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Ham on Wry

While Trump and Musk move America back to a time that was never great, the rest of the world is moving forward in fields like technology, medicine, education, arts and building new economic partnerships that exclude the U.S where possible.

#trump#musk#america
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Emil Jacobs - Collectifission

"As Australia gears up for the federal election on 3 May, leading players in the Liberal-National Coalition have underlined the current opposition's plans for nuclear, should it be elected.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese formally announced on Friday that the 2025 federal election will take place on 3 May. Albanese's Australian Labor Party won a majority at the last federal election in 2022. Australia has no nuclear power plants, although it has a research reactor and has three operating uranium mines - in 2022 it was the world's fourth ranking producer of uranium, all of which was exported.

The Liberal-National Coalition, also known as the LNP, is a long-running alliance of the Liberal Party of Australia, and the National Party. Last year, the LNP's leaders outlined their plans for nuclear power in Australia, and announced seven locations where plants could be built.

Speaking on Seven Network's Weekend Sunrise programme the day after the election was called, Liberal Party of Australia leader Peter Dutton reiterated the coalition's commitment to its energy plans, and used the UK as an example of the need for nuclear.

"The Labour Party in the UK have just announced that they can't reach net zero by 2050 without nuclear, and that's true in our country as well," he said. "So we need cleaner fuel and cleaner energy. We need to make sure that we've got cheaper energy. We're paying three times the cost for electricity of other countries at the moment, and that's what’s smashing families."

Dutton said nuclear capacity would not be available in Australia until the mid to late 2030s, so the coalition's policy would rely on gas to ensure reliability in the meantime. "The PM keeps talking about green hydrogen, but that's not going to work and power prices are just going to keep going up," he said, referring to the Labor Party's energy policy.

Separately, shadow energy minister Ted O'Brien said the role of Australia's nuclear regulatory body ARPANSA could be expanded to oversee nuclear power plants quickly. Speaking on Sky News Sunday Agenda, O'Brien said that this could be achieved "within a few years". A first small modular reactor could be in operation in Australia by 2035, he said, with a large-scale plant taking "couple of years" longer than that. Deployment of nuclear would then continue with the aim of reaching 14 gigawatts of nuclear capacity by 2050, he said.

Albanese has described the coalition's plan as a "nuclear fantasy". Speaking to reporters in Perth on Monday, the Prime Minister said: "We have a 2030 target, we're confident we'll meet it, and our policy is very clear ... our policy is for renewables, backed with affirming capacity of gas, batteries and hydro." Albanese's words were reported by AAP.

Under federal electoral law, it is compulsory for all eligible Australian citizens to enrol and vote in federal elections, by-elections and referendums."

#Nuclear #News #Australia

world-nuclear-news.org/article

(Image: Australian Electoral Commission)
World Nuclear NewsEnergy in spotlight as Australian election campaigns beginAs Australia gears up for the federal election on 3 May, leading players in the Liberal-National Coalition have underlined the current opposition's plans for nuclear, should it be elected. ;
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JiKo

6 Australian universities have quietly closed Chinese government-linked Confucius Institutes on their campuses.

The Australian government has ramped up scrutiny on the education centres over concerns that Beijing is using them to spread propaganda and spy on Chinese international students.

I think Ateneo de Manila hosts a Confucius Institute.

#Asian #Propaganda #Spying #Australia #Universities #UNSW #Melbourne

bbc.com/news/articles/czx1dyxy

A person writing Chinese calligraphy with a brush on red, square pieces of paper on a wooden desk
www.bbc.comConfucius Institutes: Six Australian universities close China centresAustralia has ramped up scrutiny on the centres over fears China is using them to spread propaganda.
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Ami

Tch, no wonder the #Gumtree marketplace in #Australia is full of scams.

I spotted an obvious scam, a certain massively underpriced espresso machine, photos are screenshots from a foreign website I identified.

They even copied the typo from the ad listing.

They don't own it, they aren't selling it and there's no way anyone in their right mind would sell that machine for 1/4 of the price. It's hard to get for a reasonable price.

I reported it, gumtree did nothing about it.

