chat is that good
09.03.2026 11:57
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chat is that good
New from me:
An interactive data visualization showing billionaire migration: paths from birthplace to most recent residence for > 3,100 of the world’s richest individuals.
Most importantly, fun to play around with; also, useful for thinking about q's re: elites and comparative wealth ineq. 1/5
FWIW - I have been regularly using Gemini, ChatGPT and a few others to 'ghost' tasks I'm doing, eg, figuring out emissions intensity of a gas turbine or something myself and then asking the same once I know the real answer
It's remarkable how subtle the errors, false references and mistakes are
This, still, constantly.
No matter how persuasively "AI" talks to you, it still gets basic, ordinary, factual tasks wrong, over and over.
This is not intelligence, and it's a very special brand of stupidity to think it is.
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
If you're wondering how bad things were at Pixar for women, the answer is pretty horrifyingly bad.
When men's workload is automated, it's genius; when women's workload is automated it's a character flaw and morally questionable.
in the store just now and there was a couple looking at those prepped toddler meals and he was saying “everything’s better if you just cook from scratch” and she goes “they don’t look bad and they’d save me so much time” and he just kept repeating “it’s better if you cook”
I did not commit a crime
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"Public schooling built on the principles of free, secular and non-discriminatory education serves to break down class, ethnic and religious differences. As the prime minister emphasised, public schools are open to everyone." satpa.pe/imau5gh
They gave it a boy name
'If you use ChatGPT, you are using a system shaped by Sam Altman and OpenAI’s board. If you use Gemini, you are encountering decisions made inside Google under Demis Hassabis and Sundar Pichai. If you use Claude, it reflects choices made by Dario Amodei and Anthropic'. 2/3
'If generative AI is shaped by power, politics and principle, then education cannot treat it as neutral infrastructure. It is not simply a tool that reflects human bias. It is a technology aligned to particular visions of the future.' 3/3
Solar farms could increase global crop yields by hundreds of billions of pounds, thanks to the protective microclimate created beneath their panels.
www.positive.news/environment/...
The Iranian women's football team is currently in a Gold Coast hotel, Queensland, Australia. No one knows exactly what the women want to do because they are being monitored & controlled. Staying would cut ties with family & friends who may suffer retaliation. www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Independent petrol stations running dry as suppliers cut off fuel to regional Australia www.9news.com.au/national/fue...
The institutionalised contempt for trans people is breathtaking in its devastation. This is not about politicians’ “legitimate concerns” regarding medicine. It’s fundamentally about a desire to stop trans people existing. We must continue to challenge such transphobic politics unapologetically.
Australia would be signed up to Iran war ‘by deception and stealth’ if military support sent, Shoebridge says
Another war, another reminder that rather than spending $380Bn on AUKUS on we should use it to upgrade our grid, electrify the entire country, subsidise chargers in every home and never be oil dependent again.
Now the UK part of AUKUS is in open disagreement with the US part of AUKUS over what being an ally means, perhaps the A part of AUKUS needs to make its polite excuses and leave the party early?
#AusPol
@albomp.bsky.social
Once again, another example for the “fascists unable to imagine what it is like to be Another Person”
For what it’s worth, I’m in the U.S. and know gas prices are soaring here. I just share that clip from Australia to give my fellow Americans some insight into how it’s playing internationally. Australians are
blaming the U.S. for their rising prices. And I assume that’s common in other countries.
Anthony Albanese and Trump grinning big cheesy smiles
Aussies might be blaming Trumps regime and Israel but our political leaders still seem all in on setting the world on fire
Australian TV news: "And notice which country is not on the buy side of that chart. The United States, they don't need it. They've got their own oil. They're fine. But you won't see any of those countries that are on the buy side of that chart bombing Iran, so they close those straits."
Her vote aside, among white people across the political spectrum, it IS taboo to talk openly about their politics.
This is a grift designed to maintain white supremacy across political divide. To keep them communing along whiteness with their enemies & ideological opponents.
Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades | New Scientist
www.newscientist.com/article/2518...
Once again, I am begging the TV/movie industry to stop only ever bothering to write shows about colleges/universities & professors that only ever involve inappropriate sexual relationships with students on campus.
Images verified by Human Rights Watch show Israel fired white phosphorus in populated areas of southern Lebanon.
Can we just say where this violence comes from. Men. It's men. They are written out of this article. #IWD2026