Every time I say anything about it… Like you, I’m sure. Every time. Exhausting. Thank you for keeping going, and solidarity.

Opening text of a thread by Palantir from X Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.

Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different.
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Direct Action for Degrowth A transformative, liberatory political act of collective refusal and creation. This is a lightly edited transcript of a presentation I gave last night to the Degrowth Network Australia (insta here) a...

You'd have to be hiding under a rock with your fingers in your ears not to notice that degrowth in some for or another is coming, whether we like it or not.

Better to choose our path.

Here I propose Direct Action as a liberatory, emancipatory, fun and joyful path to degrowth.

If you're concerned about the state of the world (who isn't) and wondering what we should be doing to push back / chart a course to a better world, this proposal from @timhollo.bsky.social is well worth your time.

Direct Action for Degrowth A transformative, liberatory political act of collective refusal and creation. This is a lightly edited transcript of a presentation I gave last night to the Degrowth Network Australia (insta here) a...

You'd have to be hiding under a rock with your fingers in your ears not to notice that degrowth in some for or another is coming, whether we like it or not.

Better to choose our path.

Here I propose Direct Action as a liberatory, emancipatory, fun and joyful path to degrowth.

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Sorry, two former Labor politicians gunning to lead one of Australia’s largest fossil fuel lobby groups?
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Ostrom, Gibson-Graham…

It’s about working it out as you go, in my opinion. I think the problem is less knowing what transformation looks like and more knowing that it’s possible, and being willing to let go of the old.

They bring me such joy

A tiny jewel of a bird, with yellow belly, black wings and cap with white spots and a splash of red tail feathers perches on a shrub outside my window

In today’s other fabulous news, the spotted pardalotes are back in my garden!

This is a photo from two years ago - couldn’t get one this morning. They’re too speedy!

That’s my point. It has to be. But too often we get electoral wins, dust off our hands, and leave it to government to fix shit.

Equal parts delighted to see the Hungarian people kick out Orbán and deeply worried about the follow-through.

Magyár is lining up for a restoration, booting out the neo-fascists. But a restoration of neoliberalism won’t fix the roots of the crisis.

We need transformation, not restoration.

Inexplicable monsters Thinking about One Nation with the help of Rebecca Solnit (and Hannah Arendt) For [many people], the present seems to be perpetual, unchanging, unyielding, offering confidence or despair that the future will be like the present, a conclusion that seems to be drawn from the lack of recognition that the

Thinking about One Nation with the help of @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social and Hannah Arendt

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The challenging question: how to stop reacting to the no longer and act to create the not yet?

Inexplicable monsters Thinking about One Nation with the help of Rebecca Solnit (and Hannah Arendt) For [many people], the present seems to be perpetual, unchanging, unyielding, offering confidence or despair that the future will be like the present, a conclusion that seems to be drawn from the lack of recognition that the

Thinking about One Nation with the help of @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social and Hannah Arendt

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So it’s not just me they stopped even responding to…

This coming Thursday evening, I’m running a session for the Degrowth Network Australia on Direct Action as a path to Degrowth (and broad economic, social and political transformation)

Register here:

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As Jewish Australians, we are devastated to learn of the Israeli assault on Lebanon yesterday. We urge @albomp.bsky.social and Foreign Minister Wong to speak out against Israel's violent escalation and call on the Government to take decisive action by demanding an immediate ceasefire.

I was being tailgated by a Tesla the other day, doing 82 in an 80 zone in my little Cupra EV. I took great pleasure in slowing down to 75 while the lane next to us was full. He could not handle. It was very funny.

Tony Abbott coming remarkably close to the real point, although obviously failing to realise it due to ideological blinkers

Zohran, Zack and the necessity - and limits - of left populism 💚 Zohran and Zack 💚 Is there a symbolism we can find in the fact that these two excitingly energetic, righteously angry, charmingly smiling outsiders shaking up global left politics both have names s...

Since it appears we’ve had a reprieve from Armageddon and can live to fight another day, now feels like a good time to re-up this recent piece of mine, teasing out the necessity and limits of left populism.

What do we do if our movement critiques the system as broken but needs the system to work?

Zohran, Zack and the necessity - and limits - of left populism 💚 Zohran and Zack 💚 Is there a symbolism we can find in the fact that these two excitingly energetic, righteously angry, charmingly smiling outsiders shaking up global left politics both have names s...

Since it appears we’ve had a reprieve from Armageddon and can live to fight another day, now feels like a good time to re-up this recent piece of mine, teasing out the necessity and limits of left populism.

What do we do if our movement critiques the system as broken but needs the system to work?

Impunity still has some limits Ben Roberts-Smith has finally been arrested for war crimes. If our laws and institutions are to have any meaning, then serious breaches, egregious breaches, high-profile and horrifying breaches must ...

Some thoughts on Ben Roberts-Smith, impunity, violence, and the continuing collapse of norms and institutions. And Hannah Arendt, of course.

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Just some quick thoughts, but I had to say something. I despise that man and everything he stands for, I couldn’t not write something…

Impunity still has some limits Ben Roberts-Smith has finally been arrested for war crimes. If our laws and institutions are to have any meaning, then serious breaches, egregious breaches, high-profile and horrifying breaches must ...

Some thoughts on Ben Roberts-Smith, impunity, violence, and the continuing collapse of norms and institutions. And Hannah Arendt, of course.

in-between-days.ghost.io/impunity-sti...

Ben Roberts-Smith arrested: former Australian soldier to be charged with five war crime murders in Afghanistan Roberts-Smith previously failed in his attempt to sue three newspapers which published allegations he murdered unarmed civilians and bullied comrades

Best. News. In. Years.

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A crescent Earth against the black of space.

Some of the imagery coming down from the Artemis II crew is breathtaking...

If you turn it upside down it’s more obvious. West Africa, with Spain peeking in.

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