- From October 23, 2024:
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Encrypted Chat App ‘Session’ Leaves Australia After Visit From Police
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↳ In case you thought the Australian government wasn’t watching everything you do online, this chat app I’ve never heard of moved org to another country over surveillance demands, so… bet your icecream Meta gives everything straight to Albo. — -
Amazon Says It Has a First Amendment Right to Union Bust
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↳ Ew, Amazon. — -
Cognitive bias, attribute substitution and politics
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Astute stalkers amongst you may remember some 14 years ago I made a YouTube video by the same title...
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Donald Trump and Peter Dutton have both embraced populism. Are working-class voters buying it?
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↳ The whole situation is performative hate and identity division. Of course it “works”, people are scared. Does it work enough to attract votes? We’ll see. The politics of the LNP and Republicans will destroy the planet and our social fabric, so that’s something… — -
Labor concerned Meta may ‘sidestep obligations to pay for news’ as media bargaining code fight reignites
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↳ The Australian government is quite literally just the judicial arm of News Corp. This sick infatuation must end — it’s just too much hegemonic exposition that no one seems to notice. — -
‘Stop all time wasting’: Woolworths workers tracked and timed under new efficiency crackdown
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↳ Capitalism really has the hots for fascism. — - From October 22, 2024:
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South Korea Could Follow North Into Russia-Ukraine War
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↳ So we’re just doing proxy war now? Hello, WWIII I guess. — -
Grim realities, emancipatory futures
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We live in existentially challenging times – between actively unfolding western-backed genocides on several fronts, growingly desperate climate emergencies even at sub-1...
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The Middle-Class Women Who Are Tripping Balls
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↳ Are the “middle class” ok? — -
The FBI’s Weapons of Mass Destruction Program Has a New Target: Animal Rights Activists
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↳ Never been a clearer case of hegemonic enforcement. The FBI as with the other bootlickers only exist to vanguard capitalism — and ensure the destruction of our planet. — -
A local ride-hailing service can’t beat Uber and Bolt, so its drivers are beating up their rivals
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↳ I’d prefer if they’d beat up the owners of those companies, rather than being laterally violent. — -
‘You are not my king,’ Indigenous Australian senator yells at visiting King Charles
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↳ You tell those bloated greedy asshats, Lidia! Sovereignty never ceded. — -
US startup charging couples to ‘screen embryos for IQ’
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↳ Where does one begin? — - From October 21, 2024:
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Humanity is on the verge of ‘shattering Earth’s natural limits’, say experts in biodiversity warning
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↳ Us left falling ever faster from the cliff as the billionaire oligarchs continue their senseless line go up... in musk rockets to live their days in space. Sick sick creatures. — -
Pilbara mining offset scheme leaves threatened species short-changed, review finds
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↳ Mining companies fucking up the environment? You don’t say. —