The Labor/Coalition duopoly want to stick their snouts deeper in your pockets to fund their political campaigns. But if there’s a hung parliament after the election, there’ll be a chance to force them to put democracy ahead of naked self-interest. #auspolaustraliainstitute.org.au/po…
Top AI systems have been trained on screenplays for over 50,000 films and 85,000 TV shows, according to a new deep dive by Alex Reiser in The Atlantic.
Not necessarily *surprising*, but good to see this dug into and confirmed:
The duopoly exposed: election funding Bill to go through via ALP/LNP unity ticket and without any public scrutiny. That’s the power play right there folks.
.@AustralianLabor and @LiberalAus have just joined forces to vote down the referral of the newly introduced ‘Electoral Reform Amendment Bill 2024’ to the ‘Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters’ for inquiry. No scrutiny, no public input! #DemocracyFail#auspol
Trump to name Brendan Carr--a massive champion for Elon Musk and his Starlink system--as chairman of the F.C.C. which controls orbital access by space communications companies in the US.
Dozens of Russian military bases are within range of ATACMS missiles.
This includes the headquarters for the Southern Military District in Rostov-on-Don from where much of the invasion is being directed.
The White House must not micromanage targeting permissions for ATACMS.
This censure motion shows where the major parties priorities lie.
They don’t stand with First Peoples in this country. They stand against justice for our people, preferring instead to defend a foreign king, rather than listen to the truth.
The major parties often seem to be fighting each other - but there is an almost invisible consensus emerging in some areas, one that needs more interrogation.
This week's column.
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Vulnerable countries face tremendous headwinds and obstacles that are not of their making.
They aren’t getting the level of support that they need from an international financial architecture that is outdated, ineffective and unfair.
The global community is looking to the #G20 to deliver on reform.
The RNC and U.S. Senate candidate David McCormick (R) have filed two more lawsuits in Pennsylvania to block undated and wrongly dated mail-in ballots from being counted. This comes as the extremely close state's U.S. senate race heads toward a recount.
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