Larissa Waters Greens
News Letter
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We don’t have much time left.
Early voting starts on Tuesday. In last year’s state election nearly 70% of voters cast their vote before election day.
Far-right lobby group Advance have raised over $7.6 million dollars specifically to fight the Greens, thanks to their wealthy backers.
Day 22 cont 
Cont:
You: Phyllis is the first one, I guess.
Phyllis: I've broken the mould.
PM: Well, you're not ... you're not actually #complaining. What you're really saying is the value of [your] house hasn't gone up enough.
Phyllis: No, no, no. I disagree. I think it is ridiculous that the #inflation of house prices ... what about our #grandchildren?
PM: Well look, that is a valid point and I've acknowledged that.
I'm not saying there aren't problems for people buying for the first time, but you have to look at it in terms of both #existing #HomeOwners and #future home owners and what we have to try and do, and you quite rightly identify in relation to your grandchildren, is to find ways of mitigating the #cost of getting into your first home.
But we can't, and shouldn't do that at the cost of reducing the wealth effect and the wealth value of people who have existing properties, there's nothing to be gained by that. We have to find some other ways of #ameliorating the cost of buying your first home.
Phyllis: I think some commonsense has to be thrown into the arena just the same. You know, it's ridiculous. I mean, *you're not seeing value in the $500,000 you're spending on some broken down old dump* and…
PM: No, well...
Phyllis: That's where we are at the moment.”
#AusPol / #LNP / #Liberal / #Nationals / #Labor / #HousingCrisis <https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-20/when-housing-turned-toxic-captured-in-talkback-chat-with-pm/105155458> / Original transcript <https://pmtranscripts.pmc.gov.au/release/transcript-20920>
Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars (A 
NEW, free, 9-page article)
Tags: #Biology #Space #Places #Infrastructure #Future
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/mars-colony_burneko-albert
The Jetsons #1 (1963) Gold Key
(seen at Comic Realms) #comics #comicbooks #vintage #thejetsons #goldkey #hannabarbera #future
If someone came from the future to tell us about the destruction that the Trump administration has done to the United States, I think almost no one would believe it.
And I don't think it's possible to have a concrete idea of what has already been destroyed. It is easier to destroy than to build.
The Technofascist Vision of the Future (A NEW, free, 101-minute talk)
Tags: #Transhumanism #Ideology #SiliconValley #Future #Ai
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/av/not-my-tomorrow_sujato
The #DrupalCMS Q&A with @dries is starting soon! Join @borisson_ as he facilitates the session.
https://www.drupalcamp.be/en/drupal-dev-days-2025/session/drupal-cms-qa-dries
#DDD25 #DrupalDevDays #Drupal #Future
Image courtesy: Gábor Hojtsy
Day 16 cont 
“Many lament a lack of long-term #PoliticalVision and express #fear for the #future. They question where the bold and #BravePoliticians are, who are willing to make hard decisions for the #LongTerm betterment of the #nation.”
#AusPol / #politics / #prosperity / #policy / #Labor / #LNP / #Liberal / #Nationals <https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-13/abc-your-say-federal-election-politicians-with-vision/105164874>
News free zone. Cartoon for Trouw: https://www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tjeerd-royaards~bcb45712/
Identify Upgrade Series
Identity Upgrade is an aesthetic attempt, made in conjunction with generative AI, to envision collective awakening pathways into an awareness of oceanic unity informed by network science, biochemistry, and neurological plasticity in cybernetic contexts. This is a series of 9 videos made by Jhave Johnston, an AI-narrative postdoc researcher at the University of Bergen.
A terrific visualisation of our rising seas!! Also somewhat mesmerising in itself, as an art form, of a dreadful condition & future. And as you say, it “is only going to get harder to ignore.” 
#ClimateCollapse
#RisingSeas
#ClimateChange
#dataVisualisation
#Future
Bruce Schneier is an excellent writer on security and tech, and for the past three years, he's organized annual workshops with experts in multiple fields to discuss reimagining democracy. This is a GREAT read.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/04/reimagining-democracy-2.html
A thought-provoking look at possible political futures.
#future #politics #democracy
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/04/reimagining-democracy-2.html
If you made a list of things that could advance the field of science, having a mouse watch “The Matrix” and “Star Wars” probably wouldn’t make it to the top. And yet, scientists recently were able to map and render into a 3D atlas a small portion of a mouse’s brain about the size of a grain of sand. The results were a revelation. “"A millimeter seems small, but within that millimeter there are kilometers of wiring," Jacob Reimer, a neuroscientist at Baylor College of Medicine said. Read more from @LiveScience, including the role those movies played:
@feather1952
>" Australian women will be voting for their future in the upcoming federal election, and they deserve to know where each political candidate stands on the issues that matter to them "
Check it out Australian Women
They don't show up?
Look yourself!
Don't sound ligit?
Look yourself!
Sound ok?
Look anyway!
The last few days I am heavily thinking about Memetics which is an extremely cool idea.
And now LLM Agents become really widespread with new standardization tools and will find their way in _a lot_ of tech we will soon perceive as totally normal.
So I think there will appear memetic viruses (kinda like promt injections) that will infect the current context “of” a model and replicate themselves via websites, data stores, social media posts and general output. There will be semi model agnostic memetic viruses.
It is just a matter of time until they appear in a widespread fashion.
This will kickstart a small industry that will collect vectors of these memetic viruses, kinda like anti virus software made their money in the past.
All this will not work to 100% and there will be eventually an memetic virus that will bypass all these measures. It is more likely it appears randomly then being engineered.
This will lead to widespread awareness of memetic viruses like general propaganda and memetic warfare what will lead to the public demanding to criminalize social media platforms to help to distribute memetic viruses.
This therefore will lead to a full circle back to a non globalized world of values, ideas and concepts, like it was 100 years ago.
Memetic viruses like “it’s ok to be white” or “the world is flat!” that spread over continents and the world, will be contained into their local subcultures or zones.
Political extremism will die down until only highly localized, small groups of individuals will be affected for strong non common perspectives.
The global culture will not have a chance to develop and the world will, yet again, develop strong local cultural values and rituals.
Ethnologists will have a bright future.
♬ 
Mia’s Simulacrum 