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- Comment on Former Greens leaders urge party to stand up to Labor ‘arrogance’ as jockeying begins to replace Bandt 4 days ago:
Is there any technical or policy reason that they need a new leader? Or did Adam Bandt just step down? Presumably most of the parties that have no MPs still have a leader.
- Comment on Tulsi Gabbard Reused the Same Weak Password on Multiple Accounts for Years 1 week ago:
Material from breaches shows that during a portion of this period, she used the same password across multiple email addresses and online accounts, in contravention of well-established best practices for online security. (There is no indication that she used the password on government accounts.)
This is… not interesting
- Comment on Bandt's project to change the Greens failed. Along the way, he helped wreck the appeal of minority government 1 week ago:
It’s disappointing to see that an article with such a flaky premise is written by the political editor of Crikey.
The shift from purely environmental policy to a broad progressive platform that he ascribes to Adam Bandt was complete when Di Natale was party leader, possibly before but I’m not doing the research that this editor should have done to check.
Marginally more controversially, while I think Labor was probably successful at painting the Greens as “obstructive” over the HAFF, they did exactly what they should have; they voted against bad policy, negotiated with the government and got a hell of a lot better policy passed. What else could the job of a minor party possibly be?
Most controversially, I don’t think the author is even wrong about the misalignment between who traditionally votes Greens and who their policies have the biggest impact on. But, the idea that they should tailor policies towards their voters instead of, you know, maintaining anything resembling ideological integrity, is a gross “realpolitik”-style attitude that our political landscape could do without.
- Comment on The inarguable case for banning social media for teens 2 weeks ago:
the biggest Nanny State the world has ever known
What’s this in reference to?
- Comment on The inarguable case for banning social media for teens 2 weeks ago:
This is exactly the conversation that happened in Parliament over the Australian social media ban and its absurd.
There is a broad recognition that in a regulatory vacuum corporate social media created toxic and addictive “engagement”-maximising algorithms that harm all facets of society exposed to them.
So a solution is proposed: ban it for children.
When exactly, did it become fine for corporations to actively and deliberately harm people as long as they were old enough? How about preventing the harm?
It would be just as easy for a government to ban opaque and engagement maximising feed algorithms. But they went with the option that allows “tech” giants to keep harming the less marketable 80% of the population.
- Comment on Suffering from minor party confusion? Some links I found helpful 2 weeks ago:
That’s extremely disappointing. I was thrilled to see a Fusion candidate on my lower house list, as that sheet is usually effectively Lib/Lab/Green, and Fusion theoretically contains several parties I’d love to have the chance to give my vote to.
I’m dismayed to discover the candidate is actually a “Democracy First” member.
- Comment on Australia urgently needs to get serious about long-term climate policy – but there’s no sign of that in the election campaign 4 weeks ago:
It might help if the media didn’t continuously frame this like a two horse race
- Comment on Eight years on, Mastodon stubbornly survives 5 weeks ago:
How about Usenet (1980)?
- Comment on The Coalition's and Labor’s faux postal vote forms are a blatant scam 5 weeks ago:
Harvesting personal information while impersonating official electoral comms.
While they technically have the right authorisations on them, the envelope and postal vote form I received could easily be mistaken as official from anyone not paying 100% attention.
According to the article the websites both take all your information then redirect you to the actual postal voting registration, potentially leading voters to think they’ve already submitted for a postal vote when they haven’t.
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- Comment on The Nine Circles of Scientific Hell 2 months ago:
What’s in plagiarism?
- Comment on Meta fires 20 employees for leaking 2 months ago:
Bit of an interesting contrast with Amazon, who encourages leaking
Tap for spoiler
This is a pee joke
- Comment on CAPTCHAs are 'a tracking cookie farm for profit that made us spend 819 billion hours clicking to generate nearly $1 trillion for Google 2 months ago:
I already hate them for access gating based on unnecessary labour, and deliberately making access more cumbersome for people not using chrome and using VPNs
But what really peeves me off, even though it’s much less important, is that they don’t localise them.
Where are the crosswalks? What the hell is a crosswalk. How many trolleys in this picture? None, that’s a picture of a tram!
- Comment on OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole From Us [404 Media] 3 months ago:
I will explain what this means in a moment, but first: Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha hahahhahahahahahahahahahahaha.
