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Blonde Matthew 🦇 @blondematthew.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Halloween 🎃

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Blonde Matthew 🦇 @blondematthew.bsky.social · 1d

Read another book!

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Blonde Matthew 🦇 @blondematthew.bsky.social · 1d

At the corner of Lonsdale and William I can see a whole bunch of people still wearing robes and silly wigs. PAX is over! Go home!

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Blonde Matthew 🦇 @blondematthew.bsky.social · 2d

More public art dedicated to fruit bats please.

Sculpture at Ross Reserve, Noble Park, of 3 fruit bats in a triangle, suspended by the tips of their stained-glass wings on 3 carved wooden poles.

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Blonde Matthew 🦇 @blondematthew.bsky.social · 2d

Welcome to Melboume, Australlia.

Shirts in a souvenir shop with obviously AI generated images printed on them.

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Blonde Matthew 🦇 @blondematthew.bsky.social · 3d

Bowerbirds, rosellas, and cockatoos have been eliminated, but you can keep their voices alive by voting for the lyrebird. Vote Lyrebird: Support diverse voices!

Australian bird of the year 2025: vote for your favourite #birdoftheyear in the Guardian / BirdLife Australia poll

From little penguins to (very big) cassowaries, every bird has its fans. Vote for your favourite in the 2025 Guardian/BirdLife Australia poll

www.theguardian.com

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Blonde Matthew 🦇 @blondematthew.bsky.social · 3d

Some people on tiktok ask if I'm Taitset when I make videos of Metro Tunnel stations, but if you listen to the credits of his latest video you can hear the stark difference between his voice and my gay one: youtu.be/Dvaiti87jyI?...

The Metro Tunnel Launch Plan!

YouTube video by Taitset

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Travis Jordan @grugstan.bsky.social · 4d

A young person died just days after the LNP make pill testing illegal.

There’s a good chance that if they could have had these pills tested, they’d be with us all today.

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 4d

Highly potent synthetic opioids found in teddy bear-shaped pills linked to a death in Queensland

Public health warning issued after drugs known as nitazenes detected amid move to ban pill testing * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Teddy bear-shaped pills laced with synthetic opioids have been linked to a death in Queensland, triggering a public health warning about a group of highly potent illicit drugs called nitazenes. N-pyrrolidino-protonitazene and protonitazene were detected in toxicology and samples taken from pale yellow pills marked with the letter “Y” in the state’s south-east. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Blonde Matthew 🦇 @blondematthew.bsky.social · 4d

Have you seen how long it takes to get to Frankston, and then the timetable of the Stony Point line? You really can't.

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Blonde Matthew 🦇 @blondematthew.bsky.social · 5d

Loved this! Only a few nights left!

In The Dark

www.melbournefringe.com.au

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Sammy Petersen @sammypetersen.bsky.social · 5d

Not all heroes wear capes. For example: magicians.

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UNMURDERBOT 2.5 @imairhorns.bsky.social · 5d

My plan worked.

mr. cannoli @boner.ink · 5d

just saw someone with a spooky name and pfp and got so scared i shit myself

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Blonde Matthew 🦇 @blondematthew.bsky.social · 5d

If you like the Burton Bros and Frankie McNair, you'll love Delightfool at Melbourne Fringe:

Delightfool

www.melbournefringe.com.au

Blonde Matthew 🦇 @blondematthew.bsky.social · 5d

ALP and LNP represent donors, not voters. That's why they talk with each other instead of the crossbench.

ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 5d

Environment Minister Murray Watt will sit down with his Liberal counterpart Angie Bell today, with quiet optimism in both parties that a deal might soon be struck to finally rewrite Australia's "broken" and outdated environment laws.

