I listened to the whole audiobook in a day - one of the best books I’ve purchased recently. As someone who has been very much into the techno-futurists over the last 15 years, I would suggest this book, along with Manu Saadia’s Trekonomics for a much needed reality-check.

Love it! I’ve saved a copy, because I think it’ll make future explanations a lot easier. Thanks!

Ah, I missed that detall! https://github.com/suitenumerique/docs

Yeah agreed - anything not FOSS is just setting up another bad situation waiting to happen

These people idolize Henry Ford, so they should double check the history on how he tried and failed spectacularly at the same thing: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/aug/19/lost-cities-10-fordlandia-failure-henry-ford-amazon

The BRICS partnership (Of which China is a key player) encompasses almost 50% of the world’s population, and their Belt and Road initiative is a soft power wet dream.

The world has actually already become multipolar, but most Western media won’t make that clear because they are still stuck in the old Colonial mindset of Captialist-Democracy = 100% civilized / Not-a-Capitalist-Democracy = 100% backwards.

Ah cheers, misread that!

“Democracy dies on live TV” - wow that headline hits hard.

That is some straight up Freudian shit

If you’re into audiobooks, I strongly recommend libro.fm instead - it’s all DRM free downloads, so you never lose access.

Yeah, totally agree with you there.

Do think the Coalition are still going to go with the “Dutton will have the exact attitude of Trump” campaign?

The US president simply saying these words puts huge numbers of people in the middle east at risk. Even many of his own voters are shocked, because he promised America First. Just because there is a lot of shit happening, doesn’t make this any less fucked.

In Australia, we even just had Pauline Hanson say this is a bad idea.

For context, she is a white non-Muslim politician who once wore a burqa into parliament to make a point. Even she is against Trump on this one.

I mean, a huge number of his own supporters are questioning this. I wouldn’t call this a viable strategy.

I’m not in the US (thinking of you guys everyday), but when I found myself feeling depressed by the direction of big tech, I realized that open-source and the Fediverse was the healthy and exciting way forwards. It was the one thing that felt like I remember the internet feeling like in the late 90s. I think you are spot on. It is the only way that democracy can survive in tech.