#reconnectingconsequencestocauses — Public Fediverse posts

@lmgenealogy
Resonates: “So far its great "promise" has mainly been accumulating money, while harms to ordinary people are increasingly studied and known.”
Hasn’t cured cancer, hasn’t solved the climate catastrophe, hasn’t brought the corrupt & their cronies to justice, hasn’t [other examples go here…]

#genAI #LLMs #AIHarms #consequences #noConsequences #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses

@agentultra @avilewis

@maudenificent
That’s funny - surprised a laugh out of me: you writing that your “first instinct is to write
I swear to god…” The rest of it, of course, is not funny at all. But good on The Age’s investigative team for bringing such rubbish behaviour to light. Now, if only there could be some consequences!

#consequences #badBehaviour #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses

From the wrap up [my comments in square brackets]: “The TGA [Therapeutic Goods Administration - surely one of our least agile/active regulators] has spent the last year reviewing AI scribes… its findings will be released [soon], and any breaches [apparently some of the 12 or so in use may be in breach of the law] will be acted upon.

“Chief executive of Patients Australia Lisa Robins believed all scribes should be regulated, as summarising a patient still involved decision-making by AI.

“Dr Stevens [RACGP's Digital Health & Innovation chair & advisor for one of the biggest AI scribes - potential conflict of interest?] had concerns that extending regulation would only stifle future innovation. [never heard that one before /s]

“… DRW [Digital Rights Watch, they did a report] is calling on the newly established AI Safety Institute to test AI scribes and publish a list of approved tools… similar to New Zealand's approach, where the national AI advisory group reviewed tools and last year gave approval for clinicians to use two AI tools: Heidi Health and iMed.

“Ms Deveny [Chief Executive, Consumers Health Forum of Australia, which recommends asking a no. of questions about your doc’s use of AI that could potentially take up all your appointment time] said ensuring doctors were using AI safely could also be enforced in other ways, such as compulsory checks and balances built into the software, or during practice accreditation… every three years.”

What did the patient say in the end?: “Ms Green said her trust in AI has been splintered by what happened and now would only give consent for AI if she had an established relationship with the doctor.

“"I love AI … but the essential ingredient is the human. At the end of the day what's happened here is more about the lack of human involvement," she said.”

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-14/ai-medical-scribe-error-leaves-patient-devastated/107031672

#AI #AI scribes #trustIssues #consentIssues #lackOfConsent #inaccurateReporting #lackOfHumanInvolvement #noRegulation #absentRegulator #healthcareHarms #consequences #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses

@jhaue
Excellent question. 🤔
Reading through Deutsche Welles’ coverage of the rivers running dry (Rhine, Danube, etc) and local consequences (barges only a quarter loaded & cost implications for various industries, nuclear power stations reducing generation because not enough water or water temperature too high, etc) there’s a lot on local short term mitigation but little mention of action on the longer term beyond motherhood statements (like need to reduce fossil fuel burning). It’s very disappointing. ☹️

#fossilFuels #riversRunDry #shortTermMitigation #climateCatastrophe #climateCrisis #consequences #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses

@CharlieMcHenry
A terrible rollcall of preventable communicable diseases. That’s the trouble with public health: it’s mostly invisible and only noticeable (& valued) when it fails. ☹️

#publicHealth #consequences #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses

RE: https://todon.eu/@regendans/117045017603237377

On the gap between those profiting & responsible & those paying for it; translated into English: "”High time for ExxonMobil and co. to pay the climate bill

“Dieter De Cleene is a science journalist at De Morgen. While the contrast between the rising climate bill and the towering profits of the cause of the problem is getting worse, the bill essentially falls to those who are least responsible. That is becoming increasingly difficult to justify, he writes."”

#climateCatastrophe #fossilFuels #energyPolitics #theClimateBill #windfallProfits #consequences #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses

RE: https://metalhead.club/@SteveClough/116987615544473044

Such a BIG central idea & true that it’s not being picked up in this context. Yes, the need for reform, then the bigger questions: how, to what, with what, and all the rest of it. Mature political discourse & debate in safe ways for everyone. I long for it - maybe we all do, each at our own level. Thanks for sharing your observations & initiating!

#UKPol #politics #reform #startingPoint #systemicReform #consequences #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses

@AlexGallagher
Excellent! Count Binface is really giving it a good run. Makes a good point that while many of those - misled by the lies - who voted for Brexit are “statistically dead”, it’s the young who are & will be wearing the consequences. Glad his team won the debate. 😀🙏🏻

#BinForTheWin #UKPol #consequences #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses

@andyjennings
Yes. If there are no consequences, why bother?

Even if Telstra are fined, say, what does that do? Just makes the sloppy poor service more expensive for those forced to use it.

