FINANCIAL REVIEW Tax take hits record $30,633 per Australian as NDIS bill soars The government taxed each Australian a new high of $30,633 on average in 2024-25, helping to pay for record spending on aged care and disability benefits. New data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics on Tuesday showed combined federal and state government expenses grew 7.4 per cent last financial year, outpacing the 4.5 per cent rise in revenue.

At this point it feels like the Financial Review has an editorial directive to blame people with disabilities for everything wrong in Australia’s economy.

Because people with disabilities should be forced to live with/depend on their abusive families or partners and have no control over their own lives…they’re the ones that need to be targeted!

Headline from the AFR "Time to end welfare for the wealthy, says big business"

You mean the superannuation tax breaks? No?
You mean the CGT discount? No?
You mean the fossil fuel subsidies? No?
You mean the free gas for multinationals? No?
You mean the failure of the PRRT? No?
You mean the tax dodging trusts? No?
You mean the lack of a wealth tax? No?

No you mean the NDIS FFS

I had a student give a pile of mice the wrong dosages because she asked chatGPT to do very basic drug math. I can't believe people are doing this with HUMANS. 😭

I could do this quicker in a 2001 Hyundai Excel. Machines have been going quick since the steam era. What’s your point.

What a choice for the Darwin hospital to start a survival of the fittest cuz you're gonna get poisoned by AI experiment

So…just like Epstein he’s saying America has information about illegal/immoral/unethical acts but they’ve just chosen to go “meh” up until now because it’s been their friends implicated.

Or it’s purely bluster.

Either way, he’s an idiot.

The handsomest. No notes. Perfection.

This will kill people

But sure the problem is trans youth healthcare

Do you suppose the AI can read the physical bright red medical alert sticker stuck to my chart listing my drug allergies?

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All Australian Government services now:

The therapeutic defenestration

(For your reading horror, @dereklowe.bsky.social and @drugmonkey.bsky.social)

As far as I can tell the primary purpose of AI is to help us do things we were already good at doing but worse and/or possibly lethally so

Note that right wing economic think tanks and media outlets always complain about “handouts” to low/middle income people but never challenge the handouts to profiteering industries…

Financial Review Vic extends free public transport, defying IMF inflation warning

The Victorian Labor government is extending its free public transport offer for another month, and will then offer half price fares until the end of the year, in a $400 million election sweetener and response to war in the Middle East. The free trains, trams and buses - both for metropolitan and regional lines - covered April at an estimated cost of $71 million in foregone revenue and will now be extended across May with half price fares promised to continue beyond the November state election until the end of the year. "Free travel now - cheaper fares next," Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan said in a statement ahead of a media event on Sunday.

The IMF said nothing about this policy, despite what the headline suggests.

They gave a general warning about Government spending & inflation - but it’s also economist made up nonsense that people on low/middle incomes have to suffer through a cost-of-living crisis and Government should do nothing

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What America Taught the Nazis In the 1930s, the Germans were fascinated by the global leader in legal racism—the United States.

The Nazis were inspired by American racism: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

UK Labour aren’t even centre right. This is just a conservative Government.

I wrote this skeet as a hypothetical and then 24 hours later 🫠

None of these tech billionaires are geniuses. Some of the have maybe one area of specific expertise, most of them simply have access to generational wealth. All of them (like all billionaires) exploit people. Otherwise they're the kind of people who needed to be reminded to wipe after they shit.

Well if the only new data they can get on the internet is the slop mass produced by their previous models we end up in real human centipede situation…

I find mine makes me struggle with people who keep score or who are too rigid. My brain struggles with rigid structures that are documented, let alone ones you’ve made up in your head and not communicated to me 🤷‍♂️

Just got off the phone with the president. He told me a bunch of obvious lies but I’m going to post them anyway because I want everyone to know I just got off the phone with the president.

Imagine if a hospital bought software to calculate medicine dosage and got it wrong 1/10 times.

Imagine any other business or industry claiming that as a win.

“Our customer service team only lie to you 1 in every 10 interactions!”

Anthropic says Claude Opus 4.7 has a 92% honesty rate, less sycophancy

In other words, Claude still lies to you for 1 in 10 of your requests.

Wait a minute, scientists didn’t like using the bullshit machine that lies? I’m shocked. SHOCKED.

This is an example of something we often see in the media:

Person sacked AFTER ...insert something innocuous-sounding, and preferably something anti-woke...

The innocuous-sounding part will inevitably be just the first incident in a long chain of events, or one of many things the person did wrong

So no, he wasn't struck off for asking a Muslim woman to remove her veil.

He was struck off for multiple counts of serious misconduct, including lying during an official investigation, followed by working 17 times while suspended, and THEN refusing to engage with the GMC about returning to work