Net Zero’s inevitable destination is returning us to unheated 19th century huts.

Jane Austen wrote the best literature ever in one of those.

As predicted
Idf using all modern technology available to locate 7 October terrorists.
DNA from rape kits, facial recognition from video.
And you should have seen the denials on some threads from terror apologists, not dead etc etc

IDF forces kill Hamas terrorist who paraded the dead body of German-Israeli woman Shani Louk through the streets of Gaza as Palestinians spat on her.

The woman’s mother, Richarda Louk has told world renowned Rabbi Shmuley that IDF have informed her that they had taken out one of the terrorists- seen in the viral video parading her body on a pickup truck

Chloe Shorten has a piece in the Hun:

My journalism lecturer once said to our class that there are three sides to every story “yours, mine and the truth”.

This maxim is on high rotation at our house as we try to talk to our kids about war.

Families across the world are assaulted with a volume of misinformation I’ve never seen. Having navigated three kids through two federal election campaigns, I know first-hand the impact of online misinformation on kids.

Sometimes people share content that’s just wrong accidentally – not vigilant enough about the source for example.

But that doesn’t make it benign.

Misinformation is a threat to children’s wellbeing, to community safety, to social and economic stability, to democracy.

Disinformation on the other hand, is deliberate. It is curated and intended to cause division, and spreads with speed across apps and platforms, particularly by young people who use no other sources of information.

A 2022 survey found that “14 per cent of respondents reported knowingly sharing misinformation, and that these respondents were more likely to also report support for political violence, a desire to run for office, and warm feelings toward extremists.” Frightening.

In this current geopolitical upheaval, young Australians are on apps sharing horrific ‘frontline’ footage – actual and doctored.

But in the age of generative AI, how do we know what’s real and what is a lie?

Parents are struggling to sift through what may be propaganda that could radicalise their child. AI has undermined the old adage ‘believe half of what you see and none of what you hear’.

Misinformation about the conflict in Gaza and Israel has surged at the same time as online platforms cut staff who moderate content and water down related policies.

There is little accountability for the consequences of wrong information.

News outlet AFP’s fact checker is investigating shared clips of the conflict. Using reverse search techniques, they identified old videos being shared online as current footage – not just old but fake.

Game developer Bohemia Interactive made a statement saying how disheartened they were to see some of these videos were actually clips from their game Arma 3.

You read that right. Computer-generated imagery of rocket fire is being passed off as actual scenes from a war zone.

I suspect we are at a tipping point though. Online offerings certainly show us the inherent value of quality journalism and research.

Perhaps it is time to push back hard on harmful risky ‘live sources’ and ‘citizen journalism’ created for the purpose of getting TikTok or Insta famous.

We need to give our kids tools to check facts and fight for the veracity of their information. We have to explain to them to check before they post or share.

And, yes, the adults in the room also need to up their game and know when and how to question what we send and are being sent.

In the absence of rigorous media literacy training in our school curriculum and with limited regulatory guardrails, the best parents can do is tell their kids when it comes to online reportage is “check the source!”.

I am guiding my own to read news sources I’ve come to trust even where they have a slight bias or perspective – global news outlets like AP, Reuters, AFP have proved their integrity in resisting sensationalism.

For almost a decade my family has also relied on research by Harvard University’s Pew Internet Research Centre about how to spot disinformation and propaganda.

I get that this may not be your average dinner table conversation but it became a necessity in our house when Facebook and Twitter promulgated truly distasteful disinformation about someone we know and love.

I’ve been up close and personal. I visited families at a Melbourne mosque after the Christchurch massacre and covered my head in a sign of respect, as I would in any place of worship that it was customary.

Next minute, campaign materials and Twitter trolls claimed I had submitted to Sharia Law by doing so.

The election campaigns were particularly toxic with Facebook running all sorts of untruthful ads against my husband – and opposing politicians too. Facebook wouldn’t take them down during an election because, they argued, the platform is not ‘a publisher’.

While the Australian Electoral Commission couldn’t act because there are no federal ‘truth in advertising’ laws for elections in Australia.

Over the years I’ve been asked my view on hate posting and trolls but have chosen not to comment knowing there is little public sympathy for politicians of any stripe and less if their families complain.

I’m experiencing an upsurge in parents contacting me, desperate for resources to help them help their kids discern fact from fiction.

