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Nick Evershed!?

@nickevershed.bsky.social

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Data and interactives ed. at the Guardian Aus dataviz, music, investigative journalism, programming etc work: [email protected] tip-offs: [email protected] latest: https://www.theguardian.com/profile/nick-evershed

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Nick Evershed!? @nickevershed.bsky.social · 42m

in defence of the article it does get into this towards the end :)

Nick Evershed!? @nickevershed.bsky.social · 44m

love to consume plot-based media

Nick Evershed!? @nickevershed.bsky.social · 1h

this is a good story but it shows that people still fundamentally misunderstand LLMs - there is no "working properly", they're inherently probabilistic models. hallucinations aren't a bug, they're a fundamental part of language models. these aren't fact machines!!!

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Tara Vern @taravern.bsky.social · 1h

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The perils of letting AI plan your next trip

An imagined town in Peru, an Eiffel tower in Beijing: travellers are increasingly using tools like ChatGPT for itinerary ideas – and being sent to destinations that don't exist.

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Nick Evershed!? @nickevershed.bsky.social · 1h

also HORRIFYING MEAT CHART didn't make it in because @joshnicholas.com loves chickpeas (who doesn't tbh)

Nick Evershed!? @nickevershed.bsky.social · 1h

great newsletter this week imho! charts on:

- far-right Facebook groups
- pay in the WNBA
- record-breaking ocean heat
- how the amount of ingredients is shrinking in some foods
- and a chart on who marries whom.

And birds of course!

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#dataviz 📊

The Crunch: far-right Facebook groups; underpaid WNBA players; and making your own origami bird

Our colleagues in the UK spent a year studying an online community trading in anti-immigration sentiment and misinformation

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LucyParkerPaul🦉🇦🇺 @lucyparkerpaul.bsky.social · 1h

Not much bothers this female Powerful Owl, she often roosts over busy paths in a Brisbane park. Yesterday an incoming international flight caught her eye, and she tracked it as it flew across the sky. #birds

Time to vote for POwls again :)🦉

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 7h

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Jintor @jintor.itch.io · 6h

there's still great websites on the internet rouses.net

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Howie Hua @howiehua.bsky.social · 8h

My best explanation of parallel lines

Two parallel lines going up. Top line says "The age I consider 'old'" and the bottom line says "My age".

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 1d

man Australian universities are really just collapsing like a dying star hey

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University caught out using AI to wrongly accuse students of cheating with AI

An Australian university has accused thousands of its students of cheating with artificial intelligence. The problem? Many have done nothing wrong.

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Nick Evershed!? @nickevershed.bsky.social · 1d

this is votes per round, rather than cumulative votes

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Nick Evershed!? @nickevershed.bsky.social · 1d

The Tawny frogmouth has emerged as an early favourite as we enter day four of the bird of the year contest!

As of the close of voting last night, the muppet-like frogmouth had increased its lead over Baudin's black cockatoo, surging ahead by 1,372 votes

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Line chart showing votes per round for birds in the top ten of each round. The Tawny frogmouth has led in every round, and dramatically increased its lead in round 3

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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: GLOBAL RENEWABLES OVERTAKES COAL

How the heck did that happen so quickly?!...🧵

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Nick Evershed!? @nickevershed.bsky.social · 2d

I now have 60+ GB of bird data on my computer

ALA, eBird, AVONET i am fully jacked into the bird data matrix

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 2d

🤳EXCLUSIVE: We analyzed real data from over 800 U.S. TikTok users to reveal how the app transforms casual users into power users.

Extremely proud of this one, over a year in the making w/ @richardsima.bsky.social Leslie Shapiro @asteckelberg.bsky.social @ence.bsky.social

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Here’s how TikTok ‘power users’ end up scrolling 4 hours a day or more

Washington Post reporters analyzed data from over 800 TikTok users to learn how the app turns people into power users, some of whom spend hours per day scrolling.

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 2d

Scoop: OpenAI has signed its first ever Australia government contract, quietly inking a deal with Treasury amid the ChatGPT-maker's charm offensive on policymakers.

This modest contract is an ideal foothold into future, more lucrative deals, according to one firm's analysis.
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 2d

"It feels as if everything has vanished. Not only the tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza erased without graves, without records, as if they had never existed – so many other things have been hollowed out: basic conceptions of morality, decency, compassion, humanity, hope, future."

Disappearing people, disappearing morals – how two years has changed Gaza and Israel | Orly Noy

There can be no healing until the world stares into and acknowledges the void torn open by this conflict, says Israeli journalist Orly Noy

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 3d

I agree with every word Zelda Williams says. And this at the end from OpenAI makes me want to go full Ned Ludd. Creators can’t have a blanket opt-out on copyright infringement of their work and have to fill out a form appealing to OpenAI’s mercy every time? Fuck off into the sun

OpenAI told the Guardian that content owners can flag copyright infringement using a “copyright disputes form” but that individual artists or studios cannot have a blanket opt-out. Varun Shetty, OpenAI’s head of media partnerships, said: “We’ll work with rights holders to block characters from Sora at their request and respond to takedown requests.”

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Nick Evershed!? @nickevershed.bsky.social · 3d

it's time....... TURKEY TIME

www.theguardian.com/environment/... #boty2025

it is a vectorised soviet propaganda-style poster of a bush turkey on a mound, the text says "VOTE 1 BUSH TURKEY - INDUSTRIOUS! HARD WORKING! THE PEOPLE'S BIRD!"

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Nick Evershed!? @nickevershed.bsky.social · 3d

i don't know but I choose to believe it is true

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David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 3d

Climate change is driving up insurance costs & making homes uninsurable

🇦🇺ns are paying the price while disasters worsen

As Minister Bowen said: "The cost of inaction will always outweigh the cost of action"

We need real action & investment in adaptation
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Nick Evershed!? @nickevershed.bsky.social · 3d

in Australia people would call Bari Weiss "Bazza"

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Nick Evershed!? @nickevershed.bsky.social · 4d

DISTURBING MEAT CHART

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it's a bar chart where the bars are made of minced/ground beef, the title is "The proportion of beef has decreased in Woolworths Macro sausages"

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Nick Evershed!? @nickevershed.bsky.social · 4d

NO STOPPING

Nick L. Underfront @jasoncheathawks.bsky.social · 4d

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