Is it ironic that kids these days, born to a society so saturated with technology it could not otherwise function, have no idea how any of it works?
Cooking spaghetti at 3am because Milton Friedman was a bastard
It was a night like any other; me reading in bed before going to sleep. I'd finished the longer novel I was reading earlier that day, and at bedtime wanted something I could easily dip into, so I flicked through 50 Years of the Playboy Interview. I settled on the 1973 interview with Milton Friedman, the Nobel Prize winning economist whose fault it is that everything is terrible today.
This was a mistake.
Trump takes break from fascism: Plays Stalin on race
Trump isn't merely a fascist. In the purge to remove DEI and wokeness, Trump is embracing Soviet Totalitarianism with a vigour Stalin would envy.
Link Wednesday: I wish I had better news
From Queensland, renewed calls to end the use of character witnesses when sentencing those convicted of sexual offences.
Sky News marks Australia Day by killing history and logic
At the end of a Catholic Mass, the priest bids the congregation farewell by telling parishoners "go in peace, to love and serve the Lord" to which those in the pews respond "thanks be to God."*
Now, imagine that a member of said congregation in attendance at Mass the previous Sunday was accused of committing a brutal murder the following Thursday. Under police questioning, the lead investigator tells our chruchgoer, "you can't account for your whereabouts at the time of the murder, your DNA was found under the victim's fingernails, and a bloody hammer was found in your car. How do you explain all this?"
Our devoutly Catholic murderer explains "I couldn't possibly have done it. I was in church last Sunday, and the priest told us all sorts of things about loving our neighbours and told us to go in peace. No one could disobey such Godly commands!"
Homicide detectives would roar with laughter at such a ridiculous turn of logic, but that's the logic of Sky News.
Anita Bryant dead; 2025 not all bad so far
Anita Bryant, one of the original culutre warriors, died last month at the age of 84. Bryant was an early anti LGBTQ influencer and reflecting on the national reaction to her one could gloomily conclude we've gone backwards No one's quite sure who is the original culture warrior - Shirley Temple, who protested sex in movies? Even if they did work out the title holder, any awards ceremony would be fraught; someone who find out the caterer hadn't cut off their trans sister and the entire thing would be a meltdown.
Curtis Yarvin: Alex Jones with hair
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After years of semi-obscurity, blogger Curtis Yarvin, "philosopher of the Dark Elightenment" and bad kind of weirdo, is in the media spotlight as the seer, philospher and genius intellect behind the Silicon Valley broligarchs of the new Trump order. But in truth Curtis Yarvin is nothing special. He's Alex Jones with a larger vocabulary and a lot more hair.
