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Monday, August 03, 2020

Lift Every Voice: The truth about 5G

Communications and Cyber Safety Minister Paul Fletcher said that behind some of the conspiracies may be hostile governments, "who have a motive to try and create instability and disorder in democracies like Australia."

The truth about 5G

Around Australia a vocal band of activists have joined a worldwide protest movement against the arrival of the next generation in wireless technology known as 5G. Activists claim 5G is an invisible and potentially deadly health hazard, blaming the radiation emitted by the technology for a range of long-term health problems.

On Monday Four Corners investigates these claims, exploring how the technology works and examining the scientific studies undertaken into whether the technology is actually a threat to our health. The program investigates the rise of the anti-5G movement and the spread of wild conspiracy theories tying the COVID-19 pandemic to the 5G rollout. 

Piecing together the viral spread of these theories, the program uncovers a sophisticated misinformation campaign.



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Congress forced Silicon Valley to answer for its misdeeds. It was a glorious sightMatt Stoller, Guardian

I Tried to Live Without the Tech Giants. It Was Impossible. NYT

Australia now has a template for forcing Facebook and Google to pay for news Ars Technica


FastCompany – “Chances are, you order a lot of things from Amazon. A lot of people do. In fact, more than 197 million people shop with the Internet giant each month—and those numbers have only risen since the coronavirus pandemic began (in May the company announced a 26 percent increase in its first-quarter revenue). But there are plenty of reasons to make fewer purchases with Amazon, including the fact that the company notoriously utilizes unfair labor practices and exploits employees and drivers. Fortunately, there are other online platforms that allow you to purchase groceries and necessities without a commute—and one of them is doing it sustainably and with your health in mind. Launched in 2016, Public Goods was created out of a desire to simplify shopping—and to solve the problem that Amazon was creating: oversaturated markets full of earth-trashing, overpriced goods that underwhelm consumers…”




Brookings – The following is the preamble to “Lift Every Voice: The Urgency of Universal Civic Duty Voting,” a report from the Working Group on Universal Voting convened by The Brookings Institution and The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School. Download the full PDF report here. “Imagine an American democracy remade by its citizens in the very image of its promise, a society where the election system is designed to allow citizens to perform their most basic civic duty with ease.

COMEDY BREAK: Ecstatic teen opens his first-ever paycheck, learns what taxes are, is absolutely crushed (video).

As P.J. O’Rourke wrote in his 1995 book, Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut,In 1970, “I got a job. It wasn’t much of a job. I was a messenger. But it brought in $150 a week and that was wealth as far as I was concerned. We were paid fortnightly. I waited greedily for my $300. But when my pay envelope arrived I found, after federal, state, and city taxes had been deducted and social security, health insurance, and pension plan payments had been made, only $160 was left. I began yelling. ‘I’m a revolutionary! I’ve been a revolutionary since I went to college! I’ve demonstrated! I’ve rioted! I’ve done everything I could to overthrow capitalism! And what do I find when I get my first paycheck from a capitalist company? COMMUNISM!!!’ Of course, it was several years before the implications of what I yelled sank in. At that age I wasn’t listening to anyone, myself included.”


Poetry is many things to many people. It can be a rallying cry or a soothing balm in times of crisis—and in 2020, we could use plenty of both


In other contexts, we would rather that the state not take sides in contested moral and political disputes. But taking a stand is inevitable in symbolic state speech” — Jacob Levy (McGill) on statues honoring “the dishonorable dead”


“If you’re not a fan of seeing scientists’ views attributed to personal racism, transphobia or misogyny, then nor should you tolerate commentary about scientists supposedly being biased by their feminist motives” — Cordelia Fine (Melbourne) on bias and objectivity in science


Oxford University Press is launching a book series on Philosophy, Politics, and Economics — co-edited by Ryan Muldoon, Carmen Pavel, Geoff Sayre-McCord, Eric Schliesser, and Itai Sher


Does “the phenomenological interpretation of quantum physics deserves to be rescued from history and considered on its own merits”? — Steven French (Leeds) thinks so

“Academic freedom must continue to protect much research that is immoral in one or another way” — “This immorality needs to be recognized and discussed, but not punished,” says Elizabeth Harman (Princeton)


“Here’s a peculiar thing about people: often what they do doesn’t match what they say they believe” — a week of posts on the philosophy and psychology of implicit bias, starting off with one by Gabbrielle Johnson (NYU)


What are the 233 most-cited works in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy? — a list from Eric Schwitzgebel (Riverside


Offshore wind in Europe won’t need subsidies much longer ars technica


Michael Cranston - The Sell: Liam Hemsworth’s building project for Byron Bay home by Jonathan Chancellor


Explore these abandoned places around the world

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Hollywood heart-throb Liam Hemsworth has building plans for his private Byron Bay estate. Nothing as grand as his big brother Chris, but the next task is constructing a yoga studio. . .


Cranston on a move but stays in Shire


Former ATO Deputy Commissioner has taken a downsize in the Sutherland Shire with a move from Menai to Gymea.



Cranston on a move but stays in Shire


Former ATO Deputy Commissioner has taken a downsize in the Sutherland Shire with a move from Menai to Gymea.





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