Tristan Davey
@tristandavey.com
Director @ SPNQ. Former RANlytics & SafetyCulture. Australian history afficiando and collector of retro tech. 🏳️🌈 He/Him. Gurambilbarra, Australia.
How do we solve this? AI companies have sold LLMs as an intelligence with thoughts and empathy, not the statistical models they are. They reinforce cultural and personal biases, and don’t understand risk, consequence, ethics and truth. They’re outright dangerous.
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ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
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November 9, 2025 at 4:53 AM
How do we solve this? AI companies have sold LLMs as an intelligence with thoughts and empathy, not the statistical models they are. They reinforce cultural and personal biases, and don’t understand risk, consequence, ethics and truth. They’re outright dangerous.
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I’m sporting a pretty spectacular mullet at the moment and my mum saw the haircut tonight and asked “Did you… ask… for that haircut?”. Alright, Jan, I didn’t come here to here to get served shade by my own mother.
October 31, 2025 at 12:06 PM
I’m sporting a pretty spectacular mullet at the moment and my mum saw the haircut tonight and asked “Did you… ask… for that haircut?”. Alright, Jan, I didn’t come here to here to get served shade by my own mother.
The LNP government has once again banned puberty blockers and hormone treatments for young trans Queenslanders just hours after the Supreme Court overturned their previous ban. Please sign the petition to restore gender affirming care for all Queenslanders: equalityaustralia.org.au/our-work/qld...
QLD: REINSTATE CARE FOR TRANS YOUNG PEOPLE
Sign the petition to end Queensland's ban on gender affirming care. Let's leave health care to the medical professionals.
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October 29, 2025 at 12:47 PM
The LNP government has once again banned puberty blockers and hormone treatments for young trans Queenslanders just hours after the Supreme Court overturned their previous ban. Please sign the petition to restore gender affirming care for all Queenslanders: equalityaustralia.org.au/our-work/qld...
Don’t need to plan this… I just am.
Planning on getting atrociously hot
October 27, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Don’t need to plan this… I just am.
The feeling when there’s a us-east-1 outage but you know none of your prod systems are there…
a man is standing in front of a couch in a living room .
ALT: a man is standing in front of a couch in a living room .
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October 20, 2025 at 9:21 AM
The feeling when there’s a us-east-1 outage but you know none of your prod systems are there…
*tapping the sign increasingly desperately and insistently*
October 10, 2025 at 10:09 AM
*tapping the sign increasingly desperately and insistently*
Well we all hate a jammed printer… but imagine if you plane crashed, in part, because of one. NTSB says it nearly happened in August 2023:
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October 6, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Well we all hate a jammed printer… but imagine if you plane crashed, in part, because of one. NTSB says it nearly happened in August 2023:
data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen...
data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen...
Met a new friend in my back yard this weekend… #townsville #australia
September 28, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Met a new friend in my back yard this weekend… #townsville #australia
Mum, do you want a ‘throo’ for your ‘karch’?
September 14, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Mum, do you want a ‘throo’ for your ‘karch’?
Do you think the Grimace/O’Grimacey family share a common ancestor with Gritty?
September 3, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Do you think the Grimace/O’Grimacey family share a common ancestor with Gritty?
Getting ready to do my taxes…
August 30, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Getting ready to do my taxes…
Watched Ghostbusters: Afterlife and Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire this weekend. Was pleasantly surprised at how the original-universe franchise managed to recreate the high stakes family fun and comedy of the original two movies - particularly given the 2016 reboot was so bad.
August 24, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Watched Ghostbusters: Afterlife and Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire this weekend. Was pleasantly surprised at how the original-universe franchise managed to recreate the high stakes family fun and comedy of the original two movies - particularly given the 2016 reboot was so bad.
What kinda 'welfare checks' you reckon this vigilante in my neighbourhood's crime group is carrying out at 4:30am?
![A screenshot of a Facebook post in a redacted Crime Alerts group. The post reads "Patrols pimlico, all those activ [sic] areas,Gladstone,St[sic] ect,[sic] both servos, welfare checks, Mysterton..". It shows three photos, one including an unidentifiable weapon in the passengers seat of a car. Other photos are of neighbourhood streets.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rxm75um7toe6dxpgerpdvi6i/bafkreiccee5f32cvolnvps26rv47mgchsjbtgbhel5dgc6wgxhhhpozzke@jpeg)
August 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM
What kinda 'welfare checks' you reckon this vigilante in my neighbourhood's crime group is carrying out at 4:30am?
CNC go brrrrrrrrrrrr
August 16, 2025 at 3:53 AM
CNC go brrrrrrrrrrrr
I’ve used the phrase “homosexual audacity” so much lately I’m beginning to believe it’s a real thing that gives me the ability to do whatever I put my mind to…
August 10, 2025 at 5:22 AM
I’ve used the phrase “homosexual audacity” so much lately I’m beginning to believe it’s a real thing that gives me the ability to do whatever I put my mind to…
Shower thought: What musical genre is the Bunnings ad background music?
August 6, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Shower thought: What musical genre is the Bunnings ad background music?
I’ve somehow lost so many pairs of socks recently I’m down to only some pairs of @microsoft promo socks. So I guess I’m repping Microsoft today.
July 28, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I’ve somehow lost so many pairs of socks recently I’m down to only some pairs of @microsoft promo socks. So I guess I’m repping Microsoft today.
Was trying to send a message last night where iOS corrected the message “going long” to “glib glong”. This is why you should never write C.
July 22, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Was trying to send a message last night where iOS corrected the message “going long” to “glib glong”. This is why you should never write C.
I’m feeling about the best I’ve felt in the last month. Unfortunately that’s because I’m in hospital and full of IV antibiotics, steroids, anti-nausea medication, and anti-inflammatories to try and treat a mystery-respiratory infection I have.
July 10, 2025 at 4:28 AM
I’m feeling about the best I’ve felt in the last month. Unfortunately that’s because I’m in hospital and full of IV antibiotics, steroids, anti-nausea medication, and anti-inflammatories to try and treat a mystery-respiratory infection I have.
I’m on the recovery from a month of colds, flus and pneumonia and I still feel like absolute shit. I just need enough energy to get something done, anything.
July 6, 2025 at 9:08 AM
I’m on the recovery from a month of colds, flus and pneumonia and I still feel like absolute shit. I just need enough energy to get something done, anything.
My biggest fear is that as part of the Trump administration the team at the United States Chemical Safety Bureau that makes their videos gets cut and they stop publishing incident report summaries. Nobody else is making YouTube content this good!
July 5, 2025 at 9:56 AM
My biggest fear is that as part of the Trump administration the team at the United States Chemical Safety Bureau that makes their videos gets cut and they stop publishing incident report summaries. Nobody else is making YouTube content this good!
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Tomorrow's a new month. Is your AWS bill ready?
June 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Tomorrow's a new month. Is your AWS bill ready?
There’s something slightly demonic about the BARTmobile but I can’t quite put my finger on it… maybe it’s the sheer number of hats he owns.
June 30, 2025 at 6:59 AM
There’s something slightly demonic about the BARTmobile but I can’t quite put my finger on it… maybe it’s the sheer number of hats he owns.
