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RetireAustralia. Time Magazine Person of the year 2006. I am not a complete Idiot (some parts are missing). **** Out of Cheese Error ****
So Trump tries to appeal suspension ofUSMNT star Folarin Balogunto rep Team USA, turns out he's a birthright citizen ... www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/b...
How birthright citizenship allowed USMNT star Folarin Balogun to rep Team USA
USMNT striker Folarin Balogun was born in Brooklyn and with it, is a U.S citizen.
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“…Eight Sleep engineers can know when you’re asleep, whether two people are sharing the bed, and when the bed is empty.” 🤷🏿♂️
Thread. Appropriately enraged. PS. Sarah Wynn-Williams’ book Careless People is well worth reading.
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 2mo agoMore than a decade ago, a group of young, internet-connected Belarusian dissidents launched a series of increasingly high-stakes, increasingly surreal confrontations with the corrupt, authoritarian government of Alexander Lukashenka, a man who is often called "the last Soviet dictator." 1/
Teaching / Training people. Also, the one thing learnt in IT in general is that it's about PEOPLE, not THINGS. 🧵 #AI
Ranylt Richildis@ranylt.bsky.social · 2mo ago(Ofc, this preference was based on a similar observation her staff had made; “learned in how to learn” was super valued by them and got them better results re new hires. Mind, this was back in the day when employers still allowed new hires to have an in-house learning curve...)
#AusPol 🧵
Nate Cochrane@natecochrane.bsky.social · 2mo agoIn this case, Karl Xenophobic got the outrage he wanted & early release from his contract he needed. Now he can claim to his audience of Far Right nutters to be an outsider speaking truth instead of the Little Lord Fauntleroy Churchie squib who suckled mightily at the teat of MSM for three decades.
@AusPol "If this makes you think the RBA always acts firstly in the interests of companies not workers, you are getting warm." Via grogsgamut.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
Greg Jericho (@grogsgamut.bsky.social)
Chief Economist at @australiainstitute.org.au Columnist on economics and politics for Guardian Australia. Dollars & Sense podcast https://australiainstitute.org.au/news/category/podcasts/dollars-sense...
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The latest tax stats show 90 millionaires paid no tax (1 poor sucker got their total income from $1m to below $18,200, but still had to pay... err $769 in tax) thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
Ninety millionaires paid no tax in 2023–24. New ATO data shows why tax reform matters
In 2023-24, according to the ATO, 90 Australians who earned more than $1m in income paid no tax. The figures also reveal that the changes in the budget targeting the reductions in the discount for cap...
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#AusPol #PHON Calling people names just entrechs their existing opinions. You need to point to the effects of the PHON policies, to actively engage peoples's concerns and answer them, to persuade them (ie questions like "do you want that aide at the nursing home, that your mum likes, deported ?")
Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 2mo agoI will never understand why people will wake up in the morning and actively support the person and political party that is explicitly setting out to directly to destroy them and their lives Like Australia's journalists, and a huge number of first-gen migrants just breezily supporting Pauline Hanson
Lovely to see white, able bodied, cishet men speaking out publicly against a fascist dictator. (Such an Aussie approach to the problem 😄.)
Andrew Gardiner@ajgardineresq.bsky.social · 2mo agoAustralia fans pre-USA clash bring their 'A' Game: “Aussie boys are on a bender, Donald #Trump is a sex offender.” Should play well in bright blue Seattle ... 😅 #WorldCup
After this 100% wrong AI summary, I pledged some money to Wikipedia. I think we should all do that. It might be the answer. Imagine if it vanished cos more people wanted to invest in the planet-burning lying plagiarism machine than in crowd-sourced open access information.
#AI "The am dash ... feels less like a design stunt and more like a cultural correction, giving writers a way to plant a flag in the soil of their own ideas." www.remorandom.com/p/em-dash www.theamdash.com
Em Dash
The em dash is prized for its versatility. It has also acquired an unexpected cultural role. It has become, in some circles, a “tell” for AI-generated writing.
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#AusPol #AukUS If Port Kembla becomes a US Submarine base, what do we lose ? (Archive Link) archive.md/https://www....
