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Australia celebrated its national day on January 26th. This date is the anniversary of the arrival first British colony ships in Botany Bay, New South Wales, in 1788. Using this date for Australia's national day is an ongoing source of controversy as many indigenous Australians resent being asked to commemorate a day that marked the beginning of their dispossession and near annihilation. Persons sympathetic to these sentiments often refer to Australia Day as "Invasion Day", while others have suggested changing the date to one that is less divisive, such as the date of the opening of the first federal parliament. I think there are a range of defensible views on this matter. But then there is this from Sussan Ley, Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party, who compared the British arrival in Australia to Elon Musk's desire to colonise Mars:
News flash, Sussan: Australia is not Mars and never was. Mars is uninhabited. That people were already here when the British arrived, and had been for tens of thousands of years, is the very crux of the issue.
It's clear that what happened here is just one expression of the Australian Liberal Party's recent attempts to bandwagon off the Trump/Musk victory tour. But in doing so, Sussan Ley has managed to revive the idea of Australia as , which is about as afar from bringing Australians "together as citizens" as it is possible to get. I don't even think it was malicious or deliberate, just deeply stupid and insensitive. After all, who needs to think about such things when there are foreign billionaires to suck up to in hopes of a favourable retweet?
News flash, Sussan: Australia is not Mars and never was. Mars is uninhabited. That people were already here when the British arrived, and had been for tens of thousands of years, is the very crux of the issue.
It's clear that what happened here is just one expression of the Australian Liberal Party's recent attempts to bandwagon off the Trump/Musk victory tour. But in doing so, Sussan Ley has managed to revive the idea of Australia as , which is about as afar from bringing Australians "together as citizens" as it is possible to get. I don't even think it was malicious or deliberate, just deeply stupid and insensitive. After all, who needs to think about such things when there are foreign billionaires to suck up to in hopes of a favourable retweet?
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Maybe that's their new business model:
DS accounting guy: "Hey the new racks are really sucking up juice, we're going to need more funding soon"
DS AI guy: "Oh that's okay, we're just about done training R2, it will be ready for release within the week"
High-Flyer trading guy: "got it, all in on short positions on Mag 7"
It's like legal insider trading
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From the FT:
Donald Trump said advances in artificial intelligence by Chinese start-up DeepSeek were a “wake-up call” for US industries.
The president said he had been reading about AI companies in China and “one in particular” — DeepSeek — appeared to be “faster” and also “much less expensive”.
Trump said in Miami on Monday that if the company’s claims were true, he viewed it as a “positive”.
“The release of DeepSeek AI from a Chinese company should be a wake-up call for our industries that we need to be laser-focused on competing to win,” the president continued.
Trump said he wanted to “unleash” US tech companies and “dominate the future like never before.”
Donald Trump said advances in artificial intelligence by Chinese start-up DeepSeek were a “wake-up call” for US industries.
The president said he had been reading about AI companies in China and “one in particular” — DeepSeek — appeared to be “faster” and also “much less expensive”.
Trump said in Miami on Monday that if the company’s claims were true, he viewed it as a “positive”.
“The release of DeepSeek AI from a Chinese company should be a wake-up call for our industries that we need to be laser-focused on competing to win,” the president continued.
Trump said he wanted to “unleash” US tech companies and “dominate the future like never before.”
This gives a major false flag feeling to me. Coincidentally it happened now right after Trump was inaugurated, extra military units were sent to the border and Trump started his deportation campaign.