Former tech writer specialising in telecoms and infosec. Still an aspiring guitarist at over 60.
Nothing I do or say is licenced to anyone scraping social media accounts to train AI.
Richard Chirgwin
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No, it highlights the chaos in the American government.
You can’t hear the warning go silent if you never listened to the caller in the first place
It’s so much easier to fool a person than to convince them they’ve been fooled.
NEPA IS GOOD, ACTUALLY.
police are not supposed to investigate complainants. They are meant to investigate suspects. This headline perfectly encapsulates why police investigations into sexual violence are structurally flawed.
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...
Richard Chirgwin
I'm seeing the phrase "assistive" being used to describe stuff like "fact-checking" uses for generative AI, and I don't think people realise using a language-generating system for research or 'data analysis' or whatever is WORSE than using it to write body text
www.crikey.com.au/2026/06/11/s...
Hang on, you need GPU-filled hotboxes just to produce AI tokens? These people are utterly insane.
If you build three gigawatts of solar in the desert, and then use all of that to power the melting of computer chips to run GenAI (instead of helping to push fossil fuels out of the system through an undersea cable to Asia), what's the benefit to climate, or biodiversity or environment?
