eureka
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- Comment on Antoinette Lattouf's unlawful sacking exposed the power of lobbying on the Australian media 6 days ago:
I don’t disagree at all. That said, I also want to say I’m glad the ABC exists as a state-funded channel, and it’s no secret that I’m very critical of the governments who have held the levers. The main reason I’m glad is because without state-funded channels, we see a more-or-less dominance of the owning class controlling the vast majority of mass media in the hands of the mega-rich and using it to pursue their financial interests and fill the remaining airtime with for-profit drivel. The ABC enables creators to create art and educational shows far far more than commercial media does, it reminds me of George Lucas talking about the filmmaking industry and artistic freedom. When the channel isn’t desperate to make money, the employees have more real freedom. And like you said, the ABC is still dependent on the government allowing them to get funding, and they often kow-tow to receive it, but it’s miles better than having to please a major shareholder board and major advertisers who don’t want to be criticised.
As you’ve described, the ABC certainly has pressures which bias it against neutrality, and you’ve proposed some good alternatives which reduce these biases.
- Comment on Should big tech be allowed to mine Australians’ text and data to train AI? The Productivity Commission is considering it 6 days ago:
I’m not convinced that the ABS graph shows that productivity and earnings were closely coupled before or during the 90s. As it says in the graph title, they’ve set 1991 as a starting origin (setting Productivity equal to Earnings), so it doesn’t imply the two were already as closely coupled as they look. They only appear so close because the graph sets 1991 as the common point to compare both axes.
To demonstrate, I’ve edited the graph to show what would happen if they made that same graph start from 2009. I’ve done this by copying the orange line up (and colouring it red) so that both lines begin at the same spot in 2009 instead of 1991. And just like the 1991 line, they appear to match each other or a few years - apart from one major dip around 2016, they align very closely for the first 10 years just like in the full 1991 graph.
But we know from your original ABS graph that the wages were already significantly diverging from productivity by 2009. So, I suspect that if we had a longer graph, then we’d learn that wages were already decoupled from productivity in the decades before 1991, but at the very least this graph doesn’t imply close coupling existed in the past and shows evidence of regular uncoupling.
Maybe we should use AI to train them :D
Sure. Although like all tools, AI can only help if used properly. It’s not a panacea, and it can’t replace most training techniques by itself. Similarly, we can’t just “use the internet” to train them or “use books” to train them.
- Comment on Should big tech be allowed to mine Australians’ text and data to train AI? The Productivity Commission is considering it 1 week ago:
Whenever a technology has increased productivity, the extra profit made hasn’t been passed on to increase the workers’ real wages. Why would it?
We’ve already seen AI preemptively treated as a way to make workers redundant and not pay their wage at all, with some idiot bosses having to rehire entire teams they had fired because they bought into AI hype and thought it was capable of replacing them all. They’ve shown what their financial incentive is - increasing shareholder value by outsourcing to cheap markets or removing jobs. And in fact, removing jobs through automation could be a great thing if we had a market capable of retraining those workers to perform the jobs that society needs most. We don’t. Our political-economy is run for profit, not productivity, and it’s important we recognise how contradictory those goals truly are in the real world.
- Comment on Antoinette Lattouf's unlawful sacking exposed the power of lobbying on the Australian media 1 week ago:
ABC making the news and then reporting on it. Infinite news hack.
- Comment on Chinwag's age verification process 1 week ago:
My main criticism would be that it’s a money gate. It’s a one-time cost and only about $10 for a tiny 50ml bottle, but there might be users who can’t just throw money around that easily.
- Comment on Chinwag's age verification process 1 week ago:
Lovely page. I didn’t know about Chinwag before.
I forget who was chatting to our admin a few months ago about Alcohol as a Verification if the government clamp down on Aussie Zone.
- Comment on Victorians could soon have the right to work from home two days a week under Australian-first laws 1 week ago:
Haven’t read the article yet so just going by the blurb: control is absolutely an aspect of it. Some companies have made an effort to have in-house food and on-site childcare for similar reasons, not just for convenience. There was some boss on record in an investment speech saying they didn’t want workers to leave the building.
- Comment on First Australian-made orbital rocket crashes shortly after takeoff 1 week ago:
Yeah last time we named a space-thing Eris, Pluto stopped being a planet. Maybe it’s a bad idea.
