Ric Morgan
@riccm.bsky.social
Was @R_C_M on tweeter
Music fan;dad to twin boys;bike rider;lawyer;gardener;design architecture sustainability politics healthcare;Kensington & Maldon dweller;skeptic;sometime(oft) curmudgeon
That’s Ringo the Dingo in the photos
Music fan;dad to twin boys;bike rider;lawyer;gardener;design architecture sustainability politics healthcare;Kensington & Maldon dweller;skeptic;sometime(oft) curmudgeon
That’s Ringo the Dingo in the photos
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Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.
I'm so tired of measles.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
Gallatin Co. reports 2nd measles case, warns of exposure sites nbcmontana.com/news/local/g...
December 2, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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" The problem is that according to current neuroscience, human thinking is largely independent of human language — and we have little reason to believe ever more sophisticated modeling of language will create a form of intelligence that meets or surpasses our own. "
Is language the same as intelligence? The AI industry desperately needs it to be
The AI boom is based on a fundamental mistake.
www.theverge.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:09 AM
" The problem is that according to current neuroscience, human thinking is largely independent of human language — and we have little reason to believe ever more sophisticated modeling of language will create a form of intelligence that meets or surpasses our own. "
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)
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This genocidal psychopath had planned this for decades 🤬
He just needed an excuse..thats why he allowed Oct 7th to happen
He just needed an excuse..thats why he allowed Oct 7th to happen
October 29, 2025 at 2:03 AM
This genocidal psychopath had planned this for decades 🤬
He just needed an excuse..thats why he allowed Oct 7th to happen
He just needed an excuse..thats why he allowed Oct 7th to happen
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Australian journalist here, just popping in to confirm Jim's point that the cowering and silence actually makes you all look like a pack of gutless wonders. Have some self-respect and tell the bully and thug where to get off for Christ's sake.
Would it kill somebody to say “Nancy is not stupid.” It pains me to see the WH press corps just accept the abuse. Sends the wrong image to Americans and the world IMHO.
“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
November 28, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Australian journalist here, just popping in to confirm Jim's point that the cowering and silence actually makes you all look like a pack of gutless wonders. Have some self-respect and tell the bully and thug where to get off for Christ's sake.
It’s never actually for you. It’s what someone else wants for you…
Small changes to ‘for you’ feed on X can rapidly increase political polarisation www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Small changes to ‘for you’ feed on X can rapidly increase political polarisation
Study finds that a week of political content can bring about a shift in views that previously would have taken three years
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:46 AM
It’s never actually for you. It’s what someone else wants for you…
And the sooner you realise it, the better off you are (if you do still want to use it, you do it armed with that insight)
Every prompt to chatbot software is “generate me some text.” If it generated you some text, it performed its function correctly. It never lies, it never wants anything, it’s text generating software that generates text.
Not wanting to disappoint you so much that it lies is the last quality I want in a computer.
November 28, 2025 at 11:44 AM
And the sooner you realise it, the better off you are (if you do still want to use it, you do it armed with that insight)
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❗️"The only reason you are still sitting here calmly is because Ukraine is bleeding every minute." — Garry Kasparov at the Halifax International Security Forum
"If Ukraine is forced to accept Trump's 'deal', you will be next!"
"If Ukraine is forced to accept Trump's 'deal', you will be next!"
November 27, 2025 at 7:09 PM
❗️"The only reason you are still sitting here calmly is because Ukraine is bleeding every minute." — Garry Kasparov at the Halifax International Security Forum
"If Ukraine is forced to accept Trump's 'deal', you will be next!"
"If Ukraine is forced to accept Trump's 'deal', you will be next!"
🤣😂🤣
November 28, 2025 at 10:53 AM
🤣😂🤣
Honestly, from outside the USA, this just seems business as usual from the Trump administration
Among other things, the (nebulous but clearly unconstitutional) attack on naturalized US citizens contained in this screed is a significant escalation.
Trump: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries … denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.“
November 28, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Honestly, from outside the USA, this just seems business as usual from the Trump administration
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question: Chatbots have a habit of grovelling when they're caught making stuff up. Who actually wants the chatbot to grovel? How did this become the standard behaviour? Who asked for this?
I mean, I could hypothesise and so could you. But how did this actually become standard across the chatbots?
I mean, I could hypothesise and so could you. But how did this actually become standard across the chatbots?
November 28, 2025 at 10:10 AM
question: Chatbots have a habit of grovelling when they're caught making stuff up. Who actually wants the chatbot to grovel? How did this become the standard behaviour? Who asked for this?
I mean, I could hypothesise and so could you. But how did this actually become standard across the chatbots?
I mean, I could hypothesise and so could you. But how did this actually become standard across the chatbots?
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I've seen people say that getting attached to ChatGPT is like "believing the stripper really loves you", but that's not true. It's more like believing that the dryer personally composed that little jingle on a lonely sockless night just to win your affections.
