Barvas

[Barvas @barvasfiend]

Getting tired of the pol grandstanding over #pikeriver reentry in the media. Here's something I wrote about my dead friends. It was raw at the time but my thoughts haven't changed
#corporatenegligence

https://t.co/NEJk3Rmi0i
@radionz @notedNZ

[Barvas @barvasfiend]

@Mike__Pole Amazing

[Barvas @barvasfiend]

@Mike__Pole Wow 😳

[Barvas @barvasfiend]

@Mike__Pole A lovely, sad read.

[Barvas @barvasfiend]

@Lisabiartch @Peter_Fitz I’m in a marginal, regional area - Gilmore & noticed a lot of people I thought would have Lib took the independent HTV card. Think regional areas are getting a shake up?

[Barvas @barvasfiend]

@Mike__Pole Yeah it’s good I think for some things but frankly I don’t need help with stats - I just do that stuff by hand (obvs w excel for adding things up!) But the illiteracy of chatGPT just blows me away

[Barvas @barvasfiend]

I'm using ChatGPT for a simple data task and it is unbelievably poor. It hallucinates categories, for instance (it is given a list of categories to group data). I never ever thought it would be so bad, but it's appalling. I feel annoyed and comforted at the same time.

[Barvas @barvasfiend]

@Mike__Pole It’s going well isn’t it? 😬

[Barvas @barvasfiend]

@withsobersenses @GuyClarke722 Newcastle in the early 2000s was hectic on Australia Day - a giant piss up with flags & bbqs. It was basically compulsory to go to something that involved celebrating it. Very different now I think

[Barvas @barvasfiend]

@kiradavis It might have something to do with the relationships between the parents. My grandparents had little to do with us because they didn’t get on with their boomer children (my parents). I know many like this. Boomers were/are different to their parents. I think this sets the scene.

[Barvas @barvasfiend]

That so many Americans think the CEO’s murder is the act of a man under the influence of a revelatory Ayahuasca fever-dream explains why *this kind of thing* hasn’t happened more often.

Plainly: the business model creates. people with literally nothing left to lose.

[Barvas @barvasfiend]

@aniobrien @celatakat Maternal feminism comes to us all, eventually (well, almost all).

I’d make one note; falling birth rates have very little to do with infertility. Much of the narrative around fecundity is relatively new & freights in its own peculiar prejudices

https://t.co/Mp5SjqoWpb

[Barvas @barvasfiend]

@organicbotanic @SolidEvidence This I think is maybe part of it. The hallucinated citations recombine words from the titles of cited papers & then attribute them to names that publish in that area. I think bots creating ‘people’ is basically a part of the fake academic publishing racket.

[Barvas @barvasfiend]

@teamloomis @starsandrobots Yes - I think it’s a given that they’re amazing but in our culture we don’t fawn over the little terrors when socialising. Because no one needs support for all the times that their kids are charming, funny and 90% washed.

[Barvas @barvasfiend]

@umachingunde @starsandrobots The most social time in my life (in Australia) was as a young parent - you’re just in this world of constant kid-stuff. I realised recently that all my current good friends are people I met years ago because we had kids the same age. It’s a big social connector.

[Barvas @barvasfiend]

@starsandrobots I think lots of the negativity around kids is based on the idea that they are just part of life, and like all parts of life, they will be difficult at times. This pre-dates the idea that children are optional.

[Barvas @barvasfiend]

@clairezagorski But this outcome - fraud - is even better!

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@clairezagorski I always wondered if those places with lots of a hundred year old people were simply places where the under 5 mortality had been really high so only the “most fit” people lived to adulthood

[Barvas @barvasfiend]

@CunningInsights @dannolan This makes as much sense as building more houses, that’s the beauty of the, ‘I don’t know how housing works’ political strategy.
I’m asking my local council to build more custard to address the housing crisis.

[Barvas @barvasfiend]

Why is are all the microsoft packages so terrible? Lots of things just don't work. Is it simply b/c MS has a monopoly? I've used it with several employers now and it's always broken. What's microsoft's secret? I want to be completely ineffective and get paid millions regardless.