- Comment on It's been a feature of Australia's elections since federation. Albanese supports a change 3 months ago:
The ideal is that a functional government doesn’t change all the time, but a nonfunctional one can be removed before too much damage is done. Consistency isn’t beneficial if it’s consistently bad.
I can’t argue against the constant campaigning.
- Comment on It's been a feature of Australia's elections since federation. Albanese supports a change 3 months ago:
I do agree with fixed terms, and would probably approve a referendum that only offered a package deal
- Comment on It's been a feature of Australia's elections since federation. Albanese supports a change 3 months ago:
“If you’ve got a three-year cycle, in practice, that often means that you really only have a shorter window of perhaps a couple of years to bring about substantial reform, by which time you’re looking at the next election,” he said.
No, you have three years to bring about substantial reform. If you decide to prioritise campaigning over reform, that’s your decision and a longer term won’t change that.
There was a significant push for one year terms early on, I’d much rather see that than a reduction in our democratic voice.
- Comment on Joe Biden commutes sentences of 37 out of 40 federal death row inmates 4 months ago:
The exclusions kind of undermine his statement
“Make no mistake: I condemn these murderers, grieve for the victims of their despicable acts, and ache for all the families who have suffered unimaginable and irreparable loss,” Biden said in a statement released on Monday.
“But guided by my conscience and my experience as a public defender, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, vice-president, and now President, I am more convinced than ever that we must stop the use of the death penalty at the federal level. In good conscience, I cannot stand back and let a new administration resume executions that I halted.”
- Comment on These creators want to change the way you think about remakes 4 months ago:
“We leveraged the fact that many people know about the world and story of the original Final Fantasy VII when we designed the remakes,” Hamaguchi told me during the leadup to Rebirth’s release. “In this title, our general framework follows the original storyline, but at the same time we incorporated elements clearly not included in the original, such as the Whispers and Zack.” This creates a unique opportunity for a remake: uncertainty. “That sort of thrill is very important for this title as a piece of entertainment.”
We have a name for that, “reboot”. Or more cynically, “cash grab”
- Comment on Coming soon – offline speech recognition on your phone 4 months ago:
This maneuver may sound simple, but it involves an entirely new and unique code for which the researchers have sought a patent.
How to make your discovery worthless in a single, idiotic move.
- Comment on Woolworths says workers still blocked from returning to Melbourne distribution centre 5 months ago:
I think the headline might have changed since you posted. What should they damn well do?
- Green Guillotine: how politics prevailed over principles in legislative avalanche - Michael Westmichaelwest.com.au ↗Submitted 5 months ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 2 comments
- Comment on NACC under fire as Commissioner Paul Brereton found guilty of misconduct - Michael West 5 months ago:
- NACC under fire as Commissioner Paul Brereton found guilty of misconduct - Michael Westmichaelwest.com.au ↗Submitted 5 months ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 6 comments
- Comment on Greens announce plan to wipe HECS debts and make university free 5 months ago:
Fuck me, the “rhetorical” question in the lede is answered in the article, buried in the nteenth paragraph.
The policy proposal falls under the Greens’ so-called ‘Robin Hood reforms’ and they have said they will pay for the plan by “taxing big corporations that are profiting off price gouging during a cost of living crisis”.
This is borderline disinformation by the national broadcaster.
- Comment on Greens announce plan to wipe HECS debts and make university free 5 months ago:
This is even worse than when journalists normally ask this question. It’s a debt not a payment.
They will pay for it by finding a $2 coin in the centre console of their government funded car to buy a biro to cross off the line item.
- Comment on High court quashes Albanese government’s ankle bracelet and curfew regime for former immigration detainees 6 months ago:
This is such an obvious conclusion of this saga that I have to assume that Labor saw it coming. If so, it implies that they made a political calculation that it was better for their reaction to be struck down months later than to let the original high court ruling stand.
And they were willing to violate the constitution and fuck with peoples lives for political expedience.
- Comment on Nacc to reconsider whether to investigate robodebt after ‘apprehended bias’ finding against commissioner 6 months ago:
No parliamentarians have been referred so we already know the architects are off scott-free
- Nacc to reconsider whether to investigate robodebt after ‘apprehended bias’ finding against commissionerwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 6 months ago to news@aussie.zone | 5 comments
