Bunnies won again! Revised my home page.

Do not mistake sequence for cause there…

Yes, they did win!

So footy tipping is also going rather well but there is many a slip…. The Kiwi not so well thus far.

Revised blog home page

I have stopped as of today my decade plus practice of pinning the latest blog post to the top of my FB feed, following yeserday’s totally absurd and unjustifiable removal of my pinned post as spam. I howled about it in the supplement to yesterday’s post, and I am chuffed that when I posted the following image to FB with an account of the AI-generated unjustifiable decision by FB — no-one has read the “offending” post for meaning obviously! — FB/blogging friend Katy Barnett, a Law Professor at Melbourne University and free speech advocate, responded with an “angry” emoji.

The revised home page

Perhaps I should thank Facebook as the offending post and the blog in general did very well yesterday, comparatively. I am after all just a minnow in the blogosphere and a non-starter in the vlogosphere!

Woolies is coming….

In an hour’s time, according to the SMS I just received. Bright and early. So, having also made a good start with Wordle this morning, I am off for the moment on this moderately cool and dampish Saturday morning.

Wordle 1,092 3/6

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Writing completed 6.20 am Saturday 15th June 2024 here in West Wollongong.

Writing resumes 8.40 am

And here I am again! On ABC Weekend Breakfast a few minutes ago this 16-year-old lad was interviewed:

Yes, that young man, seen there 11 months ago when he was… I will let him tell you:

Today at 16 — 17 come November — he told ABC that the idea of blanket bans on all people under 16 on social media was silly and impractical. The kind of age verification needed to make it work simply does not exist. He conceded that social media can do harm, and agreed that since starting 6News at age 11 he has had his fair share of nasty comments, but has a thick skin and can handle them.

(LANGUAGE ALERT!)

Love Cathy Wilcox!

See 6 News anchor Leonardo Puglisi slams bi-partisan under 16 social media ban.

Incompetent Idiots — not my words

On FB this morning US meteorologist Dan Satterfield reported that fellow meteorologist James Spann had fallen victim to Meta’s current AI-bot capricious decision-making:

Satterfield remarked: “Incompetent Idiots. (Note: Someone said that was a bit too strong to say incompetent idiots. I will change it to COMPLETELY incompetent idiots. That should fix it.)”

The problem, it seems to me, is that Meta is using smart technology to vet posts on its sites, but the technology is incapable of the most important skill a HUMAN reader has — to read for MEANING, TONE, INTENTION and CONTEXT. The result is bound to be a series of failures.

Yes, I very much agree that social media should have standards which need to be followed and policed, but outfits like META are so big that doing it rationally is almost impossible!