'Aainaa
@aainaa-ab.bsky.social
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This is an excellent piece on the ecological catastrophe associated with El Salvador's obsession with Bitcoin -->>
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
‘They turned our home into a cemetery’: the high price of El Salvador’s Bitcoin City dream
Mangroves are being destroyed and residents displaced to make way for an airport to serve president Nayib Bukele’s vision of a tax-free economic hub
www.theguardian.com
December 22, 2025 at 8:23 AM
This is an excellent piece on the ecological catastrophe associated with El Salvador's obsession with Bitcoin -->>
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Pockets of memories, reminders of lost love
December 19, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Pockets of memories, reminders of lost love
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I hate how much I enjoyed this
BIG NERD DESIGN ENERGY 🫦
BIG NERD DESIGN ENERGY 🫦
December 13, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I hate how much I enjoyed this
BIG NERD DESIGN ENERGY 🫦
BIG NERD DESIGN ENERGY 🫦
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Excellent reporting by @joshtaylor.bsky.social and @petrastock.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Thirsty work: how the rise of massive datacentres strains Australia’s drinking water supply
The demand for use in cooling in Sydney alone is expected to exceed the volume of Canberra’s total drinking water within the next decade
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Excellent reporting by @joshtaylor.bsky.social and @petrastock.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Me drinking matcha: I can't have coffee, caffeine affects me too much
Other people: 🤨🤔
Other people: 🤨🤔
November 25, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Me drinking matcha: I can't have coffee, caffeine affects me too much
Other people: 🤨🤔
Other people: 🤨🤔
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Having worked at a similar place: the thing they are devoting all of their time to is not preventing this from ever happening again, but preventing this from becoming KNOWN ever again.
A major healthcare policy paper commissioned by @govnl.bsky.social government from Deloitte at a cost of $1.6 million, cites research papers that don’t exist, making it the second major government policy paper called into question in as many months. #nlpoli #AI
theindependent.ca/news/lji/maj...
theindependent.ca/news/lji/maj...
Major N.L. healthcare report contains errors likely generated by A.I. – The Independent
$1.6 million Health Human Resources Plan from Deloitte cites research papers that don’t exist, making it the second major government policy paper called into question in as many months
theindependent.ca
November 23, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Having worked at a similar place: the thing they are devoting all of their time to is not preventing this from ever happening again, but preventing this from becoming KNOWN ever again.
Interested to hear the story behind this change. Sounds like they might have missed a core audience? www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
Bureau of Meteorology ordered to fix new website after torrent of complaints
Environment Minister Murray Watt tells the Bureau of Meteorology that its new $4.1 million website needs to be fixed after complaints from users.
www.abc.net.au
November 18, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Interested to hear the story behind this change. Sounds like they might have missed a core audience? www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
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On the topic of speech-to-text: Norway's national broadcaster NRK is cutting pay for subtitlers bc they're replacing manual translation w/ machine outputs
Absolutely inevitable trajectory: results that get worse and worse and worse as companies have to exponentially enshittify with worsening slop
Absolutely inevitable trajectory: results that get worse and worse and worse as companies have to exponentially enshittify with worsening slop
NRK kutter i honoraret til tekstere – skal bruke mer KI
NRK skal effektivisere tekstingen ved hjelp av kunstig intelligens (KI). For teksterne betyr det et heftig kutt i honorarene.
www.kampanje.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:17 AM
On the topic of speech-to-text: Norway's national broadcaster NRK is cutting pay for subtitlers bc they're replacing manual translation w/ machine outputs
Absolutely inevitable trajectory: results that get worse and worse and worse as companies have to exponentially enshittify with worsening slop
Absolutely inevitable trajectory: results that get worse and worse and worse as companies have to exponentially enshittify with worsening slop
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This connection isn’t articulated often enough.
November 9, 2025 at 3:22 PM
This connection isn’t articulated often enough.
