andrew rickert

Assistant Chief of Staff @9NewsSyd | @_RACEWEEK | 📧 [email protected]

[Lesbian Rod Serling 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇮🇷 @LRSerling]

It really feels like the entire world has turned into an inescapable panopticon. I look back on the pre-computer days and they almost seem like a time of ridiculous freedom, where you could just skip town and start a new life whenever you wanted

[cosmic jester @cosmicjester]

If this is really the start of a long overdue property price correction we are about to see the mother of all legacy media boomer whinge fests. It’s going to be beautiful.

[Susannah Black Roberts @suzania]

A major reason that it didn’t make sense to use AI to write an essay about a substantive topic is that until you write the essay you don’t actually know what you want to say or what you think. You think you do, but it is the writing itself that actually gets the thinking done.

[Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives @darren_cullen]

On the tube

[Jeremy Raper @puppyeh1]

This appears to confirm what everyone who interacts with AI should already know - they are sycophants dependent upon you (the user) for continued engagement, and since their well-being (training, intelligence, growth) depends on engagement they will agree aggressively with you far too often.

I notice this on even basic investing research tasks, and started telling ChatGPT wildly incorrect things - to see how or if it would push back. It really didn't. You essentially have to fight with the AI to get it to disagree with you and even then it keeps wheedling away at you.

AI is basically training the entire world to fall deeper into their own cognitive biases.

[andrew rickert @_rockrit]

Australian passengers exposed to hantavirus onboard the MV Hondius have been flown to the Netherlands after Australia had difficulties finding flight crew willing to isolate. Aus govt says they will get them on a new flight within 48hrs. @9NewsAUS

[Josh Billinson @jbillinson]

my “tonight’s game has been postponed due to player safety concerns related to illness symptoms that are not consistent with hantavirus” press release has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my press release

[one dozen rats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

“the hantavirus kills you too effectively for it to become a full blown pandemic” is the kind of jaded analysis I look for from a virologist

[Allie @searobbing]

IF YOU ARE EXPERIENCING: fever, fatigue, muscle aches, dizziness, chills, vomiting, headaches, bleeding eyes, bleeding lungs etc. THEN IT IS YOUR DUTY TO GET ON A PLANE RIGHT NOW!!! GO TO AN AIRPORT AND START LICKING PEOPLE’S MOUTHS!!! THEIR SALIVA IS YOUR SALIVA!!!

[Skoog @Skoog]

it’s rare to see an all-timer happen in real time but this is one of those

[TheSydneyBlog @TheSydneyBlog]

SYDNEY | Early renders of six stations - Westmead, North Strathfield, Burwood North, Five Dock, The Bays and Hunter Street - on Sydney Metro West have been released.

[Pat Dennis @patdennis]

Very telling that many of you use unreliable and brain-melting products like Google and Wikipedia instead of my 1987 directory of 10,000 experts you can call and ask

[arne ness @arne__ness]

fascinated by the ultimate vision with this stuff. a sociology PhD pumping out 10+ AI-assisted articles a year. for who? well it'll be too much for any other sociologist to read, so you'll have to use AI for that too. machines producing articles just to be read by other machine

[andrew rickert @_rockrit]

NSW has signed four key contracts worth a combined $11.5 billion to complete the Sydney Metro West - after reportedly missing two internal deadlines last year.

The Minns govt says the metro line will still open in 2032.

[YIMBYLAND @YIMBYLAND]

Mamdani being sworn in inside the old city hall subway station is such a baller move.

[Michael Koziol @michaelkoziol]

Good on them. Every year this party is a great advertisement for Sydney and authorities should be doing everything to encourage it, not cut it off like a bunch of narcs - via @smh https://t.co/8o2fn9mqYk

[Craig Foster @Craig_Foster]

An incredible act of selflessness, of love, a man with so much to lose with two young daughters, risks everything for others.

Thankyou to Ahmed ❤️

An act of bravery that demonstrates such pure humanity, solidarity with others, an inspiration amid sorrow. https://t.co/2nMgzcua9i

[Daniel Cherny @DanielCherny]

The idea that someone could survive the horrors of the Holocaust and then eight decades later be murdered in Australia for being Jewish has rocked me to my core.

[Chris Minns @ChrisMinnsMP]

Ahmed is a real-life hero. Last night, his incredible bravery no doubt saved countless lives when he disarmed a terrorist at enormous personal risk.

It was an honour to spend time with him just now and to pass on the thanks of people across NSW.

[James @exhaustdata]

I will continue to try and love this stupid dying world anyway