We know from the tragedy in Christchurch what internet rabbit holes can do to incite violence.

Likewise, fact checking right now isn’t about curtailing free speech, it’s about calling out the anti-Jewish tropes that are bubbling up in front of our children’s eyes.

The Australian Code of Practice on Disinformation and Misinformation framework doesn’t improve accountability and transparency. It was drafted and overseen by the tech industry itself, so there are insufficient incentives to improve their products. In other words, they mark their own homework

In what is undoubtedly one of the challenging portfolios of these times – from telco outages, and platform safety, to the NBN, ABC and Australia Post – Communications Minister, Michelle Rowland is taking on the boa constrictor in the room with a proposed Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation Bill.

Not an easy path in the era of fear of government laws clashing with parents who are hard wired to shield their kids from harm.

Perhaps it’s better named as the anti-child radicalisation bill.

Our kids are at the mercy of forces whose agenda is unclear, who know our laws and who know that oversight is yet to catch up.

Chloe Shorten is a writer and chair of the Centre for Digital Wellbeing

FMD what a turgid dingleberry of an article that is. Gets her news from Reuters, weren’t they the ones that had a photographer on the ground amazingly at the exact time shit went down on that horrible day?
She sez it’s all for the kids. I think she wants dissenting opinion to her idiot husband’s party policy to be silenced.

A sort of Australian Chelsea Clinton.

Chortle. Well played sir

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Nov 16, 2023 6:33 PM
Mate of mine copped it in the neck for selling the family farm to the Saudis. He pointed out coldly that he had received NOT ONE tender of Australian money.

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Gidday Zulu.
In the olden days a bloke could work his way up into owning a property. At least in the dairy business.
Farms had quarters for a single youngster and a house for a married man.
These men could learn the business and although the wages were low, there was a track to getting at least a share in a property through years of hard work.
How would a person who was keen on farming get there now, other than via family? And how many farmers sons actually want to do the work?
The destiny for agricultural land is large agribusinesses owned by wealthy people from overseas.
Which I reckon is a shame.

I’m surprised they haven’t put a price on pregnancy and labour (by the hour obviously)

We won’t get real equality until we price breastmilk, and treat breastfeeding as work

In news that may get monty moist in the pantaloons, Daily Telegraph:

An Israeli supporter has been charged and a carload of flag-waving Palestinian teens dealt with as youth offenders after a concerning clash in North Bondi.

The 19-year-old Israeli supporter was charged with affray and using an offensive implement to commit indictable offence after the incident at a BP petrol station on Old South Head Rd about 10pm on Wednesday.

Police allege the clash began after the Israeli supporter in a Mercedes sedan saw a carload of teenage Palestinian supporters waving flags out the window, and did a U-turn to follow them.

Footage taken from inside the man’s car shows him following the Mercedes through the streets of the beachside suburb, before he allegedly pulled out a hockey stick at the BP petrol station when confronting the four teenage Palestinian supporters.

In a statement, NSW Police said officers “patrolling the area arrived a short time later and separated the groups. No one was injured in the incident.”

“Following inquiries, a 19-year-old man was arrested at a home in Bondi about 12pm Thursday and taken to Bondi Police Station.

“He was charged with affray and use offensive implement with intent to commit indictable offence.

“He was granted conditional bail to appear at Waverley Local Court on Tuesday 12 December 2023.”

Before the Israeli and Palestinian groups came face-to-face and had a verbal confrontation at the BP petrol station, a rock was thrown at the driver’s side mirror of the Toyota hatchback, smashing the glass.

The Israeli supporter then drove away fled to a nearby service station, with the sedan carrying the group of teenagers arriving a short time later.

NSW Police said the four Palestinian teens had also been charged and will be dealt with in accordance with the Young Offenders Act.

Also under investigation is an incident captured on video which saw a food delivery rider sent skidding to the ground, after being cut off by a vehicle following behind the group of Palestinian supporters.

The footage from inside the car captures the hi-vis wearing scooter rider lying on the road at the intersection of Old South Head Rd and O’Brien St.

Also in the car with the Israeli supporter who was charged by police were two women, one aged under 18 and another in her 30s.

One of the women could be heard telling the delivery driver they had captured the crash on video and then yelling at the other car, a GoGet rental vehicle, to pull over.

Police are continuing to investigate.

