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Sue Young @suetas.bsky.social · 3d

Kansas?

Sue Young @suetas.bsky.social · 3d

This is great. I just donated to Wikimedia again yesterday.

Jessica Zellers @stellagarp.bsky.social · 3d

"So, yeah, peer review deez nutz."

Hi, It’s Me, Wikipedia, and I Am Ready for Your Apology

“Wikipedia, the constantly changing knowledge base created by a global free-for-all of anonymous users, now stands as the leading force for the dum...

www.mcsweeneys.net

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Sue Young @suetas.bsky.social · 3d

Oh wow, yours are way ahead of mine. But it's gonna be good!

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Sue Young @suetas.bsky.social · 3d

The only 'dirt' they've found on a politician is that he calls an older relative 'Auntie'? Celebrate!

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Sue Young @suetas.bsky.social · 3d

I think we all are (though I persist). But I recently read a 'How to spot AI' where about half of the 'tells' were basically straight out of middle school writing lessons.

Sue Young @suetas.bsky.social · 3d

Which, as I originally said, means I have to load more pages instead of getting straight to what I need as on the old site. If you love it, that's nice. Just don't say the only reason I don't like it is that it's new.

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Sue Young @suetas.bsky.social · 3d

This made me go and check out the US Department of Labor's socials for the first time (I mean, why would you, normally?) and omg. Australia does not have 'shared values' with this lot!

Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 4d

Let me get this straight….

If we want to eat or have healthcare, we have to work more.

We have to “be productive”.

Yet according to this image only white men are welcome in the American labor force.

Do the rest of us starve? Or are these men feeding us?

Image of social media photos for the department of labour. Most of them are big white men with blonde hair and blue eyes

Sue Young @suetas.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks; I'll do that. But the screen you've shown with the new 7-day forecast isn't much use: I still have to click further to get to the equivalent of the old one, with the descriptions of the whole day.

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Sue Young @suetas.bsky.social · 4d

I dream of missed errors when stressed. I see them there in the text, so clearly. Sometimes it turns out I made up the whole sentence.

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Sue Young @suetas.bsky.social · 5d

And instead of a compact layout that gives me the week at a glance, it has so much space that I have to take in the info a day at a time.

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Sue Young @suetas.bsky.social · 5d

No, It's that where I used to be able to get the BOM 7-day forecast, with details, scrollable, in one page-load, it now takes about 7 page loads to get to the same result.

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Sue Young @suetas.bsky.social · 6d

Yeet it into the sun, along with all the other privatised wealth-transfer grifts, and hand its work back to the state where it belongs.

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 7d

Sometimes defective, maybe unlawful: what can be done about Australia’s crisis-ridden welfare system?

Run by multiple departments and hundreds of private companies, advocates warn errors will continue to rock a system ‘in crisis’ * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast It’s a system designed to help Australians who most need it. Yet its created continuous scandals, with parts of it paused because the government can’t say if it’s operating legally. Hundreds and thousands of Centrelink clients are affected by its frequent problems, being charged or overpaying debts incorrectly calculated as another class action is launched. Continue reading...

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Sue Young @suetas.bsky.social · 6d

That's probably fair.

Sue Young @suetas.bsky.social · 6d

Darn! I just used 'thoughtful' in the back copy for a book!

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Sue Young @suetas.bsky.social · 6d

He did well. Sometimes they only give you ten.

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Sue Young @suetas.bsky.social · 6d

This! People always go on about music and drama teaching self-expression or whatever but it's also about perseverance, attention to detail, collaboration, working for a goal …

Sue Young @suetas.bsky.social · 6d

This is why I stay home in trackie dacks and a flannel shirt – too many rules about what you should and shouldn't wear.

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Sue Young @suetas.bsky.social · 6d

Let's imagine China has just blown up its tenth foreign boat in the South China Sea and is now sending an aircraft carrier. Cool & normal, Australia?

Sue Young @suetas.bsky.social · 7d

I wonder what happens now in those writing classes where kids use to learn about intro, middle, end, the rule of three, contrasting for effect – all total ChatGPT giveaways, apparently. Soon even correct spelling will be seen as a dead giveaway.

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