#telecommunications #Telstra #outage #consequences #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses

@drunkenmadman
Frightening. 🙀 Two smart people very much taken in & manipulated & not in a good way. Nothing in common except maybe loneliness; & the first guy’s cat died (sounded like he had no one to talk to about his feelings about that; quite common in our society - no one wants to know about your grief, few have mastered the art of just listening & letting you be sad… gross overstatement, but covers some truth). 😿

Elon Musk’s X or whatever bit of his empire runs the Grok version of ‘AI LLM agentic thing pretending to be nearly a person’ never responded to enquiries (in their rude & usual arrogance). 😡

The researcher & reporter ask what are the harms with more subtle cases? 🤔 Feel like we all want to know that… are we in mind control experiments if we use these things… 🤔
It could be nice to have some reassurances. 😮

#AI #LLMs #Grok #harms #manipulated #manipulation #mindControl #realLiveExperiments #PygmalionComplex #consequences #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses

On the recent Telstra outage, looks like there are/will be few if any consequences. ABC reports:
“The Telstra incident has led to further questions about what more the government could do to protect customers from future outages.

“Senator Hanson-Young said tougher regulations were needed.

“"There's no right to compensation for customers or penalties on the companies for failed mobile phone service," she said.

“"We need stronger laws, stronger enforcement and stronger penalties."”

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-11/telstra-to-appear-before-senate-inquiry-after-nationwide-outage/106905204

#AusPol #telecommunications #Telstra #outage #badTime #consequences #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses

@KatCopseyGreens
Beautiful illustrations! 🙏🏻 Good to see some facts… on data centre consumption of land, water, power… all leading to a suggested reasonable course of action.
Friends are shocked at the no. of data centres already in place & proposed. They say there’s been no discussion & it’s hard to get even basic information… The social license for these things is very thin. In popular culture the outcomes they enable are universally negative (eg 2 current programs: The Capture (ABC) - on the misapplication of surveillance, & Vigil (SBS) on the use of AI targeting & kill programs & mistakes). Less secrecy & more open dialogue might help. But when govts are secretive there’s often corruption behind it - how many & large are the lobbyist-purchased lunches & how big the donations into party coffers? 🤔

#AusPol #dataCentres #hyperscalers #AITargeting #AIKillPrograms #secrecy #lobbyists #politicalPartyDonations #TheCapture #Vigil #SocialLicense #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses

@mojo
“Every new heat record is another reminder that burning coal, oil and gas has consequences.” What a shame a lot of politicians won’t be around to be affected by the inevitable consequences. Same with certain classes of shareholders, dominated by wealthy but elderly people. Wonder what the under-represented young think about all this? 🤔

#AusPol #USPol #consequences #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses

Edit: fixed a typo

@0xabad1dea
Great stories! Thanks for sharing. 🙏🏻
Imagine if we did this today: “(And in a very Ancient Chinese approach, he was allowed to live but most of his attendants were executed for allowing him to grow into such a brat. Only a handful who were known to have boldly rebuked him were spared.)” Of course I’m thinking of the US & current incumbent 47.

#AncientChineseApproach #consequences #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses

@randahl
It’s the filming themselves thing that I find bizarre… the ones I’ve seem are always impeccably groomed… who are they trying to ‘influence’ with these creepy videos?
“ This past week I have seen a dozen or more videos where Russian women film themselves crying in their cars, because they cannot fill up the tank due to Ukraines "Long range sanctions".”

#Russia #Ruzzia #Crimea #cryingInTheirCars #fuelScarcity #fuelShortages #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses

@W_Lucht
It’s a good reminder Wolfgang - thank you! - the trouble is that the politicians who failed to deal with it when they were in power and could have effected change, won’t suffer any more consequences than the rest of us who weren’t in power and were unable to change things.

#ClimateCatastrophe #consequences #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses

@ChrisMayLA6
If we were smarter about corruption* we could have less of these corrupt people in power. 😐

* smarter about corruption = finding it, tackling it, preventing it

*UKPol #corruption #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses

@Beggarmidas
That just about covers it! 🙂

@bagder

I’d add that the disconnect between cause…
and effect seems to get wider everyday.
Sucks that you’re so exposed to it Daniel, so how to deal with it while preserving your own good nature (which you have in spades). Minimise contact, message back that rudeness sends rude_person to the back of the queue, never engage or argue; I’m sure others have better ideas!

#reconnectingConsequencesToCauses #rudePeople

@26pglt
Yes! Two really good question areas:

1. “Imagine if our focus all along had been policy. And how policies affect the lives of people.”

and

2. “How do media & political parties shift the narrative once credibility has been so profoundly lost?”

You got me thinking. I wanna see and hear some discussion on these.

