Stuart Palmer

There was a time (then) that Athens was the Dunedin of Manchesters for indie music.

There was a time (then) that Athens was the Dunedin of Manchesters for indie music.

One of my lasting memories of working in the gallery was ducking into the House of Reps in the night during speeches on the marriage equality bill and Katter said some of the most homophobic stuff I've heard there.

Pyne was one of the only MPs in the chamber and said: "Bobby this is rubbish"

Leon's very next job was Employment Secretary, where she developed the TCF, which the Saturday Paper has reported on extensively. When are we putting two and two together that she is not a good example of a senior public servant? She is disgraced, and she certainly should not have a plum VC posting.

The property I'm renting has been sold & I have to vacate by March 5, but I haven't been able to find a new property. The prospect of being homeless at 80 terrifies me. I am focussing on the Mornington Peninsula, but am willing to consider just about anywhere. If you are aware of something DM me.

When politicans fail, police go rogue, justice fails to protect - Michael West Herzog has departed, leaving behind anger and less social cohesion, while politicians, justices and NSW police have many questions to answer.

Can you have yr spine broken, unprovoked, by police & get no compo? Is that 'reasonable' justice in NSW now? @wendybacon1.bsky.social on the Minns laws rushed in, the judge, and the Inquiry #auspol #Herzog
michaelwest.com.au/when-politic...

Why is ABC radio sport covering the Mickey Mouse Saudi blood money LIV golf tour?

Should be boycotted. I don’t care how much money the sellouts are making.

Headline of Phil Coorey column Taylor’s big advantage could be 35pc of voters don’t know who he is The new opposition leader is standing at the bottom of a mountain and there is doubt among many in his own party about whether he can climb it.

lol wut

A 3-Bloke byline piece in Ninefax says Ley was "shrill." Not a quote from an MP the word they chose to use. *Hysterical* was right there lads, why not go hog wild?

Two faces. Accurate.

FBI Announces They Have Located Savannah Guthrie WASHINGTON—Praising the tireless efforts of the hundreds of agents who worked around the clock on the case, FBI director Kash Patel announced Friday that after almost two anguishing weeks, Savannah Gu...

“This morning before dawn, a hostage rescue team stormed a New York City townhouse and freed Savannah, who miraculously did not appear to be injured or even malnourished in any way,” said FBI director Kash Patel

The perfumed prince.

Given it has been long been her personal megaphone, I guess it makes sense that everyone's favourite serial litigant has scored herself a column in everyone's favourite rabid rag.

LA Lakers Co-Owner’s Firm Linked to Proposed $80 Million ICE Warehouse Deal in Texas The unwelcome facility would detain up to 9,500 people

NEWS: LA Lakers Co-Owner’s Firm Linked to Proposed $80 Million ICE Warehouse Deal in Texas — a massive facility that could detain up to 9,500 people.

Reddit post - "Wanting to study Bachelor of Science without doing any science subjects".

Halp.

Sussan Ley is today’s scapegoat - but she was never the Liberals' core problem | Tony Barry Policies are an expression and extension of a candidate or party’s values. Does the ‘big tent’ party still have any?

“While it’s easy to make Ley the fall girl for the..party’s current problems, the truth of it is there’s no personality or tactical solution to the party’s core problem that an increasing number of voters don’t believe they have shared values with the..party”

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Elon Musk downgrades empty Mars Colony pledge to empty Lunar Colony pledge BROWNSVILLE, TX - Tech visionary Elon Musk astounded observers when he set aside more than a decade of unfulfilled vows to colonize the Red Planet in favour of the seemingly more modest goal of failin...

Elon Musk downgrades empty Mars Colony pledge to empty Lunar Colony pledge

i remember when netflix said their biggest competitor was sleep but most tech companies are really competing against people talking to each other

"Strong" is an adjective I mostly associate with smell.

Are you really a "strong media performer" if your signature policy had to be dumped because people hated it and you called a key voter group foreign "spies" and you then try on this nonsense at your first outing in a new gig?

Microsoft AI CEO: 'Most, if not all' white-collar tasks can be replaced by AI within 12-18 months Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft's AI chief, says AI can automate white-collar jobs within 12-18 months, as tech reaches human-level performance in tasks.

M&Ms CEO: 'most, if not all' meals can be replaced by M&Ms within 12-18 months

The true cost of the AUKUS agreement

“The full cost of AUKUS can’t be measured in budgets, delivery schedules or shipyard capacity alone. It must reckon with something less tangible but more consequential: Australia’s silence,” writes Jo Tarnawsky, Richard Marles' former chief-of-staff. satpa.pe/8OeRhdr

Exclusive: Robodebt Six served NACC findings Almost three years after referrals were made in the robodebt royal commission’s so-called ‘sealed section’, the NACC is finally preparing to name the Robodebt Six.

Exclusive: At least one former government minister may be among those referred by the National Anti-Corruption Commission over referrals from the robodebt royal commission, Jason Koutsoukis reports. satpa.pe/jDI9W1J

Kid Rock Sells Entire Music Catalog For Extra-Large Bucket Of Cheese Balls

Kid Rock Sells Entire Music Catalog For Extra-Large Bucket Of Cheese Balls

get bent, starmer

Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses

Disaster capitalism.

“We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns…”

Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses

Facebook plans to put facial recognition in its glasses and they think we’re too stupid to fight back.

Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”

‘A different set of rules’: thermal drone footage shows Musk’s AI power plant flouting clean air regulations Images confirm xAI is continuing to defy EPA regulations in Mississippi to power its flagship datacenters

“…thermal images captured by Floodlight – and analyzed by multiple experts – show more than a dozen unpermitted turbines still spewing pollutants at the plant nearly two weeks after the EPA’s recent ruling.”

Attackers prompted Gemini over 100,000 times while trying to clone it, Google says Distillation technique lets copycats mimic Gemini at a fraction of the development cost.

Google calls this illicit activity “model extraction” and considers it intellectual property theft, a somewhat loaded position given that the LLM was built from materials scraped from around the Internet.

If you assumed your AI chats couldn't be used against you in court, think again A federal judge ruled on Tuesday that prosecutors could access the Claude chat transcripts of a finance startup founder accused of fraud.

“The proliferation of chatbots where people are inputting sensitive legal information…has created ‘a discovery nightmare.’”