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Newcastle, Australia Katılım Kasım 2008
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James Nowland
James Nowland@jnowland·
@AvbNear @GeoffreyHuntley @DavidPocock Yes very seriously, he the best independent political person in there at the moment. I don’t agree with him on everything but no one should. His sole job is to represent ACT so the issues he advocates for has the lean on them. Look at his advocation history for CSRIO.
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David Pocock
David Pocock@DavidPocock·
Canberra is the startup capital of the country, an incubator for extraordinary innovations and we want it to stay that way. While I've pushed hard for and welcome sensible reforms to CGT concessions in housing, we need to avoid unintended consequences for the start up sector & and this is something I raised with the Assistant Treasurer yesterday. So important that govt gets this right. afr.com/technology/gov…
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Jon-Bernard Kairouz@jonbernardk·
Australian Monopoly 🇦🇺
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James Nowland@jnowland·
@AlboMP @grok how many homes did they say they were going to build vs actually built? 1.2M sounds familiar? Did they come up short?
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Anthony Albanese@AlboMP·
We’re throwing everything at this with 5% deposits for first home buyers. And building 100,000 homes set aside just for them.
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Anthony Albanese@AlboMP·
We're changing property investor tax breaks to give first home buyers a fair go. Here’s why.
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geoff@GeoffreyHuntley·
Australia is one of the most beautiful countries in the world but unfortunately it's governed by retards. Hey @grok can you do some napkin maths how the new australian budget will affect early stage venture capital investments and startup stock holders? Specifically CGT (capital gains tax) vs 5 other countries.
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Matt Barrie@matt_barrie

catastrophic budget

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James Nowland@jnowland·
@ParksLeigh19553 @Ben_Davison1 From a goverment that fell pretty short on increasing supply with “build more houses”. Kinda feels like it should have been an election issue. Expecting a death tax to ensure the boomers wealth doesn’t ever get to the other generations.
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Mitchell Parks
Mitchell Parks@ParksLeigh19553·
@Ben_Davison1 It’s just pure irony that to address “generational inequality” they have removed the tax settings that made the boomers wealthy for young people while grandfathering in the assets of the already wealthy. Fuckin wild
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Ben Davison
Ben Davison@Ben_Davison1·
80% of Capital Gains Tax discount benefits the wealthiest 10% of people That means 90% of us have been subsidising the wealthiest people to turn our homes into unproductive tax write offs Labor’s budget is trying to fix this inequity
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Jim Chalmers MP
Jim Chalmers MP@JEChalmers·
BREAKING: We’ll put more money into the pockets of 13.3M workers with a new $250 Working Australians Tax Offset.
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James Nowland@jnowland·
@22thinkinggirl @Mon4Kooyong From a stats point of view that’s a significant n. But with most of these things you implement a huge bias as who’s answering calls from unknown marketing companies.
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GGee@22thinkinggirl·
@Mon4Kooyong So you asked a question of Kooyong residents and 931 of the 124k+ registered Kooyong voters responded. Hardly a poll that has any substance. Fun facts - 931 is approximately .7% of the electorate. You hold the seat of Kooyong on a margin of approx .7%
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Dr Monique Ryan MP
Dr Monique Ryan MP@Mon4Kooyong·
I recently surveyed the Kooyong community regarding property tax incentives; the results were conclusive. 73% of the over 900 respondents backed changes to the capital gains tax discount; even more (85%) endorsed changes to negative gearing. Support for limiting the capital gains tax discount was three times stronger than keeping it as it is. The strongest concerns within our community were intergenerational inequity, housing affordability, and housing supply. These are the challenges the government must address in tomorrow's Budget. afr.com/property/resid…
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Aakash Gupta
Aakash Gupta@aakashgupta·
You check your Apple Watch in the morning. Sleep score: 62. You decide it's going to be a foggy day. And then it is. A 2014 Colorado College study suggests the score itself causes the fog. 164 people walked into a lab. Researchers hooked them up to fake EEG equipment and told them the readout would show their REM percentage from the night before. Then they fabricated a number. Half the room was told 28.7%. Half was told 16.2%. The machine wasn't measuring anything. Participants took four cognitive tests. The Paced Auditory Serial Addition Test, where you add numbers spoken at increasing speed and hold your last sum in working memory while computing the next. And the Controlled Oral Word Association Task, where you generate as many words as you can starting with a single letter under time pressure. Both are gold-standard measures of attention and executive function used in clinical neurology. The 28.7% group outperformed the 16.2% group on both. Significantly. How rested participants actually felt that morning predicted nothing. The mechanism is mindset priming an executive resource. When you believe you slept well, you allocate cognitive effort more aggressively. You don't conserve. You don't pre-disengage. Belief about the resource changes how you spend it. Two control conditions ruled out demand characteristics. Participants weren't trying harder because they thought they should. Real measurable cognitive performance shifted with the number on the readout. The Apple Watch sleep score. The Oura ring readiness number. The morning ritual of checking either one is taxing the resource you're about to need. The performance gap from a fabricated REM percentage was larger than the gap from how rested participants actually felt. The number was louder than the night.
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Het Mehta
Het Mehta@hetmehtaa·
Be Anthropic > Give people Opus 4.6 > People love it. > For 2 months you degrade Opus 4.6 > You give back normal Opus 4.6 and call it Opus 4.7. > People love it. That's the business model.
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James Nowland@jnowland·
What version of opus 4.6 are they comparing this to. The version from the past few weeks?
Chubby♨️@kimmonismus

