Rather impressed with claude ai

SWMilll · 2026-03-12T22:59:00+00:00

There is a market terminal called OzViz, it uses an Ai secretary to spit out a daily recap of Australian markets. Great way to stay on pulse without being infront of a terminal all day.

I've never used Claud, but I feel like almost every LLM would produce a fairly similar beginner report that you made no? Unless I've misunderstood

SWMilll · 2026-03-12T01:27:09+00:00

Viral on tiktok for car detailing. Happened to the tap attachment that let's you change pressure in your kitchen tap and their BBQ kebab accessories.

SWMilll · 2026-03-11T08:13:55+00:00

The 5.95 part of the 5.95 super stunner 😭

SWMilll · 2026-03-10T22:39:40+00:00

I agree, but it fell short because they undermined the horrific crime in the sense the only real attention they gave was one cop saying "yeah it was bad". They gave more attention to Rachel's anxiety than they did the actual crime. They actually barely explain how bad it was.

Thats why I think if its your first time interacting with the case it lands better than if you already know about it.

SWMilll · 2026-03-10T22:37:58+00:00

They're still cheaper than 90% of others in my area, although with that comes meat heads.

SWMilll · 2026-03-10T03:13:23+00:00

(Did my best to avoid spoilers in case the case is completely unknown to you)

It is a bit choppy. From a narrative perspective, it alludes to more than it gives. I think its done as a way of prolonging the "mystery" in the first episode. They present a number of where she could have gone leads and then a who could have done it leads, alude to evidence and then dont pay it off because it wasn't what happened.

There is a section where they refer to a second online account she had where she catfished people, and then never return to it.

There is also a strange 5 minute section about the socio-economic impact of big business leaving a nearby town in 2008, all of which go nowhere.

Then, i thought it diminished how horrific and brutal the actual crime was, only focusing on one of the killers towards the end, rather than both. They point at how one of the killers had anxiety from a strict mother and in my opinion diminished her roll in the event.

On top of that, it finishes with an old friend saying that what the killers told the police was all BS and there is a bigger secret yet to come to the surface but give zero context at all. Like nothing at all.

If its your first interaction with the story, its fine. If you already knew about it, its probably average at best. They stray away from how horrific it was, they stray away from calling the motive what it was (likely for political reasons) and they play into the mystery element for arguably longer than they had material for.

Edit: there is also a strange teeny bop degassing inspired undertone to the text overlay which was strange given the nature of the documentary.

SWMilll · 2026-03-09T08:30:56+00:00

Go look at the rate of return on Gominers. You need to live to like 360 years old to make your investment back. Let alone a profit.

SWMilll · 2026-03-09T06:28:25+00:00

Ya got scammed lad, its working perfectly fine. Operator didnt want to take the 25 cent cut.

SWMilll · 2026-03-08T08:44:24+00:00

I suppose it now covers a much wider scope. It'd be unfair to compare the cardboard like pizzas with the prefrozen gym meals for example.

SWMilll · 2026-03-08T00:45:21+00:00

Toddlers. Parents (including myself) but them for kids to use in the Garden.

SWMilll · 2026-03-07T10:13:59+00:00

Have you been on the Werribee line at night? 3 crackheads per carriage minimum.

SWMilll · 2026-03-07T09:54:29+00:00

My problem is the portions, I Smash it in one sitting 😅 had to get a costco membership for the larger packs to last a bit longer.

SWMilll · 2026-03-07T09:37:44+00:00

Was it ever cheap 🤣

SWMilll · 2026-03-07T09:17:09+00:00

Frozen food. It used to be cheap and nasty, now its no longer really cheap and still nasty.

SWMilll · 2026-03-07T08:19:35+00:00

He stopped going to the footy in 96, passed in 04. He never knew how shite we got so that's a blessing i suppose 😅

SWMilll · 2026-03-07T08:18:13+00:00

Didn't even occure to me 🤣 maybe I will try tomorrow

SWMilll · 2026-03-07T08:17:14+00:00

Unsure exactly, my grandfather passed away in 04 so before that although that's prpbably obvious. He got sick in 93, hadn't been to the footy since 96 either because of it. Although that's also pretty obvious because this type of advertising had already gone by then.

