Dale
@ditfos.bsky.social
Things I like include nerdy stuff, Japanese idol music 🌈, sports (Australian Rules, Cricket 🏏, Football ⚽). Word game addict.
Kafka has nothing on trying to purchase Japanese concert tickets from overseas
November 10, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Kafka has nothing on trying to purchase Japanese concert tickets from overseas
Nemo - Arthouse (2025 album) is a very much a spiritual successor to Mika - Life In Cartoon Motion (2007 album).
October 11, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Nemo - Arthouse (2025 album) is a very much a spiritual successor to Mika - Life In Cartoon Motion (2007 album).
Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall
Humpty Dumpty really enjoyed autumn
Humpty Dumpty really enjoyed autumn
September 14, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall
Humpty Dumpty really enjoyed autumn
Humpty Dumpty really enjoyed autumn
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Patient, sobbing: But Doctor, I AM Pagliacci!
ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.
ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.
August 7, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Patient, sobbing: But Doctor, I AM Pagliacci!
ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.
ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.
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"generate a map of the USA with each state named"
August 8, 2025 at 2:35 AM
"generate a map of the USA with each state named"
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Google will no longer fund fact-checking in Australia by letting its existing deal with an Australian publisher's team lapse, mirroring Meta's retreat amid a global backlash against fact-checkers.
www.crikey.com.au/20...
www.crikey.com.au/20...
Google ends fact-checking funding in Australia after letting AAP FactCheck deal expire
While the US search giant is signing new deals with Australian publishers, it will not renew its fact-checking contract with Australian Associated Press amid a global backlash on fact-checking.
www.crikey.com.au
July 17, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Google will no longer fund fact-checking in Australia by letting its existing deal with an Australian publisher's team lapse, mirroring Meta's retreat amid a global backlash against fact-checkers.
www.crikey.com.au/20...
www.crikey.com.au/20...
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
Holy shit corporate chatbots are THE WORST.
Just asked same Q 3 times, first to a "live agent" who directed me to a different bot, who couldn't answer the question so I requested "live agent", who gave me AI nonsense reply and immediately shut down the chat while I was typing a follow-up question.
Just asked same Q 3 times, first to a "live agent" who directed me to a different bot, who couldn't answer the question so I requested "live agent", who gave me AI nonsense reply and immediately shut down the chat while I was typing a follow-up question.
June 19, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Holy shit corporate chatbots are THE WORST.
Just asked same Q 3 times, first to a "live agent" who directed me to a different bot, who couldn't answer the question so I requested "live agent", who gave me AI nonsense reply and immediately shut down the chat while I was typing a follow-up question.
Just asked same Q 3 times, first to a "live agent" who directed me to a different bot, who couldn't answer the question so I requested "live agent", who gave me AI nonsense reply and immediately shut down the chat while I was typing a follow-up question.
This reads like Napster take 2. While I'm not generally a fan of the extreme copyright protectionism Hollywood megacorporations demonstrate, AI is hurting creative industries big and small, and the platform has to be held to account for how it is used.
Disney and Universal's 110-page lawsuit against Midjourney claims the AI player stole "countless" copyrighted works to train its software.
In first-of-its-kind lawsuit, Hollywood giants sue AI firm for copyright infringement
Disney and Universal's 110-page lawsuit against Midjourney claims the AI player stole "countless" copyrighted works to train its software.
n.pr
June 13, 2025 at 3:06 AM
This reads like Napster take 2. While I'm not generally a fan of the extreme copyright protectionism Hollywood megacorporations demonstrate, AI is hurting creative industries big and small, and the platform has to be held to account for how it is used.
Algorithms are weird. I made this comment under somebody's post on 3 Jan 2024 and it got 4 likes
Cue today and their post has suddenly become really popular again (happy Pride Month?), and I get 15 more likes on my comment...
Cue today and their post has suddenly become really popular again (happy Pride Month?), and I get 15 more likes on my comment...
June 2, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Algorithms are weird. I made this comment under somebody's post on 3 Jan 2024 and it got 4 likes
Cue today and their post has suddenly become really popular again (happy Pride Month?), and I get 15 more likes on my comment...
