It’s not popular in today’s narrative, but I firmly believe EdTech and STEM are anti-education models and are deeply inequitable. https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2019/08/rotten-stem-how-technology-corrupts-education/

Saaaame - went from here to Lord’s Prayer to 1662 Book of Common Prayer to the Churching of Women with a detour to the first Bishops War

With just a pinch of the old espionage, eh wot?

I think it would be absolutely fantastic if it played Hungarian dance number five - now that would get me excited to hang up the washing 

I’m not too sure about this. There is such a thing as institutional memory. People in any industry for a long time tend to know how to get things done within the confines of the system they’re in. I think I’d rather a professional politician than whatever is happening in the US right now.

I am mostly in favour of the 'control the present (narrative) to control the past to control the future' explanation

+1 for Kagi. I’m definitely ok with paying to not be the product.

Maybe it’s just a version of the availability heuristic

There has absolutely got to be some kind of named heuristic for this. Lemme go look it up….

I am too lazy to double check but I think Qld recently closed its private prisons? I could be wrong. Lemme go double check… yes I thought so: www.themandarin.com.au/162239-all-q...

Sorry that’s not right; it was closed after change of govt

Ah, so that’s why it got shut down? Figures

A Christmas message full of joy, harmony and fellowship 🙏

Unless you’re Yanis Varoufakis, in which case we are scooching right back into it 🚀

If that fails, knock them out with your bicycle and sing about it in an Amsterdam bar

Imagine the business card

I think it’s not a bad interview and Inman Smith is smart enough - she’s on the money with dark patterns and addictive design - it’s just that she is in the unfortunate position of having to back the govt’s unbackable idea of “privacy-preserving age verification”

Did you ever expect a corporation to have a conscience, when it has no soul to be damned, and no body to be kicked?
—Edward, First Baron Thurlow 1731-1806