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Nick Miller @nickdmiller.bsky.social · 5h

Next up in Senate estimates, a rigorous investigation into why this one weird trick that the senator clicked on turned out to be neither a trick nor particularly weird.

CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 6h

Senator Henderson to Yahoo: "You're displaying on your front page... a photo which looks like a woman exposing her buttocks. Then when you go into it, you see that those are two. bald heads in front of the woman... Can I ask you to explain why this is on your front page?"

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Nick Miller @nickdmiller.bsky.social · 7h

Have changed my default search engine. Let's see how Ecosia goes.

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Nick Miller @nickdmiller.bsky.social · 7h

Interesting. Ecosia gives same results as Google, but without the AI hallucination at the top and the random guff it suggests you ask instead.

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Nick Miller @nickdmiller.bsky.social · 7h

I can't wait for the end of the AI bubble because even though it will tank the global economy at least we'll be able to find information on the internet again.

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Nick Miller @nickdmiller.bsky.social · 8h

Thank goodness we now get AI overviews at the top of search results. Really improves things.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 20h

The whole piece is great and full of moments like this that illustrate what a terrible idea using LLMs on dating apps is on every level

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 22h

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.bsky.social · 20h

you know that critique of ai that says it’s like taking a forklift to the gym and expecting to get stronger? well this bit of that guardian article about people using chatgpt in dating apps kinda proves it correct

Which is why the man who greeted her inside the pub – polite, pleasant but oddly flat – felt like a stranger. Gone was the quickfire wit and playful rhythm she’d come to expect from their exchanges. Over pints he stumbled through small talk, checked his phone a little too often, and seemed to wilt under the pressure of her questions. “I felt like I was sitting opposite someone I’d never even spoken to,” she says. “I tried to have the same sort of conversation as we’d been having online, but it was like, ‘Knock, knock, is anyone home?’ – like he knew basically nothing about me. That’s when I suspected he’d been using AI.”

Rachel gave her date the benefit of the doubt. “I thought maybe he was nervous,” she says. But she’d been “Chatfished” before, so when the gap between his real and digital selves failed to close on their second date, she called it off. “I’d already been ChatGPT-ed into bed at least once. I didn’t want it to happen again.”

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 3d

People are saying this is the best headline ever written - find out why!

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d

You won’t believe what degrading practice the pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists The pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires. Australian media representatives were among those to hear directly from Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Thursday with about 150 members of newswire alliance Minds International. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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ceej @ceej.online · 3d

damn. hoping it at least signifies something

William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 3d

It is a tale
Told by an idiot

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Nick Miller @nickdmiller.bsky.social · 3d

thanks

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Nick Miller @nickdmiller.bsky.social · 3d

rec.games.pinball was pretty much all I studied in computer science

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Nick Miller @nickdmiller.bsky.social · 3d

Heads up, you know who you are, it's official the Pope says clickbait IS A SIN. And not one of the fun ones.

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Nick Miller @nickdmiller.bsky.social · 3d

This except those born before 1975 are still allowed Usenet.

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 3d

after careful study, I believe only people born between 1975 and 1995 should be allowed to use the internet

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Nick Miller @nickdmiller.bsky.social · 3d

Honestly considered some tactical voting to try to rescue the lyrebird, because they're amazing, but in the end I'm rusted on Baudin, the only righteous alternative to two years of Frogmouth rule. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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

Nick Miller @nickdmiller.bsky.social · 4d

First-past-the-post systems are vicious, tactical voting essential.

Nick Miller @nickdmiller.bsky.social · 4d

People we need to stop splitting the cockatoo vote and unite behind the Baudin's otherwise the tawnies are going to run away with it.

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Nick Miller @nickdmiller.bsky.social · 4d

When their news is to close
And to this they say noes
That’s a Moray.

Press Gazette @pressgazette.co.uk · 4d

All 26 councillors at Moray Council have jointly expressed strong opposition at STV's plan to end its dedicated news programme for the north of Scotland, which they said would mean a "significant and damaging loss" to communities newsroom.moray.gov.uk/news/moray-c...

Moray Councillors unite to oppose STV newsroom cuts | Moray Council News

All 26 councillors at Moray Council have signed joint letters to STV’s Chief Executive and OFCOM, voicing strong opposition to plans that would see the broadcaster end its dedicated news programme…

newsroom.moray.gov.uk

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Nick Miller @nickdmiller.bsky.social · 5d

"Why you suck and what you did wrong"

Nick Miller @nickdmiller.bsky.social · 5d

They keep doing variations on this headline, I hate it. Just feels cruel.

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Nick Miller @nickdmiller.bsky.social · 5d

One of the most underestimated classics. Whenever my movie mood is "I just want to be entertained", there is no better choice. www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

A relic of horny Hollywood: why The Mummy remains a classic bisexual awakening movie

A floppy-haired Brendan Fraser, a smokey-eyed Rachel Weisz, some grisly scarabs and biblical plagues? Hail to a lost era of multiplex entertainment

www.theguardian.com

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The Onion @theonion.com · 5d

Everyone In Symphony Audience Has Finger Cocked Under Beer Can Tab For First Sign of Crescendo

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 6d

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 5d

“I found ‘One Battle After Another’ in 4DX to be slightly more suspenseful and slightly less funny than the other versions — when Bob (Leonardo DiCaprio) jumps out of a moving car ‘like Tom Cruise,’ it’s scarier in 4DX because the audience’s own chairs threaten to catapult them through the air.”

I Saw ‘One Battle After Another’ Six Times in Six Formats in Six Days

We compare Paul Thomas Anderson's latest masterpiece in VistaVision, 70mm IMAX, digital IMAX, regular 70mm, DCP and 4DX to see which is best.

www.indiewire.com

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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 6d

Henceforth the red robes will only be worn as an away kit when the Canadian Supreme Court is playing the US one.

Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 6d

Tragic news from Canada where the Canadian Supreme Court has gone from the official dress on the left to the one on the right

Canadian Supreme court. Everyone is dressed in bright red wooly gowns, with a beige trim. It looks sort of like a Santa robe

The Canadian Supreme court. Everyone is dressed in black gowns with a bright white kravat, and two thin red vertical lines on the side of the robe

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Emmy @emmfoolery.bsky.social · 8d

Australians, please raid your Uncle's old PC in his shed, and help me find a copy of this to archive.

#Australia #AFL #DOSGaming #Wolfenstein #RetroGaming #MSDOS #RetroComputing

I HATE COLLINGWOOD Wolfenstein 3D mod on floppy disk. This version doesn't work. :(

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