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Not here to fuck spiders. Cats, food, travel, history, art, books about virtually anything, random facts 😁 Live in the inner west of Gadigal / Sydney

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"I just found out that it's been hallucinating numbers this entire time."

r/analytics • IOh We just found out our AI has been making up analytics data for 3 months and I'm gonna throw up. Support So we've been using an Al agent since November to answer leadership questions about metrics. It seemed amazing at first fast answers, detailed explanations, everyone loved it. I just found out it's been hallucinating numbers this entire time. Our VP of sales made territory decisions based on data that didn't exist. Our CFO showed the board a deck with fake insights. The Al was just inventing plausible sounding percentages. I only caught it by accident when someone asked me to double check something. I started digging, and holy shit, it's bad.
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@Natasha_Jay No. What. I’m shocked.

@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party avatar TheBreadmonkey , to random

If anyone's after some tips on how to stop using Discord, I found that simply not using it because I didn't understand it really helped. 👍

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@TheBreadmonkey listen, mate. Your technical jargon isn’t going to cut it here!

@dropbear@aus.social avatar dropbear , to random

Eeeeek 61 days till I leave for a month in Nepal and then three months in Portugal 🙃 Just need to find someone to rent my flat (with cats) so if you know anyone who want to rent a fully furnished flat at a steeply discounted rate in Sydneys inner west for four months from the end of March 2026…..let me know!!

@Gargron@mastodon.social avatar Gargron , to random

I’ve got stickers 👀

A sheet of stickers featuring the Mastodon mascot in various situations, as well as 3 Mastodon logos, held in my hand.
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@Gargron need

@JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange avatar JessTheUnstill , to random

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    @TheBreadmonkey@beige.party avatar TheBreadmonkey , to random

    Just learned of the Mormon practice of 'soaking'

    Happy Monday everybody!

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    @TheBreadmonkey life is constant education, Ben!

    @randahl@mastodon.social avatar randahl , to random

    The Trump regime has now attacked 16 vessels in international waters, killing 66 individuals whom the regime suspected were criminals.

    66 people.

    Gone.

    No investigation. No arrests. No charges. No trial.

    Just murdered.

    Because it makes Trump feel good.

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    @randahl and the world does…..nothing. Fucking bizarre

    @Daojoan@mastodon.social avatar Daojoan , to random

    Absolutely obsessed with framing your employees sleeping on the floor as a humble brag

    “Look how hard my team works” no dude you’re just bad at project management.

    Competent companies ship products without cosplaying being homeless

    A tweet by Mark Kretschmann showing two photos of the xAI office on Grokipedia release day. The office is filled with small camping tents set up between desks and along hallways, suggesting that engineers have been sleeping there while working late. The caption notes it’s early morning and the engineers are still in their tents, joking that a good night’s sleep does wonders.
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    @Daojoan jfc 🙄

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    Jeebus, that went downhill fast 😬 I can hear stuff crashing around all over the car park

    @galacticstone@mastodon.social avatar galacticstone , to random

    Let's see the last meme saved on your phone or laptop. No NSFW please.

    Please boost and let's make this a massive meme dump.

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    @mondoweiss@social.mondoweiss.net avatar mondoweiss , to random

    Ms. Rachel calls out Barack Obama's statement on Gaza, highlighting how referring to 'Israeli families' while calling Palestinians 'the people of Gaza' strips them of their humanity. 'Palestinians have families, too,' she wrote, noting this dehumanizing language enabled silence as Israel killed more than 20,000 Palestinian children.

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    @mondoweiss yep, exactly like the constant use of Palestinian prisoners and Israeli hostages 😡

    @ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us avatar ChrisMayLA6 , (edited ) to random

    Music from the 1970s that remans timeless, no.3

    Stealers Wheel. Stuck In The Middle With You

    Now forever associated with Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs, Stealers Wheel's major hit is a great bit of funky folk rock with some great slide guitar & that stuttering rhythm backing a Bob Dylan-like vocal. As you'l see a lot of in this list, it comes out of the 70s British period of 'pub rock' when small venues were able to foster some amazing (& subsequently successful) bands.

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    @ChrisMayLA6 one of my favourites

    @Daojoan@mastodon.social avatar Daojoan , to random

    your 20s are for making mistakes your 30s are for learning from them your 40s are for?

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    @Daojoan making all new, fabulous mistakes with the benefit of more disposable income 😁

    @dropbear@aus.social avatar dropbear , to random

    When do (that particular breed of) Christians accept that the rapture didn’t happen (again). Is there like a 24 / 48 hour period where they think god maybe just fucked up the timeline a little bit but it’s totally still going to happen?

    @dropbear@aus.social avatar dropbear , to random

    I think it might actually be impossible to be anymore than today

    @nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar nixCraft , (edited ) to random

    Poll: How many pets do you have?

