To think if I, some minimally enlightened Gen X Cis Het white man from a small town can figure all this out and see the field of red flags waving for attention, what’s wrong with everyone that voted for it? Why are people so narrow minded, ignorant and fearful that they let a bunch of people who just want to push a narrative lead them merrily into damnation?

The sort of Doctor I would want my child seeing would be aghast at this type of unnecessary procedure.

Plus isn’t there the matter of privileged medical information?

So a young girl who goes to a Doctor and is told that there is something that would make her run afoul of these ballot measures won’t be outed, they will just not progress with joining sports. The external difference between a “trans” individual and a girl that won’t or can’t comply will be nil. They aren’t going to get a gotcha, they are just going to get reduced participation.

Does this mean when the fascist pricks that have pushed this shit don’t have hard figures on how many trans kids they have barred from sport they will just take that whole number and claim they have kept that many “trans kids” from sneaking into women’s sports?

Fuck this whole steaming pile of shit gets worse the more I think about how a maximally evil person could manipulate this to push a fictional world view.

Yep that would give the next Liberal government a great portfolio to sell off to their mates for pennies on the dollar to start the cycle fresh.

Checking for hernias, something that could give you a lot of grief if it went bad. Arguably not that big a deal not something I hear being done a lot these days. I had to do the same when I was doing flight training. The intent was to prevent a medical issue from blowing up into a much bigger deal, and while potentially embarassing it was minimally invasive.

This, this is not medically necessary this is solely informed by culture war nonsense and transphobia. And once the transvestigators get involved how many girls families will be expected to spend thousands of dollars on genetic and hormone testing? This is being presented as defending women’s sports but it’s actually a potentially massive impediment.

Conservatives and Christians turning women’s sports into the Battle of Bến Tre. What a time to be alive.

Wow I haven’t been super informed about this. How much of a bite will this take out of women’s sports participation?

They are literally throwing a huge hurdle up in front of every girl or woman that wants to play sports just in case one of them might be trans, not to mention anyone with non standard genital presentation or hormone imbalances or any of the other little variations of the human form that they like to pretend don’t exist. These people are the sort who would go target shooting with an ICBM.

Then again a lot of these freaks don’t really get why women would want to play sports when they could be having babies I guess. I swear the sooner we can start putting religion in the rear view the sooner we can start recovering as a species.

Kinda salt in the wound of the fact that a non-zero amount if the inflation that’s led us here is based on major constructions either underway or planned for AI data centers. They disrupt the economy while trying to steal the jobs that underpin that economy.

Of course if the AI industry keeps hemorrhaging out the arse then maybe we as a society will just leave them bleeding out and move on with our lives.

It’s a shame they don’t care about any of the reasons this is a tragically bad and ineffective set of laws that score as many own goals as they do.

They are aware that these laws have been pushed along by the very multinational corporations they sought to legislate… Hmm I wonder why that might be?

They know that the online gambling advertising industry pushed this as a smokescreen to take the heat off their gravy train.

They know that the laws don’t work and create a whole host of other problems.

But think off all the control and surveillance opportunities it opens for the intelligence state.

I’ve recently been told that to do my job I need to provide ID and biometrics to a multinational, I started asking the real questions and it turns out that as soon as they “de-identify” the data they gather they are welcome to use it however they see fit.

• How do they de-identify? “We follow industry best practice.”
• What does that mean? “We can’t tell you for privacy reasons.”
• Do they have third party audits of the data de-identification processes? “Yes, but we can’t tell you who by or when it last occurred for privacy reasons.”
• Have they had any data breaches? “We have not reported any data breaches.”

This is an industry that is being handed the keys to the city in terms of our most sensitive data and they operate under a loose set of rules and guidelines and just do whatever they want. We are a few bad data breaches away from a national catastrophe and our government doesn’t care as long as they get to monitor which porn sites people like the most. It’s disgusting.

Huh at my McDonalds I get egg in every second breakfast item I buy, regardless of how explicitly I tell them I don’t want egg. Just last week I got a Sausage McMuffin with “+NoEgg” written on it three times by the exasperated girl who took my order, open the bag, take out my Sausage McMuffin and I can tell before unwrapping it that it’s got a rubbery disgusting chicken ovum in it.

No the best hope is the bubble bursting an d a whole bunch of filthy capitalists wind up against the wall, put there by the people closest to them they fucked over.

In an ideal world LLMs would have stayed as a niche little research project that the researchers found the extents of long before anyone thought to turn them into the next block chain or NFTs. Gradually they would have diffused out as another data science tool that has some interesting applications but not a vehicle for the radical destabilization of the world we all live in.

Hence the new job. My current colleagues swear like sailors, bitch moan and complain about every aspect of the job, and a few of them just refuse to do things the right way out of sheer bloody mindedness. And the morale on the worst day here is at least 3x better than the aspirations of the call center. Plus I am getting a wage that I still don’t feel I have actually earnt compared to the big company. In this one particular aspect of my existence, life is very good.

