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!
The spring series really comes to an end today with this sort of bonus unscheduled and somewhat shouty solo episode. That’s a pun which will become clear shortly.
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The spring series concludes — or does it? — with special guest Yun Jiang, the Australian Institute of International Affairs (AIIA) Inaugural China Matters Fellow. Guess what we’re talking about! (It’s not all about lobsters.)
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The spring series continues with another special guest, my good friend Snarky Platypus, in a wide-ranging and sometimes disturbing conversation.
Continue reading “The 9pm Hungry Like the Wolf in Bali (Virtually) with Snarky Platypus”
The spring series continues with two brand new species of frog and some reflections on COVID-19 with special guest Upulie Divisekera, science communicator and woman of much intelligence and smarts.
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The spring series continues with special guest artist and political cartoonist Jon Kudelka, recorded on Tuesday in the actual Hobart.
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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.
[Note, added much later: This post contains some AI-generated images. Finding out what new technology is capable of is kinda part of my job. At the time this was posted a lot of people were experimenting, snd I did a little myself. But it soon became clear that many aspects of generative AI are ethically unsustainable, along with other problems, and I certainly wouldn’t use such an image now. I’ve left it here, though, because it does illustrate the start of the technology at the time of posting.]
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