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Our future: The AI panopticon
September 17, 2024
Apparently I’m on a bit of a roll, two posts in 24 hours, my apologies to your inbox. Dear friends, Do you ever find yourself thinking that the billionaire...
On burnout
September 16, 2024
Dear friends, Today I have been contemplating burnout. Workers under contemporary fast capitalism are, like machines, left on piles of scrap amidst declining...
Alienating the young people
September 10, 2024
Coming at you live, subscribers, I have a new way to view ideas and links all in one place (and via RSS if you hate trying to remember to visit websites like...
Spidey senses, public health, and capital
September 4, 2024
Dear friends, Today I ingested some media – what a gross way to say it – about the role and nature of the differential, challenged, and surmountable problems...
Are we moving closer to the sociopath strata?
September 1, 2024
Dear friends, What a week in the world. I wonder if there will be a time where we can say otherwise, though. We have seen the continued propagation of neo-...
Apple was never pro-creative
August 17, 2024
Dear friends, Do you remember the glory days of Apple as the underdog? From early scrapes with Microsoft, through years of struggling management, the...
The normalisation of greed
August 14, 2024
Dear friends, Not a day goes by where the direct affects of “line may only go up” capitalism doesn’t destroy another part of the human soul. Every single day...
Lead paint, entitlement and a generational class-backslide
July 30, 2024
Dear friends, I have a colleague, lets call them Geoff, who has worked for the University for 15 years. They have been promoted to level C during this time,...
Despotism and cynicism: a combination for the ages
July 25, 2024
Dear friends, Not a day goes by that it doesn’t feel increasingly painful to observe the tyranny of despots. However, I want to take a few moments, with my...
When ideology shapes ontology
July 17, 2024
Dear friends, Today I have a bit of a wondering rant about the way the world has -become- and how ideology grips us so deeply as to destroy lives,...
Health and capital
July 13, 2024
Dear friends, Healthcare in South Australia is deeply broken. This has lasted through successive governments, and is only getting worse. Commentary from...
A tolerable internet
July 12, 2024
Dear friends, We’re living in a strange world of technological “innovation” on the world wide web. After Web 2.0, the utter garbage fire that is Web 3.0 [1],...
The end of education and the rise of the fascist Australian Labor Party
July 8, 2024
Dear friends, Another day in hell. In the last fortnight we have seen: the ALP eject an elected member over their relatively limp anti-genocide stance [1],...
No men only kings and gods
July 3, 2024
Dear friends, Just what in the fiery circles of hell is happening. The United States’ Supreme Court has effectively ruled (in a grandiose movement) that...
I don’t have anything to hide
July 2, 2024
Dear friends, I can’t evade the growing news of increasing government surveillance of citizens internet usage. In the US, UK, Germany and many others there...
Negative distraction
June 27, 2024
Dear friends, I have been thinking about negative distraction since our last idea. Essentially stemming from the notion of capital’s necessary divisive...
Infectious and competitive mindsets
June 26, 2024
Dear friends, Participation in civil society demands capitalist participation. Indeed, as I have discussed elsewhere we are ontologically infused with...
Open soure software and a transition to Linux
June 21, 2024
Dear friends,Some of you will know I am a long time open source software supporter. I have even dabbled in using open source hardware [1]. If you’re...
An empty corporate shell
June 21, 2024
Good morning friends,I have a nugget of thought in my brain which doesn’t want to go away. So here we are the day the day after our last post, having ideas...
AI accessibility, or global heat death?
June 21, 2024
Greetings friends,Yesterday I was listening to one, amidst a litany, technology podcast. They were asserting, like the cacophony, that Apple needed to use...