Tim, thanks for the list of Substack recommendations.
Recently I came across a quote in which someone described Substack as "a right-wing platform". This is either very lazy and ill-informed, or it reveals something about what the person responsible thinks of as "right-wing" and "left-wing".
There are problems with the platform and I have looked at moving (and haven't ruled it out) but I think this is true of any platform that gets a certain number of users. You are going to have bad users, while management is never going to be ideal. Some people tell me they won't subscribe while I stay on Substack, which is their choice of course. Anyway, a lot of good people on here and I wanted to mention a few of them.
I agree. I haven't read through all the Robodebt RC recommendations, but it seems there's still a significant risk of something like that happening again. Especially whilst the key players from the last one remain upunished.
It was a peculiarly 'looking over you shoulder' time in DSS when Morrison wsa minister. This expanded to the whole APS when he became PM. The government did nothing about corruption, and was on the verge of making most climate change aviodance the individual's responsibility. I wonder where we would have gone if Bruce Lehrmann hadn't decided he needed his rocks off that night in 2019.
Tim, good chance you already read this, but as you didn’t mention it - Joel Jenkins has a sub called ‘Bogan Intelligentsia’ that I would highly recommend. Cheers
Not sure if it was Cory Doctorow or someone else who observed that one of technology's benefits for the managerial class is that no one needs to be accountable any more. "Computer says no", AI chatbot says whatever it wants, no you can't talk to the manager, sorry they're not authorised, sorry it's just policy, Minister never was briefed,...
Yeah, it's a known thing. I remember a lawyer telling me how easy it was to get people to accept terms of use, when you can just add a checkbox at the bottom of the sign-on.
Who's going to read the whole several pages when you just want to complete your transaction? Later, later. But later never comes; either that or it flashes by without your noticing.
TD - thanks for this article - very enlightening. Trying to keep up with what's happening in the 'world' makes me contemplate even more: 'brain augmentation' and enhancing human memory & our analytical capacity. That and the use of AI in eg. politics & making good policies eg. for the nation's best and sorting out self interests from vested interests; truth V thruthiness. Or simply, the use of both to stop one from being overwhelmed from 'trying to keep up'. Cheers
Tim, thanks for the list of Substack recommendations.
Recently I came across a quote in which someone described Substack as "a right-wing platform". This is either very lazy and ill-informed, or it reveals something about what the person responsible thinks of as "right-wing" and "left-wing".
There are problems with the platform and I have looked at moving (and haven't ruled it out) but I think this is true of any platform that gets a certain number of users. You are going to have bad users, while management is never going to be ideal. Some people tell me they won't subscribe while I stay on Substack, which is their choice of course. Anyway, a lot of good people on here and I wanted to mention a few of them.
Thanks Tim. I enjoyed reading some of the links, and especially revisiting Robodebt.
I find that whole discussion fascinating. The nature of that sort of institutionalised power is something we need to understand better.
I agree. I haven't read through all the Robodebt RC recommendations, but it seems there's still a significant risk of something like that happening again. Especially whilst the key players from the last one remain upunished.
It was a peculiarly 'looking over you shoulder' time in DSS when Morrison wsa minister. This expanded to the whole APS when he became PM. The government did nothing about corruption, and was on the verge of making most climate change aviodance the individual's responsibility. I wonder where we would have gone if Bruce Lehrmann hadn't decided he needed his rocks off that night in 2019.
Tim, good chance you already read this, but as you didn’t mention it - Joel Jenkins has a sub called ‘Bogan Intelligentsia’ that I would highly recommend. Cheers
Joel is great. Highly recommended, yes.
Not sure if it was Cory Doctorow or someone else who observed that one of technology's benefits for the managerial class is that no one needs to be accountable any more. "Computer says no", AI chatbot says whatever it wants, no you can't talk to the manager, sorry they're not authorised, sorry it's just policy, Minister never was briefed,...
Yeah, it's a known thing. I remember a lawyer telling me how easy it was to get people to accept terms of use, when you can just add a checkbox at the bottom of the sign-on.
Who's going to read the whole several pages when you just want to complete your transaction? Later, later. But later never comes; either that or it flashes by without your noticing.
Exactly. The lawyers love it
TD - thanks for this article - very enlightening. Trying to keep up with what's happening in the 'world' makes me contemplate even more: 'brain augmentation' and enhancing human memory & our analytical capacity. That and the use of AI in eg. politics & making good policies eg. for the nation's best and sorting out self interests from vested interests; truth V thruthiness. Or simply, the use of both to stop one from being overwhelmed from 'trying to keep up'. Cheers
True North is very good eh.