I've listening to this streaming station a lot recently:
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I've had to adjust my morning alarm routine to not include the weather. I don't need to hear that it's 5 degrees before I've even gotten out of bed. #fuckitscold
Things are going well in the Land Of The Free(tm).
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/technology/trump-palantir-data-americans.html
StilgherrianWith Australia’s Scams Prevention Framework Bill expected to be passed this week (https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_LEGislation/Bills_Search_Results/Result?bId=r7275), Treasury has issued a guidebook to how it works. https://treasury.gov.au/publication/p2025-623966
Scams Prevention Framework Bill 2024
Helpful information Text of bill First reading: Text of the bill as introduced into the Parliament Third reading: Prepared if the bill is amended by the house in which it was introduced. This version of the bill is then considered by the second house. As passed by
Jeez I'd love it if the Guardian's comments section was open for longer than 45 seconds after the article has been posted.
How the most fractured nation on Earth is coming together to overthrow a Goliath
Cut off from the world and mired in a deadly conflict, Myanmar is suffering from a forgotten war. But the ABC embedded with one of the many resistance groups who have banded together — and, against all odds, finally appear to be winning.
Tim RichardsI wasn't going to say much about the result, but I will say this...
IMO the neoliberal economics of the past forty-five years have broken democracy - by filling the average person's life with so much uncertainty economically (eg jobs, housing) that they'll reach out for passing strongmen and accept various scapegoats.
This economic dislocation gets passing mentions in analysis, but I think it's actually *the* big thing. However, it would require such a huge effort to fight vested interests that it gets almost instinctively pushed aside.
And centre-left parties are so complicit with the existing economic order and its corporate backers that they're hopeless at answering the challenge - see the Democrats, Labor, Labour, the Social Democrats, etc. They're only able to offer more of the same with tweaks, and that's become highly unappealing.
It feels a lot like the 1930s, and I'm not sure how we get out of this fascist spiral (a big modern equivalent of FDR's New Deal such as a UBI, maybe?) Economic business as usual isn't going to cut it, that's for sure.
Australia seriously needs to have a good hard think about its defence alliances.
(Edit: this is an opinion I've had for decades tbh, it's just that recent events may have created a bit more of an incentive...)