Jeremy's Ear
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· Nov 20
a man with long hair has a quote that says so do all who live to see such times but that is not for them to decide
Alt: Gandalf and Frodo from LOTR "I wish none of this had happened ..." "..so do all who live to see such times but that is not for them to decide"
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Two independent studies found that AI chatbots were better at persuading voters than political ads. The most persuasive bots also lied the most. This is something that humans working in psyops have known for decades. AI is psyops at scale. www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/04/1...
December 5, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Two independent studies found that AI chatbots were better at persuading voters than political ads. The most persuasive bots also lied the most. This is something that humans working in psyops have known for decades. AI is psyops at scale. www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/04/1...
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Maybe don't demolish the entire East Wing until you have an actual design for your "ballroom" and architects in place to build it?
What are the odds this ends up being a hole in the ground for the next few years? (The symbolism would be too much, I know.) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...
What are the odds this ends up being a hole in the ground for the next few years? (The symbolism would be too much, I know.) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...
Trump Switches Architects for White House Ballroom Project
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Maybe don't demolish the entire East Wing until you have an actual design for your "ballroom" and architects in place to build it?
What are the odds this ends up being a hole in the ground for the next few years? (The symbolism would be too much, I know.) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...
What are the odds this ends up being a hole in the ground for the next few years? (The symbolism would be too much, I know.) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...
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"Apparently, the border agents indicated that they had detained Professor Falk in order to determine whether he was a threat to Canada’s national security and should be allowed to enter the country."
Protesting Canada’s Detention of Former UN Special Rapporteur Richard Falk over Palestine Rights Advocacy
Protesting Canada’s Detention of Former UN Special Rapporteur Richard Falk over Palestine Rights Advocacy
Outrage at the unjustified harassment that Richard Falk, former UN Special Rapporteur was subjected to by agents of the Canada Border Services
dlvr.it
December 5, 2025 at 2:26 AM
"Apparently, the border agents indicated that they had detained Professor Falk in order to determine whether he was a threat to Canada’s national security and should be allowed to enter the country."
I'd like to see the end of the bs line that the ABC is lefty. It treats actual lefties with absolute contempt, and boosts right wing narratives. And then to add insult to injury we get told it's biased towards us! Maybe it's finally time to thoroughly debunk that lie.
Remember when Howard's communications minister Richard Alston used to send through lists of "bias" to the ABC, and they cowed and went to the right to appease the LNP - maybe time for a concerted lefty campaign bombarding them with instances of anti-left bias?
ABC coverage of the disastrous Tasmanian stadium vote - entirely positive and cheering it on. Literally no coverage of the opposition to it. Where's the ABC's "neutral" stance? #theirABC
December 5, 2025 at 12:04 PM
I'd like to see the end of the bs line that the ABC is lefty. It treats actual lefties with absolute contempt, and boosts right wing narratives. And then to add insult to injury we get told it's biased towards us! Maybe it's finally time to thoroughly debunk that lie.
ABC coverage of the disastrous Tasmanian stadium vote - entirely positive and cheering it on. Literally no coverage of the opposition to it. Where's the ABC's "neutral" stance? #theirABC
December 5, 2025 at 8:26 AM
ABC coverage of the disastrous Tasmanian stadium vote - entirely positive and cheering it on. Literally no coverage of the opposition to it. Where's the ABC's "neutral" stance? #theirABC
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If you thought Robodebt was bad, wait until you see Robo NDIS.
NDIS plans will be computer-generated, with human involvement dramatically cut under sweeping overhaul
Exclusive: Staff were told of major changes to the way NDIS funding and support plans will be made during a recent internal briefing
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:03 AM
If you thought Robodebt was bad, wait until you see Robo NDIS.
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“NDIS costs soar as children flock to scheme” is a headline people accept. But we wouldn’t see those same papers of note report on “capital gains tax discount costs soar as investors flock to housing” – because that’s just the cost of doing business."
♿ #NDIS #Disability #ConJob
♿ #NDIS #Disability #ConJob
When 'common sense' cuts are code for a cruel con job
"NDIS costs soar as children flock to scheme" is a headline people accept – but other soaring bills are accepted as a cost of doing business.
www.thenewdaily.com.au
December 3, 2025 at 10:42 PM
“NDIS costs soar as children flock to scheme” is a headline people accept. But we wouldn’t see those same papers of note report on “capital gains tax discount costs soar as investors flock to housing” – because that’s just the cost of doing business."
♿ #NDIS #Disability #ConJob
♿ #NDIS #Disability #ConJob
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#Unfuckingbelievable!
They just finishing kicking hundreds of NDIS participants off, fobbing people on the spectrum off onto the States, now this!
You have to ask yourself what was the point of #Labor’s NDIS!
Have they learnt nothing from #Robodebt!
Clearly not!
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They just finishing kicking hundreds of NDIS participants off, fobbing people on the spectrum off onto the States, now this!
You have to ask yourself what was the point of #Labor’s NDIS!
