I finally found a good application for online GPT AI.

I was asked to review an article in Qeios, which I did. I like the journal and I have correspondence with the editor etc.

However they have their own AI engine to review the reviews to check that they are in line with their peer reviewing guidelines, whatever they are. I am not reading them ever.

Try as I might I couldn’t get my review through their AI filter, so in the end I just asked Gemini to do it for me.

Gemini nailed it first time.

So you can counter their annoying AI with your own annoying AI. There’s the future in a nutshell.

If WordPress had an AI filter I would never be able to publish this shit.

Generally I always regret making generalisations.

When people apply to immigrate to Australia I think we should filter them on their driving ability before they leave wherever they’re coming from.

Three simple tests;

1. Small gap test at normal speed. Do they know where the edges of their car are? Do they stop and panic? Fail.

2. Dropped tarp test in the middle of the road. Do they stop and panic, just drive around it at normal speed, stop and pick it up, or drive over it (that’s a fail)?

3. Do they cruise on the freeway at or below the speed limit ? Below is a fail. Faster than the limit is a fastrack visa.

That’s all. Immigration would naturally drop to zero and our economy would tank. But the driving experience would be much better.

The haven’t trademarked “world heritage listing” although they do have a trademarked logo which no one uses.

So I’ve decided that my backyard is now a world heritage listed national Park.

I’ve said before the constitution should be a one-liner;

“don’t be a cunt”

And then the courts could start interpreting precedent cases on that basis.

I’ve decided to add a second line to the constitution;

“if there’s a limit, do it”

Bloody unAustralian not to.

And yes I’m driving on a freeway today.

Arguably if you’re not then you fail the first line.

“study raises hope that shingles vaccine may delay onset of dementia”.

Strewth.

Possibly the stupidest thing I’ve ever read.

“Boulevard of broken dreams’: could Parramatta Road really become Sydney’s Champs-Élysées?”

“The only question mark was whether he’d be able to connect with the younger generation, a generation that doesn’t respond well to dictators and lunatics.”

I’m not so sure, they’re pretty gullible. Explain their love for Donald, for example.

matcherie (noun)

1. an unwise homologation of an asymmetric bayonet plug and a cross threaded screwed socket.

2. a person that is really quite diminutive compared to another in quality or strength but thinks otherwise.

Etymology; derived from the Old Provençal “meiche” meaning “wick of a candle,” from Ancient Greek “myxa”meaning “lamp wick,” originally “mucus,” based on notion of wick dangling from the spout of a lamp like snot from a nostril.

Every now and again I’m asked if I believe in something in particular. Could be anything, god, Holdens, child support, etc.

I always say that no, I don’t believe in anything. I prefer to defer judgement and any consequent actions until there is some evidence either way.

Doesn’t that just evoke sympathy from those prone to beliefs; it’s judged as a soulless waste of a life.

But I do believe that they really have their beliefs, despite the attractiveness of the idea that they’re just bunging it on to wind me up.

That’s something, no?

In any case, what sort of fool goes around just taking other people’s word for anything? Seems like the definition of a soft target.

There was a time when the more people you had in your dominion, the more powerful you were as a ruler. That’s back when people were the primary units of production.

Now we’re morphing into an era where you’re still more powerful if you have more people but only because people are units of consumption. Technology is making them obsolete as units of production.

The 1% of the people that control roughly 50% of the global wealth  (deferred and accumulated consumption if you will) are looking at the proposed environmental and resources crisis and thinking “artificial consumption”.

If you can get rid of the link between people and consumption then you just don’t need people. So they just have to artificially model consumption and make it real by agreeing between themselves that it is.

They need the artificial consumption model to manage both the transition period and the Brave New World. Power has to be managed on some basis.

When most of both production and consumption is virtual then the environment will stabilise and everyone left will have a grand time. And they will have created the first leg of the computer simulation that so many think we are already living in.

Except it won’t work that way;

First, you couldn’t plan it. It’s too complex. And how to get rid of all those people?

Second, even if they planned it they couldn’t pull it off. Complexity is the enemy of results.

Ending Option 1

The 1% aren’t smarter than the rest. They’ve just been luckier. So they’d lose out on first principles and get wiped out in the ensuing massacre. Then the 99% suffer and die off, as the planet wilts and is depleted.

Ending Option 2

Or the plan works to get the 99% to fight and kill each other. Which doesn’t seem that implausable.

Getting rid of the 99% of people would make the residual 1% feel very ordinary, with no poor people to compare themselves to.

As a psychological phenomenon, wealth and power only exist as a relative concept. Without poor or powerless people to compare oneself to, nothing. It’s why they love slavery, even though the utility of slaves is nowt in the age of technology.

So then the 1% all become mortally depressed, and within a generation the human race is dead.

Brave Dead World.

Being peripherally involved in an Australian university gives me some interesting insights.

It’s truly remarkable how badly the things are managed.

Partly that’s because they promote academics to senior roles without any management training or experience, and nobody notice the deficiencies because they all have them.

Partly it’s because such an organisation has no driving purpose other than to exist and get bigger.

