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I was at a rugby function yesterday. The host was @Peter_Fitz 🤓 Of course, there was a welcome to country. But for the first time, I really appreciated this one. You see, the person conducting the ceremony essentially stated the following: “We acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land, the Gadigal people. And we pay respect those elders past and present. We ALSO pay respect to all those in this room today. For we are all Australian.” And then there was a rendition of “We are Australian”, both sung in an an indigenous dialect as well as in English. And so for the first time, I felt properly moved by such a ceremony. I hope this catches on going forward.

Digital ID for every adult is not progress. It is the end of a free society dressed up as convenience. I am a cyber security specialist. This is my take. They are selling it as a fix for illegal migration. That is bollocks. We spend hundreds of billions a year on cyber security and yet the volume of breaches is breaking records. The threat is growing faster than the spend. Digital ID will not stop boats. It will not stop trafficking gangs. It will not fix a broken border. 
Criminals will work around it. Honest citizens will pay the price. It builds giant data banks that track where you go, what you buy, what you read and who you speak to. 
It links your identity to every checkpoint in daily life. 
One breach and your life is exposed. Look at Jaguar Land Rover and the airports in recent weeks. Now imagine that at national scale on an ID system tied to everything you need to live your daily life. Here is the risk that ministers will not admit. 
Ransomware seeded through a supplier or an insider: 
It lies quiet for months.
It rolls through the backups.
On trigger day the register and the recovery sets are both encrypted. 
Payments fail. Health and benefits stall. Borders slow. Citizens are frozen out until a ransom is paid or the state rebuilds from scratch. 
Centralise identity and you centralise failure. Do not fall for the pitch. Function creep is certain.
It starts as login. 
It becomes access to money, travel, speech and public services. 
It turns rights into permissions controlled by the state and its contractors. 
It creates a single point of failure for criminals, insiders and hostile states to target. 
It will punish the elderly, the poor and anyone who is not always online. 
It will centralise risk and outsource blame. 
It will not stop fraud. 
It will not stop illegal migration. 
It will build the machinery for a social credit system by stealth. If ministers cared about the border, they would enforce current laws, resource patrols and processing, close loopholes and remove those with no right to stay. 
You do not need a national ID to do any of that. We scrapped ID cards in 2010 for a reason. 
Britain does not need a central register to prove age or status. 
Yes to privacy first proofs. No to a database state.

He states there never was medical evidence for the lockdowns and wished he had never signed up for the job

The pure unadulterated garbage spewed out by this media organisation is deplorable #mainstreammedia

Westminster Bridge today. Unite the Kingdom March. A sea of flags and then this guy climbed onto the lion,so I had to take a photograph.

🇦🇺 ANSWER THE QUESTION ALBO Young man asks the questions we all want the answer to “Mr Albanese will 1.8M immigrants in 5 years increase demand on the medical system? When young people like me can’t get housing…have no future in this country” @Tim_jbo

Just realized 'Terror' probably won the war on terror.

Have we tried just asking @elonmusk whether he did a Nazi salute? I think he's on social media so might be able to respond and clear this up for us.

Settings > Privacy & Security > Muted Words > "Load in 4K"

I'm at the point where I mute anyone who posts #AI content.

Scream all you want, dude; Women’s shelters are for WOMEN

One of the most important skills I see in successful (and good) people is to constantly reevaluate assumptions. They make predictions based on various inputs, some of them unknown, and reevaluate based on what they got right and wrong. They trust people not because they're always right--no one is--but because if you're constantly seeking the truth it's easy to identify those who are doing the same. If you were confident that Donald J. Trump was going to lose, maybe you should question what else you "know" about him. Maybe the people who misled you about his electoral chances have misled you about other things. In the words of Cormac McCarthy, "If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?"

The tower has caught the rocket!!

"You have ONE chance to stand against the Misinformation and Disinformation Bill or forever hold your silence - quite literally - because you won't be able to speak." @elonmusk must win against the Australian government. Watch @SpectatorOz on @adhtvaus | adh.tv/videos/the-week-in-60…

Why do we fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves up. Batman Begin

Covenant is set in 2104, Alien is set in 2122. That's only 18 years later. The space jockey had his chest burst and then over time became fossilized. The alien eggs in Alien had been there since that ship crashed. Therefore, the xenomorphs in Alien are an unrelated strain to...