HeyJaredSpec - commentary from Guy Rundle
Commentary from a radical and pluralist perspective on Australian and world affairs., Culture, satire and the occasional breaking story
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He’s the Last of the Secret Agents, And He’s Our End of Man, AI etc; AEC revolution from below; Noel Whittaker’s eldritch magic; Main parties Tim Read reverse ferret; Eretz Sheehan (opens the original)
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He’s the Last of the Secret Agents, And He’s Our End of ManAI, ‘agents’, sovereignty, and humanityThe question no-one is posing of course is ‘what is an agent’? The Medicare AI break-in story in all media, is a textbook example of how news can obscure the capacity to think even minimally critically about the world. To recap: a few days ago it was announced that an AI ‘programme’, from OpenAI, operating autonomously, had broken into restricted Medicare data files, despite having no ‘instructions’
First they came for the backpackers…..; (opens the original)
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First they came for the backpackers…..on Labor’s immigration cosplayThe Albanese government’s ‘crackdown’ on immigration is, of course, hilarious, unless you’re subject to it. The various crackdowns, on spouses of students, of backpackers and others, is the merest sort of shadowpolitics. It is designed not even to look like the government is doing something. Its purpose is to look like it looks like the government is doing something. As long as the government is ‘doing something’ News and Nein c
On 9-11 at 25: Futures Past and Future; Vic Socialist Left kronstadts again; the Kelly file; Bridget ‘Barry’ McKenzie; Tim Wilson is fat (opens the original)
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On 9-11 at 25: Futures Past and FutureEven today, twenty five years later, it seems impossible that it occurred at all. I remember seeing the World Trade Centre towers on a first visit to New York, in the late ‘nineties, barely two years before they came down. Or rather, not seeing them. Approached close, they were so large, so wide, so boxy, that they could not be scoped, save from a distance. From the street, any place close, they were just walls of patterned steel. You had to actually be acro
Lead Important Story; Michael Bradley, Closeau of free speech; last Melongate tweak; IPA: Pale Ale stale; People’s Palestinian Front!, Jim’s Dialectic; Poetry: Housman in da haus; VFL, Go Scholars! (opens the original)
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Lead Important StoryGot nothing this week. Bubkis. Dog of a week. Let’s go straight to the snarkMeejaAreopologitica: Bradley’s No Milton, Hence the GamesMichael Bradley is on the trail of hypocrisy! Crikey’s lawyer and free speech columnist has slated Pauline Hanson for her protest at the gumments’ various dark mutterings about One Nation being an anti-democratic force etc etc, and her suggestion that that might incite violence against One Nation candidates. Bit more wary of dangerous speech are
Aegrotat 2: Swangate, Tigergate now, Football, sex, gender and culture; Redesign the Oz economy in Canva!; Meadewatch; new Catalano gag (opens the original)
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We are still lurgified. Apologies to those who made comments etc, and to whom I have no replied for a couple of weeks. ‘Normal’ service blah blah blah….Swangate, Tigergate now, Football, sex, gender and cultureSwangate, the still unresolved issue of four Sydney players, five other men, and four women from ‘Party Girls Melbourne’ in a suite at, oh dear, the Pullman Hotel, had an interesting corollary, when someone filmed a bunch of Richmond players ‘celebrating’ at the Gisborne Hotel. Quotes beca
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