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Was just watching a Hanson presser about banning the ABC and the Graun and became deeply interested in what the surface of Mercury was like and whether I might be able to live there.

Thinking of doing my own Iliad/Odyssey mash up translation, “Sing oh muse of fuckin SPLOSIONS and stabby shit.” Reckon the cyborg mecha suit bit with Odysseus nailing him with magical RPGs will fucking ROCK

I don’t want anyone to freak out or anything, but maybe we could try taxing capital, sort of like how we tax income. Like, pay up motherfucker, or you’re going to jail.

If you’re trying to rediscover your love of reading, you should probably start by reading something you’re going to love. It doesn’t have to be a heartbreaking work of staggering genius, just something you will enjoy.

“Goodnight, mate.” “Goodnight, buddy.”

Elevator pitch for a movie. The Hero struggles the the ruins of our fallen civilization carrying a small bag with the worlds last surviving books, pursued by warring Sambots and Elonbots, desperate to injest the Final Texts, so that the One True AI can be decided.

After months of researching my essay on the new/far/alt right in Australia, diving into neoliberal think tanks, polling data & focus groups, funding sources for the Atlas Network, academic papers on the algorithm & epistemic collapse, I finally placed arse to Aeron yesterday & wrote my opening pars.

It’s Jan 2027 & you’re horizontal. The aircon is dripping onto the couch. There’s cricket on the telly somewhere, the last functioning institution in the free world, while on the glowing fondleslab in your hand, the US is dying. It was happening in slo-mo at first, but the end is coming fast...

Australia is in a zombie alliance with Trump's America. Soon it will cannibalise itself — and usAmerica is already dead, though its zombie corpse still wanders the earth. So why does Australia insist on feeding it via the AUKUS agreement?www.crikey.com.au

You can tell I wrote this because of all the zombie content.

Honestly, some weeks this is the only reason I can afford groceries.

Had lunch with relatives. They asked me what I was working on. “A Quarterly Essay about the rise of the New Right in Australia…” Me 45 minutes later

If Christopher Nolan truly respected the Western Canon he would have given us The Odyssey as Homer intended, reciting it for 17 hours while wearing sandals in the nearest town square.

Anybody else a bit over this Trump fuckwit?

Cool new ways to get fucked by an AI.

Uh oh, forgot to plug in the Super Omni Mega AI Master StrategyDid anyone notice that the PM’s promise that Australia would be the very first nation upon this weary earth to bundle its AI response into a single national framework somewhat cheekily glided past the...open.substack.com

If I was prime minister I would simply not go to dinner with billionaire tax avoiders. Indeed, I might just tax them instead.

Fixed that sucky column. Took four hours. Not sure that was the best use of my time.

Just spent a whole day writing a column that, frankly, sucks. And now I have to desuck it. And that sucks even more.

This reminds me of the letter I wrote to the Ipswich library explaining I could not return their book because it had been destroyed in a gigantic service station explosion on the Nullarbor plain. Nor could I possibly come in to pay the fine because I was recovering from my extensive explosion wounds

On those rare, and I can assure you of this, very rare occasions when I do succumb to the siren song of an afternoon nap, I may wonder to myself, what do people who work in real offices do at naptime? Feel free to answer below. I’ll just be over here in my, er, reading chair.

Immanence, transcendance and nap time.My dad was in a factory all his working life, and I remember talking with him once about what life might be like if he didn’t work in a factory.open.substack.com