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The power of yindyamarra: how we can bring respect to Australian democracy – The Conversation Indonesia

This is a piece by Stan Grant, Professor of Indigenous Belonging at Charles Sturt University, and Jack Jacobs, Research Fellow at Charles Sturt University, following the launch of the Yindyamarra Pledge for democracy: a call to reimagine Australian democracy.

Democracy is under siege.

In every corner of the world, it faces external and domestic threats that challenge its standing relative to alternative political systems.

China rises, an authoritarian power to threaten the West.

Russia invades Ukraine, its democratic neighbour, as the West rallies in support.

Autocracy is also on the rise within democracies. The United States, Brazil, United Kingdom, India and several European democracies are or have recently been led by populists fuelled by the discontent of the dispossessed: those left behind by markets that have for decades prioritised profits over people.

All this is inflamed by tribalism and a public debate deranged by the worst aspects of social media.

Not long ago, political scientist Francis Fukuyama declared liberal democracy the end of history.

What went wrong?

One place to look for an explanation is in history, in the Enlightenment myth of progress that has shaped our world since the 18th century.

From the French Revolution of 1789 to the invasion of Iraq in 2003, many philosophical liberals have been motivated by the idea that history has a forward movement: that human societies, though infinitely complex and diverse, are to be experimented on and redesigned according to rational, liberal principles.

This illusion of destiny to invoke a striking phrase from Harvard University philosopher and economist Amartya Sen has left tragedy in its wake.

Perhaps the most pernicious form of progress myth has been colonialism.

Throughout the 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, European powers struggled to subjugate once free peoples in Australia, the Americas, Asia, Africa and the Pacific.

In her recent book, Legacy of Violence, Harvard historian Caroline Elkins reminds us that in the British case, liberalism was used as a coercive force:

[] violence was inherent to liberalism. It resided in liberalisms reformism, its claims to modernity, its promises of freedom, and its notion of the law exactly the opposite places where one normally associates violence.

In places like Australia and India from where these authors hail, respectively the British promised freedom but delivered submission.

What are we to do with liberal democracy, a tradition that makes a virtue of freedom yet has been imposed down the barrel of a gun?

To the colonised millions of the world, liberalism remains captured by Whiteness.

These people are speaking back to liberalism.

They have not always spoken the language of liberalism they have their own traditions of tolerance, dignity, sympathy and respect but have brought a powerful moral force to liberalism.

Edmund Burke, the 18th-century philosopher-statesman of Irish Catholic heritage, spoke back to liberalism when he impeached Warren Hastings, governor of Bengal, for betraying liberal ideals through colonialism in India.

Mahatma Gandhi, writing a century later in Hind Swaraj, spoke back to liberalism when he called on the English to honour their own scriptures and respect Indian freedom.

W.E.B. Du Bois spoke back to liberalism when he told a UN Peace Conference after the second world war that the West had conquered Germany [] but not their ideas by keeping illiberal practices alive through colonialism in Africa.

These people shamed liberalism.

Rosa Parks refused to sit in the back of a bus and inspired a movement.

Powerful voices like Martin Luther King junior may have appealed to liberalisms dream of character over colour, but he had no illusions about an America that he had also damned to hell.

In Australia, Yorta Yorta man William Cooper sent a petition to King George VI to remind him of his moral duty to a people whose lands were expropriated by the Crown and whom the Crown denied legal status. He called for black seats in parliament to prevent the extinction of the Aboriginal race.

And Pearl Gambayani Gibbs helped lead a day of mourning in 1938, proclaiming: I am more proud of my Aboriginal blood than of my white blood.

These figures implore us to remember that liberal democracy is but one way of living and being.

Wiradjuri people have our own philosophy, yindyamarra. It defies simple translation but it grounds respect in all we do.

How do we bring respect yindyamarra to Australian democracy? Is our liberalism even capable of respecting the sovereignty never ceded of First Nations peoples?

Australian liberalism has passed from extermination to exclusion to assimilation but has stopped short of recognition.

After two centuries of broken hearts and shattered dreams, it is little wonder hope can appear delusional.

As Munanjahli and South Sea Island writer and scholar Chelsea Watego has said: Hope is as passive as the social world we occupy insists we have to be.

Hope, or its absence, has been an enduring theme in talking back to history and political liberalism. Du Bois spoke of a hope not hopeless but unhopeful.

A constitutionally enshrined First Nations Voice offers its own version of what Noel Pearson has spoken of as radical hope.

Proponents of the Voice say it is a pathway to justice to truth and treaty.

Political philosopher Duncan Ivison says it prefigures a possible refounding of Australia.

