Dr Pieter Peach

A reminder of a solid framework that has existed for social media engagement since well before social media was a thing.

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

Hey google please describe dystopia

Tesla Cybertruck officially axed for Australia: Deposits refunded seven years after orders opened

Bloody hell. It will take SO MUCH work to right that ship if a sane regime ever takes the wheel again.

This is quite simply not going to work, and in the process of not working is going to reach absolutely horrific levels of animal cruelty

@meganjherbert.bsky.social

Has the Australian mainstream media reflected at all on their own role in this? Someone should write a piece on the numerous times radio shock jocks and breakfast tv and late night tv commentators have promoted violence against politicians or public figures. #auspol #media #VAW #racism #HelenHaines

If Albo is serious about turning down the temperature he will finally take himself and his government off X. If he doesn't, he's not serious.

We need a duty of care that works to ensure conversations like this get shut down and flagged, every time. Tech that encourages and validates violent delusions is a danger to our society and we can’t rely on voluntary measures to limit the risk.

The latest update to region Nino 3.4 sea surface temperatures is not only a new record daily High, but also a new record anomaly, now 3.46 C above the 1991 to 2020 Baseline.

Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First https://theonion.com/protestors-criticized-for-looting-businesses-without-fo-1843735351/

The media abhors a vacuum more than nature does

Stuff like this will continue to happen because Hanson has assembled a team of Bannonesque gutter-right dipshits for her comms ... the media can choose to "oo er" each time, or join the dots and show us who these cockroaches really are www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Still shaking my head in disgust that #Pauline #Hanson #OneNation did this to Jacqui #Lambie.

GOOD NEWS 📣 This September, renewable energy provided more power in Australia's main grid than fossil fuels, after first reaching this milestone last Spring.

Albo is spot on about social media producing a more violent and angry environment. Big Tech companies are frighteningly powerful and out of control.

Jacqui Lambie has shown courage and honesty in speaking of her experience of vaginal prolapse. She’s talked about an awkward subject to make it easier for other affected women. Pauline Hanson thinks that's worth making fun of. One Jacqui Lambie is worth 1,000 Pauline Hansons.

Using an AI Agent Makes You a Sucker for Phishing Emails futurism.com/artificial-i...

Episode 5 of 'Bondy: From Hero to Zero' is out now! In this week's episode, Bondy's empire starts to crumble. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Let’s hope these laws have teeth

You've had this experience - opening an app to do one thing and 20 minutes later you can't remember what it was. You're left with the uneasy feeling the algorithm is working on you, not for you ... ⬇️

Every few years something happens that causes everyone to rediscover that Russian bots are not responsible for most of the things you don’t like on the internet

Altman thinks the world should accept that bad things will happen in the pursuit of advancing AI. CCDH research warns what those “bad things” could look like, including chatbots writing suicide notes for vulnerable teens & helping plan violent attacks. We can't let Big Tech escape accountability.

Hard to find the words tonight. Helen was an amazing journalist, smart, hard-working, clear-eyed. She was also a kind, generous person and a good friend. Sad beyond words.

The amazing science journalist, Helen Branswell, died recently. Let's celebrate her incredibly contributions by sharing her writing, like the article below. She made a difference in dark times. Thank you, Helen! 🙏❤️🙏❤️ www.statnews.com/2022/02/14/w... via @statnews.com

Social platforms have 'responsibility' to block US execution live stream, Albanese says

Social media platforms and media outlets have been warned not to broadcast a planned livestreamed execution in the United States, but doubts remain about the federal government’s ability to block the footage from being viewed in Australia. @theageaustralia.bsky.social

"Lets create a 3D animation of the history of tectonic plates and formation of continents as they live now, all the way back from when there was a single continent. Maybe three.js but open to others" - Opus 5.5 in Claude Code claude.ai/artifact/5ud...

You think the AI might be unaligned and end all humanity? And you gave it its own powerful cloud computing environment and full access to the open Internet?

infants are suffering because parents are swindled by grifters & con artists and the culture built around them, it's been worsening for YEARS we've made incredible strides against illness & death with food safety & other public health measures now we're just tearing down the future the past built.

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“Scientific findings no longer deserve credibility simply because they come from the federal government.” www.cidrap.umn.edu/vaccine-inte...

the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it

An interesting perspective considering Amazon has laid off 30,000 corporate employees in the past year as part of an AI efficiency push instead of giving workers 3-day workweeks because AI can do some of their work.

GetUp rightly proud of the petition to get the pervert glasses taken off the shelves Now for a ban!!

Fiji son wishes you all a Happy World Octopus Day.

To every Australian banging on this morning on talkback radio about wanting ZERO migration, I concede. You can have it. As long as you are ok with the high chance of ZERO emergency medical care when you’re sick. ZERO aged care when you’re old. ZERO fresh food when you’re hungry.

After a brief but institution-eroding slop science era, it increasingly looks like we are going to have 2 revolutions from AI: 1) Everything ever published will be re-read and re-judged in ways that human scientists never anticipated 2) Novel discoveries will start to come faster than we can absorb

The share of children who died before they were 5 years old in 1950 and 75 years later. Africa: 33% ↘ 6% Asia: 25% ↘ 2.5% Oceania: 9.3% ↘ 2% Latin America: 21% ↘ 1.5% Northern America: 3.8% ↘ 0.6% Europe: 10.5% ↘ 0.4% Globally: 23% ↘ 3.5%

Interesting to see how China is regulating AI companions including saying that chatbots cannot create ‘emotional reliance or addiction’. Fines are relatively small but seems like some companies are taking it seriously www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Norway proposes temporary ban on smart glasses amid privacy fears