Watt nears deal with Coalition to finally overhaul environment laws

Environment Minister Murray Watt will sit down with his Liberal counterpart Angie Bell today, with quiet optimism in both parties that a deal might soon be struck to finally rewrite Australia's "broken" and outdated environment laws.

www.abc.net.au

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Blonde Matthew 🦇 @blondematthew.bsky.social · 7d

Today I met a pelican on Bourke Street and she was really friendly

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Blonde Matthew 🦇 @blondematthew.bsky.social · 6d

I wasn't joking

Matilda Bosley dressed as a pelican for Guardian Australia's Bird of the Year

Me answering Matilda's bird quiz. I got 4/5

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Blonde Matthew 🦇 @blondematthew.bsky.social · 7d

I think Arden and Parkville are pretty similar inside and their best features are above ground.
Parkville's concourse is delightfully cavernous. I liked being dwarfed in it.
Town Hall and State Library have identical train platforms, but I really wanna see "The Crypt" (Town Hall's concourse).

Blonde Matthew 🦇 @blondematthew.bsky.social · 7d

Today I met a pelican on Bourke Street and she was really friendly

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Blonde Matthew 🦇 @blondematthew.bsky.social · 7d

Now you can have a squizz at State Library Station too:

State Library Station Sneak Peek

To celebrate the progress of the Metro Tunnel and give you a sneak peek inside one of Melbourne’s 5 new stations, we’re hosting a special Arden Station celebration.

bigbuild.vic.gov.au

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Blonde Matthew 🦇 @blondematthew.bsky.social · 7d

I'm 6 floors underground, deep beneath Swanston Street.

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Blonde Matthew 🦇 @blondematthew.bsky.social · 7d

BREAKING: From 11:59pm tonight we begin a snap 2-week lockdown in Melbourne.

Me, posed in front of a Victoria government sign.

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Blonde Matthew 🦇 @blondematthew.bsky.social · 7d

Plagued by delays? It's a year ahead of schedule.

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A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 8d

It should come with a ban on govt consultancy or tendering, not just a refund.

Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 9d

#BREAKING 🚨 Deloitte to refund government, admits using AI in $440k report into mutual obligations issues.

Fake quotes from Federal Court case that ended Robodebt deleted from new report in Friday DEWR dump.

📰 AFR

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HEADLINE: Deloitte to refund government, admits AI errors in $440k report

Deloitte Australia will issue a partial refund to the federal government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a $440,000 report littered with errors including three nonexistent academic references and a made-up quote from a Federal Court judgement.

A new version of the report for the Department of Workplace Relations (DEWR) was quietly uploaded to the department’s website on Friday, ahead of a long weekend across much of Australia. It features more than a dozen deletions of nonexistent references and footnotes, a rewritten reference list, and corrections to multiple typographic errors.

(photo of Deloitte Australia HQ) Deloitte Australia has made almost $25 million worth of deals with the Department of Workplace Relations since 2021. Photographer Dion Georgopoulos

The first version of the report, about the IT system used to automate penalties in the welfare system such as pauses on the dole, was published in July. Less than a month later, Deloitte was forced to investigate the report after University of Sydney academic Dr Christopher Rudge highlighted multiple errors in the document.

At the time, Rudge speculated that the errors may have been caused by what is known as “hallucinations” by generative AI. This is where the technology responds to user queries by inventing references and quotes. Deloitte declined to comment.

The incident is embarrassing for Deloitte as it earns a growing part of its $US70.5 billion ($107 billion) in annual global revenue by providing advice and training clients and executives about AI. The firm also boasts about its widespread use of the technology within its global operations, while emphasising the need to always have humans review any output of AI.

SUBHEADING: Deleted references, footnotes

The revised report has deleted a dozen references to two nonexistent reports by Professor Lisa Burton Crawford, a law professor at the University of Sydney, that were included in the first version. Two references to a nonexistent report by Professor Björn Regnell, of Lund University in Sweden, were also deleted in the new report.

Also deleted was a made up reference to a court decision in a leading robo-debt case, Deanna Amato v Commonwealth.

The new report has also deleted a reference to “Justice Davis” (a misspelling of Justice Jennifer Davies) and the made-up quote from the nonexistent paragraphs 25 and 26 in the judgement: “The burden rests on the decision-maker to be satisfied on the evidence that the debt is owed. A person’s statutory entitlements cannot lawfully be reduced based on an assumption unsupported by evidence.”

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Blonde Matthew 🦇 @blondematthew.bsky.social · 8d

This belongs in a museum! Specifically ACMI.

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Blonde Matthew 🦇 @blondematthew.bsky.social · 9d

Melbourne's first hospital

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