Nick @quickapay

@analogSmiths @ellymelly I dont think Menzies was a painter - that was Dobell - but it's a very good piece. artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/wor…

@AlboMP Given the failure of this campaign and the cost to Australian innovation and privacy - at what point do you wind it back?

@RealMarkLatham > plus they get their government provided charging stations for free Wait - is this bullshit or real? how do I get this as currently I pay for charging.

@ValueFocus @jackgittez @AdvocatePlanet @strangerous10 It's really not hard champ... Esp if you've got more than one brain cell to rub together you absolute shambles. Basement dwelling? Fuck off back to /r/teenagers

@TheKnownLover Heh - Joe Bogan

@cruicerod @therevaknight I do love logging into twitter and seeing the most moronic takes. Well done Dave.

@Teanne001 @AdamCam2nd @DaveMilbo @Tish you're trying to have a good faith discussion - it doesn't work x.com/MillennialWoes…

Millennial Woes @MillennialWoes

a year ago

It's amazing how much leftist discourse is just them pretending not to understand things, thus making discourse impossible.

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Would spend a lot of time here

signüll @signulll

7 days ago

at some point i’d like to open a stationary store with premium products, a coffee shop sourcing the world’s best beans, a plant/flower store, a chill music lounge with floor seating, & a book store all in one. with pure mid century modern / wabi sabi aesthetics. it would feel

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@backtobackbooks @FreedomAus80100 Exactly right! How could they have known prices would drop so rapidly and auction rates would plummet? It's not like they have access to treasury modelling.

@tanya_plibersek I don't understand why we want to destroy Australia when so many people want to become Australian.

It seems like many people have a misunderstanding that AI stochastically parrots humans because it's trained for next token prediction on human data. On the surface it's easy to think of that as a relatively dumb Markov chain or something In reality it's more like mapping out some representation space and shuffling concepts around in training until they connect together correctly enough to produce good next token predictions. Which *is* a form of intelligence Of course it's still dumb, sample-inefficient, static, different from the brain, etc. But we do the public a disservice by talking about LLMs as statistical models or autocomplete engines. Those are both true but they omit the actual reasons LLMs are different from the completion models that came before

@TracyWesterman You can oppose Hanson without publishing sloppy misinformation. This “fact-check” invents /paraphrases quotes, uses outdated figures, confuses the gender pay gap with equal pay for identical roles, misstates migration data and labels opinions false. Stacking lies doesn't help.

@officialsammyuk "believe all women" wait, no, not like that. Awful.

@GBNEWS Weird line of arguing from John. "State-funded" and "public funding" are often used interchangeably to describe services and institutions financed by the taxpayer through the government. The government has no money except what it takes from the public.

@sudomateo @nickgeracehacks Intel tried fixing a lot of mistakes with the BTX board design but it never caught on

@simongerman600 "please don't think" Says it all really 🤣

I've just read the proposed startup carve outs here (consult.treasury.gov.au/c2026-779186) and it raises more questions than it answers. If the Government's own solution to the damage caused by these tax changes is to exempt certain companies, that's already a sign the policy has serious problems. Putting aside the enormous damage that will still be caused by the 30% minimum tax and indexation changes for every other investor, this carve out consultation is full of unanswered questions: - What happens if a startup is acquired after four years rather than five? It seems the Government only wants to support success if it happens after an arbitrary holding period which is now longer than the current 3 year employee share scheme concession. - What happens to employee shares issued while a company was under 10 years old, but the company is over 10 years old on 30 June 2027? The consultation paper suggests they wont be eligible. Why not? - Why should a software company receive relief from a near 47% tax because it qualifies for the R&D Tax Incentive, while a healthcare, agricultural or professional services business doesn't? Apparently some entrepreneurs are more equal than others. - Once a shareholding exceeds $10 million, the concession disappears and they're back to facing tax rates approaching 47%. That's effectively telling entrepreneurs: build a successful business, but just not too successful. It's a strange message for a country that says it wants more innovation, investment and ambition. The consultation paper points to international precedents, yet the proposal falls well short of global benchmarks. In the U.S. the QSBS regime can reduce the effective tax rate on qualifying startup gains to around half of what an Australian founder could face under these rules! If you're an ambitious founder trying to build the next Canva, Atlassian or a business worth $100 million or $1 billion, the message remains that Australia doesn't want to back you all the way through the journey. These carve outs tell Australians to dream small... During the Senate inquiry we heard several non-founders claim that founders don't think about tax settings. Of course they do! Founders have to leave stable jobs, often invest their own savings, sell or mortgage their homes, take enormous risks and spend years with no guarantee of success. Tax settings are part of that opportunity cost calculation. The most ambitious founders create most of the jobs, build globally competitive businesses and ultimately generate substantial tax revenue for Australia. If the incentives aren't right, many simply won't build those businesses here. The more carve outs, exemptions and special rules that get added, the clearer it becomes that this policy is being designed on the run.

@Beardyface4 @RoadHazard19 @prestonjbyrne you know Visa/Mastercard are US companies right? That's how the Trump administration sanctioned and debanked people like the UNs Francesca Albanese

My 17-year-old daughter: “I’m confused. We’ve always been taught not to share personal information or anything that identifies us online because it isn’t safe. Now they want us to do exactly that to access social media.”