Wow. I hope this portends what it seems to.

Me in a panel at ⁦⁦Berry Writers Festival⁩ festival with ⁦@PPDaley (on left),⁩ Jessica North, and ⁦⁦mary cunnane⁩ , discussing history and writing.

With his panel session “History Lessons” completed this morning, David Dufty switched to spectator mode at the Berry Writers Festival Festival. Here he is getting his copy of Red Zone signed by Peter Hartcher AO. Peter talked about important lessons from recent history.

Codebreakers Have Deciphered The Lost Letters of Mary, Queen of Scots. via ScienceAlert realclearscience.com/2023/02/08/cod…

I'm pleased to announce that a new edition of my award-winning 2017 nonfiction book "The Secret Code Breakers of Central Bureau", about Australian code-breaking activities in the 2nd world war, is now available in paperback. booktopia.com.au/the-secret-cod…

It's admittedly impressive that AI can create any kind of video content, but none of these AI-made videos make sense. They are also absurdly formulaic and cliche (while not making any sense).

when you think about it, it’s pretty cool that they invented software engineering as a way to monetize being smart

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my first book, How to Build an Android (2012) is in the books3 database - it's part of the AI training set. I wasn't asked...

"Many great men are remembered for one thing... for Charles Todd it is the Overland Telegraph... Dufty has done a fine job narrating a great story in such a vivid way." Bernard Whimpress reviews David Dufty's Charles Todd’s Magnificent Obsession buff.ly/3CzICy7 Allen & Unwin

"David Dufty has done a fine job in narrating a great story in such a vivid way." Bernard Whimpress reviews David Dufty's new book Charles Todd’s Magnificent Obsession: The epic race to connect Australia to the world: buff.ly/3CzICy7 Allen & Unwin #OverlandTelegraph #OzHist

Reading about the insane numbers of books that ordinary working people used to read a hundred years ago feels like seeing pictures of the Pacific Ocean back when it teemed with whales. Hard to comprehend what we’ve lost.

We saw The Count of Monte Cristo (2024) at the local French Film Festival tonight. Every seat in the cinema was taken. It was magnificent.

The Chicago Sun-Times published an upcoming summer books list that is obviously AI. The clues are that there is no byline and at least 8 of these titles do not exist.

My book Radio Girl (2020) is the biography of this remarkable woman. I’m glad that she is being honoured in this terrific song. Great work Daniel.

In 2005, we built a robot that could talk like Philip K. Dick. It won “Robot of the Year.” Then its head got lost on a flight to Google HQ. 20 years later, I’m reflecting on what that strange, brilliant project taught me about curiosity and courage in AI. 👉