Nathan Shanahan

@nathanshanahan@aus.social
57 Followers
114 Following
93 Posts

Fond of wearing black, not very good at drawing. 25+ years in the technical ends of the creative industry.

Minimalist, anti greed.


#Gifu, #Japan based #remote #fullstack #webdeveloper. #tennis junkie, fervent #coffee drinker. 
Breaking things with #Javascript, #PHP, #Shopify and #WordPress

Living in 🎏Gero Onsen, Gifu, Japan
AboutDigital Developer | Bone.digital
External Linkshttps://nathanshanahan.com
PronounsHe/Him
Nathan ShanahanJul 30, 2023
Amelie’s haiku on display for festival season. Loose translation: Translator, is out of battery, what to do?
Nathan ShanahanJul 1, 2023
The most strikingly human trait of AI is its ability to convincingly emulate human behavior. Prime example, the more AI interacts with humans, the more its intelligence diminishes.
Nathan ShanahanJun 30, 2023
Let the reno begin (after we find the money to do it). As of today this little beauty is officially ours (once the paper work hurdles are all jumped). So yeah, a little ahead of myself but as we’ve got the keys and permission to start reno I’m keen to celebrate.
Nathan ShanahanJun 12, 2023
AliscaSep 15, 2018
I'm gonna keep posting this until one of you fucking boosts it
Nathan ShanahanJan 20, 2023
Robert ReichJan 14, 2023
If Elon Musk can afford to lose $200 billion in a single year, he can afford a wealth tax.
Nathan ShanahanJan 14, 2023

I’ve found a fairly simple problem that ChatGPT seems incapable of solving or learning. It’s also a task I believe a year 4 student could solve quite easily.

What is the first letter of each lyric in this chorus : “I am human and I need to be loved
Just like everybody else does”

Nathan ShanahanJan 6, 2023
One step closer to calling this view home.
Nathan ShanahanJan 6, 2023
It’s no fun having teenage daughters.
Nathan ShanahanJan 5, 2023
DrFriendless 🇵🇸Nov 21, 2022

Why does the ABC News site now hassle me every day about logging in? Logging in to read the news is an awful idea, it's an open invitation to the site to keep me in my bubble. I don't want my news customised, and for that matter I dont want anyone else's news customised either.

We are told over and over that if you're not paying, you're the product. This seems more and more true of even the ABC. I do not want to be the product of our national broadcaster, I do not want the national broadcaster to gather data on me, I do not want to be involved in yet another data breach.

So far I can refuse to login. Logging in was optional to iview as well, at first. But the national broadcaster that is paid for by my tax dollars insists on trying to track me.

I do not accept. I will never accept. I do not want a national broadcaster like this, and I do not want to fund a national broadcaster like this. If it is paid for with tax dollars it should not be paid for by data harvesting as well.

Nathan ShanahanDec 18, 2022
Peter RelphDec 18, 2022

There is no humanist billionaire, no philanthropic billionaire.

No-one gets one thousand million dollars who has a molecule of humanity in their body.

I don't know why I have to say this.

Do you know what a billion dollars is?

A little less than $1m per week every week for 20 years.

That is ONE billion dollars.

Given that all wealth is created by labour & your average billionaire has no concept of the word then whose wealth do you think it is that they have accrued? Not theirs obviously.

Just think on it.