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  • Billionaires a just full of shit

    Left or right, billionaires are full of shit…

  • Fascinating video essay on the origins and philosophy of post-punk

    What would it cost to bootstrap an art movement? There were unique conditions in place that allowed post-punk to manifest itself in the late 70s. This video essay on the fortuitous overlap of free education, social democracy and punk rock sensibilities calls the resulting attitude and period “popular modernism”, a term coined by the late…

  • Farmers Weekly: Division is the real economic threat

    If we are serious about the economy, building a better future, we need to own up, acknowledge and address division. Division is economically and socially corrosive. The battles include young vs old, homeowner vs those aspiring, haves vs have-nots, landlord vs renter, rural vs urban, Māori vs non-Māori, respect/disrespect for the law and business owners…

  • How to Brainwash a Country

    In New Zealand it’s the TPU (all their astro-turf-one-person-PR-pimping sock puppets)…

  • Orders soar at Airbus, which makes jets where the side doesn’t fall off

    In further “Boeing is a metaphor for neo-liberalism has run out of steam” commentary. For those that don’t know… here is the 2 sentence history that plots the descent of Boeing… “boeing was reverse acquired by McDD and that company was full of Welch trained dipshits. they ousted all the engineer trained managers that made…

  • Corporadelic: MAPS For-Profit Arm Raises $100 Million

    The financialisation of psychedelics is going to set the whole field back, long term, almost as muc has banning the substances. The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) has reversed course on its long-held commitment to retain full ownership of its pharmaceutical development arm. On Jan. 5, MAPS Public Benefit Corporation (MAPS PBC) announced that…

  • Airbnb Was Supposed to Save Capitalism. Instead, It Just Devolved Into Garbage.

    How Airbnb is being supplanted by the twentieth-century relic known as the hotel is a good lesson in capitalism. In particular, it’s a reminder to ignore perennial promises that new market innovations will reform capitalism so that it works equally for corporations and everyone else. … But crowd-based capitalism, as it turns out, is just…

  • How The “Big Myth” That Markets Will Solve Everything Was Foisted on the World

    Naomi Oreskes is a historian of science at Harvard University. Erik M. Conway works as a historian at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Together they have just published “The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market.” We’ve talked a lot on this program about the failures of neoclassical…