Suggestion on extwitter that the no fuel for incubators was a stunt to give hamas time to concrete and tile over tunnel entrances.
Anything is possible in hamasworld.
Mr fafo made it south, even though he’s a marked man.
Probably wore a burka, jic.

900hp on the foot. These cars are mental!

Sprintcars | Maddington Toyota Series – Perth – 4th Nov 2023 | Clay-Per-View

Tickler, how come Dutchsinse missed the Icelandic eruption?

The dodgy data behind Britain’s Covid 19 lockdown – Michael Simmons | SpectatorTV

Sancho Panzer
Nov 16, 2023 9:49 PM
Tickler, how come Dutchsinse missed the Icelandic eruption?

He’s been booted from nearly every ISP … Starlink included . He’s had enough for the time being. He has made the USGS look like clowns. Especially the fat pig, Lucy.

He’s been hacked so many times. Shit hit the fan when he exposed the Direct Energy Weapons in those satellite feeds with Calli fires.

Sancho Panzer
Nov 16, 2023 10:12 PM

If I can find them again. I’ll shall post. He’s basically switching off.

Zafiro
Nov 16, 2023 10:17 PM

STFU you MSM consuming moron!

“Springtime for Hitler”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zY1orxW8Aw
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Illinois Nazis – blues brothers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9thcZ9AzVY
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This is precisely why even the 2 State Solution just will not work. Remember the call for “from the river to the sea”. The Palestinians want it ALL. If they can, they will take it.

There have been five attempts at a “Two State” solution since the late 1930’s. Israel has accepted each one, the Pali’s have rejected each one, while continuing to demand the total annihilation of the State of Israel.

Throwing out any kind of 2 state solution leads to a single state which is either non-democratic or non-jewish majority.

It’s also ignoring the simple truth that there has been a Palestinian State since 1947 – it’s called “Jordan.” The Pali’s have followed every swivel eyed loon, who demanded the total annihilation of Israel, from the days of the late 1930’s, when any of the wealthy and powerful Palestinians who advocated sharing the land with the Jews, was murdered on the orders of another swivel eyed loon – the Grand Mufti of Jeruselum. He who had tea and bikkies in Berlin, with Adolph Hitler.

He’s a little twerp you’d his kick head across the road. Don’t start with anti-sematic claims. A lot of people need to hang. He’s a little prick.

Ben Shapiro vs Candace Owens Beef Escalates BIG TIME

Candace Owen’s is emerging, at the very least, an ignoramus on the subject of the middle east.
She tried to claim the ‘muslim quarter’ of Jerusalem was evident of apartheid, as though muslims were forced to live in the equivalent of a (Jewish) ghetto.

Owens is repeating the genocide libel.

apologists demand videos, when they get them, they are either staged or AI.

Candace and Tucker really don’t think American Jews aren’t allowed to be incensed/heartbroken at the slaughter of innocent men women and children and Tucker tried to make an analogy with fetanyl deaths and illegal immigrants who might do something. What is wrong with these people?

Thanks Tom. Some clever toons there. Happy Friday.

Greeting from Otago, NZ!

9C & raining.

Wish you were here!:D

NZ is stunning as always, locals friendly. But it appears to be a country living beyond its means. New government not yet formed, Winston Peters reportedly being courted.

Biggest issue after the economy is the winding back of “co-governance.”

Have met a few obnoxious American Democrats scouting the place out for residence should Trump be elected in 2024. Alas, I didn’t pack my MAGA cap.

Over and out.

I have actually liked Candace, but domestic politics is more her beat.

If she is ill-informed about what is happening in Israel, and its background, then I will be that she has not previously taken a real interest and has casually picked up an inaccurate picture.

The footage of Ben Shapiro calling her out look to have been from a private event where he might be blunter than he would in public. In public, or speaking privately but face-to-face, I imagine he would have been more diplomatic.

Just asking the inmates of Victoria:

Is the Police Force Service Arm of the Labor Party really called VicPol?

Like MiniTru?

London Police Claim They Were Powerless to Act as Palestine Protesters Stormed War Memorial

The men being remembered ran into the face of rifle and machine gun fire from a well concealed enemy, amidst explosions that tore men anpart, and over the bodies of men killed doing exactly what they were doing. They huddled in trenches and hole as artillery fire rained down for days in end and all of this without being to clock off after eight hours.

What a degrading juxtaposition.