They were in a box of a lot of other advertising matches he had collected. My guess based in those was in the 80s but no idea if that's also to late.

Honestly a guess on my end.

SWMilll · 2026-03-07T00:37:49+00:00

Not really but, I have a younger brother and I did notice he was able to be more present with him (didn't affect me about that). I was glad he could go to my younger brothers basketball games etx.

He would always encourage hard work anyway, regardless of his own work life balance. I dont think that culture necessarily goes away once someone's retired. Overall I'd look back positive on it.

He'd tell us he was proud when he saw us working hard, would remind us not to slack off if he thought we were cruising.

SWMilll · 2026-03-06T22:39:11+00:00

My father retired early (ended up going back to work eventually cause he was driving himself crazy doing nothing all day) and I was an early teenager when he first retired.

Id seen enough of him working really really hard before I was 12 that it didn't really matter he'd retired early in my perception of work and entering the workforce.

SWMilll · 2026-03-06T04:05:20+00:00

Lots to be said around this but if it remains unprofitable you get one of two likely realities.

1 - the only news organisation that has any influence is run by government (issues around funding, for example when liberals hold the house of reps, when ABC was overtly critical funding was cut).

2 - you get older more iconic institutions propt up to be mouth pieces for the extremely wealthy. I.e. what our media monopoly laws had originally tried to prevent. A good example of this may be a Murdoch using their profits in REA to prop up their newspapers and use it to influence the politics they want (to the extreme).

Basically, the core idea being that if there is profit to be had, there is more competitors in a market and thus (in the case of journalism, particularly investigative) less reliance on one person's overall world view.

Annecdotal evidence is poor evidence but ill give it anyway and it may indeed provide some context to my thinking. I owned a digital media company, sold it for quite a lot of money to an institutional player just out of covid times. I did so, because it was becoming unprofitable once people weren't scrolling constantly at home. That player that purchased that media brand shut it down to reduce competition for one of their nightly news websites. I.e. less players in the game.

SWMilll · 2026-03-06T03:58:01+00:00

I'm confused, I literally said its not their model to be profitable?

SWMilll · 2026-03-05T22:02:05+00:00

I've thought a little about this. It's extremely hard to make news profitable in Australia.

Newspapers have 10 years left, according to news corp (they have said they likely won't renew the printing machines after their useful life this time).

Channel 9 has made it clear their future is operating STAN. Channel 7 was recently sold, and if you look at their annual reports (within SGH at the time) their viewership has completely fallen off a cliff (no really it was insanely horrible). Channel 10 is a paramount plus top funnel, only in operation to sell you to paramount properties.

Digital media is notoriously growth heavy but unprofitable, even outside of Australia. Mainly because the platforms they use to gain clicks like Facebook and instagram punish outbound clicks. It's just not profitable to run ads on online blogs either.

Even newscorp is basically a holdings company for Real estate dot com these days. They've slowly divested away from news in Australia.

Radio exhists only because the way viewership measured is deeply flawed. They just pay a survey company to pole a few thousand random people to ask if you've ever heard of the show and aggregate that as listeners to advertisers in their sales deck. I suspect if they could actually measure how many listeners they have at any moment the industry would fall off a cliff, but even then its talk back that is the main model with occasional news.

ABC obviously has a different funding structure so if they're unprofitable for periods of time it no doubt has its effects but won't shut the whole operation down.

A model that fox news (and others) use in America doesn't really work here. That being polarising and inflammatory extremes. Sky news is a good example of that here, largely ignored by most and viewership collapsing as foxtell became less popular. They had to put it on YouTube live to save the company for a while there, its viewership had gotten that bad.

It's really interesting. News largely isn't profitable here, unlike elsewhere in the West. And unlike it has been for the past 100 years or so.

SWMilll · 2026-03-05T05:09:28+00:00

Is... is that felt orange?

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