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Today I ingested some media – what a gross way to say it – about the role and nature of the differential, challenged, and surmountable problems of COVID-19 management, from the early days. Here’s a topic I never thought I’d spend serious time with in an analytical sense, but why not, here we are, and this is basically a variety show. My political spidey sense started tingling, however, the minute that the public health response was rendered as inseparable from perceptions of (government) mandates and the rampant politicisation of a still deadly virus and disease. No, I won’t share what exactly I was engaged with, but you can safely assume that it was a U.S. targeted piece of media. To be honest, and this will give you a clue to the inner workings of my brain – who knew we’d be getting intimate, I also “ingested”, if I must, several videos about trains, in particular how South Australia in what could only be co...

What a week in the world. I wonder if there will be a time where we can say otherwise, though. We have seen the continued propagation of neo-imperialism backed by the traditional imperialists (this just cancels out to “imperialism proper” anyway) [1], the detention of a tech CEO over encrypted(?) messages [2], a waste of human life, sorry, Australian billionaire, urging the end of -coffee breaks- because mask-off slavery of the workers suits his personal agenda better [3], and research showing an >80% failure rate of “AI” projects [4]. It would also be remiss of me to not comment on the slow car crash of a purportedly “worker-focussed” party. The ALP has once again stooped to its lowest common right-wing denominator in making decisions about census, ejecting another member from the caucus [5]. At this point I am beginning to wonder if they will retain enough MPs to make any decisions before the next election, and whil...