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☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻<p>Day 14 cont 🗣️🎙️📺 🇺🇸</p><p>“Price was appointed to lead a government efficiency unit if the <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Coalition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Coalition</span></a> government is elected after 3 May. The unit, which would sit within the prime minister’s department, has been compared to one led by US <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> billionaire Elon Musk (<a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/TechWeenie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TechWeenie</span></a>, <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Oligarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Oligarch</span></a>), whose Department of Government <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Efficiency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Efficiency</span></a>, or Doge, is taking a razor to US government departments.</p><p>“Let’s be very, very clear, media, you’re obsessed with Donald Trump 🎃. We’re not obsessed with Donald Trump. We’re actually obsessed with ensuring that we can improve the circumstances for <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Australians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Australians</span></a>,” she said.”</p><p>Devoid of any <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/policy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>policy</span></a>, <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/analysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>analysis</span></a>, <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/costing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>costing</span></a>, <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/ideas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ideas</span></a> an LNP Senator makes a word salad of foreign phrases about making the “Bond market” sexy again, from a <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/BowlingClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BowlingClub</span></a> on a Saturday in <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Perth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Perth</span></a>.</p><p>Repeat the slogans, <br>Repeat the slogans, <br>Repeat the <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/slogans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>slogans</span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/AusPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AusPol</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/LNP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LNP</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Liberal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Liberal</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>propaganda</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/JacintaNampijinpaPrice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JacintaNampijinpaPrice</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/indoctrination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>indoctrination</span></a> &lt;<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/12/jacinta-price-says-coalition-will-make-australia-great-again-then-accuses-media-of-being-obsessed-with-trump" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/australia-news</span><span class="invisible">/2025/apr/12/jacinta-price-says-coalition-will-make-australia-great-again-then-accuses-media-of-being-obsessed-with-trump</span></a></p>
☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻<p>“The push to develop in-house chips is part of a long-term plan at <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Meta</span></a> to bring down its mammoth <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/infrastructure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>infrastructure</span></a> costs as the company places expensive bets on <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> tools to drive growth.</p><p>Meta, which also owns <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Instagram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Instagram</span></a> and <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/WhatsApp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhatsApp</span></a>, has forecast total 2025 expenses of $US114 billion ($181 billion) to $US119 billion, including up to $US65 billion in capital expenditure largely driven by spending on AI infrastructure.</p><p>…Meta’s new training chip is a dedicated accelerator, meaning it is designed to handle only <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/AISpecific" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AISpecific</span></a> tasks. This can make it more power-efficient than the integrated graphics processing units (GPUs) generally used for AI workloads.”</p><p>Move into chip development, to reduce costs 🤣😂☺️</p><p><a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Facebook</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Zuckerberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Zuckerberg</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/TechWeenie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TechWeenie</span></a> &lt;<a href="https://archive.md/2ibTc" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.md/2ibTc</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>&gt; / &lt;<a href="https://www.afr.com/technology/meta-begins-testing-its-first-ai-training-chip-to-challenge-nvidia-20250312-p5livs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">afr.com/technology/meta-begins</span><span class="invisible">-testing-its-first-ai-training-chip-to-challenge-nvidia-20250312-p5livs</span></a>&gt;</p>