[Digipolitik] 2019 Word of the Year: Cancel Culture.
This week, the Macquarie dictionary announced its “Word of the Year”. For those who don’t know:Macquarie is the dictionary for Australian EnglishEvery...
26 Nov 2019 - The pain gap: Mesh, hysteria & medicine's damning track record with women.
The medical industry doesn't have the great track record when it comes to women. From "wandering wombs" to "hysteria" to psychiatry - not to mention t...
25 Nov 2019: Sacha Baron Cohen, 'hate', Paltering & Ilegal Limericks
Today's episode talks about the slipperiness of "Wokeness", and how intelligent people end up unwittingly supporting an authoritarian movement, throug...
19 Nov 2019: Where fact is belief and belief is fact.
Note: Sorry about the audio. I accidentally had a minimised window open with YouTube on autoplay in the background. Hope you can soldier on through it...
18 Nov 2019: We built this city on Rock & Trolls: How Twitter & Corporate Tech Changed the Deal.
So, Twitter Political Advertising Policy is out, and whilst I sympathise with the position they are in, I want to talk about how they changed the deal...
15 Nov 2019: South Park is a TERF, Hillary is a TERF, EVERYONE IS A TERF
So, admittedly, I am afraid to post this episode. But, I also feel the issue is too important to ignore, and if it means that I end up having to be an...
14 November 2019 - How Coriander broke the Internet, my box and AMA
Before Cancel Culture, before Outrage, before Trump's Tweets, before Twitter gripped the news cycle by the balls, there was Coriander.There is nothing...
13 Nov 2019: In defence of Twitter... what?
So, Twitter has been banning people, "shadowbanning" people, falling afoul of the algorithm and everyone is crying conspiracy.What I do in this episo...
8 Nov 2019: Are we waking up? Obama, Gervais, Chapelle, Louis CK push back
Dave Chappelle has pushed back against Woke Twitter and 'cancel culture'.Obama has.Louis Ck apparently has.And Ricky Gervais does, continues to double...