The list of all films ever banned in Australia, for anyone interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_banned_in_Australia

Israel is capable of being shitty on its own.

Is it, though?

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/u-s-military-aid-for-israel-tops-17-9-billion-since-last-oct-7

It’s not about lobbying, it’s that the USA owns Australia.

It won’t.

If they thought it would do any good, then they wouldn’t have the spine to do it.

We know they don’t have the spine to do anything with any practical effect, because otherwise they would have done it by now. They could have instituted broad trade sanctions, or prevented the export of military goods including F-35 parts and steel armour plating.

I was not expecting a headline that goes that hard from the ABC

This article from November last year covers Israeli “immigration” programs being conducted in Australia: https://michaelwest.com.au/lone-soldiers-new-australian-idf-recruits-due-to-arrive-in-israel-in-january/

Despite it being illegal to recruit soldiers for foreign armies, the Israeli Defence Forces recruiters are hard at work here enticing young Australians to join Israel’s army. Yaakov Aharon investigates.

Donny Benet? https://youtu.be/EwPUtEMms4E

Also, FYI, we have !rage@aussie.zone as a community for Aus music specifically 🙂

You might be able to set up a user-script to bring it back if you feel strongly enough about it.

100%. This is just eleventh-hour arse-covering.

Video from Aussienaut that was mentioned in the story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-4xv0UxIhY&t=5554s (link should take you to timestamp 1:32:34)

I’m guessing it’s phrased as a ‘recall’ because either
A) It’s an ‘optional recall’ and you could return the phone if you want (in which case they will probably just factory reset and update the firmware and give it back to you)
B) The terminology the ACCC uses (possibly must use due to legislation) is old and just doesn’t neatly fit the case of a fault that can be addressed by an over-the-air firmware fix

If we are banning wood heaters, then we should ban fossil fuel cars as well.

The article specifically mentions that fewer deaths are attributable to vehicle emissions than to wood heaters:

The Centre for Safe Air at the University of Tasmania estimates long-term exposure to wood-heater smoke causes 729 premature deaths every year in Australia, which is more than the deaths attributable to emissions from the national fleet of 20 million vehicles, or from energy generation, or even bushfires.

De-paywalled archive link: https://archive.is/EE2r6

But its findings have been openly mocked by journalists and publications it has found to have breached standards, including News Corp, which has allowed its journalists to call the body “foolish” and “idiots”.

Yet if the government ever tried to regulate, the first thing the Murdoch press would do is talk about the Press Council and how good the self-regulation system is.

Guardian Australia is not a member of the Australian Press Council but it has an independent readers’ editor who investigates complaints and publishes corrections and clarifications.

I wasn’t aware of that. I’d be interested to know why. I guess it being a largely Murdoch-funded initiative might factor into it, but I suppose also that a publication doesn’t really need a self-regulatory body to deflect from the introduction of government regulation if that publication isn’t constantly doing the kind of stuff that warrants regulation (like News Corporation is).

I was going to suggest Plasmo, but it turns out some mad lad has already upscaled it to 4K! Check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2U98Joe6Hs

I recall it being down for extended periods before. In the meantime there’s a backup at http://2d4chan.org/wiki/Main_Page (NOTE: their SSL certificate is broken so you’ll probably have to tell your browser to ‘accept the risk and continue’).

I assume you have got it by now? I certainly hope so! xD

Have you been enjoying it?

I’m considering buying a Shinobi - I’m inclined towards having dedicated function keys - so I’d love to know what you think about the Shura compared to the Shinobi.

Yeah, I agree, the language used by people could be more precise.

By not being specific, it gives the wrong impression that the video was doctored. Indeed that is what Antoinette Lattouf is implying this week.

I don’t think Lattouf is being hugely misleading there, the accuracy of the captioning could reasonably come under the term ‘authenticity’. But it might have been better if she used ‘accuracy’ there instead of ‘authenticity’, I guess. I think the point she is making, though, is that if there’s an established inaccuracy in the captioning, that reasonably casts doubt on the honesty of other aspects about the videos that Lattouf and Wilson had called into question in their original article: https://www.crikey.com.au/2023/12/13/viral-footage-gas-the-jews-police-factcheckers-unverified/

From that article:

Analysis of the AJA videos by verification experts at RMIT CrossCheck found a number of signs that suggest audio was edited. This review seen by Crikey notes that the audio is often out of sync with the video, that a section of audio was repeated during a clip, and that some audio was repeated while different clips were being shown. These suggest that additional editing was done beyond splicing different video clips together.

Wilson and Lattouf explore some of this in their article from after the police made their announcement: https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/02/05/protest-video-gas-the-jews-investigation-sky-news-aja

That article includes:

NSW Police told the media that the AJA’s video “had not been doctored” but instead was edited into a compilation.

I’m not sure to what degree ‘doctored’ and ‘edited into a compilation’ are ambiguous here. Watching the video, it seems to me they’ve done more than put a number of raw video clips with their own audio into a single video sequentially. It seems very unambiguous to me that there’s sections of the video where they’re playing one continuous audio track but they cut between multiple different video sources - or at one point it looks like they skip forward in the same video source (while the audio track seems to remain continuous). I think it could definitely be misleading in terms of how widespread the anti-semitic chants were among the crowd, and the crowd’s response to them. Both the Crikey articles I’ve linked above cite more than one expert who has done some real analysis, though, which is worth a lot more than my impression.

The expanded quote from the police, about ‘had not been doctored’, by the way, is:

“There is a compilation video, which has a number of audio and visual files, those audio and visual files have not been doctored, they are simply cuts from a more ‘parent file’.

“When examined, the parent file and the video compilation have the same audio and visual and from that the expert has been able to conclude they are the words that were used.”

(source: https://www.skynews.com.au/breaking-news/police-investigation-into-infamous-sydney-opera-house-palestine-protest-inconclusive/news-story/8f9fd959f7e65c54d38d6221d8c33e04

That full quote doesn’t - on my reading anyway - explicitly contradict the idea that the compilation is something other than a simple sequential compilation of sections of video with their own synchronised audio. It doesn’t really seem to say that all audio was in sync with the video played, just that all audio and video was from the same file. In fact, the way it phrases it as “audio and visual files” instead of, say, ‘audiovisual files’ if anything seems to suggest that the audio and video have indeed been spliced separately.

Anyway, probably ended up going too deep on that one, but I got interested.

I think the ‘veracity’ in question was that of the captioning.

Really? Which part of Australia?