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@Game_Dev_Steve @lmkifiwin Some quality commentary right here, bang on in my book.

That's one hypothesis. Some others: 1) Olympic athletes have always used PEDs. The ones that remain are good at avoiding detection. 2) Most of the enhanced games competitors have long since aged out of peak performance. The young ones don't want to burn a potential lifetime career in "natty" mainstream sports. 3) Being the first year of these games, recruiting doesn't yet cast a wide net. They went after a few ringers, but most athletes and sports fans don't even know about these games. Surprise, all 3 are true.

DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT JUST HAPPENED AT THE ENHANCED GAMES.. Peter Thiel and Donald Trump Jr. spent millions to create a steroid Olympics. They promised to "redefine human limits" and put up $25M in prize money. After 5 hours in Las Vegas, here’s the scoreboard: - 1 world record (not recognized by anyone) - Thor Björnsson failed his 515kg deadlift (managed only 475kg) - olympic sprinter Fred Kerley missed the 100m WR by 0.4s - without even taking drugs - the only "record" came from a Greek swimmer who finished 5th at Paris 2024. He wore a supersuit banned since 2009 and beat the clean record by just 0.07s the whole pitch was that drugs would shatter the limits of clean sport. instead they proved the gap between juiced and clean is now 7 hundredths of a second - in a suit banned 17 years ago. the only thing they actually proved was how good the clean athletes already are. You think the Enhanced Games exposed anything or just embarrassed themselves?

@shawzsav It's not reading, no. But after you've listened to an audio book, do you get to say you've read it in a colloquial sense? Or do we need a better way to say you listened to it? Or is listened to a book acceptable?

Hot take but listening to an audiobook is not reading and it’s actually insane to think otherwise

@cap_scarecrow @eevblog While technically true, it's a pretty weak shield as the bar to be prosecuted for defamation is extremely high, and the protections around misleading info generally relate to representations made regarding products or services. The ABC simply didn't want to hear the replies.

@Bushy82 @eevblog That's because Australian companies are responsible for comments on their platforms. Every now and then they'll enable comments during a Livestream or for specific long form pieces for the first 24 hours or so when they have moderators to keep up but they'll get disabled after.

This is our federally funded national news agency, abandoning 2M follows on X for 6k follows on Bluesky.

@EricLevitz It's not just a post. It's not even just a post with a bit of meta. It is in fact, meta with a point.

The most puzzling AI-ism to me is probably the "Not x. Not y. But z." Not the em-dashes (an essential piece of punctuation). Not "That isn't x, it's y" (a useful if inelegant way to clarify an argument). But consecutive examples of what your subject isn't -- conveyed in fragmentary, staccato sentences -- before a declaration of what it is. Feel like this is an inherently irritating rhetorical device. And I don't recall regularly coming across it in pre-AI writing. So, I don't understand why LLMs are so in love with the template

@TopherField Rents are set by the market vis-a-vis vacancy rate. They are almost entirely disconnected from house prices in normal circumstances.

It's amazing to watch people celebrate this as if it's proof that the changes to housing taxation are working. Lowered clearance rates means no one bought... it doesn't mean a first home buyer bought. Yes it might lead to a softening of demand which will then mean a few more first home buyers get a house, that's likely in some small way... but for the REST of the renters who either: 1. don't have a deposit 2. don't have serviceability 3. want to rent for lifestyle / location / flexibility reasons it's going to be VERY bad. Expect rents to spike in the next 18 months between now and the election, irrespective of what happens with house prices.

@MarkoMatvikov And has sent out warning shots to the small business owners that took the piss with the 47% stakeholder meme. He's a liar and charlatan.

> Royally screws up CGT changes > Frames broken promise as a change of position > Cries crocodile tears when the budget sale fails > Caves to tech bros for favourable treatment This isn’t Albo being tech savvy – it’s textbook regulatory capture.

@eevblog With replies turned off and all. Cowards.

@QuetzalPhoenix agreed its a great movie, absolutely. It's another one that gets on with the movie quickly. Some dense scenes with lots of implied exposition. Many modern movies have become ponderous in the first act.

Monthly reminder that The Fifth Element was so good that you actually forgot how good it was. Just this scene sets up our protagonist & his world so well, the future in ONE room & the fact that he wakes up after a nightmare *smiling* in relief? More characterization than Dune!

@surajit_ghosh2 This is a weird position - Twitter was always about the here and now, tweets are relevant for minutes sometimes, days at best. That's a feature of the platform.

@SynBio1 Corporate workplaces are not culturally ready for the implications of ai as sold. I'm sceptical of those selling points, but regardless, ai puts automation and custom coded solutions in the hands of end users. Remember how we disabled macros? It's like that, but x1000.

