The key source of a lot of data in this report, and the primary source interviewed, is Cotality Data (formerly CoreLogic). They’re a private, yank ‘business intelligence’ company that’s owned by two enormous private equity / venture capitalist firms (Stone Point Capital, and Insight Partners, whom in turn own $170 billion+ worth of financial service and credit companies… Sure seems like they would have a vested interest in saying that home prices going down is a bad thing. So then they bring in another industry financial service analyst (SQM Data) with similar ties… These groups are just being given a mouthpiece to repeat ‘prices low bad. Negative gearing removal bad’.

Where’s the balance in reporting, ABC?

Not one mention of the Australian housing affordability crisis.

“In Sydney, fewer vendors are listing than a year ago, yet total stock is up almost a fifth. That’s a demand problem, not a supply surge.”

Get fucked, I still see houses where I live sold in under 10 days regularly. The observation of Sydney is just as much a sign that those selling their second or third property are refusing to lower their prices - and can afford to do so. That’s greed. Let them hurt until they have to lower prices to make first home ownership possible for younger generations, that’s the whole point.

Where’s the counter-points from Grattan Institute or similar? Nowhere to be seen. Nice one, ABC.

Dairy whitener is just a colloquial product name. It’s what they call those little UHT creamer cups in India. The article is more about high phosphate levels.

High phosphate intake over many years leads to hyperphosphatemia - basically, stiff crystals in your heart, arteries, kidneys, etc… Coronary disease, arthroscherosis, etc… Not good.

Nestle is arguing that they ‘did the test wrong’, but IMO that’s unlikely as they simply sample the milk and check its polyphosphate levels - if it exceeds the standard, its non-compliant. Simple.

More likely, Nestle is trying to do damage control in the media whole they backchannel some bribes to sweep it under the rug.

Is this a real photo?

I see the tag ‘ChatGPT composite photo’ and I presume that means the part with Chris Minns is composited onto the background, but I want to know if the photo of Chris Minns is real. I can’t find any others with him wearing a shawl and a kippah.

As many others have mentioned here and on his YouTube channel - love Michael West’s work, but his regular use of ChatGPT and other LLM AI run by the enemies of the people is… Troubling. Do better.

Quality meme skills. I’d say marry her, but you already did.

I’m in my 40s and I just want to let you know that people have been saying this since I was 16.

Which is one of many reasons I’m not running out to buy a VR/AR rig.

Did you know they have social poker in real life?

Social video poker, also (webcams).

VR certainly ain’t an enabling technology for poker.

“He was revving the car, he was excited, he was a supporter, he was there for the joy of the moment,” Morris told the national broadcaster ABC.

What a fucking cunt. 5 year old might die because he thought revving his car loudly behind a crowd was a smart way to ‘show support’ for his sportsball team.

Its Sky News, conservative as fuck. They’d sooner blame the pedestrians being ‘hard to see’ than a driver for running them over (unless the driver was an immigrant).

The story has been updated and the title changed. They caved.

Members of the Group of Seven bloc of highly industrialised economies on Friday agreed to release 100 million barrels of diesel and crude oil from their reserves over four months.

An immediate and groveling end to the Iran war is the only thing that Trump can really do to fix the gas prices.

I hope he doesn’t and it drags on forever - it’s encouraging lots of solar and green fuel uptake.

But Jensen told us that “compute equals revenue”.

Why would Bezos do this? Surely Amazon with its enormous cash reserves would be foolish to sell off its most highly-powered compute assets and then lease them back.

He’s probably stupid and doesn’t like money. That defintely makes more sense than the entire AI value proposition being vaporware.

Some do, because RPCS3 lets you play games directly from an internal bluray drive and also to create ROM dumps (actually BluRay disc images).

Nice photo.

Since you have a UK account I’ll share some trivia you may not know. Introduced to Australia, accidentally. First found in Melbourne about 100 years ago - now across the entire country (as of many decades ago). Resiliant little guys.

It’s natural to anthropomorphise the chatbot, but being polite to them legitimises them in your own mind as a more real entity. Essentially, it’s a cognitive trap. Secondly, the AI CEOs love it because they want everyone thinking it’s a real intelligence, and third it’s bad because it burns more power. Every bit of conversational pleasantry is another input that gets tokenised and processed, so it’s just wasting cycles and storage - and AI is predominantly powered by fossil fuels.

Treat them like what they are: tools, and pretty bad tools at that. Give them precise and minimal instructions - it’s just a computer program.

Tfw shoot red cylinder in game and nothing happen.

nervous laugh

My Pixel will still be covered for 7 years though right? I need those upstream updates for GrapheneOS.

It’s funny watching them rig the system and simultaneously keep shooting themselves in the dick.

Nvidia - desperate not to lose business as they’re now ~93% dependent on AI sales, so they keep ‘investing’ in OpenAI, Anthropic, etc… Who turn around and of course immediately buy Nvidia AI chipsets.

OpenAI and Anthropic - panicking that investors will realize their IP is worth nothing (what we’ve said all along) as they are overtaken by much cheaper models, so they lower their pricing drastically - can’t risk losing that market share*.

*market share is irrelevant really, there is no first-to-market winner in AI, but you cant lie to idiots investors for another 16 rounds of funding to 2030 unless you can show userbase growth to them.

Really hard to keep propping up the con when barely anyone is paying.

Fingers crossed for horrible things to happen to then soon.

Nice, there’s a place like that which I visit one a year. I’ll see if they’ll take them next time.

Yeah it’s shambolic.

We have similar problems in Australia, where chiropractors can earn PhDs and then understandably some call themselves ‘doctor’, but they are legally disallowed from calling themselves medical doctors. Many still try their best to blur the narrative.

Thankfully, most of the public knows that physiotherapists are far more qualified and have no quackery in thier study - it’s just another medical field similar to nursing, so they are becoming more popular (at least in my circles).