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CBA expects rate cut relief for borrowers after 'challenging period' Australia's biggest bank has increased its profit and raised its dividend despite a "challenging period" for many customers. It has revealed 65,000 "tailored payment arrangements" are in place to help...

The Commonwealth Bank has posted a HALF YEAR PROFIT of $5.14 Billion.

65,000 of their home loan customers are having trouble paying their loans.

This system is busted.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

Vogue absorbing Teen Vogue is 100% about the fact Teen Vogue was becoming one of the most reliable independent political news sources. Big money hates quality journalism.

Absolute Batman Annual is... Topical...

And now an anonymous donor has provided $130 million to pay the US troops while the Congress continues to be shut down.

He who pays the piper, calls the tune.
The US military just got privatised.

The US has already fallen.
The Congress is essentially shut down.
Unidentified troops deployed across the country.
Private donations are building a throne room.
Warships are heading to Venezuela.

And "the people" have no say in any of it.

Irv Samuelson, Director of National Park Police would like to see the approval permits for demolition of the East Wing..

Is there anything more disruptive to productivity than a piece of software you are familiar with suddenly changing the interface to a "more productive design?"

Illinois State Senator Karina Villa sprang into action to protect her community from ICE raids, alerting neighbors to their rights and chasing off masked agents. This is how you stand up to authoritarianism. We should all be inspired by Sen. Villa's courage.

Waited two months for them to fill that hole back in and this morning they start digging it back out again.

This is not what John Maynard Keynes intended.

The whole point of many generative AI tools is that they take natural language as the input interface.

The rise of people claiming to teach you how to prompt is either blatant rent seeking or evidence that the basic user interface doesn't work as intended.

I see the Australian business experts are out and about spouting about AI won't cause jobs to be lost, they'll be changed to more productive jobs.
But the biggest players, Google, Meta, etc, are just sacking people, not using them more productively.

Sure, Reed Richards seems pompous calling himself Mr Fantastic. At least he didn't insist everyone use his full title, Mister Fucking Fantastic.

Hey @jamesgunn.bsky.social @jimlee.bsky.social tricking comics retailers into promoting digital comics when we thought we were leveraging the movies to promote comic shops was the biggest 🖕 retailers have seen from DC in years.
We want to celebrate DC, but not like this.

This real world Black Mirror episode sucks. When is it over?

Ted Cruz bill: States that regulate AI will be cut out of $42B broadband fund Cruz attempt to tie broadband funding to AI laws called “undemocratic and cruel.”…

So Ted Cruz is worried the 10 year ban on state regulation for GenAi won’t make it (because it isnt related to the budget). So what does this weasel do? Trying to make funding of broadband expansion conditional to States not passing ANY GenAi laws.

Call your Senators because this is BS!

Are ICE doing raids with masks and no ID in states with stand your ground laws?

Because that would create a very potentially wild west sort of situation.

If they don’t tell you their names, wear name tags, hide their faces and don’t have body cameras, treat them as kidnappers as that is the only logical conclusion you can come to. Protect people from such traffickers at all costs. Your reasoning is sound in case of a court hearing.

ICE agents are chased and forced to leave their neighborhood by LA residents

😄😄

Workshop Week

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2-6 June is Free workshop week.

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Great question. Who had the power to pay the money in the first place? What are the checks and balances against that spending?

Elle Cordova
@ellecordova.bsky.social

The US is paying to hold him there. Cut off the money, the doors will open.

If you are worried about migrants taking jobs, wait until you hear about what the AI companies have planned.

Probably one of my favourite characters in Andor.
Lonni Jung was a pawn who did his best to control his world.

His demise seems like a cold payment for his work. But it is in fact the key to the freedom he wanted for his family. His death made him a martyr to the Empire and protected his family.

I am being light, I was having a laugh by implying you were suggesting GoldenEye is in fact the best because you use it as the benchmark to measure Perfect Dark against.
(And it's not a sequel to GE) 😜

I mean... It came out 3 years after GoldenEye... You'd hope that would let them develop a better game.
Yet, you feel the need to compare them a quarter of a century later.

You know in movies when big super evil crime bosses have their pair full of artworks stolen from around the world?

AI image generators are just the budget clip art version of that.

If you assume "86" specifically means "kill" rather than a more general "throw out" or "remove" it says more about you than the person actually using the term.