To an extent I agree - as so much it WAS better when it was the domain of technical folk. However, Tim Berners-Lee's mission was always that it was meant to democratise knowledge and it was doing that before we let private equity and corporations buy it up like cheap real estate.

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The moment it went mainstream, it turned into middle school. Superficially attractive and popular people had their influence multiplied by hundreds if not thousands of times. Pretty and rich idiots now had a direct line to molding society that never before existed in history.

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Those in government and the general polity who think Australia should have closer defence ties with the USA might be the dumbest gronks going around. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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"I don't call it mainstream media anymore," Goodman says. "I call it the corporate media" "How do we learn about the world? It has to be through something other than a corporate lens." www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10... Doco screens at Adelaide Film Festival then Aust'n cinemas nationally from Oct 22

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A reminder that Mark Butler is apparently Albanese’s pick as his successor. If the PM thinks that someone who won’t #RaiseTheRate and who has made arbitrary and cruel cuts to #NDIS is Labor’s future, he has learned nothing. #auspol

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