Julian Raxworthy

@_colourmeamused Yeah, evidence-driven design won’t help you decide whether to make it pink or not.

The age of data driven evidence based cults is upon us 🫨

@rocknrollofall Mick Karn

Who's your all time favourite bass guitarist/player?

@ediz1975 If you’re a cyclist, you should assume every car is going to hit you and be as paranoid as possible. Defensive cycling.

This is an occurrence that happens often when cycling … Hazard perception would tell me to watch out. Driver could do anything here … indeed he did … Let’s use brains all round in situations like this. x.com/Habib_2017/sta…

@leecronin I might be reading your theory wrong, but isn’t it that life breaks the rules of thermodynamics? And isn’t its unit time/iteration? So emergence from more compute isn’t kinda without precedent then, right, by analogy?

@ThompsonKerstin @bundanon I’ll never forget sleeping beneath the stars on a soft bed of Casuarina cunninghamiana ‘needles’ (leaves) by the Kowmung River, in the Blue Mountains, as a young man.

The Sheoak. So called by British colonizers because they considered its wood lesser or inferior to the English oak. Thanks #michaelandrews at @bundanon for this fun fact. All the more reason to revere this whispering she beauty. #casuarina

@_colourmeamused It can’t be knowledge if it doesn’t fit in the PowerPoint proforma.

The first of Australia’s group of 8 universities to get rid of lectures altogether, what wonderful times, who doesn’t love a rich asynchronous digital activity?

@Jeff_Sparrow What saddens me most is that Gen X became so cynical that they flipped right. The current younger generation is much mire inspirational

@Jeff_Sparrow So broken. And it breaks us academics, too.

@lexfridman @realDonaldTrump Ask him why we shouldn’t be worried by the way he talks about women in private.

I'm doing a podcast with @realDonaldTrump soon. Let me know if you have any questions/topic suggestions.

@Loudwire Reign in Blood, Slayer. Nothings Shocking, James Addiction OK Computer, Radiohead

@ThisDayInMETAL Death

TELL US!!!

@ThisDayInMETAL Metallica were a fast rock band, but Slayer are abstract art.

OK we are having a huge debate here on This Day in Metal and need your help deciding this!! So which band would you pick and why?

@2Philosophical_ @RichardDawkins @damasiousc argued (if I remember correctly) that over time repetitive triggering of fight and flight lead to consciousness, a simple binary. And look at LLM’s. Emergence isn’t always grandiose

@RichardDawkins No, because consciousness probably isn’t a product of mere information processing. Probably many will come to believe that AIs are conscious, though; potentially quite dystopian scenarios could follow.

Will AI eventually gain consciousness?

@AKorSyd You mean to put the deep soil inside the building footprint? Big trees in courtyards!

@jujuraxy When the car takes 30% of the site (required to attain the number) the key is to putting it below the footprint of the building (not necessarily car park). Some interesting solutions in spite of this!

WSU 2nd yr Architecture students were asked: ‘How can Architects influence the other 95% of housing not currently being designed by Architects?’ Pre-empting the discussions surrounding the NSW ‘pattern book’, students were asked to design a replicable ‘Manor house’. Samples:

@shayla__love Your article at first scared me, then excited me. As I get older I enjoy remembering and re-experiencing more, and while it’s spatial it’s not visual. Yet my dreams are very vivid and feel more visual than my eyes closed thinking. And I’m a writer too. Wow.

I wrote about what it’s like inside of my mind: dark, but full of feelings theguardian.com/wellness/2024/…

Fun fact: @Qantas won’t actually cover… anything if your travel was messed up by the #SydneyStorm I begged Lounge staff at CBR not to board me since it was clear I’d miss onward flight to DFW and just fly the next day… which happened. Now stuck in Sydney clutching for hotel

@SydneyAirport would be great to get an update on what’s going on therewith the storm: some of us are awaiting flights elsewhere to connect to international flights leaving (soon) this arvo….

Hey @Qantas: epic fail after epic fail. Lost bags on my way to CPT (never acknowledged), and no working screen in business, no transfer from international to T3. Staff are great: but management? At least still bubbles in the lounge… in plastic! Back to @emirates for me!

@kvnrogan Yield and Brand