- Comment on Signal boss warns app will exit Australia if forced to hand over users’ encrypted messages 2 weeks ago:
Last I heard, plenty of companies used Signal for certain secure messaging. And I don’t just mean dodgy off the record stuff, I mean confidential things that Teams is too open for.
- Comment on Scott Morrison to testify before US House panel on China 3 weeks ago:
economic coercion
Mate, economic coercion is a daily occurrence for normal people. That’s how our entire economic system is built. You’re gonna have to come up with a better name than that.
- Comment on ‘Lied to their workers’: CBA’s ‘shameful act’ while sacking staff [Deceptive offshoring of hundreds of tech roles] 3 weeks ago:
Not sure, but I see articles from the past couple of years saying employees were were going to Fairwork about a 50% RTO mandate.
- ‘Lied to their workers’: CBA’s ‘shameful act’ while sacking staff [Deceptive offshoring of hundreds of tech roles]www.news.com.au ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 6 comments
- Comment on Misogyny is thriving in our schools. Why aren’t we doing more? 4 weeks ago:
You’re on the ball. In Australia, a member of the current biggest neo-Nazi group (Stuart von Moger IIRC) was tried to join NDIS and got investogated when they asked to be assigned to disaffected young men. This is an established strategy across the Western world and one certainly at play here.
- Comment on Australians, especially men, are reading less than ever before 4 weeks ago:
From an interview with Ron H. Barassi (not to be confused with Ron Barassi):
Art Income Dialectic, on the B side of the single, is a delightful soliloquy of yours Ron. May I ask you which Shakespearian character’s soliloquy do you feel most comfortable with; that of Hamlet -
“Drown the Stage with tears And cleave the general ear with horrid speech Make mad the guilty, and appal the free”;
or that of Macbeth?
“I am in blood steeped in so far that, should I walk no more, Returning were as tedious as go o’er.”
RHB: Blood haunts Macbeth. It becomes synonymous with the gradual flooding of his wife’s subconscious sense, or morality, and the destruction of his own. My copy of that play is still marked by the notes I made in my HSC year. I can remember sitting at 11.30pm, when the rest of the family had gone to bed, with the lights just on enough to read and making lists of the references to blood in the play. With growing surprise, as the scent from my father’s flower-beds drifted in, I realised blood was a cohesive pervasive symbol throughout the play. It was a warm night because that was only four weeks or so before the exam. I realised that Shakespeare could be read as poetry, with the compression of language that the word poetry implies, as well as a drama. In fact it was this poetic notion of Shakespeare that attracted me the most because I’m yet to see a production of his which doesn’t bore the shit out of me.
Honestly, I analyse and satirise literature in my spare time, and I’ve read a few nonfiction theory texts that are well above high-school level, but I don’t think I have ever read an entire assigned text in its entirety. Every addition material I selected for exams was a film.
- Comment on Wagga Wagga man charged with displaying Nazi symbols over shopfront poster 4 weeks ago:
the trend of everyone i don’t like is a nazi
Yes, that’s a real problem, when some people carelessly throw around “nazi” as a generalized slur against bigots. It’s tactless and does trivialise the specific threats that neo-nazis pose, as opposed to the different threats posed by those more imminently harmful politicians (Gina et al is involved in policy making, just indirectly).
We, all of us, need to use more specific ways to describe politics than “nazi commie fascist liberal” buzzwords, because real neo-nazis love to utilise the overuse of “nazi” as cover - if someone who is clearly contradictory to Nazism is called a Nazi and experiences that non-Nazis are called Nazis by “the left”, then actual self-identifying neo-Nazis will exploit this and say “yes, pink-hair SJWs also called all these normal people Nazis too!” when they’re talking about actual crypto-fascists promoting actual neo-Nazi ideology. As part of this tactic, they also like to exaggerate how common this phenomenon is through memes/social media, but it does happen.
But with all that said, it’s not a tough one for me. Someone being legally charged for that is ridiculous, and it’s very clear in context that they are not promoting or glorifying neo-nazi ideology or its persecution. If we charged everyone who used political symbolism poorly, the entire continent would have to be a prison colony again. They’re being harassed for insulting certain politicians, and whether the charge is technically legal or not doesn’t change this.
- Comment on Fear of 'being cringe' blamed for lack of dancing on nightclub dance floors 4 weeks ago:
Today, if you’re a bad dancer, you could be filmed without your knowledge or permission, and become a viral sensation for millions of people to see.
