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Joshua Pocius
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👨‍🏫 Lecturer, UniMelb School of Social and Political Sciences
🔬 Medical humanities | corporeal cinema | AIDS cultural criticism | bodies bodies bodies
🗺️ Naarm/Melbourne, Australia
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My 3 good things today all happened on my run:
🦵 ran 5km! Nearly tripped over again on a different bit of pavement but caught myself this time.
🚘 ran past a house with 2 swasticars out front and hocked up a big loogie
🎧 my fav techno banger (Kisloty People) shuffled on to perfectly sync w my last km
March 13, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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I realize that a lot of this may seem dense and like it’s a bunch of finance shit. But it’s very simple: CoreWeave, a company that sells data centers for the AI boom, loses hundreds of millions doing so and is burdened with debt it cannot hope to serve. Nobody is making money in AI. Nobody.
March 7, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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Truly taking on the United States and its tech industry cannot be done in isolation. Countries must form a new alliance not just to develop an alternative tech infrastructure, but to fundamentally change who that technology serves — the public, not profiteers.

www.disconnect.blog/p/the-united...
The new technological infrastructure they develop cannot simply emulate the American model, but in another context. It needs to throw off its control on profit maximization, share price manipulation, and social control. Instead, it needs to embrace open protocols and federated infrastructures with a goal of maximizing the public good rather than creating the next unicorn. The solutions will not come from random coders, software engineers, or hackers though. Properly building out an alternative will necessitate an important role for government to finance development, direct key projects, and keep the public interest at the core of the work instead of letting corporations capture key infrastructures or tech savvy developers build things that only work for themselves. Such an infrastructure will likely be very different than the centralized systems we have today, where a few major companies try to control virtually our entire digital experience. The decentralization such a project requires will ensure that countries have more power to shape how digital systems work in their jurisdictions to better fit their cultural and social norms, but also to allow their citizens access to a wide range of culture, information, and communication tools. There will undoubtedly be challenges on that path, but sorting through them will be far better than remaining dependent on US tech monopolies or simply switching allegiance to those emanating from China.
March 4, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Canada and its allies should start looking at sanctions against US political and economic leaders, to make them feel the consequences of their actions. That should include tech billionaires, especially Elon Musk.

www.disconnect.blog/p/the-united...
A frequent response of Western governments looking to rein in countries acting outside international norms and rules is to hit their ruling classes with sanctions, as has been done in places like Russia and Venezuela. A rogue United States should be subject to similar treatment, and it shouldn’t just hit administration officials, but key private-sector figures backing what the Trump administration is doing. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has debased himself to get in Trump’s good graces, and would be on obvious target for such sanctions, as would far-right financier Peter Thiel and venture capitalist Marc Andreessen. But no one is a more obvious target than Elon Musk, the billionaire once praised as a future-building genius who has now made his true nature undeniable to the public. Musk is actively working to remake the US government — in many cases to serve his own interests — and is trying to push his right-wing project internationally, including in Canada.
March 4, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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It’s either that or the 5x scented candles and aroma diffuser pumping out Troye Sivan’s twink essence responsible for my newly positive mood 🤷‍♀️
March 2, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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🏋️💪 ok just did a 55min BodyPump sesh (at home) and feel like a brand nu bish. (Skipped the lunge track out of respect for my patella but even the squats seemed to not be a huge issue!)
March 2, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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I’ve setup downtime and added app limits to my phone, they’re so easy to override though. I think I just need to instil better self control 💪
March 2, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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🚲🌧️ I just cycled home from doing groceries and missed a downpour by mere minutes
🦵🚲 my knee didn’t hurt or click that much while cycling, so I’ll probably be able to resume cycling to get around from this week
🧹🔋 I was able to vacuum my entire flat thoroughly, w the Dyson battery dying right on time
March 1, 2025 at 11:50 PM