Dave Bath
@davebath.bsky.social
Greybeard leftie West Victorian. Biologist by training, computer nerd since punched paper tape days by trade, until body said "nope". Soothed by Bach and hopes of seeing a Cats AFLW flag.
Pinned
Australia's strategic policy needs to be the Hogwarts motto.
"Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus"
"Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus"
And this is on cases in Sweden. Wonder what a study in Queensland, melanoma capital of the world, would show.
www.sciencealert.com/study-links-...
www.sciencealert.com/study-links-...
Study Links Tattoos to 29% Higher Risk of Dangerous Skin Cancer
Can tattoos protect your skin from the sun's harmful rays, or do they make things worse? A new study I conducted with colleagues suggests there may be cause for concern.
www.sciencealert.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:00 AM
And this is on cases in Sweden. Wonder what a study in Queensland, melanoma capital of the world, would show.
www.sciencealert.com/study-links-...
www.sciencealert.com/study-links-...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
"21% of MANUSCRIPT REVIEWS for an international AI conference were found to be generated by artificial intelligence. ... more than half contained signs of AI use"
9% of submissions contained more than 50% AI-generated text. 1% completely AI.
"21% of MANUSCRIPT REVIEWS for an international AI conference were found to be generated by artificial intelligence. ... more than half contained signs of AI use"
9% of submissions contained more than 50% AI-generated text. 1% completely AI.
Major AI conference flooded with peer reviews written fully by AI
Controversy has erupted after 21% of manuscript reviews for an international AI conference were found to be generated by artificial intelligence.
www.nature.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:13 AM
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
"21% of MANUSCRIPT REVIEWS for an international AI conference were found to be generated by artificial intelligence. ... more than half contained signs of AI use"
9% of submissions contained more than 50% AI-generated text. 1% completely AI.
"21% of MANUSCRIPT REVIEWS for an international AI conference were found to be generated by artificial intelligence. ... more than half contained signs of AI use"
9% of submissions contained more than 50% AI-generated text. 1% completely AI.
Sorry Kerry, you are way too optimistic.
It's already happened here.
But would you have been given the platform, reported fairly, if you'd been as blunt and honest as needed?
It's already happened here.
But would you have been given the platform, reported fairly, if you'd been as blunt and honest as needed?
November 28, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Sorry Kerry, you are way too optimistic.
It's already happened here.
But would you have been given the platform, reported fairly, if you'd been as blunt and honest as needed?
It's already happened here.
But would you have been given the platform, reported fairly, if you'd been as blunt and honest as needed?
Call me a traditionalist, but if I'm going to be bombarded with talk of a Black Friday, I want it to be about a complete financial markets meltdown, and lots of the entitled rich suddenly jobless, homeless, and naturally, friendless.
November 28, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Call me a traditionalist, but if I'm going to be bombarded with talk of a Black Friday, I want it to be about a complete financial markets meltdown, and lots of the entitled rich suddenly jobless, homeless, and naturally, friendless.
Just talking to Santa at my local cafe, relieved that the renewal for his Working With Children check had come back, just about to take it down to the Horsham Plaza so the kiddies won't be disappointed.
Just in time ...
Just in time ...
November 27, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Just talking to Santa at my local cafe, relieved that the renewal for his Working With Children check had come back, just about to take it down to the Horsham Plaza so the kiddies won't be disappointed.
Just in time ...
Just in time ...
Excellent idea to avoid cruelty in the lab, an artificial tongue testing chilli heat - although I fear police states will misuse this new capability to make even uglier control tools.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Synthetic tongue rates chillies’ heat — and spares human tasters
Gel-based device inspired by the cooling powers of milk assesses peppers whose burn ranges from mild to dangerous.
www.nature.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Excellent idea to avoid cruelty in the lab, an artificial tongue testing chilli heat - although I fear police states will misuse this new capability to make even uglier control tools.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Reposted by Dave Bath
The news has been coming so fast, I did another later which might not otherwise see the light.
November 20, 2025 at 10:01 PM
The news has been coming so fast, I did another later which might not otherwise see the light.
It's the ALP engaging in class warfare against the underclass. If you are poor, you can be punished without even being charged, the police can order your Centrelink stopped without even having any evidence.
But if you are rich, your innocence is assumed.
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
But if you are rich, your innocence is assumed.
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Poverty is not evidence, the presumption of innocence must apply to everyone
In the final days of October, the Federal Government quietly inserted a last-minute amendment into an unrelated bill. It has been trying to rush through a change that would allow police and the Home A...
thepoint.com.au
November 24, 2025 at 8:02 AM
It's the ALP engaging in class warfare against the underclass. If you are poor, you can be punished without even being charged, the police can order your Centrelink stopped without even having any evidence.
But if you are rich, your innocence is assumed.
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
But if you are rich, your innocence is assumed.
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Bring me your iambics, allusions and metaphors, to gimble in the slythy toves with Jabberwocks, and artfully unman the artificial men.
arxiv.org/html/2511.15...
arxiv.org/html/2511.15...
November 23, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Bring me your iambics, allusions and metaphors, to gimble in the slythy toves with Jabberwocks, and artfully unman the artificial men.
arxiv.org/html/2511.15...
arxiv.org/html/2511.15...
When someone puts a gmail-like skin over 20,000 pages of epstein emails so it looks like you are in his inbox, and can search through them ... and calls it "jmail" - with crowdsourced favorites getting starred.
www.theverge.com/news/826901/...
www.theverge.com/news/826901/...