But its modesty a voice not a veto risks losing faith with First Nations people. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has already said it is a voice nothing more, nothing less.

He says the parliament will set the composition of the Voice.

That begs the question: can the parliament meet the urgency of the demands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples?

The challenge of the Constitutional Voice is to honour the unending struggle of those Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander champions who have sought to prise open the locked door of Australian democracy.

With liberal democracy struggling under the weight of its racist and violent history, now is a time for our voices to add more weight to the scales: to demand liberal democracy is responsible, accountable, and fit for the 21st century.

Yindyamarra is a Wiradjuri voice; a voice for justice.

It is a voice inspired by Wiradjuri elders including my father, Dr Uncle Stan Grant Snr, whose work has helped a new generation to speak Wiradjuri and speak back to power.

Yindyamarra is his gift to me, his son.

Yindyamarra winhanganha: calls us to build a world of respect grounded in our knowledge and being in a world worth living in

Yindyamarra is an antidote to Western nihilism and the worst of Western liberalism.

Yindyamarra is my fathers Wiradjuri hope; a hope to be earned.

Yindyamarra dares this nation to build a democracy worthy of that hope.

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Peter Thiels midterm bet: the billionaire seeking to disrupt Americas democracy – The Guardian

Peter Thiel is far from the first billionaire who has wielded his fortune to try to influence the course of American politics. But in an election year when democracy itself is said to be on the ballot, he stands out for assailing a longstanding governing system that he has described as deranged and in urgent need of course correction.

The German-born investor and tech entrepreneur, a Silicon Valley disrupter who helped found PayPal alongside Elon Musk and made his fortune as one of the earliest investors in Facebook, has catapulted himself into the top ranks of the mega-donor class by pouring close to $30m into this years midterm elections.

Hes not merely favoring one party over another, but is supporting candidates who deny the legitimacy of Joe Bidens election as president and have, in their different ways, called for the pillars of the American establishment to be toppled entirely.

Thiels priorities this midterm cycle have partly aligned with those of Donald Trump, with whom he has had an on-again, off-again relationship since writing him a $1.25m check during the 2016 presidential campaign.

Thiel, like Trump, has made it his business to end the careers of what he calls the traitorous 10, Republican House members who voted to impeach Trump in the wake of the January 6 insurrection. Four of these members opted not to run for re-election at all, and four more, including Liz Cheney, the vice-chair of the House committee investigating January 6, went down in the primaries.

But there are also signs that Thiel is thinking around and beyond the former president. The lions share of his largesse $28m and counting has been directed towards two business proteges who, with his help, have established themselves as gadfly rightwing darlings: JD Vance, the best-selling author of the blue-collar memoir Hillbilly Elegy, who is running for Senate in Ohio, and Blake Masters, a self-styled anti-progressive and anti-globalist who is running for Senate in Arizona.

Over the past decade, ever since the supreme court dramatically loosened the rules of political campaign giving in its Citizens United decision, Thiel has placed sizable bets on candidates who are not only conservative but have sought to challenge longstanding institutional traditions and break the Republican partys own norms: Senator Ted Cruz in Texas and Senator Josh Hawley in Missouri as well as Trump himself.

Masters, who has campaigned on the notion that psychopaths are running the country right now and spoken approvingly of the anti-establishment philosophy of the 1990s Unabomber, and Vance, a frequent speaker on the university circuit during his book tour days who now says universities are the enemy, fit the same mould. They and Thiel all have ties to a branch of the New Right known as NatCon, whose adherents believe, broadly, that the establishment needs to be torn down, much as Thiel and his fellow Silicon Valley disrupters believed two decades ago that the future lay in destroying longstanding business models and practices.

Thiel himself opined as far back as 2009 that he no longer believed democracy to be compatible with freedom and expressed little hope that voting will make things better. While a member of Trumps presidential transition team in 2016, he flashed his institution-busting instincts by proposing that a leading climate change skeptic, William Happer, be appointed as White House science adviser. He also pushed for a libertarian bitcoin entrepreneur who did not believe in drug trials to head up the Food and Drug Administration.

Such proposals were too much even by Trumps iconoclastic standards. Steve Bannon, Trumps ultra-right campaign manager and political strategist, told a Thiel biographer: Peters idea of disrupting government is out there.

Thiel did not respond to a request for an interview, and his representatives did not respond to multiple invitations to comment.

Masters and Vance also did not respond to inquiries.

Thiel sat out the 2020 election but appears to have been re-energized by the Covid-19 pandemic, Trumps claims of a stolen presidential election and the January 6 insurrection. Addressing a NatCon convention this time last year, he denounced the incredible derangement of various forms of thought, political life, scientific life and the sense-making machinery generally in this country.

