.

Example #eleventy this week of tech bro bullshit. Just responded to you @fionakatauskas.bsky.social & then stumbled onto this nightmare

Leah McElrath@leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 5d ago

Google’s response to the outcry about this very dangerous new AI function is to claim “We take misinformation seriously”:

It’s all happening at the Vatican

Rich Raho@richraho.bsky.social · 5d ago

Pope Leo received singer and songwriter Patti Smith in private audience this morning. The Pope and Smith are both Chicago natives. She was accompanied by @antoniospadaro.bsky.social, undersecretary for the Vatican's Dicastery for Culture and Education.

Started a small job in the bathroom this morning. The toilet toll holder had come adrift & the plaster needed patching. So then i spent 5 hours cleaning & sugar soaping the entire bathroom. We’re painting pals!!!

Finally. Now do something and force others to act. Including us.

Leo Hickman@leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 7d ago

++BREAKING++ The UK and Spanish governments have issued a joint statement overnight: "[We] agreed that this summer’s wildfires demonstrated that climate change was now a national security emergency facing Europe and threatening our way of life." www.gov.uk/government/n...

Absolute nightmare robot

e.w. niedermeyer@niedermeyer.online · 6d ago

when this age has passed, we will remember it as a time of gods and monsters bsky.app/profile/came...

Counting down, with great anticipation & urgency, the days until the realisation that ai is a scam drops & its producers are bankrupted. Cannot happen soon enough.

Jacqueline Antonovich@jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 6d ago

Map quizzes are useful afterall!

The UK: fetish content is a risk to society and should be banned The French: “we don’t give a shit what you do but don’t you fucking *dare* use foreign terms to describe it”

Rev. Poppy Haze 𓅋@poppyhaze.bsky.social · last wk.

quel ennui!

thys nys no partye! thys nys no disco! thys nys no jestinge arounde! thys nys no taverne! nor roade-syde playhous! Ich ne have tyme for that nowe!

Evening out with old school friends incl a few career leaders in their fields. A little stunned by their attitudes & casual use of ai, though interestingly the uptake was from the stem cohort & not the medical or humanities individuals. In the past month this is now 5 surprising users, up from 1.

For those in UK, hourlong BBC investigation into Leto now available. in US/elsewhere, 15 min version of the film on YT. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XW5... The hope is that the full documentary will be available internationally some time soon, will post if that happens. I worked with this film's team +

Hollywood’s darkest open secret

YouTube video by BBC deepwatch

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Scott Bryan@scottygb.bsky.social · last wk.

New BBC investigation. Four women accuse Jared Leto of criminal sexual conduct www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Men getting away with it again

There are many horrific things going on globally. I rank this up there with the worst.

Dr. Erika Graham-Goering@jeanneologist.bsky.social · last wk.

'Anthropic described the project as “our effort to disruptively scan all the world’s books” in an internal memo, which noted “we do not want it to be known that we are pursuing this project”.'

10. Whatever one thinks of the film as a work of art, it's doing some good in the world, by generating big conversations, bringing new audiences to the cinema, and new readers to ancient literature. I hope it helps save the humanities.

Ok i’ve seen The Odyssey. Absolutely tremendous. Not a moment wasted. Masterful narrative storytelling. A visual spectacle. Accents a bit annoying but you get over it. A film for the times. 5 ⭐️