If you get to experience it, let us know!

Your last paragraph says a lot.

Also, I wonder whether Susan Templeman could help Mackell now seeing as she never complained about his contacts with her.

And FDotM’s explanation, a lot more homorous and pithy: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/aug/10/meme-factories-are-churning-out-pro-one-nation-ai-slop-on-facebook-im-frightened

This is so galling. The situation is getting worse for unemployed people and the rich are getting richer. We need to put more pressure on our government.

Write to Gregoire or the legal firm and tell them. Maybe Gregoire will do a follow-up piece to explain himself (?)

It does say what a DEAO is in the second paragraph.

Do they need a warrant for this? Or is this some weird thing where they are able to arbitrarily generate a warrant to do this as needed?

It says in the first paragraph

The Minns government is set to introduce new laws into New South Wales parliament, so that the power NSW police has to require people to provide access to their digital devices, in order to a facilitate scan and download of their content on execution of a warrant and at threat of prison, is available during more routine arrests, roadside stops and other lawful detentions.

I take your point.

Do you ever wonder why our current ‘developed’ societies have such a fixation on photographing, videoing, surveilling, snooping? It’s like people can’t just live life, they have to be recording even the most trivial situations. Call me old-fashioned.

Put whatever label you like on it and call me silly. Your examples show we are already in a technodystopia.

You don’t address my strongest concern, which should be yours too as a parent. These glasses can be used in exploitative ways targeting vulnerable groups. Because they don’t all have the flashing lights they can be misused in environments where children and people with disabilities, for example, do not recognise that they are camera glasses.

Resistance.

If we continue to be passive consumers for every privacy-destroying and potential exploitative gadget & system, we are just complicit with techno dystopia. At some point there will be glasses available that see through clothes.

What I meant by not changing such legislation easily is that it would need to be debated and the public would be able to also have a say.

I’d certainly be interested in seeing something like this be given a trial run for 5-10 yrs to see what outcomes would eventuate.

I reckon the point the article makes has some merit. Plus, whether you agree with it a little, a lot, or not at all, it’s prodded us into discussing and thinking and learning from each other. I am so glad that people care about democracy. We need to keep the conversation alive.

Guess who is going to go into that country to ‘help rebuild’?

Can someone explain to me why so many people want these glasses? They can’t all be pervy or malicious, surely…

Yes, you are right. There certainly is a deeper and growing understanding of neurodivergence and I am happy for you that your boy is being treated as he should be. I’ve often wondered if I have some neurodivergence myself.

And I also agree with your other ppints.

You’ve responded to me but I think you meant to respond to someone else.

I have not proposed a max voting and and yes, I did read the article and I thought it was so interesting that I posted it here.

No matter where people stand, it’s great to see that they care about our democracy.

I am really concerned that society being what it is now, with so many life-related systems compromised by inequitable access to wealth, oligarchical and other types of undemocratic rule, unhealthy food, mind-controlling and body-affecting technology, pollution, etc, etc., we may be in for ever-growing levels of cognitive decline at earlier ages accompanied by growing levels of neurodivergent conditions in children as well as mental health problems in general. We really need to concentrate on the causes of growing unhealth and stick together, not let the system make us more defensive and isolated. Know the real enemy.

If you think people can be too young to think clearly because their brain is far enough from a healthy adult human’s as to represent one unsuitable for decision making you necessarily must draw the same conclusions around aged brains.

What I am saying is that all of us, no matter our age, are affected by multiple, complex factors and that we shouldn’t be too quick to generalise. Our body does wear down but this doesn’t have to affect decision-making. Some go to their deaths in their 90s with a very lucid mind, some start getting dementia symptoms in their 40s and some a lot earlier, including childhood. We are all affected by a society which tends to promote health-reducing habits and environments for reasons of profit and then there are genetic factors in the mix as well. There’s quite a bit of research at present on healthy old age.

From the moment we are born, we are one day closer to our death but that doesn’t mean we must accept how we fare according to general trends. Our intelligence changes, not only declines, and we can play a conscious role in this.

We’re on the same page but not the same paragraph.

If we’re gonna be ageist and generalise I’ll add my 20c worth. In your mid-twenties you are neither more or less sharp than in your mid-sixties or even seventies. Much has to do with genetic, developmental, cultural and particularly lifestyle factors. A twenty-something person who has lived in physical, social, or cultural deprivation is unlikely to be as sharp as a sixty-something person who has lived in relative affluence which would be marked by healthy nutrition, reasonable educational opportunities, contacts, stability, etc.

General knowledge is also culturally loaded.

Anyway, I won’t rave on. The gist is that generalising about personal attributes like age, gender, etc, is a bit silly and not useful. They cannot be used as sole indicators of anything. We grow and develop out of a complex of factors and we need to implement real democracy, as you say, and also work towards a much fairer and just society than we have now.

I guess I lead a sheltered life. 😆