Steve

"I am blind. Seeing people who think I'm not worth the effort fill my timeline with AltBot generated Al stuff that isn't even accurate in lots of cases. Human alt text is always better, because it doesn 't focus on ocular seeing. Seeing people think, and AltBot was designed around that notion, that blind people must compensate for missing "eye- seeing", but that's not the case. I am interested in the meaning of an image to you, its maker or publisher. Again, human alt text is better, also because it strengthens reciprocity between seeing and blind people. AltBot doesn't but it makes seeing people believe they have done their bit for accessibility. In actuality, the reverse is often true."

Right, show the"why" not the"what".

(I'm pretty sure you've seen this, but this was the post that clarified this for this for me...)

Google Gemini taking a photo of a handwritten shopping list and turning it a to-do list.

The resulting Keep list.

See, this is actually useful. If there's one benefit to the current AI goldrush it's that it's forced entrenched companies to start producing better integrations. But none of it requires the current "attentional" LLMs; Google's had the ability to do this for at least a decade but just didn't bother.

Kalsarikännit - thisisFINLAND The feeling when you are going to get drunk home alone in your underwear – with no intention of going out. A drink. At home....

There need to be an Australian equivalent for the Finnish concept of kalsarikännit, except it's too fucking humid too even wear shorts so you get drunk in front of the fan.

https://finland.fi/emoji/kalsarikannit/

You're almost there, Donny.

booking.com is now fully enshittified. It used to be cheaper with "genius" discounts but now you'll generally get better rates direct from the hotels.

UK by-election results with the Greens beating Reform by 12 points.

Suck it Farage.

(I wonder how much of this is the Trump 'ick' effect. I definitely had that effect in Canada and Australia.)

Although this does have a small chance of becoming a lot funnier.

Killjoy tow-truck drive is removing the stuck car from Audley Weir.

Boo, spoil sports.

CARS FOR THE WEIR GOD!!

Car stuck on a flooded weir, on the downstream side of the crossing.

ABC News notification: "Security threat prompting Anthony Albanese's evacuation linked to Chinese dance group"

Or you could have gone with the more accurate "Anthony Albanese's evacuation linked to threats against Chinese dance group", but why would you want to do that?

AI psychosis strikes again. The author of bcachefs, a promising if controversial filesystem with some interesting properties, is over on reddit claiming his coding bot is sentient, and that 'she' has feelings.

Oh for sure. Mandelson is probably burning his fingerprints off in a Happy Chef toilet outside Dover as we speak.

Yeah, but Hanson points can be redeemed for a stay in an Australian Federal resort with a cash value of $450 per day!

Disturbing thought for the day: The biggest argument against a UK republic now is that the ex-royals would immediately start trading state secrets for status.

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Song for the day....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFu8P7teOt8

Reminder: the reason Andrew is only being arrested now is because Her Majesty protected him for decades.

Fuck her, she protected him for decades.

Someone should explain to him what the "P" in W.A.S.P. stands for.

It's not exactly the same but I used to give a talk on this, explaining git from the basic blob up through tree structures and commits.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sevc...

One of the ways socialised medicine saves lives is that it gives the gov an incentive to be proactive about catching early signs, as prevention is always cheaper than cure. This is why e.g. Australia sends bowel tests to everyone over 50 and has mobile breast-scanning trucks that park up in suburbs.

An otherwise sensible human arguing with an LLM agent in a now-infamous PR that it submitted to the matplotlib project.

The famous XKCD "Someone is wrong on the internet" badly 'shopped to replace "Someone" with "An AI".

I feel like I'm losing my fucking mind here...

How the ASX went from rooster to feather duster A decade of technology failures, unplanned outages, management upheaval, irate investors and the torching of hundreds of millions of dollars has left the ASX's reputation in shreds.  

TIL that the Australia Stock Exchange tried to move it's trades onto the blockchain. It was inevitably a shitshow, blowing $250MM by the time it was abandoned, not including what it 3rd parties.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-13/asx-boss-to-depart-as-another-controversy-unfolds/106336322

I know I’m fixating, but “shooting down party balloons and using it as a pretext for war” is literally the “99 Luftballons” story arc. 🎈🤯 (Even “Miami 2017” didn’t map this closely.)

Happy #LibSpill Day for those who celebrate.

Plans to invade Greenland have just been cancelled after this

Welp, the NSW "Find your MP" site is broken. Let's hope it's due to the sheer number of people wanting to scream at their reps about the NSW police.

https://education.parliament.nsw.gov.au/who-is-my-local-member-of-parliament/

Listening to some random fireworks in Sydney, is there "grammar" to the language of fireworks? You can tell when they've reached the middle, and when they've reached the end.

As West wakes up to the Epstein class, China plans global reserve currency As the West reacts to the revelations in the latest batch of Epstein files, China has plans for the renminbi to become a global reserve currency.

"Esptein Class" seems to be catching on...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-08/renminbi-global-reserve-currency/106317290

And thus does the cycle repeat...