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    @nixCraft well, I gave a cat and she has a cat so I guess two 🤷‍♀️

    @Daojoan@mastodon.social avatar Daojoan , to random

    It’s barely 9am and I can already tell this is going to be the stupidest fucking shit I’ve read all day

    Alt text: A quote in black serif text on a white background. It reads: “We believe that in the near future half the people on the planet will be AI, and we are the company that’s bringing those people to life,” said CEO Jeanine Wright, who was previously chief operating officer of podcasting company Wondery, which has recently had to reorganize under the changing podcast landscape. The word “Wondery” is highlighted in red.
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    @Daojoan fucking infuriating 😡

    @dangillmor@mastodon.social avatar dangillmor , to random

    Seems like every time Netanyahu's corruption trial resumes, he bombs a neighboring country, and the trial is delayed again...

    https://www.commondreams.org/news/netanyahu-trial-paused-as-syria-bombed

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    @dangillmor surely just a coinkydink 🤷‍♀️

    @kevinrothrock@infosec.exchange avatar kevinrothrock , to random

    𝕏 has become a Nazi cesspool, but nothing saps my will to live like three minutes on LinkedIn.

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    @kevinrothrock worst thing about leaving this contract early….having to go back on linked in 😬

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    A message for Harvey Weinstein

    A yellow Simpsons style cartoon character is floating in an inner tube in blue water. He is holding up a tin of Fosters in a toast to two clothed men standing on a green bank. The caption is “Have a sook cunt”
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    @ewen yep. One of the few cases of a very rich and famous white man with a lot of influence being held to account. He still believes he can beat it though.

    @ewen@photog.social avatar ewen , to random

    It's Staurday. It's 9:30m. I've had my brekky.

    This whole 'taking the weekend off' thing is pretty weird to be honest. I can do anything with my day, but don't really want to.

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    @ewen sometimes a nothing day is the best day

    @dropbear@aus.social avatar dropbear , to random

    Unfortunately, SBS is making itself unwatchable by every third ad being for a gambling app 😬

    @dropbear@aus.social avatar dropbear , to random

    Sydney friends, if you take a train to work, worth a check on TripView or similar this am to make sure your line is running. All mine are cancelled https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-21/delays-sydney-trains-today-outage-incident-disruptions/105316204?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other

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    @Daojoan@mastodon.social avatar Daojoan , to random

    A story about breakups (written by my brother!)

    https://medium.com/@thwestenberg/the-first-week-59394fe7775c

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    @Daojoan 🥲

    @ewen@photog.social avatar ewen , to random

    Been thinking a lot about "good television" lately.

    Am so far down the rabbit hole with screenplays and Hollywood and Cable TV that I can no longer see the sun.

    Am just gobsmacked by what utter drivel gets funded these days.

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    @ewen Fleabag!!

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    @ewen I’ve bookmarked your post, a couple there I haven’t seen!

    @dropbear@aus.social avatar dropbear , to random

    Ooooh yeah…..nah.

    66 About me Apparently this is not the norm it's frowned upon well give those frown lines a good work out. I'm a masculine man a provider protector and did I mention Masculine smily emojiwouldn't hold anyone back from what they love to do unless it pissed me of smily emoji Life is not that complicated but pick the wrong partner and it's first class tickets to shit vile. Ok all the blue green pink hair people you can relax now lol laughing emoji, thumbs up emoji, waving hand emoji
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    @indivisibleteam@mastodon.social avatar indivisibleteam , to random

    June 14 is Trump’s birthday and his military parade in DC — but the biggest story of that day will be the actions we take everywhere else. Join our nationwide day of defiance to show that organized people power is stronger than Trump’s authoritarian aspirations: https://www.nokings.org/?SQF_SOURCE=indivisible

    (next to an image of Trump wearing a crown that has been crossed out) NO KINGS MASS PROTEST
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    @indivisibleteam imagine if there were crowds everywhere except his parade route? Delicious.

    @dropbear@aus.social avatar dropbear , to random

    To all of our fedifriends overseas asking “who the fuck is Antony Green and why is all of Australia going on about him”. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_Green This guy is an absolute rock star in Australia and this is the last election he’s doing for the abc. The election is decided when Antony calls it.

    A picture of Antony Green doing jazz hands and wearing a suit and colourful spotted tie. The text reads HAS THE ELECTION BEEN CALLED? YES. The text at the bottom reads Australia Votes and the abc logo is at the bottom right hand side
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    @dropbear@aus.social avatar dropbear , to random

    These two teenagers on the light rail are literally* using the word ‘like’ every third or fourth word. Sometimes even every second word. Like it doesn’t even like make sense. Like, do you like know what I like mean?

    This is like literally not an exaggeration, I like never misuse the word literally, like literally never.

    @psychopoesie@aus.social avatar psychopoesie , to random

    Wow! Just saw Nagi is having issues with her recipes getting ripped off (allegedly).

