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There was a day your mother picked you up for the last time. Neither of you knew it. When you were small, she carried you thousands of times. Then it was hundreds, then a handful, and then one ordinary afternoon she set you down and never picked you up again. It happened to both of you, and neither of you can remember the day. If she had known, she would have held on a little longer. Every ordinary thing you share with someone you love has a final count. It is true of the phone calls, the Sunday dinners, and the hugs at the front door. The number is already set, and nobody ever gets to see it. A last time feels exactly like every other time. Nothing about the moment changes. Everything after it does. So right now, you are living through moments whose meaning has not been decided yet. Your phone holds years of photos. The cloud keeps every message you have ever sent, and the machines being built now are learning to recall every conversation you have had. They are getting better at predicting what you will buy, what you will watch, and what you will say next. They still cannot show you the count. A machine can already learn someone’s voice and have it say things they never said. It still cannot give you back the last thing they actually said to you. A machine can store a moment, but only you can be there for it. Somewhere ahead of you is the last time your dad calls just to talk, the last time your kid asks you to stay until they fall asleep, and the last time everyone you love fits in one room. You are on someone else’s count too. There will be a last time your kid runs to meet you when you get home, and neither of you will know it. Something ordinary in your life is happening for the last time right now, and it looks like nothing. Grief always arrives late. It waits until something is gone before it lets you feel what it was worth. Paying attention is the only way to feel it on time.
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What's the first thing that went through your mind when you found out that someone had backed their truck into our Western Star? I’ll tell you what went through my mind in this reel. This trip around Australia, anti-clockwise, has been a journey to understand what mass immigration has done to our country: every regional town, every industry, every business, every community, and how it's affecting the social cohesion of our country. There's a reason why things don't function properly anymore. You don't have to scratch very far below the surface to discover it. Governments will lie to you and keep pretending that everything's fine. You all know the truth. That's why I'll see you on the ground, Melbourne, November 1, 12 pm, Flinders Street Station. We rally ❤️
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This clip sums up the net zero climate scam...👇
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The BBC are truly awful When Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May were flying high with Top Gear The BBC tried to replace one of them with an "Ethnic Minority Presenter" for diversity reasons
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Well said
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Senator Alex Antic nails it as usual. If you want a clear explanation of why the Big Brother Bill is so dangerous, watch his speech in Parliament.
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Good morning, classic comedy from @JohnCleese, Graham Chapman, Tim Brooke-Taylor & Marty Feldman (with Barry Cryer) in The Four Yorkshiremen sketch from At Last The 1948 Show (1967) Have a brilliant Sunday
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Once upon a time, before the internet …
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A reportedly drunk & possibly insane man attacked a member of parliament in Australia with his car. And so, naturally, a few vile politicians are exploiting the tragedy to demand mass online censorship. Decades of scientific evidence & common sense demolish their lies. THREAD
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You aren’t alone on the right! We’ve just stopped arguing with them. They cannot be reasoned with.
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Lina, you don't know the honest truth. In the military, you got your POGs... Person Other than a Grunt. Guys who don't shoot anything. You need them, because you need all sorts of specialties, but you can't trust their big-picture judgement, because the overall mission of the military is shootin' people, and they don't do that. In civilization, we have POMs. Person Other than a Maker. Dudes what don't build things. You might need them. But you shouldn't take them too seriously, or listen to them too much, because on some fundamental level, they are never going to get it. They are never going to understand. The fundamental task of civilization is making things, and POMs don't do that. "This is just a mash-up of existing technology" is the most POM-like typing you could ever hope to see. It's a tell that someone has never done a significant engineering project in a technical role. Experienced engineers not only understand differently, we eat, sleep and breathe the basic reality that 99% of engineering challenges are "get mechanism to work with other mechanism". Without breaking, shaking itself apart or blowing up. Every basic scientific principle behind the internal combustion automobile was understood by the ancient Greeks and Romans. And yet they were not only unable to harness those principles to make a primitive steam-powered automobile, they were unable to conceive of the very idea, because their ability to implement and integrate wasn't advanced enough. If you look at everything that Elon Musk has ever done, every company he has ever built, every technology he has ever brought to market, none of it was a purely new invention. It was ALL taking stuff that already kinda worked, and making it do new things. And not just do them, but do them so well that they actually became practical. SpaceX didn't invent the rocket. They made it reusable. Tesla didn't invent the electric motor or the battery. They made them practical for ground transportation. Neurallink didn't invent electrical nerve interfaces. They made them control a computer UI. This shit is incredibly hard. If you try to use the known principle of a cold-gas thruster to make a car fly, you're going to crash and blow up a lot. You're going to have to make mistakes, and fix them, one by one, until you run out of mistakes and the thing flies. Real engineers, real makers, know that this is what the word engineering means. POMs don't get it. Lina doesn't understand what she saw. She thinks she saw a publicity stunt to impress yokels. No. That was a publicity stunt to impress engineers. It wasn't a demonstration of a flying car at all. It was a demonstration of the engineering capabilities of team. It was a flex. "Look," they said, "we can reify the Gernsback continuum. Give us your silliest, low-effort science fiction meme tech, and give us enough time, and we'll make it real." The purpose of making a flying car isn't to let you do a jetpack leap over traffic. It's to learn all the little implementation details and balancing tradeoffs and gotchas that you have to master to make a car fly. It's not the big scientific discoveries that build civilization. By themselves, they are nothing but curiosities. What builds civilization is all the little discoveries that you make when you try to get the big ones to stop crashing and blowing up. When someone does that on a unprecedented level, you either help them, or you stay out of the way and keep your ignorant POM opinions to yourself.
