Jamie Seidel
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Jamie Seidel
@JamieSeidel
Account decommissioned. Am seeking bluer skies far from this confected fog.
Adelaide Katılım Şubat 2009
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@FlightGlobal Can you do the first of something for a second time? ;)
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@aaronnagy1987 @Aviation_Intel When has navalizing an Air Force fighter worked? F-86? I can’t recall anything newer. Flow the other way, sure.
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Pentagon “All In” On Air Force’s F-47, Puts Navy’s F/A-XX On Ice
The new DoD budget prioritizes F-47, slashing F/A-XX and planned purchases of F-35 Joint Strike
Story: twz.com/air/pentagon-a…
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The Philippines is committed to peace and upholding international law. We are not trying to provoke anyone but are simply defending our rights and territory as recognized by international law, like UNCLOS. Accusing us of causing trouble is unfair and no basis; we're just standing up for what is right.
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Nuclear war is firmly back on the agenda, I'm afraid. Thanks to Putin, Xi, and Kim - with Israel pitching in and the shadow of Trump's first-term threats.
They really have ramped up the rhetoric to a point far above the Cold War average. And that has implications - even if we don't want to hear them.
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What can Australia learn from the United States when establishing the new Centre for Disease Control? croakey.org/what-can-austr… #publichealth
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@JohnCulver689 @RAF_Luton @AlexLuck9 That account used to be funny. Before ChatGPT and other large language model AI started doing exactly the same thing.
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Fact of the Day: Avro Lancasters parked outside the factory in Milton Keynes (Bedfordshire) in 1926. At its peak the factory was making 8,008.5 Lancasters a day (that's one Lancaster every 7.175secs!) to prepare for the Battle of Britain.
Photographed from a Canberra
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@ironicmeme42069 @3Clockamocha @Miguel64185066 @Aviation_Intel Seems strange to me that we would so utterly destroy a capability - in case of contingency - long before the replacement is even on the horizon...
Shades of authoritarian absolutism / tantrum throwing, perhaps? Make it so the decision can't be reversed - damn the consequences?
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@3Clockamocha @Miguel64185066 @JamieSeidel @Aviation_Intel We had already stripped them completely when Ukraine made their request and there was no real way of returning them to a flyable state without serious expense, plus Airbus' contracts probably would have prevented the transfer regardless
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Australia Is Literally Burying Its Doomed NH90 Helicopter Fleet
The Australia’s young NH90 helicopters were such a nightmare that they are being stripped of parts and buried after nobody wanted them.
Story: thedrive.com/the-war-zone/a…
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@james_acton32 @tarantulae I've not heard it. But there is still a certain "uncanny valley" effect (usually grammar and timing). Also, I guess it would be hard to find an actor willing to face charges over impersonating a public official who also sounded like Biden.
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@JamieSeidel @tarantulae I'm not disputing the general point. The robocalls in question are just a bad example of that point. In fact, do we even know they were AI-generated?
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How is this an AI problem?
I mean, it’s clearly a problem, but you don’t need AI, just a good impressionist.
Opinion Today@OpinionToday
Fake Biden robocall to New Hampshire voters highlights how easy it is to make deepfakes − and how hard it is to defend against AI-generated disinformation. (@BostonJoan) More, via Opinion Today: opiniontoday.substack.com/p/240124-topli…
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@james_acton32 @tarantulae AI is cheaper and far more accessible than an impressionist? I mean, before social media we had letters to the editor ...
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@tarantulae Someone with the resources to fund a robocall campaign can afford an impressionist.
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Which our PM has now done. The Chinese Ambassador has compelled him to break a diplomatic silence and rightly reiterate Australia’s accusation against the Chinese navy. This is hardly conducive to the ‘stabilisation plus’ agenda Beijing is advocating - so an own goal
Rory Medcalf@Rory_Medcalf
If the Chinese Ambassador is trying to improve relations with Australia, then falsely blaming Japan like this is clumsy and counterproductive - it now requires the Australian Government to reaffirm, on the record, that a Chinese warship was at fault abc.net.au/news/2024-01-1…
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@WarintheFuture Do I smell the influence of one of the big consultancy groups here? One who perhaps has dealings with a Taipan competitor?
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An update on the Australian Taipan. On this issue, the Australian government is doing a world class job in being non-transparent and obfuscating the issue - and wasting an asset that every other user seems to be employing as designed.
asiapacificdefencereporter.com/no-minister-ta…
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Not sure that Ben Roberts-Smith's commanding officer was the right person to book for this interview...
SBS News@SBSNews
The surgical strike that recently killed a senior Hamas leader had members of the public and warfare experts questioning the IDF's tactics in Gaza. Read more: trib.al/xsUO8Uw
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Years ago, when I asked Langford about his presence in this photo and any corrective actions he took, he mumbled something about protected identity status and said that only CDF was authorized to speak about these matters. Perhaps he should answer those questions first...
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We can learn how quickly such a national organisation can be rendered useless by dogma-obsessed politicians. The US CDC's utter failure at the start of COVID is a case in point. Australia's State-based system could not be controlled and embarrassed politicians into action.
I guess that's why an Aus CDC is so desired by ... politicians.
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One of the most powerful English professors of the past 40 years stole an argument I made in a seminar presentation, turning it into the core of his next book.
The week after my presentation, he came into the classroom and...
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