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Full Scale Derision: Australian Prime Minister Accepts Global Citizen Award
Anthony Albanese’s decision to collect the Atlantic Council’s Global Citizen Award in New York this week is a masterclass in tone-deaf vanity. While Labor’s primary vote slumps to 27 per cent and his net approval sits worse than Scott Morrison’s, the Prime Minister...
Australia’s Digital Duty of Care an Astro Turfed Fake Movement: You Are Being Lied To
Institute of Public Affairs “#FixOurFeeds, the campaign widely credited with pushing the federal government toadopt a digital duty of care model has received millions of dollars from the federalgovernment. The Prime Minister claims the digital duty of care is a...
Australia’s EV Fiasco
Australia’s unfortunate EV drivers are reporting headaches with EV chargers across outback and far west New South Wales. Recent accounts mention the NRMA units in places like Wilcannia, Bourke, Walgett, and Cobar regularly failing or running at reduced speeds. Plus...
The Real Danger Of AI Is That It Is Run By Evil Warmongers
Video reading by Tim Foley: The biggest AI threat isn’t artificial superintelligence wiping out humanity in a fit of mechanical vengeance like some digital Old Testament God, it’s the same oligarchs and empire managers as usual inflicting the same evils and abuses as usual upon
Some Words About This Whole Caitlin Johnstone Project
Video reading by Tim Foley: Every so often I like to write out an explanation of who I am and what I’m trying to do here, for the benefit of new followers and for my own mental clarity. The Caitlin Johnstone project is actually run
I Still Believe Humanity Is Headed For A Mass Awakening
Video reading by Tim Foley: I still believe humanity is headed toward a mass awakening, as unfashionable as that is to admit here in the late 2020s. The fashionable thing to say these days is that everything’s fucked and we are headed to our doom,
PLEASE JOIN MY FAMILY OF DONORS IN MY QUEST TO RAISE $100,000 FOR ‘DORCAS ACTS’ ON MY 95th BIRTHDAY ON 5 OCTOBER AT ULURU.
The portrait of me was painted by a good friend for my 90th birthday when I raised $35000 for DorcasACTS which is the caring and sharing community service of my local church, the Aspley Uniting Church. On my 95th I intend to treble that figure so that DorcasACTS can...
TRACKS TO SOMEWHERE
I am in the 95th year of my life. I enjoy my memories as well as my thoughts on how I could have handled them better. One of them is my meeting with John Howard in 1996 when he gave me approval to begin planning a freight railway from Melbourne to Darwin via New South...
AM SELLING AND SIGNING MY BOOK ‘WALK IN THE SPIRIT’ AT DYMOCKS CHERMSIDE BRISBANE ON SATURDAY OF THIS WEEK FROM 11am TO 12.30pm. I LOOK FORWARD TO MEETING YOU. MY CO-AUTHOR NEILL FLORENCE WILL BE WITH ME.
WALK IN THE SPIRIT is a page turning novel about six people of different faiths who are not involved in organised religion but form a team to create a caring and sharing community while encountering bigoted and racist opposition. It is timely given the current war of...
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Counterfeit righteousness: Anthropic, AI and the pacing fallacy
It’s bleak. “They are racing straight toward self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives.” So stated researcher Jacob Coxon on those artificial intelligence firms so keen on imposing their jaundiced visions upon humanity in the name of a utopia that is just another word for self-enrichment. In resigning from Anthropic,
Throwing the first stone
There’s a quote I remember from my Sunday School days that has been brought to mind by this week’s news headlines and political hit jobs: “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.”Those words were spoken by Jesus when Scribes and Pharisees brought a woman accused of adultery
Armageddon and artificial intelligence
Just when some online worry-warts and so-called “climate experts” are starting to ease a little on warnings that the end is nigh thanks to an era of global boiling, we have a new doomsday scenario to contend with which could make all that redundant by the end of the decade.Maybe
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From Israel to immigration, Labor is losing its political nerve
The problem for the Albanese government isn’t just about Australia moving too slowly against illegal Israeli settlements – it walked up to the negotiating table but then decided that it was all too much and just walked away.Australia was a part of these negotiations with Britain, France, Canada and European
Labor is becoming what it once condemned
The Labor government came to office promising higher standards of integrity, transparency and accountability after almost a decade of Coalition government corruption. Four years later, those promises are becoming harder to reconcile with the way Labor is actually governing.A $560 million infrastructure program that directed roughly three-quarters of its funding
Macklemore, Mary Kostakidis and the red line on Palestine
The most effective political power isn’t obtained through governments, legislation or formal institutions. Sometimes it works through other means: vexatious litigation, lobbying, money and the ability of well-connected organisations to impose consequences on people who challenge powerful interests. The experiences of former SBS journalist Mary Kostakidis in Australia and musician