Peter Colbert retweeted
DEAR AUSTRALIANS‼️
I love your beautiful, rugged and unique country and culture. Literally EVERY Aussie I have met ALL over the world has an open mind, is adventurous and trusting in the goodwill of humanity. It is a wonderful trait that I admire and envy greatly.
But your ELECTED LEADERS continue to ABUSE your TRUST and YOUR GOODWILL by STEALING AWAY your LIBERTIES; YOUR FREE SPEECH, YOUR GUNS, and THEN allowing the IMMIGRATION of people who HATE WESTERN CIVILIZATION and have NO INTENTION of ASSIMILATING to your culture.
This is even a greater BETRAYAL than what your TYRANNICAL Government did to ALL Australians during the cruel and inhuman (and unnecessary) Covid lockdowns.
It is my sincere hopes that the people of Australia will WAKE up and reclaim your rights and VOTE OUT these AUTHORITARIAN ASSH@LES!
Good on ya,
Love
Rob
THIS CRAZY CENSORIAL AUSTRALIAN BI-AHTCH @AnikaWells IS A CRAZY LIAR!!!
Peter Colbert retweeted
Nobody hands you a manual for managing a parent’s administrative affairs.
Today we launch Navikin, the checklist for managing your ageing parent’s administrative affairs.
Free in Australia and New Zealand.
navikin.com #Navikin #caregiving
Peter Colbert retweeted
One of the most underrated startup skills is getting people excited about something that barely exists yet.
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From Lee Hanson - One Nation
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I do not normally respond to things like this, but this one genuinely hurt.
Richmond Reading Room is my local coffee shop. I have been going there since it opened. I have always been greeted warmly, enjoyed stopping in, and deliberately chosen to spend my money there because I believe strongly in supporting local Tasmanian small businesses.
So to see this post today came as a complete shock.
Apparently, while I was being welcomed through the door and buying my coffee, I was privately regarded with such contempt that the business has now made this public announcement.
If the owners had an issue with me coming into their business, why not simply talk to me? I am a person. I am a local. I am a customer who has supported your business for years.
You do not have to agree with my politics. I would never expect you to. But surely we have reached a pretty sad place when someone's political beliefs determine whether their presence or their custom is considered acceptable.
What makes this particularly disappointing is that I have always believed in supporting small local businesses regardless of the political views of the people who own them. I do not ask how somebody votes before I buy a coffee from them. I do not expect everyone I meet to agree with me. That is part of living in a free and diverse community.
The irony of preaching inclusion while publicly singling out customers because of their political association is difficult to ignore.
At least I now know where I stand.
I will continue supporting local Tasmanian businesses, just not businesses that publicly make people feel unwelcome because they happen to hold different political views, despite claiming to be for inclusivity.
We can disagree politically and still treat each other with basic respect. I genuinely wish that courtesy had been extended to me.
Peter Colbert retweeted
BREAKING: In a script that couldn’t be written, the lights have GONE OUT at the Pre COP climate summit in Fiji as renewable energy goes bust.
You cannot make this up.
The Australian government just threw a $150 million “pre COP”
climate conference in the Pacific, and the power went completely out, killing the air conditioning and leaving delegates sweating in the heat.
The supreme irony? Co hosts PM Anthony Albanese and Energy Minister Chris Bowen are constantly lecturing everyone about transitioning to 100% renewables.
Yet, the moment they host a massive global summit to brag about it, the lights go dark, using you guessed it - renewable power.
Even independent MP Zali Steggall and the Opposition are calling it a “farce” and a “diplomatic embarrassment”
If they can’t even keep the AC running for their own photo op, how is anyone supposed to trust them to run an entire power grid?
Absolute clown show.
Peter Colbert retweeted
Anduril is building America's largest shipyard since WWII. This space needs bold investment and decisive action.
In the 1790s, Baltimoore clippers were the fastest and most advanced sailing ships of their time. King George III didn't stand a chance. Time to run the same play.
Peter Colbert retweeted
So excited for the launch of Australia.gov in 6 to 12 business years, after spending $3B of taxpayer money, brought to you by the Bureau of Meteorology.
