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“Studies show lottery gamblers avoid recently drawn numbers, but flock to stores that have recently sold winning tickets.”
Gambler’s Logic.
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Andrew A. Hennessy 🍞 retweeted
The latest round of Australian Government "news media assistance grants" is out, where they give free money to the failing business model of news media and hilariously the smallest grant, of just $24,500, is to "Tassie Living", which appears to be, the only outlet that actually produces anything of value: a newsletter about nice things happening in rural Tasmania. infrastructure.gov.au/media-…
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I was curious what role government funding plays among the organisations weighing in on the Digital Duty of Care Bill, so Grok bot and I did a little surveying (illustrative rather than exhaustive).
Today was day 1 of the Senate hearings.
Of the 25 organisations that appeared, 13 receive/d recent government funding, 4 are tech platforms, 7 don't receive government funding, and 1 I couldn't confirm. 2 individuals appeared in a private capacity.
7 organisations opposed the bill, 4 in their submissions and 3 at the hearing. None of them currently receive government funding. Funny that!
Not one of the 13 funded organisations opposed it. 12 support it, most with amendments, and 1 is neutral.
Several rely heavily on government money: ACCAN gets 98% of its revenue from government, Our Watch 87% and Teach Us Consent 87%. Teach Us Consent has also received two federal grants worth $7.56m. Lucky ducks.
Digital Rights Watch, a BIG supporter, reported no government revenue last year, but it received $301,500 from Minderoo, a major backer of the bill. It hasn't declared this year's funding yet.
Among the tech platforms, Google holds current government contracts and supports the bill. TikTok opposes it as drafted.
The government can buy consensus with our taxpayer dollars.
🚨BREAKING: The Online Safety Amendment (Digital Duty of Care) Bill 2026 has passed in the House of Representatives by Labor, Independents and the Greens.
96 YES, 38 NO.
Voted against by Liberals, Nationals, One Nation and Rebekha Sharkie.
Andrew Hastie didn’t appear at any divisions.
This bill will force online businesses to conduct annual risk assessments, report to eSafety and face penalties for non-compliance.
It gives the government power to influence platform design features and impose age-assurance requirements.
It authorises eSafety to operate covert “sock puppet” accounts for government surveillance and information warfare.
It will classify content that “encourages or promotes hostile attitudes towards women or gender equality” as harmful, including legitimate criticism of feminism.
Public hearings are set for 9–10 November, with the inquiry report due 20 November. The bill must still pass the Senate.
I thought this Nyadol lady had already left.
"Queensland has kept Pauline Hanson in parliament across a span of over 30 years. That’s telling you something! (about the state),” he said.
Full story: bit.ly/4kNYEZ4
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Multiculturalism as a policy was always a utopian project. Its intended purpose was to “liberate” Australia from its British roots. That, however, was not how it was sold to the Australian public.
It costs big business just $35/wk to import an already "qualified" worker.
How is anyone putting on an apprentice supposed to compete with $35/wk? You can't even buy a carton of beer for that.
Australia's electricity supply could be at risk by 2030 unless critical workforce shortages are addressed, with a leading industry body warning the nation's electrician training system is struggling to meet growing demand.
news24.com.au/news/australia…
If, as he claims, he finds it outrageous, then surely he believes any replacement is bad and should be opposed?
NSW Premier Chris Minns has described claims by One Nation candidate Stuart Bonds that native-born Australians are being "demographically replaced" by immigrants as "frankly outrageous". afr.com/politics/nsw-one-nat…
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Just as Australian as you or I.
Labor has promised the Indian community it will invest $43 million to teach students more foreign languages, including Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali and Tamil, if it wins the Victorian state election.
noticer.news/labor-promises-…
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These are the people demanding to protect you from the internet.
One of the Albanese government's most senior cabinet ministers has had their phone hacked and personal messaging account compromised after opening a WhatsApp dancing competition scam.
news24.com.au/news/senior-la…
Everyone reaches the same conclusion except the minister who thought a $100,000 flight to New York was normal.
The grassroots parents’ movement that championed phone bans and the under-16 social media ban, has extraordinarily condemned Labor’s Digital Duty of Care, warning the laws risk weaponising child protection to silence political dissent.
news24.com.au/politics/austr…
They know exactly how to get an audience, they just expect you to pretend to like "the skill" instead.
Abbie Chatfield delivers the Celebrity First Ball at North Sydney Oval! #WBBL12
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Antifa in Germany have been reduced to barely functional foot soldiers of the Liberal establishment. Most are simply too retarded to understand how they've been co-opted, though that doesn't make them any less prone to violence.