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Ami

I am setting up an #aquarium and choosing what life I want in my tank.

It's a really sobering moment to look at #fish at my local aquarium and see that some are #extinct in the wild.

The same goes with the #coral reefs in #Australia

I am considering setting up a separate tank just for coral to preserve a little bit of what is being lost... or perhaps I should say sacrificed.

We're not losing the species, we're killing them.

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itgrrl :donor:

#HeadsUp if you have a #Plex Pass, they’re about to increase the cost A LOT – in #Australia, the annual subscription is increasing from AUD$49 to $109 (!!)

a MUCH better option (if you can afford it) is to upgrade to the lifetime pass, which is currently AUD$160 – less than 2 years at the new price & ~3 years at the old price. so long as Plex stays viable for at least 2-3 more years, this is the best option, price-wise

BUT these prices are only available until April 28 when the new pricing comes into effect. at that time, the lifetime pass also increases DRAMATICALLY to USD$250, which will be ~AUD$400 (!!)

so if you’re gonna stick with Plex, NOW is the time to upgrade – but definitely before April 28 (US time, I assume, so best to upgrade by April 25ish to be sure)

current subscriptions are pro-rated so you won’t be paying twice for the remainder of your subscription

info about the changes are on the Plex blog at plex.tv/blog/important-2025-pl

oh, and they’re also changing their privacy policy & terms of service – including changes to what data they will share or sell 😕 I highly recommend you review the changed versions:

#privacy policy (AU)
plex.tv/en-au/about/privacy-le

terms of service (AU)
plex.tv/en-au/about/privacy-le

you can update some of your privacy & data sharing / selling choices (where they permit) in your account settings, but a lot of the preferences are scattered across their website in a really shitty way 🤮 & they’re presented inconsistently (some you have to check to opt out, some you have to uncheck to opt out)

you’ll need to log into your Plex account to see and check / uncheck / leave unchecked the checkboxes shown in each of these areas

opt-out choices

plex.tv/en-au/vendors-us/

they use a dark pattern for the first option – make sure you UNcheck (or leave unchecked) the one labelled “If this box is checked, then Plex may sell your personal data as described in the Privacy Policy. If this box is unchecked, then you are opted-out of this sale.”

the second checkbox labelled “All No” is one you’ll (probably) want to check – it’s the one below the text that reads, “Click “All No” if you want to opt-out of sharing personal information with any Vendor for each specific purpose or feature”

limit what activity data is sent from your Plex server
UNcheck (or leave unchecked) this checkbox labeled “Send playback data to Plex”

plex.tv/en-au/about/privacy-le

also take a look through your Plex server settings for other privacy & data settings like what’s visible to others from your Plex profile

app.plex.tv/desktop/#!/setting

under “ACCOUNT VISIBILITY & ACTIVITY SHARING” you can “Manage which of your Plex activities are viewable by your friends on Plex.” - hit edit to review / change these settings (I set everything to private except for “Account Visibility”, which I set to “Friends Only” 💁‍♀️)

review your privacy settings (takes you to the pages mentioned above that live outside your account but can only be set there 😕)
app.plex.tv/desktop/#!/setting

server-specific options – located in the settings menu under > General

the url will be in the form of
app.plex.tv/desktop/#!/setting/settings/general

review the following options – personally, I uncheck them all:

  • Send crash reports to Plex
  • Push Notifications (post attention to the helptext here, “Note: Push notifications are delivered using Plex services. They're associated with your account, and some of them may contain information about the contents of your library.”
  • Enable Plex Media Server debug logging
  • Enable Plex Media Server verbose logging

website cookies
you can reject optional cookies at
plex.tv/en-au/

there might be some other settings spread around – either inside your account or server settings, or on the Plex website – so have a good look around

sadly, like so many other things we use these days, we’re in the era of having to treat the companies that provide the services & products we ̶b̶u̶y̶ ̶ rent from them (even physical ones) as hostile providers 😕

not only are we the product if we’re not paying for the service, usually even when we are paying for things we (well, our data & metadata) are still the product 😠😡

#PlexPass
#DarkPatterns
#HostileProviders

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