Liberal democracy, in his view, had turned the United States government into a dissent-squashing Ministry of Truth working toward a homogenizing, brain-dead, one-world state a problem to which only rightwing nationalism could provide an all-important corrective.

Were close to a Toto moment, a little dog pulling aside the curtain on the holy of holies only to find theres nobody there, he told the crowd. We always think of democracy as a good thing. But where do you shift from the wisdom of crowds to the madness of crowds? When does it become a mob, a racket, a totalitarian lie?

Such views might be easy to write off as the eccentricities of a wealthy man but for the money that Thiel has spent buying influence and supporting like-minded candidates thanks in large part to a campaign financing system that, while still capping contributions to individual campaigns, allows unlimited funding of nominally outside groups and political action committees.

Campaign finance experts see Thiel as a symptom of a much broader problem: a political environment in which a small group of mega-donors are growing ever bolder in the size of the checks they write and the erosion of any nominal firewall between the war chests run by candidates and the funds controlled by outside groups dedicated to their success.

It does seem to be getting worse, said Chisun Lee, an expert on campaign finance who directs the Brennan Centers Elections and Government program at New York University. Outside spending in this federal midterm cycle is more than double the last midterm cycle. Since Citizens United, just 12 mega-donors, eight of them billionaires, have paid one dollar out of every 13 spent in federal elections. And now were seeing a troubling new trend that some mega-donors are sponsoring campaigns that attack the fundamentals of democracy itself.

Thiels spending has been dwarfed this year by at least three other mega-donors Soros ($128m to the Democrats), shipping products tycoon Richard Uihlein ($53m to Republicans) and hedge fund manager Kenneth Griffin ($50m to Republicans). And Thiel has some way to go to match the consistent giving, cycle after cycle, of the Koch brothers or Sheldon Adelson, the late Las Vegas casino magnate.

Many experts also believe the attack on democracy began long before it became as explicit as Thiel has made it, because the whole point of funneling large amounts of money into the political system is to sway policy away from the will of the majority to the narrow interests of the donors and their friends.

This ability to control the policy agenda drives spending even more than the desire to see specific candidates win, says the Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig, whose 2011 book Republic, Lost offers an enduringly devastating analysis of the relationship between money and political influence. And the spending is likely only to increase.

Youre going to see much, much bigger individual contributions and an acceleration of contributions to Super Pacs [like the ones established to support Vance and Masters], Lessig said. The candidates and the Super Pacs cant coordinate on spending, but that doesnt mean they cant coordinate on the fundraising. Since the Super Pacs are outspending candidates by orders of magnitude, its all a dance to flush money into Super Pacs They basically call the shots, and politicians cant get anything through that they oppose.

Less than a month from election day, both Vance and Masters are trailing their Democratic opponents in the polls (Vance by less than Masters). But, Lessig says, it would be wrong to conclude Thiel or any of the other mega-donors are wasting their money.

If youre a candidate and you know $10m is going to come in against you on a particular issue, he said, you are going to bend to avoid the effect of that money, whether or not its going to decide the race If youre someone who would otherwise be a strong climate activist, but you know that if you mention a carbon tax, a million dollars will drop from some anti-carbon tax Super Pac, you wont talk about it.

Thiels bid to overthrow the system, in other words, goes well beyond his ability to determine which party controls the Senate next year. The money will solidify the notion that the country is being run by psychopaths, at least among a hard core of Republican voters, analysts warn, and will further harden the ideological battle lines that have split the country in two and made common ground ever harder to find. It also brings the extreme opinions of NatCon further into the mainstream, making it easier for radical Republican candidates to run and win in future races, they say.

We are at a crisis point here, not so much because the ideas are hard to defeat but we dont have a context in which to defeat them, Lessig said. The fact that the same number of people believe the election was stolen as believed it on 6 January is a profound indictment of the information ecology in America.

The Brennan Center believes there are ways of improving the system, at least at the state and local level, and points to efforts in both red and blue states to close certain loopholes and introduce public financing models to rein in the influence of the mega-donors. Lee said she would also like to see federal legislation to build a meaningful firewall between campaign funds and Super Pacs.

The legislation exists, she said, and it would be a constitutional improvement even under [the] Citizens United [ruling]. All we need is the political will to act.