Arguably they also care about climbing up the University rankings, although this seems to be the basis of their corporate bipolarity: rankings are based on research outcomes whereas revenue is based on educational deliverables.

Research and education aren’t really related and everyone simply refuses to acknowledge this.

Practically speaking their biggest problem is that their greatest product is well trained graduates. Great graduates depend upon a supply of great candidates and has very little to do with the training they get.

From an educational POV all the unis are good enough. Efforts to distinguish them from each other simply adds unnecessary costs.

From a market POV we simply have too much educational capacity in the tertiary sector. In a regulated market that is over supplied, it is practically impossible to differentiate oneself by excellence.

“three-quarters of Australians believe MPs enter politics to serve own interests”

I tell you what, that database of the outlying 25% would be worth having. They’d have to be the most gullible consumers in the country.

From the Guardian, must be true…

“Child protection workers were worried about Amber Haigh and her newborn son because of an earlier “incident of extreme violence” that occurred at the home of the baby’s father when a woman was found tied up in a wheelbarrow with a bag on her head and dead from a gunshot wound”

You’d have to think that “worried” is an understatement?

More from the geniuses at the national broadcaster;

“Today, St Mary’s Vineyard is believed to the only example of its kind in the country to feature dry stone walling using the particular sandstone unique to their land.”

The national broadcaster, that’s what they call themselves.

Serious journalism … I just read this piece on coconuts.

Precis.

Ingham in Qld has thousands of coconut trees. Planted them away back because they looked cool.

But the coconuts are now a head injury hazard so they spend $0.5m a year denutting the trees. That’s too much so now they’re ripping out every third tree.

Logic, unspecified.

Inexplicable segue, Pacific islands. Many coconut trees are getting senile (sic) and not producing anymore.

Producers don’t want to rip out old trees and plant new ones because they might have a couple of lean years.

Not farmers obviously.

Solution provided by a federal government grant-funded Tasmanian academic (really!); start up a coconut wood industry in the Pacific.

End of report.

The mystery of the coconut has not been solved.

“Everyone’s gotten AI wrong.

99% of the general population is aware that AI will disrupt all industries.

But how do we get there and ensure that people, not businesses, benefit the most?

There’s been a breakdown in how AI is served to the average person.

In theory, anyone can set up an AI workflow to automate their tasks.

In practice, this couldn’t be further from the truth.

The UX of AI platforms expects users to develop prompts, optimise scripts in playgrounds and connect API’s.

This is a direct link to Silicon Valley groupthink.

Developer focussed, and inaccessible to the wider population.

Unlike traditional software products, these platforms require a layer of education and consulting to support users.

Working closely with users is crucial for AI companies to enable consistent interaction.

If everyone thinks that AI tools are too hard to use, there will be an inevitable link to a belief that only the smartest and largest corporations will benefit from AI.

Leaving everyone else behind.

For my current company, we’re aiming to serve mum-and-dad businesses and large corporations in the simplest way possible.

We’re working closely with them to integrate their workflows and make our AI platform work for them.

I had a great chat with former Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull AC on the importance of AI in serving the needs of every Australian

Excited to share more about what I’m working on soon.”

This one Asperger’s kid knows what nobody else except Malcolm knows. Best prime minister ever.

Sepsis occurs when the body’s immune system has an extreme inflammatory response to an infection. The body’s over reaction causes damage to its own tissues and organs.

It occurs to me that Celiacs disease is a chronic form of sepsis.

“It was raining gently.”

What a crap start to your book.

What was “it”? The day, the night, the bedroom door, your yet to be introduced protagonist?

Much better to write;

“Rain was falling gently.”

Better yet, just don’t. We don’t need a weather report; we know it’s just fiction.

“Koalas hate being cuddled, scientists say.”

In Koalese the word for scientist is “caaarrrrrnnt”.

An art union is a lottery where the winners are chosen through a ticket draw.

The prize pool must be more than $30,000 in Australia. Typically it’s a shit veneer house on the gold coast, or a 69 Mustang. Never any art, so long as you don’t count the 1987 cricket bat signed by the Australian team and framed within an inch of it’s life.

An art union can be conducted by any third party to raise funds for a non-profit organisation.

However, only a minimum 30% of the gross proceeds must be paid to the non-profit organisation, leaving ample opportunity for profiteering by the operators.

But there’s an explanation…

The first Art Union of London (1837–1912) was an organisation which distributed works of art amongst its subscribers by lottery. An innovative scheme to offload crap art, eh?

Yet still, why does the moniker linger?

Indro Primary, properly Indroopilly State School, has just about as many captains as they have year 6 students.

They have the captain captain, the vice captain, the library captain, the sports captain, the strings captain, the choir captain, the environment captain, the band captain, the technology captain,the citizenship captain (I kid you not), the chess captain, the swimming captain, the academic captain, the arts captain, the Oxley captain, the Flinders captain, the Cook captain (but no captain’s cook), and there’s more.

Everything except a ship’s captain.

In each category, they have one of each gender, but inexplicably none for the non binaries or the furries. They also have prefects in each category.

In the technology category, every nerd that put it’s hand up got a gong; there’s a dozen of them. I suspect they provide free IT support to their fellow inmates.

My as advice to Viv is to stay right away from the whole devious scheme.

All title and no power, of challengesd under law it’s a non-binding contract because one’s obligations are gained without rights or benefits.

Generally speaking they’re selling our kids the mirage that a. they’re all suitable for leadership, and b. it’s not fair if anyone misses out.

But you can’t teach that and maths at the same time, right?

However I do note that they teach maths, science and religion, contemporaneously. Better still, each flavour of religion denies that what’s been taught in the next classroom has any merit.

This from a school that supposedly prioritises curiosity and critical thinking.

All up, it’s a useful exercise in teaching functional hypocrisy, which I guess is a critical skill for those living in ClubOz.

The elf actually thought my slow adoption of the wrist mounted mousetrap was due to the inherent technical challenge.

But I suffer from technophilia … like any addiction, when you’ve been beavering away at it for a few decades, it ends up making you nauseous.

(I might have to add startups and universities to that list.)

Those Chinese, at least the ones we get, they don’t do bogan very well.

It’s the assimilation challenge for the ages.

Postscript: having beavered away all around China on various missions, I note that they do have their own near-equivalents, but they never get anywhere near an airport.

“The dystopian world in which Australia would plough its own lonely furrow in the aftermath of an American collapse into itself is hard to imagine.”

No it’s not.

The Greens have introduced a bill to set up a federal truth and justice commission.

God strewth, how do we get rid of these people?

I don’t care what the cause, I hate a witch-hunt and the folks that run them.

However, upon reflection, if I were the gubment, I’d support this inanity. It would successfully keep them busy and you’d know what they were up to without even having to look. Plus think of the entertainment, with the coalition going crazy over it.

Yep, get cracking, nutters…

Headline:

“Turgis pips Pidcock as Pogacar attacks Vingegaard”

That’s actually very good.

Subject matter, no idea and I don’t want to spoil it by finding out.

A new entry, HHS.

Hypocrisy Hating Syndrome.

I’m a sufferer.

There’s a new one…

“weaponised incompetence … a form of abuse executed by making the most of your inadequacies”.

Especially in a relationship, in Australia, on the East Coast, in the suburbs of a large city, in a mortgaged property.

In this suncunt burntry, there’s no chances of anyone ever taking responsibility for the shit decisions they made.

It’s always the bad other.

Next thing you know, weaponised incompetence will be added to the DV list, and victims will be eligible for NDIS because of their PTSD as defined in the DSM-5.

I’m not joking.

Eventually the whole country will be on NDIS and we’ll all be proven absolutely sane and insane, simultaneously.

It occurs to me that it would be relatively easy to create a shadow parliament in Australia.

All you would have to go is create the thing, promote it, and go to.

Power to the eyeballs, mate.

What would it do? Make headlines by arguing about useless shit that no one really cares about, just like the real parliament.

We don’t need new laws anyway, we’ve already got way too many. So nobody cares about this function of parliament.

And it’s not as though the real parliament wouldn’t waste our money whilst we weren’t watching. It’s their role in life.

Right now, you’d not be breaking a law by creating a shadow parliament.

But give it 6 months of sucking the vacuum out of the ether, then you’d suddenly find it inexplicably unconstitutional under Section 90 of the constitution as it imposes a duty of excise (on common sense), as exercised by a state (i.e. any party that isn’t the commonwealth government).

Can’t read a contract, and elected as a token representative of diversity, a female Muslim, she wants the gubment to end trade with Israel, implement sanctions and immediately recognise a Palestinian state.

They don’t want to do any of these things because:

1. They won’t have any effect in the Levant

2. They will hurt Australia directly and indirectly

3. The opposition will have a hypocritical field day with it, and

4. The electorate on the whole doesn’t give a stuff. Don’t get fooled by the noisy minorities on either side of this debate, the silent majority is just sitting there getting more and more annoyed by all this noise that has nothing to do with us, in their minds.

All up, the take home message for the silent majority will be “don’t pander to minorities”, aka no good deed goes unpunished. So the whole thing is counter productive in the long run.

Note well, by resigning all she has achieved is to prove that she is a juvenile by Roman definition*, under 40 and not fit for the senate. No other practical benefit is noted, other than a good bump in her insta.

* variably 27, 25, 30 and 40 at various times of the great republic/dictatorship, as I recall

Iris Smits wonders: “Is it ethical for a larger business to come along and dupe a small business, especially a small, female-founded business?”

By dupe she means sell a similar product, where the consumer can only tell the difference between the original and the copy by the trademark and copyright material on the box, but also doesn’t care because the product does pretty much the same thing (in Iris’s case, a stamp for Cleopatra-style eyeliner wings around the eyes).

If Iris had her way, there would be only one small pizza shop in the world, female-operated somewhere in Napoli.

Why do they say we only have 5 senses when we’ve clearly got gyroscopes in our ears?