Why use fake spiderweb when you can have a once-a-year agreement with spiders to weave around your home. Win win
October 27, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Why use fake spiderweb when you can have a once-a-year agreement with spiders to weave around your home. Win win
Australia should have phone notifications for urgent weather warnings similar to this one I got in Thailand. Much more efficient.
Gale force winds forecasted in Melb this arvo if you're planning to be out and about 🌬️
Gale force winds forecasted in Melb this arvo if you're planning to be out and about 🌬️
October 22, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Australia should have phone notifications for urgent weather warnings similar to this one I got in Thailand. Much more efficient.
Gale force winds forecasted in Melb this arvo if you're planning to be out and about 🌬️
Gale force winds forecasted in Melb this arvo if you're planning to be out and about 🌬️
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More than a third of Lucid (now Cint) respondents in 2019 were "professional" respondents according to a new article in @polanalysis.bsky.social , and that's the conservative estimate
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
October 10, 2025 at 10:28 AM
More than a third of Lucid (now Cint) respondents in 2019 were "professional" respondents according to a new article in @polanalysis.bsky.social , and that's the conservative estimate
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Back in August several academics raised concerns that a Deloitte report to government may have been generated using AI. Deloitte denied this and put the citation errors down to poor editing.
Anyway, Deloitte are refunding the government $440,000 for a report that was written using AI.
Anyway, Deloitte are refunding the government $440,000 for a report that was written using AI.
October 6, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Back in August several academics raised concerns that a Deloitte report to government may have been generated using AI. Deloitte denied this and put the citation errors down to poor editing.
Anyway, Deloitte are refunding the government $440,000 for a report that was written using AI.
Anyway, Deloitte are refunding the government $440,000 for a report that was written using AI.
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This is a great metaphor for all the UX "redesigns" motivated by itchy fingers rather than actual user needs.
Last year Betty Crocker shrank the size of their cake mixes. Decades of cake-mix-based recipes are now broken. www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/ar...
The 70-Year-Old Beloved Boxed Mix Grandmas Won’t Be Buying Anymore
"It's just so upsetting."
www.yahoo.com
September 14, 2025 at 10:03 PM
This is a great metaphor for all the UX "redesigns" motivated by itchy fingers rather than actual user needs.
I would like to speak to people in charge of Health Hub's UX
September 12, 2025 at 8:02 AM
I would like to speak to people in charge of Health Hub's UX
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Just noting that this practice, if it goes ahead, will be an environmental catastrophe.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
He's been called Australia's Elon Musk. This is his 'trillion-dollar' plan
He has the chic of a Silicon Valley tech bro and a clean energy pitch for investors, but will Gerard Barron's deep-sea mining dream do more harm than good?
www.abc.net.au
September 8, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Just noting that this practice, if it goes ahead, will be an environmental catastrophe.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
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Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results:
1) Does UBI work? (yes)
2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)
1) Does UBI work? (yes)
2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)
M365 Copilot fails to up productivity in UK government trial
: AI tech shows promise writing emails or summarizing meetings. Don't bother with anything more complex
www.theregister.com
September 6, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results:
1) Does UBI work? (yes)
2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)
1) Does UBI work? (yes)
2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)
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Not enough people know about Homer City. The single largest fossil fuel plant that's being built *explicitly* to power a data centre.
This isn't a future projection, or some hollow marketing. This is physical stuff happening right now.
bsky.app/profile/keta...
This isn't a future projection, or some hollow marketing. This is physical stuff happening right now.
bsky.app/profile/keta...
September 5, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Not enough people know about Homer City. The single largest fossil fuel plant that's being built *explicitly* to power a data centre.
This isn't a future projection, or some hollow marketing. This is physical stuff happening right now.
bsky.app/profile/keta...
This isn't a future projection, or some hollow marketing. This is physical stuff happening right now.
bsky.app/profile/keta...
