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Dave Lt retweeted
Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???
Dave Lt retweeted
Yet it is Israel, which is supposed to be the great bulwark of democracy in a barbaric Middle East, that absolutely dominates the record books for its murder of journalists.
By Laura Tingle abc.net.au/news/2026-04-25/i…
Dave Lt retweeted
Konrad Benjamin nails the root of the problem: to stop large industries from ripping us all off, politicians need to stop “going to work in the industries that they literally wrote the rules for”🔥
Rules that as Dr Denniss points out, see gas co’s “pay more in PR than PRRT”💥
Dave Lt retweeted
Grace slayed so hard she even managed to get the daily aus to say the word 'genocide'
Dave Lt retweeted
just did an AI capability diagnostic for a 100-person company in Australia.
they purchased Microsoft Copilot for everyone.
here's how employees are actually using it:
- 50% using it like Google (1-3 words prompts..., 25~ chats a day)
- 25% not using it at all
- 15% using other tools secretly (10% on Manus, 5% on ChatGPT)
- 9% actually using it properly for daily to do manual tasks
- 1% uses Claude and completly automated their role but told no one
the company paid for 100 licenses
only 9 people are getting value
meanwhile in SF we're debating AGI timelines
the gap between "AI is everywhere" and "people actually using AI" is massive
we're not in an AI revolution. we're in an adoption crisis.
Dave Lt retweeted
Social cohesion in Australia is based on demanding migrants leave foreign conflicts behind when they come here -- while we reserve the right to bomb and invade countries and support genocide.
And voters are getting sick of the hypocrisy.
crikey.com.au/2026/02/18/our…
Dave Lt retweeted
URGENT! Let's stay focused on Gaza, and the rest of occupied Palestine.▶️Israeli soldiers-including European citizens/double nationals-continue to slaughter Palestinian civilians. Politicians should use their leverage to stop 🇮🇱 crimes instead of trying to silence the critiques.
The story of the Abu Nasser family reflects the lived reality of countless Palestinian families. Entire bloodlines erased, homes reduced to rubble, and corpses remain under the rubble for months or are pulverized by US-made bombs.
When the massacre and war crime took place on October 29, 2024, much of the Western media, particularly in the country supplying the bombs, remained largely silent. There were no urgent headlines, no sustained outrage, no prime-time panels demanding answers.
Shame on that silence and complicity.
Over 200 people were killed.
No one was held accountable. No independent investigation brought justice to the victims. Instead, more war crimes unfolded in broad daylight, as the world watched, or chose not to.
Now, after 474 days, the family has managed to recover the remains of more than 67 loved ones from beneath the rubble. Imagine that: 474 days of digging, waiting, identifying fragments of those once held, loved, and known. And still, their suffering is met with indifference by the media and officials.
And still, there is no accountability.
Shame on the media’s silence and complicity.
Dave Lt retweeted
No surprise we still haven't seen the crackdown on gambling advertising (that 75% of Australians want!) when their representatives from the major parties continue to accept gifts and donations from the gambling industry.
Almost three years after the Murphy Review was handed down it's shameful the govt hasn't taken action to curb the harms of gambling ads.
theguardian.com/australia-ne…
Dave Lt retweeted
ON THE FUTURE OF AUSTRALIA
It's clear to me that many people think the world and the way things are is static. And that things will continue to be what they have been recently, unless we intervene.
This makes political priorities focus on adjusting how things are today rather than positioning Australia for tomorrow.
Australia has been following this journey over the last 2 decades... accumulating $1t debt whilst the quality of life for people has been declining.
We've been put on the back foot.
We talk about inflation, interest rates the economy and jobs like it's a weather pattern and we're just observing it, not the ones active in and amongst it.
The economy is the net result of all actions done inside and with our country.
The world right now is a fast changing place, and Australia is well positioned if we tackle the right problems.
But we have to be clear on the direction we'd like to go as a country.
What's missing to me are value-based heuristics that everyone can get behind.
This creates a framework for leadership to have decisive decision-making amongst a fast-changing world. It also creates a sense of national unity, not increasing divide.
Political leanings should be based on how to execute towards this shared vision.
I'm increasingly skeptical about the quality of the skillsets that get developed as a career politician, because it seems that the main skillset is "how to play politics".
Talking points of no real substance during interviews, impromptu debates on talkshow segments, nobody knows what's going on or why decisions are really being made.
We jump into policies that are confusing, rushed through parliament and you have to be a detective or conspiracy theorist to try and understand the true intent, or think about downstream consequences.
Values-based heuristics shift the conversation from A vs B, to "how do we get to our shard vision?"
Here are some examples:
- cheap & abundant energy (with minimal environmental impact)
- encourage and support resource/infrastructure projects approvals, whilst maintaining high enviro/social standards (i.e. hold a high bar, but don't fuck them around, limiting future investment)
- housing policy that prioritises owner-occupiers
- excellence in govt services (delivering services to a high standard and cost-effectively)
- leadership in areas strategic to Australia's global positioning
- stewardship and care for the land
- a great quality of life for the everyday Aussie
We're currently going through a one in a generation transformation.
Let's not fumble this.
Australia, it's time to build.đź’Ş
Dave Lt retweeted
This is horrendous to see. God save Gaza.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
This video is AI-generated and fabricated, as evidenced by anomalies such as extra limbs, a child with a green head, and flooding unnaturally contained behind a wall. These features are consistent with known signs of AI manipulation. The OP is spreading misinformation.
nbcnews.com/tech/security/…
bbc.com/future/article…
Dave Lt retweeted
Their suffering is endless!
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
This video is AI. The child’s head is backwards and its legs are at an unnatural angle.
deepware.ai
Dave Lt retweeted
When someone says: "I don't know how to help"?
But all I'm asking is for people share and leave a dot.
3 replies — even dots — can save my children 💔
To donate 👇👇
gofund.me/a3b90f53
Dave Lt retweeted
🚨UPDATE/ BREAKING: After intense efforts, Maria Kashko, 1 year and 7 months old, has finally been recovered. She will no longer sleep under the rubble. She was rescued, but to her grave.
At least she won’t remain among the 10,000 civilians missing under the ruins.
Dave Lt retweeted
Ever wondered what the difference is between "rattling" a ceasefire and being in "violation" of one?
Allow Sydney Morning Herald to explain.
Dave Lt retweeted
The violence in Sudan has left our Sudanese community heartbroken and feeling helpless.
I'm hopeful Australia can work with international partners to push for safe passage, humanitarian aid and peace.
sbs.com.au/news/article/aust…
Dave Lt retweeted
Member News: The Road Safety Foundation is integrating cutting-edge connected vehicle technology into its International Road Assessment Program work. This innovative approach, in collaboration with Compass IoT, is transforming road safety.
Find out more: lcrig.org.uk/2025/04/02/conn…
