Conor Kelly

professional structural integrity tester of my couch...

under construction - currently tidying up my hacked account, will get there eventually... maybe.

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees.

$30 per seat per month.

$1.4 million annually.

I called it "digital transformation."

The board loved that phrase.

They approved it in eleven minutes.

No one asked what it would actually do.

Including me.

I told everyone it would "10x productivity."

That's not a real number.

But it sounds like one.

HR asked how we'd measure the 10x.

I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards."

They stopped asking.

Three months later I checked the usage reports.

47 people had opened it.

12 had used it more than once.

One of them was me.

I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds.

It took 45 seconds.

Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations.

But I called it a "pilot success."

Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail.

The CFO asked about ROI.

I showed him a graph.

The graph went up and to the right.

It measured "AI enablement."

I made that metric up.

He nodded approvingly.

We're "AI-enabled" now.

I don't know what that means.

But it's in our investor deck.

A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT.

I said we needed "enterprise-grade security."

He asked what that meant.

I said "compliance."

He asked which compliance.

I said "all of them."

He looked skeptical.

I scheduled him for a "career development conversation."

He stopped asking questions.

Microsoft sent a case study team.

They wanted to feature us as a success story.

I told them we "saved 40,000 hours."

I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up.

They didn't verify it.

They never do.

Now we're on Microsoft's website.

"Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot."

The CEO shared it on LinkedIn.

He got 3,000 likes.

He's never used Copilot.

None of the executives have.

We have an exemption.

"Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction."

I wrote that policy.

The licenses renew next month.

I'm requesting an expansion.

5,000 more seats.

We haven't used the first 4,000.

But this time we'll "drive adoption."

Adoption means mandatory training.

Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches.

But completion will be tracked.

Completion is a metric.

Metrics go in dashboards.

Dashboards go in board presentations.

Board presentations get me promoted.

I'll be SVP by Q3.

I still don't know what Copilot does.

But I know what it's for.

It's for showing we're "investing in AI."

Investment means spending.

Spending means commitment.

Commitment means we're serious about the future.

The future is whatever I say it is.

As long as the graph goes up and to the right.

[Malcolm Roberts 🇦🇺 @MRobertsQLD]

URGENT - @DonaldJTrumpJr – Situation critical. The Australian government is wanting to destroy free speech and censor X (plus other networks) with the appalling Misinformation and Disinformation Bill.

To be voted on next week. We need your help to defend Australian democracy It is a Bill that was written by the @Liberal Party of Australia – and now being rammed home by the @Labor Party. Imminent vote in @ausSenate

As here - https://t.co/dE1r8VByLC

[Craig Kelly:🇦🇺Foundation for Economic Education @craigkellyAFEE]

While everyone is distracted watching the US Presidential election results - like a cunning rat, Albanese is sneaking the Misinformation & Disinformation (MAD) Bill back into Parliament today to be "debated"

https://t.co/6G9p8559Jj

[Conor Kelly @corneliouskelly]

@tack0305 @NorthmanTrader Central bank's keep buying it up

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Far left fascists love censorship

[Craig Kelly:🇦🇺Foundation for Economic Education @craigkellyAFEE]

With the Misinformation & Disinformation (MAD) Bill, the government has the power to censor criticism of their economic policies.

🔴Lets say an economist posts an opinion,

"With the reckless stupidity of Chris Bowen pursuing Net Zero, the Australian economy is heading for a recession"

🔴The Ministry of Truth could find another government appointed economist to disagree and claim,

"Chris Bowen is a genius, and his policies will turn Australia into the land of (soy) milk and honey."

Or alternatively,

"Yes Bowen is a dill damaging the economy, but Albanese can just mask over the damage by importing a million new people into the country to lift demand and avoid a technical recession"

🔴In a free democratic society who is right or wrong, is part the vigorous, ever ongoing contest of ideas and public debate. But with the new legislation, the Ministry of Truth intervenes.

🔴Then the Ministry of Truth could argue under clause 13(1)(a) that based on this government economist’s statement, the opinion of a risk of a future recession is "reasonable verifiable as false".

🔴It doesn’t matter that the opinion could also be reasonably verifiable as true, as their is no objective test. As long as the Ministry of Truth can find any reason to argue it’s reasonably verifiable as false - its deemed as "misinformation"

🔴And then, the Ministry of Truth can claim under clause 14(f) that forecasting a recession due to government policies is likely to cause "harm to public confidence in financial markets".

🔴Therefore, as the post by the economist warning about "the reckless stupidity of Chris Bowen pursuing Net Zero has the Australian economy heading for a recession" is deemed as "misinformation" the Ministry of Truth can they can demand it be censored from any social media platform.

[Craig Kelly:🇦🇺Foundation for Economic Education @craigkellyAFEE]

The magnificent Russell Broadbent MP on Albanese’s Misinformation & Disinformation (MAD) Bill,

"These are truly unprecedented times. In my 25 years in the parliament, I've never seen legislation like it.

This is not the country I grew up in, and it's heading in a direction that makes me fear for future generations.

Today I urge Australians to stand up and speak out on this bill while they still can."

No wonder the kicked him out of the Liberal Party

Here’s his full speech …….

Mr BROADBENT (Monash) (16:29): Today is a dark day and one that does not bode well for the nation. The government's so-called combatting misinformation bill marks the beginning of the end for free speech and democracy in Australia.

