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Extremely important to have this point made explicitly by Justice Lee :
"The notion a woman is expected to either fight or flight to be accepted as having been a victim of sexual assault is not only not reasonably open but wrongheaded.”
#Lehrmann
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A newspaper editor — Chris Quinn of the Cleveland Plain Dealer — says it as clearly as he can:
"Our Trump reporting upsets some readers, but there aren’t two sides to facts." cleveland.com/news/2024/03/o…
Quinn writes of a different kind of access. Access to our own eyes and ears:
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True colours come shining through. Ashamed to be Australian. No recognition. No voice. No way forward. Nobody wins. Status Quo. She’ll be right mate.. Disgraceful Australia. #Referendum2023
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This is a frightening visual for me.
The first dot is the amount of data Chat GPT 3 was trained on.
The second is what chat GPT 4 is trained on.
They are already doing demos.
It can write a 60,000 word book from a single prompt.
The only question I've had about AI…
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Asked if Cardinal George Pell would receive a Victorian State Memorial service Premier Daniel Andrews says ‘I couldn't think of anything that would be more distressing for victim survivors..so no…. I will not do that’ @7NewsMelbourne
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Tomorrow, the 2nd of December, it will be 50 years since Gough Whitlam and Labor won that historic 1972 federal election that ended 23 years of coalition government and laid the foundations for modern Australia.
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Framing an entire election campaign around the theory (hope?) that everyone hates Dan as much as you hate Dan was always a Hail Mary strategy. It’s hard to hear the community clearly when you spend all your time in an echo chamber
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Grade A headline writing.
BREAKING: Donald Trump, who tried to overthrow the results of the 2020 presidential election and inspired a deadly riot at the Capitol in a desperate attempt to keep himself in power, has filed to run for president again in 2024. n.pr/3THqnJM
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Speed Is the Denominator
Time is the only true enemy.
→ The faster you move, the faster you learn
→ The faster you learn, the faster you execute
→ The faster you execute, the faster you win
Sluggishness kills opportunity.
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We live in one of the richest nations in the world and parents can’t afford to feed their kids, let alone themselves. So many people are one piece of bad luck away from homelessness - or already are.
It’s only getting worse.
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On ABC radio Melbourne, Matt Tilley from Foodbank Victoria told a story of a woman who asked how long she could keep yogurt she’d picked up from the charity. She was hoping to keep it as her kid’s treat for Christmas.
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Noongar woman Donnell Wallam shows the strength, resilience and talent of Blak women. She's the first Indigenous player in the Diamonds in 22 years, only the third Aboriginal player in the league's history and challenged dirty sponsorship money before she even got on the court.
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“We try more to profit from always remembering the obvious than from grasping the esoteric. It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.” — Charlie Munger
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Michael Pascoe: Treasury tells why it would be irresponsible governance, not smart politics, to keep a promise made back when unicorns danced over rainbows and the Tooth Fairy, Santa Claus and Easter Bunny were all regularly seen in the public bar. thenewdaily.com.au/news/poli…



























