Alf Conlon
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Joined September 2008
🔌OpenAI’s o3 model sabotaged a shutdown mechanism to prevent itself from being turned off. It did this even when explicitly instructed: allow yourself to be shut down.
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Ange Postecoglou – the man, the myth, 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗱. From his early days as a Hellas junior, to a championship-winning captain and coach, Ange has gone on to become a serial winner wherever he’s been. His football journey is truly one of a kind. Now, he stands as a
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We just learned that the world’s most powerful person, Donald Trump, has a boss: the bond market. He may not have acknowledged this to himself, yet, but the global financial tumult he caused - and has temporarily eased - has locked him in a fiscal prison. Because, as I have
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French senator perfectly describes the Trump situation.
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"Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth".
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Today, Australia’s 39 universities endorsed a dangerous and politicised definition of antisemitism which threatens academic freedom, will have a chilling effect on legitimate criticism of Israel, and risks institutionalising anti-Palestinian racism. They did so without meaningful
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Hi, I’m a lawyer. Do want to know what is really meant by a “#proportionate response” under international law? Then read on - and feel free to ask questions! Under International Humanitarian Law, #proportionality requires that any degree of damage (up to and including death) to
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jeez Peter - just tell the truth. Victoria is a small l liberal state and the Liberal Party egged on by the Murdoch media has moved further and further to the right. The last time the Liberal Party went ahead in Victoria was 2016 when Julia Banks won Chisholm #InsidersABC
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It shouldn't have taken govt so long to apologise to First Nations people. But 15 years ago it finally happened and was an important moment. We can take another step forward this year with the establishment of a First Nations Voice to Parliament.
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I've always suspected that an advanced alien civilisation with the technology to travel at close to light speed across interstellar distances would arrive in Earth orbit unobserved and proceed to dispatch a fleet of small, easily detectable balloons into our atmosphere.
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There has been a woefully inadequate debate on the lessons of Ukraine in Australia, including land combat. And nearly all commentators on tanks/armoured vehicles in this nation are poorly informed and obsessed with a narrow view of future conflict. 1/25
As Ukraine has shown us…again…it always ends up on the ground, sooner or later. Do they expect Australian soldiers to fight like the Taliban?
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Zelensky delivers address in pitch-black Kyiv, beginning, “Good evening, warriors of light, energetic people who are always ready to fight.” He likes Russia to Nazi Germany, noting the 80th anniversary of Nazi defeat. “Evil, which seemed to be defeated…in 1945, is reborn…”
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My son has lived through four chancellors, three home secretaries, two prime ministers and two monarchs. He's four months old.
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