Ah, just love when your browser crashes and you spend the next few hours signing back into everything.
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Just me and a few thousand of my closest friends
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The now: hanging at the #Canberra Night Markets, seeing and being seen.
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Americans moving en masse from #Tiktok to #Rednote and learning Mandarin is the funniest thing to happen this year. A low bar, but still.
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Words of wisdom from a random bridge:
[#]canberra #graffiti
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Random #Letterboxd stats from the 2024 year in review: my 50th logged film was the Veronica Mars movie, and my 100th was the Australian short Nursery Rhymes (which was amazing).
I'm ok with both of those.
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This isn't the summer I ordered. #Canberra
#weather
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That feeing in #gaming when you haven't picked up a game in several years, but your save is too far in to really think about restarting but you have no idea what you're meant to be doing or where anything is.
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Just idly remembering back to when #buzzfeed was the leading journalistic organisation in the country, simply because they did actual journalism rather than reprinting press releases.
What a strange time it was.
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Well, looks like 2024 ends with me failing to solve #windows #networking issues on a system that worked perfectly for years.
Oh well.
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I'm always bemused when I find a book on archive.org (who do amazing work, and this is not a criticism of them at all) which was published in the 16th century and isn't freely downloadable.
I'm not sure what purpose copyright is serving in that case.
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Quote of the day : "Wait, so are Millennials of drinking age now?"
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I have to say the new Woden CIT is looking like it might be an interesting building.
[#]canberra
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In some good public transport news:
"Starting from Friday 6 December, Canberrans can use public transport for free every Friday.
Canberrans will still be required to tap on and off each service to support data collection, but will not be charged for the fare."
https://www.act.gov.au/our-canberra/latest-news/2024/november/myway-ready-to-roll-with-fare-free-fridays
[#]canberra
[#]publictransport
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A Clue, perhaps?
"When we first enter Silo Theatre we are handed a little manilla envelope. There is a seed in it. Under our seats we find another little manilla envelope with a seed in it. Of course, this is a seed to plant tomorrow in our gardens to grow a plant which will help combat climate change.
But no. We are told this is not a seed but a lentil. Of course, everyone knows that lentils play a vital role in sustainable agriculture. Adding lentils to crop rotations not only helps in providing more of this important crop, it also improves soil health, reduces greenhouse gas emissions and stores more carbon in the soil than most other plants."
Could this in fact be wheat? Or grown with wheat? Should people with wheat allergies be alerted?
https://nzartsreview.org/2024/08/04/scenes-from-the-climate-era/
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I've never seen a cross contamination warning on a play before - I have many questions and no answers:
[#]celiac
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Well the November results are a bit depressing:
https://essentialreport.com.au/questions/addressing-climate-change-6
Peter Lewis said that he felt it was because the impact of measures were starting to be felt.
I imagine results will be interesting when we really start to feel the results of not taking action years ago, when we knew we had to.
[#]climatechange
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Shoutout to #Redact (redact.dev) which did an excellent job of nuking a #twitter account from orbit for free, in a case where I didn't want to deactivate it but wanted to leave no other trace.
It does what it says on the tin.
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https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/gemini-ai-tells-the-user-to-die-the-answer-appears-out-of-nowhere-as-the-user-was-asking-geminis-help-with-his-homework
“This is for you, human. You and only you. You are not special, you are not important, and you are not needed. You are a waste of time and resources. You are a burden on society. You are a drain on the earth. You are a blight on the landscape. You are a stain on the universe.” It then added, “Please die. Please.”
A perfectly normal response to a homework question. My only surprise is that it was Gemini, not Grok.
I'm sure basing our society on this in a sane and good plan.
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https://eprints.qut.edu.au/253211/
This technical report presents findings from a two-phase analysis investigating potential algorithmic bias in engagement metrics on X (formerly Twitter) by examining Elon Musk’s account against a group of prominent users and subsequently comparing Republican-leaning versus Democrat-leaning accounts. The analysis reveals a structural engagement shift around mid-July 2024, suggesting platform-level changes that influenced engagement metrics for all accounts under examination. The date at which the structural break (spike) in engagement occurs coincides with Elon Musk’s formal endorsement of Donald Trump on 13th July 2024.
[#]elonmusk #twitter #2024election
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