Liam Pomfret, PhD
@liampomfret.com
Consumer privacy researcher, Australian Privacy Foundation Board Member.
That Bulbagarden guy.
He/Him
Primary Profile: mastodon.social/@liampomfret
That Bulbagarden guy.
He/Him
Primary Profile: mastodon.social/@liampomfret
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Me before becoming a CS professor: "with tightly scoped and heavily regulated use-cases, it's worth developing an extremely limited form of AI"
Me after 3 years as a CS professor: "we have to destroy all AI of any and every kind immediately and ban any future development work of any kind"
Me after 3 years as a CS professor: "we have to destroy all AI of any and every kind immediately and ban any future development work of any kind"
December 7, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Me before becoming a CS professor: "with tightly scoped and heavily regulated use-cases, it's worth developing an extremely limited form of AI"
Me after 3 years as a CS professor: "we have to destroy all AI of any and every kind immediately and ban any future development work of any kind"
Me after 3 years as a CS professor: "we have to destroy all AI of any and every kind immediately and ban any future development work of any kind"
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Yup - scribbles on paper rule.
November 23, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Yup - scribbles on paper rule.
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1/ Michael Prescott of Hanover Communications, whose leaked memo alleging left-wing bias led to the BBC meltdown.
You could be forgiven for thinking that a corporate lobbyist & former Murdoch press hack may not have the best interests of public-service broadcasting at heart.
You could be forgiven for thinking that a corporate lobbyist & former Murdoch press hack may not have the best interests of public-service broadcasting at heart.
November 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM
1/ Michael Prescott of Hanover Communications, whose leaked memo alleging left-wing bias led to the BBC meltdown.
You could be forgiven for thinking that a corporate lobbyist & former Murdoch press hack may not have the best interests of public-service broadcasting at heart.
You could be forgiven for thinking that a corporate lobbyist & former Murdoch press hack may not have the best interests of public-service broadcasting at heart.
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We strongly condemn @CondéNast’s consolidation plans for Teen Vogue, a move that is clearly designed to blunt the award-winning magazine’s insightful journalism at a time when it is needed the most. More from our statement:
November 3, 2025 at 11:24 PM
We strongly condemn @CondéNast’s consolidation plans for Teen Vogue, a move that is clearly designed to blunt the award-winning magazine’s insightful journalism at a time when it is needed the most. More from our statement:
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The current presidency is the result, in part, of the fear of optics outweighing the dispassionate adherence to the rule of law. If we have the chance again, we cannot make the same mistake.
November 4, 2025 at 2:27 AM
The current presidency is the result, in part, of the fear of optics outweighing the dispassionate adherence to the rule of law. If we have the chance again, we cannot make the same mistake.
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Oh FFS, I hate these stupid YouTube A/B tests. The YouTube app on iOS currently won’t let me refine searches in the app, so I’m unable to specifically look for only videos posted within the last week, etc.
October 16, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Oh FFS, I hate these stupid YouTube A/B tests. The YouTube app on iOS currently won’t let me refine searches in the app, so I’m unable to specifically look for only videos posted within the last week, etc.
Need to figure out what to do with the Windows 10 partititions I’ve only logged into a couple of times this year. Can probably get away with killing the Desktop partition once I’ve confirmed everything is backed up on it, but there are some config utilities on the Laptop that require Windows.
October 14, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Need to figure out what to do with the Windows 10 partititions I’ve only logged into a couple of times this year. Can probably get away with killing the Desktop partition once I’ve confirmed everything is backed up on it, but there are some config utilities on the Laptop that require Windows.
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It will be grimly amusing when the AU govt's new "papers please, to access the internet" legislation is a massive cluster fuck and MPs will be all "who could have known?" like folks haven't been pointing out the obvious fucking flaws since before it was rushed through.
October 14, 2025 at 7:25 AM
It will be grimly amusing when the AU govt's new "papers please, to access the internet" legislation is a massive cluster fuck and MPs will be all "who could have known?" like folks haven't been pointing out the obvious fucking flaws since before it was rushed through.
Material released by someone who had legitimate access to it, but who did not have authorisation to release it, constitutes a leak.
Material released by someone who did not have legitimate access, and who openly acknowledges hacking servers to obtain it, is not a leak. It’s stolen data.
Material released by someone who did not have legitimate access, and who openly acknowledges hacking servers to obtain it, is not a leak. It’s stolen data.
October 14, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Material released by someone who had legitimate access to it, but who did not have authorisation to release it, constitutes a leak.
Material released by someone who did not have legitimate access, and who openly acknowledges hacking servers to obtain it, is not a leak. It’s stolen data.
Material released by someone who did not have legitimate access, and who openly acknowledges hacking servers to obtain it, is not a leak. It’s stolen data.
The events of the last week have done more to repair and improve the reputation of frogs than years of people insisting their continued use of a certain cartoon frog was “ironic”, or would somehow reclaim it from those who had hijacked it.
October 11, 2025 at 3:00 AM
The events of the last week have done more to repair and improve the reputation of frogs than years of people insisting their continued use of a certain cartoon frog was “ironic”, or would somehow reclaim it from those who had hijacked it.
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An update on that insane lease term where the landlord owns everything you create during the tenancy:
September 22, 2025 at 11:59 PM
An update on that insane lease term where the landlord owns everything you create during the tenancy:
The Pokémon Company and Nintendo in the rare position right now where, for once, the majority of people around the world would actively cheer on their legal teams.
