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- Comment on Anthony Albanese says OpenAI agent hacked Medicare and he expressed ‘extreme concern’ to Sam Altman 1 week ago:
For me, the details make or break this. If there was an authentication system that was bypassed that’s a big deal and OpenAI should be held criminally liable. If there was no authentication system though, an unprotected API is indistinguishable from a public API and I would rather the law fall in favour of free use of public APIs.
There’s plenty of other stuff to charge OpenAI with anyway.
- Comment on Anthony Albanese says OpenAI agent hacked Medicare and he expressed ‘extreme concern’ to Sam Altman 1 week ago:
Given our history of government security I’m honestly expecting this to come out as Services Australia hosting private information over an unprotected, undocumented API
- Comment on Latest poll: Greens surge to record-breaking 16%, ALP’s 2PP lead grows 3 weeks ago:
Missing a link?
- Comment on Labor urges Greens, Coalition to pass social media reforms after 'dawdling and delay' 3 weeks ago:
In early July, Greens and Coalition senators voted to send Labor’s bill to a Senate inquiry, which eight weeks later recommended the reforms be adopted.
Wells said on Sunday that the decision to send the bill to an inquiry was “the kind of dawdling and delay that has enabled social media companies to get away with harming our kids for so long”
Sounds like basic due diligence
However, the measures could struggle to pass the Senate in their current form, with Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young saying proposed fines of up to $100 million for breaching the laws were insufficient.
$100 million? So they endanger small sites and do nothing about the services that are actually causing the harm they claim to be worried abou
The Greens are awaiting details of the exposure draft before deciding how to vote, while Senator Hanson-Young has proposed her own bill, calling for an algorithm opt-out to be the default setting.
That measure has been the focus of a campaign by Teach Us Consent’s Fix Our Feeds, which has been pushing for linear social media feeds to be the default option.
It sucks that we’re here, but it would actually be amazing precedent to have the concept of enthusiastic consent in the digital sphere enshrined into law, even in this small way.
- Comment on Albanese government rejects all UN recommendations on improving LGBTQIA+ rights 2 months ago:
There were eight recommendations specific to the LGBTQIA+ community, which included:
- Removing the exemptions that allow religious schools to legally discriminate against LGBTQIA+ students and staff
- Eliminating legal exemptions that allow discrimination against trans, gender-diverse and intersex people
- Delivering public education campaigns to reduce stigma and discrimination against the queer community
- Introducing a national ban on conversion practices
- Banning unnecessary surgeries on intersex children
- Improving systems to allow trans and gender-diverse people to legally change their gender without intrusive requirements
- Submitted 3 months ago to news@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Is Albo using his sinister communist tax changes to destroy the housing market? | First Dog on the Moonwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 3 months ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on The seven-word reality check in Anthony Albanese's address to the nation 5 months ago:
“We can coordinate the next steps together.”
The reference to “next steps” is ominous because it’s not clear what they are.
- Comment on PM urges Australians to 'do their bit' in national address that breaks convention 5 months ago:
What a dramatic platform to say nothing of substance on
- Comment on [Discussion] What level of proportional representation is desirable? 6 months ago:
If I were designing a representative democracy from the ground up, I would have only one house with full proportional representation. I’m not compelled by any of the arguments I’ve seen in favour of multiple systems side by side like we currently have, they generally seem to sacrifice democracy in favour of convenience or “stability”
I’m strongly of the opinion that “government” as applied in the Australian political system (ie, cabinet) should not be a single party, but nominees collectively agreed by parliament (assuming ministers are necessary).
Going from where we are now, the lower house needs to change. Multi member electorates would be great. Otherwise, the smallest meaningful step we could take would be transitioning to a Condorcet method of counting lower house votes. That wouldn’t even require us to change the ballots!
- Comment on Petrol prices are rising, but Australians don’t appear to be driving less or taking public transport more – yet 6 months ago:
- Australia’s high court orders ankle bracelets be removed and curfews end for 43 former immigration detaineeswww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 6 months ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Supporting ‘illegal aggression’ against Iran ‘the worst thing’ Australia could do, international law experts saywww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 7 months ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 23 comments
- Comment on [Video] Australian police seizes “Wanted - Netanyahu" sign saying it is antisemitic 7 months ago:
Catbox is blocked by some Aussie ISPs at the DNS level,
What!? Why? Are our ISPs making their own choices of blocklists now?
- Comment on Albanese addresses 'difficult' Grace Tame comment as Tame compares him to Morrison 7 months ago:
Albanese labelled Tame “difficult” during a rapid-fire game, where he was asked to give one-word responses to a list of well-known figures at the Future Victoria conference in Melbourne on Wednesday.
I’m not sure I believe his retraction, but a politician agreeing to participate in such a game is, frankly, incredibly foolish.
- Finally fixing capital gains tax is good – but linking it to another tax cut for Australia’s rich is bollocks | Greg Jerichowww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 7 months ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 1 comment
- Comment on Something Surprising Happens When Bus Rides Are Free 7 months ago:
The “riff raff” are also members of the community that require access to transportation.
- Comment on Australian chapter of Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir has no plans to disband before Labor’s hate speech laws 8 months ago:
Where can I read it?
- Comment on Lemon8 and Yope put on notice as social media age ban targets 9 months ago:
- Victoria to follow NSW in giving police new powers to stop protests in wake of Bondi terror attackwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 9 months ago to news@aussie.zone | 2 comments
- Scathing ‘jobs for mates’ review finds appointments to government boards routinely abusedwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 9 months ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 4 comments
- The opposition has been allowed to set the agenda. It’s an absurd situation that is debasing national politics | Julianne Schultzwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 10 months ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 7 comments
- Comment on What are “rusted-on” Labor voters thinking ? 10 months ago:
The ETS was widely considered to be worse than doing nothing for climate issues. Rudd’s government refused to talk to third parties over the ETS, and exclusively negotiated with the coalition. A year later the Gillard government actually talked to the cross bench and much, much better policy was passed.
The HAFF was passed, but only after the cross bench managed to eke out amendments to make it actually commit to doing something.
Both of those policies started as pure virtue signaling, and ended up doing material good only in spite of Labor.
(I don’t know anything about the logging ban)
- Submitted 10 months ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 5 comments
- Welfare in Australia is a cruel shambles. How about we actually try to help people not squish them | First Dog on the Moonwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 11 months ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Labor rules out giving tech giants free rein to mine copyright content to train AIwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 11 months ago to news@aussie.zone | 1 comment
- Comment on ABS decision to reuse biased, coercive Census religion question puts human rights in the spotlight 1 year ago:
Australian Bureau of Statistics
- ABS decision to reuse biased, coercive Census religion question puts human rights in the spotlightjohnmenadue.com ↗Submitted 1 year ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 10 comments
- Comment on 'No doubt the media are going to make fun of that': Bruce Lehrmann finds new ways to suffer in court 1 year ago:
Thanks, that was a blindingly fast two years
- 'No doubt the media are going to make fun of that': Bruce Lehrmann finds new ways to suffer in courtwww.crikey.com.au ↗Submitted 1 year ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 11 comments