I'm not an Elon hater. I'm just telling you the Honest Truth: This is a marketing stunt. The technology is quite old. Just nobody ever thought of bolting it on a car. Because it's pointless. Porsche or Ferrari could also build something like this if they wanted, but they don't, because it's not worth it for them. It's worth it for Elon though, because his entire brand is all about having the halo of futurism. His marketing scales especially well with tech gimmicks like this, which is why he is financially incentivised to do them, while others aren't. Again, I'm not hating, but actually educating yall. This is not engineering genius. It's marketing genius.
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Je discutais ce matin avec quelqu'un qui me disait que la concentration de pouvoir entre les mains d'Elon Musk était dangereuse. C'est une vraie question. Mais elle est mal posée. Regardez qui était tout en haut de l'échelle ces 30 dernières années. Les gens qui ont façonné le monde dans lequel on vit. Pour beaucoup, des profils franchement borderline. Et personne ne leur a jamais demandé de rendre des comptes avec la même intensité. Bill Gates, par exemple. Sa vision du monde est profondément malthusienne : l'humanité comme un problème à gérer, une variable à réduire, une population à piloter. Ce que Musk appelle l'extinctionnisme. Et c'est là que ça devient sérieux. On est en train de vivre un virage civilisationnel. IA, robotique, énergie, espace. Le monde de 2040 n'aura rien à voir avec celui de 2020. Et ce virage ne va pas émerger d'un consensus. Aucune grande bascule de l'histoire n'en est jamais sortie. Elles sont toujours portées par une poignée de gens avec une vision, et les moyens de l'exécuter. Donc la vraie question n'est pas « est-ce que quelqu'un doit avoir autant de pouvoir ». Quelqu'un l'aura. La question c'est : qui, et pour en faire quoi. Aujourd'hui, au sommet, il y a deux visions. La première est collectiviste en surface, mais ultra-centralisée en réalité. Quelques méga-corporations, des dirigeants tout-puissants qui n'ont plus rien à prouver, et en dessous une lowerclass infinie, sous perfusion, gérée, apaisée, rendue inutile. Lisez le blueprint de Sam Altman, Moore's Law for Everything. Suivez le plan de Gates. C'est exactement là qu'on va. La deuxième, c'est celle d'Elon Musk. L'expansion. Plus d'humains, pas moins. Plus d'énergie, plus de planètes, plus de conscience dans l'univers. Faire avancer la civilisation plutôt que protéger une hyperclasse. Et ce qui est fascinant, c'est que même dans la Silicon Valley, même chez des gens qui ne l'aiment pas, la majorité finit par dire la même chose en privé : s'il y a quelqu'un à qui faire confiance dans tout ce bordel, c'est lui. Est-ce que c'est sain d'avoir un single point of failure humain à l'échelle d'une civilisation ? Non. C'est dangereux. Évidemment. Dans les 10 à 20 prochaines années, il faudra qu'émerge une forme de conseil, une génération d'entrepreneurs bâtisseurs dans cette lignée, pour que l'avenir ne repose pas sur un seul homme. Mais aujourd'hui, quand on regarde ses projets, sa trajectoire et sa vision du monde, le choix est assez simple. Bill Gates et Soros veulent maximiser l'intérêt de leur classe. Elon Musk veut maximiser l'intérêt de l'humanité. Le meilleur bet civilisationnel, c'est lui.