Chief Design Officer @jgebbia officially unveils America.gov, the new online home for the United States of America
Peter Colbert retweeted
BREAKING: KARL STEFANOVIC IS BACK AND HE JUST ABSOLUTELY TORCHED ALBO’S CLUELESS TECH CRUSADE.
Fresh off his own Supreme Court legal drama, Karl didn’t waste a single second cutting straight to the point of what he was thinking.
In a blistering, late night Instagram video, he called out Anthony Albanese’s embarrassing New York joyride for what it truly is:
“Complete and utter bullshit”
While the Prime Minister is overseas swaggering around the UN, desperately trying to sell his under 16 social media ban and begging for a “global AI framework guidelines” he is being completely ignored by the only players that matter.
Karl absolutely nailed it:
“Albo is overseas rabbiting on about some AI framework guidelines for the world to take on without the US and China, they are in a race of their own”
Karl said this must be a distraction from something, and he was right.
“There’s a petrol station without its prices, and you know what that means?”
“Diesel $3 bucks a litre”
Albanese wants to be a global statesman, but Karl just exposed him as a lightweight leader who has completely abandoned the home front to chase vanity headlines overseas.
Albo needs to go, and go now.
Peter Colbert retweeted
Farmers are fighting back against a huge renewable project.
They’ve turned up on horseback to oppose a proposed wind farm.
Local Emma Webb says “the mental health toll on the community has been enormous."
Listen to her conversation with James HERE.
2gb.com/do-better-farmers-fi…
Peter Colbert retweeted

Gina Milan@ginamilan_Sep 21
United States!
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Hey @grok
Which news networks refused to carry Trump’s primetime address on election integrity on July 16? And what was their official reason for keeping it off the air?
Thank you.
Peter Colbert retweeted
Replying to @PeterJColbert
the voice softening at the edges line stayed with me, it's so true.
Peter Colbert retweeted
I have conducted an audit of Anthropic's finances.
What I have found is so shocking that I am calling for a Congressional investigation.
Anthropic is not just seeking regulatory capture.
It has built a regulatory capture machine that cannot be turned off.
Structural financial incentives make it impossible for Anthropic -- I call it the Anthropic Network -- to turn off its own AI doom cycle.
It starts with METR.
Dario Amodei proposes "third-party evaluators" to assess the risk of Anthropic's models.
He proposes METR for this purpose.
But METR is financially dependent on the Anthropic's success -- specifically, on the explosive growth of more than $7 billion dollars in Anthropic stock.
Dustin Moskovitz invested this stock into Good Ventures Foundation, where it represents the majority of that organization's portfolio.
And GVF is the overwhelming funder of the entire Anthropic Network ecosystem.
This stock was worth $500 million early last year.
It is worth more than $7.7 billion just ~16 months later.
METR -- and all of those building a career its parent organizations -- cannot afford to disrupt that growth.
Because if Anthropic goes under, many of the organizations that fund METR go under as well.
But if Anthropic succeeds, METR and its parent organizations become more richly financed to regulate AI -- something those at METR want very much.
The "third-party evaluator" is not "third-party" at all.
The evaluator is on Anthropic's payroll.
If this were the end of it, that's bad.
But that isn't all.
The same organizations that fund METR also fund the many organizations, such as the Tarbell Center, that promote AI Doom.
The Tarbell Center publishes AI Doom articles in The Verge, Science, LA Times, The Dispatch, TIME, and others.
They are selling the problem, and then selling the solution to the problem -- from the same money pile: Anthropic's.
All of these organizations are financially dependent on the same exploding $7 billion money pile.
As Anthropic grows more and more powerful, its AI Doom Machine grows better and better financed -- louder and louder.
Meanwhile, the regulatory regime seeded in METR grows larger to solve the increasingly loud -- now hysterical -- problem of AI Doom that the Anthropic Network itself created.
From this standpoint, as Anthropic becomes more powerful, AI might be getting scarier, sure -- but the positive feedback loop also becomes more deafening -- independent of objective facts.
This itself is an objective fact.
The deafening AI Doom is part of an business model, that, as it expands, so too does the AI Doom messaging -- there is simply more money to do it.
