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Posts by John Wayne

How about in your next update you include SOMETHING like hashtags that allows for trending information (by country/region) to be read in real time.

This fucking app is like a fucking ghost town - completely irrelevant for day to day events.

WAKE THE FUCK UP @Bluesky.app

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Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War A statement from our CEO on national security uses of AI

A big thank you to Anthropic!

After a weeks-long standoff between the Defense Department and AI firm Anthropic over how the military can deploy its technology, CEO Dario Amodei said tonight that the company will not loosen its usage policies.

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AOC on DHS Warehouses: I think every American should be alarmed. They are building—and have built—a black box system that disappears people, both immigrants and U.S. citizens alike.

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A Deadly Resistance Dynamic: Friendly Fire
A Deadly Resistance Dynamic: Friendly Fire YouTube video by Tad Stoermer

No, you’re a friendly fire merchant, and the US has a history of obsequious self-interested apologists like you:

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Chuck Schumer, you are a shiver looking for a spine to run up.

A pathetic coward who should be impeached and forced out of office himself.

The Great Capitulator.

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Chuck Schumer, you are a shiver looking for a spine to run up.

A pathetic coward who should be impeached and forced out of office himself.

The Great Capitulator.

2 months ago 0 0 0 0

It’s pathetic. Colonial Australia is the Raygun culture of white mediocrity.

3 months ago 8 1 0 0
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Let’s hope so. He’s been a passenger for a long time now.

3 months ago 0 0 0 0

Is this still happening?

1 year ago 0 0 0 0

Is this still happening. Haven’t seen anyone posting about it

1 year ago 0 0 0 0

Yep, it’s just more vulgar signalling from the fascist psychopaths.

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I think Murdoch goons is the more accurate descriptor.

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Why I'm quitting the Washington Post Democracy can't function without a free press

Ann Telnaes on Why She Quit the Washington Post which censored her cartoon.

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Well would you look at that.

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Agreed.

By the time the mining gig is up, the mining thieves will have fled into the sunset, but even then their money will only be worth half its paper value, in global terms.

Meanwhile Norway’s Sovereign Wealth Fund, pays for health, education, welfare, etc with annual interest earnings alone.

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When the $AUD hits 50 cents to the $USD, perhap everyone will realise the folly of mining, bubble real estate investment, dodgy o/s student education & other non-productive investments, which will all leave us short.

An abject failure of politcal & commercial leadership.

The stupid country.

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This is the Aust vs US primary resources/industry sector exports, shown in red.

This is the elephant in the room, the fundamental reform issue, but it’s crickets from the ALP, or anyone else for that matter.

We will lose 35% of our exports & 5% of our GDP by 2040 due to global climate policies.

1 year ago 2 0 1 0

Look at the countries now above us on the Economic Complexity Index, embarrassing.

The Aust govt has spent the last 28 years driving backwards, at an ever accelerating speed, into a fossil fuel dead end that will be with us in 10-15 years.

This is why our $AUD exchange rate is so low & falling.

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The big reform issue is that since 1996, Australia’s economic complexity/modernity has fallen from 55th in 1995 to 93rd today.

Since Keating, govts have pump primed the economy with economic growth equivalent to junk food, crowding out future innovation to lock in yesteryear mining.

1 year ago 2 0 1 0

Well it’s looking more & more like a minority Govt, which would at least force progress & change at the top, leaving Albo & Marles without legitimacy.

Worse is Dutton getting in through dog-whistling & gaslighting, or the ALP getting back with 2 seats like now & the limp status quo.

1 year ago 1 0 1 0

I appreciate your views Gaz, I’m cutting Chalmers some slack too, but I’m afraid his lack of impetus could well damage his brand & reputation being unable to clearly distinguish himself from no-balls Albo.

I hope I’m wrong.

1 year ago 2 0 0 0

There was a reason the ALP parliamentary party passed over Albo twice for Shorten.

Now the rest of us know why.

1 year ago 2 0 1 0

But the fundamental problem here is, as you rightly say, Albo IS a fwit.

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Sure, but remember Keating called Hawke “Old Jellyback” & how he’d have to keep going back into his office to keep him on track, as other Ministers/MPs interfered.

My issue with Chalmers is he is not vocal enough (daily) pushing his own reforms, & hard leveraging Albo through force of personality

1 year ago 1 0 1 0

The whole circus is rudderless and the fact Dutton even has a look in tells you how inept the ALP leadership has been.

It’s sad to say, but Albo is a small man, one who denies independent MP’s staff before they began, guts the NCCC, undercuts Plibersek at the 11th hour, tinkers around the edges.

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The govts failure to act forced the RBA to do the heavy lifting of contracting growth.

All bc no-balls Albo couldn’t make the fight to claw back the price rises & send them back to taxpayers/voters as price equalisation payments.

Then there’s the housing crisis, nothing done…

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Even with inflation, 70-80% of it was profiteering in one form or another.

But where was Chalmers fiscal square up, to claw back the money stolen through profit led price hikes, to disincentivise price rises?

Completely nonexistent.

Compare that to Keating’s FBT to kill boozy business lunches.

1 year ago 1 0 1 0

You’re right.

Keating led the agenda as treasurer, by Chalmers seems unable or unwilling to be the leader we need, while Albo smiles & shakes hands.

Chalmers is too timid to take control of the narrative, but without a reform agenda, what has he got to talk about except small incremental gains.

1 year ago 1 0 1 0

Agreed.

Albo’s inability to attack politically, saw him win by 2 seats, with the LNP wipeout going largely to the Independents.

Albo is only good at defence, which leaves him open to constant attack, no leadership, no agenda & political vulnerability.

Albo is the Geoff Boycott of Aust politics.

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It all absolutely shits me to tears.

Since Hawke/Keating, all the successive ALP Govt’s have squandered their election wins, simply bc they haven’t been up to the strategic leadership job.

Despite having access to Keating the GOAT, they’ve all stubbornly ignored his expertise, & squibbed it.

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