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Man Who Supports One Nation and Socceroos Suffers Mental Breakdown After Former Refugee Scores World Cup Goal
Man Who Supports One Nation and Socceroos Suffers Mental Breakdown After Former Refugee Scores World Cup Goal — The Shovel
A man who within the last 24 hours has both called for an end to all immigration to Australia and chanted ‘Aussie Aussie Aussie’ at a World Cup live site, was said to be in a serious but stable condit...
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Joining a big crowd here outside Bisalloy in the Illawarra to picket this site and stop steel exports that are being used to facilitate land theft and genocide - come down for an AUKUS teach in at 9pm ✊
Maybe phones are NOT rewiring their brains ... "There is very little, if any, causal research in the early years. Almost everything is correlational." www.theregister.com/personal-tec...
Scientists pour cold water on claims phones are rewiring kids' brains
MPs told that while concerns over handsets and social media grows, evidence they're changing children's brains is limited
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A lot of people are deliberately confusing anti-semitism with anti-Zionism. 🧵
Cyclo 🇨🇴 🚲🇵🇸🏴☠️🇦🇺@padreilpadrone.bsky.social · 2mo agoThat cartoon simply tells the truth of the story of our 'Royal Commission'. Not anti-semitic, but it IS anti-Zionist. See the distinction? #noIHRAdefinition
#BlackCaps Kane Williamson retires from International Cricket. He will be missed ... www.bhaskarenglish.in/sports/crick...
Virat Kohli shares farewell message after Kane Williamson's retirement: 'King' says, 'Pleasure watching you bat, I value our friendship'
Kane Williamson retires from international cricket. Follow Bhaskar English Updates. Kane Williamson has officially announced his retirement from international cricket, bringing the curtain down on one...
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David Hockney, the artist whose brightly colored renditions of California would go on to make him one of the most celebrated artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, died on June 12, his publicist Erica Bolton said in a statement. He was 88 reut.rs/4e5R6xd
David Hockney, the British artist who went in search of Californian colour, dies at 88
The former enfant terrible of pop art became the most celebrated British painter of the 20th century.
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SpaceX goes public today. There’s been a lot of chatter about the largest IPO in stock market history that will likely make Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire. Here's what I think you should know about it... 🧵
SpaceX goes public tomorrow. A wonderful moment for cynical shills and Patagonia gargoyles to roll in the filth of the dodgiest company to list since Enron. This is the last exit route for capital for a minute. A big win for horrible people, but a brief one before a dark era for Silicon Valley
There is too much focus on Musk and too little focus on how British politics and media have created the conditions for the pogroms in Belfast. Yes, Musk and X should face consequences but it‘s too easy the externalize the reasons for an empowered far right.
"An administration lawyer told the judges in the second-most-powerful court in the country that no court can stop a president who moves fast enough from destroying the White House or the Statue of Liberty." newrepublic.com/article/2115...
Can Trump Really Tear Down the Statue of Liberty? His Lawyers Say Yes.
An administration lawyer made this shocking and cynical argument in court last week. That’s the position of an emperor, not a president.
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OPINION: Homophobia Isn't The Only Thing Keeping Footy Players In The Closet 🏈🏈 I have written a new opinion article, published in the Star Observer today, about gay elite footy players coming out and the pressures facing them. Full article here: www.starobserver.com.au/opinion/opin...
OPINION: Homophobia Isn’t The Only Thing Keeping Footy Players In The Closet
Author Holden Sheppard argues that we might need to broaden our minds to what gay AFL players might want or need in order to come out.
starobserver.com.au
I can’t find the bit where we analyse >$200K income support for the racism party. It is higher than every bracket between $45K and $200K why would we skip over wealthy racists? They have far more power than people on <$45K demosau.com/news/who-are...
Who are the Voters Swinging to One Nation? - DemosAU
DemosAU's Federal MRP Model, released earlier this week, projects One Nation would win 12 seats (based on the model's central forecast), if the results of our
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I've been on the waiting list to have my prostate lasered out SO long, they've started asking me if I still want to be on the list... But when the new Stadiums arrives and Marinus Link powers all those AI data centers we're paying for, I'll be really happy.
"The only reason to have an LLM emit sentences like “I understand” is to make it more appealing than a search engine and increase the likelihood that a user will return; that is, it’s another way of maximizing customer engagement." #AI Archive Link archive.md/https://www....
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Drew Magary@drewmagary.bsky.social · 3mo agoThis is the stuff. www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...
