Good Sunday morning read.
We have a story out today about the (sadly persistent) impossibility of living — let alone conducting a job hunt or re-training — on Australia’s unemployment benefits.
For a single person with no savings, it amounts to $68 per day. I spent half that on a single pizza yesterday.
There’s some really great accessibility research being done at work right now looking into how people experience visually rich stories of the kind I work on. (Hopefully I can share it publicly when the time is right.)
It continues to surprise me that so few people who could benefit from them know about operating system level accessibility controls like reduce motion and colour modifications.
Supporting them should be standard practice (we work hard at this and there’s always more to do!), but it’s increasingly clear we can’t rely on the audience to use them and so also have an educational role to play.
TIL: The Australian Electric Vehicle Association was formed in response to the 1973 oil crisis! Talk about being early to the party.
They also have an interesting policy statement on automotive data, privacy and security.
They are incredibly capable, but they suffer from a fundamental, systemic flaw—they operate in absolute isolation.
How on earth do you come up with that as the “fundamental, systemic flaw” in LLMs that matters?
Sometimes I like to go on side quests. These are some of them.
An adventure through the vagaries of search engine suggestions.
A Mastodon bot posting anonymous edits to the English language Wikipedia originating from Australian government networks. Just for fun I also built an experiment to watch Wikipedia edits in real time.
I help organise the Brisbane chapter of Hacks/Hackers, an event series where people get together to discuss the intersection of storytelling and technology.
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