If anyone wants to dig into the math, this is super interesting.

Aug 15, 2023 What do I think about Community Notes? What do I think about Community Notes?

Key takeaways for me is you can review the notes voting and see why it was surfaced or hidden. That sort of transparency is crucial for a context based system like this.

Algorithmic based fact checking is a great way to handle the current polarisation where each side is trying to promote its own facts.

In any case, this is a dramatically better system than the previous regime.

The avalanche of new features is also a benefit to the app for me. Some will hit, others won’t.

I’m tempted by the grok summary of news events and how they are going to expand that. Some interesting kernels of features starting to emerge.

We had a good ten years of very little innovation, certainly not the case anymore. Almost too much to keep up with.

@voodoo said in Political Memes (memes only):

@Victor-Meldrew said in Political Memes (memes only):

@booboo

It's a trans representation of Alec Salmond (the former SNP leader who left to form a different party) who's key in any no confidence vote to keep the SNP in power in Scotland. Add in it was the SNP's abortive Gender ID laws which started their downfall and it's a very, very clever meme - though not up to @Tim standard.

Ae you sure it’s not the much-admired ex-leader of our northern Australian comrades?

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That's who I thought it was

@MiketheSnow

Restores what little faith I had in politicians. He’d likely get my vote.

Auron MacIntyre  /  Apr 24  /  Opinion A civil rights lawsuit exposes anarcho-tyranny in action | Blaze Media A civil rights lawsuit exposes anarcho-tyranny in action | Blaze Media

Warping reality to meet an artificial ideological goal is always dangerous and often leads to disastrous results.

Federal officials have leveled a discrimination lawsuit at the Sheetz convenience store chain alleging the company’s use of criminal background checks as a screening mechanism for employees falls afoul of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Although Joe Biden’s Department of Justice says it does not believe the company intended to discriminate, the fact that minority applicants are more likely to have criminal records places Sheetz outside of the law.

Disparate Impact - it's bad folks.

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@antipodean said in Aussie Politics:

And just in case anyone missed it, the Albanese Government via its eSafety Commissioner, has decided that X (twitter) must remove the video of the stabbing of bishop Emmanuel. Not just censor it in Australia, but around the world.

This call for censorship is bipartisan, which isn't surprising in the slightest, especially when you consider it's the child of the potato headed leader of the opposition.

I propose that another country demand that all videos of Australian politicians be deleted everywhere too. See if these halfwits get the point.

I am quite torn on this one.

I understand why they want it to get taken down. I don't necessarily support it, but I do understand where they are coming from.

It would also not surprise me if they are not aware that removing it on X means removing it globally, just not from Australia.

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(Azzarello was the guy who set himself on fire outside the Trump trial)

@Victor-Meldrew said in Israel, Iran, Syria, and the rest of the ... Middle East:

made Netanyahu look like a restrained statesman,

Of course.

The Western media have a lot to answer for

But, is Piers hedging his bets. Here's one example. He seems to be willing to allow himself to come across as a bit stupid. But credit to him as he is allowing his guest to have their say

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@Tim said in Ukraine:

Mr. Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for the third time, had actually soft-pedaled his opposition to Ukraine aid in recent days as the dam began to break on the House Republican blockade. He stood by Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana, who assembled the complicated aid packages for Ukraine, Israel and America’s Asian allies, and against threatened efforts to bring down Mr. Johnson’s speakership and plunge the House back into chaos. And he stayed quiet on Saturday, declining to pressure Republicans to vote no.

It looks to me that they couldn't get Trump on Board with the money side. As he already had enough

But the (corrupt) legal actions and fines have done it. He's now on-Board with the elite's agenda. Including endless wars.

We now need to prepare for a major war. Promoted entirely by the West. But in a way so that they can blame Iran, Russia or China to the (sound asleep) Blue pill takers.

@Winger said in Climate Change:

Nutcases are running Air NZ

Maybe it's best to fly on another airline if possible

I don't understand your point.

@Tim Did they track anything to Pizza Express in Woking?

It appears the progressives have made racisim come full circle - how very smart and clever of them!

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@antipodean said in China:

@Virgil said in China:

Fair to say China is serious about invading Taiwan..

The bottom pic shows the Presidential Palace in Taiwan, the top pic is a training ground in China's inner Mongolia

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And yet they still haven't. Despite success being virtually assured.

Playing the long game i assume, think i read somewhere the above training ground started in 2014.
The failed Russian invasion of Ukraine might have given them pause as well, the way the rest of the world reacted and mostly united in condemnation of Putin.

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News is a very expensive product. Just on wages alone, if you take a very conservative guess of 90K per staffer for 300 people you are looking at 27 mil. But, we need it to be made. I keep on hearing the likes of Sean Plunket saying that the model has changed (which it certainly has), but a lot of the punditry from the likes of Plunket and the other requires a news article to base their content on.

By my maths Newshub, at its full schedule was providing around 35 hours of news, which reflects well over a hundred interviews, articles, promotional ops and investigative pieces. Most of which would be shared again through online channels and used by the agencies involved, or developed as starting points for pundits.

The problem is that while linear tv is the starting point and where the advertising needs to come from, the product is ubiquitous. When networks like Three are doing well financially, there is a Corporate Social Responsibility to maintain a news service for the area you are operating in. When they are going poorly, it is their most expensive liability. It simply can't be justified.

The Government's response has been disappointing. Not due to their refusal to do anything, but more due to the complete lack of knowledge around how the industry works.

In terms of the 'go woke go broke', label. From a political reporting stand point you hear the likes of Jenna Lynch get called a Labour mouth piece, in the pocket of the Act Party, the Nats biggest supporter. It has been wide and varied. If accusations are flying around from all sides, generally the product is ok. Sure there have been some mistakes, especially around commentary on gender issues, treaty discussions and probably the end of the COVID response.

The only way some of the Newshub reporters/products can be saved in my mind is through Sky TV. Even if that is to occur it would be a much reduced option. Half an hour bulletin, significantly reduced newsroom, a short and sharp breakfast programme and maintaining some political programming.

Whether people like Newshub or not, going to one main broadcast provider is not a good thing.

Australia has a housing crisis and it's easy to point the finger at immigrants, primarily because of the record amounts arriving here, but also accurate. The problem is it's not just their fault, although housing all of them is clearly a key driver of the problem. Some people complain that it's because of negative gearing, but that's an ignorant argument, the real problem is the capital gains discount treatment and increasing population with decreasing ability to met the commensurate demand.

On that last point it occurred to me that the insistence on making children remain in school until they're 17/18 and go to university to get a useless degree (with associated debt) has resulted in less people doing trades. Less tradespeople, more work and we're confused as to how properties cost more? And then how our tax treatment encourages this unproductive speculation?