Mark Stosberg
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Interest Robodebt Royal Commission evidence on how the Liberal National Party government was able to float article ideas with friendly journalists - and in particular, News’s Simon Benson.
Greggery: "You worked with them and provided them the information for the story to be written in a way that the Minister liked."
Miller: "Yes, and Simon Benson was very good at doing that."
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/SquigglyRick/status/1620287776972505090
People don't mean to disappoint you, they only do it because they're apes cobbled together from random mutations and puppeteered by fickle primordial impulses, their politely smiling faces paper-thin masks desperately held tight against the screaming chaos beneath.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/G_S_Bhogal/status/1619335833949192197
Quality comments here, most expanding on the spirit of the original tweet. 10/10, would hang in a dark corner of the Tate Modern (behind fruit- and paint-proof glass).
Oh, you don't read fiction? How do you expect to be constituted as a bourgeois subject whose deep interiority replaces hereditary rank as a form of class distinction?
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/John_Attridge/status/1618702814607446016
The National Indigenous Times has the numbers on national parliamentary representation.
4.6% is higher than the Indigenous share of the population (3.3%).
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https://nit.com.au/23-07-2022/3135/full-list-record-number-of-indigenous-mps-voted-in-to-serve-the-australian-people
4.6% is higher than the Indigenous share of the population (3.3%).
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https://nit.com.au/23-07-2022/3135/full-list-record-number-of-indigenous-mps-voted-in-to-serve-the-australian-people
The Voice is about giving one group of Australians - descendants of those who were here at the time of invasion - a special status. They will get an opportunity for consultation that others do not. I am OK with that. But it won’t play that well for everyone.
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An idea for #VoiceToParliament supporters: downplay the argument that the referendum is about “consulting Indigenous people on policy that affects them”.
Federal Parliament is, in part, supposed to do that for everyone already. Total Indigenous representation there: 4.6%.
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Federal Parliament is, in part, supposed to do that for everyone already. Total Indigenous representation there: 4.6%.
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Sci-fi got it wrong.
We assumed AI would be super logical and humans would provide creativity.
But in reality it’s the opposite. Generative AI is good at getting an approximately correct output, but if you need precision and accuracy you need a human.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/chrisalbon/status/1599599455183196161
Striking optical illusion. It illustrates that our peripheral visual system has a lower resolution and that our brain fills the gap with predictions.
As far as I can tell, non-hydrocarbon mining has the same environmental “bad boy” status as farming largely because it is identified with big corporations.
In reality, farming does far more environmental damage than most mining, causing most of the world’s habitat destruction.
In reality, farming does far more environmental damage than most mining, causing most of the world’s habitat destruction.