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Ausmerican. Tree hugger. Linguist. Techie. MBA Renewables (http://mba-renewables.de). Living on Ngunnawal country.
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Study shows that relying on generative AI kills off your critical thinking skills. https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-study-finds-relying-on-ai-kills-your-critical-thinking-skills-2000561788

submitted 17 hours ago • 6 comments

The world will eventually run out of fossil fuels, so our choice is really between stopping their use on our own terms now or being forced to find alternatives in the future while having a terrible climate, tens of millions of deaths from air pollution and climate disasters, higher sea level, etc.

submitted 125 days ago • 14 comments

for no reason in particular, remembering that the hausmannization of paris was about breaking up the narrow medieval streets that were easily defended by citizens

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra recorded biggest loss in its 118-year history. Legal bills helped blow a $3.3 million hole in its budget Concerts were postponed & members protested over its sacking of Gillham after he dedicated a song to killed Palestinian journos www.afr.com/life-and-lux...

submitted 3 days ago • 29 comments

Elon Musk is choking a black community with air pollution to run a racist chatbot on a right-wing social media site. The next phase will double the gas turbines. A short vid on a dataset I found showing the scale of this problem Part 1 below, or full on YT here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrQC...

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

"So here's the plan -- we impose massive tariffs on the nations that sell us food." "Hmm." "But it's OK, because we just rely more on states like California that grow a lot of the same things." "Oh, I guess that ..." "And then we go to war with California."

submitted 2 days ago • 330 comments

Imagine putting on all this tactical gear and latching onto a military assault vehicle so you can storm a minimall on Sepulveda and apprehend a line cook at family restaurant.

submitted 2 days ago • 266 comments

Weird juxtaposition as I'm sitting at a lovely outdoor jazz festival in northern California scrolling a social media feed and watching as the federal government is invading southern California.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

In order to eliminate any inconvenience to cars, we’ve made it illegal for children to be children

submitted 3 days ago • 311 comments

In 1936, FDR closed out his re-election campaign by bragging to a massive crowd at Madison Square Garden that “organized money” hated him “and I welcome their hatred.” He took 60% of the vote in a 523-8 electoral college landslide. FDR knew having the right enemies could be a useful thing.

submitted 3 days ago • 184 comments

This workshop looks like just the thing that many academics in Australia could do with right now, given all the job cuts.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

WATER IS LIFE . . . Gila River Tribes Intend to Float Solar Panels on a Reservoir. Could the Technology Help the Colorado River? insideclimatenews.org/news/0106202...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Renew Economy has enjoyed record readership over the last 12 months, and a big jump in newsletter subscribers

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

The "hallucinations" are the normal operation of this machine. The times it's right are the weird accidents.

submitted 4 days ago • 12 comments

I would be saving this report and the minutes of these meetings, and getting ready to sue the council any tome Warrnambool floods in the future. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

I wish I could Google my old articles without provoking AI hallucinations

submitted 5 days ago • 16 comments

this is v scary - but at least we are not entrusting the entire internet our understanding of the world and they way we communicate over to AI and the people who are running it so they can make money

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Around the country, an unaccountable class of university managers is thinning out rich and meaningful curriculums and replacing them with generic mass units dressed up as skills-focused learning. The latest from my University:

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Bank of England former staff member, quoted in the FT: “Most people [in finance] don’t give a monkeys about climate change.” www.ft.com/content/c991...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

A HISTORIC MILESTONE: For the first time, solar power generated more electricity globally than nuclear, making it the world’s 4th largest power source. In just 5 years, solar output nearly tripled—from 79 TWh (Apr 2020) to 233 TWh (Apr 2025). The energy transition is speeding up. @ember-energy.org

submitted 7 days ago • 21 comments

Proud to say that Kate Nash will be our Saturday night headliner this year at Left Field at Glastonbury Festival www.nme.com/news/music/k...

submitted 12 days ago • 5 comments

This is extraordinary. A database tracking legal decisions in cases where generative #AI produced hallucinated content; both fabricated citations and ficticious court rulings. 112 cases so far; 19 this month: www.damiencharlotin.com/hallucinatio... Source: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 16 days ago • 10 comments

but if i'm not allowed to feed artists into my artist killing machine it's going to be basically impossible for the machine to keep killing artists. is that what you want?? and before you answer keep in mind this is a very expensive machine

submitted 14 days ago • 8 comments