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Did you know that 3% of institutions have a formal AI writing policy.

“Short AI Writing Policy

Purpose:

To establish responsible and ethical use of AI writing tools within our organization.

To maintain transparency and trust while leveraging the benefits of AI for efficient content creation.

Principles:

Human Oversight and Accountability: AI generated content must always be reviewed and approved by a human before publication or dissemination.

Transparency and Attribution: When AI tools are used in content creation, this must be clearly disclosed to relevant stakeholders.

Accuracy and Factuality: AI generated content must be rigorously fact-checked and verified for accuracy and truthfulness.

Originality and Plagiarism: AI tools should not be used to plagiarize existing content. Any information sourced from AI must be properly cited and attributed.

Bias and Fairness: Awareness of potential biases in AI models must be exercised, and content should be carefully reviewed to ensure fair and inclusive representation.

No Malicious or Unlawful Use: AI writing tools should not be used for any malicious or unlawful purposes, including misinformation, spam, or offensive content.

Implementation: Training will be provided on responsible AI writing practices and available tools.
Guidelines will be established for specific use cases where AI writing tools are permitted.

Regular monitoring and auditing will be conducted to ensure compliance with this policy.

Revision:

This policy will be reviewed and updated periodically to reflect changes in technology and best practices.

Note: This is a short example, and you may need to adapt it to the specific needs of your organization. You may also want to consider adding additional sections, such as:

Specific restrictions on the use of AI for certain types of content (e.g., legal documents, financial reports)
Procedures for reporting and addressing violations of the policy

I hope this helps!”

From the Australian Bureau of Statistics…

The underlying cause of death for 4,876 (90.8%) of these people was COVID-19.

However … Chronic cardiac conditions were the most common pre-existing chronic condition for those who had COVID-19 certified as the underlying cause of death.

So COVID killed off about 5,000 people that were effectively dying anyway.

By comparison…

A University of Melbourne study supported by (sic) the government indicates that more than 11,000 Australians die prematurely each year due to transport emissions.

“Is endomorph the worst body type?

Being an endomorph is not all bad. Endomorphs have thick and wide bones and put on muscles easily with proper training and diet. There are several advantages to being heavily built and strong, especially in sports.”

So, yes then…

That’s the official psychological title of the a-ha moment when Australians realise that their super size affluence hasn’t and won’t protect them from oxidative stress, glycation, telomere shortening, side reactions, mutations, aggregation of proteins, etc.

It’s eventually followed by salient mortality, usually with a bit of both salient and insalient morbidity thrown in.

Indooroopilly upon Brisbane.

Drifting insignificance. Just do it.

It would be fairer if you could earn merit points as well as demerit points.

You know, you drive like a slow cunt for a month (thus causing a heap of accidents as infuriated commmuters speed past you) and you get heaps of extra points which you can later blow on just one fun night.

Imagine getting pulled over by the porkies and congratulated for your shit slow driving, and driving away with 3 or 6 (on a long weekend) extra merit points. And maybe even a cheque from the govt.

Wherefore came this fixed 12 unit thinking anyway?

I also like the idea of paying fines with points, or points and cash subject to your choice on the slider bar.

But I think they have to fix the maths. Accumulating demerit points just confuses people. Losing merit points makes much more sense to your average school leaver because they understand the idea that you’re taking something off them that has value.

Get this, I have anendophasia.

I’m guessing that since they gave it a name and they’re insisting it’s not a pejorative, that I’m good for NDIS.

It seems to me that the root evils in international politics, the one that is defined by political “science”, are:

1. The inexplicable desire by a few to have power, fortune and synthetic fame which is powered by said power and fortune.

2. A hypocritical self existence of many “leaders” (the aforementioned “few”) which burns karma as if it was made of rubber tyres.

3. A faulty collective cognition when it comes to forecasting the future as it relates to impending actions.

The right answers, fellas, are:

1. It’s really not worth it.

2. It’s actually your responsibility to be better than all your forebears, no matter how little an increment you achieve in your life.

3. Don’t even try.

For a start, virtues aren’t values. They’re aspirational at best.