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Inadvertently, this is an incredible illustration of how
(a) the infrastructure required for fossil fuel extraction is bonkers and
(b) how we don't consider our oil and gas to be 'destroying nature' like wind turbines simply bc it's undersea
(a) the infrastructure required for fossil fuel extraction is bonkers and
(b) how we don't consider our oil and gas to be 'destroying nature' like wind turbines simply bc it's undersea
September 4, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Inadvertently, this is an incredible illustration of how
(a) the infrastructure required for fossil fuel extraction is bonkers and
(b) how we don't consider our oil and gas to be 'destroying nature' like wind turbines simply bc it's undersea
(a) the infrastructure required for fossil fuel extraction is bonkers and
(b) how we don't consider our oil and gas to be 'destroying nature' like wind turbines simply bc it's undersea
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This is an even bigger trend within programming, which explains why the tech right and the religious right have become fast friends.
![[Cueball stands at a blackboard covered in equations and diagrams, an open laptop and scattered paper at his feet. His fists are balled in anger and there is a little angry squiggle over his head. A Cueball-like physicist stands behind him, arms out in a shrug.]
Physicist: You're trying to predict the behavior of <complicated system>? Just model it as a <simple object>, and then add some secondary terms to account for <complications I just thought of>.
Physicist: Easy, right?
Physicist: So, why does <your field> need a whole journal, anyway?
[Caption below the panel:]
Liberal-arts majors may be annoying sometimes, but there's nothing more obnoxious than a physicist first encountering a new subject.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:o7xt7svg2xtjbb4e2xqahqqc/bafkreiamalbxbfpbwsoyu7estybnughhtmupzdgf2qdeuc4w7u7ddhdczm@jpeg)
September 2, 2025 at 4:31 PM
This is an even bigger trend within programming, which explains why the tech right and the religious right have become fast friends.
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Put simply: when you lose industrial muscle, you have to work hard and spend lots of money to get it back. Western companies have had a 40+ year allergy to capital expenditure and no respect for skilled labour.
September 3, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Put simply: when you lose industrial muscle, you have to work hard and spend lots of money to get it back. Western companies have had a 40+ year allergy to capital expenditure and no respect for skilled labour.
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What designers think UX is: sick ass animations that tap into 300% of your CPU to perform the perfect element transition that's keyframed for the most delightful ease curve
What UX is: make the text bigger and let people hold the thing
What UX is: make the text bigger and let people hold the thing
Designing for seniors: better grip.
Hand functions deteriorate with age, often making it harder to hold things without a large grip area.
Homer Audio Player allows adding screen margins to increase the area to hold.
#elderly #seniors #aging #accessibility #uxdesign #elderlycare #technology
Hand functions deteriorate with age, often making it harder to hold things without a large grip area.
Homer Audio Player allows adding screen margins to increase the area to hold.
#elderly #seniors #aging #accessibility #uxdesign #elderlycare #technology
September 1, 2025 at 4:22 AM
What designers think UX is: sick ass animations that tap into 300% of your CPU to perform the perfect element transition that's keyframed for the most delightful ease curve
What UX is: make the text bigger and let people hold the thing
What UX is: make the text bigger and let people hold the thing
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"More than 1500 people currently hold orange sponsored passes that grant them 24/7, all areas access to Parliament House.. We don't know who they are, nor which parliamentarian gave them their access...” @davidpocock.bsky.social #auspol
August 31, 2025 at 10:17 PM
"More than 1500 people currently hold orange sponsored passes that grant them 24/7, all areas access to Parliament House.. We don't know who they are, nor which parliamentarian gave them their access...” @davidpocock.bsky.social #auspol
This is cool
You might not know:
There used to be a hidden page for many services on GOV.UK, which would display the underlying user need through a user story and its alignment with the platform proposition.
You just had to insert /info to any service landing page’s URL.
I still think it’s brilliant.
There used to be a hidden page for many services on GOV.UK, which would display the underlying user need through a user story and its alignment with the platform proposition.
You just had to insert /info to any service landing page’s URL.
I still think it’s brilliant.
August 28, 2025 at 11:14 PM
This is cool