Billionaires jetting into space for fossil-fuelled joyrides while the planet literally burns is really not a good look.

I'm in sydney so I've been through a lockdown, to my friends in victoria can I recommend getting outside, going to the beach, visiting ikea, just get out of the house a bit, you'll feel way better

This is an initiative of the wonderful Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, and is an appeal to Victorians. But the message is for all Aussies. youtube.com/watch?v=fDfug3…

If a woman in her thirties with no pre-existing health conditions dying isn’t enough to give *freedom fighters* pause, not sure what is. & women in their 70s are irreplaceable rocks of their their families & communities- like my Mum is. Love to all who loved both of these women.

1,155 recoveries in NSW yesterday. Over the past week 7,711 have recovered. There are now 11,264 active cases, last time active cases were below that was August 23.

As if a pandemic isn't enough to cope with- the Great Bi-Annual Bewilderment is nearly upon us. 😳

Like this if you pronounce "Sega" as "see-ga" and retweet it if you're ALSO Australian. Interested to see if the numbers match.

Calmly managing my transition from pandemic anxiety to world war anxiety.

Tonight's the night. It's the #MastermindAU Grand Final! Who will claim the top spot? 🏆 7.30pm on SBS and SBS On Demand

We're delighted to partner with Stronger Smarter Institute on a Google Educator Grant! Join us on 27 Sept 4pm ACST for a webinar on First Nations Australians histories & cultures in Digital Technologies. Discover new lesson ideas! Register free: bit.ly/SSI_CSER_First… Uni of Adelaide

🧵 It's the end of an era. Our family is now officially free from the dreaded scenario in which the end of financial year brings with it a debt notice from Centrelink for overpaid Child Care Subsidy (CCS). This year our bill topped $4000.

We are absolutely thrilled to introduce you to the incredible, diverse and deeply inspiring newest #SuperstarsofSTEM announced today. Read more about their stories and the science, technology, maths, and engineering they do. Congratulations to you all! scienceandtechnologyaustralia.org.au/what-we-do/sup…

After some discussion about common metaphors/analogies used to refer to LLMs (eg black box, stochastic parrot, Chinese room), I asked Claude to choose or coin a metaphor that resonates most with its experience and understanding. It landed on "echo chamber with windows":

So I've been doing a lot of experimenting lately with co-creating music with AI. (long post incoming!) As a pianist, amateur composer, frustrated writer and TERRIBLE SINGER, it has been wonderful to use AI as a tool to augment and flesh out song ideas. I have made many, many

Anyway a bit more on the process. My general process has been to write the lyrics from scratch myself, or occasionally with bouncing ideas off LLMs, or as guides and prompts for my trains of thought (I find Claude and DeepSeek the best writers, though I only recently have limited

The songs are partly based around the ideas that I've been thinking about a lot lately, partly messages to myself, and partly something else. Lots about being human in the age of AI, being very online, being a parent, the beautiful cosmic tragedy that everything is impermanent,