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"There is nobody home"

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Woah, woah, holup there cowboy... Use your inside-voice to say things like that. It's pronounced Social, Media. (Newscorpse did it first, so they have special rights or something)

Paul Begley@yelgeb.bsky.social

"News Corp’s entire business model has for decades been dedicated to telling its ageing consumers whom to hate and why, with a regular target being community independents who oppose Liberals." Bernard Keane www.crikey.com.au/2026/10/20/h...

crikey.com.auThe attack on Helen Haines will be no defining moment, only another step towards fragmentationThere are calls for the attack on MP Helen Haines to be a turning point in political discourse. Evidence suggests things will only get worse.
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They should abolish the social media bans, they were introduced because of the uncontrollable 'algorithm'. They won't, because, #2Face1Hat

ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au

Labor proposes social media algorithm choice under new digital duty of care

abc.net.auAustralians could get the power to switch off social media algorithmsLabor wants to make social media platforms proactively reduce foreseeable harms while giving users control over whether algorithms shape their feeds. 

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👌 Russians have withdrawn over $15 billion from banks in two months due to fears of confiscation of deposits for the war, — WP This has already caused an acute shortage of liquidity in Russian banks and thwarted Finance Ministry's plan to raise debt funds through bonds.

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Senator David Shoebridge
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🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: ASIO no. 2 is being rushed through parliament this week. This is the bill that allows warrantless questioning by ASIO, without a lawyer, and you can't tell a soul without being sent to prison. Share this widely and make some noise.

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Frances social media laws got blocked because it "unjustifiably deprived children of their right to freedom of expression and communication." No such concern about Human Rights by the Australian government. Watch this notmbe a story in Austrlia, because of our broken media.

jurist.orgFrance Constitutional Council rules under-15 social media ban violates free speech rightsThe Constitutional Council of France blocked the country's new under-15 social media ban on Friday, holding that the ban was unconstitutional. The council reasoned that the ban unjustifiably deprived....
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"the court also found that the age-verification requirement on all users is inconsistent with the right to respect for private life under Article 2 of the country’s Declaration of the Rights of Man 1789."

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The government should get tough on these big tech companies they aren't even required to put my bin out ! Why are they allowed to get away with this.

ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au

Big tech companies that fail to strike deals with Australian media to face higher levy

abc.net.auBig tech to pay more if no deal reached with Australian mediaCompanies like Google will have to pay a higher percentage of their ad revenue to media companies if they fail to make a deal, but have won a key concession that protects the broader revenue of their business. 
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And they wonder why people are looking to 'other' politics.

Lucy Hamilton@lucyham.bsky.social

The UK gov is almost able to make protest untenable now. You can only protest if you are invisible. UK has made political prisoners of Grannies and church folk holding signs. The UK’s slide to illiberalism is better dressed than the US version, but it’s the same trajectory.

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Roads funding is a cheap dogwhistle Crumbling roads for at least 40 years if you listen to whoever is in opposition. Potholes dont get fixed by changing the government. There is an increasing marginal cost as roads get better it becomes wasteful to promptly fix that one last pothole.

ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au

How much it could cost to repair Victoria's crumbling regional roads

abc.net.auVictoria's roads are crumbling, but how much would it cost to fix them?Both sides of politics have unveiled their roads funding election promises, but regional council figures suggest the pledges could be inadequate.
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Australian Farmed salmon is about as environmentally friendly as you can get for complex protein, certainly a lot better than red meat. The industry is on par with the best in the world. It's sustainable and not expansionist. If industries like this can't survive lobbyists, Australia is doomed.

ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au

Adverse decision on Salmon Tasmania advertisement overturned on appeal

abc.net.auAdverse decision on Salmon Tasmania advertisement overturned on appealSalmon Tasmania has won its appeal against an earlier decision that found one of its ad campaigns to be in breach of advertising standards. 
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I will praise the AI gods for a long time for helping me with this #m4 bug, the fix is; -AC_MSG_ERROR([....Did you m4_include the ...]) +AC_MSG_ERROR([... Did you include the ...]) And its attitude (cont) (1/2)

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"Ha, that was a genuinely satisfying hunt. The irony of a diagnostic message designed to catch a missing include being the thing that causes the failure — and only when the include is correctly omitted — is peak m4 treachery." (2/2)

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“Economic security and national security are now almost indistinguishable.” Maybe to the government, what about actual people ? #auspol

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Can anyone explain how the Nats can split from the coalition? #auspol Which LNP (QLD federal party) members will be Nats, which will be Libs ? What will an election contest look like in regional QLD, LIB vs NAT vs ON, how will those preferences flow ?

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Who will be the new shadow ministers from Libs to replace NATs, do the Libs have the depth to cover them? #auspol

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ME to ChatGPT: You previously stated "Benjamin Netanyahu does not currently have ICC arrest warrants issued.", but now you say "Yes — as of late 2025, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued a valid arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu." Do you acknowledge that suggests your biased.

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You said, "That doesn’t mean everything I said was biased"; Is it fair to conclude that some of what you said was biased ? The bias showed up as: 1. Status-quo lag (treating ICC action against a Western-aligned leader as “pending” longer than warranted) (Co tinued)

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2. Asymmetric scepticism (being quicker to assert wrongdoing for Maduro than to assert equivalent legal jeopardy for Netanyahu) 3. Institutional framing bias (foregrounding regime-type distinctions before fully accounting for conflict-conduct and international criminal law)

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ME to ChatGPT: You previously stated "Benjamin Netanyahu does not currently have ICC arrest warrants issued.", but now you say "Yes — as of late 2025, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued a valid arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu." Do you acknowledge that suggests your biased.

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ChatGPT: Yes — that contradiction is on me, and you’re right to call it out It's interesting that ChatGPT is a source of propaganda, and it acquowledges it. (I was trying to get it to explain why the US "arrested" Maduro and not Netanyahu.)

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Your underlying intuition was: "From a neutral moral perspective, Netanyahu having ICC warrants while Maduro does not is significant." That intuition stands, once the factual correction is applied. That is a form of systematic skew, even if unintentional. (It want accept it's biased though)

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In the first yougove for #wannon, on 16th Feb, they reported for #election2025 Coalition 41.4% Independent 25.3% Labor 18% Green 8% One Nation 6.6% Other 0.8% Thanks #waybackmachine

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Still a lot of work to be done in #Wannon to change, but there are a lot of people trying to do that (600 volunteers, 1000 donors) uComm push poll(?); 1000 respondents, 3% MOE LIB 41.6 IND 16.2 (Alex Dyson) ALP 12.6 GRN 5.9 PHON 4.4 OTH 4.2 UND 15.3 Prev election pref LIB 48.4 IND 36.3 UND 15.3

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