WeAreBrisbane

@WeAreBrisbane@bne.social

A rotation curation account for Brisbane. Presently being driven like a rental by https://mastodon.social/@jaystephens... hold on to your mandolins, we're heading to woodford folk festival

Next up: TBA

Admins: https://bne.social/@phocks / https://bne.social/@kellyyyllek

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Yesterday's band of the day has to be Regurgitator, for getting the Brissie contingent dancing like its 1999

Regurgitator on the Amphi stage strobes firing so the large crowd can be seen
Shot from behind mixing desk, regurgitator on stage working their guitars hard
Close up of the band, blue and purple spots on stage

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Dyan Tai dropping samples of Gillard's "I will not be lectured by this man" into their set
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Next up for me: Impact Labs' presentation on how "Stories Change the World"

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We spend so much time passively consuming story, be it a book, Netflix, or a lecture.

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If you change the story, you change the world.

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There's an evolutionary benefit to stories - we can learn from the experience of others.

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Stories frame how we create our identity and how we decide upon our actions, which gives them tremendous power.
One of our dominant narratives is one of separation (from each other, from nature...)

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Therefore, we need stories about reciprocity and gifting, because reconnection happens through giving back, and participating in circular/reciprocal relationships

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80% of the whole world's screen content consumption is Hollywood productions.
80%.
WHO is telling the story matters - representation has improved, but remains overwhelmingly white & male. The vast majority of womens' and girls' roles we've seen on screen have been written by men. Likewise almost all representations of poor people were written by rich, privileged people.

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An analysis of how climate change was dealt with in American screen content:
2% of shows mentioned it.
Of that 2%, a significant proportion mentioned it only to mock it.

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Diversity is not a goal.
It's an outcome, of justice.
To understand whether we're achieving equity/justice, we need to ask where the power lies in an industry, who is doing the hiring, why they're making the hiring decisions they make etc

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The wider access to the industry is, the more breadth and genuine understanding of the world will be reflected in the stories told.
That's how story can enable us to learn about others' lived experience, not the current 80%-from-Hollywood-studios situation.

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Our increasingly fragmented media consumption habits (often algo driven, alone in with a device) reduces opportunities to discuss, analyse, critique, leaving us as passive consumers, even when compared to watching TV as a family.

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Examples of representation of behaviours that are sorely lacking in contemporary tv:

  • keep cups
  • ev charging
  • seeking solace in nature
  • volunteering
  • composting while cooking
  • men caring for babies without it being remarked upon
  • characters who dress in op shop clothes

Scriptwriters need to foreground this stuff to normalise it

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A fundamental part of a writer's job is to imagine good things about how the world could be

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Smashed by a storm this morning. There is more than an inch of groundwater so the kids are flooded out of their tents and the family has taken refuge in the caravan.

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Gents' loos wisdom thread

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Next up:
QUT Digital Media Research Centre's presentation on "AI and Society".

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Authorship in the age of LLMs:

  • many education departments (all states except SA) knee-jerk banned all use in essay writing
  • this reflects similar panics around pocket calculators, iPads etc
  • nuanced conversation about how to use is what is needed
  • BUT there's $ driven pressure from big tech to integrate LLMs into learning
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LLMs perhaps reveal how nonsensical some of our assessment metrics really are.
It's an opportunity to make academic assessment ssyems more rational, as we adjust.

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Real talk:
Almost all LLM development right now is in the hands of a tiny number of large tech giants.
Barriers to entry high for now.

This is not an incremental tech/societal change, it's an important transformational tech and therefore this is a societal inflection point.

Can community led efforts be part of the early LLM ecosystem? Can they push back against big tech regulatory capture?

Can less resource intensive infrastructure compete with the hugely power thirsty LLMs we see?

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Obvious point... LLMs are trained predominantly on data that's on the internet.
The biases of the internet are subtly different from the biases that run through society, and LLMs reflect the former.

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