Make no mistake, this bill is another alarming example of overreach and a step towards government tyranny over what we can and cannot discuss.

It gives the government unfettered power and control over Australians and their right to exchange ideas, thoughts and opinions.
Do you realise what we're risking here?

Free speech is the bedrock of democracy, and, as Benjamin Franklin said, there is no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

The bill compels digital platform providers like X and Facebook to censor content that may contribute to serious harm.

But who makes that decision?

Who's the arbiter of truth?

One of the bill's definitions of content that may cause serious harm is content that may cause serious harm to 'public health in Australia, including the efficacy of preventative health measures'.

Where have I heard those words before?

Why don't they just say misinformation is whatever discussion or debate goes against the narrative of the government of the day?

It appears that anyone with a view that's contrary to the government's narrative is going to be in the firing line, just like during the pandemic, when our government, the government I was a part of, censored 4,000 social media posts as misinformation, many of which proved to be absolutely true.

I'm not alone in my concerns. In giving feedback on the original exposure draft, the Law Council rightly outlined concerns that digital platform services lack the expertise and resources to identify and distinguish misinformation.

The Human Rights Commission, who were missing in action during the pandemic, said the bill didn't strike the right balance between censorship of objectively untrue content and protection of freedom of expression.

It seems this final bill hasn't adequately addressed either of these legitimate issues, so why is it being rushed through?

I agree with Dr Phillip Altman, a pharmacologist with 40 years experience as a clinical trial and drug regulatory affairs consultant, who believes the biggest pedlars of misinformation during the pandemic were the government and unelected health bureaucrats.

That's because they: falsely claimed that the experimental gene based mRNA injections were safe and effective when this was not supported by the available evidence, even from the pharmaceutical companies themselves; falsely claimed the senseless vaccine mandates would help to stop transmission when they were never tested for that;

falsely claimed that COVID injections would keep you from getting COVID, getting seriously ill or going to hospital;

falsely claimed that masks prevented transmission or infection; falsely claimed it was a pandemic of the unvaccinated;

falsely claimed that early treatments were unsuitable; and falsely claimed that there was no clinical evidence to support ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine in the treatment of COVID-19.

Worst of all was the vilification and censorship of doctors, academics and scientists who raised the alarm about the safety of the vaccines.

But here's the rub: professional news services—mainstream media—are excluded from this bill. So they can lie or cause harm without fear of repercussions.

Does anyone see a big red flag here?

Based on what I've observed over the last nearly five years, it's the deliberate suppression of information by the media that is most sinister.

This includes their failure to disclose the vested interests of so-called health experts, expert committees and institutions providing public advice; their failure to report on the doctors and health practitioners being deregistered and suspended for daring to disagree with the government's narrative; their failure to put pressure on the government to reveal the contractual arrangements with vaccine manufacturers; their failure to ask about the estimated 30,000 excess deaths since the rollout of the jabs; their failure to hold the TGA accountable for failing to investigate the more than 140,000 reports of adverse reactions to the jabs; their failure to highlight the minimal to near zero risk of COVID-19 in the young versus the risk to the elderly; and, most heinously, their failure to cover stories of the vaccine injured, including the thousands of injured Australians who aren't even eligible for compensation because of the illogically narrow eligibility criteria.

We're constantly assured that the science is settled and bombarded with propaganda to follow the science, but surely this dogma has no place in science.

Surely our doctors, academics and scientists must be free to ask questions about assertions and debate issues.

These are truly unprecedented times. In my 25 years in the parliament, I've never seen legislation like it. This is not the country I grew up in, and it's heading in a direction that makes me fear for future generations.

Today I urge Australians to stand up and speak out on this bill while they still can.

[Conor Kelly @corneliouskelly]

@JoesMessyDiaper @AnthonyCumia What an entrance 😂

[Conor Kelly @corneliouskelly]

@NorthmanTrader Fed is tightening, other central banks are easing

[Conor Kelly @corneliouskelly]

@JackFarley96 Buy The F'n Plunge?

[Elaine Mullally ☘️ @mullallyelaine]

Oh Wow!

Tech billionaire Elon Musk has said he will fund legal challenges to Ireland's new hate speech legislation.

https://t.co/hS1CGJ6ric

[Conor Kelly @corneliouskelly]

@roberta_builder @zerohedge 😂 Please sit in this burning house

[Conor Kelly @corneliouskelly]

@karatademada @fasc1nate He wouldn't make a bad employee either

[Conor Kelly @corneliouskelly]

@Brunkzilla @PeterSweden7 That's what the suppliers do in Australia, when signing up, they ask would you like to pay a premium for a renewal source.

[Conor Kelly @corneliouskelly]

@rightturnjason @lporiginalg Who was it

[Conor Kelly @corneliouskelly]

@manninglawrence @Jkylebass So sad watching these things play out

[Conor Kelly @corneliouskelly]

@momoblf @TPMP @RTBF @rtlinfo @ezdubs_bot arabic to english

[Conor Kelly @corneliouskelly]

@GuyDealership Australia is obsessed, and I mean obsessed with Toyota's

[Conor Kelly @corneliouskelly]

@jenzdreamz1 @Malcolm_fleX48 @NiQole1776 https://t.co/KEHIyIbn7v

[Conor Kelly @corneliouskelly]

@FergalBowers @rtenews What a useless journalist...
Did he forfeit the assets??