Australia: it's rent seeking all the way down.

Yeah it’s almost mandatory to turn it off.

Ten years ago I recall streaming service recommendations were pretty good but those are garbage now too. So users need to stream more trailers to discover if they want to watch things. Makes services much more frustrating.

I don’t understand how generating custom previews using ML of some kind (doesn’t seem like a job for an LLM) would provide any kind of meaningful ROI. Users could burn through their monthly subscription fee just looking for something to watch!

That’s what the QLD laws have been used for so far, leaving kids in cars (which can kill them, so fair). But it doesn’t define what ‘abandonment‘ is so any scenario where under-12’s are wandering around seems fair game.

I grew up rurally and agree that the city is very weird about surveilling kids that are 'out of place' -- way more freedom out of the city.

I don't know what it's like in other states but in QLD we have some very ambiguous laws around leaving children 'unattended' when they're less than 12. It's not the intent but it sure seems like cops could nab you for letting your kids wander down to the park if they wanted to.

Bob Brown always said he liked politics on the periphery because you could try something different. Which is why Tasmania is where the Greens started. But the same is true of Australia generally. The right might hate Bob but they took the lesson to heart.

I am a PM and honestly same.

The level of obfuscation from what are ostensibly public servants in this report is astonishing. Is the APS just filled with neoliberal rot to the point they all think they can stick ‘robo’ in front of anything to justify totalitarian cruelty?

When you can't escape the gnashing irrational self-harm of neo-liberalism no matter the stripes of government it seems pretty clear the call is probably coming from inside the house.

In the meantime Eucalyptus and Hims have become billion dollar businesses almost wholly on the back of GLP-1 supply shortages.

I will be interested to see how this changes when semaglutide comes off patent in the next few years, it might bring the price down to a level where it wont blow out the federal budget to list it on the PBS.

I suspect the position will change as costs come down but as much as 40% of the Australian population could be eligible for GLP-1s based on the manufacturers prescribing guidelines. Similar numbers in the US and the current global production capability is maybe 15% of the demand for the US only.

I was at a conference back in July where a senior bureaucrat responsible for PBS listings indicated there is no plan to list GLP-1s on the PBS for anything other than diabetes. Basically the demand is so high it would potentially double the cost of running the PBS.

I dunno if it’s still the case now it’s been folded into GQ but I recall the scores were the average of the editorial team and were assigned after the written review was complete? Seems wild to single her out for a score she didn’t personally assign.

Can’t even do welfare for humans properly and yet we’re expected to consider the welfare of machines?

I’m inclined to join the Luddites more and more each day.

Can’t wait for the extended scene where they feed fish bones to pigs and some poor bastard is stuck drinking fish-flavoured milk.

So the unspoken conclusion here is that the record labels killed New Girl to keep their precious masters safe. It all makes sense now!

He’s early twenties and was able to get a visa via “the best” (read: the most expensive“ lawyer. Easy to go play tech founder when you’re backed by Daddy’s money.