marcus

For as long as I've been alive the primary business model in every area of goods & services has been to create two tiers - expensive, human-made, individualised luxury products for the rich, cheap generic half-arsed slop for the poors - and AI is going to do that to arts & entertainment very quickly

oh wow so great to see politicians patting themselves on the back after yapping in parliament and signing a civility promise… how about you make a promise to do your fucking jobs and ensure people have the material conditions they need to live a dignified life you soulless fucking ghouls

These are the parents that teachers are leaving the profession over. They cannot critically evaluate information, form coherent arguments and regard everything their child relates about their school day as gospel.

We're truly living through unprecedented times.

The 'lucky country' also takes on a tragic irony now given the rising obssession with gambling, the vast sums of money wasted, literally given away to big business, in the hopes of somehow regaining the 'luck' that is supposedly our birthright.

Is it time to reassess handing over complete control of our economies and political systems to these dead-eyed LinkedIn freaks? Who can say...

fucking hell

“Their goal is to keep you poor, uneducated and brutalised,” she says, referring to the intentions of governments and capital. “The fact that people don’t understand that this drives people insane is bonkers.”

"Real household disposable income per capita" live.thepoint.com.au/2026/10/the-...

AWFUL day to be driving from Ballarat to Melbourne on the CORRUPT Victorian Labor party's DECREPIT roads

i wonder what percentage of the electorate now understands that this man and maybe 75 other people like him are actively trying to destroy our lives. that he is the biggest national security threat we have faced, even moreso than bin laden or whoever. its got to be dawning on more and more people

don't be evil

Every time I am approached by a potential MA or PhD student I take it as part of my responsibility to tell them there is no functioning academic job market in Australian philosophy and there hasn’t been one in more than a decade.

I was a normal child

[i've said it before but ... a lotta accts i followed on x, the everything nazi app, v briefly surfaced here (typically during some moment of mass exodus), then RETVRNed to mr musk's anti-social domain]

a sobering read from m'learned colleague @jeffsparrow1.bsky.social theconversation.com/friday-essay...

You can tell media guys are still on twitter because there will be someone posting Jacinta Allan’s street address under a Kidspot article on Facebook right now using their full Christian name

🙄 stop funding private schools and do it sooner

Australia's two plus tiered education system is a disaster. It's anti democratic & entrenches inequality. Equal opportunity is a fiction. It's time to stop funding fee paying private schools to pay for a world class public education system.

Video games has decided to discontinue its once leading product, the video game

So like, is the end goal here $50 a month for Netflix? Is anyone actually gonna pay that anymore? What's the critical maximum before this entire system falls apart completely?

The face of a man who knows what he buried.

of course he denies it. how is this news

Someone's doing ok out of this cost-of-living crisis... www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

fucking hell

literally me