Born in Australia, cypherpunk, fuck your feelings, freedom of speech is a litmus test of democracy. “I’m from the government and I’m here to help”. •••_ _ _•••
If Comcare has the time to spend creating this “vexatious applicant declaration” to the OAIC, I’d like to propose that in the upcoming budget a few redundancies could occur at Comcare. Surely this could have been considerably more succinct?
It’s not even related to Comcare, it’s an application by them crying to OAIC that I hurt their feelings or something. Like it’s one thing to make an application, but to trawl through my last 3 years of emails and Drs reports and heavily redact a lot of it….
Who the fuck has the time on their hands to be doing this? There are clearly excess employees in the Statutory Oversight team at Comcare if they have the time to be doing this! It wasn’t done by external lawyers either (surprisingly).
Oh and this is not even the full application! They removed some sections in the copy they gave me, and it is heavily redacted. Procedural Fairness/Natural Justice isn’t a thing in Australia I guess…
This seems like an unnecessary amount of documents, if I am genuinely vexatious, surely you can demonstrate as much clearly and succinctly, not just throw 3 years of emails and Drs reports at OAIC and pray they find something they can use? Seriously WTF has our Government regressed into? This is embarrassingly unprofessional. It is just a personal vendetta against me because they lost their WPO.
@JEChalmers@AlboMP@AmandaRishworth@DavidPocock
Look, Labor does some good stuff no doubt. I mean making PBS medicines $25 instead of $37 means I can now get a $10 scratchee from the newsagent next to the chemist each time I get my medicine. But is my $10 scratchee worth our country being flooded with street shitters? Ima say hard pass!
Labor started fundraising to take down Pauline Hanson and now it’s going to backfire big time as Pauline Hanson does it back.
Albo seems to have forgotten that most of his supporters are have little money, and many are welfare recipients.
Meanwhile most One Nation supporters are among the biggest earners in the country.
Notice how Labor fundraiser site doesn’t say how much money was raised? Gee I wonder why 🤣
This is the first time I’ve seen such money thrown around in Australian elections and it’s not a game that Labor will win.
@ACTPolicing Did someone come through and rob the joint with a weapon beforehand? Or was the offender simply armed with the knowledge on how to kick in a glass door?
The Siri/EU situation is a regulatory masterpiece.
Apple cannot launch Apple Intelligence in the EU.
Why? Because under the DMA, if Siri gets deep system access, every other AI assistant must get the exact same. Anything less would be unfair competition. A gatekeeper privileging its own service.
So either Siri ships and every Shenzhen startup, Cyprus shell company, and nephew hackathon project gets identical root access to 450 million Europeans’ digital lives or nothing ships.
Apple proposed a “Trusted System Agent”: a security intermediary so third-party assistants get capabilities without ripping the phone wide open.
The EU rejected it.
Magnificent.
Apple’s response: fine, then no developer APIs either. No Apple Intelligence, no third-party integrations, no foundation model access for EU developers. The entire layer simply does not exist on this continent.
Excellent.
This is the path. Why depend on American AI when we can build the entire stack ourselves? A European foundation model, trained on a European GPU cluster, running on a European OS, on a European phone, manufactured in a European fab, powered by European nuclear plants we have spent fifteen years closing.
Estimated time to ship: 2047.
Estimated cost: the GDP of three member states.
Estimated outcome: a chatbot that requires a cookie banner before each response.
Worth it.
In the meantime, European users are protected from Apple processing data Apple already holds by ensuring nobody processes anything at all.
Not a bug. The intended outcome.
Regulatory product design with a sledgehammer, swung with precision.
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