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Nick Evershed!?

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Data and interactives ed. at the Guardian Aus dataviz, music, investigative journalism, programming etc work: [email protected] tip-offs: [email protected] latest: https://www.theguardian.com/profile/nick-evershed

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Nick Evershed!? @nickevershed.bsky.social · 1h

Buttock World

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Nick Evershed!? @nickevershed.bsky.social · 2h

we used to be a society

techknight @thetechknight.bsky.social · 4h

100% restored Macintosh Portable. that basically took my entire weekend to complete, but I am happy. Another one saved from the brink of death!

Nick Evershed!? @nickevershed.bsky.social · 2h

yes but it is very funny still

Nick Evershed!? @nickevershed.bsky.social · 2h

according to my googling senator Nick McKim plays on a console, hence he is not counted

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Nick Evershed!? @nickevershed.bsky.social · 2h

finally Gamers have representation in the senate

CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 2h

Nationals senator Ross Cadell says he has a "beautiful Alienware" computer at home.

(Typical Alienware laptop included for reference)

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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 10d

What an unsurprising decision by corporations that desperately need to make money with AI. If every other company with a chatbot isn't already doing this, then expect them to be following Meta's lead soon. The chatbot is not your friend; it's a corporate listening device. www.ft.com/content/22f7...

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Meta will use conversations people have with its chatbots to personalise advertising and content across its platforms, in a sign of how tech companies plan to make money from artificial intelligence.

The owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp on Wednesday said it would use the content of chats with its Meta AI to create advertising recommendations across its suite of apps.

“People will already expect that their Meta AI interactions are being used for these personalisation purposes,” said Christy Harris, privacy and data policy manager at Meta.

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Dave Earley @earleyedition.bsky.social · 4h

Electricity generated from renewable sources has surpassed the amount of electricity generated from coal in Australia for the first time. www.theguardian.com/...

One Big Chart from @nickevershed.bsky.social

Electricity generation from renewables has overtaken coal for the first time in Australia

Hand drawn graph Showing terawatt hours of electricty generated per month from coal and renewable sources

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 3h

this is a nice rendering by @nickevershed.bsky.social but, er, it definitely shows coal power output remaining persistently high even as renewable energy grows, which feels like a problem

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a hand-drawn chart showing renewable energy griwing but coal output remaining stagnat for the past three entire years because demand itself has been growing oddly fast

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Nick Evershed!? @nickevershed.bsky.social · 3h

100% agree... but also this felt like a nice milestone to mark and a rare moment of positivity in a very negative period of the news

Nick Evershed!? @nickevershed.bsky.social · 19h

Ok so far I think?

Nick Evershed!? @nickevershed.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah I can hear it all in my head any time I want lol

Nick Evershed!? @nickevershed.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah it's a classic I love all their stuff!

Nick Evershed!? @nickevershed.bsky.social · 1d

signed copy of hot dog daiquiri by seminal Newcastle ska punk band the Porkers, no lowball offers I know what I got

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Nick Evershed!? @nickevershed.bsky.social · 1d

once I find a CD player it's over for you bitches s

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Caitlin Welsh @caitlinwelsh.bsky.social · 2d

Oh my god they counted the Tele’s botched Cairo Takeaway sting as an “antisemitic attack“

Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 2d

www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...

Revealed: NSW Police ‘significantly’ overstated antisemitic attacks

An internal review of Operation Shelter found a “significant number” of cases had been mischaracterised as motivated by anti-Jewish sentiment.

www.smh.com.au

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Nick Evershed!? @nickevershed.bsky.social · 2d

in defence of the article it does get into this towards the end :)

Nick Evershed!? @nickevershed.bsky.social · 2d

love to consume plot-based media

Nick Evershed!? @nickevershed.bsky.social · 2d

this is a good story but it shows that people still fundamentally misunderstand LLMs - there is no "working properly", they're inherently probabilistic models. hallucinations aren't a bug, they're a fundamental part of language models. these aren't fact machines!!!

www.bbc.com/travel/artic...

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Tara Vern @taravern.bsky.social · 2d

www.bbc.com/travel/artic...

The perils of letting AI plan your next trip

An imagined town in Peru, an Eiffel tower in Beijing: travellers are increasingly using tools like ChatGPT for itinerary ideas – and being sent to destinations that don't exist.

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Nick Evershed!? @nickevershed.bsky.social · 2d

also HORRIFYING MEAT CHART didn't make it in because @joshnicholas.com loves chickpeas (who doesn't tbh)

Nick Evershed!? @nickevershed.bsky.social · 2d

great newsletter this week imho! charts on:

- far-right Facebook groups
- pay in the WNBA
- record-breaking ocean heat
- how the amount of ingredients is shrinking in some foods
- and a chart on who marries whom.

And birds of course!

www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oc...

#dataviz 📊

The Crunch: far-right Facebook groups; underpaid WNBA players; and making your own origami bird

Our colleagues in the UK spent a year studying an online community trading in anti-immigration sentiment and misinformation

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LucyParkerPaul🦉🇦🇺 @lucyparkerpaul.bsky.social · 2d

Not much bothers this female Powerful Owl, she often roosts over busy paths in a Brisbane park. Yesterday an incoming international flight caught her eye, and she tracked it as it flew across the sky. #birds

Time to vote for POwls again :)🦉

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 3d

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Jintor @jintor.itch.io · 3d

there's still great websites on the internet rouses.net

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Howie Hua @howiehua.bsky.social · 3d

My best explanation of parallel lines

Two parallel lines going up. Top line says "The age I consider 'old'" and the bottom line says "My age".

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