As the media's free rides and government grants dry up, most will return to disappointing society in other more traditional ways. But some will hang in there hoping for a Linke or Greens nomination. So sad.
Im NGO-Milieu von Sachsen-Anhalt geht in diesen Tagen die Angst um. Eine AfD-Regierung würde viele Vereine und Wohlfahrtsverbände „existenziell bedrohen“, beklagen die Organisationen. „Wir wissen nicht, ob es uns im nächsten Jahr noch gibt.“ In den vergangenen Jahren flossen Millionen in das NGO-Milieu, nun drohen die Geldflüsse zu versiegen. Für das @glut_magazin habe ich mir angesehen, wie tief die linken Parteien in diesem Netzwerk mit drinstecken: In 48 geprüften Vereinen sitzen 38 Politiker, 32 davon von SPD, Linken und Grünen.
Ein Dreh- und Angelpunkt des NGO-Netzwerks in Sachsen-Anhalt ist dabei das Sozialministerium von Petra Grimm-Benne (SPD). Ihr Haus koordiniert das Landesprogramm „Wir sind das Land“, über das zahlreiche linke Lobbygruppen finanziert werden, um „den Feinden der Demokratie die rote Karte“ zu zeigen, wie Grimm-Benne es ausdrückt. Zugleich ist das Sozialministerium das Landes-Demokratiezentrum des Bundesprogramms „Demokratie leben!“, mit dem das Bundesfamilienministerium in Sachsen-Anhalt weitere Fördermillionen verteilt.
Das Haus von Grimm-Benne sorgt bereits vor, falls die AfD die Regierung übernimmt. Auf die Nachfrage von GLUT, ob es seit der Wahl Förderbescheide über das Jahresende hinaus erlassen hat, widersprach das Ministerium nicht. Eine „Bescheiderteilung mit Wirkung für das Haushaltsjahr 2027“ sei zulässig, soweit das Finanzministerium die nötigen Verpflichtungsermächtigungen freigegeben habe – „um etwa begonnene Projekte fortzusetzen und damit insbesondere Fachkräfte zu halten“. Um welche Projekte es dabei geht, ließ das Ministerium zunächst offen.
Ebenfalls brisant: Ein Teil des Steuergelds landete sogar in linksextremen Szeneobjekten. Welche das sind und um wie viel Geld es dabei ging, lest ihr jetzt in meiner exklusiven Recherche bei GLUT: glut-magazin.de/artikel/sach…
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The community note makes this post even funnier. Established contributors to major open-source projects are among the best developers in the world. You don’t get to maintain critical infrastructure without demonstrating exceptional technical ability.
This is like pointing out that writers published in elite literary journals could write better than Claude 3.7 Sonnet in early 2025.
Yeah, we know!
Ignoring how fast frontier models are improving, the relevant comparison isn’t between AI and the world’s best programmers or writers. It’s between AI and the average professional, or in this case public servant doing those jobs.
The irony of course it that these speech was probably written with GPT-6 Astra.
In a randomised trial, software developers using AI took 19% longer to complete tasks. Yet they believed AI had made them 20% faster.
At the ‘Evidence in Action’ event, I argued for a government that tests what works, and saves money by learning from the results. ministers.treasury.gov.au/mi… #randomistas
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Everyone denies that IQ is mostly genetic, until a woman goes to a sperm bank.
What will survive longer - AI Data Centres or Josh's job at the Guardian?
AI & data centres are helping fuel inflation - but even the RBA can't say when the benefits may eventually come
Why should ordinary workers have to cop pain not of their own making, because of some of the world's richest companies?
from me:
theguardian.com/australia-ne…
Foreign nationals account for approximately 91% of the total arrest warrants in Bavaria.
In Bayern wurden zum 1. Juli 2026 insgesamt 29.017 Menschen per Haftbefehl gesucht. Davon waren 26.519 Ausländer und lediglich 2.498 Deutsche. Das geht aus einer Antwort der bayerischen Staatsregierung auf eine Anfrage der AfD hervor. nius.de/kriminalitaet/bayern…
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The government charges you more for a pack of smokes each week than it charges big business to import a foreign worker.
Hiring a foreign worker should cost more than hiring an Aussie.
Businesses that keep claiming we lack skills should pay to train Australians.
Revive Australia proposes annual employer levies of up to 30% of each foreign worker’s salary, with the money funding Australian apprenticeships and trades training.
At the 30% rate, a foreign worker earning $146,717 would cost their employer an extra $44,015 a year.
Our policy would make hiring Australians the better deal and help more Australians earn a wage they can build a family on.
