Mat Mytka {m³} 🌏🍄🌱🐭

They're testing the Emergency Warning in Sydney CBD. It's the first time that I've heard this. I wonder what the government is playing for the 31 August March. Or is this just a coincidence? 👇🧐

3/n: "Parliamentary Salaries and Entitlements" Each Minister should be explicitly bound to improvements in the wellbeing metrics of constituents. Within their portfolio too. A baseline salary of course but tied to the outcomes that truly matter. Give politicians skin in the game

THE TECHNO-OPTIMIST MANIFESTO part 1 “You live in a deranged age — more deranged than usual, because despite great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.” — Walker Percy “Our species is 300,000 years old. For the first 290,000 years, we were foragers, subsisting in a way that’s still observable among the Bushmen of the Kalahari and the Sentinelese of the Andaman Islands. Even after Homo Sapiens embraced agriculture, progress was painfully slow. A person born in Sumer in 4,000BC would find the resources, work, and technology available in England at the time of the Norman Conquest or in the Aztec Empire at the time of Columbus quite familiar. Then, beginning in the 18th Century, many people’s standard of living skyrocketed. What brought about this dramatic improvement, and why?” — Marian Tupy “There’s a way to do it better. Find it.” — Thomas Edison Lies We are being lied to. We are told that technology takes our jobs, reduces our wages, increases inequality, threatens our health, ruins the environment, degrades our society, corrupts our children, impairs our humanity, threatens our future, and is ever on the verge of ruining everything. We are told to be angry, bitter, and resentful about technology. We are told to be pessimistic. The myth of Prometheus – in various updated forms like Frankenstein, Oppenheimer, and Terminator – haunts our nightmares. We are told to denounce our birthright – our intelligence, our control over nature, our ability to build a better world. We are told to be miserable about the future.

This is the president of the Federal Reserve in Minneapolis, telling the truth about Central Bank Digital Currencies ... They are useless ... Unless you want to control, surveil and tax the hell out of your people like China wants to (and Europe apparently). 😨

The biggest fallacy in the online privacy is that there is a difference between "state surveillance" and "commercial surveillance." Bizarrely, it's a fallacy that is widely held by both government snoops and Big Tech snoops. 1/