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Brian Ward
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PhD, childfree urban intellectual neophiliac flaneur honjok.
They have also bundled the spelling checker into the 'smart features' so turning off AI removes a core feature that has been there for 20 years. This is a 'dark pattern' of deliberately dysfunctional design aimed at coercing the user to go against their own interests and to invalidate their choices.
November 20, 2025 at 11:56 PM
The big question is does he sweat now he has no royal title?
November 8, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Elton John Lydon
November 4, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Craig David Bowie
November 4, 2025 at 10:55 AM
What about The Hunger?
October 31, 2025 at 7:56 AM
And finally not a single selfish anti-social delivery ebike rider visible on the footpath terrorising pedestrians.
August 10, 2025 at 10:30 AM
This is meaningless without being put in the context of whether those who died were on the roads for work or other reasons. Driving as a job is heavily male dominated. If the number of hours in total driven my men is 3 x that of women then it is not surprising that 3 x as many male deaths result.
June 22, 2025 at 8:00 AM
You're the new Dr Who?
June 5, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Why does this software need hardware? It surely doesn't, any more than existing tools like Alexa need more hardware. The software could run on devices you already have. It's just a con to trick people into valuing the tool by giving it a physical body.
May 22, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I have seen this concept already.
May 16, 2025 at 2:46 AM
My amusing theory is that Grok is just a copy of Musk's thoughts uploaded via his Neuralink.
May 15, 2025 at 8:29 AM
The reporting has been disingenuous in implying a lot of people will have been exposed to the mural. It's in a back lane, barely visible from the nearest footpath. Almost everyone who has seen the mural has done so via media not real life.
May 14, 2025 at 7:09 AM
And legislate to force all Australian companies like Unisuper to divest from Elbit and other Israeli companies.
May 8, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Capable students have some specific characteristics: they take pride in the quality, authenticity and originality of their work; and they have innate ability so they don't need to cheat by using AI. The correlation between struggling students and rates of cheating is well known by educators.
May 7, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Reposted by Brian Ward
I can totally see a world where teachers use AI to create assignments, students use AI to complete assignments, teachers use AI to grade assignments, and no one learned a damned thing.
May 7, 2025 at 11:33 AM
These students should never be at university. University is for the best minds, not average mediocre ones. The people cheating are those who find thinking painful, writing a struggle, and studying merely a means to an end. The point is not to obtain a certificate but to learn.
May 7, 2025 at 11:38 AM