Claude Opus 4.7 is out. the TL;DR Anthropic released Opus 4.7 today. Same pricing as 4.6 ($5/$25 per million tokens), available across API, Bedrock, Vertex AI, and Microsoft Foundry. What changed vs Opus 4.6: Coding (obviously). Biggest gains on the hardest, long-horizon software engineering tasks. Early testers report being able to hand off work that previously needed supervision. Opus 4.7 now verifies its own outputs before reporting back. Vision. Accepts images up to 2,576px on the long edge (~3.75MP), over 3x more than any prior Claude. This is the real unlock for computer-use agents reading dense screenshots and diagram extraction. Instruction following. Now interprets instructions literally. Anthropic explicitly warns: prompts tuned for 4.6 may break or produce unexpected output. Existing harnesses need re-tuning. Memory. Better at file system-based memory across long multi-session work. Real-world knowledge work. State-of-the-art on Finance Agent eval and GDPval-AA (third-party economically valuable knowledge work across finance, legal, etc). New features shipping today: xhigh effort level between high and max. Finer control over reasoning vs latency. Claude Code default is now xhigh for all plans. Task budgets in public beta on the API. /ultrareview in Claude Code. A dedicated review session that flags bugs and design issues. Three free for Pro and Max users. Auto mode extended to Claude Code Max users. Claude decides on your behalf, less interruption, less risk than full skip-permissions. The honest caveats: New tokenizer means the same input maps to 1.0 to 1.35x more tokens depending on content type. Opus 4.7 thinks more at higher effort levels, especially on later agentic turns. More output tokens. Safety profile is roughly similar to 4.6. Improvement on honesty and prompt injection resistance, modestly weaker on over-detailed harm-reduction advice for controlled substances. Still less capable than Claude Mythos Preview (was expected), which Anthropic is keeping on limited release. Opus 4.7 is the testbed for the cyber safeguards that will eventually enable a broader Mythos rollout. tl;dr Measured against 4.6, this is a meaningful upgrade in the three places that matter most to Anthropic's actual customer base: agentic coding reliability, vision for computer-use agents, and knowledge work benchmarks like GDPval-AA. Solid upgrade, obviously shy to Mythos. Feels like a pretty good iteration-update!

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James Nowland@jnowland·
@AvidCommentator Banks can’t lend as much after two rate rises. What happened last oil crisis with inflation?
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Tarric Brooker aka Avid Commentator 🇦🇺
Auction results - Sold To Listed - Sydney 31.5% (33.9% last week) - Melbourne 37.7% (43.1%) Sydney absolutely smashed to its weakest result since December 2018, which was during a period of significant price falls. Melbourne also hit extremely hard, producing the weakest (non-Xmas or public holiday) performance since a lock-down hit September 2021. SQM's data has confirmed the weakness seen in my figures for Sydney prior to Easter, with one of the weakest results on their records. If these numbers continues both markets are in serious trouble. #AvidAuctions
Tarric Brooker aka Avid Commentator 🇦🇺@AvidCommentator

Auction results - Sold To Listed - Sydney 33.7% (36.1% last week) - Melbourne 43.1% (44.9%) Sydney smashed to its weakest non-public holiday or Xmas impacted result since a cold wet rainy day in July 2022, at which time housing prices were falling quite swiftly. (Quick edit: Sydney's clearance rate today is exactly the same as it was during the first week of hard Covid restrictions in March 2020) Melbourne performing better in relative terms, but still its weakest non-holiday weekend since April last year. If the current trend continues amidst the ongoing crisis in the Middle East, both markets could be in serious trouble. #AvidAuctions

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Dark Web Intelligence
Dark Web Intelligence@DailyDarkWeb·
Australia 🇦🇺 - Synergy has allegedly been compromised, exposing a database of over 900,000 customer records that includes personal information, account balances, and sensitive billing details. dailydarkweb.net/synergy-data-b…
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banteg@banteg·
it all makes sense now. dario was still at openai in 2019. he left next year and took his marketing playbook with him. hasn't changed a thing since.
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