… everyone else piles into the market with a “product“ they really don’t want to be pushing, and now we are all part of the world’s largest alpha trial. There’s a couple of sane ways out of it, but both require to do what Sir Humphrey would call a courageous decision by government.

They might be working off the data coming out of South Australia, which I believe was the first jurisdiction with a blanket ban a few years ago.

Keep getting ads for this conference now. Guess who’s the main sponsor?. www.instagram.com/p/DKbL8ZkMp7L

Not while they cling to an economic paradigm that has been empirically shown to be false twice over now. In doing so they keep screwing households and waste the actual economic potential of the country.

“Doc” Evatt would be spinning in his grave!

While you were away x.com/elonmusk/sta...

Possibly (most probably) “just” inserting traps and flags?

I have strong feels for the security staff in all the departments who tried to do the right thing, were threatened with US Marshals, and subsequently lost their jobs.

Muskrats?

But the irony would be ironical if it wasn’t making you cry! web.archive.org/web/20000302...

Everything that’s happened before will happen again. archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes....

Ahh the days when read only was a couple of rubber bands. (Four to be sure) One dropped a deck just once!

Accessible Social media can only work as a publicly owned public good. (Much like the post office). Attention economy platforms should have a civil liability imposed on the platform and authors for reckless indifference to harms caused to Individuals and classes. US Third Circuit Court agrees.

Seeing super balances rise sharply mitigates the outrage one may feel about economic circumstances that would otherwise have you out in the streets, and/or sending your politician a sharp message at the ballot box?

How much of BoM&D is being driven by the fact that M&D may have (or expect to soon have) access to their super?