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trump is going hard on australia at the moment. On friday the new tariffs comes into affect. i grabbed some texts from online that seem relevant. Some of it might be a couple of months old by now. Australia Post will temporarily partially halt sending parcels to the US ahead of the Trump administration’s changes to tariffs on imports. As of Tuesday, businesses will no longer be able to send postal goods to the United States and Puerto Rico until further notice. Those using Business Contract and My Post Business will be most affected, but gifts under $US100 ($A154), letters and documents will not be affected. The move is in response to US President Donald Trump’s changes to customs and import tariff rules that will take effect on Friday. The US government will suspend the de minimis exemption, which currently allows parcels valued $US800 or less to come into the country duty free. Parcels above this value will now require a pre-payment of tariffs prior to the item’s arrival in the US. Australia Post executive general manager of parcel, post and e-commerce services Gary Starr said the company was “disappointed” to have to implement the suspension. However, due to the complex and rapidly evolving situation, a temporary partial suspension has been necessary to allow us to develop and implement a workable solution for our customers,” he said. I suspect aus post is trying to minimize the amount of lost money/ products, as if the US seizes them, good luck getting anything back. The second thing is australia is dead set on limiting under age minors on social networks. We know that social media can be a weapon for bullies, a platform for peer pressure, a driver of anxiety, a vehicle for scammers. And worst of all, a tool for online predators, Australia’s parliament has passed a world-first law banning social media for children under 16, putting tech companies on notice to tighten security before a cut-off date that’s yet to be set. The bill passed the lower house on Wednesday – 102 votes to 13 – before progressing to the Senate. A poll by YouGov conducted this month showed that 77% of Australians support the under-16 ban. The survey was conducted in the second half of this month and sought the views of 1,515 people with a margin of error of 3.2%. The Senate approved the social media ban late on Thursday, the last sitting day of the year, following months of intense public debate and a rushed parliamentary process that saw the bill introduced, debated and passed within a week. Under the new law, tech companies must take “reasonable steps” to prevent under-age users from accessing social media services or face fines of nearly 50 million Australian dollars ($32 million). It’s the world’s toughest response yet to a problem that has seen other countries impose restrictions but not hold companies accountable for breaches of a nationwide ban. The ban is expected to apply to Snapchat, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit and X, but that list could expand. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese praised the new law on Friday, saying it sent a message to parents that “we’ve got your back.” “Platforms now have a social responsibility to ensure the safety of our kids is a priority for them,” he said. Elon Musk, said in its submission to the inquiry that the platform was “not widely used by minors” but expressed concern about the law’s impact on their freedom of expression. Pretty sure he actually meant he's more scared of his company actually being made accountable for something and the loss of a bunch of impressionable kids probably hurts too.. -
By Simon Young · Posted
Of course I tried filtration, but as we know filters have no impact on wave interference. -
By eatstoomuchjam · Posted
Back in 1985, I saw a documentary about a guy who was able to travel back in time in a crappy steel sportscar with only 410 megawatts more than that. Maybe that guy could go back in time and stop AI before it even started! -
By eatstoomuchjam · Posted
I'm obviously not going to go and manually look up every single fact in that post and provide a citation for it. That's absurd. You said So now the burden is on you. Prove that bullshit wrong. It's apparently easy. -
By Yannick Willox · Posted
I really do not have any love for Elmo, but there is no way everything you read on that blog post is true. If you have proof otherwise, except that we both have a profound contempt for Elmo, be my guest. In the EU they would be open to a flood of lawsuits, both by users and control organisms. THIS is a big part of the enshittification, the abundance of misinformation by people on the internet that have not gone completely bonkers like most have, but still fall prey to a lack of objective source and fact checking. Mainly because they have a profound dislike for something/someone, thus the things happening or being reported must be true. eg. The Meidas network, I was a fan, but sorry, they are FAR from objective by now, and way too emotional. It comes across as fake instantly, even if I have sympathy for them. but the OP was on a completely other matter. It had nothing to do with misinformation, but everything with abuse of legal power by the big guys. That is the point I wanted to make. Every time as sane person makes an incorrect statement online, it adds to the problem.
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