Some wholesome news for a change!

Canvas (lemmys unofficial version of r/place) is starting on the 4th of August at 2pm.

When the event starts I'll bring the website online, the website will have a login with Lemmy button that'll send you a code to your Lemmy DMs to verify who you are, the event will last 72 hours and will mostly function similar to how r/place is setup

Official post: https://toast.ooo/post/254382

So just imagine we let one man, and his company, buy most of the papers in our regional cities and small towns.

And that man was named Rupert Murdoch.

And that man decided to shut down the print editions, and instead put those papers behind the paywalls of his big right-wing metropolitan tabloids.

Want to read the local newspaper in Lismore? It's now behind the Daily Telegraph paywall.

And then that man gutted the editorial team for each online newspaper to just one person.

And then used generative AI to centrally churn out 3000 local news articles per week across all his local publications, overseen by four human journalists.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/aug/01/news-corp-ai-chat-gpt-stories

#auspol #NewsCorp #murdoch #vicpol #nswpol #qldpol #sapol #wapol @australia

Cant help but think any govt trying to gain more and more power is not a good thing, even though i would trust Andrews over most premiers its not a good precedent to start setting.

As the title says. It appears there's a regular reason being given for not voting Yes for the voice in parliament, as being "We don't know what we're voting for".

So, why don't the political leaders give a full, account of what people are voting for? Surely if they want to counter that argument, they can do it quickly and easily. Just give the details. Stop the argument in its tracks.

Another way to say it might be: Why do you think a full, transparent definition of what the voice will mean, has not been presented?

Now, as a side note. If this was posted in /r/Australia, it would be censored. This would be a waste of my time. Let's see if Lemmy can handle an adult conversation on this important topic.