New growth after the bushfire.
This is the ship we get around in. It's a bit special and very comfy. I'm used to smaller ships so the scale of it can be a little daunting. For sure it's a nice place to come home to after a few hours of walking about the rocks and avoiding crocs on shore.
Biodiversity Heritage Library hit by AI crawlers
https://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/07/bhl-traffic-challenges.html
OK, big thread time. It will seem a little bit meandery, but I promise it all comes together in the end.
The topic is, as is increasingly usual for my rants, the #disingenuous #western #press and its service of #narrative over information. The seeds of this rant were planted when @architecture posted a link to this story:
I urge you to read both the headline and the article before continuing. But I'll be starting with the headline.
Obliquely.
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"Decades ago, public service announcements asked parents, “It’s 10 p.m. Do you know where your children are?”
But a recent campaign to fight online misinformation about climate change turned that script on its head by asking young people, “It’s 10 p.m. Do you know what your parents are scrolling?”"