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Andrew J. Bromage @pseudonym73.bsky.social · 11h

To be fair, although nobody thought Photoshop was "cheating", a lot of people thought it was a tool for "lying", and they kind of had a point there. Photo manipulation has done terrible things to body image and we haven't fully come to terms with that.

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Andrew J. Bromage @pseudonym73.bsky.social · 11h

I know! It's right up there with "artists hated Photoshop" and I'm like "what are you talking about, Andy Warhol did stuff with digital paint and Kai Krause was a darling of the art world". Or "musicians hated synths". No, everyone loved Wendy Carlos and Jean-Michel Jarre.

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Andrew J. Bromage @pseudonym73.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If those bad things only happen to AI corporations and their CEOs, I'm actually fine with this.

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Andrew J. Bromage @pseudonym73.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The closest vibe in Australia to Miami is the Gold Coast. There's even a suburb called Miami! The vibe of Brisbane is more like Jacksonville with a bit of Sarasota thrown in. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami,_...

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Miami, Queensland - Wikipedia

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Andrew J. Bromage @pseudonym73.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We halve a falcon chick. I repeat: We have a falcon chick. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oibs...

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Andrew J. Bromage @pseudonym73.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Copycat Stevens Dupertramp Hilltop Hoodwinks Earth Wind & Faker Untrue Öyster Cult Sham!

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Andrew J. Bromage @pseudonym73.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I feel like Adam Curtis should turn this into a film.

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Andrew J. Bromage @pseudonym73.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Of course he's real. How else could you recognise him so readily?

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Andrew J. Bromage @pseudonym73.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Pro tip: Ignore any social media post that begins with "BREAKING". That goes double if it also has the flashing light emoji.

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Andrew J. Bromage @pseudonym73.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Photography wasn't as derided by artists as AI influencers would have you think. There were a few, of course; there are always a few. But most realised that they could now paint and draw that which doesn't exist.

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Andrew J. Bromage @pseudonym73.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

G'day. Melbourne here. Could someone please explain NFL to us in 45min or less? Thanks!

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Andrew J. Bromage @pseudonym73.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The scientific revolution began when guild secrecy ended. When we stopped hoarding information and started sharing it, alchemists became chemists and astrologers became astronomers. The frightening possibility here is that AI might be causing a new Dark Age.

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Andrew J. Bromage @pseudonym73.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

He is the most pro-AI mathematician around. But he notes that AI gives mathematicians a disincentive to share hunches, because someone with more money to spend on tokens might scoop you. Today it's mathematics, tomorrow it could be some other field of research.

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Andrew J. Bromage @pseudonym73.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A lot of people are talking about the Navier-Stokes equation solution today, and the academic drama surrounding it, but few are talking about an extremely frightening possibility. Nobody except Terry Tao, that is. mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1172373...

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Terence Tao (@tao@mathstodon.xyz)

However, one notable feature of the current AI era is the absence of any definitive such boundaries. While AI tools have flattened the difficulty landscape now in many areas of the subject, thus dest...

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Andrew J. Bromage @pseudonym73.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Just as a comment, many countries have an age limit. Justices of the High Court of Australia, for example, cannot serve past the age of 75. That might be worth exploring.

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Andrew J. Bromage @pseudonym73.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Boring by comparison. Not visible on the map at this scale: Jervis Bay Territory is "visited". I have not visited any of the external territories.

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Andrew J. Bromage @pseudonym73.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

If someone else has already claimed Julie Andrews, I will preemptively do Barry Gibb, who turns 80 in a few days.

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Andrew J. Bromage @pseudonym73.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

"This email could have been a meeting."

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Andrew J. Bromage @pseudonym73.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Exactly this. And crucially, this "toxic dominance" is not in any way "traditional".

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Andrew J. Bromage @pseudonym73.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Of course it could be patronising as hell, especially in the workplace. Of course equality is better than chivalry. But that's not my point. My point is that it is not what these morons teach is unrecognisable as anything "traditional".

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Andrew J. Bromage @pseudonym73.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

It does not even slightly resemble "traditional masculinity" as the silent/greatest generation men (who were the elders when I was a kid) taught me. They taught me chivalry. A man should be a gentleman and a mensch. Always kind, always gracious, always selfless towards the fair sex.

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Andrew J. Bromage @pseudonym73.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

In my headcanon, the entire second half will be the tell-all behind the scenes on Thomas the Tank Engine.

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Andrew J. Bromage @pseudonym73.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

It also suggested that this paper, published in 2011, could have been improved by comparing to work that didn't exist at that time.

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Andrew J. Bromage @pseudonym73.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Academia.edu once gave a paper of mine an "AI review". I got stuck in a recursive loop chasing down its first suggestion.

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Andrew J. Bromage @pseudonym73.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The Magna Carta was written on vellum. Just sayin'.

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Andrew J. Bromage @pseudonym73.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Oriole Man River Last Train to Larksville Footgoose Bittern Sweet Symphony Hey Bullfinch Jacana Always Get What You Want New York Myna Disaster 1941 Radio Galah

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Andrew J. Bromage @pseudonym73.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

We don't use digamma/wau for anything yet I think? ϛ even looks a bit like an "s".

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Andrew J. Bromage @pseudonym73.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

NGL, some part of me is relieved that Pete Hegseth agrees that gender is a spectrum.

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Andrew J. Bromage @pseudonym73.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Ever heard of Nobel Disease? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_d...

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Nobel disease - Wikipedia

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Andrew J. Bromage @pseudonym73.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

People don't realise just how dry some countries are. Australia, for example, has a lot of land, but proportionally very little water, and that which it does have is too precious. Of course Australia has built and is still building pumped hydro where it can, but in most places, it can't.

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Andrew J. Bromage @pseudonym73.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

You know that there are some very small countries in the world, right? That /somewhere/ might be a different legal jurisdiction.

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Andrew J. Bromage @pseudonym73.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Exercise: You have completely flat terrain. What volume of earth would you need to excavate and move to make a pumped hydro arrangement with 100MWh of capacity? We will assume for the sake of argument that you can also somehow get that much water to the site.

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Andrew J. Bromage @pseudonym73.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I'm glad that someone is trying it. I feel like this sort of thing isn't as efficient as a lot of alternatives, but has the advantage that it's pretty cheap to build, especially if you use waste as the mass.

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Andrew J. Bromage @pseudonym73.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

They're probably looking for the rose bushes that he had ripped out. Obama, to his credit, knew that when life gives you honey, make homebrew.

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Andrew J. Bromage @pseudonym73.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Anyone else watching the last season of The Boys and wondering how the hell life is parodying satire right now?

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Andrew J. Bromage @pseudonym73.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Your files have such nice things to say about you.

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Andrew J. Bromage @pseudonym73.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Kind of disappointed that the algorithm isn't suggesting bird photographers to me.

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Andrew J. Bromage @pseudonym73.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Who needs cashflow when you have sucker venture capitalists?

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Andrew J. Bromage @pseudonym73.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

And yet YOU, dear reader, are more profitable than Anthropic and OpenAI combined.

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Andrew J. Bromage @pseudonym73.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Unfortunately, the acronym for "Not In Anyone's Back Yard" doesn't sound appropriately connected to NIMBY/YIMBY.

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Andrew J. Bromage @pseudonym73.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Threads has coined the term "AI;DR" for just such an occasion.

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Andrew J. Bromage @pseudonym73.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

There are some fascinating hypothesised factors, like modern cars being close to impossible to steal, which eliminates one kind of gang activity. Or that gatherings of young people are more mixed-gender than in the past, so there is less chance that testosterone-fuelled violence will break out.

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