Thanks Australian government for now forcing us to put more of this stuff in the hands of private companies

I guess it's the transition between their fantasy that they have a great place everyone wants to go to, which powers the initial xenophobia that gets them in power; and the reality that they've made it all so awful people now *want* to leave, so *stopping* people escaping is the punishment.

So corrupt! They could have given it to a psycho arming a genocide instead. Typical leftists, not doing what they're told

As someone who has studied the circulation of terms “subversive” and “communist” in the lead to and through McCarthyism as empty signifiers to justify violent suppression I feel like I’m both amazed and unsurprised how transparently and unsophisticatedly “woke” and “antifa” are now doing the same.

LLM AI exists to crush labour. That's not even my surmise, the people paying billions of dollars to fund this stuff are extremely open and explicit that this is their goal.

There are no ethical use cases for LLMs at this point in time. Maybe when the bubble has popped thoroughly. Not before.

It's interesting how fascist states go from trying to deport political opponents to seizing and imprisoning any they can get their hands on and refusing to let them leave. See also the flotilla heroes kidnapped by Israel and who Israel has refused to release. Rogue states.

Also - so there's a new Berlin Wall? The US is stopping people escaping it now? The good Americans, the ones targeted by fascists, are now to be trapped there?

Imagine kicking the former national rugby captain out of your sports club instead of the gambling lobby.

To paraphrase Groucho Marx, who'd want to belong to a club that would accept Responsible Wagering Australia as one of its sponsors?

To the political right, the cruelty IS the point

The question to ask the people who still insist, despite all the evidence, that their difficulties (house prices and rents, supermarket ripoffs, underfunded healthcare) are the fault of immigrants - "what makes you think that?" Or - "where'd you get that idea"? Make them consider the source.

How could they harm Reynolds' reputation any more than her reported actions did and continue to do? What an absolute monster.

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Pope Leo is spitting.

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Genocidal war criminal nominates his weapons dealer for the Nobel Peace Prize and our Foreign Minister fawns over it.

Embarrassing.

People in Gaza don’t have families, apparently.

The Govt has developed preliminary costs for the storage & disposal of #AUKUS high level nuclear waste. You’re not allowed to see what it is and the Senate is not being told either. The only thing we do know is that you’ll be paying for it. #FOI #auspol

Fixed it for you, @australia.theguardian.com.

Again, @australia.theguardian.com.

#GazaGenocide #GazaHolocaust #WesternMediaComplicity

Listen to this on-point interview. Yes, it's good that there is a ceasefire; anything to halt the genocidal destruction is better than nothing at this point. But in so many ways the "deal" it is just a vague recycling of the worst ideas of the past, struck without meaningful Palestinian input.

This is utterly … what’s the word? Oh yes … fucked.

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This would indeed be the end of the Nobel prize as anything anyone gives a shit about

That's like thanking an arsonist for eventually picking up a hose, whilst holding a molotov.

At least with Android phones it is possible to side-load apps. If you have an Apple device, it's locked to the complete control of these malevolent fascist appeasers.

Big tech will never help ordinary people protect each other. Here's Apple ludicrously defining ICE thugs as a "protected class" as justification to remove apps that help warn actual marginalised people that ICE is in the area kidnapping ppl. substack.com/redirect/39c8c9f2-5a1c-4752-ae45-5cb541bd49e8