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The W3C i18n group put out “Address formats around the world” for review w3c.github.io/i18n-drafts/...

Should big tech be allowed to mine Australians’ text and data to train AI? The Productivity Commission is considering it Interim report on digital economy also mulls changes to privacy rules and copyright collections to help harness AI’s benefits

Idk why the productivity commission believes productivity can be derived by giving away other people's labour for free to companies with way too much money. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The Guardian has done some of that already. That doesn't excuse the hypocrisy of Hesperian, the cowardice of the Geraldton historian, and the unethical behaviour of the head of the Logue family.

Being a small press doesn't absolve you of guilt. They claim to print historical documents to tell the truth, then censor the truth as soon as it doesn't meet their needs. It's bullshit anyone can smell from a mile away.

The manosphere is not about teaching men how to get laid. It almost certainly makes things worse on that front.

It’s about teaching hierarchy.

I like this idea A Lot

Will Riker wearing a v neck that goes almost down to his dick

despite everything, i still believe in the potential of humankind to create utopia. but it will require hard work, courage, and above all else extremely deep v-necks that go almost down to the dick

Never mind company tax — reform proposal reveals Australia's real inflation cause A big rise in large corporations raking in profits by abusing their market power is impacting inflation, as shown by modelling buried in the Productivity Commission's tax reform proposal.

Forget the Productivity Commission's tax ideas — it's just confirmed that big corporations have been ripping us off for years, writes Bernard Keane.

The next stage (in Australia at least) was when you got to see them every weekend on tv. Good times.

I analyzed more than 100 extremist manifestos: Misogyny was the common thread Gender identity–driven violence is the most common ideological theme across ‘lone-actor’ extremist manifestos in a recent study.

I analyzed more than 100 extremist manifestos: Misogyny was the common thread theconversation.com/i-analyzed-m... by @karmvirpadda.bsky.social

"What emerges is a chilling picture of how deep-seated misogyny, disguised as grievance and moral outrage, can escalate ideological violence."

I think I must have checked them out because of your recommendation then? I’ve been wondering how they got into my rotation! And yeah, very good stuff

There's something pretty interesting in the federal government's gas projections

Turns out, Australia’s gas consumption actually peaked years ago, and it's projected to keep falling.

🎙Ketan Joshi, Senior Research Associate

@ketanjoshi.co #auspol

Watching this as a plumber removes the gas bayonet from my living room wall. We're on solar and it meets all our needs

The WA Government has let foreign oil company Chevron turn Western Australia's second largest Island, formerly a pristine Class A nature reserve into a "contamination site."

Here is what it looks like now.

State capture and regulatory failure.
www.boilingcold.com.au/governments-...

“Altman is backing a tool called The Orb, built by Tools for Humanity, that says it will offer “proof of human” in a world where AI makes it harder to distinguish what, and who, is real online.”

phew so the guy who helped create the problem happens to also have the solution what are the chances

One day I'm gonna make her some cocktails and get her started on forensic witnesses, I bet it'll be amazing

My neighbour is a forensic scientist, and says there's limited utility in interpersonal crime. Most of her job is testing toilet water for flushed drugs. Shes been involved in 2 high-profile murder cases and is *scathing* about the ways cops fucked them up

True crime sent me to abolition. And I'm always surprised that I'm a minority in this. It's not rocket science! But the genre is also full of retired cops claiming expertise from a single useful arrest, blue-washing the rest of their abysmal record

AI guzzled millions of books without permission. Authors are fighting back. Authors are appealing for help from Congress and the courts after Meta and Anthropic used millions of books to create AI technology, without seeking consent.

Tech firms torrented millions of pirated books to train their AI models. Now authors are fighting back.

My story on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Several screenshots from NVDA's GitHub pages overlaid on each other with an organge tone

Are you a developer looking to make a difference? NVDA has an enthusiastic community of people who report issues, test bugs & submit code. Use your skills for good with worldwide impact! Find out more at: github.com/nvaccess/nvda

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Community #Contribute #FLOSS #FOSS

Wow. Australia's Treasurer @jimchalmers.bsky.social invites Woodside as one of select few participants in the Economic Roundtable where he intends to reconfigure our economy and tax system. This is the Woodside that pays almost no tax and gets royalty free gas as a result of their lobbying. 🤯

Ooh nice!

ooh any shout out to @elly.lol is worth a look, folks 👀

aw, thankyou! How's things with you lately?

oh no
my eyes
my brain

Several tweets from me dated May 2023 Okay, here's a little thread of what worked for me. But first: it's okay to not like things. Maybe you tried them and didn't like them. Maybe you were forced to have them and didn't like them. Maybe they're just unappealing so you've never tried. That's okay! I'm very picky. Back in 2010, I ended up working with a private nutritionist because I wanted to be comfortable trying different things but I had a lot of anxiety around food. So I learned things then and applied it to olives. Olives are one of the few foods I didn't have anyone yell at me/force me to try, I just found them unappealing. My entire life, I've just picked them off of food if I couldn't get them withheld. About a year or so ago, I got some kalamata olives to try. I popped one in my mouth. I took a bite. I immediately spit it out again and comfortably put it on the "ew, I don't like" list.

