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  Today is brought to you by a combination of Red Bull and orange juice, and yes, that's telling me something about myself.

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  The inimitable @pluralistic@mamot.fr is in Australia, speaking at The Wheeler Centre and the Festival of Dangerous Ideas - and his interview with Rhiannon Stevens for Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) is - as usual - right on the money. His views on the growing hashtag#AI bubble are prescient, as he points to the commodification of models through open weight approaches such as those used by DeepSeek and Kimi, and what this means for current stock markets: "So, we're going to...

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  This FAANG simulator is awesome https://www.abeyk.com/escape-the-rat-race

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  I just got my 10th dose of COVID vaccine - and I unlocked a new level on Duolingo! * * No, not really, but please stay up to date with your vaccinations ❤️

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  Excellent Sunday afternoon read from Professor @drmichaellevin for Noema Magazine that takes a look at the metaphors we use to distinguish between organic and non-organic beings and challenges some of the assumptions around what we consider to be machines and/or living things. Very much in the style of Donna Haraway, he advocates at once for #pragmatism, for empirically testing the methods we use for interrogating systems that imbricate the organic and the machine and to keep an open mind when...

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  I mis-timed my caffeine intake and now I can't sleep.

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  May be of interest to the folx in #linguistics --- SEL (Society for Endangered and Lesser known Languages) invites you to an academic lecture titled “What is Language Oppression?” by Dr. Gerald Roche, Lecturer in Linguistics, Department of Languages & Cultures, La Trobe University. The lecture will be held on 28th March at 6:00 PM IST. Organized on the occasion of National Indigenous Languages Day (31st March), this lecture highlights critical issues of linguistic inequality and the...

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  Could we please go back to the version of the internet patched together by chewing gum and goodwill; the domain of the well-meaning, Aloha shirt-clad, neck-bearded hippie; the time of the lady poet-engineer who wrote spanning tree protocols and prose to match them; where the only thing you had to do to connect to other humans was to be "capable of sending and receiving packets"; where we share spare GPU cycles to search for extra-terrestrial life or to run HPC workloads...

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  My friend M and her hubby are renting out their home - if you're looking for a 5BR 3BA home - and it's gorgeous inside - in Newtown, #Geelong, take a look: https://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-vic-newtown-443619696

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  For folks working in #archives, #OpenContent, #editing, #libraries or #OpenData, you won't want to miss #WikiconAustralia, brought to you by @wm_au and hosted at the #NFSA. Includes tutorials on #OpenRefine, and workshops on handling #Indigenous material in culturally appropriate ways (such as the CARE principles).

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  Are you based in #Australia? Work with #Indigenous #Languages? Want to shepherd the nation's work with the International Decade of Indigenous Languages? Now hiring: #EO role https://idil-australia.au/resources/we-are-hiring #FediHired #GetFediHired

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  Totally hooked on Professor @aquigley #keynote at #EverythingOpen today - it's all about #interfaces and #HCI - and about #sensors - and how they can be used for secondary purposes to those originally designed - and at the end of the day we are all #human - and this limits the attention we have for input. Super interesting! Paper references are on Prof Quigley's Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=LujyjYoAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&a...