Dance, cooking, friends, a better world: these are a few of my favourite things. Living in Canberra, Australia, which is mostly good.
#Tango enthusiast - music & dance.
#ContemporaryDance enthusiast
ex-arts admin
I have too many barbecues by some accounts.
Much less certain about most things than I used to be.
@sortius exactly. Been saying for several years now that too many people treat political parties like football teams. That leads to the kind of thinking that makes “beating the other team” the main objective.
The main objective is actual governance and we’re allowed to criticise poor governance regardless of who’s doing it.
Finally!
After coal-keeper and solar-stopper, energy ministers axe ESB https://reneweconomy.com.au/after-coal-keeper-and-solar-stopper-energy-minister-disband-energy-security-board/ #auspol
Narrator: “But he did not, in fact, do a good job.”
#LearningJapanese #Duolingo #DuolingoJapanese
"and with the ceremonial Whirling of the Plates successfully completed, Charles is now King of England"
If you make eg Butter Chicken with eg beef, what's it called?
I don't think "Butter Beef" is sufficient. I think it's "Beef Butter Chicken". Which makes the original "Chicken Butter Chicken" (the first "Chicken" is silent, as my coworker put it).
Shock across US after rich white guy held accountable for his actions
https://chaser.com.au/world/shock-across-us-after-rich-white-guy-is-held-accountable-for-actions/
"For many technologists, the allure of digital tools is the possibility of emancipation, a world where we can collaborate to make things without bosses or masters. But for the bosses and masters, automation's allure is the possibility of getting rid of workers, shattering their power, and replacing them with meeker, cheaper, more easily replaced labor." @pluralistic https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/21/tech-workers/#sharpen-your-blades-boys
Them: What’s it like to be an atheist?
Me: Do you believe in Thor or Poseidon?
Them: No…
Me: It’s like that.
Just under four hours since the last vote was cast, and the leader of the government respectfully concedes the result. We really do elections very well in this country, hey?
#NSWvotes
Can't stop thinking about @pluralistic 's posts about #enshittification. https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys
(Another example: searching Google for "enshittification" returned three pages of blogs and news sites talking _about_ the post. But not the original post.)
A Machine Learning algorithm walks into a bar.
The bartender asks, "What'll you have?"
The algorithm says, "What's everyone else having?"
Ellipses? We don't need no stinkin ellipses.
(I quite like these strange BBC mini-headlines)
I rarely post about Musk & #Twitter, but I am currently writing a dissertation related to the spread of misinformation.
This is not true. ⬇️
One of the cleverest ways the capitalists who destroy the environment distract us is by promoting a narrative of individuals "doing their part" and "pitching in," which predictably leads to us yelling at each other over things that amount to less than a drop in the ocean while corporations continue on pouring more carbon into the atmosphere than millions of individuals ever could.
They brilliantly coopted Earth Day in this manner, brainwashing children into fretting about how much time they spend in the shower rather than taking direct action against corporations.
The final act is the very successful Safia, but sadly I am having Rick Wakeman flashbacks and its all too much.
A very pleasant afternoon at #Canberra Day (which is confusingly part of #Enlighten but on the other side of the lake). Good live music, short queues for food and drink.
Also, Bungendore gelato!
Interesting thread concluding that Samsung is using an AI model to replace users’ blurry, super-zoomed photos of the Moon with slightly higher res textures.
How did they discover this?
1. They downloaded a high res image of the Moon
2. Downscaled it to a blurry 170x170px image on their computer monitor
3. Took a photo of it on the Samsung with the room lights out
…and they got a magically higher-res Moon! Clever.
https://reddit.com/r/Android/comments/11nzrb0/samsung_space_zoom_moon_shots_are_fake_and_here/
The BBC confirming the revolution will not, in fact, be televised