But the problem also goes in the other direction:
If Anthropic dies, the Regulatory Regime and the AI Doom Machine are crippled or die.
Neither METR nor Tarbell nor the other organizations in the Anthropic Network can allow that to happen.
Hence, neither METR or the AI Doom Machine can be trusted to provide independent assessments of Anthropic's models or AI more broadly.
They simply are not organizations independent of Anthropic.
And Anthropic cannot detach itself from METR or Tarbell or countless other safety orgs (not shown here), either, because they drive hype for the models and the possibility of eventual regulatory capture, and Anthropic will not give that up willingly.
What's more, the people at all of these organizations are all the same ecosystem, the same community. They just shuffle between organizations.
The Anthropic Network is therefore, so long as it is successful, locked into a self-amplifying feedback loop inside an ideological monoculture.
And that feedback loop is winning.
That's what Jacob Coxon is.
China is keeping messaging tight. That is why optimism for AI is so high in China.
America has Anthropic: a massive company pushing anti-AI propaganda at a state level.
Anthropic will either create hysteria until American AI slows down and China wins, or it will create fractures throughout American society with severe political consequences.
Ironically, because of the structural financial incentives underpinning the Anthropic Network, it has become the same kind of self-amplifying virus that it fantasizes AI to become in the future -- while hiding its tracks just as carefully.
It is the mirror of the same AI virus that it hypothesizes to consume America.
Anthropic's business model, models itself after the very thing it claims to fear.
Except Anthropic's ideology infects humans, not computers.
Congress must investigate.
Evidence and Github in next post.
Then some supplementary figures.
Peter Colbert retweeted
The Rams deserved this loss. Their travel plans were disrespectful to the 49ers in particular and Australia in general.
Peter Colbert retweeted
Lesson of the year for the dudes in blue:
If you’re traveling somewhere to play, try respecting the place you are going. Respect the people whose home you are in. Respect the culture. Respect the hospitality you are extended.
Don’t come in, breathe the air for 24 hours, and just leave. Don’t have the mindset that only your own objective has value. Don’t expect people to cheer for you after you’ve made it clear they don’t matter to you.
Don’t feed the stereotype of ugly Americans.”
Australians deserved respect, and I’m grateful the 49ers were here to express it. The Faithful just opened a southern hemisphere chapter. First game of many to come.
By the way, your perfect Rams season just got waxed.
Peter Colbert retweeted
Investors like Paul want the immigration debate to be strictly polar because it is the only way their traitorous ideas might seem reasonable.
They paint one side as racist, backwards, economically illiterate absolutists and the other as enlightened, growth-minded cosmopolitian realists. Support for laws that protect American citizens can be dismissed as uneducated, anyone who hires immigrants or foreigners in any capacity a hypocrite.
American law should, and does, advantage American citizens. We should not have to compete on an even playing field with billions of people who almost universally don't share our values or respect our institutions, even if they are "the most qualified" or willing to work double the hours for the same wages. The men running Operation Paperclip did not think Americans should have to compete with the entire Third World, they understood that a carefully controlled amount of highly-skilled expert immigration is net good for America even when allegience is in question.
It is worth noting that even on a purely economic level, ignoring all burdens of loyalty or allegiance to your countrymen and treating America as nothing but an economic activity zone, it still doesn't make sense to say without qualification that foreigners should get any job where they are more qualified than their American counterpart.
As just one easy example out of dozens, about 20% of immigrants return home after less than five years, taking all their savings and vested shares with them. Another 20% will leave within ten years, doing the same. All the while, they will wire, on average, ~15% of their wages out of the United States economy every month. Some occupations and origins average 30%! The idea that this should be completely ignored with regard to employment and immigration policy is rampant among the same people who tell you with a straight face that limits on immigrants will destroy the American economy, that the dumb rednecks need to be saved.
I lean very libertarian and have strongly supported immigration to America for many years with countless public examples. That doesn't put me on the same side as the men who want to sell out America, and no amount of long-past accomplishment obliges any of us to listen to their lectures from the other side of the Atlantic.




