Met a guy at a party who called himself the “head of AI” at a mid-sized and well financed company Oh so you build AI tools? No, I can’t code. Oh so you buy AI tools and deploy them internally? No the IT team does that. Oh so you set corporate AI strategy? Not really. As far as I can tell, this man’s job is to 1) Be the kind of rich-looking older gentleman that boomer execs take seriously 2) Spoon-feed those execs AI takes that were ice cold on X six months ago and coach them about how to repeat them in public This experience has radicalized me. This person’s job is proof to me that corporate America is not just clueless about AI, they are paying lots of money to fake it This guy’s company and many more like it are going to get obliterated by companies run by 25 year olds and staffed with agent swarms

@JonnyMicro That's some classic Jonny micro shit right there.

Micro moment: “ringworm” is not actually a worm, but a fungal infection. It generally affects the hair, skin or nails and is caused by a species of Trichophyton. It does not normally infect the throat - common fungal infections here would be caused by yeast. In any event, she a ho

Absolutely no reason to tell anyone this by the way

@DanFriedman81 And if that podcast is successful, they'll add staff - bookers, pr, designers, stylists, writers, etc. Until the whole thing is again a bloated mess that fails as soon as it has a downturn.

The networks have been losing huge amounts of money keeping these late night variety shows running because no executive wants to be the bean counter who killed “The Tonight Show.” But it makes no sense for this to exist in the contemporary media landscape. This format was invented in an era when there were four over-the-air television channels and nothing else to watch. If you turned on the TV at 11:30, this was what you watched because it was all that was on. Now that you have everything streaming, why on earth would you watch this? In an era of YouTube, why would you sit through an entire hour of mostly filler when there will be a 90 second clip of anything interesting that might have happened on the show? 200 people worked on this. It occupied a giant theater on top of some of the world’s most expensive Manhattan real estate. Colbert was paid a $15 million salary. And the network was losing $40 million a year keeping this lumbering behemoth going. This should be a podcast with a staff of about 10. And I am sure that is what it is about to become.

@Real_Ames 2, 4, and a case could be made for 6. Murses get a version of 2 that is appropriately cut for a male body.

Personally... I think 2 is the most appropriate.

@Hritik1609 @sweatystartup Productivity theatre is a good term. All the markers of 'work', but bloated and inefficient.

@sweatystartup Honestly some AI-generated workflows feel like productivity theater scaled infinitely.

The people using AI really heavy think they are 100x more productive. In reality they are a bit more productive but making 10x more work for other people. More contract comments. More bullets. More observations. Longer interview processes. Longer emails. More asks. More distraction and more work. They think they're getting more work done. In reality you are driving your employees, coworkers, partners, vendors nuts.

@rationalaussie It's astounding how many locked in lefties refuse to see this betrayal because they 'got what they want'. A majority in both houses means the government must morally self-limit to what they were given a mandate for at the previous election.

Politicians do this thing where they assume power and then shift the burden of proof to the people to overturn it. For example, they increase taxes by double, then go back to the people and say 'what do you mean you're not happy with that? Prove it.' When really the onus should be reversed. Every democracy should have a kill switch - automatic and verifiable; digital mechanisms whereby crossing a certain threshold of votes, at any time, automatically dissolves parliament. If you lie to the public to win an election, then turn around and do whatever you want, you are no different to a tyrant. In fact, you are worse, because at least a tyrant is transparent in their self-interest - you know what you are getting. If an election were held today Labor would be out. So how do you justify continuing to govern, and call yourself a democratic nation?

@Curns13 @GeoffWilsonWAM He was a shit cunt for making an unkeepable promise, and a shit cunt for going back on it. He got thoroughly ripped for doing it. You, you're a bootlicker. Happy to watch democracy burn because you got what you wanted from daddy Albo.

@Bushy82 @GeoffWilsonWAM Oh no! Bushy’s been proven to be a hypocrite. Who woulda thought.

“No one is going to want to invest in Australia”. “What the Fu.k are you doing”. This insane CGT, which will destroy aspiration and ambition in Australia must be STOPPED. Every Australian must stand up.

@Curns13 @GeoffWilsonWAM You're a lost cause.

@Bushy82 @GeoffWilsonWAM I’m very happy they ‘lied’. This is just about the first thing they’ve done that I agree with. Did you kick up a fuss when Abbott lied a month after being elected? Or do you save your outrage for the political party you don’t like?

@Curns13 @GeoffWilsonWAM Based on the promises they made during that election campaign. Do you like being lied to by people trying to gain power over you?

@Bushy82 @GeoffWilsonWAM People voted for the party they trusted to run the country. If the party has lost that trust, vote against them next election. It’s democracy

@Curns13 @GeoffWilsonWAM Actually, we had a vote on it at the last election and not one party said they would do this, so people voted for a party that explicitly said they weren't going to do this, but it turns out they were just lying because they always wanted to do this.

@Bushy82 @GeoffWilsonWAM Have you say at the next election. That’s where democracy happens. You don’t get to vote on every issue.