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The "No" vote is reportedly polling better because Dutton and co are peddling that the govt is obsessed with the Voice instead of "fixing" the higher cost of living.
In fact this cost of living pain is largely caused by Dutton's corporate mates profiteering, and by his party's energy failings over past 10 years resulting in today's energy price-gouging.
So it's a win-win for Dutton and friends but a huge loss-loss for the country.
Peter Dutton is such a bullshit artist!
How is Peter Dutton going to hold a second referendum? Only the PM can do that. Dutton is not the PM, won't be PM any time soon, and is unlikely to ever be PM.
He's trying to convince people the Voice referendum is low-stakes and he can give us a do-over if the "Yes" vote doesn't get up. What a load of shit. This is flagrant bullshit.
Dutton is importing MAGA-style tactics: "Flood the zone with shit". He lies and he lies and he lies. He's trying to deliberately exhaust us with a deluge of misinformation to the point where we can't tell truth from lies, nothing means anything, people are rendered incapable of caring, and then slip into nihilism. He dreams of being an autocrat without anyone able to challenge him.
#Auspol #Voice #TheVoice #Referendum #Dutton
#MalignantPotato #MAGA
What I'm finding interesting in the #AI #AIhype gestalt at the moment is the yoking of AI use cases to increased productivity, creating the promise that AI "unlocks" benefits - productivity, capital, labour, time - that are somehow latent and present - but unattainable - without AI.
Take for example the push by developers in #NSW, #Australia, urging councils to use #AI for more rapid #planning approval, positing that AI tools can help in the design process so that plans submitted to councils are more "approvable".
I'm not sure if I agree with this framing. Could AI tools unlock all these benefits? Possibly. But whose interests do they serve? The developers'? The councils'? The communities affected by the planning applications?
He who builds the model shapes how, where, and why it is used.
What I expect to see next is "partnerships" where people with a vested interest in automating / AI-fying a process co-fund its build. Will developers build the AI tools used by councils?
Are we seeing the rise of #AIcapture in a similar vein to #RegulatoryCapture
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-03/nsw-planning-needs-ai-to-respond-to-housing-crisis/102805826
This article argues with rises of influencers on Instagram and short form video on TikTok, the bar for what is good content has kept going up and many users have dropped the SOCIAL from social media and now treat it as MEDIA.
People are still social online but itβs now more likely they are DMing to talk about what they saw in their feeds instead of posting to their feeds.
One could argue Threads is necessary to bring social back to the Instagram generation. https://www.businessinsider.com/social-media-dead-instagram-tiktok-bereal-replaced-group-chats-messaging-2023-8?op=1
The great thing about the Liberal Party is, when right wing American men read us complaining about "The Liberals," they think we mean the left, and get sucked in just long enough to make it funny when they realise that, in fact, we think they are cruel immature dumb dumbs with unkempt neck beards.
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