Breaking News: Disney, Apple and Lionsgate halted ads on X as Elon Musk faced a furor over his endorsement of an antisemitic conspiracy theory on the social media app, formerly known as Twitter. https://t.co/mdmTY7VqLs
To quote a soon-to-be-released National Party ad,
If we’re all going to hell in a handbasket, you might as well have an extra hundred bucks to spend when you get there.
@shawnmicallef I’m reminded of a marketing slogan for the King Toronto Condominiums — “How do we use architecture to create community?”. Better to ask “How can we use community to create architecture?”.
https://t.co/d7oFk9FINC
I published my second weekly post for my Substack newsletter about Street Photography. This one is about photographing silence. https://t.co/R0a5a10o4U
#StreetPhotography#Photography#Substack
I started a Street Photography newsletter on Substack to discuss street photography and share resources. The first post has been published. I invite you to subscribe if you would like to receive them by email. https://t.co/1xd60MEaWR #StreetPhotography#Photography#Substack
“Let us eat and drink, and leave without paying our bill. For tomorrow we die and will have no further need of this place.”
— The world’s billionaires, oil and media barons, corporations, and financial markets, supported by their political servants
COP27 is the culmination of 50 years of deliberate, engineered failure.
The world's governments look like a death cult, built around the demands of elderly billionaires.
My column.
https://t.co/SBkeVyvsb8
Someone shouted "Musk" on a crowded social media platform and people ran for the exits.
I'm now sheltering at @[email protected] (I'm also @mark_mcguire on Instagram & Flickr).
New Zealand is "rapidly becoming an international outlier" with its lax approach to the pandemic. #Covid#Covid19#Masks#WearAMask https://t.co/xTE8KQL50e
Labour and National Governments in New Zealand have ensured large dividends for investors in electricity generation and retailing. The result is expensive electricity and a lack of investment in renewable energy.
https://t.co/sZeln2i2eF
Is THIS civilisation finished? Looks like it. But what comes next? That’s where you come in…
My new short film OUT OF THE ASHES, written by me & @frannyarmstrong and directed by @ageofstupid animation director Martyn Pick.
Please watch and RT!
#Climate#Cop27#RealityCheck
This podcast @lawfareblog podcast is worth listening to.
Someone shouted "Musk" on a crowded social media platform and people are pouring into the street.
For folks who think Mastodon is too complicated, @ARozenshtein says that "everything comes with a learning curve" and some have forgotten we all had to learn how to use Twitter in the first place.
Hear more of his conversation with @qjurecic and @Klonick: https://t.co/2zevfHNyS9
For your commute home: new #ArbitersOfTruth, @qjurecic interviews @ARozenshtein and @Klonick to hash out the questions about the future of the internet sparked by Musk’s reign and the new popularity of Mastodon.
https://t.co/jtSYL0nG6p
It has taken a long time, but we're at last getting to grips with the enormous environmental impacts of the livestock industry. The struggle to defend the living planet against its predations will be familiar to anyone involved in fighting the fossil fuel industry 20 years ago.🧵
"My main concern is about whether we can provide enough entertainment for those people on cruise ships, as opposed to Covid.”
— Dunedin NZ Mayor Jules Radich
They must have a cinema on the ship. Perhaps they could screen 'Contagion'. I hear it’s very entertaining.
“Monetary policy is a blunt instrument.”
— Paul Conway,
The chief economist of the Reserve Bank of NZ
Q. Who enriched property owners and killed housing affordability in NZ?
A. The NZ Government and the Reserve Bank, in the living room, with a blunt instrument.