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Qlder 🇦🇺🚜 🇬🇧 #NoDigitalID retweeted
When the Chief Economist and Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), Dr Sarah Hunter, tells you that government spending and @AlboMP’s and @JEChalmers refusal to reign it in, is driving inflation and high interest rates, you should listen. Expect @AustralianLabor to use the attack on @helenhainesindi as a distraction in advance of the Treasurer’s statement on inflation and the next RBA rise.
Qlder 🇦🇺🚜 🇬🇧 #NoDigitalID retweeted
My husband has used AI agents to revive old fonts, ornaments, & cuts from 19th century newspapers. The agents even built an editor where you can create your own invitations/pamphlets/cards using old cuts & fonts. Have been using it for @Quillette invitations already
font-revival.com/
Qlder 🇦🇺🚜 🇬🇧 #NoDigitalID retweeted
‼️ A bug bounty hunter says they rooted their 2025 Samsung TV with zero-days and found an AI model tracking what they watch and the ads they skip.
The TV also takes screenshots, categorises audio and can tap a soundbar's mic, they say.
Then OpenAI banned them for "Cyber Abuse".
Qlder 🇦🇺🚜 🇬🇧 #NoDigitalID retweeted
Australian Federal Police commissioner Krissy Barrett just tried to say that Pauline Hanson’s cartoon series was morally responsible for the far-left terrorist attack on Helen Haines.
She needs to resign. Labor obviously put her up to this to try push the Digital Duty of Care bill and censorship against the Australian right. Just sickening attempts to weaponise a far-left terror attack to destroy the Australian right with censorship.
We literally have the attacker’s Twitter account. He had TEN THOUSAND left wing tweets and they are still trying to pin this on the right. They were itching from the very first seconds of the attack to blame this on the right to justify censorship against right wingers.
Qlder 🇦🇺🚜 🇬🇧 #NoDigitalID retweeted
The cheap green lie
You are told that solar and wind are cheap
But you need near-100% backup when no sun or wind, paying for two systems
Data for 2025 shows that
cramming in more solar and wind makes electricity overall more and more costly
Sources:
Electricity prices, households and industry, 2025
iea.org/data-and-statistics/…
Solar and wind generation, electricity use and consumption weights
iea.org/data-and-statistics/…
Solar and wind for countries without IEA 2025 data
ember-energy.org/data
Electricity trade partners, plus industry prices for Norway, Albania, Iceland and Kosovo
ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/en…
US industry price
eia.gov/electricity/annual
Australia, IEA 2021 prices updated with official price indices
abs.gov.au/statistics/econom…
South Africa industry price
eskom.co.za/wp-content/uploa…
Taiwan industry tariff
taipower.com.tw
Egypt industry tariff
egyptera.org/en/TarrifAug202…
Tunisia tariffs (archived copy, the STEG site is unreachable)
web.archive.org/web/20250614…
Azerbaijan industry tariff
regulator.gov.az/en/istehlak…
2025 tariff changes applied to IEA 2024 prices
Pakistan: nepra.org.pk
Thailand: erc.or.th
Ghana: purc.com.gh
Paraguay: ande.gov.py
Kazakhstan: stat.gov.kz/en/industries/ec…
GlobalPetrolPrices 2025 averages for 18 countries, read from archived 2025 pages
globalpetrolprices.com/elect…
web.archive.org
Sri Lanka 2025 tariff changes
pucsl.gov.lk/end-user-tariff…
Indonesia solar and wind estimated from official 2025 capacity
esdm.go.id/id/media-center/a…
Statista 2025 averages for China, Mexico, Brazil, Russia, Singapore, Peru, Argentina and South Africa (data from GlobalPetrolPrices)
statista.com/statistics/1369… (business prices worldwide)
statista.com/statistics/1461… (household prices worldwide)
statista.com/statistics/1173… (Latin America business)
statista.com/statistics/1123… (Latin America households)
statista.com/statistics/1373… (China business)
statista.com/statistics/1372… (Mexico business)
statista.com/statistics/1372… (Mexico households)
statista.com/statistics/1617… (South Africa households)
Qlder 🇦🇺🚜 🇬🇧 #NoDigitalID retweeted
Your country might be great but does it follow Australia’s lead by colour-coordinating its currency with the nation’s favourite snack foods?
