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Do Say: “Whoa, where is Uncle Tony?”
Everyone will be saying this, so you’ll fit right in.

Don’t Say: “He’s in a better place now.”
Ordinarily, this would be a fine thing to say at a wake, but the context will make this land a little different. Yes, odds are, wherever his remains are now is a better place than this funeral home, which is rife with tension (because of the missing body). But right now, any speculation about where he is should be practical (e.g., “he could be in his truck”), not theoretical (e.g., “he is in a better place”).

Do Say: “Where was the last place you put him?”
Obviously, the answer will be the casket, but did anyone actually check the casket for clues? Sometimes, in times of chaos, someone needs to state the obvious to get things moving in the right direction.

In today's BCTV Daily Dispatch: TWD: Daryl Dixon: The Book of Carol, Smiling Friends, TWD: The Ones Who Live, IWTV, Doctor Who, and more!

Χωρίς απαγορευμένες ή υπαγορευμένες ερωτήσεις. Χωρίς ταμπού θέματα ή προσυμφωνημένες ατζέντες. Συνεντεύξεις όπως πρέπει να γίνονται. Η Αναστασία Γιάμαλη κάνει «σκληρό μαρκάρισμα» στον Γιάνη Βαρουφάκη. Με την απάντηση στο ερώτημα αν θεωρεί τον εαυτό του καλό πολιτικό ξεκινά η κουβέντα του Γιάνη Βαρουφάκη με την Αναστασία Γιάμαλη στο Σκληρό Μαρκάρισμα. Όχι δεν θεωρώ τον εαυτό […]

The post «Σκληρό Μαρκάρισμα» : Γιάνης Βαρουφάκης – Αναστασία Γιάμαλη (σεζόν #2, επεισόδιο #3) appeared first on Yanis Varoufakis.

“I never planned to be a politician. Never. Not in my wildest nightmares,” the economist and former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis said the other day. He was fighting his way toward the exit at Columbia University’s Alfred Lerner Hall, where he’d just spoken at a conference on sustainable development. A man blocked his path: […]

The post NEW YORKER magazine: Has Capitalism Been Replaced by “Technofeudalism”? appeared first on Yanis Varoufakis.

Yanis Varoufakis’s new film series explains how elites used the financial crisis to terrorize Europe’s populations into submission. In this interview, he tells Jacobin why the anti-austerity movement failed and why the center is converging with the far right. Debt is to capitalism what hell is to Christianity: unpleasant, and essential.” Speaking in his new documentary […]

The post Greece, EU elections, Palestine & the International Order – JACOBIN interview with David Broder appeared first on Yanis Varoufakis.

One reason women avoid the field of economics is the male chauvinist pig standing at its center, masquerading as the model of rationality. No sensible woman recognizes herself in Homo economicus, who always gets what he likes and likes what he gets. ATHENS – Economics has an intractable “women problem.” High-school girls avoid it. Female undergraduates abandon it. And […]

The post Economics is Irredeemably Sexist – Project Syndicate appeared first on Yanis Varoufakis.

At the beginning of April 1649, a political group calling themselves the ‘True Levellers’ began a colony at St. George’s Hill near Cobham, Surrey. They set about tilling and sowing the fields, attempting to enact the seventeenth-century radical Gerrard Winstanley’s central idea: the earth as ‘a common treasury for all, without respect of persons.’ They […]

When the flame of ancient Rome goes out, a Vestal Virgin is accused of unchastity and buried alive in a ceremony of sacrifice Alt: The Vestal Virgins were tasked with keeping fire of ancient Rome alight. Their lives, and the safety of Rome, depended on it

- by Aeon Video

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For Bernard Stiegler, a visionary philosopher of our digital age, technics is the defining feature of human experience

- by Bryan Norton

Read at Aeon

This is about more than a self-help switch – it will take structural changes to reject capitalism’s productivity obsession

- by Alec Stubbs

Read at Psyche

Unlike anthropologists … economists simply invent the primitive societies we study, a practice which frees us from limiting ourselves to societies which can be physically visited as sparing us the discomforts of long stays among savages. This method of society-invention is the source of the utopian character of economics; and of the mix of distrust […]

In the not-too-distant past, many Marxist philosophers were weighed down by a shared despair. Capitalism, they feared, had become so totalizing, so all-consuming, that there was no longer any possibility of overthrowing it. “The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it,” Karl Marx famously wrote in 1845, […]

The post “It’s hard to read this book and deny its power” – WASHINGTON POST review of TECHNOFEUDALISM appeared first on Yanis Varoufakis.

