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Hundreds of German Protestants attended a church service in Bavaria that was generated almost entirely by artificial intelligence. The service was created by ChatGPT and Jonas Simmerlein, a theologian and philosopher from the University of Vienna

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Ryuichi Sakamoto, an Oscar-winner who passed away on March 28, was a defiant musical innovator. https://t.co/JrvqwWGjTu

Such a great report of what has been happening at Asbury University. God is doing amazing things- excited to see this movement spread! I believe this will be a catalyst for a move of God across N.A. and the world.

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ARGENTINA, EGYPT, IRAN, SAUDI ARABIA AND TURKEY POSSIBLE ENTRY INTO BRICS DISCUSSION CAN BE EXPECTED AT THE NEXT SUMMIT

New global architecture emerging

Interesting thread

BNDS actively manages bonds & preferreds seeking stable returns. 📊

The battle for control of the network. https://t.co/Vx5sQHJvRk

Update for Rebuilders listeners who have been following this saga.

It also shows that the diverse and complex reality of contemporary nations means that binary two party systems will increasingly struggle to form unifying consensus. Fragmentation and patchwork populaces are the reality beyond polarisation.

Crucially it also hides the actual reality that our societies have become incredibly complex and diverse. So this is not an argument for voluntary or compulsory voting. But rather the insight that Australia’s system shows more accurately our contemporary cultural complexity.

The FANG 1.0 vs. 2.0 ratio appears locked in a declining wedge pattern. One may wonder what percentage of investors (who contributed over $250B in net flows into large-cap core and growth ETFs this year) are aware of this (source ycharts).

In Australia you see what everyone thinks. This is not so in other countries in which voting is voluntary. There, parties must appeal to the already politically engaged and their bases in order to muster motivation to head to the polls. This increasingly drives polarisation.

One relevant trend from the Aussie election for international folks is that mandatory voting in Oz reveals the emerging complexity of contemporary electorates. There is no major trend, rather multiple trends bouncing off each other. Interplays between global and local events.

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Grey Zone https://t.co/V6XDACvCcm

The environment is now clearly the cut through issue. The lived reality of environmental disasters appears to have shifted more conservative electorates on climate issues. https://t.co/1oZkcVHFKt

Election results confirming everything below. Australia has not polarised but rather is well into a kind of patchwork political reality which reflects our diversity & complexity. The post war structure of the country which supported two parties has not only shifted but splintered

The fact that small Pacific island states are getting so much geopolitical attention is a sign of the way in which we are moving from a centralised unipolar world, to a networked world in which small players can have big impacts. Networks erase peripheries & change power dynamics