scottcresswell.bsky.social
Melbourne, Australia based fan of basketball, also interested in technology and tech policy.
More of a listener than a poster.
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My sister-in-law nearly died from this because her gynaecologist ignored her symptoms. So anything that helps understand and hopefully one day cure pre-eclampsia is a wonderful thing.
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Can confirm. I don’t think I’ve ever even seen it at a pub here.
Much bigger in England than here.
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Congrats Mike. Can’t wait to see KYW get better and better.
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Thankfully they make it really easy to skip the ads by having nothing worth watching on their service.
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Best example is that layup over Haliburton in the second, where he just kept extending himself to put the ball beyond Haliburton’s reach, and Haliburton is not small. Haliburton’s block attempt was about a foot behind the ball when SGA was done.
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It’s a beta 1 bug for anyone coming across this. I’d expect it to be fixed in future betas.
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You’re a better person than I. I have no time for MAGA and their bigotry. Which is why I’m here! That and basketball.
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That is as maybe, but how does it apply in this moment? We’re not dealing with Chomsky anymore. What do we lose from failing to engage in the intellectual slop that characterises the Trump movement that dominates Twitter? And by ignoring those voices, do we instead create a space for others?
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It’s telling you used Chomsky as the exemplar here. Because you can’t use Rufo, Miller or any of the other fascists as an example because they aren’t putting forward a thoughtful argument and everything is bad faith. Popper had the solution for fascists and it’s not staying in the room with them.
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It’s been a great season so far. TM continues to get the casting so very right.
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The photo is very likely not altered, that’s just the flash of the photographer’s camera, which allows the them to use a faster shutter speed that cuts down the ambient light from the arena lights. It’s not uncommon in basketball photography.
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Not just is this cowardice, but I’d bet they’re trying to send Gruber a message because of his criticism of them lately.
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First time I’ve heard anyone mention them since I binned Threads.
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Disappointed, I wanted Harper if we couldn’t get 1. Wonder if we’d consider moving up.
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We try to put some decent players around him and see what we’ve got. Even Steph benefits for having better players around, look at his renaissance post Jimmy. We’re starting G Leaguers at the moment with Miller and others out.
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They did them a few years back, and they were fun. Watching coaches adjust for the second game gave it a little extra spice.
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Looks great, but as a user of inner south trans, those diversions to Fisherman’s Bend and the CBD’s west would probably reduce my tram use. I never want to go to either place, and the changes would add complexity and time. Reducing services to the CBD and St Kilda Rd is a mistake IMO.
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I think it’s a Tasmanian seat, so I’m picking Lyons.
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Higgins?
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Best show on TV. My wife and I are both obsessed too.
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She got that line about ‘no one owes us a living’ straight from Jim Hacker.
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A great essay John, you’ve done a wonderful job lately holding Tim Cook and Apple accountable for their quisling behaviour.
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It’s gotta make it easier for them to have someone who can get to the free throw line, especially on the fourth when the offense slows down.
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Apple, Nvidia, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta and the Nazi’s “car” company.
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Should have specified, in Werribee.
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Kevin, why are you projecting the Liberal lead on early votes to increase after preferences?
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That’s why I’m disappointed we got rid of him. Knecht is Duarte 2.0, be lucky to be be on the league in a couple of years.
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I loved Mark Williams. Sad we traded him, I thought he was definitely going to be part of our future.
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Clearly. Whether the money is worth it is one thing, but Jimmy is a big upgrade on Wiggins. And the Warriors didn’t even have to trade Kuminga. They should be a lot better.
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I cancelled 365 instead of paying the extra for Co-pilot, so I’m going with unpopular.
I know in our office (I work in education) people talk about using ChatGPT occasionally, but even it likely sees almost no use.
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Anil Dash said some things and it got up Zuck’s nose. He’s posted screen shots of everything on his feed here.
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Just a beautifully concise illustration of everything wrong with Siri and Apple’s halting efforts to fix it.
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Chuck doesn’t even watch the games they broadcast.
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Damn that sucks.
My Hornets can’t catch a break.
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Damn. He’s had such an interrupted sophomore season. Was hoping we’d get a big leap but it’s hard with the injuries.
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As someone using it since the 18.2 beta, it seems to be pretty good and summarising longer form content, like emails, and very bad at summarising shorter forms, like notifications and messages. I’ve kept the former on, and turned the latter off.
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That “Allen Iverson” is iconic.
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Already happened: m.imdb.com/title/tt1275...
Was fun, if you missed it.
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I haven’t watched much Hawks as a Trae-hater from way back, sounds like I’ll have too. Another great read.
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I’m of Anglo-Australian extraction, and had I been born in the 19th century I’d have been very pro-British Empire, even as a likely Liberal voter. Which also means I’d have been on the wrong side of decolonisation movements too.
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It’s people making wild claims (easily rejected by anyone with a cursory knowledge of the field), and then asking the institution to prove a negative, which is really hard. And ‘just asking questions’ is straight out of the Rogan/Tucker playbook. Apple didn’t do this. Legal tactics don’t matter.
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You get this is the equivalent of election denial, right? And you sound like a Trumpist when you say Apple has some burden of truth based on a lawsuit where someone is claiming that Apple and Nike are conspiring to sell Jordan brand sneakers through a few voice recordings. That’s not how it works.
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The idea that Apple are selling false positive Siri recordings to Nike to sell a few Jordan brand sneakers as claimed by the plaintiffs is nonsense, and you know that. There’s no evidence for it and that’s now how billion dollar companies work. It’s conspiracy stuff.
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That lawsuit was always nonsense. Apple settled because of the ridiculous way your legal system works where it would be many times that to defend it. The idea that Apple is passing off accidental recordings to advertisers is ludicrous paranoia.
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I disagree. It’s a minor feature, and if every feature comes turned off it will be overwhelming for users, most of whom wouldn’t know it was ever there. There’s nothing privacy violating about it in any way because of the careful way it’s been designed.
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Fits with the dumb ‘all corporations are evil’ take that is floating around too.
People are making roughly the same objections, and using the Siri settlement, is response to the anodyne landmark identification feature: bsky.app/profile/byro...
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In a world where Thiel, Musk, Andreeson and co are actively conspiring to destroy democracy in the US and hottest thing in tech is destroying jobs for cheap slop, I find it hard to whip up any anger about a system that identifies landmarks while respecting privacy and can be turned off.
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No one is reading the article at all. It’s not even ‘AI’, as in LLMs, being used, it’s the machine learning that Apple have been using in photos to power such like search for years now.
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Disappointed by the scaremongering by the posters who obviously didn’t bother reading the article, and the incredible steps Apple are taking to ensure that photos remain private. It’s not really even scanning ‘photos’ given the transformative steps taken by hitting their servers.
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Read the article: “Apple can't see what's in your photos, neither the image data nor the looked-up label.”
It’s all completely anonymous and Apple can’t see your location at all.