Maria Kovacic Moderate Liberal

Was that an earthquake in Melbourne?

I'm on the 70th floor in the Eureka Tower and the entire building swayed a couple of metres.

Mr Pascale said he thought it was the largest earthquake since 1902 within the Melbourne metropolitan area.

Dropped my sister off at Melbourne Airport an hour ago and am now minding her house for a month. She warned me about possums running across the roof. Got home, sat down, and the house started shaking. "They've got bloody big possums in Sunshine", I thought.

~ from various observers such as Assad Tannous (Not related to Antoine ) @AsennaWealth

Serious and organised crime threats

~ Antoine Tannous

 Hmmm @InsidersABC

I notice the people most calling for civility are those proposing the most egregious racism and hyperbole. They deserve condemnation for their brazen hypocrisy and dishonesty.

Politically Sensitive Titles Are Getting Yanked From Hong Kong’s Library Shelves

"Books about the Tiananmen Square massacre, Hong Kong protest movements, and other subjects deemed politically sensitive by Beijing have been removed from the former British colony's public libraries in the lead-up to the 34th anniversary of the killings." - The Guardian

In a statement after the vote, Kovacic said she learned early on about “aspirational values that drive our community” as a daughter of migrants.

“My parents fled communism for a better life in Australia and taught me about the importance of fighting for things that are important and working to build a better place for everyone,” she said.

Maria Kovacic

AI fakes and Twitter’s lack of control are a dangerous combination

Bill Gates’ alleged mistress was an associate of the notorious Kremlin spy Anna Chapman, raising fresh questions over the Microsoft founder’s links to Jeffrey Epstein.

Bill Gates’ alleged Russian lover linked with infamous Kremlin spy

Generative Artificial Intelligence and Copyright Law

CRS Legal Sidebar, Generative Artificial Intelligence and Copyright Law, Updated May 11, 2023: “Recent innovations in artificial intelligence (AI) are raising new questions about how copyright law principles such as authorship, infringement, and fair use will apply to content created or used by AI. So-called “generative AI” computer programs—such as Open AI’s DALL-E 2 and ChatGPT programs, Stability AI’s Stable Diffusion program, and Midjourney’s self-titled program—are able to generate new images, texts, and other content (or “outputs”) in response to a user’s textual prompts (or “inputs”). These generative AI programs are trained to generate such outputs partly by exposing them to large quantities of existing works such as writings, photos, paintings, and other artworks. This Legal Sidebar explores questions that courts and the U.S. Copyright Office have begun to confront regarding whether the outputs of generative AI programs are entitled to copyright protection, as well as how training and using these programs might infringe copyrights in other works…”