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Dave Bath
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Greybeard leftie West Victorian. Biologist by training, computer nerd since punched paper tape days by trade, until body said "nope". Soothed by Bach and hopes of seeing a Cats AFLW flag.
Businesses shouldn't be looking at executives replacing workers with AI - if anything they should be looking at workers replacing executives and senior managers with AI.

Show a discernible difference between powerpoints/reports execs/consulting companies make v a grunt with AI.
November 30, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Well ... religion DOES give you a "get out of the ward free" card, and hallucinations often give you a "found a religion" honorary doctorate.

So, yes, perfectly normal, for a religion.

Psychosis and Paroxysmal Visions in the Lives of the Founders of World Religions
doi.org/10.1176/appi...
Psychosis and Paroxysmal Visions in the Lives of the Founders of World Religions | The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
PsychiatryOnline.org is the platform for all American Psychiatric Association Publishing journals, DSM, and bestselling textbooks, as well as APA Practice Guidelines, and continuing medical education.
doi.org
November 30, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Simple arithmetic b/w 2022 Istanbul deal (or Zelenskyy's election promise, Minsk 2) and now:

Count oblasts, the dead, those left Ukraine never to return so loss of a demographic future, and the wasted hundreds of billions from ordinary taxpayers across Europe.

Serious, tragic, ongoing betrayal.
November 28, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Everyone truly wanting Ukraine to keep all its oblasts, and a million Ukrainian kept alive, would regret the 2022 offer from the Russians initialled by Ukraine in Istanbul being thrown away at the urging of Europe and US.
November 28, 2025 at 12:40 PM
By the look of the sudden arms race, when bots are a ready labor force stashed underground, the bunker bros can kick off a nuclear winter, saving the world from overpopulation, runaway greenhouse, & biosphere collapse.

I'm sure the bunkered heroes will cry as the mushroom clouds rise.
November 28, 2025 at 5:34 AM
I wonder if they have figures on the per-dollar misappropriated in non-violent crime by the average blue v white collar and time spent in prison? (Especially if you include executives making decisions to allow wage theft, unreasonably high fees, etc, fines treated as a "cost of doing business")
November 27, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Like so much of what Australian government is meant to be, institutions might survive in name, but are being turned from something functional, considered a core service, into something more like a museum, at best a feeble simulation of what was.
theconversation.com/proposed-cut...
Proposed cuts at State Library of Victoria go against its mission – and will hurt the disadvantaged
The State Library of Victoria’s ‘major’ proposed cuts include slashing the number of reference librarians and free computers for public access. Some staff are shocked.
theconversation.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:44 AM
All any kid has to do is organize themself a hosted service running their own wordpress site, or even one of the many turnkey linux social network systems in a VM, or build their own based on ELGG (elgg.org), perhaps even run out of a bedroom. Good luck regulating non-profit hobby computing!
Elgg.org
Elgg is a highly customizable web framework and CMS for building social apps with PHP and MySQL
elgg.org
November 24, 2025 at 5:40 AM
And the crowd-sourced favorites in the jmail inbox are ... (yes, it involves bubba) jmail.world/starred
Jmail, logged in as [email protected]
You are logged into [email protected], Jeffrey Epstein's email. Sourced from the November 2025 House Oversight Committee data release.
jmail.world
November 22, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Makes you wonder if there'd be a market for a two-day international format.
November 22, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Yeah, maybe they seem odd in English ... because Trump's English is so fluent, it's the bestest fluent in history.
November 22, 2025 at 4:00 AM