November 26, 2025 at 1:55 AM
I've seen people say that getting attached to ChatGPT is like "believing the stripper really loves you", but that's not true. It's more like believing that the dryer personally composed that little jingle on a lonely sockless night just to win your affections.
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Vaccinating boys and girls. It works bitches.
November 26, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Vaccinating boys and girls. It works bitches.
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The party of kicking down on the vulnerable with a kid from social housing as leader.
So Labor and the Liberals teamed up to pass legislation to give police the power to recommend cancellation of Centrelink payments of people who have not been found guilty of a crime by a court of law. It’s discriminatory financial punishment of people in poverty who are already over-policed
November 26, 2025 at 5:31 AM
The party of kicking down on the vulnerable with a kid from social housing as leader.
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David Pocock arguing in the #Senate against the cancelling of Centrelink benefits pending criminal prosecution. This is what an ethical equality warrior looks like. We need 20 more like him in the halls of power and hope we get them in the next election. He makes me proud to be Australian. #auspol
November 24, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Really? Really???? There is blandness & apathy but blaming compulsory voting is lazy. It exists in many places (almost none have compulsory voting) Instead the things that entrench two party dichotomies should be examined and tackled—like multi member electorates and many other options
While hailed as a model of fairness, compulsory voting may be breeding apathy instead.
Compulsory voting under scrutiny amid claims it breeds political apathy
~ Dr Binoy Kampmark
independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...
Compulsory voting under scrutiny amid claims it breeds political apathy
~ Dr Binoy Kampmark
independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...
Compulsory voting under scrutiny amid claims it breeds political apathy
While hailed as a model of fairness, compulsory voting may be breeding apathy instead.
independentaustralia.net
November 26, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Really? Really???? There is blandness & apathy but blaming compulsory voting is lazy. It exists in many places (almost none have compulsory voting) Instead the things that entrench two party dichotomies should be examined and tackled—like multi member electorates and many other options
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Here's a seven-point peace plan:
November 23, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Here's a seven-point peace plan:
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There has literally never been a universal basic income trial program that didn't deliver real and measurable results above and beyond any other form of social welfare, and every time another concludes with the same findings the powers that be go "interesting! Anyway," and pretend it wouldn't work.
November 22, 2025 at 6:00 AM
There has literally never been a universal basic income trial program that didn't deliver real and measurable results above and beyond any other form of social welfare, and every time another concludes with the same findings the powers that be go "interesting! Anyway," and pretend it wouldn't work.
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Whitlam Dismissal take
The greatest achievement of the Dismissal has been the crushing of the ALP’s ambition to actually bring a better world into being.
Hawke sealed the deal by making the mark of success decent management of a capitalist economy.
Now it’s just ambition to be in government.
The greatest achievement of the Dismissal has been the crushing of the ALP’s ambition to actually bring a better world into being.
Hawke sealed the deal by making the mark of success decent management of a capitalist economy.
Now it’s just ambition to be in government.
November 10, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Whitlam Dismissal take
The greatest achievement of the Dismissal has been the crushing of the ALP’s ambition to actually bring a better world into being.
Hawke sealed the deal by making the mark of success decent management of a capitalist economy.
Now it’s just ambition to be in government.
The greatest achievement of the Dismissal has been the crushing of the ALP’s ambition to actually bring a better world into being.
Hawke sealed the deal by making the mark of success decent management of a capitalist economy.
Now it’s just ambition to be in government.
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Then it's not a fucking ceasefire, is it.
Since the ceasefire took effect one month ago, Israeli attacks have killed at least 242 Palestinians and injured 622.
How many times has Israel violated the Gaza ceasefire? Here are the numbers
Since the ceasefire took effect one month ago, Israeli attacks have killed at least 242 Palestinians and injured 622.
bit.ly
November 11, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Then it's not a fucking ceasefire, is it.
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, conflict aversion and the need for validation by the private sector more than ever before.
November 10, 2025 at 4:03 AM
, conflict aversion and the need for validation by the private sector more than ever before.
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At a time where our nation is facing its biggest problems, progressive politics appears to be characterised by caution
November 10, 2025 at 4:03 AM
At a time where our nation is facing its biggest problems, progressive politics appears to be characterised by caution
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OPINION
At a time where our nation is facing its biggest problems, progressive politics appears to be characterised by conflict aversion
By Polly Hemming
Bravery is like a muscle, and it atrophies without use.
At a time where our nation is facing its biggest problems, progressive politics appears to be characterised by conflict aversion
By Polly Hemming
Bravery is like a muscle, and it atrophies without use.
November 10, 2025 at 4:03 AM
OPINION
At a time where our nation is facing its biggest problems, progressive politics appears to be characterised by conflict aversion
By Polly Hemming
Bravery is like a muscle, and it atrophies without use.
At a time where our nation is facing its biggest problems, progressive politics appears to be characterised by conflict aversion
By Polly Hemming
Bravery is like a muscle, and it atrophies without use.