Qlder 🇦🇺🚜 🇬🇧 #NoDigitalID retweeted
The very same prime minister who went on sordid podcasts to discuss Kylie Minogue and the female Japanese prime minister is going to now give lectures about the “manosphere”? #Auspol
Qlder 🇦🇺🚜 🇬🇧 #NoDigitalID retweeted
Current Aussie housing crash is the worst ever recorded since 1980 - national capital city prices are currently falling at a 16% annualised pace based on the last three months of Cotality data...
Qlder 🇦🇺🚜 🇬🇧 #NoDigitalID retweeted
Online rhetoric & imagery cause real-world violence, say officials. But no good evidence supports their claims. For 140 years, censors have tried and failed to link media to violence. Behind the false claims lie arrogance, ideological intolerance, and a panic over populism.
Qlder 🇦🇺🚜 🇬🇧 #NoDigitalID retweeted
The point of no return by Richard von Mises is worth reading:
"A state becomes almost unreformable when the majority of the population is financially or structurally dependent on the state (state employees, civil servants, recipients of subsidies, grants, or transfer payments, etc.). As soon as those who net benefit from or are supported by the state outnumber those who do not, the system blocks reforms, since the majority votes out of self-interest for the preservation or expansion of state services."
Does this sound familiar? Some European countries, France, Belgium, Finland are already way beyond that point, closely followed by Germany, Spain, Austria and Italy. It works for a while, as long as markets buy more sovereign debt at reasonable interest rates. The party ends when they stop though. For France, they stopped this month, Belgium will be next.
The longer the socialist illusion persists, the more painful the inevitable cuts and adjustments will be. It’s pure arithmetic. Good luck Europe, good luck Euro. Buckle up, it won’t be pretty.
Qlder 🇦🇺🚜 🇬🇧 #NoDigitalID retweeted
I am a Melburnian. I love this city. And yet for all its cultural attributes, the barbecue-stopper across Victoria today is the deleterious state of our roads, writes Bernard Salt. Read the full column: bit.ly/4BFkYdI
Qlder 🇦🇺🚜 🇬🇧 #NoDigitalID retweeted
We finally have an explanation for “Facebook is listening to me through my phone”. They’d never do that (and it’s not really possible).
Turns out literally everyone else was — and then selling that to ad data brokers.
WTF, $3000 Samsung TV has an always-on mic, automatic content recognition, geo tracking, network mapping, and ships your data to Samsung + 400 partners.
Bro Rooted a brand-new 2025 Samsung TV after noticing absurdly targeted ads.
Firmware was locked down, so zero-days it was.
Got a root shell.
then found: always-on voice service, ACR, geo, full telemetry pipeline, and four separate DRM systems.
This isn’t a bug, It’s the product bro.
Qlder 🇦🇺🚜 🇬🇧 #NoDigitalID retweeted
There is apparently a direct correlation between political satire and political violence.
But only when it is not the ABC.
Right?
Qlder 🇦🇺🚜 🇬🇧 #NoDigitalID retweeted
So it turns out that the samsung tv was using its microphone to listen to everything.
to hide their traffic they went ahead and classified what it was hearing then sent it… somewhere
live-tweeting on samsung findings were fun.
i'll let my agents give it a bit more time, but this document is already the most comprehensive breakdown of some key concerns of tizen i've seen run on a live device.
it takes like a good while for me just to scroll through it (there's about 44 writeups as of right now on individual functionality).
release is probably happening in a few days.
Qlder 🇦🇺🚜 🇬🇧 #NoDigitalID retweeted
Whatever happens with the current riots, the @EmmanuelMacron government is in free fall, says former Supreme Court justice @noellelenoir. "We have no government," she says. "Macron is disconnected, afraid, & doesn't know what to do.... Without X, we would not have a democracy."
Qlder 🇦🇺🚜 🇬🇧 #NoDigitalID retweeted
If only we’d built nuclear plants instead of Snowy Hydro 2.
Even in the worst case scenario where Bowen compares it to Hinkley C Nuclear Plant that will be an about a 3x cost increase, a lot better than a 12x blowout for a battery.
Hinkley C will produce 7% of the UK’s electricity from just 2 reactors for over 60 years.
At more realistic CSIRO prices you could have built 5 large nuclear reactors for the up to $50bn price tag of Snowy Hydro 2 (including transmission lines).
It’s worth reminding ourselves that the one reactor Australia did build recently, the OPAL research reactor, was basically on time and on budget.
Qlder 🇦🇺🚜 🇬🇧 #NoDigitalID retweeted
Rioters set fire to a building in France. A neighbour begs them: "Please, there are kids in that building!"
Their answer: "We don't give a fuck! We're young, we want our rights!"