Have they learnt nothing from #Robodebt!
Clearly not!
1/…
December 3, 2025 at 11:57 AM
#Unfuckingbelievable!
They just finishing kicking hundreds of NDIS participants off, fobbing people on the spectrum off onto the States, now this!
You have to ask yourself what was the point of #Labor’s NDIS!
Have they learnt nothing from #Robodebt!
Clearly not!
1/…
They just finishing kicking hundreds of NDIS participants off, fobbing people on the spectrum off onto the States, now this!
You have to ask yourself what was the point of #Labor’s NDIS!
Have they learnt nothing from #Robodebt!
Clearly not!
1/…
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‘Nightmare scenario for disabled people’: NDIS overhaul risks lives, advocates say
"Sweeping changes to the way National Disability Insurance Scheme support plans are generated criticised amid fears they amount to ‘robo-planning’"
♿ #NDIS #RoboPlanning
"Sweeping changes to the way National Disability Insurance Scheme support plans are generated criticised amid fears they amount to ‘robo-planning’"
♿ #NDIS #RoboPlanning
‘Nightmare scenario for disabled people’: NDIS overhaul risks lives, advocates say
Sweeping changes to the way National Disability Insurance Scheme support plans are generated criticised amid fears they amount to ‘robo-planning’
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 6:00 AM
‘Nightmare scenario for disabled people’: NDIS overhaul risks lives, advocates say
"Sweeping changes to the way National Disability Insurance Scheme support plans are generated criticised amid fears they amount to ‘robo-planning’"
♿ #NDIS #RoboPlanning
"Sweeping changes to the way National Disability Insurance Scheme support plans are generated criticised amid fears they amount to ‘robo-planning’"
♿ #NDIS #RoboPlanning
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December 3, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Absolute madness. Labor cannot be trusted with majority government.
Did we learn nothing from robodebt? NDIS automation will put vulnerable lives at the mercy of machines | Georgia Van Toorn
Did we learn nothing from robodebt? NDIS automation will put vulnerable lives at the mercy of machines | Georgia Van Toorn
It’s hard to overstate the potential dangers of replacing discretion with algorithms in a system as consequential as the national disability insurance scheme
Never again. That was the resounding message delivered via the robodebt royal commission from the thousands of Australians whose lives and livelihoods were upended by the cruellest experiment in bureaucratic automation the country has ever seen.
Now, with plans under way to automate the calculation of individual NDIS support plans, it appears we’ve reached new heights of institutional amnesia. Once again, vital lifelines to support will be placed at the mercy of automated systems. Only this time, the mechanisms for review and redress will be vanishingly thin. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Absolute madness. Labor cannot be trusted with majority government.
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The Albanese govt has certainly learnt something from #robodebt:
they can treat people like shit, and get away with it. #disability #NDIS #auspol
they can treat people like shit, and get away with it. #disability #NDIS #auspol
December 4, 2025 at 5:52 AM
The Albanese govt has certainly learnt something from #robodebt:
they can treat people like shit, and get away with it. #disability #NDIS #auspol
they can treat people like shit, and get away with it. #disability #NDIS #auspol
Most NDIS participants will lose external avenue to appeal funding amounts under new system, Senate estimates told
Most NDIS participants will lose external avenue to appeal funding amounts under new system, Senate estimates told
Administrative review tribunal no longer authorised to alter a person’s plan or reinstate funding, agency confirmed
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Participants in the National Disability Insurance Scheme will in most cases no longer be able to appeal their total amount of funding support to any external review body, executives have confirmed, after revelations about automation to be introduced to the organisation.
The minister for disability and the NDIS, Jenny McAllister, and National Disability Insurance Agency bosses were peppered with questions at Senate estimates on Thursday about changes to the way NDIS support plans will be generated under a new planning model coming into effect from mid-2026. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:12 AM
More spiteful nonsense from the right
Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, just introduced a bill to ban Americans from holding dual citizenship. The bill says that to “preserve the integrity of national citizenship, allegiance to the United States must be undivided.” It’s called the Exclusive Citizenship Act.
December 4, 2025 at 11:38 PM
More spiteful nonsense from the right
Thanks Albo! Instead of addressing housing affordability by tackling the causes - investors & low spending on public housing - you've done what you can to make it worse! Can't wait for when your voters realise how badly you've screwed them and switch to Greens.
propertyupdate.com.au/housing-rebo...
propertyupdate.com.au/housing-rebo...
Housing rebound defies affordability strain as 2025’s standout suburbs revealed
Australia’s housing market staged a turnaround in 2025, defying intense affordability and cost of living pressures to deliver an above decade-average...
propertyupdate.com.au
December 4, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Thanks Albo! Instead of addressing housing affordability by tackling the causes - investors & low spending on public housing - you've done what you can to make it worse! Can't wait for when your voters realise how badly you've screwed them and switch to Greens.
propertyupdate.com.au/housing-rebo...
propertyupdate.com.au/housing-rebo...
Want your power bills to skyrocket? Let these AI slop factories be built here.