‘Jmail’ is like any other inbox, except this one has Jeffrey Epstein’s emails
Nightmare login mistake.
www.theverge.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:14 AM
When someone puts a gmail-like skin over 20,000 pages of epstein emails so it looks like you are in his inbox, and can search through them ... and calls it "jmail" - with crowdsourced favorites getting starred.
www.theverge.com/news/826901/...
www.theverge.com/news/826901/...
Reposted by Dave Bath
Good regulation is good for productivity growth. Lack of regulation is driving inefficiency.
Poorly regulated building markets led to debacles like the cracking in Opal Towers and flammable cladding being expensively replaced across the country
My column
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Poorly regulated building markets led to debacles like the cracking in Opal Towers and flammable cladding being expensively replaced across the country
My column
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Cutting red tape shows that when we ‘trust the market’ taxpayers usually end up footing the bill
The point.com.au
thepoint.com.au
November 22, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Good regulation is good for productivity growth. Lack of regulation is driving inefficiency.
Poorly regulated building markets led to debacles like the cracking in Opal Towers and flammable cladding being expensively replaced across the country
My column
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Poorly regulated building markets led to debacles like the cracking in Opal Towers and flammable cladding being expensively replaced across the country
My column
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
This is why you are feeling the pain - the LNP/ALP partnership have shifted more of the burden of the national debt to ordinary households than other countries, and households pay higher interest than government and business, so the banks profit more. (data via ai)
November 22, 2025 at 3:56 AM
This is why you are feeling the pain - the LNP/ALP partnership have shifted more of the burden of the national debt to ordinary households than other countries, and households pay higher interest than government and business, so the banks profit more. (data via ai)
Mary Beard for about 30 minutes on the importance of "ἄνδρα" as a first word of the Odyssey, and the many possible wildly different (and perhaps simultaneous) meanings of "πολύτροπον" as its adjective - wonderful.
(And I thought translating Latin was tricky at school!)
(And I thought translating Latin was tricky at school!)
November 21, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Mary Beard for about 30 minutes on the importance of "ἄνδρα" as a first word of the Odyssey, and the many possible wildly different (and perhaps simultaneous) meanings of "πολύτροπον" as its adjective - wonderful.
(And I thought translating Latin was tricky at school!)
(And I thought translating Latin was tricky at school!)
Australia's strategic policy needs to be the Hogwarts motto.
"Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus"
"Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus"
November 21, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Australia's strategic policy needs to be the Hogwarts motto.
"Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus"
"Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus"
Mind-reading devices are bad enough - but now they are reading your thoughts before you know what your own thoughts are - perhaps letting you get convicted of not just thought crime, but pre-thought crime.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Mind-reading devices can now predict preconscious thoughts: is it time to worry?
Ethicists say AI-powered advances will threaten the privacy and autonomy of people who use neurotechnology.
www.nature.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Mind-reading devices are bad enough - but now they are reading your thoughts before you know what your own thoughts are - perhaps letting you get convicted of not just thought crime, but pre-thought crime.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
When you can give insulin without sticking them with the pointy thing, but gently rubbing in a cream:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A skin-permeable polymer for non-invasive transdermal insulin delivery - Nature
The fast skin-permeable polyzwitterion poly[2-(N-oxide-N,N-dimethylamino)ethyl methacrylate] may enable non-invasive transdermal delivery of insulin, and potentially facilitate the use of other protei...
www.nature.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:36 AM
When you can give insulin without sticking them with the pointy thing, but gently rubbing in a cream:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Dave Bath
LNP doesn't need to have the numbers to block progressive ideas and legislation, Albo does it for them.
November 20, 2025 at 12:08 AM
LNP doesn't need to have the numbers to block progressive ideas and legislation, Albo does it for them.
Typical capitalists - think what the regulator deems "excessive fees" is their god-given right, and regulators forcing return of $270M excessive fees to victims from $10B profit is unreasonable.
The Hayne Royal Commission changed nothing. As government intended.
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
The Hayne Royal Commission changed nothing. As government intended.
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
CBA boss says repaying ‘excessive fees’ to low-income customers could be seen as taking shareholder money
Commonwealth Bank Australia– which reported a record cash profit of $10.3bn in most recent financial year – charged $270m in ‘excessive fees’ over five years
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Typical capitalists - think what the regulator deems "excessive fees" is their god-given right, and regulators forcing return of $270M excessive fees to victims from $10B profit is unreasonable.
The Hayne Royal Commission changed nothing. As government intended.
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
The Hayne Royal Commission changed nothing. As government intended.
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
Gather ye pitchforks while ye may,
for time it is a-flying.
Let techbros smile just one more day,
day after you'll be dying.
for time it is a-flying.
Let techbros smile just one more day,
day after you'll be dying.
November 19, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Gather ye pitchforks while ye may,
for time it is a-flying.
Let techbros smile just one more day,
day after you'll be dying.
for time it is a-flying.
Let techbros smile just one more day,
day after you'll be dying.
www.youtube.com/watched Bach pieces BWV 1178.?v=0X1xnYrP3Eo One of the newly verifi
NEW BACH PIECE (1 of 2) - Chaconne and Fugue in D minor BWV 1178 (1703) (sheet music)
YouTube video by Im Walde
www.youtube.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:49 PM
www.youtube.com/watched Bach pieces BWV 1178.?v=0X1xnYrP3Eo One of the newly verifi
youtu.be/8gVG-wMwdsY One of the newbies BWV 1179
NEW BACH PIECE (2 of 2) - Chaconne in G minor BWV 1179 (1703) (sheet music)
YouTube video by Im Walde
youtu.be
November 19, 2025 at 12:43 PM
youtu.be/8gVG-wMwdsY One of the newbies BWV 1179