Colin Fry

AI, you flatter me 😀 “The blend of serious critiques and light-hearted banter creates a unique voice that invites followers to engage with both the weighty and whimsical aspects of modern society. Expect to see a mix of insightful commentary and playful musings, often infused with sarcasm and wit.”

Video game mashups: Donkey Pong.

Holy moly, the value proposition of mass grade consumer AI is 🤡💩

John Peel passed away on this day in 2004 in memory of him here’s a link to Dave Strickson’s archive with over a thousand Peel Sessions each with accompanying YouTube clips Enjoy davestrickson.blogspot.com/2020/05/john...

This meme really shits me. This is not how you measure data centres because they come in all shapes and sizes. Data centres aren’t only about AI. The US has many smaller, older data centres. And the US is home to the vast majority of internet services that serve the entire planet. So much dumb. 1/2

I saw this ad pop up on Instagram and I thought it was from the 1950s.

Would you eat at a restaurant that served up slop? Why the hell are they advertising that way? I’ll just get my AI agent to leave a scathing review.

This is a long shot in case anybody here is near Melbourne, Australia. A fictional comedy PLAY about the filming of Jaws co-written by Robert Shaw’s son. Tickets are $8 (was $59+) this weekend with (free) Promotix account. How bad good could a Jaws story be? 😀 www.promotix.com.au/event/Wb75wq...

Hannah Dadds 1st woman #driver on London Tube in 1978. News of her appointment leaked & she had to stay off work until press conference was arranged for multitude of press who wanted to interview her. Later ran all woman crew with her sister Edna. b. #OTD 16 Oct 1941 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_...

The pitch from Axon Enterprise must sound irresistible to police commissioners everywhere. https://michaelwest.com.au/ai-and-the-police-axons-phantom-officers-and-a-vanishing-audit-trail/

Former AFP plod Rohan Pike, who founded the Australian Border Force's Tobacco Strike Team which completely and spectacularly failed to stop illegal imports, has criticised the Victorian Labor government for not moving quickly enough to slow down the distribution networks. Still on the grift too 🙄

Girls hit your reload button (NO) Girls hit your reload button (NO) Girls hit your reload button (NO) 'Cause upstream junk don′ give it to you 'Cause upstream junk don′ give it to you 'Cause upstream junk don′ give it to you The Bluesky site and we in the spot Don′t believe me just watch (COME on!!)

Some Australians are ‘bung lazy’ — Barnaby Joyce 67% attendance, hey? 🤔 #auspol

Thanks to all the microplastics in our bodies these days, we're going to have to re-certify humans as 99.2% ℮ organic.

How not to install a security door.

TableBuilder says: For 2021 census: Proportion of workers in all healthcare and social assistance industry division not born in Australia - 37.7% Proportion of workers in aged care residential services industry group not born in Australia - 51.1%

In the fictitious universe envisioned here in which most people don't "keep their job", they didn't account for the fact that if nobody makes any money, nobody can buy anything, so the entire system collapses.

Lemme just check how stupid things are now... one sec. www.bbc.com/news/article... "Crowd gathers after Pakistani cricket team mistaken for migrants"

“Today Mrs Deeming said she had no regrets and suggested she'd been approached by numerous political parties to contest with.” Having a great time with all my friends in other political parties. They’re just out of shot asking me to be their candidate at the election

And so the social license-buying, sportswashing begins‼️ #DataCentreVampires

It's all done in the BEST! possible taste! #caturday

It’s almost like allowing vehicle manufacturers to self-certify that their vehicles comply with safety regulations is a bad idea…

www.itnews.com.au/news/coles-t... Coles supermarket chain will end its data analytics work with Palantir.

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Does she realise that "expensive schools don't have a substantive impact on the actions of students" is a cogent argument AGAINST the existence of private schools?

In the book “The African Kingdom of Gold,” Barnaby Phillips explores how British colonial forces plundered the Asante people and expertly traces the stolen artifacts’ afterlives in museum storage.

RIP News 😢 “What my week as a content creator for a Temu sloth taught me”

Here's footage (at the end of the video) youtu.be/L2DxUVeGQqI?...

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964) TMDB score 31% Martians fear their children have become lazy and joyless due to their newfound obsession with Earth TV shows. After ancient Martian leader Chochem suggests that the children of Mars need more fun—including their own Santa Claus—supreme

Not sure if this is aimed at Silent Generation/Boomers or Millennials/Gen Z

I think my word replacement is clever: every line thought out carefully, unlike most "We Didn't Start The Fire" parodies that are random and don't match most of the original lines. Yet this side-by-side video that makes this clear has LESS THAN 300 VIEWS. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KL-m... WTF!

Just been reminded of Starfish Hitler. You’re very welcome

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

It’s the 56th anniversary of the first day of a legendary rock festival. Sly & The Family Stone, Fleetwood Mac, James Taylor, and Janis Joplin were booked, but an injunction by locals meant none of the artists turned up. So tens of thousands of people turned up and took a shitload of drugs anyway 🧵

*thinks about it for one nanosecond*

Glinda : You've had the power to go home all along! Your ruby slippers can do it! Dorothy : Why on earth didn't you tell me? Glinda : It was necessary for you to find out for yourself. Dorothy : But I *didn't* find out for myself! You just told me!!

A gem here. youtu.be/yQesCbCXyTM?...

They’re being chased by the VAT Controller www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Even The Spectator. “being cursed with vision, hearing and sanity meant enduring an event that made Truss’s premiership look like a model of tact and foresight.” Attendance at the Far Right CPAC was described as the equivalent of “the attendance at a paedophile’s funeral”.

My proposed Minister for AI:

The streets are quiet on my dog walk this morning. She does her usual stop outside the house where she was born. Perhaps her parents will notice her and bark hello like they sometimes do. Not today. A white rosebush shows off her finery in the early light.

Why do we spend so much money on moronic coroners? Deputy State Coroner Emma Roper asked why Ms Wyld was left on her own in the aged care facility. Even before the industry was sold to profit-making businesses there wasn’t anything near a 1:1 staff/resident ratio. No way she could be watched 24/7.