HEY FRIENDS!! Did you know that Australia - #2 in the world for data centre investment - is now formally missing its climate targets thanks in large part to the resulting surge in power demand?
It's massive news - @crikey.com.au let me NERD OUT to explain why:
www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/04/d...
It's massive news - @crikey.com.au let me NERD OUT to explain why:
www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/04/d...
December 4, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Want your power bills to skyrocket? Let these AI slop factories be built here.
anti-trans rhetoric is bad faith nonsense all the way down
It's fascinating how "the transes went too far" is a kind of floating timeline thing, always placed in the relatively recent past. e.g. Helen Lewis here dating the "over-reach" to after Bostock (June 2020). But she was already decrying the "imperial over-reach of... trans activists" in Jan 2019.
December 4, 2025 at 11:27 PM
anti-trans rhetoric is bad faith nonsense all the way down
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A tragically hilarious must read
“Okay! Don’t trust AI! Burn it all down!”
“Okay! Don’t trust AI! Burn it all down!”
December 4, 2025 at 10:59 PM
A tragically hilarious must read
“Okay! Don’t trust AI! Burn it all down!”
“Okay! Don’t trust AI! Burn it all down!”
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And it's happening in Australia as well.
Wealth inequality is eating this country alive. Concentrated wealth is already endangering our democracy. Wealth doesn’t just beget more wealth — it begets more power.
It’s a vicious cycle that destroys our economy and democracy at the same time.
It’s a vicious cycle that destroys our economy and democracy at the same time.
December 4, 2025 at 10:49 PM
And it's happening in Australia as well.
Wait, so to be clear, AUKUS was only going to survive if it puts "America first", and Australians are fine with such a deal?
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
Pentagon review finds areas to put AUKUS on 'strongest possible footing'
The review has "identified opportunities to put AUKUS on the strongest possible footing", the Pentagon says. But a congressman who has seen the report says it "fully endorses" the pact.
www.abc.net.au
December 4, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Wait, so to be clear, AUKUS was only going to survive if it puts "America first", and Australians are fine with such a deal?
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
#AustraliaVsHumanity
The whole premise of these laws is a lie. There is no evidence they will protect Victorians; on the contrary, they'll turn young offenders into lifelong hardened criminals.
The whole premise of these laws is a lie. There is no evidence they will protect Victorians; on the contrary, they'll turn young offenders into lifelong hardened criminals.
Controversial youth justice reforms that allow children to be sentenced to life in prison have passed the Victorian Parliament, despite strong opposition from legal experts and Indigenous organisations
Victorian Parliament passes youth justice laws allowing life sentences for children despite human rights concerns
Controversial youth justice reforms that allow children to be sentenced to life in prison have passed the Victorian Parliament, despite strong opposition from legal experts and Indigenous organisation...
nit.com.au
December 4, 2025 at 10:48 PM
#AustraliaVsHumanity
The whole premise of these laws is a lie. There is no evidence they will protect Victorians; on the contrary, they'll turn young offenders into lifelong hardened criminals.
The whole premise of these laws is a lie. There is no evidence they will protect Victorians; on the contrary, they'll turn young offenders into lifelong hardened criminals.
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The only ones allowed to complain about wind farms are locals and scientists working against green sacrifice zones and land grabs: salvaging wind with safeguards for biodiversity and people in the vicinity and a public pathway with social benefits.
With gen AI data centres, devastation is intrinsic.
With gen AI data centres, devastation is intrinsic.
No right-wing tech dweebs get to complain about the land use impact of a wind farm ever again
December 4, 2025 at 5:40 PM
The only ones allowed to complain about wind farms are locals and scientists working against green sacrifice zones and land grabs: salvaging wind with safeguards for biodiversity and people in the vicinity and a public pathway with social benefits.
With gen AI data centres, devastation is intrinsic.
With gen AI data centres, devastation is intrinsic.
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A few weeks after he took over SOCOM Holsey met with Hegseth on a secure video conference, and received his marching orders. “You’re either on the team or you’re not,” Hegseth told Holsey, according to notes from a participant. “When you get an order, you move out fast and don’t ask questions.”
Wow, Adm. Holsey didn't leave of his own accord, Hegseth pushed him out. What looked like the SOCOM head resigning rather than do war crimes now looks like SecDef canning him to facilitate war crimes.
Congress should have him testify, and would've already if war-crime-sympathetic GOP didn't run it.
Congress should have him testify, and would've already if war-crime-sympathetic GOP didn't run it.
Exclusive | Hegseth Asked Top Admiral to Resign After Months of Discord
The relationship between the Pentagon chief and Adm. Alvin Holsey had been rocky since Trump’s inauguration.
www.wsj.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:06 PM
A few weeks after he took over SOCOM Holsey met with Hegseth on a secure video conference, and received his marching orders. “You’re either on the team or you’re not,” Hegseth told Holsey, according to notes from a participant. “When you get an order, you move out fast and don’t ask questions.”