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Je vais dire quelque chose qui risque de déplaire à beaucoup de monde, mais tant pis. Je crois qu’une partie de notre société est en train de perdre quelque chose de bien plus grave que sa compétitivité économique. Elle est en train de perdre sa capacité à rêver. Hier, Tesla a présenté une démonstration spectaculaire autour d’une voiture capable de quitter le sol. Un prototype, certes, pas encore la voiture volante de Retour vers le futur. Mais quand même, bordel. On parle de technologies qui semblaient relever de la science-fiction quand nous étions gamins. Et ce matin, en regardant certaines réactions françaises, qu’est-ce que je découvre ? « Ça sert à rien. » « Musk est un raciste. » « Ça ne règle pas les problèmes de recharge. » « Ça n’efface pas ses saluts nazis. » Mais sérieusement, qu’est-ce qui nous est arrivé ? À quel moment avons-nous perdu cette âme d’enfant qui nous faisait ouvrir grand les yeux devant une invention ? Et le plus triste dans tout ça, c’est qu’on semble avoir oublié notre propre histoire. La France, c’est le pays des frères Lumière, qui ont contribué à faire naître le cinéma. C’est le pays de Louis Pasteur, dont les travaux ont révolutionné la microbiologie et la vaccination. C’est le pays de Nicéphore Niépce, pionnier de la photographie. C’est le pays des frères Montgolfier, qui ont envoyé l’être humain dans les airs à bord d’une montgolfière. C’est le pays de Blaise Pascal, qui concevait déjà une machine à calculer au XVIIe siècle. C’est aussi le pays du TGV, et l’un des deux pays qui ont donné naissance au Concorde. Vous imaginez ce que représentaient ces inventions à leur époque ? Des humains qui osaient accomplir ce que beaucoup pensaient impossible. Des gens qui n’acceptaient pas les limites de leur temps. Des visionnaires, des ingénieurs, des scientifiques, des entrepreneurs qui voulaient repousser les frontières du réel. Nous avons été ce pays-là. Alors comment avons-nous pu en arriver à un point où notre premier réflexe devant l’extraordinaire semble parfois être de chercher pourquoi il faudrait le mépriser ? SpaceX récupère des fusées qui reviennent se poser sur Terre ? On parle immédiatement d’Elon Musk et de ses provocations. Des robots humanoïdes commencent à réaliser des tâches physiques de plus en plus complexes ? « Ça va détruire des emplois. » L’IA ouvre des perspectives gigantesques pour la médecine, la science, l’éducation et la création ? « Ça pollue, ça vole le travail des artistes, ça sert à tricher. » Un entrepreneur annonce vouloir réaliser quelque chose d’incroyable ? « Encore un milliardaire qui veut s’en mettre plein les poches. » Mais est-ce qu’on réalise seulement ce qui est en train de se passer ? Nous vivons une époque où des fusées réutilisables se posent après leur mission, où l’IA accélère certaines découvertes scientifiques, où des robots apprennent à évoluer dans notre monde, où des personnes seules commencent à créer des choses qui nécessitaient auparavant des équipes entières. Et devant tout ça, on serait devenus incapables de dire simplement : « Putain, c’est incroyable. Comment est-ce qu’ils ont réussi ça ? » Je ne demande pas qu’on admire aveuglément les milliardaires. Ni qu’on ferme les yeux sur les conséquences sociales, environnementales ou politiques de leurs projets. On peut condamner les propos d’Elon Musk tout en reconnaissant les prouesses des ingénieurs de SpaceX et de Tesla. On peut défendre les travailleurs tout en trouvant la robotique fascinante. On peut vouloir encadrer l’IA tout en étant émerveillé par ses possibilités. L’esprit critique n’a jamais obligé personne à devenir cynique. Et c’est justement ce cynisme qui me désespère. J’ai parfois l’impression qu’on a remplacé l’admiration par la jalousie, le goût du risque par la peur de l’échec, l’ambition par la suspicion et le rêve par le sarcasme.
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Some immigrants are turning the American dream of flying cars into a reality. Some are shouting "death to America" and changing the very fabric of the nation. Guess which ones are having hit pieces made on them and are a target of leftists?
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Labor’s shocking censorship bill cannot be fixed. It must be abandoned completely. Labor still wants the power to shut down what you are allowed to say, and to run swarms of AI-powered government bots to feed you propaganda and record what you do online. You just cannot trust this lying government. There is no amendment that can fix their Digital Duty of Care bill. It never should have seen the light of day. Bin the whole thing and never bring it back.
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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!!!
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Today Anika Wells introduced the Digital Duty of Care bill to Parliament. @shellenberger explains why we should be very concerned.
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🚨 BREAKING NEWS: Wells Gives the Look While Denying the Sock Puppets Exist CANBERRA — In a moment of pure leadership, Anika Wells reminded everyone that independent regulators do not spread government propaganda. That would not be a tenable argument. The unlimited educational sock puppets are simply here for the gentle correction of incorrect thoughts. When the look was given, it was clearly one of solidarity, not panic. The Digital Duty of Care™ will finally protect Australians from the trauma of unmoderated opinions. We should all be grateful the Censorship Industrial Complex™ is finally professionalising the safe space for the gentle sunset of accounts that have not yet been educated. @AnikaWells @shellenberger @AlboMP @SenSHenderson @abcnews @News24Aust @CamReddin @TheIPA @politico @Paul_Karp @tweetinjules @eSafetyOffice
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