... Still waiting for the moon to be visible from our house...
03.03.2026 10:51
👍 0
🔁 0
💬 0
📌 0
... Still waiting for the moon to be visible from our house...
By some miracle, the bus was early and I'm on the 8:54 express train at Box Hill that skips Laburnum for no apparent reason. It's half empty, and early at Box Hill. Wonder when the last time they actually surveyed passenger load was? #melbournetrains
So, the new metro tunnel frequency is great. Not so great is the inter-peak frequency on Belgrave/Lilydale...15 mins between trains really kills the transfer opportunities.
Cartoonist Jon Kudelka has passed away, his wife Margaret has confirmed.
www.facebook.com/margaret.kud...
Vale.
Vale, Jon Kudelka.
And as always, Fuck Cancer.
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university (I had to make this up since it was an integrated curriculum! These were themes...)
🎓 Law & ethics in medicine
🏃Health promotion & knowledge management
🔍 Sociology of medicine
📈 Evidence based medicine
❤️🩹 Occupational medicine
It's only Thursday (of a short week) but already feels like Friday ... also, how is it the end of January???
I have also done a lot of writing and commenting this month but still seem to have a stack of papers to be worked on and submitted 😲
Since it’s Australia Day you might like this piece about how Australia makes young people hot.
“Are They Hot, or Is It the ‘Australia Effect’?” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/s... (gift link)
The thing about the bloke who lost stuff bc ChatGPT shows the extent to which people still haven't understood that TECHNOLOGY IS NOT BUILT FOR YOU ANY MORE. It is purely, entirely self-serving, with zero obligation to, or care for, its users. Everything is on you; you cannot rely on software.
NeurIPS reviewers typically review 6+ papers, each with 100 or so citations. The reviewers can't possibly check that every citation is real. But why don't we have an automated way to do this checking (and desk-rejecting if fake citations found) *before* the papers are sent to reviewers?
NEW: NeurIPS,one of the world’s top academic AI conferences, accepted research papers with 100+ AI-hallucinated citations, new report claims
fortune.com/2026/01/21/n...
Competitive drinking (beer bong, beer pong, boat race etc) probably isn't a work transferable skill (welll, maybe in the good ol' days) but the ability to skol a drink comes in handy when you have to do the oral glucose tolerance test...
I'm sorry. As a technology writer, I'm supposed to be telling you that this bet will some day pay off, because one day we will have shoveled so many words into the word-guessing program that it wakes up and learns how to actually do the jobs it is failing spectacularly at today. This is a proposition akin to the idea that if we keep breeding horses to run faster and faster, one of them will give birth to a locomotive. Humans possess intelligence, and machines do not. The difference between a human and a word-guessing program isn't how many words the human knows. I'm sorry. I know that when we talk about "digital sovereignty," we're obliged to talk about how we can build more data-centres that we can fill up with money-losing chips from American silicon monopolists in the hopes of destroying as many jobs as possible while blowing through our clean energy goals and enshittifying as much of our potable water as possible.
Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...
Black text on white background. Screenshot of ARC’s Network Message regarding delays to grant announcements because of new security arrangements.
⁉️The ARC has delayed outcomes of ALL grants 1–4 months & increased scheduled outcome windows from 2 weeks to 3 months!
This reverses 4 years of progress in providing greater certainty & ability to plan for researchers, their families & unis.
Their excuse? Security checks under new ARC legislation👇
How's that even going to work with the 2x DP cap, given +1 yr on responses? Seems as well thought through as a paper raincoat.
ECR/MCR precarity is already ridiculous, but this is only going to make it worse. Genuinely have to wonder if it'd be easier for the ARC if we all just left research.
What is the future of feedback in the age of Artificial Intelligence? Join our panel, facilitated by Prof Margaret Bearman, to discuss the manifesto for of feedback in the age of #GenAI and kick off our Seminar Series for 2026!
Read more and register: blogs.deakin.edu.au/cradle/what-...
Let’s not let our analysis stop at the goonerism of it all. I’m begging for our view of this to be wider than some guy’s stained pants.
It’s a labour weapon. A missile to bomb us out of public life. One email to a boss and a woman loses her job, her income, and her independence. That’s the point.
Getting grok to publicly strip a woman’s likeness online or alter her image isn’t just horrifying at the level of the individual, it’ll be used to get us fired, too. It’s a technique to keep us in the home popping out babies because we lost our teaching job when some guy sent porn of us to our boss.
Indexicality lesson for students and others who submit attachments. You need to label your file with your OWN NAME, not "Chapter 6" or "Paris conference presentation". The Paris conference will receive 400 files, 395 of which will have identical/similar names. Recipe for chaos. #academicsky #PhDchat
Websites need to realise that no one ever, ever wants the site to be able to send them notifications.
It seems they had a slight smattering of citrus peel, and nothing else.
Wanted to eat a hot cross bun so dug one out of the freezer. Somehow, they appear to be almost fruitless 🙄 and also possibly homemade. I don't recall committing this atrocity, and yet here I am eating it....
"And I never say no"
We need to have a serious talk about the way "AI companion" apps not only prey on the vulnerable, but are priming their users to ignore consent and to conflate love with control.
We need AI regulations across so many sectors, but this area is particularly horrifying.
