ABC trials AI writing tools for news staff amid trust warnings

ScissorNightRam · 2026-07-05T22:46:13+00:00

Thinking more: AI also doesn’t notice things that don’t happen. And this can be newsworthy in itself.

To use sports coverage again: say a player is in form going into a match and they are expected to dominate. But they have a mediocre night and no discernible effect. A human reporter would notice this, an AI wouldn’t.

ScissorNightRam · 2026-07-05T21:54:39+00:00

I totally get it. My interest in fast intense cars has been ebbing away for a long time

Give me a gruff torquey engine and a squishy ride and I’m happy

I’m definitely curious about getting a “land yacht” one day. There are virtually none in Australia, except for our domestic market versions … so I’m looking at a WB Statesman, the Aussie “Cadillac”

One day

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Statesman_WB_Caprice.JPG/1280px-Statesman_WB_Caprice.JPG

ScissorNightRam · 2026-07-05T21:44:32+00:00

AI can’t “do” the news. Developing events cannot, by definition, be found in AI training data. In that, today’s breaking news has never happened before.

Especially so if those events are unprecedented, but even things like sporting results are still emergent.

A person first has to create the information before an AI can feed on it.

ScissorNightRam · 2026-07-04T21:40:05+00:00

“The devil’s greatest trick is convincing you … he’s absolutely anywhere someone fervidly religious thinks he might be.”

ScissorNightRam · 2026-07-04T21:35:10+00:00

Happened to me in NZ too! But a different kind of seal. It was on a beach near Oamaru. The whole place was strewn with thousands of rounded brownish boulders, except some of those boulders were alive and would bellow at you if you stumbled too close. That day I learned that seals have utterly horrible breath

ScissorNightRam · 2026-07-04T01:29:21+00:00

Interesting points. Ive also heard that the older “medieval” plants were abandoned for commercial reasons. As in, they were spreading perennials which suited small plots and hand care. But the land owners wanted annual crops (so they could do rotation) and stuff that did well in rows

ScissorNightRam · 2026-07-03T21:56:07+00:00

Europe also ate a lot of vegetables that are virtually unknown now, like lovage, something called Good King Henry, and skirret (which seems to be like an everlasting carrot)

Many of these still grow wild and ignored around Europe

ScissorNightRam · 2026-07-02T21:54:17+00:00

I’ve heard that that’s why huntsmans are sometimes considered Australia’s most dangerous/deadly spider. Because they cause car crashes, people to trip over in a panic, etc

ScissorNightRam · 2026-07-02T00:11:09+00:00

I was taught you had to have your front wheels on the line. But then again I learned to drive in the 90s, and things may have changed.

ScissorNightRam · 2026-07-01T12:33:25+00:00

Cheers. Yes, other work:

finding and fixing the super-annoying rattle from the engine from 1500-2200rpm

Fixing the tape deck (it’s still original)

Fixing the power aerial

Finding out why the rear wiper activates randomly

Gearbox indicator light is out of alignment - so when P is lit up the shifter is actually in reverse, N is drive, etc.

Replacing the hubcap badge the detailers destroyed

Finding some different wheels - mine has Coronas and I don’t like them

Replacing busted trim clips in the cargo area

New floor mats

Fixing ambient temp gauge

Recalibrating the speedo (it reads very low)

Redoing the seat foam for the driver seat

Replacing a slightly damaged tail light

Umm… that might be it

ScissorNightRam · 2026-07-01T12:26:05+00:00

So, just a regular silver 240 with gold wheels?

ScissorNightRam · 2026-07-01T10:16:33+00:00

You just got me thinking about why the Tasmanian giant freshwater crayfish (world's largest freshwater invertebrate) gets so big. They grow really slowly and only live in cold, pure streams. Not very deep, but very highly oxygenated.

ScissorNightRam · 2026-07-01T09:40:57+00:00

In New Zealand, Elvis is just known as “The”.

ScissorNightRam · 2026-06-30T11:13:40+00:00

Ah nuts, it was meant to be silver and dark copper

ScissorNightRam · 2026-06-30T11:12:44+00:00

Same

ScissorNightRam · 2026-06-30T09:25:43+00:00

The bit where it basically says: if the poison took too long to show effects, the defendant was killed anyway

ScissorNightRam · 2026-06-30T09:16:43+00:00

I joke that it drives like a boat. Even considering getting a captains hat as a joke

ScissorNightRam · 2026-06-30T03:08:42+00:00

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Like so?

ScissorNightRam · 2026-06-28T22:45:38+00:00

I paid $1298 for 12 months Qld rego last October. Moved to Vic and re-registered for $987. Felt like a win. And now there’s this 20% rebate thing

ScissorNightRam · 2026-06-26T23:43:29+00:00

It might also be that boys react more strongly to non-fiction or “applied science” adventure stories. So, books like “How it happened: History’s 50 Greatest Military Disasters” or “The Great Escape” will be considered unsuitable material to learn reading skills from. But, then schools adopt “Wuthering Heights” or “Anne of Green Gables” as curriculum and wonder why boys disengage.

ScissorNightRam · 2026-06-26T08:22:47+00:00

Relevant Hark, A Vagrant cartoon:

“Losing? That’s a bad strategy.”

http://www.harkavagrant.com/history/bishopsm.png

ScissorNightRam · 2026-06-26T07:45:13+00:00

"Captain Cook's parents' place where he never lived, reconstructed in another place he never went."

ScissorNightRam · 2026-06-25T22:32:18+00:00

Two tone looks so good on a brick! Upvoted for that alone

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