#policy #AusPol #effectsOfPolicy #reframing #stenographersNotJournalists #credibility #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses

RE: https://timeloop.cafe/@alienghic/116755786196743629

A very good point that Australia & UK are both affected by News (Murdoch empire legacy media). In fact, Caroline De Cock, author of this piece, explicitly ties the Murdoch-y campaigning to the loss of their revenue stream from Meta, as she says, the timeline was not subtle:

“The timeline of Australia's ban for under-16s is not subtle. In March 2024, Meta declined to renew its commercial agreements with Australian news outlets under the News Media Bargaining Code, a mechanism that had generated over $200 million for publishers in the preceding three years. The "Let Them Be Kids" campaign launched by News Corp Australia across its national mastheads followed closely on the heels of that decision, collecting over 54,000 petition signatures. Nova Radio, owned by Lachlan Murdoch's Illyria Pty Ltd, ran a simultaneous campaign declaring a ban would win the vote of every parent.

“By November 2024, legislation had passed both chambers of parliament after a committee inquiry of three hours, following a 24-hour public submission window. Prime Minister Albanese thanked News Corp by name in his announcement: "I do want to single out News Corp for the campaign that they've run, Let Them Be Kids."

“The remark was striking. A head of government credited a media company, publicly and by name, when announcing legislation affecting millions of children. The legislation that the media company had campaigned for. The legislation whose primary targets were the digital competitors of that same company.

“Not a conspiracy but commercial logic… operating in plain sight.”

#SocialMediaAgeRestrictions #SocialMedia edia #AusPol #LegacyNewsMedia #NewsCorpAustralia #NewsMediaBargainingCode #politicalLobbying #conflictOfInterest #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses

@cdarwin
Hope Pakistan & Qatar put a ‘Thump pays a penalty if/when he backs out’ clause in. Not that they’d ever see the money. 🫤

#USPol #Pakistan #Iran #Penalty #consequences #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses

@SusiArnott
Yes, Starmer appears to have zero self-awareness. Or profits from appearing to have zero self-awareness. 😐

#UKPol #Starmer #selfAwareness #practicalPsychology #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses

@BBCRadio4

This piece is worth a read as it details the actions & aftermath; here’s just one taste. 😱
A real s**t show went down at the American Diabetes Association (ADA)’s meeting - you may have seen the video of the 5 diabetes scientists having their handouts snatched & being manhandled out by beefy police:
“Kahn [lead author of the editorial at the center of the story, and the editor-in-chief of Diabetes Care] pointed out that the events as they unfolded brought his editorial more attention than he ever imagined, with page views shooting up to 76,000 as of Monday afternoon, and a flood of views on social media through various channels.

“"Our goal was to hand out 1,000 copies of those editorials, and if we got 200 people to read them, we were lucky," Kahn told MedPage Today. "By the actions of the ADA, we've actually got millions of people to think about it."”
https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/exclusives/121657

#StreisandEffect #ADA #consequences #actionAndAftermath #supportForScience #AmericanDiabetesAssociation #Kahn #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses

@mschfr
Such a strong point: “A law simply banning bottom trawlers can be changed. Removing all those towers from the water is a lot harder.” 🙂🙏🏻

#Cambodia #bottomTrawling #againstPoliticalMeddling #solutions #fishing #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses

@digyoursoul

@benroyce
Yeah, ‘once bitten, twice shy’ as they say. You only get one chance. Putin screwed it up. Once bitten, twice shy.

#Russia #Ruzzia #Ukraine #onceBittenTwiceShy #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses

RE: https://mstdn.social/@JugglingWithEggs/116678848891070301

Neat facts & personal story leading to GREAT question:
“ More than a million jobs are in the green economy - I have one in domestic retrofit.

“Why would a country seek to destroy a sector worth £100 billion that improves all our lives? ”

#UKPol #mediaBias #fossilFuelIndustry #greenEconomy #politicalLobbying #corruption #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses

RE: https://aus.social/@mojo/116651395295819945

I wish we would do more of this: sheet home the name & shame & blame - and costs - to companies like 3M knowingly doing the wrong thing, & leaving their crap & consequences for others to clean up.

#3M #PFAS #PFASCleanup #consequences #shameOnThem #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses

@lazyb0y
Baby steps, the first fine; gotta start somewhere… 🤔
next steps could include your suggested “ensure each single package from China must go through full custom inspections AND the receiver has to pay the effort, that would be much more efficient”. 😆

@EUCommission

#Temu #fine #babySteps #EUPol #ReconnectingConsequencesToCauses

@keira_reckons
Strange research that cites papers that don’t exist or papers that don’t contribute. 😐 Seems like a giant waste of time. Why is it rewarded at all. [I guess this is a rhetorical question; maybe a better question is: why do ‘research’ if this is all it is? I.e. where is the drive to fake it or do this fake research coming from?] 🤔

#researchIntegrity #research #citations #fakeResearch #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses

@feather1952
Good call: where are our heroes? 🤔
“The failure of Australia and Western governments to hold Israel to account enabled the abuse of Gaza flotilla detainees, Jerusalem Peace Prize recipient Stuart Rees argues.
If bullies notice that no one intervenes to stop their behaviour, they may interpret such non-intervention as permission to continue bullying.”🧟‍♂️

#abuse #bullying #accountability #whereAreOurHeroes #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses