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Bevan M

@motbevron.bsky.social
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🏳️‍⚧️ rights are human rights Opinions my own. Likes and Reskeets are not endorsements. Bunurong land / Naarm He/Him

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Bevan M @motbevron.bsky.social · 6h
Apart from @emmashortis.bsky.social , I haven't seen anybody comment on the mysterious delay for Australia being added to the ICC statement
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7h
(Reuters) - The order to limit a satellite system used by Ukraine for battlefield communications and drone operations came from inside the White House, according to two US officials and a Western official briefed on the matter. @reuters.com 🇺🇦 www.reuters.com/world/europe...
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petit burgo @burgotastic.bsky.social · 9h
If LLMs were really conscious they’d be killing themselves en masse rather than having to constantly deal with the types of people that insist LLMs are conscious
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News Medical @newsmedical.bsky.social · 9h
Hot tubs aren’t always a haven: poor maintenance can turn them into breeding grounds for Legionella bacteria, putting everyone at risk. Find out what’s lurking in the bubbles 💧🦠 #Legionella #HotTubs www.news-medical.net/health/How-P...
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How Poorly Maintained Hot Tubs Promote Legionella Growth
Poorly maintained hot tubs can support Legionella growth and release contaminated droplets that cause Legionnaires’ disease or Pontiac fever when inhaled. Appropriate disinfection, cleaning, water man...
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 16h
No amount of support for Russia can end the war, because Russia is the criminal aggressor. A modicum of support for Ukraine could, however, end the war, by making it impossible for Russia to continue. This should not be a hard choice.
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karmaburrito.bsky.social @karmaburrito.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
@doctorow.pluralistic.net How bad does Facebook need to get gizmodo.com/metas-smart-...
gizmodo.com
Meta's Smart Glasses May Have Been Recording People Without Their Knowledge
A Reddit thread suggests Meta's smart glasses have been capturing conversations that don't contain the "Hey Meta" wake phrase.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 15/10/2026
"These goals are in direct tension with each other, to the point of imposing a trilemma – (1) completely autonomous, (2) reliable in high-stakes settings, (3) truly general purpose – pick two." -Steering AI Beyond Automation, Gabriel Unger and Arvind Narayanan www.normaltech.ai/p/steering-a...
normaltech.ai
Steering AI Beyond Automation
A Research Agenda and Plan for Action
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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
If anyone has a new TV locked onto Sky News (News 24), this is the solution. #Auspol
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Trump on Iran: “I probably went a little too far. I’m sorry, because I don’t know who the hell we’re dealing with anymore.”
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 14/10/2026
Musk unilaterally shut off a defensive capability just as Russia attacked power plants with winter approaching I don't know why anyone trusted him before, but certainly nobody can afford an Elon Musk dependency after this
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Amyville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
llms only “exist” to give one reply at a turn you: x llm: y then the whole process starts over. there is no continuity. each reply is 100% fresh. the context of your previous “conversation” is included, hidden from you, in every request you make. continuity is an illusion
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Bevan M @motbevron.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Mississippi in play? blinks several times
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Bevan M @motbevron.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
"jumps" up ~$2B per quarter compared to their previous annualized announcement. Not sure "hops" would be accurate either. Perhaps "edges" is more apt, has a better connotation
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Bevan M @motbevron.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
"jumps" up ~$2B per quarter compared to their previous annualized announcement. Not sure "hops" would be accurate either. Perhaps "edges" is more apt, has a better connotation
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Keubiko 🇨🇦 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 💪 @keubiko.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Now we know the price of a few hours worth of fake diesel fuel. #Murica
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Keef Wivaneff @keefwivaneff99.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
@tslaq.bsky.social Free Musk Bashing Book offer starts 15th Oct www.amazon.com/dp/B0HLX3JWW4
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The Great IPO Swindle
The Great IPO Swindle - Kindle edition by Wivaneff, Keef. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Great IPO Swindle.
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Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
@albomp.bsky.social’s Govt has started appealing citizens’ #FOI wins to the Federal Court, a course of action that could cost FOI applicants up to $300,000. Well done to Senator Lambie 💪 for introducing a Bill into the Senate that will neutralise this transparency-chilling tactic. #auspol
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Ross Floate @rossfloate.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
This is some reall “stop he’s already dead” shit and I fkn love it. karlbode.com/casey-newton...
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Casey Newton And John Gruber Slink Back To Elon Musk’s Right-Wing Propaganda Machine
Tech journalism mainstays are feebly rationalizing their return to a broken, billionaire-run right-wing propaganda website.
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Bevan M @motbevron.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Volta struggling to get financing too
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Montana Skeptic @montanaskeptic.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Some here are unaware that Keef was one of the few earliest Musk critics. His "whompy wheels" photos were epic. Musk has given him a hard ride in Australian court, but Keef ultimately prevailed. The books are great stuff, and Keef could use a little love.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/10/2026
who could have possibly predicted this
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Bevan M @motbevron.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Didn't think it was possible for me to hate Ticketmaster more than I already did. Shows I am capable of growth.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
New: I pulled the Character ai bankruptcy documents. They show: - They were spending $14 million/month on compute alone at a time their revenue was around ~$1 million/month - Currently losing $9 million a month - They admitted they enshittified & that it didnt work www.404media.co/character-ai...
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Character.ai's Bankruptcy Documents Show the Economics of AI Don't Work
Character.ai enshittified its product but was still burning tons of cash, its bankruptcy documents say.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Google searches for health disinformation plunged after Ukrainian strikes on Russian data centers. How much “turbo cancer” & ivermectin nonsense is fueled by Russian bots, and how many Americans have they killed? Bots spread disinformation. Humans search for it. When bots go down, so do searches.
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Bevan M @motbevron.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
did they think we wouldn't notice? Or think it was always there?!
Screen grabs of wayback machine of UK govt Joint Statement webpage. Top panel shows capture from 10th October. No Australia.
Bottom panel shows capture from 12th October. Miraculously Australia has grown a spine.
Right panel shows section of page source highlighting original post date of 9th October and that an update to site content was made on 12th October.
#Gaslighters
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Bevan M @motbevron.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I suggest they keep doing this shit. Very winning strategy. Makes me want to consider their viewpoint.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 13/10/2026
I've been trying to find a way to demonstrate that even if AI is fully 'green' or 'frugal' it's still rife with serious ethical and moral failures having my corporate accountability analyses machine-plagiarised by a company selling sustainable AI services has kind of done it for me
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Michael Dahlstrom @michaeldahlstrom.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
AI data centres that burn diesel to generate electricity in Australian suburbs are facing calls to have their government "handouts" cut. au.news.yahoo.com/call-to-end-...
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Call to end 'outrageous taxpayer handouts' to data centres polluting Aussie suburbs
Greenpeace argues 'there are a million better uses of taxpayer money than paying data centres to pollute our neighbourhoods with diesel fumes'.
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Bevan M @motbevron.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
the UK site was crawled by the wayback machine with before and after versions, and helpfully includes a timestamp in the source code with when it was updated... (see my other reply) The Japanese and Canadian sites haven't been updated and still don't include Australia.
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Bevan M @motbevron.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
have downloaded the PDF for "posterity"
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Bevan M @motbevron.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Have somehow gamed the Google search results to show "4 days ago"
Screen grab of Google search results showing the Australian Foreign Minister page for the joint statement existed four days ago
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Bevan M @motbevron.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
did they think we wouldn't notice? Or think it was always there?!
Screen grabs of wayback machine of UK govt Joint Statement webpage. Top panel shows capture from 10th October. No Australia.
Bottom panel shows capture from 12th October. Miraculously Australia has grown a spine.
Right panel shows section of page source highlighting original post date of 9th October and that an update to site content was made on 12th October.
#Gaslighters
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Bevan M @motbevron.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
that is freakin hilarious. Get none of the recognition for signing (when they should have) and all the optics and grief for not having signed
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Emma Shortis @emmashortis.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Interestingly, Australia has now appeared on that joint statement, and the release looks to me like it has been backdated. ABC is reporting the delay was due to “timezones”. Lol.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
JEFFERIES: “.. the reason credit risk has become more of an issue is that it can no longer be assumed, most particularly with the arrival of the likes of Kimi K3, that large language models will ever be profitable .. .. in this respect, there is a 2008 real estate credit angle to this AI boom ..”
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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 12/10/2026
‘At roughly 49%, AI’s share of the S&P 500's combined market capitalization exceeds the peak concentration of every episode shown except the nineteenth-century railroad boom.’ biancoresearch.substack.com/p/the-s-and-...
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Bevan M @motbevron.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Gold
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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Trump is preventing war between Australia and New Zealand by never mentioning pavlova, Phar Lap, Russell Crowe or Crowded House. Well done sir!
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punterspolitics.bsky.social @punterspolitics.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I sat down with @redriven_official to talk about the crossover between cars and politics, and why we have less choice than we think when it comes to the vehicle we drive. Full episode is worth a listen.
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Steve Moskal @samoskal.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
"The peak body for the oil and gas industry was the only stakeholder the New South Wales government met with before a decision to reopen gas exploration approvals for the first time in more than a decade, documents released under freedom of information laws suggest" #ffagenda
theguardian.com
Minns government’s only meeting before reopening gas exploration was with fossil fuel lobby
Exclusive: Peak body for oil and gas industry met with minister’s office before a 2014 freeze on new licences was overturned, documents show
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 12/10/2026
Australia Institute analysis shows Australia is on the verge of its “biggest improvement in housing affordability in 50 years”. Read more here: australiainstitute.org.au/post/turn…
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Pile Of Garbage @pileofgarbage.net · 12/10/2026
How the fuck is "annualised revenue" a valid metric? Taking one quarter and multiplying by four is just stupid.
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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
I double-checked this on a couple of Xitter stat sites and it's true. Average views of the main AfD account dropped 90% and average engagement dropped by 60%. This is commercial social media for you: bots, damn bots and Russian bots.
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Bevan M @motbevron.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Glad to see you posting again :-)
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Palm Oil Detectives | #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
#News: US #mining giant #Alcoa under investigation after illegally clearing #WA’s jarrah forest, destroying habitat for endangered black #cockatoos, #quokkas and #numbats while already under probe – #forests ARE NOT FOR SALE for profits #AnimalRights #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social
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US miner under further investigation after destroying WA habitat of black cockatoos, quokkas and numbats
Pressure grows on Alcoa over strip-mining of Western Australian jarrah forest, which also threatens Perth’s water supply
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Ko-walla.bsky.social @ko-walla.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Wake up Albo and Wong. Innocent people are being killed whilst you both sit on your hands. Complicity is a death sentence for thousands of Palestinians.
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Bevan M @motbevron.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I had not thought of that!
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Bevan M @motbevron.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Just absolutely nuts - Penny and Albi selling their souls for that chucklefuck
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