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• Post #4268948

  Australian Data Science Education Institute submission to the Australian Parliamentary Inquiry into AI & Data Centres. Submissions are open until September 1st, so it's not too late to have your say! https://adsei.org/2026/07/31/adsei-submission-to-the-parliamentary-inquiry-into-artificial-intelligence-and-data-centres/

• Post #4086359

  this is... not what we do... also at the time of this search @datasciau did not exist on instagram/meta this is your reminder that chatbots are not search engines, they are statistical pattern matching machines.

• Post #3686603

  I just keep thinking about this quote from Adrian Tchaikovsky's "service model". "Humans have been reading personality and self-determination into inanimate phenomena since long before Alan Turing ever proposed a test. The level of complexity in interaction required for an artificial system to convince a human that it is a person is pathetically low.” It's not the whole story of LLM's, of course - there's a huge layer of grift! But it explains a lot.

• Post #3398374

  Australians! There is a senate inquiry into AI Data Centres, please have your say! https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Environment_and_Communications/AIdatacentres48P

• Post #3014032

  oh hey, merch! T-shirts, stickers, mugs, hats, all the things! With cool data science slogans (tell me your suggestions!) Accuracy and Compassion Over Automation https://www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/Accuracy-and-Compassion-Over-Automation-by-RaisingHeretics/180962865/lrcw

• Post #3014031

  oh hey, merch! T-shirts, stickers, mugs, hats, all the things! With cool data science slogans (tell me your suggestions!) Think Critically  Act Logically https://www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/Think-Critically-Act-Logically-by-RaisingHeretics/180962324/z5wf?

• Post #3014030

  "So what did the world do when it started to burn, Grandma?" "we built thousands of climate-despoiling data centres to power plagiarising lie machines." "But why??" "um. capitalism?"

• Post #3014028

  Support ADSEI with nifty data science merch I’m an Outlier Don’t Discard Me! https://www.redbubble.com/i/sweatshirt/I-m-an-Outlier-Don-t-Discard-Me-by-RaisingHeretics/180962427/unhr

• Post #3014027

  The rise of One Nation in Australia makes me sick to my stomach, & deeply ashamed of my country. There are no depths they will not stoop to, no people they will not harm, in pursuit of power and profit. You might not feel vulnerable, but harming vulnerable people harms us all. We gotta call it out.

• Post #3014026

  a great chat with the very fabulous Myf Warhurst about AI literacy. https://youtu.be/bZDgvdkA40o?si=8AzpxyO2sW09skQr

• Post #1556340

  This is your reminder that whether it's women's toilets or women's sport, it's not about safety or fairness, it's about policing your performance of gender. Yes! Yours! Trans people aren't a threat to you, but gender police are a threat to everyone.

• Post #1111987

  Happy Transgender Day of Visibility! As cisgender people, we can be allies by, among other things: 1. Interrupting/challenging people who deadname/misgender trans people 2. Using inclusive language - eg "folks" instead of "ladies and gentlemen" 3. Learning more about the experience of trans people by reading and listening to them 4. Sharing the work of trans people to raise their visibility 5. Calling out transphobic/gender essentialist behaviour 6. Supporting...

• Post #937874

  Just got my flu vaccine and a covid booster at my local pharmacy. Strongly recommend getting both yearly, to lessen the risk of serious illness, and long lasting complications.

• Post #106654

  "Technology could serve life instead of serving capital." Ursula le Guin 1975