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- Comment on The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans 3 days ago:
Thanks for looking
- Comment on The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans 4 days ago:
Did you find the settings? I can’t see them in the phone app.
- Comment on The man with a mind-reading chip in his brain, thanks to Elon Musk 5 days ago:
In Australia the politicians get token board positions at the corporations whom they legislate in favour of.
It requires trust: the corporation has to have a reputation in following through with these very indirect bribes.
Even if Renewables corps wanted to play the same game, they could not cannot compete with oil and coal corps.
- Comment on Mom horrified by Character.AI chatbots posing as son who died by suicide - Ars Technica 1 week ago:
I mistakenly thought you were the actual journalist. But I should always presume the journalist will see my comments and therefore not be so harsh, especially when freeloading.
FWIW I subscribe to an (Australian) online newspaper which is free just like you do. The difference being that I rarely read it since I am on top of those topics largely. Am just glad that it exists for others because it is well researched and presented.
- Comment on The wildest details in the Facebook memoir Meta is trying to bury 1 week ago:
I was saying that apart from rounding up there is what this convention.
BC means Before Christ. How do you figure that Jesus Christ was born 4 years before he was born? Or are you saying his birthdate was found to be different from what it was initially thought to be?
- Comment on Mom horrified by Character.AI chatbots posing as son who died by suicide - Ars Technica 1 week ago:
Ars offers free articles while most publications have a paywall, so I imagine funding isn’t as generous as it would have been 30 years ago when such publications would have been in magazine format.
- Comment on Mom horrified by Character.AI chatbots posing as son who died by suicide - Ars Technica 1 week ago:
I removed the insult.
- Comment on Mom horrified by Character.AI chatbots posing as son who died by suicide - Ars Technica 1 week ago:
I don’t think they contacted the researchers and the linked study does not seem to give the answer (I spent a few minutes looking).
- Comment on Mom horrified by Character.AI chatbots posing as son who died by suicide - Ars Technica 1 week ago:
3% success vs what? 6% sent over the edge? 10% 20% ?
- Comment on Porn on Spotify Is Infiltrating the Platform’s Top Podcast Charts 1 week ago:
I think they are all synonyms for archive.today
whether it is .ph, .vn, .is, .md
- Comment on The wildest details in the Facebook memoir Meta is trying to bury 1 week ago:
Different cultures count differently. eg Jesus was not born in zero AD but in one AD. His whole first year of life he was considered to be in his first year.
I think some countries count age this way too (hopefully someone can confirm to satisfy my nerdy curiosity).
- Comment on Tesla Stock Is Plunging Again. It Could Drop for a Ninth Straight Week. 1 week ago:
The instability is great for inside traders (eg those who knew about the Whitehouse lawn stunt in advance).
- Comment on Tesla Stock Is Plunging Again. It Could Drop for a Ninth Straight Week. 1 week ago:
The stocks are merely at pre-election levels and look like they have now stabilized unfortunately.
- Comment on Tesla Stock Is Plunging Again. It Could Drop for a Ninth Straight Week. 1 week ago:
It didn’t halt, it was boosted. That is how insider trading works. Same with the yo-yo tariffs.
- Comment on Activists with secret cameras spark slaughterhouse investigation 2 weeks ago:
Thanks, will ponder.
- Comment on Activists with secret cameras spark slaughterhouse investigation 2 weeks ago:
Eyewitness is different law from video and audio recording. And if you began video recording in that scenario after you saw the illegal activity commence that would not be fishing so it is certainly admissable.
Audio recording laws interest me. In Queensland you can record without permission as long as you are one of the parties in the call.
In NSW you always need permission from all parties unless it is to protect your “lawful interests” (a phrase which confuses me).
- Comment on Activists with secret cameras spark slaughterhouse investigation 2 weeks ago:
Interesting that footage obtained while trespassing is admitted as evidence. I bet it is only because of the ABC publicity otherwise the farmers would get away with having the evidence dismissed.
If you know a crime is being committed I am sure it must be admitted as evidence but fishing for crimes does not normally count.
Thank you ABC (and brave activists).
- Comment on Tesla's latest decline could be one for the history books - $795 billion since Dec 17 or 53.7 percent 2 weeks ago:
It is merely back to pre-election levels. However it does look like it will keep declining.
- Comment on Christie's First-Ever AI Art Auction Earns $728,000, Plus Controversy 2 weeks ago:
An artist and a muse. Same as it ever was.
- Comment on Christie's First-Ever AI Art Auction Earns $728,000, Plus Controversy 2 weeks ago:
Depriving DJ’s who are actually talented and live electronic musicians.
The reality is that the audience doesn’t care.
- Comment on Christie's First-Ever AI Art Auction Earns $728,000, Plus Controversy 2 weeks ago:
Reminds me of how many DJ’s do little more than press play. The “brand-name” of the “artist” becomes more important than the art.
If the public’s appreciation of art is dumbed down, then it is logical for art to be dumbed down too.
- Comment on Christie's First-Ever AI Art Auction Earns $728,000, Plus Controversy 2 weeks ago:
Unless it is a tax scam.
- Comment on Eerily realistic AI voice demo sparks amazement and discomfort online 3 weeks ago:
I used Notebook LM to create a ten minute podcast but it took a lot of repeated attempts with tweaks of the prompt to make sure there was no stupid mispronouncing. Even the final product required editing out two words which were not even human (just glitches).
Still impressive but not there yet.
- Comment on Legendary ABC chief election analyst Antony Green to step down 4 weeks ago:
He isn’t a genius. ABC should pay him to supervise a replacement analyst/presenter for the next election. Simple.
- Comment on The guardian reporting: Poor civics results recorded this year. 5 weeks ago:
More than half of Gen Z wants UK to become a dictatorship, survey claims.
- Comment on ‘Mass theft’: Thousands of artists call for AI art auction to be cancelled 5 weeks ago:
In Croatian (and I suspect many other Slavic languages) art is umjetnost which literally means artificiality.
- Comment on US Orders Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. to Halt All AI Chip Shipments to China 4 months ago:
Kind of.
r/worldnews only allows unedited titles. Looks like it has changed since then. I have noticed Reuters to be misleading in the past in their headlines.
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- Comment on 'You're not my king': [Senator] Lidia Thorpe escorted away after outburst [at Charles III in Parliament House] 5 months ago:
A close friend in a long term relationship told me his partner wanted kids but he wasn’t sure he would make a good father. My advice was along the lines of Douglas Adams.
Both kids are now in their 20’s and doing fine.
- Comment on 'You're not my king': [Senator] Lidia Thorpe escorted away after outburst [at Charles III in Parliament House] 5 months ago:
Thanks. Despite my scepticism I have sought out such communities and had not heard of those two.
There is also Mondragon in Spain…
I know of only one community in my country of Australia: Tuntable Falls. I can only find pages related to the school or real estate. It is 20 minutes drive from Nimbin which in turn is 40 minutes from Byron Bay, NSW.
I suppose there is Kibbutzim in Israel.