Simon vs Simon
Simon Kennedy can be a reasonably humorous selection to interchange Scott Morrison because the Liberal candidate for Cook dinner in any circumstances. The Morrison period was characterised by, amongst different issues, ongoing issues with girls (each ranges of illustration in Parliament and the remedy of these who made it in), and canyon-clogging wads of dosh thrown at behemoth consultants. In the meantime, the celebration’s shift to the precise has been rewarded by losses within the Aston and Dunkley by-elections.
And so the Liberals thought one of the best ways to conclusively transfer on from that was by passing over a girl in favour of a bloke from the precise faction as soon as employed by McKinsey and backed by Tony Abbott. Kennedy is to Cook dinner what MC Hammer is to trousers, having moved again to Bennelong in 2022 to look at the Liberal margin fully worn out by the Morrison authorities’s rhetoric on China.
Our commiserations to Gwen Cherne, who needed to discover out that the endorsement of Liberal messiah John Howard wasn’t sufficient to beat her lack of a Y chromosome. However maybe the largest sufferer in all that is comic Simon Kennedy who, as soon as once more, goes to need to discipline a whole lot of dietary requests for some profoundly grim-sounding fundraisers. Kennedy, a Bennelong voter, launched into a “don’t vote for Simon Kennedy” marketing campaign final day out, telling us on the time: “There isn’t a Simon Kennedy that may do any good for the citizens. And as a Simon Kennedy, I really feel fairly certified to say that.”
Simply in line with the entire “not studying classes” vibe, Kennedy the comic confirmed to Crikey this morning that, simply as he did in 2022, he had acquired a bunch of emails from Google-averse native Liberals congratulating him on his preselection victory. On condition that the Liberals maintain the seat with a decidedly snug margin, Labor are unlikely to discipline a candidate, and there’s no teal on the horizon, Kennedy may want to put together himself for a number of years of this sort of factor.
Fetch the Bolt cutters
If it had been as much as Information Corp’s writers, no machine would ever fail the Turing take a look at. Following The Every day Telegraph’s fury at “biased woke robots” and the New York Publish grilling a White Home chatbot about cocaine prefer it was in Frost/Nixon, now we get Sky Information livid at Gemini, the Google AI platform, refusing to put in writing a poem in reward of Andrew Bolt, which it reportedly mentioned would trigger “potential hurt” on account of Bolt’s “controversial” and “divisive rhetoric”. We really agree that, if true, it’s sort of a dumb characteristic, if not fairly the disaster Sky paints it as.
“The irony is that I’ve really written poems and had them printed in two anthologies of poems known as Youth Writes,” a philosophical Bolt informed Sky Information digital editor Jack Houghton in response.
“Removed from inflicting ‘hurt’, they take care of uncertainty and the harmful temptation to affix the mob in a pack assault identical to Gemini has,” he mentioned, once more, complicated a machine with no ideas, emotions or goals with an precise particular person being imply to him.
He then took out the gold within the “unbearable dude at a celebration” Olympics by recounting a line from a poem he wrote when he was 13: “However concern sealed my mouth, Held me again. And shortly I used to be yelling with the remaining.”
That’s from “The Concern”, his first piece of printed writing — in regards to the horrors of witnessing after which becoming a member of the bullying of somebody based mostly on their pores and skin color.
Because it seems, there’s extra — a tipster obtained in touch to point out off what seem like a number of extra items by the younger scribe in An Australian Youth Anthology, compiled by the late Marcia Kirsten who additionally put collectively Youth Writes. There’s “Conformity”, which actually does carry a “little one is father to the person” vibe, expressing sentiments simply heard in a voice barely extra liable to screechy breaks than his present one:
Take that sheeple. Then there’s “Indecision”, which I’ll current with out remark besides to say that realizing Bolt wrote unhappy poetry about women when he was 16 is essentially the most I’ve ever associated to him.
Taylor’d
We within the bunker are nice followers of what we’ve come to name “Tayloring” — named after then power minister Angus Taylor’s beautiful second of carelessness when commenting “Unbelievable. Nice transfer. Properly carried out Angus” on certainly one of his personal posts, which left little or no interpretation obtainable besides that he was intending to make use of an alternate account to inflate constructive suggestions. To not be confused with “Ballsing it up” the place you by accident put up what’s clearly a seek for your personal title, or being “hacked” when hackers like a single pornographic tweet after which disappear.
Former MP for Goldstein Tim Wilson seems to have joined Tayloring’s storied historical past. Responding to criticism of a bit he co-penned with Jason Falinski arguing there’s a path again to authorities in regaining seats misplaced to teal independents in 2022 (one thing he and Falinski would definitely *need* to be true), somebody felt the necessity to defend Wilson’s experience, stating “Tim wrote a e book on this matter: learn it!”
That somebody was none different that Tim Wilson himself.
In contrast to most Taylorings, the tweet continues to be up, indicating that Wilson is snug with us considering he at all times talks about his achievements within the third particular person.