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Missed the bit about where the productivity gains to date have gone… profit or to labour? Seem to recall a chart with the former sprinting ahead.. #auspol It still feels a bit smoke and mirrors extractive… are we here to produce more or live better www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Don’t belive what people say, believe what they spend money on. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Bless their cotton socks… www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Seems fair to wonder if these two things are related? www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahus-p...

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Remember what is real. www.techdirt.com/2025/06/20/t...

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No sign of ‘leaders’ challenging the ‘AI disruption is inevitable’ mantra. It is good to invest in younger workers learning tools and process instead of trusting (and paying) someone else’s algorithm to write emails for you. #AI #work #ffsthinkaminute www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

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I propose a special levy on the fossil fuel industry to address the challenges faced by farmers that are exacerbated by highly profitable climate changing activities. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Vandals. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Well then... enclosed please find a very good video tracing humanity's response to smallpox, and the impact of vaccines on reducing the suffering that... we don't really need to experience. flowingdata.com/2025/05/30/d... #data #vaccines #history

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This fellow needs to get a call to put the word down every time some bright spark gets the privatisation brainwave. #auspol Childcare is just the latest failure of Australia’s privatisation push. It’s time for an ideology overhaul | John Quiggin www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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LOL more evidence of the Liberal's sound economic credentials... I'd rather spend $25,000 to listen to birds and bugs in the bush. #auspol Gina Rinehart helped Liberals raise nearly $400,000 at exclusive dinner that led to wrongful dismissal claim www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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May I propose taxing takings from pokies at 60%, and earmark the proceeds for funding education & social services? #auspol #nswpol NSW gamblers losing $24m to poker machines every day, analysis shows www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Great, lets make nice with a company that is fine with making workers pee in bottles and and chucking a million bucks here and there at Il Orangino. Astute #auspol -itics. Go albo go or whatever www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

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it is hard to find better examples of the danger of not throwing fascists in jail when you have the chance than Netanyahu and Trump

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Good summary; recommendations at the end! theconversation.com/ai-overviews...

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Mostly reasonable, except the ‘no alternative’ claim is a worry. I am not sure many pollies, regulators or end users have the wherewithal to resist the siren call of outsourcing human ‘production’ to the chatbots for concentrated profit extraction. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Would you expect anything else though? www.techdirt.com/2025/06/13/m...

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LOL. Listen to AI overview’s error ridden nonsense, what a treat. Yeah nah. #ai arstechnica.com/google/2025/...

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wonder if meta and openai will testify in support of midjourney… model sounds the and need to avoid precedent that may limit acquisition of training data #ai www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Fascinating #data; as NSW interpretation renders people as, effectively, solar powered ATMs. …wonder what the loadings are for the overnight shifts tho, and who is exploited to power a 24h economy. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Well, its not a disaster for Meta, more free content/data from their saps… er, users. Feature, not a bug most likely. techcrunch.com/2025/06/12/t...

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Chapter #435 in "Betoota Advocate Headline Nails It" Israel Begins Bombing Country It Shares No Borders With In Latest Act Of Self Defence www.betootaadvocate.com/uncategorize...

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This is a bit like the early ad for AI where some dipshit parent uses the chatbot to write a birthday email or some nonsense like that... Dad, look what the 'puter did! Jameson turns Father’s Day messages into personalized songs through AI writing tool www.trendwatching.com/innovations/...

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Yes, please. Like… duh? No brainer here. Though of course who really is going to stopper up the rivers of silver flowing toward them. #auspol #humannature #greed #influence www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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but what the f***, let’s keep burning coal and gas cos loud people making money off it manage to scare/buy folks into maintaining the status quo www.theguardian.com/environment/... #auspol

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This is a service that should be made much more widely available.

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Seems like setting a spending objective before figuring out what you’re going to do is rather silly… policy without thought seems to be a coalition speciality though. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

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Welcome to America, where protesting illegal kidnappings without due process is an insurrection, but attacking the nation’s Capitol is not.

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#AusPol

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Incompetent or crooked? www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

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I read somewhere recently "you can't run an organized system with disorganized people." That's really stuck with me.

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The QLD LNP seems to be the poster child for aggressive, thoughtless macho posturing. Jailing kids, killing sharks, ****ing off the environment... pretty lame #auspol ‘Gut punch’: top shark expert quits Queensland advisory panel after LNP expands cull program www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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To be fair, Marley does need to feather his post politics nest…

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the first sentence of Elon's obituary should be that he was one of the greatest mass murderers in the history of humanity this is his legacy

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Imagine if our health minister said he wanted to spend more after meeting with public health experts. Or the climate minister said he wanted to spend more after meeting with climate scientists…no chance But defence… Defence spending never causes budget deficits or high interest rates #climate

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Hang on, Trump plays silly tacos and… the rest of the world takes the hit so you don’t look so bad in the US? Yeah nah f*** of, Birkenstock et al. I like your shoes but not that much. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

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Um… what is going on with parents that accept this behaviour from their offspring? I propose consequences for both students and parents… say a fine of 1% after tax income per infraction for the latter? #education #schools #teachers www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Just feels like a scam. One would think the efficiency of privatisation would see steady decreases in costs, but no, these masters of industry seem wilfully inept, at the expense of oh, our pocketbooks. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Ah, education to feed the mill of industry and commerce rather than the richness of experience and achievement. F***ing shame really. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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“The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.” — Treaty of Tripoli, signed by the United States in 1797.

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That is one expensive series of poor decisions… and they still want folks to stump up for him. Impressive what you can get away with in the right circumstances #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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