Benjamin John
@srhgbg.bsky.social
Host of Australian Hunger.
The Curious Case of Cannibal Corpse miniseries coming soon.
Metal data visualisation project, Datagraphica Metallum, coming soon.
The Curious Case of Cannibal Corpse miniseries coming soon.
Metal data visualisation project, Datagraphica Metallum, coming soon.
I'm not watching apologia for that woman who tried to burn a guy to death, I don't care how many songs she sings
November 21, 2025 at 9:57 AM
I'm not watching apologia for that woman who tried to burn a guy to death, I don't care how many songs she sings
I'm looking forward to Woke 2 as much as the next person, but this may be taking it a little far...
November 20, 2025 at 7:08 AM
I'm looking forward to Woke 2 as much as the next person, but this may be taking it a little far...
Podcasts getting the Heavy Metal Grammy treatment at the Golden Globes, sad to see
November 19, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Podcasts getting the Heavy Metal Grammy treatment at the Golden Globes, sad to see
Did Peter Cushing invent ahegao?
October 29, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Did Peter Cushing invent ahegao?
I'm rooting for it, but I would be shocked if the new iteration of The Boney Island Whitefish made it much further than their attempt at Criminals Minds. It's only episode one and they are already delaying getting to Bones with 25 minutes of Breakfast Update.
October 23, 2025 at 1:26 PM
I'm rooting for it, but I would be shocked if the new iteration of The Boney Island Whitefish made it much further than their attempt at Criminals Minds. It's only episode one and they are already delaying getting to Bones with 25 minutes of Breakfast Update.
Where is Melania going to look at spreadsheets now? :(
October 23, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Where is Melania going to look at spreadsheets now? :(
Honestly, what are we going to do with these unbearable losers?
September 26, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Honestly, what are we going to do with these unbearable losers?
Born to spreadsheet (fun)
Forced to spreadsheet (work)
Forced to spreadsheet (work)
August 21, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Born to spreadsheet (fun)
Forced to spreadsheet (work)
Forced to spreadsheet (work)
The funniest thing you can do is use Letterboxd to give a bad rating to a film from 1902. It's like going to see the cave paintings and complaining that the figures aren't proportional or something.
August 15, 2025 at 4:19 AM
The funniest thing you can do is use Letterboxd to give a bad rating to a film from 1902. It's like going to see the cave paintings and complaining that the figures aren't proportional or something.
Uhhhh, I did not know this about Cocos (Keeling) Islands
August 9, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Uhhhh, I did not know this about Cocos (Keeling) Islands
I’m not going to sign up so I can get it to generate a terrible map, but I can still catch ChatGPT out of Australian geography for free.
August 9, 2025 at 6:12 AM
I’m not going to sign up so I can get it to generate a terrible map, but I can still catch ChatGPT out of Australian geography for free.
I have a weird one. Stumbled on an album called Dream Labyrinth, and I thought to myself "huh... that album covers looks a lot like The Flesh Prevails by Fallujah".
So I gave it a listen. And not only does it sound a bit like the Flesh Prevails.
It IS The Flesh Prevails.
So I gave it a listen. And not only does it sound a bit like the Flesh Prevails.
It IS The Flesh Prevails.
July 26, 2025 at 10:57 AM
I have a weird one. Stumbled on an album called Dream Labyrinth, and I thought to myself "huh... that album covers looks a lot like The Flesh Prevails by Fallujah".
So I gave it a listen. And not only does it sound a bit like the Flesh Prevails.
It IS The Flesh Prevails.
So I gave it a listen. And not only does it sound a bit like the Flesh Prevails.
It IS The Flesh Prevails.
There is definitely an opportunity for someone to make a nice little website which tells you whether a company or product includes AI, and if so, how to disable it (if possible) and what kind of data it uses of your to feed the model.
July 24, 2025 at 1:00 AM
There is definitely an opportunity for someone to make a nice little website which tells you whether a company or product includes AI, and if so, how to disable it (if possible) and what kind of data it uses of your to feed the model.
We need to start demanding that the Grammys have 85 categories for every metal sub-genre. Melodic death metal. Modern melodic death metal. Melodic death metal (Gothenburg). Progressive melodic death metal. Melo…
June 13, 2025 at 7:17 AM
We need to start demanding that the Grammys have 85 categories for every metal sub-genre. Melodic death metal. Modern melodic death metal. Melodic death metal (Gothenburg). Progressive melodic death metal. Melo…
Seemingly everyone in charge:
June 11, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Seemingly everyone in charge:
Lol. Come on. That's one of the most famous riffs in death metal. You can't be doing that.
