Apple, marketing Siri 2.0: "We’ve built a safe architecture where Siri can securely broker requests to third-party models" Apple, bitching about the DMA: "It is fundamentally impossible to create a safe architecture that allows third-party models access"
This is absolutely runaway AI doing one of those pranks where they whack someone from behind then when they turn around act like they were also just whacked from behind
James Vincent@jjvincent.bsky.social · 9mo agoanother robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
Reporters are now referring to this as "K-shaped Economy", because the tech sector that caused it is entirely fueled by ketamine. #AusPol #USPol
Josh@jmil.au · 9mo agoOur GDP is currently being propped up by two separate investment bubbles (AI infra and low-density housing), while a quiet recession simmers away below. We're stuck, unwillingly, in a two-track economy, and one of the tracks is close to toppling down and crushing us all… Merry Christmas! #AusPol
Our GDP is currently being propped up by two separate investment bubbles (AI infra and low-density housing), while a quiet recession simmers away below. We're stuck, unwillingly, in a two-track economy, and one of the tracks is close to toppling down and crushing us all… Merry Christmas! #AusPol
Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 9mo agoHEY FRIENDS!! Did you know that Australia - #2 in the world for data centre investment - is now formally missing its climate targets thanks in large part to the resulting surge in power demand? It's massive news - @crikey.com.au let me NERD OUT to explain why: www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/04/d...
Australia needs to be less afraid of people seeking asylum, and more afraid of the foreigners wanting to dig up our resources for free.
🚨BREAKING🚨 Labor has just voted AGAINST granting super to workers under 18. The Greens amendment would have seen all workers under 18 have the right to superannuation contributions, regardless of how many hours they worked.
US Democrats freaking out rn trying to work out why everyone voted for the guy who doesn't suck and isn't awful…
Prof Alan Gamlen uses latest data to run education session for anti immigrants & racists marching under a false assumption we have mass migration📖 “Net migration has been dropping precipitately”✅ “It’s now at about the level we expected it to be before the pandemic”✅ #Abc
"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys
Very odd to see quite a lot of Union Jacks at these 'anti-immigration' rallies? #AusPol
I'm so sick of these obstructionist Labor types! Stop getting in the way of progress! Perfect is the enemy of done! etc. etc. #Auspol
Dana Bergstrom@danambergstrom.bsky.social · last yr.“"We support traditional industries like forestry, mining and aquaculture” Definitely boxed into a dinosaur position. If Labor wants to be the leading party in a minority government in Tasmania, maybe they need to swap out their leader and get someone who can negotiate? #taspol
The Federal and WA governments will pay about $0.5B towards the $2.3B clean-up of Barrow Island after Chevron ended six decades of oil production on the contaminated Pilbara nature reserve. www.boilingcold.com.au/governments-...
$500m government bill looms for Chevron oil field cleanup
The $2.3 billion-plus decommissioning on Barrow Island will be part-funded by the Federal and WA governments returning about half the royalties they received over six decades.
boilingcold.com.au
File under 'when they show you who they are, believe them' FOI docs show: "The Albanese government was so worried a court case could halt native forest logging in northern New South Wales that it drew up plans to essentially sidestep federal environment laws in the event of a loss" #LaborValues
Albanese government plotted to maintain native forest logging in NSW if court battle was lost, documents show
Exclusive: Anthony Albanese sought ‘advice on strategy’ as federal and state governments prepared for ‘potential impacts of an adverse decision’
theguardian.com
Yung En Chee@yungenchee.bsky.social · last yr.Act 2: Despite struggling to implement essential EPBC reforms in 3 years in power (too hard!), the @albomp.bsky.social govt drafts, at lightning speed, stunningly regressive EPBC amendments with far-reaching consequences👇 bsky.app/profile/yung...
The UK will extend voting to 16 year olds (they can already vote in Scottish and Welsh elections). Curious that commentators here don't appear to know that Greens' Senator Steele-John introduced a bill to extend voting to 16 year olds way back in 2018. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
UK to allow 16-year-olds to vote in biggest electoral change since 1969
The move would allow 16-year-olds to vote at the next UK national election and would be the biggest change to the country's electorate in more than half a century.
abc.net.au
Friends of Australian Rock Art lodge case against WA government rec the North West Shelf. Case is based on fact that the EPA should have considered scope 3 emissions. And they should have. Well done!
Environmentalists launch suit to quash North West Shelf approval
A rock art preservation group backed by the Holmes à Court family matriarch has launched a challenge to overturn WA approval of Woodside’s North West Shelf extension.
afr.com
You just know we’ll be screwed. My @smh @theage cartoon.
Oh no! If only they had some sort of heads-up from literally thousands of experts! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #AI #Tech #AGI
Josh@jmil.au · 2y agoSam Altman and OpenAI keep promising exciting new strides closer to Artificial General Intelligence 'soon', but without a meaningful measure of what it means to be 'sentient', how will we know when they've actually delivered? Here's my hot take: www.linkedin.com/pulse/negoti... #SentientAI #AGI #AI
Next time someone says “perfect is the enemy of good” remind them that “Labor is the enemy of progress” ♻️ #Auspol
Jane Caro@janecaro.bsky.social · last yr.Yep. Coming back to bite him already. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Need proof Big Gas is ripping Australians off? Inpex exported ~$54 billion in gas from the NT Inpex also HASN'T PAID A CENT in ❌Royalties ❌Petroleum Resource Rent Tax ❌Company Tax 🎙️ @richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol
Ken Henry: “Aust mining, native forest logging industries employ 2% labour force. We have political leaders who insist that mining and forestry underwrite Australian prosperity. I will state it plainly. Those who believe this nonsense cannot be trusted with the wellbeing of future generations.” ➡️
