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We don’t have an explicit Bill of Rights enumerated in our Constitution so there was no equivalent to the 2nd Amendment that would contradict legislation from Parliament. This also means that freedom of speech in Australia is effectively upheld by culture so :\
I’m really, really, really sick of tyrannically-minded people and their obsession with attaining political power
Man that’s a shame, I had high hopes for Purism’s hardware
Just gotta keep plumping nostr
<3 nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s
This interest that some Governments and some unelected political bureaucracies have taken in throttling FOSS AI tools is threatening beyond belief.
It seems to me that NOSTR is the perfect antidote to such slippery ideas. AI must, *muuust* remain broadly accessible, customisable, and private. That has to include customisable training data sets as much as the models themselves.
Keep going, mate. Bravo
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-eus-attempt-to-regulate-open-source-ai-is-counterproductive/
“Indigenous Australians need a voice to Parliament”
Ahem — what do you think a Parliament *is*?
Indigenous Australians already have a voice in Parliament — it’s called *the Parliament*. We have universal suffrage so indigenous Australians, like all Australians, are represented in Parliament.
Not to mention that there are already 11 (eleven) indigenous senators and Members of Parliament in the Federal Government. That’s ~5% of Parliament. What portion of the Australian population is indigenous? 3.2% per the 2021 census. Seems to me that if you wish to salami slice the population along racial lines (and you shouldn’t) then representation exists in proportionate abundance.
So what is it that Labor’s seeking in the Voice to Parliament? Labor’s remaining strategically ambiguous about its aspirations for this Constitutionally-mandated body so we’ll have to look elsewhere for what could come of this.
Senator Alex Antic considers it a third chamber of Parliament. Unelected by the majority of Australians (who will be subject to whatever unspecified powers it will manifest). Former PM, Tony Abbott, regards it more broadly as a fourth branch of Government enshrined in the Constitution. Indigenous political campaigner, *literal communist* (as in the former Communist Party of Australia), and driver of The Voice, Thomas Mayo, has a few thoughts of his own.
He’s been at it again, spilling his beans this way and that way. He has now publicly solidified his ambitions by stating that the Voice will grant this indigenous council (odious race-based political body) the ability to “get its hands” on Australia’s superannuation policy.
Yuck. No. Hideous, bad, awful, terrible, stop it. No.
#Australia #Voice #TheVoice #Referendum #VoteNo
So wait, have the Dems decided on whether or not they’ll host debates for the Primaries?
Is Harris definitely returning as Biden’s running mate in ’24? I’d have expected the Dems to force her to sit down given her approvals. She’s at 49% disapprove to 32% approve
Ahh, I see. Yeah this is pretty cool mate, I’m loving Nostr so far. I’ve been seeing Jack rave about Nostr for a while so thought I’d give it a try and am pleasantly surprised. It’s pretty lively
Test to see if linking photos show up
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FzKf2Q3WIAAS78B?format=jpg&name=large
#introductions
Hi Damus. This is my first note but after checking out the platform for a couple of days, it looks like there’s a reasonably active user base here.
I was brought here by this charming bit of news:
Genghis was one of history’s great generals and a surprisingly measured ruler (given the setting), and he’s remembered for his unbelievable military excellence. I’m reaching back into my memory, but iirc, of Genghis’ 63(?) battles against Khwarazm II he won 61. But you’re right, the empire was an impressive and short-lived affair.
That’s a pretty tall order, mate. You can’t even use the USD in most nations to conduct basic transactions despite its unique status. I think a decent litmus test will be the ability for a devoted experimenter to live on nothing but BTC for a year. I suspect that would involve leasing a room as a sub-tenant, buying food in bulk from a farmers market, plenty of p2p trades for second-hand goods, and potentially conscripting intermediaries to purchase products / services from registered businesses and paying the intermediary in BTC. I imagine it’s fully doable if your’e committed but you’d probably need to be committed — at least where I’m living. In some hypothetical scenario where CBDCs placed quotas on lifestyle, the difficulty would be getting businesses to transact with BTC lest the tax office comes down on their head on various creative justifications.
But to actually answer your Q, I’d say hyperbitcoinisation might be somewhat common acceptance of BTC by banks for mortgages or landlords for leasing.