Antony J Funnell
@antonyjfunnell
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Antony Funnell is a Walkley award winning author and broadcaster. He presents the ABC podcast Future Tense. Subscribe in iTunes: https://t.co/O3CpLKvTtO
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Joined March 2009
It takes some kind of balls to even suggest this to the creator of The Wire:
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Some of the analysis in this piece is excellent -
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By 2050, cities may float or fly, according to proposals cooked up by billionaires.
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It is trivial to explain why a LLM can never ever be conscious or intelligent. Utterly trivial. It goes like this - LLMs have zero causal power. Zero agency. Zero internal monologue. Zero abstracting ability. Zero understanding of the world. They are tools for conscious beings.
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Donald Trump once called Bitcoin a "scam", but questions are now being asked about his own involvement in crypto currencies... https://t.co/E5GGlqZIro
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Donald Trump is establishing a US Strategic Bitcoin Reserve. He wants it to rival the country's stockpile of gold. He boasts America will one day be the "Bitcoin superpower of the world", but what's...
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Award-winning journalist Sally Sara has been announced as the new presenter of Radio National Breakfast in 2025.
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Award-winning journalist Sally Sara has been announced as the new presenter of Radio National Breakfast in 2025. Sally has reported from more than 40 countries as an ABC foreign correspondent,...
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So many people thanking @ABCmediawatch for tonight’s program. Hard to watch, I know, but the story needs to told. Thanks everyone. And huge thanks to @Leila_MA. ICYMI …
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PBS News Hour’s Leila Molana-Allen on reporting from the front line in Lebanon and why it’s critical for journalists to see first-hand the horrors of war.
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And our detailed look at the problems with "net zero" -
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Net Zero isn’t just a climate target, it’s become a badge of commitment in the global effort to bring down Greenhouse Gas emissions. But its real worth is debateable, with some environmentalists and...
Twiggy Forrest has called out "net" zero as a "con to maintain fossil fuels" & plans to decarbonise Fortescue. So, what is "real" zero? Richard Denniss tells ABC Radio Illawarra "real" zero is simple: less bad things & more of the good things. #auspol #climate @RDNS_TAI
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It's Ageism Awareness Day and, always on theme, here's our contribution to the discussion... #ageismawarenessday @COTAAustralia
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Could the realities of an aging population and a declining birth rate soon make our obsession with youth a thing of the past? It's not just an equity issue it also has implications for politics and...
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More than 80 countries, containing over half the world's population, are holding elections this year. @GoranaGrgic Senior Researcher at the CSS gives her expert opinion about elections in 2024 and the future of democracy on ABC Radio National.
This week on ABC RN I'm hosting Future Tense! I speak to @NickBisley @GoranaGrgic Priya Chako and @rasurri about elections in 2024 and the future of democracy.
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#PODCAST “Future Tense” @RadioNational with @antonyjfunnell. Always solid, informative #audiojournalism. This episode explores “Algospeak” at the intersection of #language & #technology & how teenage girls shape new language. #linguistics
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While technology platforms increasingly dictate the way we write and converse, language is being modified to fight back, to subvert the platforms. In this show we examine the growth of "algospeak"....
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Hello @Scienceofsport I present the Future Tense programme on the Australian ABC. We're trying to get in touch re an interview. Could you please follow me and DM a suitable email contact. Antony
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New Weekly Beast: As News Corp rages over Laura Tingle, Sharri Markson bewails an ‘explosion of racism’ across Australia https://t.co/Kcj9RdyoZv
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Murdoch’s empire down under has been quietly reorganised – with a long, slow cull of journalists expected to follow
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In Margaret River and spending time with brain box @acgrayling recently, he offered the view that we are not living in times of "unprecedented" war and violence, but perhaps we are regressing to something resembling "normal" for the human race. 1/2
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Are we being manipulated for profit? Why fear and anger play such a large role in our daily lives... @rspeckham @noel_castree @mfaraci @jenniferlerner @erikaferszt
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Anger and fear dominate our world right now, but experts say those who are engineering these emotions are often doing so for the money.
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It seems duration matters a great deal if you're trying to create a Universal Basic Income scheme that can work...
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The world's largest Universal Basic Income trial is currently underway in Kenya. It involves 295 villages and more than 20,000 families. The trial has just reached the two-year mark and Nobel-Prize...
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Lessons learnt from covering Trump - and mistakes we should avoid repeating - is the theme of my Brian Johns memorial lecture on Thursday night in Sydney. Open to all and a few seats still left. Details below…..(I promise not to wear a white silk tie again)
It’s my honor to deliver the 2024 Brian Johns Lecture this coming Thursday on the subject of Donald Trump, American authoritarianism and how the media should cover it. There are still a few tickets left.
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Hello @emilyadh I'm a presenter with the Australian Broadcast Corp. We'd like to line up an interview with you, but we're having trouble reaching you by email. Could you please DM me and send me a suitable email address? cheers Antony
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Doing some house cleaning this morning and re-listening to my fave podcast with @antonyjfunnell I'd missed this one ... and NOTHING explains the current malaise of the workplace better than this one. https://t.co/CWMB0vr5IM
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Managerialism is a Neo-liberal philosophy that critics accuse of bloating both the public and private sectors with unnecessary management. It's also accused of having bred a separate highly-paid...
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If I may, there’s something I need to get off my chest. As democracy remains under siege, it has been frustrating to watch how the press covers politics these days. I am reminded by lessons that came to me during the Nixon years as a CBS News correspondent, which I’ll add here:
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