@lydian2024
Australian Producer: animation, short films, children's tv series, digital content, co-founder www.kapowpictures.com. Twitter/X @lydian1904 Interested in UK history, politics, arts and craft, futurism and AI-in particular how it affects creative industries
Four shark attacks, one long weekend, national meltdown. Sydney’s scare became a “crisis” fast, but the conditions, warm water, storms, bait fish, were textbook. Risk got flattened into fear, context vanished, and the culture war rolled in. Sharks did what sharks do. The media did what it does best.
In the Network State ideology, tech billionaires gut existing institutions and swap in parallel knockoffs that serve their agendas.
Example: a tech billionaire creates a fake university run by a columnist ... or buys a major news outlet and puts an unqualified crony in charge.
The evil genius of crypto is that it creates fake ‘money’ that trades for real value. Keep the scam running and you can swallow the world.
That is the endgame.
I went back because I like to know what the right is saying and I agree with that. Sometimes I find myself agreeing with positions and then realise I haven't taken into account the historical context.
Why use AI there are plenty of images you could use?
Amazing news! Ride to the Station was just selected by NEW YORK INDIE SHORTS AWARDS via FilmFreeway.com!
This is the future of book recommendations when libraries are defunded and dismantled. Trained professionals are removed in exchange for this made up, inaccurate garbage.
Are you fighting yet?
We have taken for granted that information we search for is based on 'fact'. LLMs are going to ruin everything.
New Labor cabinet
Reading this for bookclub. The issues are all very relevant to this moment in time, especially as AI is being thrust upon us at an alarming rate.
Why is it trusted it is just another big business making profits.
love the colours!
Donald J. Trump @realDonald Trump The Movie Industry in America is DYING a very fast death. Other Countries are offering all sorts of incentives to draw our filmmakers and studios away from the United States. Hollywood, and many other areas within the U.S.A., are being devastated. This is a concerted effort by other Nations and, therefore, a National Security threat. It is, in addition to everything else, messaging and propaganda! Therefore, I am authorizing the Department of Commerce, and the United States Trade Representative, to immediately begin the process of instituting a 100% Tariff on any and all Movies coming into our Country that are produced in Foreign Lands. WE WANT MOVIES MADE IN AMERICA, AGAIN!
BREAKING
President Trump says he is going to impose 100% tariff on any and all movies produced overseas.
He makes no mention of television shows, only movies.
Due to tax incentives and production costs overall, many US films and tv shows are filmed in Canada, UK, Australia, Eastern Europe.
The Movie Industry in America is DYING a very fast death. Other Countries are offering all sorts of incentives to draw our filmmakers and studios away from the United States. Hollywood, and many other areas within the U.S.A., are being devastated. This is a concerted effort by other Nations and, therefore, a National Security threat. It is, in addition to everything else, messaging and propaganda! Therefore, I am authorizing the Department of Commerce, and the United States Trade Representative, to immediately begin the process of instituting a 100% Tariff on any and all Movies coming into our Country that are produced in Foreign Lands. WE WANT MOVIES MADE IN AMERICA, AGAIN! O ReTruths 5 Likes 5/4/25, 4:18 https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/114452117143235155
Trump says movies produced outside the U.S. are a national security threat. So he’s imposing a 100% tariff on all movies that are “produced in foreign lands.”
Not surprising and no real detail as to how this would be implemented of course. Are we assuming now that our free trade agreement with the US is dead?
I am sorry but being an MP is a 3 year contract. Surely if you have health issues that stand in the way of you doing this job you shouldn't put yourself up for election? #auspol
Agree
Thx. What has happened to policies this elections?
Unrelated question-have we seen any Arts policy? This election has been very scant on policy details in general.
The French will laugh about this............
Recently I was interviewed for a smh article about off lead dog parks. The photographer came out at 6.30am to take photos -picture of us staring into space which is not something we typically do www.theage.com.au/lifestyle/li...
Nooooo-we don't want him
Love the idea-what about an international online event?
Does trusted physical media become more valuable in a world where the internet's full of crap?
Is a strictly print-only magazine or broadsheet newspaper more likely to succeed in a world of LLM slop and algorithmic social media?
It seems counterintuitive. But is this where we're heading?
LLMs […]
The Wikimedia Foundation, which owns Wikipedia, says its bandwidth costs have gone up 50% since Jan 2024 — a rise they attribute to AI crawlers.
AI companies are killing the open web by stealing visitors from the sources of information and making them pay for the privilege
'We just had to wait for the AI technology boom...to let us compete with all the cheap labour' Howard Lutnick. Sorry-from other site. More quiet part out loud-this is not going to create jobs. We all need to be aware of this as AI progresses. #auspol
'robotics are going to replace the cheap labour' Howard Lutnick
'Robotics are going to replace cheap labour' Howard Lutnick. Have been waiting for this quote. It is of course from another site-couldn't find it here. #auspol
Source; The White House. The full list of tariffs spread across 4 images covering almost 200 nations. Top of the list is China goods with a 34% tariff on top of existing 20% tariff. EU goods tariff is 20%, Japan 24%
Source; The White House. The full list of tariffs spread across 4 images covering almost 200 nations.
Source; The White House. The full list of tariffs spread across 4 images covering almost 200 nations.
Source; The White House. The full list of tariffs spread across 4 images covering almost 200 nations.
🚨TRUMP TARIFFS EXPLAINED:
Donald Trump just introduced 200 NEW TAXES on US citizens.
No foreign country will pay a dime extra on ANYTHING.
Americans, however, will now pay more for virtually EVERYTHING.
The US economy may be the first to collapse solely due to stupidity.