    When you see your recipes in a $4 million book - RecipeTin Eats

    https://www.recipetineats.com/bake-with-brooki-penguin-plagiarism-allegations-statement/

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    @psychopoesie if you’re going to rip off someone, it probably isn’t a good idea to make it someone as well known and liked as Nagi who is also known for her charity work

    @dropbear@aus.social avatar dropbear , to random

    I want to buy a bidet toilet seat and my lord, the choices, the choices! Where do I even start?

    @dropbear@aus.social avatar dropbear , to random

    Lovely friends of the fedi…..starting to plan my Nepal trip properly and would love any advice from those who’ve been. This is where I’m at so far:

    • A few days in Kathmandu including a trip out to Byaktapur (old city)
    • ⁠A few days in Pokhara including Annapurna cable car
    • ⁠Multi day hike
    • Multi day rafting trip
    • Chitwan Nartional park for a couple of days at least including the early morning bird watching
    • ⁠cooking class somewhere along the way
    • ⁠hot air balloon and zip lining if enough of our group want to do it
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    @ewen thanks Ewen. we’re going at Easter next year as two of group are teachers. I’m not a fan of school holiday travel but it is what it is!

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    @ewen we’ll be there approximately 28th March to 16th April (ish)

    @dropbear@aus.social avatar dropbear , to random

    Rewatching ahead of the new season. Still excellent

    Poker Face Wow GIF by Peacock

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    @ewen Stan and Max. Not sure about others

    @dropbear@aus.social avatar dropbear , to random

    I’m gathering from various toots that there may be a change coming in the Catholic Church. I had big hopes for the last (current?) pope. I thought he was more open minded and ready to start moving the Catholic Church out of their current shitful beliefs. Sadly, I was proven wrong in the main (there were some teeny tiny steps) but I guess we can keep hoping 🤷‍♀️

    @CarveHerName@mstdn.social avatar CarveHerName , (edited ) to random

    , 19 Apr 1967, Kathrine Switzer becomes the first woman to complete the Boston Marathon as a registered runner, despite the organiser physically trying to stop her.

    She ran it again in 2017, 50 years later.

    Katherine Switzer running along a road in a grey tracksuit. She is a white woman with dark hair. There are several other men running alongside her, also in running gear. They are protecting her from a man in a blazer who is attempting to rip off the number pinned to her back.
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    @CarveHerName can you even imagine being that much of a weak prick?

    @ewen@photog.social avatar ewen , to random

    Sunrise over Mustang. We got up early to hike a little higher up the hill and look down on the valley below. Up ahead is the route to Upper Mustang, once a place of great mystery but now easily accessible by road.

    https://ewenbell.com/joy

    Prayer flags at dawn as the first light reaches into Mustang. Tashi sits at the end of the row, waiting for the perfect light to reach us.
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    @ewen beautiful!! I will definitely take my binocs when I go next year.

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    @ewen oooh I think that’s on our itinerary 😁

    @aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar aral , (edited ) to random

    So I mentioned the fediverse to Jolita and Martin when I was there getting my watch strap resized and now they’re on it :)

    They’re a tiny two-person jewelry/watch shop in Bray, Ireland.

    Show them some love:

    @SilverPhoenix

    💕

    https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/114241155978949816

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    @aral @silverphoenixjewellers welcome! I hope you enjoy the fediverse. It’s a pretty wholesome delicious place on the whole 😁

    @Daojoan@mastodon.social avatar Daojoan , to random

    Literally nobody in Greenland wants these assholes (and yes this is real)

    Image showing a tweet from Jan Petter (@lepettre) that reads: “According to Danish TV2, representatives from the USA have been going door-to-door in Nuuk over the past few days to find Greenlanders who wanted to be visited by Usha Vance. After they failed to find anyone, the visit was cancelled.” Below the tweet is a still from a TV2 news segment featuring a bald male reporter in a winter coat speaking outside in snowy conditions. A Danish-language caption on screen reads: “Amerikanere stemte dørklokker i Nuuk før aflyst besøg, siger Steinmetz,” which translates to “Americans rang doorbells in Nuuk before cancelled visit, says Steinmetz.”
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    @Daojoan delicious

    @evacide@hachyderm.io avatar evacide , to random

    Just throw this story on a bonfire labeled "But why didn't the victim report the rapist to the police??"

    https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/03/31/how-police-let-one-of-americas-most-prolific-predators-get-away

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    @evacide Just horrendous and it doesn’t seem like there’s any appetite for a real investigation into coverup and corruption. Really surprised the New Yorker is using the term ‘child pornography’ when the far more appropriate term ‘child sexual abuse material’ has been in common useage for so long. This isn’t pornography

    @static@aus.social avatar static , to random

    I have Adulted. Bills paid. New form to my super for fund consolidation. Even found the ATO's retirement calculator and for the first time in a very long time, it feels like I will have a comfortable retirement.

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    @static excellent adulting!