A mother looking at her entire family, all of whom were martyred.
All I want is for you to understand the depth of what she was feeling in that moment, as she sat there silently, staring at them wrapped in shrouds before her.
The Australian state has now declared itself sovereign above the people.
Under the new ASIO Amendment Bill, they can legally force you to answer questions — and jail you if you simply say “I can’t answer that.”
This isn’t law. This is legal positivism on steroids.
The state has become the sole source of its own legitimacy. It writes the rules, judges the rules, and punishes you for not playing by the rules it created.
Truth, original constitutional intent, and the sovereignty of the people no longer matter.
The system now feeds itself.
We no longer live in a constitutional democracy.
We live under a self-referencing managerial state.
As someone who has operated within Australia's intelligence community for over 20 years, I can say with authority that Australia is sleepwalking into a surveillance state!
The @ASIOGovAu Amendment Bill is about to make “compulsory questioning” powers PERMANENT.
No more sunset clauses. No more regular reviews.
@ASIOGovAu can now drag any Australian in, even if you’re not charged with a crime and force you to answer questions or send you to gaol.
No independent judge required!
Legal representation? Heavily restricted.
And they’ve just expanded it to cover sabotage, communal violence, border threats, and more.
I hunt terrorists and support real national security, but this isn’t security.
This is permanent government overreach that shreds our basic freedoms.
KILL THIS BILL.
In a few weeks, the Senate will vote on the ASIO Amendment Bill (No. 2)—and every Australian who values freedom under the law should be paying attention.
This Bill doesn’t just extend extraordinary powers—it makes them permanent. Powers that were meant to expire by March 2027 would instead become ongoing.
It expands compulsory questioning for adults and even minors, weakens safeguards, limits access to legal counsel, and lacks proper judicial oversight.
These are not ordinary powers. They allow the state to compel answers under threat of penalty. That is a serious intrusion into personal liberty.
Of course, national security matters—but it must never come at the unchecked expense of freedom.
For these reasons, I will NOT be supporting this Bill.
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El Gobierno de España condena la pena de muerte contra palestinos que acaba de aprobar el parlamento de Israel. Se trata de una medida asimétrica que no se aplicaría a los israelíes que cometieran los mismos delitos.
Mismo crimen, distinta pena.
Eso no es justicia. Es un paso más hacia el apartheid.
El mundo no puede callar.
Trump’s top two goals in the war:
(1) No Iranian nuclear weapon.
(2) The Strait of Hormuz is open for business.
Just a friendly reminder that we already had both before the war.
Israel is wiping out critical bridge after critical bridge in South Lebanon.
Civilians can’t flee.
Ambulances can’t reach the wounded.
Entire communities are cut off from food, medicine, and essential supplies.
This is intentional.
This is a crime against humanity.
This is absolutely insane:
At 7:04 AM ET today, President Trump said “the US and Iran have had productive discussions" to end the Iran War.
By 7:10 AM ET, the S&P 500 surged +240 points adding +$2 TRILLION in market cap.
27 minutes later, Iran completely denied all of President Trump's claims and said there has been "no contact" with the US.
By 8:00 AM ET. the S&P 500 had fallen -120 points erasing -$1 trillion in market cap.
That's a $3 TRILLION swing market cap in 56 minutes, just in the S&P 500.
What is happening here?
Do you understand what just happened?
The man who told you LLMs aren't real intelligence just raised $1 billion to build what he thinks IS.
> @ylecun said "The AI we have right now, Every single one of them are glorified autocomplete" and he said this for 2 years straight
> The entire internet called him a boomer
> AI fans ratio'd him basically every week
> He didn't argue back
> He just raised a billion dollars and started building
He launched AMI Labs, Advanced Machine Intelligence to build something called world models. AI that actually understands reality, not just predicts the next word and hopes it sounds right.
Will he reach AGI first? Here's why he might, everyone else is trying to brute-force intelligence by feeding more text into bigger models.
LeCun is building AI the way humans actually learn.
A baby doesn't learn physics by reading a textbook. It drops a cup and watches it fall. That's what world models do and that's a different species of AI entirely.
The actual future just got funded. And it looks nothing like what you've been paying for.
Images of the Gaza War Cemetery - containing 263 Australian war graves - tabled just now in the Senate Foreign Affairs, Defence & Trade Committee during my questioning.
Confirmed that its "quite possible" bodies of Australian soldiers have been disturbed. Distressingly, I'd say it's very likely looking at these pictures taken after parts of the cemetery were bulldozed by the IDF.
The Australian Government should hold the Israeli Government to account on this and ask them to fully fund the restoration.
@HonTonyAbbott Tony Abbott crawling out of the political crypt to whine that we’re not dying in another desert for Uncle Sam and Israel.
Fuck off back to the surf club 🖕