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  tfw a satellite image tile from before you bulldozed the rainforest is still displaying in Google Maps https://www.google.com/maps/@-7.9313528,140.755383,973m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDkyMy4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

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  #cybersecurity

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  Tag yourself

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  Okay, fair call, this is neat #StraightOuttaShenzen https://a.aliexpress.com/_mPDoaWn

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  https://theconversation.com/the-fire-has-such-power-why-the-wildfires-gripping-france-and-spain-are-off-the-charts-288507

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  The kids are alright https://pulsetasmania.com.au/news/launceston-students-walk-out-of-class-to-protest-ai-data-centres/

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  We released the handbrake on the truck and let it roll down the hill and it ran over a toddler all by itself! (Please buy our trucks and also invest in our IPO!)

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  Opened a can of evaporated milk for a recipe. The contents were a deep yellow colour that seemed suspicious, so I searched on the internet "what colour should evaporated milk be?" Page after page (I stopped scrolling at about 60 results) of near-identical AI generated useless websites, each with paragraph after paragraph of "What is evaporated milk? What do you use it for? What are the scientific reasons for its colour?" None just with a photo saying "if your milk look...

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  If I were to say the words "Transformative Change Agency For Holistic Sustainability", what would you think? Be honest.

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  Looking into some #rstats code attached to a paper. The code won't run now, because it relies on a package that has been archived (removed) from CRAN. This package had been around for over a decade, with updates over the years. Looking into why it was removed, it appears that one of the package examples required downloading a GeoTIFF file from a website. It seems that, at the time CRAN tried to run and test this code, the server hosting that file happened to have an expired SSL cert...

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  I need to be very clear, that the push towards "vibe coding" - that is, deliberately deskilling people - is because AI code assistants are an (increasingly expensive) subscription service. If you know how to code, you can just write Python, C, Java, R, PHP, whatever for free and make things. You may not own the tools of production, but at least you're not renting them. If you have been deskilled so you only know how to vibe code, you will be paying for that privilege...

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  You enjoyed "Buses Replace Trains", are you ready for "Taxis Replace Ambulances"? https://pulsetasmania.com.au/news/taxis-replace-ambulances-for-165-tasmanian-patients-figures-reveal/

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  We have a technology for "absorbing" "unused" electricity, it's called a fucking battery https://thereisno.computer/@yhancik/statuses/01KQY75332JC0A5YVB5P46KTKB

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  Have just been sent the most amazing Excel spreadsheet, the sort of thing that would make you think "there is no way that agency would use a spreadsheet to calculate this very important thing, oh shit looks like they do". Macros and ActiveX out the wahoo. So beautiful.

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  It cold

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  Loading 440,000 CSV files into R simultaneously can't possibly go wrong, I'll just go grab a cup of tea while it figures it out.

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  It has been 0️⃣ days since esteemed senior colleague has said "I asked ChatGPT and it told me it would be better if we did this" and I was forced to reply with a list of examples of why it was talking out of its arse 🙃

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  Dear Doctor, We recently came across your publication 𝐆𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐑𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐃𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐛𝐲 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐋𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐞 and based on your expertise in this area would request you submit a manuscript to 𝐽𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝑊𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑛'𝑠 𝐻𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑡ℎ 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐷𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑜𝑝𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡

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  Make a normal distribution.

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  New paper thanks to @tootstorm Assessing the effectiveness of prescribed burning in limiting the spread of future wildfires https://connectsci.au/wf/article/35/3/WF25217/268748/Assessing-the-effectiveness-of-prescribed-burning

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  What do they expect, it's mostly trained on American Reddit comments where health emergencies are dealt with using gaffer tape and bourbon https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/26/chatgpt-health-fails-recognise-medical-emergencies

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  Car dashboard being mysterious this morning

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  LOL LMFAO sucked in dickhead https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/24/millionaire-hunter-dies-elephants-gabon

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  Confessional rant incoming; I spent a significant amount of the last two days messing around with Copilot (as recommended and encouraged by my employer), and the sum total is that I have been gaslit for about 6 hours and have learned very little of use. I really think I might post the logs somewhere, except they are very tedious and boring. Broadly; yesterday, I have a very large (~168gb per file) spatial data-cube I want to do some calculations on. Too large to fit in memory, and the proces...

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  I barely use Spotify these days, although we still maintain an account. I just opened the app to see what I might happen to have handy for offline listening before a flight, and what the fuck is this.

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  Why hello

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  I've scrolled too far

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  In Adelaide, visiting my dad who's unwell. Have to say, I appreciate the precision, timing and competence of the pilots of the first plane that screams over Modbury at precisely 3 seconds after 6am.