Ned Hammond

digital journalist at ABC News, Brisbane || [email protected]
#keepcoolbutcare

[𝚑𝚎𝚗𝚔 𝚟𝚊𝚗 𝚎𝚜𝚜 @henkvaness]

Tonight I typed just one sentence into Google Earth and put refugees near the Mexican border. Then I planted a nuclear plant in Iran. What on earth is Google doing? Check my latest post here: https://t.co/N0h6CVECqS

[Nathan J Robinson @NathanJRobinson]

lol the Wall Street Journal sent one of its vicious op-ed writers to DSA social events to smear them and they came back reporting DSA were all "charming, funny, and friendly" and that there is no way corporate Democrats can compete with socialists' offer of fun and friendship

[Ned Hammond @nedhammond_]

@AlNewstead New Pond is never unwelcome

[Ned Hammond @nedhammond_]

Difficult to put into words how deeply delusional this is

[The Hill @thehill]

Ex-Border Patrol commander Bovino exploring 2028 White House run
https://t.co/OhBKN9z9uM

[Ned Hammond @nedhammond_]

@BryanJo35250064 @MarcACaputo

[chairman biden @chairmanbiden74]

happy pride

[Samantha Rose Hill @Samantharhill]

Pope Leo XIV in his first encyclical citing Hannah Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism to warn AI risks producing the exact condition Arendt identified as the prerequisite for totalitarian domination by destroying people's ability to discern between fact and fiction.

[Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs) @agraybee]

I didn't know Helen of Troy could generate so much conflict.

[Grace @gracecamille_]

favorite video

[Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @LuizaJarovsky]

🚨 University professors have been saying AI is completely destroying learning and that we'll soon have an AI-powered, semi-illiterate workforce. Here's a glimpse into the educational apocalypse:

"Sarah, a freshman at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, said she first used ChatGPT to cheat during the spring semester of her final year of high school. (...) After getting acquainted with the chatbot, Sarah used it for all her classes: Indigenous studies, law, English, and a “hippie farming class” called Green Industries. “My grades were amazing,” she said. “It changed my life.” Sarah continued to use AI when she started college this past fall. Why wouldn’t she? Rarely did she sit in class and not see other students’ laptops open to ChatGPT. Toward the end of the semester, she began to think she might be dependent on the website. She already considered herself addicted to TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, and Reddit, where she writes under the username maybeimnotsmart. “I spend so much time on TikTok,” she said. “Hours and hours, until my eyes start hurting, which makes it hard to plan and do my schoolwork. With ChatGPT, I can write an essay in two hours that normally takes 12.”

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"By November, Williams estimated that at least half of his students were using AI to write their papers. Attempts at accountability were pointless. Williams had no faith in AI detectors, and the professor teaching the class instructed him not to fail individual papers, even the clearly AI-smoothed ones. “Every time I brought it up with the professor, I got the sense he was underestimating the power of ChatGPT, and the departmental stance was, ‘Well, it’s a slippery slope, and we can’t really prove they’re using AI,’” Williams said. “I was told to grade based on what the essay would’ve gotten if it were a ‘true attempt at a paper.’ So I was grading people on their ability to use ChatGPT.”

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AI in education is a serious topic, and many schools and universities are blindly jumping into the "AI-first" wave without considering short and long-term consequences.

It would be great to hear more from teachers and educators to understand potential solutions.

This might be a great opportunity for rethinking the education system and how students are assessed.

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👉 Link to the full article below.

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[Clash Report @clashreport]

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich:

My son keeps asking me not to finish the job, so that there will still be something left for him to do in Lebanon.

And I tell him: don’t worry — there will be enough for everyone.

[Christiane Amanpour @amanpour]

As Israeli settlers continue to attack Palestinians across the occupied West Bank. CNN Producer Abeer Salman reports from Umm al-Khair, where razor wire has blocked Palestinian children from going to school.

[stranger @strangerous10]

David Pocock beside himself as Shell’s Cecile Wake insists she doesn’t know Shell’s revenue, or how much gas they export, while she fronts an inquiry on Gas Exports.
Sarah Hanson-Young: “What did you think we were going to be asking you about today?” 🔥🙄 #auspol

[Alex Jay Bloody 🥶 @AlexJayBrady]

Wow yeah sounds like a really bad wound bro
https://t.co/ZzQesGXt9T

[chuck 🏔 @crowcialist]

The Cormac McCarthy last page is basically a genre unto itself, but it’s still crazy that he hit a career walkoff like this at 89 years old

[Ned Hammond @nedhammond_]

I wrote about the beginnings of Australian #punk in Brisbane ⁦@chris_converse⁩ https://t.co/VUwFvq4fdX

[Baseball’s Greatest Moments @BBGreatMoments]

BEST YOGI BERRA QUOTES:

1. “It ain’t over till it’s over.”
2. “It’s deja vu all over again.”
3. “I usually take a two-hour nap from 1 to 4.”
4. “Never answer an anonymous letter.”
5. “We made too many wrong mistakes.”
6. “You can observe a lot by watching.”
7. “The future ain’t what it used to be.”
8. “If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.”
9. “It gets late early out here.”
10. “If the people don’t want to come out to the ballpark, nobody’s going to stop them.”
11. “Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical.”
12. “Pair up in threes.”
13. “Why buy good luggage, you only use it when you travel.”
14. “Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.”
15. “All pitchers are liars or crybabies.”
16. “A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore.”
17. “Bill Dickey is learning me his experience.”
18. “He hits from both sides of the plate. He’s amphibious.”
19. “I always thought that record would stand until it was broken.”
20. “I can see how he (Sandy Koufax) won 25 games. What I don’t understand is how he lost five.”
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Joe DiMaggio and Yogi Berra in 1955.
21. “I don’t know (if they were men or women fans running naked across the field). They had bags over their heads.”
22. “I’m a lucky guy and I’m happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary.”
23. “I’m not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.”
24. “In baseball, you don’t know nothing.”
25. “I never blame myself when I’m not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn’t my fault that I’m not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?”
26. “I never said most of the things I said.”
27. “It ain’t the heat, it’s the humility.”
28. “I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house.”
29. “I wish everybody had the drive he (Joe DiMaggio) had. He never did anything wrong on the field. I’d never seen him dive for a ball, everything was a chest-high catch, and he never walked off the field.”
30. “So I’m ugly. I never saw anyone hit with his face.”
31. “Take it with a grin of salt.”
32. (On the 1973 Mets) “We were overwhelming underdogs.”
33. “The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.”
34. “You should always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise, they won’t come to yours.”
35. “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.”

(Sources: Los Angeles Times, Baseball Almanac, Baseball Digest, Catcher in the Wry (Bob Uecker), Sports Illustrated)

[nxthompson @nxthompson]

Wow. https://t.co/XZMfDXhmau

[Ned Hammond @nedhammond_]

"LOOKS THEORISTS"

[Randa Abdel-Fattah @RandaAFattah]

My statement in response to the racist decision to cancel me from Adelaide Writers' Week.