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An article I wrote for the Conversation on Meta’s recent announcement around making their generative artificial intelligence (AI) models available to defence and national security organisations. Read here

Perhaps I should be more emotional about this, but this will be my last blog post on Airbag. The time has come to make this domain more useful than where I share my thoughts and …

At this point we may have recorded all of the instrumental parts. I mean, we reserve the right to add a trombone here or a french horn there, maybe a synth part, etc., but for …

Back in September I asked ChatGPT how to make chicken curry in our slow-cooker (aka Crock Pot). I didn’t use the first recipe it gave me - I had it refine the recipe until I …

3 Text Editors for the Linux Command Line 17 September, 2024 I don’t know exactly, or even roughly, how many editors there are for the Linux command line. But I have tried more than a …

On August 2014 I made one of the most difficult choices of my life: I left my home country, my family, my friends and everything I knew to move to the United States. I arrived …

Panel (from L): Kennedy Moehrs Gardner, Sheila Sutton,Meleah Geertsma, Cyatherine AliasIn Cahokia Heights (formerly Centreville), Illinois, there is a crisis that illustrates the gaps in the silos that inform our local policy discussions. As discussed …

On Wednesday, November 13, the California Department of Insurance announced the success of what it called “Operation Bear Claw,” an investigation into whether what looked like a bear damaging the inside of a Rolls Royce …

Fossils from the Okanagan Highlands, an area centred in the Interior of British Columbia, provide important clues to our ancient climate. Okanagan Highlands refers to an arc of Eocene lakebed sites that extend from Smithers …

Here I am again with a review of the third episode of the Discovery Channel show Lost Monster Files (LMF). In the previous posts, I explained how I was left unimpressed by the quality of …

The Night Porter (Liliana Cavani, 1974).Fascism is not only an event of yesterday.… It is with us still, here and elsewhere. As dreams do, my film brings back to the surface a repressed “history.”—Liliana CavaniThe …

Laying wide awake, trying to sleep in a Perth hotel, so I thought crunching some annual stats might help me sleep. 2024 has been a wild year of travel. Here’s my 2024 travel stats as …

Yesterday (November 16), rock royalty Jason Bonham said he won’t be returning to the stage with Sammy Hagar‘s band for any upcoming “The Best of All Worlds” shows. Son of the goddamn legend and icon …

Imagine a digital world layered seamlessly over our own, where every street corner and landmark is brought to life in 3D by a global community of gamers. This is Niantic’s vision for the real-world metaverse, …

Photographed with a Fujifilm X-T5 + XF150-600mmF5.6-8 R LM OIS WR – 600 mm focal length – 1/50″ at f/8 – ISO 125 Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, United States – Newe Sogobia (Eastern Shoshone), …