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  Been saying for more than a decade that Australia should strengthen strategic alignment with the EU and Asia. So yeah lets *GO*. The USA is a cross-Pacific neighbour so of course we can still be mates, but we need to tell them the BBQ is *over* mate, it's time to go home. You can't just keep inviting yourself to sleep on the couch and sink my tinnies anymore. #geopolitics #auspol

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  Honestly where do people come from with the whole "just use statistical word guessers to get jobs cause that's what the HR people do" thing? It's insane. How about any C suite people on here tell HR to stop using statistical word guessers to wrongly evaluate people? Actually do. your. jobs. #foreverjobhunt #precarity

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  I wrote a thing on linkedin and then read more and should not have. Looks like if you want to walk into academia, just sprinkle "ai" on shit we already knew. Strong flashbacks to rejecting a paper by asking the authors to explain a fudge factor needed for a deep learning process to do a job better than plain old stats [it was never published. Which was sad - because it had some great stuff and I said so! It was all framed on the deep learning process being better and it wasn't, s...

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  Fixed a dirt jump bike today. Best test ride ever, went out and did jumps in the streets of Bendigo. wAt! At your age? oh shityeah - you don't? #biketoot

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  Years ago I made this talk - it was fun :) And I went to Davos to deliver it, which led to a 4 day solo hike around Graubunden 🏔️ ❤️ (as well as learning some of my colleagues and co-authors had decide to fuck my career in the meantime 🙄 ) The room was full! And feedback was great, so here's some stuff about doing things with aerial imagery and sea ice.. https://figshare.com/articles/presentation/Exploiting_digital_imagery_for_snow_surface_retrieval_on_sea_ice/14101823?file=26599760

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  In April 2023, this spot was home for a couple of weeks between house-sits. We've had actual roof and walls without moving since November that year, although we're still on a knife's edge. I was reminded of a geohipster catch up from a similar time - a lot is still true: https://www.geohipster.com/2024/03/21/where-are-they-now-adam-steer/

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@eunews/116573943587688669 hey #auspol lets do this 👇🏻 Too hard you say? Hire me to lead the change 😉

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  OK OSGeo is going to send a survey out about LLM things. Great! ...it hasn't been discussed in public, a big change since I started in open source geospatial things. ...and the language indicates a premeditated result: "to address eventual concerns and fully harness the power of these novel tools." ...reads as "we will do a survey so we can say we got input and then do whatever the thrusters say". The concerns are apriori, readable years ago! Pow...

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  this crew, this place 🗻❤️🤗 ..a reminder from not so long, and also too long ago... #skiposting

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  This quote from the article is applicable across *so much* 🫠🫩: "But executives in [insert any organisation] dismissed it as a non-issue after speaking with the manufacturer [insert salesdroids]" (translation to make it obvious: people holding power who don't want to admit there was an issue with their decision spoke to other people who want to reinforce the decision and everyone agreed there's no problem. Nothing to see...) @futzle @Unixbigot

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  Hey fedi folks. Still no long term income on the horizon. I'd very much appreciate being connected to permanent stable work! Here's my CV: https://iamadamsteer.com/cv/ ...and my tiny business: https://spatialised.net Published snow and ice scientist, capable leader, deeply experienced geospatialist, proficient budget wrangler, strategic systems thinker. Years of outdoor-related frontline customer service 🏔️❤️ Australian working rights, great at remote work! #fedihireme

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  Oh wow the Victorian [Australia] government is fully bought in to the digital astrologists. Anyone who wants a case of brainrot can go read tender FY26-048. "PROVISION OF TRAINING FOR THE DIGITAL JOBS - AI career Conversion pROGRAM" [text directly copypasted, Presents as all caps in the tender doc. Maybe a good example of... the rest 🤣 😭 ] It's like climate, housing, all the things... you can literally *show* these people, yet... It's a disease, I swear. #s...

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  Someone invited me as an early user of their "GeoAI" platform based on my experience / expertise. Which was nice. So I sent them to read the Spatialised policy on AI. #gischat #shitAI

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  Escaping for a while this morning... #dawnPatrol #kayakology

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  @jimbob ...although all of that plays into the "oh there's no money" bullshit game. Which is a tired circle. this quote is great: "What Australia should be doing, according to educators, is rebalancing, announcing a move away from a mass-education model. Universities should be prioritising experience above all else" 💯 I'll fade back into irrelevance now. ...unless aomeone wants to hire me as a uni teacher ;)

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  y'know, whacking the donate button on people's web sites would avoid folx feeling like they need to write things at corporate nazi bars. ...and honestly, if you're reading at the nazi bar, you're still supporting the nazi bar.

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  given the rarity and gravity of a prime ministers address I was expecting: 1. right folks we are ripping up AUKUS 2. removing all Australian assets and personnel from the Big Dumb War and future BDWs. 3. also no more US bases in Australia 4. about fuel. Yeah we know 30 years too late but we are not subisidising fossil fuels anymore and also making diesel/petrol from garbage until we don't have to. 5. everyone work from home 6. free public transport for all time oh well 🤷🏻‍♂️

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  RE: https://tech.lgbt/@beitmenotyou/116331807923748306 this stuff is *never* about protecting children.

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  TIL about a new [to me] society of geospatialists in Australia: ASIERA - the Australasian Spatial Information Education and Research Association ...of course there's no web site. Just whispers in the anzlic parchments, around water coolers... ...yet here they are, poppin' up to label a conference stream and apparently representing a significant part of the spatial information industry! It is probably the same 5 old prunes and their anointed proto-prunes. Mark safe to ignore......

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  Been reading about decision making and mountains today. Here's a film I remembered that had an impact - on the same topic. Good reminder that the mountains don't know about all the terrain analysis, metrics, heuristics, experience... 🏔️ ❤️ https://youtu.be/QHVSeqzI1vU?si=WZjd6NXWyrnEgimq

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  let me guess... tonights big announcement will be more or less "If you've got money we will give you more! Really struggling? Hmm nope nothing for you. If you want a handout just get money..."

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  Huh, its #WIPWednesday. Aside from myself, here's something about debris flow accumulation in some mountains around Victoria (Australia). More black = = more things flow there. For a given scenario.

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  The local supermarket had "on best-before day" camembert at a huge discount. Nomnom. Don't worry, it was just one small wheel 😋 #goodnews #cheese