In some fields, General Purpose LLMs are useful;

• Marketting copy that no one reads.
• Business reports that push an agenda for political reasons.
• Political analysis that puts an agenda for political reasons.

That is why they are being adopted wholesale by certain companies; marketeers and analysts for lobbying groups and political movements.

So yes, they are useless for any legitimate case, but are useful for justification of lies to certain gullible individuals (consumers and politicians).

That said, the fact that Deloitte was forced to (partially) pay the Australian Government back for a report that was all AI Dross is enheartening. The fact that it was only a partial refund and the company is not being prosecuted for Fraud is disenheartening.

It is Optimised.

Just not optimised for efficiency or ease of use.

It is optimised for extracting as much personal metadata as possible, feeding as many ads as possible, monopolising users attention and manipulating political opinions.

That is the thing about general purpose LLMs. They really are impressive to people with below average experience and knowledge in a specific field.

People who actually do know something; academics, professionals and hobbyists realise that they are completely useless for their specific use case.

Unfortunately then they use it for something they are ignorant about and then they forget how useless they are.

My old workplace had a stain like that just above the reps desk. It was directly below the toilet in the Executive Suite.

They were too “frugal” to get a plumber in and the stain kept getting bigger and bigger.

About a month after I left for a better job, one of my former coworkers told me that it finally gave way.

The manager came in to a huge pile of excrement all over the reps new laptop and splash stains (and accompanying smell) all throughout the phone room.

So glad I left.

The best thing about Compulsory Voting was that a Right-Wing politician was scared he would loose the election if The Workers voted and his advisors told him that the majority of his supporters didn’t vote.

He reasoned that if it was compulsory, The Silent Majority would come out and vote for him in a landslide.

It was a landslide; it turns out that his advisors overestimated how many supporters he had and he was voted out.

Also see last election, the Right-Wing media echo chamber and the coalition.

https://theshovel.com.au/2025/11/15/amyl-the-sniffers-shouldve-labelled-gig-a-nazi-rally-if-they-wanted-it-to-go-ahead-police-say/

But there will be no demand for their “product”. They may have money in the bank but no future business model.

Managers aren’t being held accountable for their management decisions either.

“Oh, I sacked our entire workforce and sold all the company assets, so the figures will look amazing this month.”

<one month later>

“Oh, the figures are down this month, a golden handshake!? Thank you very much.”

Yay!

Now do “profits from human rights violations”!

If only we had our own Automobile Industry.

It would also benefit if our own automobile industry was specifically for the benefit of our own manufacturing industry and not just global outsourcing.

Towards the end; GMH and Ford Australia were outsourcing component manufacturing to China and revenue collection to Detroit.

I am not glad that GMH and Ford Australia are dead, I am glad that the Corporate welfare has stopped.

I would love to see the return of Australian manufacture of Consumer, Industrial and National goods.

Amazingly, Ford Rangers underrepresented in these videos; maybe because they wouldn’t show fatalities in a promotional video.

These consultant companies are all just a bunch of wafflers who spit out garbage.

You are much better off going down to the local pub, shouting a round of drinks and asking the punters for political direction.

They can’t run a stable network. They can’t run secure Cell Towers. They can’t provide Emergency phone coverage. They can’t run a Cable TV Service. They can’t pay their tax. They can’t compete with Aussie Broadband, Telstra and/or NBN.

It is time to abandon the whole Privatised Telecommunications infrastructure and for the Government to exercise Eminent Domain.

The problem is that the Infrastructure is owned by the Providers, who mainly make money from selling (their own) power and billing you for pumping your own power back into the network.

The providers aren’t going to have Co-Loc batteries if they can charge more for generated power.

The Grid needs to be completely privatised piecemeal so it can be commercially competitive, or nationalised so the government can plan and design for maximum efficiency.

The depleted open cut mines would be the perfect locations for hydraulic batteries.

Please listen to Tim Minchin’s song “Confessions”.

I received a Jane Goodall diorama as a Lego Gift-With-Purchase.

I recently donated it (including the Jane Goodall minifig) to a Primary School Science teacher for her classroom.

I hope none of the little perishers steal the minifig!

The ”F” is silent. It is pronounced “Kaka”

It does have its use case, especially since Things are so bloody expensive nowadays.

When a replacement car key costs $2000, some people may chose to pay $50 for a keyring that makes it easy to find them when the lose them down the back of the sofa, regardless of the privacy implications.

That said, I have never had to search for the two items I have an AirTag attached to; although an AirTag in my wallet would be handy.

Insert “2025 year of Linux Desktop” meme.

Honestly though, the only thing keeping gamers on Windows are the requirement of these Rootkits and inertia.

I let my Phone (and CarPlay) map my route for me; but I do like throwing a spanner in its workings by deliberately taking a wrong turn to explore.

Previously, I would do the same, but then I would have to pull over and spend 15 minutes browsing the Street Directly trying to figure out where I was before I was able to continue my journey.

Having a frictionless (and relatively) safe way of exploring has empowered me.