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Homeland Security (@DHSgov): "Gotta Catch ‘Em All." | XCancel
Gotta Catch ‘Em All.
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September 23, 2025 at 4:55 AM
The Pokémon Company and Nintendo in the rare position right now where, for once, the majority of people around the world would actively cheer on their legal teams.
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May the Tangerine Palpatine do a passable impression of Mr. Creosote during the banquet at Windsor Castle.
September 17, 2025 at 9:47 AM
May the Tangerine Palpatine do a passable impression of Mr. Creosote during the banquet at Windsor Castle.
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Chasing an academic career is optimizing for the narrowest imaginable market that is liable to simply implode at any given time and has no transferable skills or accolades.
September 15, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Chasing an academic career is optimizing for the narrowest imaginable market that is liable to simply implode at any given time and has no transferable skills or accolades.
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The Onion headline isn't even as ridiculous as the truth this time as they've moved onto to his Spotify playlist which included an artist who had songs about trans people
Bombshell ‘Wall Street Journal’ Investigation Finds Tyler Robinson Once Had Trans Uber Driver
Bombshell ‘Wall Street Journal’ Investigation Finds Tyler Robinson Once Had Trans Uber Driver
ST. GEORGE, UT—As questions continue to swirl regarding the motive behind last week’s assassination of Charlie Kirk, The Wall Street Journal published a bombshell investigation Monday that suggests al...
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September 15, 2025 at 9:51 PM
The Onion headline isn't even as ridiculous as the truth this time as they've moved onto to his Spotify playlist which included an artist who had songs about trans people
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One month remains...
September 15, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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This is 🙌 glorious: Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers (please checkout the Roko’s Basilusk section 🤣)
https://alignmentalignment.ai
https://alignmentalignment.ai
September 12, 2025 at 12:30 AM
This is 🙌 glorious: Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers (please checkout the Roko’s Basilusk section 🤣)
https://alignmentalignment.ai
https://alignmentalignment.ai
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The guy just … tweeted it out
September 11, 2025 at 7:05 PM
The guy just … tweeted it out
As for the desktop and laptop… I’ve only logged into Windows maybe two times since January? Once on the laptop for some ASUS Armory Crate adjustments, and once on the desktop when I was doing a remote guest lecture and Microsoft Teams didn’t want to work in my browser.
September 12, 2025 at 2:02 AM
As for the desktop and laptop… I’ve only logged into Windows maybe two times since January? Once on the laptop for some ASUS Armory Crate adjustments, and once on the desktop when I was doing a remote guest lecture and Microsoft Teams didn’t want to work in my browser.
Ironically, the only device I’m still regularly using Windows on is our old HTPC. It’s an original Alienware Alpha with a dedicated Nvidia GPU, but with the driver mess there I’ve been a bit more hesitant about setting it up. Need to find a (preferably immutable) distro tailored to older devices.
September 12, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Ironically, the only device I’m still regularly using Windows on is our old HTPC. It’s an original Alienware Alpha with a dedicated Nvidia GPU, but with the driver mess there I’ve been a bit more hesitant about setting it up. Need to find a (preferably immutable) distro tailored to older devices.
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Holy shit…You can’t make this up: a plane is circling Soldier Field before the Bears home opener with a banner that reads—
“HEY ICE, MASKS ARE FOR CUCKS.”
Also the trolling is incredible for those that told us to stop wearing masks during the pandemic.
“HEY ICE, MASKS ARE FOR CUCKS.”
Also the trolling is incredible for those that told us to stop wearing masks during the pandemic.
September 9, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Holy shit…You can’t make this up: a plane is circling Soldier Field before the Bears home opener with a banner that reads—
“HEY ICE, MASKS ARE FOR CUCKS.”
Also the trolling is incredible for those that told us to stop wearing masks during the pandemic.
“HEY ICE, MASKS ARE FOR CUCKS.”
Also the trolling is incredible for those that told us to stop wearing masks during the pandemic.
With websites looking for ways to discourage and defeat AI scrapers, how long will it be until we start seeing modern equivalents to Shockwave and Flash?
September 9, 2025 at 1:38 AM
With websites looking for ways to discourage and defeat AI scrapers, how long will it be until we start seeing modern equivalents to Shockwave and Flash?
Early halloween movie idea:
“Terminally Online”. A spiritual sequel to 1982’s Murder by Phone. Instead of killing people via an audio signal over the phone, instead they kill people via some kind of visual thing embedded in online ads that they microtarget to specific individuals.
“Terminally Online”. A spiritual sequel to 1982’s Murder by Phone. Instead of killing people via an audio signal over the phone, instead they kill people via some kind of visual thing embedded in online ads that they microtarget to specific individuals.
September 3, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Early halloween movie idea:
“Terminally Online”. A spiritual sequel to 1982’s Murder by Phone. Instead of killing people via an audio signal over the phone, instead they kill people via some kind of visual thing embedded in online ads that they microtarget to specific individuals.
“Terminally Online”. A spiritual sequel to 1982’s Murder by Phone. Instead of killing people via an audio signal over the phone, instead they kill people via some kind of visual thing embedded in online ads that they microtarget to specific individuals.