Stuart Palmer

@spalm.bsky.social

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Professional engineer. Recovering academic. Officially retired. Opinions my own. https://stuartpalmer2.github.io/spalm/index.html

Post from r/usyd Unit tasks written by AI So one of my units for this coming semester was created on canvas and they added all the assignments, the weekly schedule, and the unit description. It’s a Visual Arts practical unit. It’s all written with ChatGPT. The second I saw the unit description I immediately realised it was complete AI Slop. There’s bolded phrases, random emojis at the beginning of each paragraph, the use of “it’s not just a ____, it’s a ____” about ten times, etc. They couldn’t even write the weekly outline that is A COUPLE OF SENTENCES themselves. They probably used more words writing the fkn prompt for it.
A pile of Lime bikes artistically stacked on the footpath.
BS electioneering sign declaring "$2B for Geelong fast rail - delivered".
Auto-enhanced Master E in the Beyond Perception exhibition.
Sign for 'Toni the Barber' in Footscray.
Former Franco Cozzo furniture store in Footscray.
A sponge from the Freshwater Creek cake shop.
Scottish comedian and writer Janey Godley protesting outside the Trump International Golf Links in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
Former Melbourne sewerage pump being demonstrated at Scienceworks in Spotswood.
Two sequential bloops mentioning crows. 1. From Greg Jericho: "Huge win #GoCrows". 2. From Jeff VanderMeer: "It's really something, still, to watch the crows of Portland fly over at dawn to report for work in their assigned quadrants across the city."
Sam Neill as Dr William Weir with his eyes scratched out saying, "Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see".
Bloop from yesterday: "Australia's lamb export gains ground in US as protein 'wave' creates demand". Bloop from today: "US global trade investigation targets Australian lamb imports".
Mock up of cryogenically suspended astronaut at Scienceworks.
Chart at Scienceworks comparing heights of the world's tallest buildings.
A pair of black socks covered in semi-random mathematical expressions.
The window of my old office on the south wall of the Elisabeth Murdoch building at Melbourne University.
Light switch with a cover plate that doesn't properly clip on to the switch unit. Too cheap. Spend a few more bucks please.
Master E surveying Southern Cross train station.
Books where we are staying. Basically the full business/finance self-improvement list.
The (in)famous Gorilla exhibit from the old Melbourne Museum, now displayed at the new Melbourne Museum.
Black duck.
550 and 554 Swanston Street in Carlton.
Cherry jam in pie crust.
Bakewell tart pie crust out of the oven.
View from the first floor mezzanine at Scienceworks.
Melbourne City Circle tram map and completed Metro tunnel passport.
Scene from the new Melbourne Metro.
Verve Apartments building in Melbourne.
A shower mixer tap with a large metal screw for a handle.
The Swanston Academic Building from the 17th floor on Franklin Street.
Exhibition Buildings from Museum Plaza.
A small French bar in Footscray.
African Dik-Dik.
The Spaceballs movie poster.
A sign that says, "0 days since it was DNS (it's always DNS)".
High and long shot of an outback road covered by the phrase "Thank you" with first names, implying lots of people love the ABC.
Mystery obelisk out the front of the soon-to-be Northcote Maccas site.
Yorkie chocolate bar made by Nestlé. From 2006, when they were still marketed as "not for girls".
Tucker the Tuckerbag grocery bag.
IEAust Engineering Excellence Award from 1996.
The Apple privacy hedgehog.
Moon base in 1999.
Master E at Melbourne Uni Audiology.
Moon peeking through the clouds outside and the reflections in the window at dinner tonight. Vegan shiraz sitting on the table in the foreground.
Shangri-La Hotel building in Melbourne.
Sesame Street circus is in town at Waurn Ponds.
Pot of vegetable soup/stew.
Homemade BTN mic.
The new Geelong Convention centre Nyaal Banyul (from the end of the big pier) circled in yellow. The arrow is my office until the end of the financial year.
Australian Defence Force joins desperate search for missing Gold Coast magician Daniel Hidden eight days after disappearance.
The three lasagnes are out of the oven.
Cover art from The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin.
Ali G.
Whistler's Mother.
Bakewell tart out of the oven cooling.
Two lasagnes being assembled.
Photo of newly acquired rescue coffee table.
The Hidden Frog restaurant.
Battersea Power Station - from the London Eye 2006.