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$10.billion Housing Australia Fund Is it DOING enough?
Why ? is the Fund NOT investing DIRECTLY in fasttracking home building and/or mortgage relief ?  This would immediately stimulate sectors of the economy such as builders and suppliers. Plus the new homes would be provided FAST.

⁨⁨m.youtube.com/watch?v=qV9eJOLR

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#australia⁩ ⁨#government⁩ ⁨#election2025⁩ ⁨#election⁩ ⁨#housingaffordability⁩ ⁨#economy⁩ ⁨#homelessness⁩ ⁨#scandal⁩ ⁨#scam

⚠️ 🇨🇦 VOTERS 🇨🇦

ALERT: ERG National Research

"We have been receiving complaints from the public regarding a company called ERG National Research that has been sending out a text message (SMS) asking which federal party you would vote for in the next federal election. Those who respond are then asked to provide their postal code."...read more in link

#Canpoli #Cdnpoli #Canada #Scam

canadianresearchinsightscounci

www.canadianresearchinsightscouncil.caALERT: ERG National Research | CRIC
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@realTuckFrumper Speaking of... Because you have to be asleep to believe it.

"WASHINGTON—Noting that millions have already fallen victim... the FBI warned Monday of the ‘#AmericanDream’ scam. “Reports are coming in all across the country of Americans who were promised great #prosperity and #success in exchange for a lifetime of hard work, only to find themselves swindled and left with virtually nothing,” said agent Dean Winthrop..."

"FBI Warns Of ‘American Dream’ #Scam"
theonion.com/fbi-warns-of-amer

The Onion · FBI Warns Of ‘American Dream’ ScamBy The Onion Staff

Because you have to be asleep to believe it.

"WASHINGTON—Noting that millions have already fallen victim... the FBI warned Monday of the ‘#AmericanDream’ scam. “Reports are coming in all across the country of Americans who were promised great #prosperity and #success in exchange for a lifetime of hard work, only to find themselves swindled and left with virtually nothing,” said agent Dean Winthrop..."

"FBI Warns Of ‘American Dream’ #Scam"
theonion.com/fbi-warns-of-amer Not really #Satire

The Onion · FBI Warns Of ‘American Dream’ ScamBy The Onion Staff
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@Rural_Canadian

I took this photo of former farmland near Stratford a few days ago.

Similar 'development' by many small towns out this way.

Feels weird finding hunks of Mississauga or Vaughn or Oakville in these little places.

As to 'affordability' ... totally!*

* if you've got steady/paid-enough work and savings for downpayment and a mortgage typically not below $650k; if not, please get your bicycle out of my two F150s' way thank you kindly

#Australia is a high trust society, that's why scammers from low trust societies with no morals and ethics target us.

It's why Aussies aren't rude to them, we generally believe others are doing the right thing, we give them a "fair go".

BE RUDE. Tell them to GTFO, take their #scam and shove it.

You have to be rude, they are exploiting and eroding our society and trust. Make them feel like they need to think twice before they target their next victim. They need to know they are scum.

#Nostr ist heute ein #Bitcoin-#Scam- und #Spam-Sumpf, der für Dezentralisierungs-Neulinge noch verwirrender ist/sein kann, als das #Fediverse.

Keine Ahnung, weshalb das immer wieder als „ernsthafte“ Alternative (auch für #Bluesky) angesehen wird.

Ihr habt nicht wirklich das Gefühl, dass jemand, der das Fediverse nicht verstanden hat und sich dann auf Bluesky eingerichtet hat, den Schritt zu Nostr wagen wird, oder?!

So the solution to AI scams is... more AI. We have all seen the increase in AI generated scams. The solution to that is more AI? Maybe the reason more ads are being blocked is that there is actually just a lot more scams due to AI making it easier to make?

I still believe that the move from contextual ads to surveillance based ads was and is a massive mistake and the way to fix that is to ban surveillance based ads.

Contextual ads were also a lot more manual, most of the time, meaning scams were harder. Time to learn from mistakes and get rid of surveillance based ads?

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0

google safety
Ars Technica · Google suspended 39.2 million malicious advertisers in 2024 thanks to AIBy Ryan Whitwam

“Your device has been blocked due to illegal activity” — 🙄 sure it has. After fat-fingering github[.]com, we were redirected to a domain running a fake Microsoft tech support scams: pop-ups that lock your browser, shout scary messages, and push you to call a “support” number (aka the scammer who’ll walk you through installing remote access tools).

They're hosted on legit infra like Azure blobs or Cloudflare Pages. That one redirect led to uncovering 1,200+ other domains hosting identical fake support pages. Of course, whenever a redirect like this happens, there's a malicious traffic distribution system (TDS) involved.

Examples include:
- tenecitur.z1.web.core.windows[.]net

- neon-kleicha-36b137[.]netlify[.]app

- us6fixyourwindowsnow[.]pages[.]dev

- microsoft-coral-app-6xv89.ondigitalocean[.]app