“Palantir’s ‘manifesto’ sounds like the ramblings of a supervillain...Palantir’s manifesto, which embraces AI state surveillance of citizens along with national service in the USA, is either a parody of a RoboCop film, or a disturbing narcissistic rant...” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Fancy CNN giving publicity to this.
"The assumption underpinning employment services – that unemployed people need to be monitored, impoverished and coerced – is in direct contradiction to an interest rate policy framework that requires a certain level of unemployment to control inflation."
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Hours of my one precious life spent watching university bosses at a parliamentary inquiry. Please read to make my time worthwhile 😏
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"Is the Pope Catholic? JD Vance thinks he has an answer" Marina Hyde on fire today re the "front-of-house henchman among the US president’s court of grotesques": www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
You can tell them a mile off. Like a shag on a rock.
What do famous Australian refugees Frank Lowy, Richard Pratt, Harry Triguboff, Judy Cassab, Josef Chromy, Sir Gustav Nossal, Les Murray, James Spigelman, Anh Do, Luke Nguyen and Dai Le have in common?
I refuse to read an article that says rude things about cormorants.
I doubt he shows much interest in the Austrian army.
Yes, Duck Duck Go as the main search engine. Only use Google if I believe the results are missing something (say, about 5% of searches).
This post is why I think that, if I showed yesterday’s forwarded Chinese AI slop to a true MAGA type, and told them Trump had done it himself, they'd say “yeah, he’s so talented and funny, isn’t he?"
Any why Trump would demand his staff come up with something even better.
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Not enough tissues in the house for tonight’s episode of The Piano (ABC TV)
IMHO if I showed the first (Chinese) one to a true MAGAist, and told him that Trump had done it himself, he’d say “yeah, he’s so talented and funny, isn’t he?"
I hate when fantasy films I made a long time ago begin to come true in real life.
The only good thing to come out of the NACC is that it gave Rick Morton the opportunity and incentive to use the phrases “porridge brain” and “plutonium-grade stupid” in successive sentences.
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Aesop: I TOLD YOU
In Japan, the 夫婦別姓を推進する会 (Association for Promoting Separate Surnames for Married Couples) campaigns to change the law to allow women to do this.
If only he hadn’t had to go the pink twice. But what a shot to then finish with.
Barnaby on Muslims.
frontal lobe dementia to be specific
Also consistent with dementia.
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But as a former public servant, I probably appreciated the humour more.
I first saw them at the National Folk Festival many years ago. They were very funny.
The Shiny Bum singers (they’re still going) had a song:
“The call it the stationery room,
Because nothing ever moves out of there."
No mention of why there maybe an increase in corella numbers in the urban environment?
Land clearing of native habitat anyone?
Looks like the resource employers are worried that their rosters are “not compatible” with the requirement in the National Employment Standards that employees not be forced to work more than a “reasonable” maximum number of hours.
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