I just read a few articles from outraged gringo (US) tourists regarding Mexican Topes, aka speed humps in Australian English or drempels in Dutch.

Yes, they can be big, shaped to kill your suspension, completely unmarked, completely camouflaged, and/or strangely positioned in the middle of nowhere on a major highway.

And there’s millions of them, all over the country. Even on private driveways – the mind boggles (it’s a form of Stockholm Syndrome).

But after a few days you get the idea and the Topes work. You slow down naturally especially around buildings and keep a close eye out for potential Topes.

Signs of impending doom include the occasional sign (usually right on top of the Tope), road paint, road bumps (cats eyes), and very occasionally, faded paint on the Tope itself.

The signs vary, from ”Reductor” to a pictogram of a Tope, and many other even more obscure Mexinish messages of impending doom.

Usually however there aren’t any indicators at all, apart from the collection of buildings, whose residents are being protected from your stupidity.

Topes usually come in groups of 2 or 3, so once you’ve hit one, you know what’s coming next.

But you get into the vibe of expecting the things, anywhere and anytime. And, geez, isn’t that ABS a good thing?

I like to think that there’s a travelling team of evil specialists that design the Topes. They travel the country advising local road builders on how to wreak maximum pain on your chassis.

Building materials include sand, bitumen, concrete, metal or really anything else at hand. Occasionally Topes are used as conduits for utilities or as drains. Maybe even, crossing tunnels to protect endangered frogs – nuh, just kidding.

I personally prefer the Topes to the over-zealous policing of “speeding” that we have in Australia that utilises hidden speed cameras, heavy fines, and demerit points leading to loss of license.

Give me Topes any day. But that’ll never happen because there’s no money to be made from them.

A final point; Waze is pretty good at pointing out big potholes in Mexico (quite randomly actually because it’s up to users to input them). Why not extend this service to those evil synthetic inverted potholes (aka Topes)?

Lies and bullshit…

Icarus would have run out of oxygen well before the atmospheric temperature was high enough to melt his wax.

Basically that would be in the thermosphere if he started flying from Crete, where the temperature at sea level would be about 20°C.

If he could drown then he needed oxygen, is all I’m saying.

” ‘We can’t force people to drink’. Australian music ventures struggling as patrons change their habits post-COVID.”

That was the headline at the ABC.

My response, of course you can. And you can teach a pig to think, too.

In the past I’ve labelled it as “binarisation” – the over reaction to a negative experience when one (or an entity) states “that’s never happening to me/us again”.

In fact, binarisation is karma of a sort. The only party being punished is the instigator.

You cut off too many life options, and before too long you’re a miserable twat, or a bloody miserable nanny state of a society.

“Older lesbians enter prestigious art prize to show that they too have a place in the landscape”. [ABC headline]

Dear god…

Woody says to ignore the ABC and The Guardian…”Only on the ABC and Guardian. The rest of the country couldn’t give a fuck.”

I hope he’s right. If he is, then the progressives are shouting into a shitcan of their own making. Otherwise known as a shit-chunder.

It doesn’t make any sense either. They’re either preaching to the converted, or pissing off people like me that would otherwise be sympathetic to their causes.

The BBC doesn’t seem to be overrun with woke BS and still provides generally neutralish coverage of genuine news. Why the ABC News has to run all these advertorials for the woke lifestyles, I’ll never know.

It’s simple really; don’t report as news the opinions or travails of individuals, or small groups of said individuals. Especially academics or anyone that knows an academic.

Even if an individual is the POTUS, I don’t give a fuck what it thinks or might do. Just what it did.

Power or Fortune, without fame; well it doesn’t seem to work for them.

In the West, we have what’s called the innovator’s dilemma. Let me explain…

People love new ideas, especially their own. There’s social cred assigned to innovators, in buckets. And there’s nothing like the love of one’s own ideas.

And yet, under certain circumstances, the converse is true, i.e some people simply hate the idea of others. This is the dilemma; psychopathy…

Those Chinese, they’re the opposite. They hate their own ideas with a passion but they love the ideas of others.

Bloody efficient idea that.

I’m guessing they sponged it off the Mongols in 753AD.