Eh, to be honest, I don’t see why I should care what internet dwellers have to say about me. I don’t live on (mainstream) social media and it’s not like I’m doing anything harmful. I cared too much in my teen years and hit the elderly-tier ‘idgaf’ phase early in response.
- Comment on South Australia Government considers requiring developers to build bigger garages. The cost will be paid by home buyers. Whether they have a car or not. 4 weeks ago:
What a knob. Hopefully SA can push themselves to a better premier.
- Comment on Hop to it. 4 weeks ago:
Theft? He had every right.
- Comment on South Australia Government considers requiring developers to build bigger garages. The cost will be paid by home buyers. Whether they have a car or not. 5 weeks ago:
You’re right, not sure how I missed that. Thanks!
- Comment on Australian doctors call for clampdown on social media influencers allegedly glamorising poker machines 5 weeks ago:
For companies that repeatedly breach, criminal prosecution of the people doing so is probably better than fines.
Absolutely. A pharma company had a representative (either C-level or legal) say in court something like “just give us the fine, we can afford it”. I suspect these companies have that kind of money.
- Comment on Powerful US lobby groups urge tariff retaliation against Australia’s ‘socialised medicine’ 5 weeks ago:
Sometimes I want to live in this horror world that conservatives have conjured up to whine about. Socialised medicine, now that’s a lovely idea.
I know we have some subsidies and medicare and all that, and that’s a start, but oh just imagine if it were everything!
- Comment on South Australia Government considers requiring developers to build bigger garages. The cost will be paid by home buyers. Whether they have a car or not. 5 weeks ago:
but the opposition and industry groups say it will just make properties more expensive for buyers.
*proceeds to not mention which industry groups*
To be fair, it probably goes without saying…
- Comment on South Australia Government considers requiring developers to build bigger garages. The cost will be paid by home buyers. Whether they have a car or not. 5 weeks ago:
Jeez, wasn’t expecting a premier to say that crap. Not even a Liberal prem, although it’s not as if Labor inspires much faith either.
- Comment on Underpaid regional supermarket workers to receive $5.5m after court settlement 5 weeks ago:
One worker is set to receive more than $145,000.
That’s impressive. Honestly that’s life-changing money to even the middle and upper middle income people.
- Comment on “How much can you afford to lose?” Gambling in Norway is tightly controlled. 5 weeks ago:
Thanks mate, I really appreciate it :)
- Comment on Australian doctors call for clampdown on social media influencers allegedly glamorising poker machines 5 weeks ago:
they’re saying everything the gambling companies aren’t allowed to in their ads with none of the disclaimers
For all intents and purposes, “influencers” are ads. It’s a shame that law doesn’t seem to keep up with these simple workarounds.
- Comment on Australian doctors call for clampdown on social media influencers allegedly glamorising poker machines 5 weeks ago:
oh ‘fining’. Because I suspect plenty of politicians would take them to a restaurant and make a deal.
- Comment on As China prepares to invade Taiwan, a reality check: sitting on the sidelines won’t help Australia 5 weeks ago:
I have almost zero doubt that it will be after fabricating some sort of nonsense casus belli that gives them a veneer of legitimacy.
The People’s Republic of China already take the official position that the Chinese Civil War is an ongoing conflict. And while I haven’t looked much into the Republic of China (Taiwan) position on the ground, taking their constitution at face value, they officially claim mainland China is their territory. So I don’t think the casus belli will be a problem, at least internally.
- Comment on Anthony Albanese condemns ‘shocking acts’ after suspicious fire at Melbourne synagogue with 20 people inside 5 weeks ago:
Ah alright. Yeah that happens to us all these days, journos jumping the gun to get a scoop.
- Comment on Anthony Albanese condemns ‘shocking acts’ after suspicious fire at Melbourne synagogue with 20 people inside 5 weeks ago:
That string of attacks was determined to be a hoax, but I don’t know where that claim of Jews is coming from. Police claim the fake caravan bomb plot “was concocted by criminals who wanted to cause fear for personal benefit” so members could hand over evidence or information to reduce their prison sentences^[1]^. The named key suspects are associated with the Nomad bikie gang and included Sayed Moosawi (Arabic names) and Sayet Erhan Akca (Turkish surname and believed fled to Turkey, so I assume they’re most likely Turkish).
So unless I missed some announcement about these, I don’t think Zionists or other Jews were behind this hoax.
