In today’s class, we will be looking at the day-to-day symptoms of a decrepit empire in free fall:

Imagine the Israelis doing acknowledgement of country.

“Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate."

Phrase of the moment: "alarmingly shallow ideas" futurism.com/future-socie...

Imagine the Israelis doing acknowledgement of country.

“Why is land in the West Bank being sold off to US citizens?” Can we have one guess?

“China exported 769,000 automobiles in April, with new-energy vehicles accounting for 52.7% of total exports” “New energy”? Since when was electricity “new”?

“Europe Restricts Microsoft, Amazon, and Google From Handling Government Health, Financial, and Legal Data” Meanwhile, UK and Australian governments can’t hand over their citizens data fast enough.

tfw the US Republican Party is now referred to using the same syntax as 1970s undergrad student politics: Republican Party (MAGA-Trumpist) Cf. Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist)

“China exported 769,000 automobiles in April, with new-energy vehicles accounting for 52.7% of total exports” “New energy”? Since when was electricity “new”?

Do you remember the village where an IDF soldier destroyed a statue of Jesus? Three days later, another video showed IDF soldiers destroying vital solar panels in the same village. Here's an update ⬇️

The documentary that the BBC refused to air - Gaza: Doctors Under Attack - won a Bafta last night. The documentary shows the targeting, detainment and torture of medics in Gaza by Israeli authorities. #Bafta #Baftas

Slightly increase a band. Meat Pie.

How's that ICC war crimes trial progressing? Are Albanese and Minns keen for another Israeli state visit yet? "Israeli soldiers say orders were to kill any man encountered in Gaza. Troops admitted Palestinian men were shot regardless of age, whether they were armed and while holding white flags"

the tech world has genuinely not grappled with how many people despise them and what they make

Luckily Microsoft’s new user agreement re-classifies Copilot as ‘entertainment.’

“In inner-city areas such as Southbank, entire apartment towers have been described as ‘ghost towers’. For instance, at 18 Moray Street, a 38-level building containing more than 100 furnished apartments has remained entirely vacant for years.” Radical change is needed, now. #auspol #politas

“Gina Rinehart’s company donates ‘sexy’ private plane to Pauline Hanson’s One Nation”

You don't hate AI enough.

Thanks to DuckDuckGo, this was mostly empty for me. If I’d had a VPN switched on, it would also have been wrong about half the remaining few details.

The only pandemic on my mind lately is the rapid spread of absolute stupidity.

“Ley urges Liberals to accept Farrer loss to One Nation with ‘humility’, saying ‘voters never get it wrong’l Sussan Ley would have been great in the 1933 Reichstag elections.

Food for thought

How many Australians who served in the IDF in the last 2.5 years have been charged with crimes against humanity? I’ll wait.

Spain's Prime Minister awarded the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Palestine with its highest civilian honour on Thursday for her work documenting atrocities in the Gaza Strip.

If I were a gambler I’d be betting on the implosion of the US economy within the next 24 months.

A UK MP with dual Aussie citizenship is copying our Rudd/Gillard/Rudd and Abbot/Turnbull/Morrison strategies for Labor leadership. Good luck with that. #Auspol #Starmer #UKelections www.thenational.scot/news/2609279...

Crazy that this was Australia's last ever Liberal PM. #auspol #farrer #farrervotes

It was the blurst of times.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MASTER.

Everybody has a price, as the old adage goes.

Guess now that the ANU has been utterly trashed, she can convincingly claim ‘mission accomplished.’

French prosecutors seek charges against Elon Musk and X over child sexual abuse images

Some would say that genocide has become ‘almost fashionable’ for Jillian Segal and other Netanyahu propagandists.

Name any other OECD country in which a lunatic like this would be permitted to remain in the presidency.

NEW from me: many of our universities are now in a dying fall. A new global-national-regional-local split is opening up, which could choke off progress on almost all the Government's plans. Do they have a plan? Nope, nothing, not a clue. 👇 isrf.org/blog/whats-t...

Is it Albanese’s heart?

All American (and most Canadian) butter tastes like congealed vegetable oil. It’s bizarre that they even refer to it as butter.

Just re-watched the Manchurian Candidate (2004). So cute how the premise for a US coup back then was sophisticated mind-control technology administered via neural implants, whereas the reality turned out to be just pre-existing malignant narcissism and an elaborate child sex-trafficking ring.

Ocean cruises. Not even once.

A class at my kids’ school put up little statements about the good they want to do in the world and I was over the moon about this one - then I learned they meant to say “teach people in jail” which is also good!

“‘We don’t hear the frogs, we don’t see the birds’: government repeatedly delayed water to NSW wetlands, documents reveal” Turns out you can get silent springs by both poisoning them, and by deliberately strangling them.

Albanese’s future legacy? This was once unimaginable for Blair too.

Support the Jewish Council of Australia.

Apparently, journals, universities and publishers cannot do it but the Oscars can

“Wild scenes”, ABC? What, because ‘animals’ are involved somehow? gtfo

“Wild scenes”, ABC? What, because ‘animals’ are involved somehow? gtfo