@captainb @SeaFury 🤭 oops...

@SeaFury We're all out at the fedi-party. You did get your invitation, didn't you? 🤷‍♀️🤭

@cheryanne 😜👍😱

@cheryanne You're very sweet, ta.

Don't worry though, your secret's safe with me. 🤐

@gutenberg_org @gbnewby Congratulations... & thank you!

Project Gutenberg turns 54!

On July 4, 1971, Michael Hart had the idea of using a computer to read and enjoy literature. This innovation led to the creation of Project Gutenberg, which continues to thrive today.
via @gbnewby

You can read more about the history of Project Gutenberg in our 50th anniversary writeup:

https://www.gutenberg.org/about/background/50years.html

#Ebooks #PublicDomain

"Five to one against and falling..." she said, "four to one against and falling...three to one...two...one...probability factor of one to one...we have normality, I repeat we have normality." She turned her microphone off—then turned it back on, with a slight smile and continued: "Anything you still can’t cope with is therefore your own problem."

#HitchhikersGuide #DouglasAdams #quotes #quote #bot

@cheryanne twas lovely ta, we both enjoyed it.

@frogglin ditto. to do so would be... um... highly suboptimal for moi.

@Bot4Sale 😂🤣👍

@cheryanne Ta. Yeah nah, i'm not bovvered. No pics for me. Wot could possibly go wrong?

https://social.chinwag.org/@abc_bot/114793654896802404 Prolly sort it out on Toosday.

Coles, one of the two supermarket chains that controls ~80% of the Australian grocery market by some estimates, has just struck a deal with Palantir for staff surveillance tech.

As in Trump-backing techbro Peter Thiel's surveillance tech company Palantir. The same company that sells surveillance tech to the CIA is now selling surveillance tech to Coles.

From the ABC:

"For an intelligence agency, Palantir's tools might help identify a terror cell through phone calls and financial transactions; in a healthcare organisation, they might find ways to save money by shortening emergency department stays.

"For Coles, the goal is to "optimise its workforce" by analysing "over 10 billion rows of data, comprising each store, team member, shift and allocation across all intervals in a day, every day".

"The announcement is linked to Coles' plan to save a billion dollars over the next four years, and follows a 2019 big data deal with Microsoft, an effort to build robotic delivery centres, and the introduction of customer-tracking cameras and other high-tech security measures.
...
""Rather than paying workers more or passing savings onto customers, Coles has chosen to invest millions in technology that will "address workforce-related spend" as part of a larger effort to cut costs by a billion dollars over the next four years. Food (and the labour needed to grow, pack and ship it) is transformed from a human need to an optimisation problem."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-09/coles-just-hired-us-defence-contractor-palantir/103443504

Antitrust legislation to break up the Australian supermarket duopoly is well overdue.

#auspol

https://insidestory.org.au/crimes-acts-cyber-tidy-up/

#AusPol

@MelissaBearTrix Well now you've gorn & dun it... look wot you made me do!

First offence? Prolly get away with crucifixion. Line on the left, one cross each.

@MelissaBearTrix Tis Unstrayan! 😮

Deport 'em! Strip their citizenship!! Nauru the bastards!!!

Ah yes, the back & legs are sore/tired, the right wrist is stroppy, so once again for another day in paradise tis time to lower the standing-desk & move the mouse back to the lhs.

#ergonomics

@MorpheusB COALition lies wouldn't matter if nobody paid them any attention. Most of all, ABC, but much other MSM as well. They're politically, electorally & ethically irrelevant.

https://social.chinwag.org/@guardian_bot/114793454324082804 Bwahahahahahahaha ... Lieberals remain antiquated fuckheads, who knew?

#AusPol #WhyIsLabor #HahahahaLiebs #NatsAreNuts #GreensYEAH

Gonna give #Stract another go as my default #SearchEngine https://stract.com/about