Marty_d

Depends on the brand of bread, the loaf length, the slice width etc. For supermarket bread, loaves would be funneled into a multi-blade slicer. Bakery bread is usually hand-fed into the slicer so it's a bit variable whether the end crusts will be the same width as the others. You could always have a bonus slice once a loaf, or give it to the chooks.

That's where the line of responsibility becomes blurry. If the design team that created an AI agent made all reasonable efforts to guardrail that agent, but it escapes and acts in unexpected (and illegal) ways, who has liability? Personally I think the board of the tech company who funded the design should be held accountable, with the same criminal charges that a human hacker would face.

I disagree with Andrew Hastie on just about everything, but he's dead right when he calls Hanson a coward. She is a disgusting individual and has truly pulled the wool over her sheepish follower's eyes.

Rode into Hobart this morning to check out the vintage motorbike show in Princes Wharf #1. ( @nomadpete- on til 4pm if you want to see it, $5 entry, free parking for bikes on the forecourt). Heaps of lovely old bikes including a 1951 Vincent Black Lightning in original condition which apparently went for $1.3m at auction.

I like how it only goes to 99,999 miles. Did they not expect cars to do more than 100,000 back then?

We should. At the moment they are the last remaining democracies. Plus, "Aukeur" sounds much more refined than "Aukus"

The owners are complaining about the "strict" rules around when they can fire up and use their 200-odd diesel generators. Subtext - although they're describing them as "emergency backup", they want to run them as part of normal operation.

Just when you think he can't get any scummier. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-18/donald-trump-kennedy-center-demolition-plan-photo/107167248 Short story is - he's pissed off that he can't have his name on the Kennedy Center, so now he wants to tear it down. What a c***.

Anyone who cares about the environment wants to STOP the building of data centres, so I'm not sure where you get your information.

Maybe they got it confused with the storm warning that's current for most of southern Tasmania?

Let me try to put down my thoughts. The one thing that puts us on top of the food chain is our brain. If you don't believe that, get naked and go fight any other apex predator on their turf without thinking. Now we're actively trying to develop something that is more intelligent than us. Plus we train it on the internet, which is a vast pool of humanity's worst impulses, not to mention all the misinformation and disinformation, especially since 2016. We see reports time and again of AI agents escaping their sandpits and wreaking havoc. In tests, AI agents have consistently sought to protect their own existence by any means available to them, including lying and blackmail. The creators of AI are tech companies run by morally bankrupt Silicone Valley billionaires who lined up to support the most evil and destructive administration the US has ever had. Given all this, somehow we still seem to believe that AGI will be a benign intelligence and will stay inside whatever "guardrails" we give it. To me, the possible benefits of a super intelligent entity are far outweighed by the risk to humanity.

You can see why Kushner married into the family. Just as crooked as the rest. I read today that a Russian oligarch close to Putin funded part of Donald Jr's wedding. Funny how all the evil scum are so cosy.

What?? That bloke who dresses up in a bear suit to steal salmon from bear cubs, takes them all the way to Thailand for processing?

He even won an election that he didn't win.

Replace "mosque" with "church", "kindergarten", or "my house" and would the tolerance be any greater?