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timrichards

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Travel writer living and working on Wurundjeri land in Melbourne, Australia. Rail travel expert, current books on sale include Heading South and Ultimate Train Journeys: World. See my published writing at iwriter.com.au.

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jeffjarvis, to random
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Google blew it. They could have stood back and said: "Ha! Microsoft is so desperate for hype, it is irresponsibly linking LLMs to Bing. Google instead stands for reliable search and won't do that." But instead, Google did. They knew better. They all knew better. LLMs have no sense of meaning. They should be nowhere near the expectation of credibility.

timrichards,
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@jeffjarvis I suppose no one connects them with reliable search anymore either, so they thought "What the hell" :)

timrichards, to trams
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On this date in 2022, I took this photo in Toronto. Gotta love a tram.

LifeTimeCooking, to random
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Mmmmm cheese crispies (cheese melted into a flat crispy thing). Even better with cumin.

https://www.archanaskitchen.com/crunchy-baked-cheese-crisps-recipe

timrichards,
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@LifeTimeCooking Hmm in Red Dwarf the character Lister always referred to vindaloo as very hot! Maybe that was just his version of it.

travelfish, to random
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“Between rubdowns, I was chased by security guards—in one case run off the road by one, who then, of all things, offered me a blowjob. I visited tourist tat & pepper farms, beach clubs & seafood shacks. I saw a scale of development that I could not have imagined had I not seen it with my own eyes.”

The first part of my series—where I set up some context for what is coming—on Vietnam’s Phú Quốc Island is now out.

https://www.travelfish.org/couchfish/news/phu-quoc-overtourism-part1

timrichards,
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@travelfish You're back! Good to see you. :)

timrichards, to melbourne
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On a tram to St Kilda. Am I imagining things, or is this a very mild May? Lots of sunshine lately.

timrichards, to random
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Makes the whole Google Glass misadventure seem positively competent https://toot.community/@corbin/112496780322004995

StefanThinks, to random
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Full disclosure: In high school, some guy was arguing with me and I told him, “I'm sorry, I don't speak nerd.” But that was not true, I was 100% proficient and fluent in nerd.

timrichards,
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@StefanThinks You were indeed a camouflaged nerd. I think of myself as a high-functioning nerd.

scott, to random
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did you know there’s a maryland street?

timrichards,
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@scott Do the other states have streets too?

timrichards,
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@godofbiscuits @scott This is my favourite street names section of Melbourne - someone went crazy naming the streets of Elwood after poets:

timrichards,
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@scott Ah yes no doubt due to his famous poem:

In San Frisco did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome essay:
Where BART, the sacred subway, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Beneath a foggy bay

timrichards, to random
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It's getting so ridiculously complex, they might as well reinstate staffed checkouts.

Coles staff told to ‘assist’ shoppers in scanning bulky items to stem theft
https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/coles-staff-told-to-assist-shoppers-in-scanning-bulky-items-to-stem-theft-20240524-p5jgbl.html

timrichards, to art
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New at my Patreon... Visiting Ballarat, we saw an exhibition that crosses Palm Springs architecture with Australia's - from model motels to desert/beach shacks:

Dateline Ballarat: Palm Springs meets Oz https://www.patreon.com/posts/104879883

sister_ratched, to random
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The leaflets have arrived! Big morning of letterboxing for . We're starting in Molonglo.

timrichards,
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@sister_ratched Fun. When's the election?

TheBreadmonkey, to random
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Going to bed. In all of your faces. X

Picard pirouetting with a Spanish flamenco flourish or something. He's a fine looking man.

timrichards,
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@TheBreadmonkey Wild times

timrichards, to random
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This explains much, at least re a certain presidential candidate https://federated.press/@ClimateNewsNow/112498114047409262

damonism, to random
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It’s so long ago that I last used ICQ that even with an email archive that goes back almost 20 years I have no record of what my ICQ number was.

timrichards,
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@damonism Is ICQ still around?

timrichards,
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@SuperMoosie @damonism Oh right. Haven't thought about it in years.

timrichards, to auspol
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I'm feeling mildly confident of the Greens winning a bunch more inner-city and inner-west seats in the next Victorian election. The Greens always do well when Labor starts disappointing while in office - and that applies to the federal election next year too.

Jacinta Allan’s Labor faces trouble as the west gets wild

https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/jacinta-allan-s-labor-faces-trouble-as-the-west-gets-wild-20240522-p5jfty.html

timrichards, to random
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I'm guessing the answer is YES. The same answer which always applies to the question "Is X the fault of capitalism?"
https://social.chinwag.org/

timrichards,
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@cgiffard I find problems with autocorrect prioritising American capitalisations. It capitalises "Main Street" every time, for example. And it doesn't know how to spell Australian slang words.

SheilaS, to Travel
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What is it like to ride the Amtrak Coast Starlight train? A mother-daughter journey includes good food, great views, and a wish for a softer bed:

https://perceptivetravel.com/blog/2024/04/24/coast-starlight-train/

timrichards,
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@SheilaS That's also a pleasant route. @NarrelleMHarris and I caught it all the way from San Diego to San Luis Obispo a few years ago.

timrichards, to ai
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Well said!

“Hey, look, this new magic instant dictionary is super convenient and easy to use!”

Oh, nice — so it gives you correct definitions and everything?

“Well, some of the time.”

Gemini is the new Google+ – Computerworld

#AI https://www.computerworld.com/article/2117752/google-gemini-ai.html

timrichards,
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@frankcat I can't imagine anyone using AI commercially even if it was only wrong 1% of the time. That 1% could ruin you.

timrichards, to random
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Love the headline. Nick Bryant may have a point.

UK election: Britain’s best hope is a new PM with the charisma of frozen peas

https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/britain-s-best-hope-is-a-pm-with-the-charisma-of-frozen-peas-20240523-p5jg05.html

timrichards, to random
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All hail the Big Trout!

Adaminaby's Big Trout is restored to its former glory after local outcry over first 'hideous' revamp last year - ABC News

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-24/adaminaby-big-trout-paint-job-complete-big-things-australia/103883854

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