Depends how persistent they are. I was at the end of my rope after a day of pressure, bloody corporate culture mentality. Current job I said “No thanks” and they went “Cool”.

I have gambled $10 in my life. Less than half of that being my own money. Had an uncle who tried to convince me to give it a go and after 3 $2 bets he gave up. Every workplace I have ever worked I have had to go through the same explanations that I find gambling distasteful and don’t want to participate, got a lot of flack from a manager once for pointing out that statistically buying a lottery ticket doesn’t significantly alter your odds of winning. Hell buying a ticket once a week for your entire life doesn’t do much to change the odds.

Why would tech bros target a constrained market like the disability industry when they could target the much wider market of perverts? Honestly of there was any hope of these sorts of HMI devices being designed, manufactured or used ethically I would love them, tech enthusiast type I am. I literally bought in the first batch of the HTC Dream that reached my state, and bought the first Samsung Galaxy S (the first generation) that was sold in my state, I was the quintessential early adopter, really wanted to buy Google Glass back in the day. Now I am not and cannot be that person anymore, I see the privacy violations, the damage that unconstrained techo-capitalist manipulation is wreaking on our society and I have to be slow and measured.

These pervert glasses are bad news, and the pervert isn’t necessarily the person wearing them. If I was blind I would still get the ick from the idea of strapping a device to my face that allowed a techbro to filter and interpret reality, there’s at least a few cautionary tales worth of material in that, see episode 5 season 3 of Black Mirror for one example.

Here’s the thing though, all that data they are generating is being processed and some portion of it retained. It’s cool that they have chosen accessibility over privacy, if they lived a life that kept them isolated that would be entirely their choice. But they are taking this invasive spy tech into society, people who don’t want to be closely surveilled are not getting a choice.

I have not been into a Coles store since the Palantir stuff was revealed, because I get to make a choice. There’s an IGA I don’t go to because they are pretty sneaky about their AI surveillance disclosure (you can only find the notice in the back corner of the store). I started shopping for hardware at Mitre 10 not Bunnings when they were doing their AI thing. I opt out when and where I can, but what do I do when some brings that surveillance tech into my workplace, when they take it to my kids sports games, when I walk past them on the street. I have endless sympathy for the situation they find themselves in but there is no divorcing the technology from the invasion of personal privacy.

Until we get those rights hammered out, fines in the millions of dollars for these shitful companies that are constantly spying on us would be a good start, I see this becoming a more and more polarising matter as time goes by.

Hell even if we had a company backing these glasses that didn’t want to use the incidental data generated by their operation, how long would it be before they had a competitor who would offer a more featureful set at a lower price and drive them out of business simply by offering a better deal by turning people with a disability into ambulatory Flock cameras?

It can be fucking scary how short-sighted the average person can be. I had a discussion with someone recently who lambasted me because I told him that Tasmania shouldn’t be spending multiple billion dollars on a stupid sports stadium when we are struggling to afford critical improvements to our education and health systems.

His response, "My kids grown up and I don’t get sick. I’d rather watch the Footy than waste money improving our hospital. "

So we will get a white elephant stadium that he will likely outlive, before he winds up in a shitty underfunded aged care facility, with a skeleton crew for staffing because Tasmania is suffering a critical shortage of young people have left for a more prosperous state, bitching about how he deserves better while actively voting against anyone that might give that to him.

On the one hand I get where the firefighters are coming from… On the other hand if they think one nation would piss on them if they were on fire…

This is the problem with having a duopoly and a bunch of racist fascist who people think are the third choice. The Liberals don’t give a fuck, PHONeys will give a fuck right up until Gina tells them not to then they will turn tail and bolt, if Labor aren’t going to do the right thing then no one with any clout will.

They should probably endorse the Greens, but they won’t cause all the true blue Stralyans would rather die than vote for a bunch of filthy hippies, regardless of how much they agree with them. Greens are usually to dysfunctional to do much damage, at least if the Tasmanian ones are any indication of nationwide calibre.

Uh yeah, it’s humans doing it using addictive design features. The design features are just a force multiplier for the intent to harm that flows from Zuckerberg through the rest of the organisation.

I’m in Tasmania we have already had Firmus ignoring planning conditions, we need regulation so tight that the slightest breach results in people (or CEOs I’d accept either) spend a lot of time in prison. We need to make the current round of monorail salesmen sweat blood at every opportunity.

Was this infographic not meant to be read in the context of forecasting? The article states that this story is based upon Sydney’s water authority planning, I didn’t read it as current figures? Seems more pressing to me to be planning for the future, not waiting till it arrives then trying to mitigate the world of problems we are in.

I sometimes look at the ideological splits in regional areas and wonder if these people are being led to irrational hatred of renewables to make sure that the early movers reap the most benefit. Surely that last stick in the mud core group of farmers are going to see far less yield off their solar projects than the ones who have siezed the initiative. I wonder how many anti-solar pollies have family that have already pounced and don’t want to see their profits take a hit once every man and his dog is feeding power into the grid.