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peterkmurphy.bsky.social
Programming, teaching, programming again; unsuccessful Greens state election candidate. Likes to play bass guitar. View on AI is "Butlerian Jihad".
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Honestly loathe that abundance stuff is probably just gonna shape up into a left-punching pro-privatization donor pleasing soiree instead of state-capacity building labor liberalism

submitted 2 days ago • 51 comments

"I think there is a good case to be made for trying to restrict AI use among young people the way we try to restrict smoking, alcohol, gambling, and sex." Tell me about it. As a dad, I see AI as a corrupter of the ability to do homework in the first place. www.solarshades.club/p/dispatch-f...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

States don't have the right to exist, full stop. People do; states don't. States should only exist with the consent of the populace. Putting states before people is how genocides happen. The USSR didn't have a right to exist. Neither did Austria-Hungary, South Việt Nam, or the Roman Empire.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

I have family in the States who are actually concerned - with justification [*] - about ICE picking up and deporting their kids when they are on school trips. I reckon there would be more votes in opposing this than "the sensible center" (i.e., punching down on trans kids). [* They're not white.]

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Florida sounds like a flatter, more overcrowded and more overextended Gold Coast, without the equivalents of beautiful green mountains around O'Reilly's and Binna Burra: the actual reasons I go near the city. The Everglades sounds cool, but I'd rather be at the Adirondacks and the Hamptons.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

The UK is an eternal cautionary tale. It's "Let's look for new magic beans to invest all our money", all the way down. I see lots of Labour MPs asking "How do we persuade voters that AI is good for us?", but none asking the more important "Will AI be good for us?" That sucks in its own way.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

I am begging that just *once* could someone using the line "let the perfect be the enemy of good" actually be defending something good, rather than something utterly sh*thouse and beloved by shonks?

submitted 12 days ago • 16 comments

Civility seems to be "the ability to disagree productively", especially on _controversial_ topics. But what if _institutions_ are the ones that lack the ability, rather than people? If this pilot program doesn't recognize this, it is flawed by design. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

I signed up for a free, fortnightly trial of Bulwark, but cancelled before I had to pay. Why? I discovered Bulwark was great at sending too much emails in my inbox, but nothing there was interesting or novel or stuff available elsewhere. Lots of "Trump did this bad thing" which I knew already.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Remember, kids: major scale Master of Puppets is not real and can't hurt you. (Yes, I stole that joke from comments.) www.youtube.com/shorts/R3qs6...

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Back when I discovered Public Enemy in the late 80s, the president was "Ronald Reagan with a bad case of Alzheimer's". Flavor Flav comes out looking far smarter in comparison. And far decent as well.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Starting to wonder if we took one for global civic democracy. Electing Trump basically seems to have knee-capped every revanchist far-right candidate in the world. You're welcome, world.

submitted 21 days ago • 204 comments

Since the election is over, I haver more time for what I really want to do: record music on my own computer. So here's a track I just uploaded to my Soundcloud. It's called Social Media Algorithm, and it's about what Musk and Zuckerberg are doing to the world. soundcloud.com/tfsoflai/soc...

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Quote post this with a picture of the airplane you’ll accept as a bribe.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

early Lucas drafts show Star Wars very nearly had the chance to be the funniest movie of all time for Australians.

submitted 28 days ago • 47 comments

It is true the media is serving up a whole bunch of bad faith criticism of the Greens from people who don’t have the interests of the Greens at heart (to put it mildly). But a media diet where you get no criticism, and your supporters reassure you that everything’s OK, is how the Libs got to now.

submitted 32 days ago • 7 comments

Essential for any Greens doing post-mortems. Why is our vote the least volatile of the four?

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

If you want to have your mouth make a "O" of horror while listening to others, this is the interview for you. Real "wearing clownshoes in a minefield" energy from her.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

oh no, a hard lined stance on affordable housing, that sounds awful oh you mean he was similarly immovable on whether or not you should mass murder civilians?? gross

submitted 32 days ago • 7 comments

Calling MCM's conduct in parliament "offensive"? Anthony, my man: we can all see parliament on TV. Question time is a sick place with a toxic culture, and MCM is on the money I have little hope for Albanese's 2nd term. No wisdom or grace can be observed. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

submitted 32 days ago • 2 comments