Magnificent. I haven’t listened to them in years but I’m back on board.

Hahaha is he trying to help Cook or bury him? I can’t tell. It’s not pretty anyway, whatever the hell it is.

Yeah, another grift. He played a character for money and he’s just playing another one now.

Yeah, I seem to remember she also hard time for not being conventionally “feminine.” How does she not see the connections?!

Presumably some are just flat out psychopaths. But yes, that does make sense.

He killed over 160 young girls at a school and threatened to end their entire civilization out of respect and admiration

What else are they actually“subjected” to? Sure, a Murdoch conventionality test when they start… but what else do they have to be so scared of? Soft corruption has been normalised and they certainly aren’t expected to be consistent or transparent on policy. Or even knowledgeable or competent.

But you’re talking about the horrors of a standard they’re not held to and no one is even suggesting they should be held to… merely that they could take more responsibility for the credibility of their own profession. What exactly is so off-putting about that?

Of course. But they meant do we "root" for them, in the sense of are they relatable enough.

Would they be reasonable and thoughtful though if they didn't care about this issue? Imagine a new kind of politician with enough integrity and savvy tackle it head on somehow. The current lot can't even admit that there are conflicts of interest. The bar is in hell.

We proably can't legislate for it, true. But the question asked was what what can *they* do to regain public trust. Will they do it? Most won't, of course. But it's not wrong for the public to start demanding more than the garbage representation we have at the moment.

(P.S. It was Lena Dunham who said that, on Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang's podcast....interesting convo. Just trying to avoid the inevitable random comments that have nothing to do with the point, you know.)

Oh yeah, I'm sure! Maybe not in actual notes though? (that was the context in the podcast)

Listening to an American podcast and someone explained how execs no longer talk about "unlikeable" female characters because they know that's considered sexist. So the term now is "rootable"! Is she "rootable" or not? As an Australian it took me a bit to grasp how that could possibly be better.

How many ex politicians have jobs in the Defence Industry now, especially AUKUS related that support AUKUS. How many current Politicians have been promised work by the yanks with AUKUS after they leave Parliament?

Yes! I can't imagine many politicians going on to be teachers or nurses. But there are plenty of options that don't make a mockery of your whole political career and treat voters with contempt. You could even fully retire. Live off all the money you've saved and your pension, and bow out. #auspol

Horrible. I have one and that's quite enough.

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Let's start properly funding the arts, eh #politas!

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I guess it started with streaming and the lack of communal "event" TV and film etc, but it's getting worse. I wonder how it will affect us long-term.

Oh that's one of my favourite things to do. I don't get out to the country enough though. City cemeteries are usually not as interesting.

Palantir is embedding itself in other Australian institutions from Coles, to Rio Tinto. Westpac, our military cyber unit, the Australian Signals Directorate, the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission and AUSTRAC, which handles Aussies’ sensitive financial information.

Defence has handed Palantir more than $26 million in contracts since 2013, including a $7.6m deal awarded without competitive tender to its Cyber Warfare Division. Palantir staff are embedded in Defence. How the hell did Labor let these wolves inside?

Here's their target: "Meanwhile, in-kind transfers like government-subsidised education, disability and healthcare are increasing."

Public Education
Public Disability Care
Public Health care

They want to be America.

Exactly this.

As I said last week - they think that LLMs etc are approaching consciousness because they know and care nothing about the depth and breadth of human consciousness

including their own.

Yeah, not a drunk smoothie situation! I was aware of that incident from years ago but I figured everyone has an off day and behaves like a twit occasionally. But now, I don't know. Maybe the feminism is girl boss bullshit.

I'm not going to *not* share or engage with an event or story from two weeks ago, that would be insane. Heck, even if it happened *years* ago..... What matters, matters. But it puts us in a bizarre headspace, don't you find? It's like there's no *now* any more. Or at least, there's not a shared one.

There's a weird temporality online that I'm noticing more & more. The news cycle is global/24 hours, with almost instant reporting in some cases. At the same time, because of algorithms & the narrowness the mainstream perspective, it's possible to only find out about an event weeks or months later.

IKR? She's usually savvier than that??! Or maybe I was just believing the PR spin about her. I'm having to reassess many things at the moment.