@KatieMiller When a couple with dual incomes above median wage can barely afford a home, let alone basic essentials, the idea of trying to bring a child into the mix is absurd. The only way to fix this is to make Australia affordable for single-income families.
@Ryandally08 Yeah, Albo changed the rules because lazy c*nts bought property and f*cked future generations. Have a good look at your own privilege you stupid twat.
@milesdeutscher Maybe the problem isn’t the AI’s but more the humans who give them too much access?
Just like we don’t trust interns with root access; so too we should not trust our AI’s.
Yesterday Meta told every US employee their computer will now record mouse clicks, keystrokes, and screenshots while they work. All of it goes into training an AI to do their job. In 30 days, 8,000 of these same employees are being laid off.
Reuters got the memo. The wording is the company's own: the recordings will be used to build "AI agents that can perform work tasks autonomously." Reuters also confirmed the May 20 date and the number, 8,000 people, exactly 10% of Meta's global workforce.
Meta is spending $115 to $135 billion on AI infrastructure this year, almost double the $72 billion it spent last year. The entire business only generated $115.8 billion in cash for all of 2025. Meta is now planning to spend more on AI in 2026 than the whole company brings in.
Part of the bill went to a company called Scale AI. Meta paid $14.3 billion for 49% of it last June, mostly to bring in CEO Alexandr Wang. Scale's whole job is to tag and clean the human-written data that AI models learn from. Meta wanted Wang because their old data supply ran dry.
The public internet is almost out of fresh material to feed these models. A group called Epoch AI ran the math and projects the world will burn through its supply of high-quality human-written text on the web somewhere between 2026 and 2032. The industry calls this the "data wall." Google and OpenAI are stuck on the same side of it.
So Meta turned inward, to the most expensive training material money can buy: their own employees doing their own jobs. Mouse movements teach the AI how to move around a screen, click by click. Keystroke logs hand it the exact shortcuts and rhythm an experienced worker uses, the muscle memory of the job. Screenshots show what a finished task should look like. The people being recorded in April are the raw material for the AI that replaces them in May.
This is not just a Meta thing. Amazon laid off 16,000 corporate workers in January. Oracle let go of up to 30,000 of its people, about 18% of the company, on March 31. The cash they saved goes toward $156 billion in AI data centers. The whole pattern across big tech is identical. Record profits and record AI spending, paired with the biggest workforce cuts since the pandemic.
The thing they are building is a software worker that opens the dashboard, reads the numbers, drafts the email, books the meeting, and never needs a coffee break. The training data for that worker is a senior Meta employee doing all of that, on Meta's payroll, one month before their last day.
@aj_inapi Australia is no better. The entire ruling class, globally, are a corrupt bunch of ghouls. People are talking about “A Great Reset”. I’d suggest starting by purging these elites.
@Roisin_Garden When the government fails to negotiate and issues threats; it is no longer a government.
There will only be 2 outcomes: either the entire government walks or there’s blood on the streets.
do you understand what just happened to one of the most used npm packages on the internet?
→ axios gets downloaded over 100 million times a week and today it got compromised
→ an attacker hijacked the npm credentials of a lead axios maintainer… changed the account email to an anonymous ProtonMail address… and manually published two poisoned versions
→ [email protected] and [email protected]… neither version contains a single line of malicious code inside axios itself. instead they inject a fake dependency called plain-crypto-js that drops a remote access trojan on your machine
→ the fake dependency was staged 18 hours in advance… three separate payloads were pre-built for macOS, Windows, and Linux… both release branches were hit within 39 minutes. every trace was designed to self-destruct after execution too
→ there’s no tag in the axios GitHub repo for 1.14.1. it was published outside the normal release process entirely... bypassed CI/CD completely
→ StepSecurity called it one of the most operationally sophisticated supply chain attacks ever against a top 10 npm package
→ a routine npm install silently opens a backdoor… no warning… no suspicious code visible in axios itself
this is the wake up call all vibe coding bros need to hear right now:
→ if you installed either version… assume your system is compromised
→ pin to [email protected] or [email protected]
→ rotate all secrets, API keys, SSH keys, and credentials on affected machines
→ check network logs for C2 connections
→ add –ignore-scripts to CI npm installs going forward
100 million weekly downloads and one compromised maintainer account…
that’s all it took to wreak absolute havoc
and I imagine we see a whole lot more of these… crazy times ahead for cybersecurity and vibe coding
be safe out there y’all
JAMIE McINTYRE: CANCELLED, TARGETED… AND STILL STANDING
The Man Who Says Australia Has Been Hijacked—and How to Take It Back
In 2013, while most Australians were still trusting the system, Jamie McIntyre stepped outside it—and paid the price.
