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elyobo.bsky.social
Software dev. Somewhere on the left. Australian Kiwi. Build more homes. YIMBY Melbourne and VIC Greens member. I ride a bike sometimes: http://strava.com/athletes/elyobo
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a colleague regularly sends out AI generated emails which is a) good, because their grammar was bad, which made them hard to read, but is b) bad because their "voice" has totally changed and is now very grating

Made it in to the office again, only half an hour via PT this time, including a coffee pick up.

Even the most conservative estimates of turnout (4-6 million) make No Kings the largest protest in American history www.thedailybeast.com/data-guru-g-...

how to train the most racist AI bot possible:

Ben Saul: "The risk of abuse of 'anticipatory' self-defence is simply too great, too dangerous, for the world to tolerate .. Would Australia accept, for eg, another country’s right to preventively bomb our Aukus program, if they perceived it as a security threat?" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Kafka-esque, “we’re going to fine you for not doing the thing we prevented you from doing”.

The wind is doing a great job organising the leaves today.

There's a thread on AskReddit asking, "People who have had to drain their life’s savings on a single event, what happened?" 99% of the answers are depressing American stories about medical bills, 1% is an Australian who found a wombat burrowing under their house.

The owner of Twitter sends out 100 right wing propaganda tweets every single day and the algorithm is set up so that every single person on Twitter has to see every single one of these tweets. Now here’s another piece about Blue Sky’s ideological diversity problem.