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Adam Chandler
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In-house tram/train/transport/history nerdvisor; dad; govt comms for (public) transport; ex-renewables, CPSU Vic. ຄົນລາວອົດສະຕາລີ (Laostralian). Regional VIC/Melb. Trams in the streets, personal opinions in the skeets.
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Adam Chandler @600vdc.bsky.social · Oct 9
Hello, I am a Laotian prince with a unique business opportunity, just for you
600vdc.bsky.social
Happy Gunzelmas to all who observe! Looking forward to three holy days of Ausrail, Le Múnel opening on Sunday, and rounding it out with International Day of the Gunzel(le) on Thursday 4/12
November 25, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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colincarlson.bsky.social
OVER A MILLION USERS

DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT

EVERY *WEEK*

what the fuck are we DOING here
ryanmarino.bsky.social Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 26d
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.

This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
jonathancohn.bsky.social Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 27d
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.

www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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donoteat.bsky.social
it may look funny to you but this horse and rider can never move again now
November 2, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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reneweconomy.com.au
Cheaper power for renewables neighbours has been much requested, but difficult to do. A startup says it can make work for both communities and developers.
reneweconomy.com.au
November 3, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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incrediblemelk.bsky.social
I read they granted one of these to Jehan le Bond, Baron de Skeyfall (motto: Agitatus, Non Motus)
October 20, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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profraywills.futuresmart.com.au
Death of baseload: World's biggest isolated grid is reaching 84 pct wind and solar almost daily
reneweconomy.com.au/death-of-bas... @gilesparkinson.bsky.social @reneweconomy.com.au

And batteries surging in Western Australia, too
Battery dispatch now greater than utility solar generation in WA
WA WEM daily generation renewables and battery dispatch WA WEM solar utility generation vs battery dispatch
October 21, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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railwaygazette.com
Melbourne's first G Class tram arrives at purpose-built depot https://bit.ly/46TYXKM
Melbourne’s first G Class tram arrives at purpose-built depot
Melbourne's first G Class tram arrives at purpose-built depot https://bit.ly/46TYXKM
bit.ly
October 17, 2025 at 1:31 PM
600vdc.bsky.social
Good morning to everyone except those who choose to keep shilling for M*rcedes-B*nz Gr*up Akt*engesellsch*ft
The Simpsons “don’t make me tap the sign meme” comprising two images composited together; the upper image shows an illustrated cartoon bus driver is shown with the subtitle “don’t make me tap the sign” and the second lower image shows his hand pointing to a white sign inside the bus. Text had been added by the poster saying “When writing about Melbourne tram classes, a hyphen should not be used. e.g. the correct form is “W Class” not “W-class.” This applies both to the compound adjective and proper noun forms and is per longstanding Gov house style; Wikipedia is wrong.”
October 16, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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reneweconomy.com.au
The ACT government’s early push to 100 pct renewables is looking like the smartest policy of all – with one wind farm paying consumers $50/MWh in the last quarter.
reneweconomy.com.au
October 8, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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liamhogan.id.au
One of the conspirators who helped Gavrilo Princip shoot Archduke Franz Ferdinand survived to see the breakup of Yugoslavia. He could conceivably have watched the Neighbours episode where Scott and Charlene got married
raxkingisdead.bsky.social rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · Oct 7
you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones
October 8, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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brenttoderian.bsky.social
We often call better city-building ideas bold and visionary when they’re really just common sense given the real-life crises that cities are facing. But true common sense isn’t particularly common these days, so it’s considered bold.
brenttoderian.bsky.social Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Jun 17
Paris & @annehidalgo.bsky.social are praised for their visionary, progressive city-building, but they don’t get nearly enough credit for just being really pragmatic! Everything they’re doing is common sense.

They’re moving a lot more people with less space while cleaning the air & cooling the city.
Imagine all the space these people on bikes would be taking if they were in cars? Imagine the pollution, noise and emissions. Multimodal cities and urban greening is just common sense. Paris is still a tight city with many streets that are just choking with cars. Despite the remarkable progress, there’s still plenty of work to do making the city work better with fewer cars and more choices.
October 5, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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drdrehistorian.bsky.social
Personally, though, I observe the Hutt rite, 14 April (1874, first steam train from Lowerer Hutt to Lower Hutt). Those who live in the Hutt Archipelago and believe that a mythical South Island exists observe 1 December (1863, a fable about a steam train in “Christchurch”, wherever that is)
Correct map of the Hutt Archipelago, sometimes also known as Aotearoa or New Zealand
September 29, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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drdrehistorian.bsky.social
Let us not forget the Lancashire rite that recognises 15 September (1830, first steam-only modern intercity railway)
September 29, 2025 at 3:35 AM
600vdc.bsky.social
Happy Orthodox Gunzelmas to all who observe!!!
railmaps.com.au Railmaps @railmaps.com.au · Sep 26
200 years ago today, September 27 1825, the first train hauled by a steam locomotive ran on the Stockton & Darlington Railway in the UK.