Cue today and their post has suddenly become really popular again (happy Pride Month?), and I get 15 more likes on my comment...
Bold move by Amazon to announce Aaron Chen as the next James Bond, to star in the upcoming blockbuster "This Villain Is Not Very Nice But They're No Match For My Sick Ninja Skills Hee-yah"
May 26, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Bold move by Amazon to announce Aaron Chen as the next James Bond, to star in the upcoming blockbuster "This Villain Is Not Very Nice But They're No Match For My Sick Ninja Skills Hee-yah"
The Trumpet of Patriots makes me think of a trumpeter making loud off-key BLAAAAAAAAART noises directly next to our heads
April 29, 2025 at 3:45 AM
The Trumpet of Patriots makes me think of a trumpeter making loud off-key BLAAAAAAAAART noises directly next to our heads
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Any Australian authors found their works in the database hoovered up by Meta's AI wanna talk for a story I'm writing about it? You can check here www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
March 23, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Any Australian authors found their works in the database hoovered up by Meta's AI wanna talk for a story I'm writing about it? You can check here www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
"Land of the freeeeee"
"Columbia agreed to ban masks, empower 36 campus police officers with new powers to arrest students and appoint a senior vice provost with broad authority to oversee the department of Middle East, South Asian and African Studies as well as the Center for Palestine Studies."
This is just the worst week. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
March 22, 2025 at 9:59 AM
"Land of the freeeeee"
Sometimes Outlook asks me "Enjoying Outlook so far?"
Do you think I LIKE receiving emails? Reading them? Having to respond to them? (I do like deleting them).
Do you think I LIKE receiving emails? Reading them? Having to respond to them? (I do like deleting them).
March 2, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Sometimes Outlook asks me "Enjoying Outlook so far?"
Do you think I LIKE receiving emails? Reading them? Having to respond to them? (I do like deleting them).
Do you think I LIKE receiving emails? Reading them? Having to respond to them? (I do like deleting them).
My levels of laziness know no
March 1, 2025 at 11:00 PM
My levels of laziness know no
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The new experimental collection "Informatics of Domination," edited by Zach Blas, @melodyjue.bsky.social , & Jennifer Rhee, addresses formations of power that manifest through technical systems and white capitalist patriarchy in the 21st century. Read the intro for free now!
https://buff.ly/4jU7Nwk
https://buff.ly/4jU7Nwk
February 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
The new experimental collection "Informatics of Domination," edited by Zach Blas, @melodyjue.bsky.social , & Jennifer Rhee, addresses formations of power that manifest through technical systems and white capitalist patriarchy in the 21st century. Read the intro for free now!
https://buff.ly/4jU7Nwk
https://buff.ly/4jU7Nwk
Spectacular pun
January 24, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Spectacular pun
Hey there, Georgey boy
Swinging through the trees majestically
Swinging through the trees majestically
January 22, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Hey there, Georgey boy
Swinging through the trees majestically
Swinging through the trees majestically
It's difficult to sum up 16 years and over 100 songs into a four-and-a-half minute ending song, but Dempagumi.inc and Hyadain deliver. Fantastic song for #でんぱエンディング
AKIHABARA TO ALL OVER THE WORLD
open.spotify.com/track/1kOyu8...
AKIHABARA TO ALL OVER THE WORLD
open.spotify.com/track/1kOyu8...
W.W.D ENDING
Dempagumi.Inc · W.W.D ENDING · Song · 2025
open.spotify.com
January 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM
It's difficult to sum up 16 years and over 100 songs into a four-and-a-half minute ending song, but Dempagumi.inc and Hyadain deliver. Fantastic song for #でんぱエンディング
AKIHABARA TO ALL OVER THE WORLD
open.spotify.com/track/1kOyu8...
AKIHABARA TO ALL OVER THE WORLD
open.spotify.com/track/1kOyu8...
Ok but why does David Corenswet look uncannily like a de-aged Nathan Fillion?
December 22, 2024 at 4:07 AM
Ok but why does David Corenswet look uncannily like a de-aged Nathan Fillion?
Picturesque Manuka #ThunderVsStrikers #BBL14
December 17, 2024 at 8:38 AM
Picturesque Manuka #ThunderVsStrikers #BBL14