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@jstscottthings
He/him, occasional writer, even less occasional musician.
Just to place the current ABC's coverage in historical context. No this not (just) a product of a threadbare budget and conservative turn. The public broadcaster has a history of protecting authoritarian regimes if it benefits the Australian State. S: The Reds - Stuart McIntyre
Finding out that Max Easton has released another novel has pulled me out of a slump.
Absolutely heartening to see a wave of teachers coming off the V-Line for today's strike. May they get all their demands and inspire more industrial strikes
What are we doing here people. Having a sycophantic stochastic parrot is not indistinguishable from a friendship. Friends are complicated people with their own wants/needs who will challenge you with their bullshit as you challenge them with yours. Why are we trying so hard to flatten humanity.
I don't know why the term 'mingles' hasn't survived the decades but it should have.
Okay, they are different. We have two separate words from two separate contexts. Stop being condescending, this is not what I wanted.
To be fair if there's anything that can be summarised into a single page, it's a self help book.
You have to wonder what Trump considers a 'warm and constructive' call or a 'good man'.
An incidental strength of OpenAi's definition of Artificial General Intelligence is the choice to classify its goal as replacing economically valuable work, because much of its failings are in the areas not valued economically (care work, creative arts, academia, critical thinking, empathy).
Seems like not a great press move to demonstrate how much the police are on the side of the wealthy by using disportionate resources to escort a not-unpopular assassin, lead by a Mayor, and former cop, who is on trial for corruption.
Sartre's Foreword to Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth.