abc.net.au ⦿ Warnings after cassowary attack in Cardwell backyard puts elderly man in hospital
Is it time to lose another war?
abc.net.au ⦿ Boyne Burnett Inland Rail Trail extends tourism season, revitalises towns
I'm a huge fan of rail trails, but just imagine if you could, uh, catch a train to all these lovely little towns!
theverge.com ⦿ We ran the wrong headline about Trump firing the FTC commissioners
Pretty high quality mea culpa here. I find myself regularly in agreement with criticisms of news media reporting and headlines in particular, but it’s not straight forward and this does a great job of laying out why.
There is a related question about news media’s responsibility to advocate for democracy.
arstechnica.com ⦿ Firmware update bricks HP printers, makes them unable to use HP cartridges - Ars Technica
Brother: 'we have joined the dark side' HP: 'hold my beer'
blog.andymatuschak.org ⦿ Successful habits through smoothly ratcheting targets
This is a really well thought out set of mechanisms to support creating new habits. I’ve returned to it a few times over the years and each time was about to go start building it until:
So far, I’ve successfully restrained myself from building my own tool. That’s a dangerous yak to shave!
abc.net.au ⦿ New York Yankees drop beard ban after MLB club's facial hair policy gave players pause
How did someone write this entire article without mentioning The Simpsons?
abc.net.au ⦿ How honey bees fight back against deadly varroa mites — with a little help
And a drone's penis is surprisingly hefty: around a third of their entire body weight, Dr Chapman says.
This is the explicit content I'm not sure I needed on a Tuesday morning (or any morning, tbh).
abc.net.au ⦿ Delta Air Lines plane crash at Toronto Pearson Airport leaves three people critical
"Toronto Pearson is aware of an incident upon landing involving a Delta Airlines plane"
Oh, you're "aware" of the plane that's upside down on your tarmac? Well that's a start, I guess.
themandarin.com.au ⦿ Treasury trial of Microsoft Copilot comes a cropper
Sometimes I think 'mabye I should spend some more time using the thing to better validate my opinion', but other people keep doing it for me.
One of the most blistering findings is that trial participants who reckoned the technology was of little to use soared from 6% before the trial to 59% after the trial, an almost tenfold increase.
I'm very curious about the one percent of staff who thought Copilot could do nearly all of their tasks even after the trial.
theverge.com ⦿ OpenAI lays out plans for GPT-5
“magic unified intelligence”
Just rolled my eyes so hard it probably altered Earth’s orbit.
wheresyoured.at ⦿ What We're Fighting For
abc.net.au ⦿ Outcast WA politician changes name to 'Aussie' Trump ahead of state election
More evidence we're on the stupidest timeline.
arstechnica.com ⦿ Meta torrented over 81.7TB of pirated books to train AI, authors say
The extent to which big companies are confident the law won’t apply to them the same way as it would for an individual for the exact same infringements is astonishing.
sarahkendzior.substack.com ⦿ The End of Days Inn
A bleak but also hopeful essay.
Mellencamp was wrong: anyone could be president. Even a career mafioso and seditionist — hell, he could be president twice!
techcrunch.com ⦿ Senator warns of national security risks after Elon Musk's DOGE granted 'full access' to sensitive Treasury systems | TechCrunch
Musk’s team, known as the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE
I had not made this connection and dear lord, this really is the worst timeline.
nytimes.com ⦿ How the New York Times Website Got Its URL
At some point, “I asked permission to register a web domain for The Times, and was told no,” Mr. Lewis wrote in the email.“Several of us thought that was shortsighted.”
Cute little bit of history from the New York Times. Completely tracks with my (much later) experience in the media.
abc.net.au ⦿ Palaszczuk says Brisbane Olympic stadium 'already decided'
The ABC also understands there will be no net loss of green space.
I suspect the definition of 'green space' is doing a bit of heavy lifting here.
For the record, I'm against the use of Barrambin (Victoria Park) for anything but planting trees.
#BrisbaneOlympics
notes.ghed.in ⦿ US$ 30 million to reinvent the wheel
The Free Our Feeds website is weird. There are no documents or anything that resembles something official. There are photos of some people, a manifesto, and a Q&A section with vague promises and superficial information.
I too find the #FreeOurFeeds initiative very weird.
theverge.com ⦿ The Supreme Court ruled on TikTok — and nobody knows what comes next
So, in the end, the only party still committed to the TikTok ban deadline might turn out to be TikTok itself.
Amazing.
theverge.com ⦿ GM banned from selling your driving data for five years
Only 5 years?