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Australia, US and I think UK, in the mainstream press. Lots of blurring of the lines between e-assist bikes and e-mopeds. It is also combined with general anti-youth sentiment

If it is true, it would at least partially explain the current moral panic over e-bikes

Not to diminish the war criminess of it but I reckon Pete was unlikely to be listening in that part of training and he and his speech writers just thought it sounded badass because they had heard it in some movie about the Middle Ages or Ancient Roman times

Let me think on that and get back to you. But my initial reaction is a very cautious yeah

It's okay because her plan for porn will work

(at least since Matt ceased having an editor)

But with diminished writing chops.

I'm not reading this but I assume that Matt also took a swipe at rail and Victoria to turn Bernard's head

the AI companies could not be more clear that the plan is to get business hooked on the product, convince them to fire all the workers, then jack the price of their services.

Totally agree

Think of all those Diggers who trained to go to Gallipoli, only to turn around.

Professionally, I can't trust an LLM. I can't feed it privileged information and I can't trust it to summarise things competently.

My primary use case is to draw up a cycling training plan or to write meaningless but necessary work messages (eg holiday greetings). In both cases, they only are a starting point from which I end up making a lot of changes.

Yep

If you study history, you learn that wars always end by the arbitrary deadlines set by combatants. WWI, for example, ended by Christmas 1914, as promised.

I tend to agree. That said, there is something tempting for a sole practitioner to be able to have something do a first run of a document or of a document review. But then, I remember that it is by going through the weeds and struggling with the words that I find an understanding of a case.

In my profession, that's part of the problem the smarter people are trying to grapple with: how do you give junior members of the profession a chance to gain that expertise without doing the work you have just given to the LLM

Yes, we already had a long weekend last weekend. What of it?

Really tempted to start the weekend a day early.

Very little of that meant anything to me. I think I’m glad it doesn’t

In May 2015, the company announced its acquisition of work chat company Hall, intending to migrate all of Hall's customers across to its chat product HipChat.[59] In April 2015, Atlassian announced that it had acquired Blue Jimp—the company behind Jitsi—to expand its video capabilities.[60]

The news about Atlassian laying off workers because of AI made me wonder about the company's history.
The wikipedia entry about the company makes significant jumps and contains sections in which the only recognisable words for me are those linking nonsense jargon, like this

Early life and education Michael Cannon-Brookes was born on 17 November 1979 in Connecticut, US.[1][2][3] The son of a British global banking executive, also named Mike, and his wife Helen, he is the youngest of three siblings, with two sisters.[4][3] His family relocated to Taiwan when he was six months old, and to Hong Kong when he was three; he later attended boarding school in England.[3][5] He attended Cranbrook School in Sydney,[6] and graduated from the University of New South Wales[7] with a bachelor's degree in information systems on a UNSW co-op scholarship.[8][9]

Mike Cannon-Brooks and Scott Farquar started Atlassian with just a credit card and a dream and the confidence that comes from this...

How much AI compute for a carrot?

bsky.app/profile/rant...

Time to resurrect Project Plowshare en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project...

Australian governments subsidising fossil fuel use by more than $30,000 a minute, analysis finds Australia Institute data finds state and federal subsidies for coal, gas and oil products increased 10% in past year, growing at a faster pace than funding to NDIS

Remember this next time anyone in the govt says they can’t afford to raise the rate.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Thinking about the Iranian soccer players. This was correct then and its correct now @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social. How small we made ourselves.

The moment has passed. But thanks

Another thought about the Trump shoe thing: when my grandmother was developing Alzheimer’s, she would give me things like a book for a baby because it had a picture that kind of looked like my dog.

Yeah, I wanted to quote those posts as a form of affirmation about my career choices.