These are the 4 things AI can do well:
•Clean up your email inbox (badly)
•Give my shittiest neighbor (Alan) something to talk about at a party
•Tell a 12 yr old to kill himself
•Incinerate a school at 10:16 AM on a Tuesday
You can see why we need to base our economy around it
this is like
the thesis statement of our times
Is it too much to want a decent movement/boomer shooter port of Torchlight II?
That's all I want.
Quite telling to compare how Kerry O’Brien interviewed John Howard about Iraq to Sarah Ferguson’s bizarre efforts this week. I wrote about it www.lamestream.com.au/the-media-he...
David Pope cartoon.
David Pope.
Advance conference 2026: some terrifying agenda setting alongside the strategy sessions.
#Auspol
Cheers to Dave for that title 🤣
I was praised for a calm voice in my writing yesterday (surprised me), but I let rip a bit more in this piece. Let me know if I should stick to my day job.
naval gazing
If it's still Misha Ketchell there'd be no point. Anyone still regularly platforming Michelle Grattan isn't going to suddenly start operating in good faith.
By Jen Sorensen.
Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM
That screenshot triggers my PTSD. =)
(I still use Gangnam Style to check audio on any PC I build.)
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Every tech post I see now:
Use Blurp for porting ChatGTP nano splines to Claude and maximise your gash tokens for optimal wang performance efficiency in 35 easy steps.
Lol, US military commanders are telling their troops they're on a "spiritual mission" to bring about "Armageddon", and the Zionists have been using their old religious books to justify bombing kids in EIGHT fkn countries, and our media is like "IRAN IS AN UNHINGED THEOCRACY"
David Pope in Canberra Times
Single panel editorial cartoon. Shows the ‘Axis of Feeble’. PM Albanese, in his USA flag nightshirt is sleepwalking along the (x) axis towards a downward point (y?) axis. He is dragging a stylised map of Australia that is jamming on the access. In front, a ghostly figure of John Howard is whispering to him, “WMD’s, WMD’s”.
Déjà Vu ? #auspol
To clarify, according to the latest from the President: the US did not attack Iran because it anticipated Iran would attack it because Israel was going to attack Iran. The US attacked Iran because it forced Israel to attack Iran because Iran was going to attack Israel after the US attacked Iran.
If you’re wondering what you can do, as many have asked: I know many are looking for a place to aim mean posts at them or whatever. It’s pointless. The real and much less id-focused answer is I need to find more work. So if you hear of any narrative design/game writing openings somehow, let me know.
A computer can never be held accountable. Therefore a computer must never make a management decision.
Always a good time these days to repost this slide from an IBM internal presentation in 1979.
America first. Today’s Age cartoon
Excerpt from Loberal Party election autopsy.
Yes, women think the Coalition are sexist, and migrant communities think the party is racist, but that's burying the lede: four in five young people loathe it.
The Middle East War: Objectives, Geography, and Consequences
A detailed analysis of the Israeli-U.S. strikes on Iran, regional escalation, energy chokepoints, regime structure, and global consequences.
www.onestnetwork.com/the-middle-e...
Here's me. 'Stop pretending to be dumb: the Iran War is about Greater Israel, not “liberation”'
Single frame. Trump and Netanyahu side by side with nuclear bombs strapped to them. Trump says, “We can’t afford to let Iran have nuclear weapons.”
Nukes.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
And where all so very surprised, not
#WoodsideWatty has served them very well
Now Ferguson is just quoting Netanyahu to the Israeli ambassador, so Israel’s line is being delivered by the guest and the host. What a debasement of a once vitally important and constructive program.
Reform win a seat: The true Volk have spoken and we all must listen.
Greens win a seat: Early reports that Muslims may have ‘voted’ (an ancient Islamic practice designed to steal elections). How severely should the franchise be limited in response?
Single panel editorial cartoon. A journalist is asking PM Albanese, “Prime Minister, any chance you could be making a bed we can’t all lie?” as the PM is nonchalantly walking along whistling, unaware he is tethered to a rope that is attached to a harpoon being fired toward Iran by Trump. The harpoon is in the form of an AUKUS submarine.
Having a lie-in #auspol #IranWar
We were not involved in any of this, we were told afterwards" (paraphrased) Penny Wong.
Pine Gap would like a word.
#AusPol
A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else.
We mustn’t let this war do so.
