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[kat. @boredominfested]

@realumutturan @hell_line0 Leaders who strip the dignities of those they are supposed to serve deserve no dignity afforded to them.

[Craig Hill @CraigHill01]

Gina Rinehart, who owns Pauline Hanson, wants to hand over multiple Queensland islands to Elon Musk so he can pursue unspecified projects. Australia's ecological wonders should not be handed over to foreign powers. If there is indeed money to be made from these ventures, it should be made by Australians.

[Dirtyleftie @CraigSarg73]

Political parties raising money isn't unusual.

Labor does it. The Liberals do it. The Greens do it. One Nation does it.

The difference isn't that One Nation is asking for donations.

The difference is that "Fire the Liar" isn't really a campaign about policy. It's a campaign built around anger.

The message isn't "help us solve housing", "help us lower power bills" or "help us improve health care".

The message is essentially: "You're angry. So give us money."

That's what makes me uncomfortable.

Australians are doing it tough right now. Every party has the right to ask for support. But when a campaign is designed primarily to inflame outrage and then immediately convert that outrage into donations, I think it's fair to question what's really being sold.

Support a party because you believe in its ideas.

Support a party because you think its policies will improve the country.

But if a political movement relies on keeping people permanently angry so the donations keep flowing, that's not leadership.

That's a business model.

[Rick @colonelhogans]

Be careful what you wish for Australia.

Pauline Hanson has spoken openly to The Australian saying how IR laws need to be changed.

Not for the benefit of workers obviously.

Only to benefit her billionaire donors.

Won’t read or hear any of this on 2GB, 3AW, Seven or Nine breakfast shows.

Hanson has always been anti worker and pro big business.

She’s coming for your pay and conditions.

Work Choices on steroids.

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[kat. @boredominfested]

@steve_mulry @TheGreatestOne3 @PaulineHansonOz Whatever you think communism is, that's not it.

[kat. @boredominfested]

@Luv_Xcuses Squandering wealth

[Alli Olabisi @AlliOlabisi5]

@piersmorgan That's what you get when Americans elected a mörön.

[kat. @boredominfested]

@AntonioSabatoJr @IMS Jelly belly

[kat. @boredominfested]

@P202641716 Reading your comments and other posts, it seems you've been too quick to use the past tense. Still the definition of a piece of shit.

[kat. @boredominfested]

@KerryMSoileau #notallmenbutdefinitelymeninbars
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[L. David Fairchild @David_Fairchild]

He's not just defending AI energy use. He is smuggling in a whole anthropology where humans are basically inefficient meat computers that you have to pour food and years into before they become useful. And once you accept that, the next move is obvious. If people are just costly biological training runs, then burning mountains of electricity to build synthetic intelligence starts to feel not only equal, but superior, even if it negatively impacts actual humans.

That is the dystopian. It makes human development sound like a bug in the system, and it makes sacrificing human and creational flourishing for more computational power sound logical. To him, the grid gets strained, prices go up, ecosystems get hit, but hey, humans eat too, so what's the difference?

The difference is that humans aren't an inefficient line item. They're the point. If your worldview can look at a child growing into an adult and describe it as energy spent to train intelligence, you haven't said something profound. You've revealed a horrifically rotten worldview.

[kat. @boredominfested]

@SyversonDave @mhdksafa Massive self own.

[kat. @boredominfested]

@elonmusk Grow up, loser

[kat. @boredominfested]

@DrewPavlou That's not rape, you absolute drama queen. Have a word with yourself

[kat. @boredominfested]

@elonmusk Shitler

[kat. @boredominfested]

@elonmusk Stop interfering. Weren't you going to end world hunger? Seems like that'd be a better use of your time

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

California, this November 4th, the whole country is counting on you.

Prop 50 puts our elections back on a level playing field, preserves independent redistricting over the long term, and lets the people decide.

So return your ballot today. Vote yes on 50.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

It is now the seventh day – something that has never happened before – of an emergency situation at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant. Because of Russian shelling, the plant has been cut off from power, disconnected from the electrical grid, and is being supplied with electricity by diesel generators.

This is extraordinary. The generators and the plant were not designed for this, have never operated in this mode for long, and we already have information that one generator has failed. It is Russian shelling that prevents repair of the power lines to the plant and the restoration of basic safety.

This is a threat to everyone – no terrorist in the world has ever dared to do to a nuclear plant what Russia is doing. And it is right that the world does not stay silent.

[kat. @boredominfested]

@mhdksafa 🇵🇸