Word-whore. I write 'em. I talk 'em. Information, politics, media, and the cybers. I drink. I use bad words. All publication is a political act. All communication is propaganda. All art is pornography. All business is personal. All hail Eris! Vive les poissons rouges sauvages!
It’s a bonus, or at least unfunded, summer series episode with guest Snarky Platypus. This long and rambling conversation was recorded on Boxing Day 2023, which explains many things.
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It’s all about artificial intelligence as the spring series continues with one of the leaders in the field, Scientia Professor Toby Walsh, chief scientist at the UNSW AI Institute.
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In this episode we look at what might happen in The America in November, we hear more strange conspiracy theories, and we learn some bureaucratic language that you can use in your own life. Plus more Quarantimes dramas, obviously.
Continue reading “The 9pm Legally Insufficient Beaver Comparison”Stilgherrian’s links for 10 May 2008 through 12 May 2008, generated almost-automatically:
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Rantings of an Insane Platypus blogs about women’s basketball in Australia and the US. Written by a good friend, it pulls 3300 human visitors a month — plus an indeterminate number of monotremes.
I mention this because we finished the redesign yesterday — thanks to Andreas Viklund for the original layout — and because it’s an excellent example of what I’ve been calling “micromedia”.