(Lurking Fear - Archdruid)
(Lurking Fear - Archdruid)
May 24, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Lol. Come on. That's one of the most famous riffs in death metal. You can't be doing that.
(Lurking Fear - Archdruid)
(Lurking Fear - Archdruid)
People are talking about how university is important to get experience with activities and expand your mental capacities, which I agree with in the abstract. But…
Who do we fail people then? If someone does poorly at a task and the aim is to help them do it better, is it right to end the education?
Who do we fail people then? If someone does poorly at a task and the aim is to help them do it better, is it right to end the education?
May 15, 2025 at 12:43 AM
People are talking about how university is important to get experience with activities and expand your mental capacities, which I agree with in the abstract. But…
Who do we fail people then? If someone does poorly at a task and the aim is to help them do it better, is it right to end the education?
Who do we fail people then? If someone does poorly at a task and the aim is to help them do it better, is it right to end the education?
Got inspired by recent news to dig a little into pope data.
These are quick and dirty:
-Leo is the equal 4th most frequent papal name, going to have to inspire a lot of successors to get to #1
-Most elected 40s to 60s, but they used to have some young ones
-About a fifth haven't made it to a year
These are quick and dirty:
-Leo is the equal 4th most frequent papal name, going to have to inspire a lot of successors to get to #1
-Most elected 40s to 60s, but they used to have some young ones
-About a fifth haven't made it to a year
May 9, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Got inspired by recent news to dig a little into pope data.
These are quick and dirty:
-Leo is the equal 4th most frequent papal name, going to have to inspire a lot of successors to get to #1
-Most elected 40s to 60s, but they used to have some young ones
-About a fifth haven't made it to a year
These are quick and dirty:
-Leo is the equal 4th most frequent papal name, going to have to inspire a lot of successors to get to #1
-Most elected 40s to 60s, but they used to have some young ones
-About a fifth haven't made it to a year
Even if you go to university with the desire to learn, you are probably going to be frustrated by sub-standard teaching, half-assed material and a lot of wrong-headed assignments.
University is a bullshit place, why wouldn’t you cheat.
University is a bullshit place, why wouldn’t you cheat.
May 7, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Even if you go to university with the desire to learn, you are probably going to be frustrated by sub-standard teaching, half-assed material and a lot of wrong-headed assignments.
University is a bullshit place, why wouldn’t you cheat.
University is a bullshit place, why wouldn’t you cheat.
We should take the folks behind these GenAI tools to The Hague. If the laws don’t exist to hold them accountable for what they are doing we should make them up.
May 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM
We should take the folks behind these GenAI tools to The Hague. If the laws don’t exist to hold them accountable for what they are doing we should make them up.
We have seen such a swing to ostensibly leftish governments in the past few months, and it’s such a damn shame that instead of transforming the fucking world with their huge mandates we are going to see minor improvements at best, and outright capitulation to fascism in the UK
May 4, 2025 at 3:14 AM
We have seen such a swing to ostensibly leftish governments in the past few months, and it’s such a damn shame that instead of transforming the fucking world with their huge mandates we are going to see minor improvements at best, and outright capitulation to fascism in the UK
I came up with a question I thought I might be mildly challenging of GenAI, and it’s startling how tangential its comments often are and how easy it is to please.
Sometimes it gets the answer, sometimes not, but it will always try to add lots of irrelevant chatter.
Sometimes it gets the answer, sometimes not, but it will always try to add lots of irrelevant chatter.
April 25, 2025 at 7:20 AM
I came up with a question I thought I might be mildly challenging of GenAI, and it’s startling how tangential its comments often are and how easy it is to please.
Sometimes it gets the answer, sometimes not, but it will always try to add lots of irrelevant chatter.
Sometimes it gets the answer, sometimes not, but it will always try to add lots of irrelevant chatter.
So glad we are past the era of media piracy where uploaders felt the inexplicable need to watermark the videos. Watching some old Jeopardy and half the episodes have some now-defunct URLs emblazoned on the screen.
April 8, 2025 at 10:36 AM
So glad we are past the era of media piracy where uploaders felt the inexplicable need to watermark the videos. Watching some old Jeopardy and half the episodes have some now-defunct URLs emblazoned on the screen.