It is a public holiday in Australia today for some reason and I had to do a lot of travelling back and forth to airports etc. So my blog will reappear on Wednesday as usual. I will soon announce something that I think will be of interest to the regular readers.

A meme is spreading: capitalism is dead. We’re toiling around in its carcass. Nothing appears as it seems in this zombie state of affairs. But why didn’t we notice? There’s confusion all over. Climate, Covid, Ukraine, Gaza. Is history accelerating, or, rather the opposite, stagnating, even regressing? In his latest book Techno Feudalism, Yanis Varoufakis states that […]

The post TECHNOFEUDALISM reviewed by Geert Lovink appeared first on Yanis Varoufakis.

Does Australia really want to become entangled in a war (Cold or Hot) between the US and China motivated by the clash of the world’s two super cloud fiefs?

The post Does Australia know what it is getting into viz. the US-China New Cold War? GUARDIAN AUSTRALIA podcast appeared first on Yanis Varoufakis.

In this age of self-referential bubbles, of performative mutual demonisation and of siloed ideological camps that make debate impossible, it was a breath of fresh air to spot two reviews of my TECHNOFEUDALISM by conservative publications: The Washington Free Beacon and The European Conservative. Disagreeing agreeably must surely be a major improvement to unreasoned, mutually […]

The post Two reviews of TECHNOFEUDALISM by Conservative Publications ‘Free Beacon’ & ‘The European Conservative’ appeared first on Yanis Varoufakis.

This food timeline started as a way to explore the revolution in Australian food that has occurred during the baby-boomers’ lifetime, but has since expanded to include more about the previous decades (and century) as well. Also included are overseas events and trends that had an impact here. The entries are brief, but there are lots of links if you want more information.

This food timeline started as a way to explore the revolution in Australian food that has occurred during the baby-boomers’ lifetime, but has since expanded to include more about the previous decades (and century) as well. Also included are overseas events and trends that had an impact here. The entries are brief, but there are lots of links if you want more information.

We had the cupcake craze and the macaron craze. Then, in 2024, came the Dubai chocolate craze. It began, of course, in Dubai. In 2021, a British Egyptian woman, Sarah Hamouda, had pregnancy cravings. Dissatisfied with the available confectionery options, she decided to create her own and, with her husband Yezen Alani, founded a business […]

In a bid to join the booming right wing media market, Otto English reveals his secret Big Woke hitlist

Source - Patreon

Source - Patreon

“Get it over with quick” Via the Daily Beast: REP. TIM WALBERG (R-Mich.) said during a town hall meeting last week that the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza “should be like Nagasaki and Hiroshima,” in reference to the United States using atomic bombs on Japan, which happened at the end of World War II. Walberg said: “Get it over quick.” According to The Detroit News, Walberg’s office said that his comments about nuclear strikes were a metaphor to “support Israel’s swift elimination of Hamas.” The town hall took place in Dundee Village Hall on Monday, with video footage from the event posted on YouTube and X, formerly Twitter, as HuffPost points out. Some of his comments can be heard on the social media footage while he is not seen on camera. Walberg made the remarks after dismissing the idea of delivering more humanitarian aid to Gaza, the Palestinian territory, where half of the population is at “imminent” risk of famine. “We shouldn’t be spending a dime on humanitarian aid,” he said.

Mark Esper says he won’t vote for Trump and every crazy thing he does make it more likely he’ll vote for Biden: Donald Trump’s former Secretary of Defense revealed on Friday that he will not be voting for his former boss, who announced he had fired him in a tweet. On Friday’s episode of Real Time with Bill Maher, the host asked Mark Esper whether he would be voting for Joe Biden in the 2024 election. “I’m definitely not voting for Trump, but I’m not there yet,” he replied. When Maher pressed him, Esper doubled-down. “There’s no way I’ll vote for Trump, but every day that Trump does something crazy, the door to voting for Biden opens a little bit more, and that’s where I’m at,” Esper said. Shortly after the 2020 presidential elections, Trump tweeted that Esper had been “terminated,” and would be replaced by Christopher C. Miller.