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• Post #4234798

  https://theconversation.com/the-fire-has-such-power-why-the-wildfires-gripping-france-and-spain-are-off-the-charts-288507

• Post #4234796

  The kids are alright https://pulsetasmania.com.au/news/launceston-students-walk-out-of-class-to-protest-ai-data-centres/

• Post #4011507

  We released the handbrake on the truck and let it roll down the hill and it ran over a toddler all by itself! (Please buy our trucks and also invest in our IPO!)

• Post #4003689

  Opened a can of evaporated milk for a recipe. The contents were a deep yellow colour that seemed suspicious, so I searched on the internet "what colour should evaporated milk be?" Page after page (I stopped scrolling at about 60 results) of near-identical AI generated useless websites, each with paragraph after paragraph of "What is evaporated milk? What do you use it for? What are the scientific reasons for its colour?" None just with a photo saying "if your milk look...

• Post #3972268

  If I were to say the words "Transformative Change Agency For Holistic Sustainability", what would you think? Be honest.

• Post #2352280

  Looking into some #rstats code attached to a paper. The code won't run now, because it relies on a package that has been archived (removed) from CRAN. This package had been around for over a decade, with updates over the years. Looking into why it was removed, it appears that one of the package examples required downloading a GeoTIFF file from a website. It seems that, at the time CRAN tried to run and test this code, the server hosting that file happened to have an expired SSL cert...

• Post #2330057

  I need to be very clear, that the push towards "vibe coding" - that is, deliberately deskilling people - is because AI code assistants are an (increasingly expensive) subscription service. If you know how to code, you can just write Python, C, Java, R, PHP, whatever for free and make things. You may not own the tools of production, but at least you're not renting them. If you have been deskilled so you only know how to vibe code, you will be paying for that privilege...

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• Post #2152339

  You enjoyed "Buses Replace Trains", are you ready for "Taxis Replace Ambulances"? https://pulsetasmania.com.au/news/taxis-replace-ambulances-for-165-tasmanian-patients-figures-reveal/

• Post #2152321

  We have a technology for "absorbing" "unused" electricity, it's called a fucking battery https://thereisno.computer/@yhancik/statuses/01KQY75332JC0A5YVB5P46KTKB

• Post #2152319

  Have just been sent the most amazing Excel spreadsheet, the sort of thing that would make you think "there is no way that agency would use a spreadsheet to calculate this very important thing, oh shit looks like they do". Macros and ActiveX out the wahoo. So beautiful.

• Post #2152318

  It cold

• Post #2152308

  Loading 440,000 CSV files into R simultaneously can't possibly go wrong, I'll just go grab a cup of tea while it figures it out.

• Post #2086135

  It has been 0️⃣ days since esteemed senior colleague has said "I asked ChatGPT and it told me it would be better if we did this" and I was forced to reply with a list of examples of why it was talking out of its arse 🙃

• Post #2073424

  Dear Doctor, We recently came across your publication 𝐆𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐑𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐃𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐛𝐲 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐋𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐞 and based on your expertise in this area would request you submit a manuscript to 𝐽𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝑊𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑛'𝑠 𝐻𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑡ℎ 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐷𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑜𝑝𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡

• Post #2072548

  Make a normal distribution.

• Post #1796976

  New paper thanks to @tootstorm Assessing the effectiveness of prescribed burning in limiting the spread of future wildfires https://connectsci.au/wf/article/35/3/WF25217/268748/Assessing-the-effectiveness-of-prescribed-burning

• Post #1749279

  What do they expect, it's mostly trained on American Reddit comments where health emergencies are dealt with using gaffer tape and bourbon https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/26/chatgpt-health-fails-recognise-medical-emergencies

• Post #1645056

  Car dashboard being mysterious this morning

• Post #1645051

  LOL LMFAO sucked in dickhead https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/24/millionaire-hunter-dies-elephants-gabon

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• Post #1561762

  Confessional rant incoming; I spent a significant amount of the last two days messing around with Copilot (as recommended and encouraged by my employer), and the sum total is that I have been gaslit for about 6 hours and have learned very little of use. I really think I might post the logs somewhere, except they are very tedious and boring. Broadly; yesterday, I have a very large (~168gb per file) spatial data-cube I want to do some calculations on. Too large to fit in memory, and the proces...

• Post #1349641

  I barely use Spotify these days, although we still maintain an account. I just opened the app to see what I might happen to have handy for offline listening before a flight, and what the fuck is this.

• Post #1349639

  Why hello

• Post #1250225

  I've scrolled too far

• Post #1188373

  In Adelaide, visiting my dad who's unwell. Have to say, I appreciate the precision, timing and competence of the pilots of the first plane that screams over Modbury at precisely 3 seconds after 6am.

• Post #969842

  You will certainly not regret having a little nap on a Sunday afternoon while The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld quietly plays.

• Post #932523

  #GoMavs

• Post #932522

  Let's replace distinct, personal lectures and tutorials with generic online content and encourage the few remaining academics we haven't made redundant or sent mad to use AI to write it, what could possibly go wrong? https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-05/university-education-international-students-losing-reputation/106527604

• Post #537788

  You can tell no humans with a soul are alive at YouTube anymore because they are letting an ad play before Never Gonna Give You Up