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Colin Fry @colinfry.bsky.social · Nov 23
AI, you flatter me 😀

“The blend of serious critiques and light-hearted banter creates a unique voice that invites followers to engage with both the weighty and whimsical aspects of modern society. Expect to see a mix of insightful commentary and playful musings, often infused with sarcasm and wit.”
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Colin Fry @colinfry.bsky.social · 2m
Yes, it’s similar, but often without any kind of ‘rice’ link. Bluesky team members can’t post ANYTHING without getting hundreds of “Why can’t we edit posts?” (or similar) replies. It must make their mentions useless.
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Colin Fry @colinfry.bsky.social · 1h
While Jay says “Waffles”, you say “Okonomiyaki” 🤣
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Science Magazine @science.org · 3h
Two major publishers have begun to automatically reject the vast majority of papers based on public health data sets, following revelations that unscrupulous actors use these data sets to churn out nonsense scientific papers. https://scim.ag/4mX3DnR
Journals and publishers crack down on research from open health data sets
PLOS, Frontiers, and others announce policies trying to stem the tide of suspect research
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Colin Fry @colinfry.bsky.social · 6h
Thou shall not cover thy neighbor’s wife
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SBS Australia (unofficial) @sbsaustralia.nzcow.com · 15h
📢 "I am sorry it has reached this point but you left me with no choice," the CEO of a parliamentary sports club said about the move.
Parliamentary sports club drops senator over 'cheap shot' gambling lobby complaints
www.sbs.com.au
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Colin Fry @colinfry.bsky.social · 1d
Protecting children by bankrupting their parents via identity fraud. Well done 👏
ID photos of 70,000 users may have been leaked, Discord says
The platform says hackers targeted a firm that helped to verify the ages of its users.
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Colin Fry @colinfry.bsky.social · 1d
She doesn’t like change? Take her back to when Berwick was serviced by three (3) trains per (week)day 😂
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Colin Fry @colinfry.bsky.social · 1d
A bit close to home for Celia Imrie 😂

Celia Imrie’s first movie role was in ASSASSINS (1973), so she is well cast in #CelebrityTraitors
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Colin Fry @colinfry.bsky.social · 2d
It’s unfortunate that Eurovision rules (IIRC) prevent song titles or lyrics that are deemed political
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Colin Fry @colinfry.bsky.social · 2d
BRB I’m out scattering sunshine with greeting cards 😂
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Old UK Christmas Print Ads @oldukprintadsxmas.bsky.social · 2d
Dec 1948: Greeting Card ad from Greeting Card & Calendar Association

(+Calendar)

«THE BELLS RING OUT ... the wish is renewed»
An advertisement encouraging people to send greeting cards and calendars to friends and relatives for Christmas and New Year. THE BELLS RING OUT ... the wish is renewed "A Happy Christmas and a Bright New Year." Make a Greeting Card or Calendar carry your message to friends and relatives wherever they may be. Christmas and the New Year recall memories and provide the ideal opportunity to say -so simply-"We are thinking of you." "Scatter Sunshine with Greeting Cards"
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Colin Fry @colinfry.bsky.social · 2d
Good point. Also, what potential conflict would Australia be involved in where we weren’t on the ‘wrong side’? eg. Defending, say, US interests rather than our own.

Where is the Australian ‘community’? Seems people are more likely to fight for a social media platform than for a country now.
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Colin Fry @colinfry.bsky.social · 2d
Nothing says ‘muscular leadership’ like a guy with a lazy sphincter
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Colin Fry @colinfry.bsky.social · 3d
Yet I get arrested for flashing 🤷‍♂️
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Colin Fry @colinfry.bsky.social · 3d
Transport Victoria had to choose between blowing our socks off or just leaving us cooling our heels
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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 4d
If you want to see the top of the Mont Blanc, you have to come to the Netherlands, we have it in a museum here.
Horace Bénédict de Saussure cut it off in 1787 and his son sold it to the cloggies in 1802.
It's at the Teylers Museum, one of the most gorgeous museums ever.
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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 5d
#BREAKING 🚨 Deloitte to refund government, admits using AI in $440k report into mutual obligations issues.

Fake quotes from Federal Court case that ended Robodebt deleted from new report in Friday DEWR dump.

