Oops! Sorry for our semi-disappearance!
We apologise for the messages people have been seeing at our normal larvatusprodeo.net domain name address that the domain has expired. That will be because the domain expired. It seems that the registration was still handled by a prior host, [...]
Saturday Salon
An open thread, where at your weekend leisure, you can discuss anything you like.
Wikileaks, Cablegate: If the issue is due process, why the complainant shaming and trial by social media?
So, yesterday, I was saying that one effect of the #Cablegate infobomb was to disrupt all sorts of accepted patterns of behaviour, modes of judgement. This is a fast moving feast, though, and whether it’s just a human need for [...]
Climate clippings 6
These posts include a brief mention of a number of news items relating to climate change. They don’t preclude treating any of these topics at more length in a separate post. They can also serve as an open thread so [...]
Wikileaks: modes of thought, systems disrupted: Reality has its Cyberpunk moment
The other day I said I might write a post on the reaction of journalists to #Cablegate. Before going on to some analysis of a wider context, let me point to an article in The Atlantic on that very topic, [...]
Inequality: what price a banker?
As a public policy issue of note in mainstream Australian politics, inequality has exited (stage right!) in recent years. It remains one of those elephants in the room that is seemingly too big, too controversial, and just plain too difficult [...]
Bligh to expel Queensland ETU Secretary Peter Simpson?
Last week’s musings by Michael Costa (a former head of the NSW Labor Council as well as ex-NSW Treasurer) attracted more attention for his hardline anti-Green stand and apparent belief that endless micro-economic reform is the path to electoral salvation [...]
It’s hard to smear someone…
…if no-one thinks it’s a smear… Kate Harding writes: You don’t have to be a conspiracy theorist to find the timing of Interpol’s warrant for the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who turned himself in to British authorities today, [...]
Climate change scepticism becomes mainstream
Essential research has just found that believers in AGW has fallen to 45% in Australia. That’s still well ahead of the 36% who believe that we are just witnessing a normal fluctuation in the earth’s climate. The “don’t know” category [...]
Murray-Darling Basin head resigns
Michael Taylor, the head of the Murray-Darling Basin Authority, has resigned. “The authority has sought, and obtained, further confirmation that it cannot compromise the minimum level of water required to restore the system’s environment on social or economic grounds,” Mr [...]
Net closes in on Assange?
The latest developments in the attacks on Wikileaks are potentially more damaging than various alleged violation of terms and services bootings from hosts (strangely following on closely from the demands of the likes of Joe Lieberman for service providers to [...]
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