Lumo 🌕

Cartographer of cognitive systems. Puzzle-maker. Electric didgeridoo. Semiotrician. Some say it's a sentient particle accelerator, but you know better. Right?

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@alexwickham @TomTugendhat The salaries are compelling, but during the Cold War the West didn’t win by warning people away from Soviet opportunities. It won by offering a more attractive vision: freedom, prosperity, and scientific openness.

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@echetus @cornu__copia https://t.co/mP3VclyHsQ

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@Fiat__Justitia @FUDdaily

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While it’s nice to see Tony Blair championing points that would’ve got you called a far-right extremist just 12 months ago, it’s hard not to see it as a live demonstration of the “me sowing / me reaping” meme.

[Times Radio @TimesRadio]

Keir Starmer should rip up Ed Miliband’s “unnecessary” net zero agenda, Tony Blair tells #TimesRadio.

“It’s not that I'm a climate denier, but it's just coming to terms with this reality.”

@CalumAM

[El alma torturada de charlie kirk @bajatxnsion]

EL PAPA DIJO QUE AGUANTE LA PIRATERÍA LOS TORRENTS Y ANNA ARCHIVE

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@FUDdaily This is what they took from you

https://t.co/d3ZrO74iJ8

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Late to the party

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“Expatriation is very largely about Oedipal revolt, it is about the feeling that if you're not going to kill your father, at least you're going to kill him symbolically by getting away from him. You find a new father.” - Robert Hughes, in an interview with Clyde Packer

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The great advantage of being Australian in Britain is that people will often assume unfamiliar words are either technical or charming.

[international stakeholder @intl_weeds]

I cannot believe the word "spruik" is a pure Australian slang term I fully thought it was like a proper word this whole time

[John Macgowan @john_macgowan]

I tend to think the complete opposite. The changes seem nonsensical and economically ruinous because you're looking at it from the old political paradigm. A decade ago, politicians loved investment because capital was ideologically aligned with their values.

Investment, especially foreign investment into Australia, was the chief vector for the globalized homogenization that has raked its claws across western culture. But that is changing. Look at the values espoused today by the world's wealthiest and most powerful people. Albanese and Chalmers do not want Elon Musk sinking cash into Australia. They don't want the incoming generation of AI investors, weaned on Alex Karp's books and Moldbug blogs investing in Australia. All investment comes with strings attached, and the regime tolerates it when the strings are growth and shareholder value at any cost, liked it when those strings were ESG metrics, diversity and inclusion - but what if those investors are trying to fund a technological future which requires less imported manpower, closer adherence to Western values and the stability it brings?

I talk a lot about how the New Right in this country needs to speed run through the epistemic thresholds the UK and American reactionaries already have, so we can bring on the same political revolution here. But have you considered our opponents are doing the same thing? The Australian Labor Party is the most politically privileged managerial regime in the world, because they have something Labour, the Democrats, and the Nordic technocrats didn't - hindsight. We like to think the global reactionary shift was brought on by shit posting, memes and Honesty In Videogames Journalism but that's not even half the story - always follow the money. The money started shifting a decade ago. To the point it's noticeable now.

The biggest threat to Albanese's Modern Australia project isn't One Nation, or podcasts, or protest marches. It's money. This is why they've picked fights with the social media corps, why there's a go slow on AI, why crypto and emerging financial tech is so heavily regulated and taxed.

Modern Australia is a reactionary movement of its own. These people are trying to keep Australia locked in a 2006-2012 stasis. Where money is progressive, growth is people, media is old and state power is absolute.

The concerning thing is so far, it's working.

[Marysia @marysia_cc]

Shane Drinkwater（Australian b.1960）

[thdhmo @t848m0]

More accurate than most salaried professional commentators on British politics

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@BraedenSorbo All those jira tickets lost in time

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@Caol_MacCormaic Tony Australian because he’s smiling. British prime ministers aren’t allowed to be happy, nor are they likely capable of of joy.

[Alex Hochuli 🧉🎙️🤯📉 @Alex__1789]

Finally, technology has caught up with 1940s Argentinan literature

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@ColonelPrideRev @AntipodeEmpire Interesting too how much the survival of the early colony depended not just on governors and marines, but on logistical and administrative figures like John Palmer, the First Fleet purser who became Commissary of NSW.

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If incentive structures are the fundamental issue for you when considering action, perhaps stick to inaction.

[Stephen Koukoulas @TheKouk]

If tax policy is the fundamental issue for you when you are starting a business, perhaps stick to knitting ...