📰 AFR

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HEADLINE: Deloitte to refund government, admits AI errors in $440k report Deloitte Australia will issue a partial refund to the federal government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a $440,000 report littered with errors including three nonexistent academic references and a made-up quote from a Federal Court judgement. A new version of the report for the Department of Workplace Relations (DEWR) was quietly uploaded to the department’s website on Friday, ahead of a long weekend across much of Australia. It features more than a dozen deletions of nonexistent references and footnotes, a rewritten reference list, and corrections to multiple typographic errors. (photo of Deloitte Australia HQ) Deloitte Australia has made almost $25 million worth of deals with the Department of Workplace Relations since 2021. Photographer Dion Georgopoulos The first version of the report, about the IT system used to automate penalties in the welfare system such as pauses on the dole, was published in July. Less than a month later, Deloitte was forced to investigate the report after University of Sydney academic Dr Christopher Rudge highlighted multiple errors in the document. At the time, Rudge speculated that the errors may have been caused by what is known as “hallucinations” by generative AI. This is where the technology responds to user queries by inventing references and quotes. Deloitte declined to comment. The incident is embarrassing for Deloitte as it earns a growing part of its $US70.5 billion ($107 billion) in annual global revenue by providing advice and training clients and executives about AI. The firm also boasts about its widespread use of the technology within its global operations, while emphasising the need to always have humans review any output of AI. SUBHEADING: Deleted references, footnotes The revised report has deleted a dozen references to two nonexistent reports by Professor Lisa Burton Crawford, a law professor at the University of Sydney, that were included in the first version. Two references to a nonexistent report by Professor Björn Regnell, of Lund University in Sweden, were also deleted in the new report. Also deleted was a made up reference to a court decision in a leading robo-debt case, Deanna Amato v Commonwealth. The new report has also deleted a reference to “Justice Davis” (a misspelling of Justice Jennifer Davies) and the made-up quote from the nonexistent paragraphs 25 and 26 in the judgement: “The burden rests on the decision-maker to be satisfied on the evidence that the debt is owed. A person’s statutory entitlements cannot lawfully be reduced based on an assumption unsupported by evidence.”
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Colin Fry @colinfry.bsky.social · 5d
Hairy Maclary is a great series of books
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Colin Fry @colinfry.bsky.social · 5d
That’s wonderful.
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Colin Fry @colinfry.bsky.social · 5d
Confirmation that The Australian IS gutter journalism 🤣 #auspol
Home delivery copy of The Australian – still plastic-wrapped – lying in the gutter
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Colin Fry @colinfry.bsky.social · 5d
It’s not for us to question what goes on between your spreadsheets
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christhebarker @christhebarker.bsky.social · 6d
Stephen the Waxy Lemon
Cartoon featuring a waxy lemon called Stephen who meets a pedantic pear Panel 1 Stephen: HELLO READERS, I’M OFF DOWN THE GREENGROCERS TODAY TO PROTEST ABOUT ALL THE NON-INDIGENOUS FRUIT ON THE SHELVES... 2 Stephen: BLOODY KIWIS AND CUMWUATS... COMING OVER HERE... INVADING ENGLISH PUDDINGS... Pear: ERR... I HATE TO BE A PEDANTIC PEAR BUT... 3 Pear: LEMONS WERE ORIGINALLY IMPORTED TO THE UK FROM THE MEDITERRANEAN REGION IN THE 15TH CENTURY... THE WORD “LEMON" ITSELF HAS FRENCH, ITALIAN, AND PERSIAN ROOTS... ...AND THEIR INTRODUCTION WAS FACILITATED BY ARABIC AGRICULTURAL KNOWLEDGE… 4 Stephen is seething. Barely able to contain his rage… 5 Stephen has decked the pear - who lies unconscious on the ground, his glasses broken - and is stomping off into the distance.
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Colin Fry @colinfry.bsky.social · 6d
Did your therapist leave you too?
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Colin Fry @colinfry.bsky.social · 6d
Caption: “When Aliens took our beer”
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Talking Pictures TV @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social · 6d
A sixties look at the bypasses being built and the effects on towns and villages.

LOOK AT LIFE: THE VILLAGE SLEEPS AGAIN (1962) 1:40pm on #TPTV
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Colin Fry @colinfry.bsky.social · 6d
This plot sounds … ummm … vaguely familiar