Then this year: I have some health issues. Olives are on the "very good for this" list. Plus a lot of recipes I like involve olives. So, okay, I tried olives again. I almost texted Krista at the grocery store to help me pick because HELP, SO MANY OLIVES. I didn't know what they were for or where to start. I went back to kalamatas, though, because they're pretty common in things that I eat. First step...I skipped, actually. Usually your first step, you want to just put it on your plate. You don't have to eat it. It's just to expose you to the unfamiliar food (this is how it should work with kids). But I've seen olives! I even tried to eat one once! So I skipped it. My goal was twenty olives. If I got through twenty and didn't like them, then cool, I tried, I'm done. I like mini mezze platters to pick at for meals, so that was an easy add. I cut the olives up and had little bites with a bunch of hummus atop veggies.

I did that for a few meals. Just a little bit at a time. I slowly increased the ratio of olive to veggie/hummus. Through this whole process, I gave myself permission to just not like them. It was okay to spit it out again. It was okay to not like it. I wasn't forced in any way. Then I started just dipping them in things on their own, without other veggies, and eating that. Still only two olives per meal. That worked too! From there, it was expanding and experimenting. What if I pop them on the grill with my red pepper? What if I warm them? I'd had enough exposure to them by that point to feel comfortable trying different things. Then, finally, I got a store-bought Greek salad last week. And I ate it. Without picking out the olives. I did pick out the red onion, though, because fuck red onion.

Just baby steps, a couple at a time, until I hit that twenty olive goal. And it turns out, I like them. It would've been okay if I didn't, though. There are veggies to this day I won't eat because I was yelled at as a kid for refusing to try them--I'd say "I don't like it" and exasperated adults would say "You haven't even tried it!" so I just dug my feet in even harder. When the normal process of trying new things is interrupted like that for kids, it can lead to all kinds of problems later. So it's totally okay to be picky. It's totally okay if you don't want to try to like something. Eat the stuff you like. But if, for whatever reason, you want to try to learn to like something, that's how I approached it. AND, importantly, it's often best to do this on your own where you feel free to spit it out without judgement. It can be harder while eating with others.

Fuck it, copying this over from Twitter (with alt text) in case it's helpful for picky eaters who want to try something new.

This is 100% because of working with @fatnutritionist.bsky.social 15 years ago! This is from the lessons I picked up about food and how to approach eating. I'm so grateful.

Protect Murujuga Rock Art: Sign the Petition One of Australia and the world’s most important artworks is being destroyed by acid gas pollution. The Murujuga rock art on the Burrup Peninsula in Western Australia is a cultural treasure – and more...

We're trying to force the WA government to protect the ancient Murujuga rock art from fossil fuelled destruction. Australian artists and scientists, please consider adding your weight to the pressure! nb.australiainstitute.org.au/save_the_roc...

Secret deal with 'Big Gas' threatens heritage listed, ancient rock art A veil of secrecy hangs over the conditions applied to Woodside Energy’s massive gas export project on WA's Burrup Peninsula.

"A veil of secrecy hangs over the conditions that will apply to Woodside Energy’s massive gas export project on the Burrup Peninsula in WA – the kind of secrecy that corporate power can command," writes @stephenlongaus.bsky.social in @thenewdaily.bsky.social.

Gas seeping to surface from Chevron's Barrow Island oil operation The WA environment regulator is investigating unknown amounts of hydrocarbons rising to the surface on the Class A nature reserve.

Chevron's closed oil and gas project on Barrow Island nature reserve in Western Australia leaks gas
When will it be fixed
Looks like never
www.boilingcold.com.au/gas-seeping-...

Australian government gave $2.7m to Elon Musk’s X for advertisements in billionaire’s first year as owner Exclusive: Spending came after the Albanese government paused ads for a week amid reports ads were appearing next to inappropriate content

The govt is making announcements around fighting antisemitism today but the politicians and lots of departments are still posting on X, and have paid X millions in taxpayer $$$ for ads.

Hard to see after yesterday's Grok incident what the justification now is. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...