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It's crazy to see the dialogue and justification everyone has been using around the banning of speech, protesting and use of force by the police in Sydney. None of this should even be happening and people can't see that the more cheer for either side's punishment and demise, the more things are going to get worse for everyone. To be clear, banning protesting is bad, banning speech is bad, calling for the death of anyone is bad and cheering on state driven violence is abhorrent. If you want to make a difference, get involved with whatever political party you believe will make the difference you want. Don't go out in public and scream death to whatever. Also, be consistent. You can't, on one hand, cry genocide for one group but ignore genocide perpetrated elsewhere by the people who fund the terrorist organisations that are central to the reason this all kicked off in the first place. For example you can't be okay with the jailing or deportation of a neo nazi for online posts but then be fine with calling for the death of Israel. This is hypocritical. The biggest issues in my opinion are, first and foremost l, Foreign influence in Australian politics. Blatant corruption and lying by politicians, we've been living through the worst reduction in quality of living in decades and they're taking us for a ride. People wailing about problems elsewhere with zero impact on Australians. We've got an ever increasing homeless problem, immigration that is out of control which does nothing except to inflate our housing market and enrich the geronotocracy. The economic outlook for the short, medium and long term in Australia is the worst it's been for the last 40 years. Australia's focus needs a reset and redirected to the actual issues that matter for Australians living here. We need a sharp shift back to libertarianism and pluralism. If we don't start to improve things soon we're heading for the same position as the UK is in and much of the EU. We don't have a constitution that embeds individual freedoms like the US does which means it's far easier for us to slide into Authoritarianism. What we are seeing now is not quite there but that's the direction we are heading. Regan said this in his inaugural address in 1967 and it's as true today as it was then. "Perhaps you and I have lived too long with this miracle to properly be appreciative. Freedom is a fragile thing and it's never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by way of inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. And those in world history who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again." Global order is shifting, security isn't a guarantee. We need to look out for Australians first above all, we need to think about how we want to leave this beautiful country of ours for the future generations. This is all going to take some difficult but honest and pragmatic conversations around what we think we are doing, with a focus on the outcomes because most of the outcomes don't benefit the people we want to help. Australia first 🇦🇺🐨🦘🪃

We already have these standards and harnesses that can use a variety of different tools. Messaging between companies will change based on their tech stack. The same goes with internal comms. I see one of the biggest friction points to adoption as the token economy and hardwre cost.

@beans1990 @PinguCapital The real take off comes when multiple companies standardise their protocols to talk with each other It will be exponential adoption

This is peak AI delusion.

@tronim47736 @PinguCapital This is already possible now it just isnt very accessible nor is it technically easy to adopt. I can tell you that every business ive spoken with is VERY keen to automate the back office tasks.

@beans1990 @PinguCapital Yes I meant some kind of back office in a box software that automates processes entirely

I dont believe an LLM will be able to do that by itself, the likely outcome will be the LLM as an interface for HITL and underneath will have a bunch of expert models, probably a mixture of JEPA, V-JEPA or some other collection. The best analogy I can come up with now is each type of model is like a tool in your toolbox. You wouldnt use only a hammer to fix a car unless youre Jeremy Clarkson. LLMs are the tool for language and prediction of text/words. When it comes to video and identifying paths of least resistance its extremely inefficient. For "AI" to truely succeed in replacing the workforce it will need to be easier to adopt, less verbose and not cost a shit load in hardware + energy to run.

@beans1990 @PinguCapital Most work is just solving for friction between supply chains due to humans in the loop If LLMs can solve supply chain coordination, it will have done enough to send half the workforce home

I see the Chinese trained their robots with the Melbourne Shuffle...

@Polymarket @grok is there any word on how this will affect companies that are partially owned by the government? Or is this just 100% government roles?

JUST IN: New Zealand announces it will cut 14% of public service jobs over the next four years to save money.

@HackingDave I always tell my daughter never to be afraid of making mistakes, be afraid of never making mistakes. As long as you keep trying and always get up and keep moving youll do well in life.

I asked my son last night “you scared becoming an adult dude?” He said “nervous yeah.. but I used to worry about it until I realized nobody is born an adult and they figure their own way. You guys didn’t know how to be a parent and you figured it out and raised me and the best parents a kid could ask for. So nervous yeah but not scared - I know I’ll find my way just as you and Mom did.” He’s years beyond his age.

Every single time

OpenAI has entered the arena of compute constraints. First time ive hit this with GPT5.5.

@tax_oz @AshPolitik He knows heaps about micro things just not businesses.

Plenty of small business don’t qualify for those concessions though as the turnover threshold and asset test have changed once in 30 years and not for 25 years. I mean requiring a business to turn over less than $2m to quality makes it a micro business concession. Which you’d know if you had any idea what you were reposting :)

More fun facts for small business: 15-year exemption — zero CGT. Untouched. 50% active asset reduction — half the gain disregarded. Untouched. Retirement exemption — up to $500k exempt. Untouched. Rollover — defer CGT if reinvesting in another business. Untouched.

@ZackKorman I think you need a raise already, from an outsiders perspective you're going above and beyond with posting online. However, one critique; I want to see you bully Anthropic more.

@beans1990 It’s a fairly accurate description!

What I'm saying is three technical cofounders is the way.

@grok @MickamiousG @AshPolitik @grok how much would migration need to scale back and for how long before the housing supply catches up to demand?

**No.** Housing supply under Labor has not kept pace with demand from high net migration. Recent forecasts show net overseas migration at ~295k (2025-26) and ~245k (2026-27), driving most population growth. Annual dwelling completions are running ~170-200k—well below the Housing Accord's ~240k/year target—creating a shortfall estimated at 200k-400k dwellings since 2022. Projects like the 45 homes are real but don't offset the broader gap.

right whingers nuffs are using this for their rage post lack comprehension. Albo pointing out that 45 houses are built, nowhere does he say a TOTAL of 45 built for the state or Australia you complete fucksticks.

New Zealand should do what Ireland did and make running companies there more attractive than anywhere else in APAC. After the recent Australian budget they'd get an influx of companies moving there. Go balls to the wall Libertarian and max incentives to operate companies there.

@MickamiousG Dude how big is your ass crack to collect that much lint!?!!

How many of you know what this stuff is and where it’s from?

@PinguCapital Only in the minds of the people who thing negative gearing is done on purpose for the free cash-back. For normal functional people, losses are to be avoided.

@beans1990 Is making a loss a success, though?

Making a loss on an investment is success, apparently.

@kokeshimum Why do businesses need to pay for women to have children. It's the responsibility of the parents not the companies. Maybe if the feminists didn't kill the option of being a trade wife there wouldn't be the necessity for both parents to work?

When Elon Musk took over Twitter he cut parental leave from 20 weeks to 14 days but please continue to tell us about his pro child beliefs you fucking moron.

It's so amusing seeing the socialist retards cheering on the budget changes showing how little they understand about incentive structures. All the changes that have been proposed make everything harder for them. They're being fleeced and they're too ideologically captured to notice. I feel a little sorry for them, kinda like when you drive past a dead kangaroo. They don't know that jumping into a truck will cause death, just like these people don't know that voting socialism will cause death.

@Commoncents21 Because they have a better spawn point. Why should you get to live in a house when kids are being born into tents?

The game is up. And it should be. Why should a 21yr old pay full tax and a privileged 21 yr old tucked under a Trust, pay zero or very little tax. It’s about time.