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Artificial Intelligence in Fintech Market Research Report by Components, Application, Deployment, Region – Global Forecast to 2027 – Cumulative Impact…

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Artificial intelligence reveals what the Kardashians would look like without all their cosmetic surgeries – Marca English

Artificial intelligence technology is being used more and more and in many situations it is used to see how people would look with the passing of time or by removing aesthetic touch-ups

This is the case with a TikTok account, run by the Australian streamers Vandahood Live. They posted a video compilation of what the Kardashians would look like naturally on their profile.

Kim Kardashian, Kylie Jenner, Khloe Kardashian, Kris Jenner and Kourtney Kardashian have been the subjects of that now viral TikTok, showing their faces without the surgeries they have been getting over the last few years.

The real video used is from 'Keeping Up with the Kardashians' where you can see their real faces compared to the one generated by artificial intelligence.

The most obvious Kardashian differences are Kylie's thinner lips or Khloe's much thinner nose. In addition, both have admitted in interviews that they have had these surgeries.

"We used three different artificial intelligence software and two different standard graphics software and a full week to get it done," explained Keith, one of the members of Vandahood Live to PetaPixel.

"We had to take a different approach for each family member, as each experienced different changes over the years."

Deep Face Lab, FaceApp and EbSynth were the programs used to recreate the Kardashians.

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BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD OF MASSACHUSETTS USES ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TO SPEED REVIEW TIME, AUTOMATE AUTHORIZATIONS & ELIMINATE ADMINISTRATIVE…

Review time shortened from an average of nine days to less than one day

BOSTON, Oct. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts("Blue Cross") today announced the completion of a proof-of-concept pilot called "FastPass," an automated prior authorization process from end-to-end, eliminating the need for faxes, phone calls and manual processes for payers and providers. The initiative, piloted at New England Baptist Hospital (NEBH), focused on addressing the major problem areas, including reducing the time from submission to decision, alleviating administrative burden, decreasing clinical review time, and increasing clinician satisfaction.

The ProblemPrior Authorization (also known as "Pre-Certification") is a process through which a clinician seeks advanced approval from a health plan to ensure that a service or treatment is covered, medically necessary, and not duplicated. Prior authorizations exist to manage excess health care costs and mitigate patient risk while also helping ensure consumers receive high-quality care. However, prior authorization can be cumbersome for clinicians.

"We realize that the prior authorization process is widely recognized as the single biggest administrative pain point for hospital staff," said Kathy Gardner, RN, vice president of clinical operations at Blue Cross. "We wanted to figure out a way to retain the value of prior authorizations ensuring our members receive treatments that are medically necessary and clinically effective while eliminating the administrative burden on our clinical partners and allowing members to get the care they need sooner."

How it worksBlue Cross engaged Olive, a leading automation and intelligence company bridging the divide in health care, to help streamline both clinician and payer processes and prior authorization decision-making using artificial intelligence (AI).

The technology automated the process of cross-checking Blue Cross' prior authorization requirements in real-time to identify if a prior authorization was required. If a prior authorization was not required, the provider received instant notification that they could proceed with scheduling the procedure. When prior authorizations were required, FastPass used AI to cross-check the clinical history in the electronic medical record against Blue Cross' medical necessity criteria and automatically generate a recommendation in real time, again giving the clinician the ability to proceed with scheduling the procedure. For the remaining prior authorization submissions that required more complex clinical review, FastPass automatically packaged and made available all the clinical documentation and notes to the clinical review team, significantly streamlining and accelerating the reviews.

The ResultsThe pilot at NEBH focused on hip and knee procedures for 32 orthopedic providers over the course of a four-month period. 88% of prior authorization submissions were processed automatically in real-time. The overall impact on prior authorization approval time went from an average of nine days to an average of less than one day. The associated impact on administrative burden and cost has been significant for Blue Cross.

"The FastPass proof-of-concept is just one step in our journey toward automating prior authorizations across BCBSMA to continue to make the process frictionless for our clinical partners and ultimately our members," said Deb Vona, senior director of business operations at Blue Cross.

About Blue Cross Blue Shield ofMassachusettsBlue Cross Blue Shield ofMassachusetts(http://www.bluecrossma.org) is a community-focused, tax-paying, not-for-profit health plan headquartered inBoston. We are committed to the relentless pursuit of quality, affordable and equitable health carewithan unparalleled consumer experience.Consistent with our promise to always put our members first, we are rated among the nation's best health plans for member satisfaction and quality.Connect with us onFacebook,Twitter,YouTube,andLinkedIn.

About OliveOlive delivers automation and intelligence to bridge the divide in healthcare. By addressing the most burdensome operational issues, Olive is reducing costs and increasing capacity for hospitals, health systems and payers, so the focus can remain on delivering the best, most effective care to patients. To learn more about Olive, visit oliveai.com.

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