The enormous old #trans woman you often see around #Carlton, the CBD and all the quality #Melbourne inner suburbs. You can't miss me; I look like the love child of Eleanor Bron and Wilfred Brambell. Stop me and say hi.
Penniless economist and inactive activist. Kindly old maiden aunt to any nice person who wants one.
There's many a good tune played on an old fiddle.
#CrazyCatLady #MMT #Urbanism #ADHD
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I don't think I entirely hate the way that #RadioMMT went on Friday. Notwithstanding the fact that I'd had a busy week and my voice was already in tatters.
I certainly like that it was Kev who had to edit out most of my "um"s for the podcast version.
https://audio.3cr.org.au/3cr/2026/03/27/1730/202603271730__64.mp3
@erincandescent @fay Yes, that's the problem. The big AI companies are *hoping* that the output is considered a copyright dervative of its inputs because *they are the only ones who can play that game*. They can make license deals with the big media companies AND everywhere you've been coerced into signing your rights over to with a ToS. And in fact THEY HAVE BEEN making these deals, in the hope this will be the result!
Trying to fight AI models on copyright grounds is a losing battle for us and a winning battle for big AI corporations, unfortunately.
That said *we simply don't know* how things will go, so *don't incorporate AI output into your projects today*!
AI crawler attacks are out of control.
Yesterday a site I still help with saw over 20M requests from tens thousands of IP addresses across hundreds of ASNs. Each bot involved only did just over 1k requests, the most from a single ASN was 45k requests. Almost everything I could block against is legit looking and would trigger false positives, or just randomized garbage and even allow listing won't work as still there would be false positives.
What is everyone doing with these?
I already have:
Yet still the URLs that exist and are correct from countries and ASNs allowed, is still enough to effectively pull the whole site in a couple of hours.
These bots obvs don't honour robots.txt, and Cloudflare and such don't report them as AI crawls.
The only thing I can really think of doing is raising the cost of crawling... Using an allow list of known TLS certs against recent browsers, and saying that that's the only thing you can use. But that's exclusive and shitty to do.
I'm late for #TransVoiceFriday, which is particularly egregious because I already had something recorded. Someone at #3CR was collecting anecdotes from trans people about how they chose their name, so I put on my posh voice and sent them this.
If you'd like to hear more incisive, socially relevant, quality content like this, I would be remiss if I didn't mention that for the price of a cup of coffee a month, yada yada: https://www.3cr.org.au/subscribe
It seems like every time I attempt to socialise, within ten minutes it turns into an intense philosophical discussion or a psychotherapy session.
Gosh, I'm a bundle of fun!
Day three of editing approximately four hours of audio down to one. Thinking that stress-testing my self-confidence may have been a bad idea.
After listening to my own voice for a week, I have lost all confidence in my ability to verbally generate a comprehensible word, much less a coherent sentence.
Going into 3CR this afternoon to do Kev's program again, then off to the pub to attempt to socialise for a few hours.
This should be an entertaining disaster.
This has you covered on the weirdness of age when it comes to The Travelling Wilburies - Harrison, Petty, Dylan, Orbison, Lynne et. al.
God I feel ancient 🧓
When you wake up pre-dawn from a dream where all you want to do (in the dream) is sleep, and (having woken up) you decide that you haven't time for more sleep because of all things you need to day today…
That's probably a bad thing, isn't it?
Tired and overwhelmed. Thanks for asking.
But at least, thanks to a shop-cum-art-installation in Sydney's Chinatown, I know who I am.
Christine Lemmer-Webber
Dee in ✈️
Natasha 
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