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Overseas News@aussie.zone•Australian World Cup referee Shaun Evans responds to accusations he used a hate symbol at World CupEnglish
2·1 day agoThere was a PSA in the 70s or 80s where the people in the the ads would flash the OK symbol at each other after doing something, like just helping someone carry their groceries or something like that. I don’t think it’s the do the right thing PSAs. Does anyone remember something like this and what it was for?
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Australia@aussie.zone•China’s capacity to strike Australia is expandingEnglish
205·1 day agoYou don’t contribute to this instance in any other way other than to stoke racist warmongering fear.
Fuck off loser.
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Australia@aussie.zone•'Sadistic': AFP boss warns of growing threat coercing kids to harm themselves — and othersEnglish
11·2 days agoAgain, sounds like The Program audio series.
You’re welcome. This poster was on the back of a phone box in Rundle Mall. I’m sure the poster is a bit of fun street art and not something the council put up.
Interestingly each year about 10,000 to 12,000 tree martins roost in a small group of trees in Rundle Mall over Summer/Autumn. I thought they’d have migrated elswhere by now but they are still around. It’s an amazing sight to walk under the trees in the middle of a city pedestrian mall, and see thousands of little birds chilling out at night. If you search Adelaide tree martins there’s a few photos and videos out there.
Apparently it is. From the City Of Adelaide Local Government Land By-Law 2024:
4.19.4 take, interfere with, tease, harm or disturb any animal, bird, marine creature or insect or the eggs or young of any animal, bird, marine creature or insect
maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zoneOPtoAustralian Tech@aussie.zone•Big Walk - Release Date AnnouncementEnglish
1·3 days agoThat life is about walking?
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Meta@aussie.zone•Quokkau not federating correctly?English
3·7 days agoThis federated right away.
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Australian Politics@aussie.zone•Kath & Kim fun run pokes fun at dangerous Qld lawEnglish
5·8 days agoI think this is my fave

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Fuck AI@lemmy.world•THE CRUSADE AGAINST ABOMINABLE INTELLIGENCE BEGINSEnglish
4·8 days agoWhy don’t you like the pope?
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Australian News@aussie.zone•New technology developed in Canberra could prevent 70 million tonnes of milk waste each yearEnglish
5·9 days agoWhen I google cybertongue I am disappointed to only find images of their technology and not something inappropriate.
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People Twitter@sh.itjust.works•The President of Colombia just tweeted thisEnglish
2·10 days agoHow so?
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People Twitter@sh.itjust.works•The President of Colombia just tweeted thisEnglish
17·10 days agoColombia President Gustavo Petro’s Polarized Remark Turns Gemini AI Op-Ed Into Election Firestorm
Colombian President Gustavo Petro replied “Heil Hitler” to an op-ed co-written with Google’s Gemini AI.
The June 7 column in El Espectador endorsed right-wing candidate Abelardo de la Espriella for president. Colombians choose their next leader in a runoff on June 21.
Petro’s “Heil Hitler” Reply to an AI Op-Ed Lights the Fuse
Columnist Felipe Zuleta Lleras stated he built the column from a single Gemini prompt and endorsed every word. The disclosure put Google’s Gemini chatbot at the center of a presidential campaign.
The piece argued Colombia needs order, authority, and economic freedom. Moreover, it praised De la Espriella’s 90-day security offensive and his pledge to cut the state apparatus by 40%.
The text styled the candidate as the surgeon Colombia needs after years of weak public order. However, it offered no disclosure beyond Zuleta’s short opening note.
Petro answered the newspaper’s post on X with the two-word Nazi salute
BeInCrypto could not verify the reply’s engagement figures beyond X’s own counters.
Their reaction echoes a wider fight over AI replacing journalists. It also revives an earlier Gemini controversy over a staged demo video.
Runoff Stakes Sharpen the Backlash
De la Espriella won the May 31 first round with 43.7% of the vote, according to official results. Iván Cepeda, Petro’s chosen successor, trailed with 40.9%, a 2.8-point gap.
Thirteen candidates ran in the first round, and none cleared the 50% bar. Therefore, the two-week runoff sprint now concentrates the country’s full political attention.
Critics branded the president’s reply antisemitic and reckless. Supporters, in contrast, read it as satire against the column’s authoritarian framing.
Petro also has a record of Nazi comparisons. Germany responded publicly to his earlier Hitler remarks. Chile likewise filed a protest after he called José Antonio Kast a “son of Hitler.”
Term limits bar Petro from the ballot, yet his words still shape the race. Each provocation now doubles as a campaign event for both runoff camps.
The coming two weeks will show whether the episode moves votes or fades.
Meanwhile, the affair hands AI publishing a high-profile stress test, as AI reshapes publisher traffic and newsroom standards worldwide.
maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zoneto
Australia@aussie.zone•The brands that Australians are now hating on, and whyEnglish
1·11 days agoWait, the dolomites program is still around? I was joking about my old account from before the bank was privatised.
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Australian Politics@aussie.zone•Discussion/change my mind: There are almost no examples where privatisation has been a net good*English
7·11 days agoIt makes no sense that anyone opposed to public institutions can be elected to manage public institutions or be employed by them.
Not knowing anything about this, it turns out I guessed correctly.
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Australia@aussie.zone•The brands that Australians are now hating on, and whyEnglish
3·14 days agoI need to find a way to rescue my Dolomites account.
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Electric Vehicles@slrpnk.net•Honda’s affordable EV hot hatch is ‘selling like hotcakes,’ priced at $21,000English
7·16 days agoYou have drive-through ATMs?














They were being sarcastic.