Prophet Makers

“Often those that criticise others reveal what he himself lacks.”
― Shannon L. Alder

Don't just give them a pat answer. Give some more explanation and justification. Otherwise you will just end up answering a lot more questions.

Cancel culture, the online phenomenon of boycotting public figures who say or do the wrong thing, is the Macquarie Dictionary's word of the year. 


For the want of a nail a shoe was lost ... Social media has devolved into a contagion of moral grandstanding and outrage-mongering. And yet it can be Fixed 

Social media has devolved into a contagion ofmoral grandstanding and outrage-mongering. And yet it can be fixed... Social MEdia Dragon  


Pure dictatorship': Fred Nile sacks members as party in turmoil

How IRS Investigators Busted A Huge Online Child-Porn Site — And Why The IRS?

Move to 'isolate' Australian in China triggers fears over interrogation

Chinese students paid to rort Australian universities as government tackles cheating



Sydney 'surrounded' by bushfires as winds cause problems in Blue Mountains

Washington Post op-ed:  Most Wealth Taxation on the Rich Is Essentially Voluntary. That Must Change., by Jared Bernstein: 

As a result of the Democratic primary, we’re having a robust debate about taxing wealth. The debate invokes tricky technical and legal issues, but it’s an overdue one: There are good reasons the United States needs to start taxing wealth.

You may think we already tax wealth, but that’s mostly not the case. As my colleagues at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Chuck Marr, Samantha Jacoby and Kathleen Bryant, point out in an important new paper [Substantial Income of Wealthy Households Escapes Annual Taxation Or Enjoys Special Tax Breaks], for the very wealthy, taxes are essentially voluntary.

Rich People’s Problems: For the love of cash FT. So the cashless society is only for little people?

Something strange and wondrous begins to happen when one spends stretches of time in solitude, in the company of trees, far from the bustle of the human world with its echo chamber of judgments and opinions — a kind of rerooting in one’s deepest self-knowledge, a relearning of how to simply be oneself, one’s most authentic self. Wendell Berry knew this when he observed that “true solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation” — the places where “one’s inner voices become audible.”

Kahlil Gibran on Silence, Solitude, and the Courage to Know Yourself

YEP: Unprecedented Leaks Underscore Deep Discontent Inside China. China spent decades putting Mao’s excesses behind them; Xi’s effort to be Mao II cuts directly against that.

The River in the Sky by Clive James, review: his last poem was a celebration of everything he loved 

   

China accuses US of ‘sinister intentions’ after Trump signs bills supporting Hong Kong protesters CNBC. Moar provocation…

China and football YouTube. PlutoniumKun: “A nice, short explanatory clip about the (possible) Chinese government link with football and investments in China (shorter version – they are using club purchases as a means of establishing links for broader investments).”

What Passes For A Soul (Or Conscience) In Silicon Valley

What happens after you admit you might have ruined the internet, or helped elect a lunatic, or undercut Western democracy? I suppose that, like with any confession, you feel relief. Nothing is worse than keeping a secret. Then, to borrow a cliché, you might take some time to work on yourself. Unburdened, perhaps, by their No Good Very Bad Election Year, the elite of Silicon Valley have discovered a new depth of self-reflection that they didn’t realized they possessed—and a new opportunity to grow their consciousness. –The Baffler

How to Organize Your Friends and Family on Thanksgiving 

A charismatic leader, a creation myth that begins with an epiphany, and legions of rapturous followers: Is positive psychology science or religion? Charisma

Pope on Current Protests in HK etc... 

Think celebrities and CEOs make way too much money? Check out this chart Marketwatch

“A clever person can tell them the truth in a way that they want to hear.”
― T.J. Kirk

Aluminum Casting a Vehicle Gear Using Sand Mold YouTube. Up only five days and nearly a half a million views. “Poster boy for right to repair.”

·         You Can Take My Dad's Tweets Over My Dead Body


Senate takes another stab at privacy law with proposed COPRA bill Ars Technica



WORLD CRACKED OPEN: WHEN FRACKING CAME TO TOWN Who What Why

Why SA made its single govt website more like taste.com.au

Justin Hendry, via itNews

The SA government completes its biggest overhaul of its 10-year-old portal yet.

Climate tipping points — too risky to bet against Nature

UN: The world has backed itself into a treacherous corner on climate change Vox