Founder of the Australian National Review and the 21st Century Australia Party, McIntyre didn’t just launch a media platform… he launched a challenge to the entire establishment.
A real newspaper. Distributed nationally.
A political movement. Drawing thousands.
A message. That Australia was losing control of its own destiny.
What followed, he says, was no coincidence.
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“THEY CAME FOR EVERYTHING”
McIntyre claims that almost immediately after launching his party and independent media network, he became a target.
•A speaking empire shut down
•Multiple companies dismantled
•Over 100 jobs wiped out
•Tens of millions in annual revenue destroyed
•More than six land projects seized or halted
At the centre of it all, he points to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC).
McIntyre’s view is blunt:
This wasn’t regulation.
This was retaliation.
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A POLITICAL RUN—BLOCKED BEFORE IT BEGAN?
At the height of his momentum, McIntyre was drawing crowds of over 3,000 people to rallies across Australia.
His 21st Century Australia Party wasn’t left.
It wasn’t right.
It was designed to unify.
But he says the system had other ideas.
According to McIntyre, actions by regulators prevented his party from formally contesting the 2013 federal election—forcing him to run as an independent against Barnaby Joyce in New England.
A grassroots movement… cut off at the knees.
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THE SYSTEM HE SAYS IS BROKEN
McIntyre argues that Australia isn’t just mismanaged—it’s structurally compromised.
And his solution? Tear out the foundations and rebuild.
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1. ABOLISH INCOME TAX
McIntyre says taxing Australians on their income is one of the greatest economic distortions ever imposed.
He points to the global banking system, including institutions like the Federal Reserve, as part of what he believes is a system of debt-based control.
His position is simple:
Australians should not be taxed for working.
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2. TAX THE RESOURCES—NOT THE PEOPLE
Australia is one of the most resource-rich nations on Earth.
So why, McIntyre asks, are citizens taxed heavily while resources are exported offshore?
His model mirrors Norway:
•Tax resource exports properly
•Build a sovereign wealth fund
•Pay dividends back to Australians
In his vision, Australians wouldn’t just avoid income tax—they’d receive income from their country.
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3. END THE HOUSING CRISIS—BY DESIGN
McIntyre says Australia’s housing crisis is not accidental.
It’s engineered through:
•Excessive taxes
•Artificial supply constraints
•Policy failure
His solution:
•Remove property taxes
•Roll out large-scale affordable housing
•Use modular construction to slash costs
“A rich country should never have homeless citizens,” he argues.
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4. CHEAP ENERGY FOR AUSTRALIANS
Australia exports energy to the world… yet locals pay premium prices.
McIntyre calls it absurd.
Comparing Australia to Indonesia, where fuel is subsidised, he says Australians are effectively subsidising their own government through fuel taxes.
His stance:
•Scrap fuel taxes
•Deliver low-cost energy domestically
•Let Australians benefit from what their country produces
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5. END THE LEFT VS RIGHT DIVIDE
McIntyre’s political philosophy rejects the traditional spectrum entirely.
He argues:
•Division is manufactured
•Australians are being played against each other
•Leadership is increasingly influenced by external interests
His alternative?
A nationalist model focused on:
•Unity over division
•Sovereignty over global influence
•Accountability to Australians—not outsiders
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A FIGURE THEY COULDN’T SILENCE
Love him or hate him, one thing is undeniable:
Jamie McIntyre didn’t disappear.