Railways had developed since ancient times, but the S&D was the first public railway to use steam locomotives.

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Stockton and Darlington Railway 200: Locomotion No 1 replica anniversary starts trip
A replica of the Locomotion No 1 is recreating the journey made by the real engine 200 years ago.
www.bbc.com
September 28, 2025 at 11:11 PM
600vdc.bsky.social
UPDATE: they are back for another season!
September 22, 2025 at 9:00 PM
600vdc.bsky.social
I love 99% of this yarn from @australia.theguardian.com… except for the incorrect use of hyphens when referring to Melbourne tram classes. Per almost a century of longstanding style practice it is “E Class” not “E-class”; Wikipedia is wrong. I will not be taking further questions at this time
australia.theguardian.com Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · Sep 20
Track stars: the world tram driver championship wowed Europe. Now Australia is gearing up for its turn
Track stars: the world tram driver championship wowed Europe. Now Australia is gearing up for its turn
Teams from 25 cities competed in front of thousands of spectators in Vienna and Melbourne is set to host the 2027 showpiece * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Tram driver Sally Burgess has never deliberately collided with another object on the track – until last weekend, that is, when she hit a giant ball as hard as she could with the bumper of her tram. The goal: to knock down a series of 2-metre-tall rubber pins, like oversized skittles, lined up on the track ahead. “I said I would smash the ball and I smashed the ball,” Burgess tells Guardian Australia. “Only one pin came down, though. It’s pretty hard to get all those pins down.” Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 20, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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patricklenton.bsky.social
MSG stands for
Mmmm
So
Good
September 17, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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b10mse.bsky.social
First G has been delivered to Maidstone.
September 13, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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railmaps.com.au
World Tram Driver championships now LIVE from Vienna. Featuring a team from Melbourne.
www.youtube.com/live/smp0voL...
1st Official World Tram Driver Championship
YouTube video by TRAM-EM
www.youtube.com
September 13, 2025 at 8:54 AM
600vdc.bsky.social
eight decades of M&MTB annual reports can’t be wrong
The Bernie Sanders request meme with caption text overlaid at the bottom reading “I am once again asking” and then in a different smaller font added later “…gunzels, nerds, and others to stop incorrectly and unnecessarily adding a hyphen when referring to Melbourne tram classes per longstanding house style”
September 13, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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olivia.science
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues. Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA). Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe. Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
600vdc.bsky.social
in the khub, we all fham
Close view of a pull-up banner with a printed photo of a KMart K-hub store and staff standing in front of the entrance under the sign
September 3, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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hypervisible.blacksky.app
“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”
AI Eroded Doctors’ Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study
Artificial intelligence, touted for its potential to transform medicine, led to some doctors losing skills after just a few months in a new study.
www.bloomberg.com
August 12, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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gregk.co.uk
"It’s clearer than ever that, like so many well-capitalized tech ventures, OpenAI’s aim is simply to create a product that is either addictive to users to maximize engagement or to dully automate a set of work tasks, or both. It’s clear that it is succeeding, to some extent, in each endeavor."
bcmerchant.bsky.social Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · Aug 12
GPT-5 has been hyped for years as the next step towards AGI. Sam Altman promised a "PhD-level intelligence on any topic." It's not even close.

On the terms OpenAI itself laid out for its own product, any fair assessment must conclude that GPT-5 is a failure.

Now the question is: Will it matter?
GPT-5 is a joke. Will it matter?
How the fraught release of the most-hyped AI product yet clarifies the stakes.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
August 12, 2025 at 10:39 PM
600vdc.bsky.social
Whilst texting over lunch, I somehow managed to elbow and spill leftover bún (Vietnamese noodle salad) dressing all over my work trousers. Unsure if sad or proud that my immediate thought was “nước mắm, no hands”
August 5, 2025 at 8:41 AM