Dave

China Mieville, Read Some Effing Sartre!

Can’t wait for the Chicago commune, comrades

“ I make the solemn promise to you that if you help us reopen the government, the sombrero memes will stop. I’ve talked to the president of the United States about that.”

What a time to be alive

Have faith in the market. Anything more than that is just silly talk

This would be the same Chris Bowen who, like a week ago, said a 70% emissions reduction by 2035 was “not achievable”.

Australia vows to cut emissions 62 to 70 per cent by 2035 Australia will vow to cut its emissions by 62 to 70 per cent by 2035, lifting its sights further as the world strives to reach net zero emissions by 2050.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09... Pathetic

Truly nothing is more sacred in a nation that worships violence than the motive for a murder.

No Bible verse has ever commanded so much collective psychic attention from Americans as our efforts to make every single killing rational.

Took my friend to visit Sverre Fehn’s Storhamarlåven (1969-74) with the luxury of having the whole place to ourselves. This is the holy grail. Norway pilgrimage, let’s go 🧣🧵 #sverrefehn

Writing in Log, I argue that the theory machine finally consumed itself…

[Emerging from the cave]: It’s over! Architecture can be transparent to itself again. Finally, ethics =aesthetics. Theory’s over! Oooo: Eisenman has an article in it, too

AI, red lines and the idea employers hated: five takeaways from day one of economic reform roundtable Jim Chalmers praised the quality and calibre of engagement as ‘outstanding’. Here’s the main discussion points from Tuesday

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... they had no ideas - they think this is good government - they do not comprehend what they are up against

Literally, my doctor: “you really shouldn’t smoke weed to relax. And it is so important that you remember to take your speed three times a day”.

“Be free of Gaza” - that’s ethnic cleansing. No mincing words

Is there a reason the Guardian Australia has zero reference to Gaza?

The corrective to every fantasy of post-Gaza development is the collective demand for justice to be delivered to everyone responsible for this crime. I can’t describe how I yearn to see these monsters in The Hague

If Murdoch brings down Trump I suppose that’s fitting

May be worth considering that the ECAJ president had this to say about sanctions against Ben Gvir and Smotrich: “if Australia were to sanction every cabinet minister in every government who has incited hatred and violence we would end up breaking off diplomatic relations with half the world.”

Ah, the palpable feeling of otherness? That’s not a sliding scale for poetic contemplation - that’s a disorder compounded by structural constraints, baby!

And for anyone who can hide it, a formal autism diagnosis can add huge financial strain as insurers see it as a huge liability. So - professional ethicists might want to get their act together in the advice columns hey?

Fwiw I agree that finding solidarity is crucial but this can put your employment at risk if you don’t have any privilege to work with. The amount of “we all lose our keys” and “set yourself reminders” and “think of it like a superpower” crap doesn’t amount to protection for neurodivergent workers

After an ADHD and autism diagnosis, I now find the world more confusing. How do I make sense of this? It’s frightening to learn we’re not to similar to others, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith. One way to respond is to allow that feeling of otherness

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle... this hits very close to home. I’d like to point out that this gets the most neurotypical nonsense answer you can imagine. Unfortunately, ADHD is a disorder that involves a lot of additional labour in masking the symptoms - it is not that we’re a little different

One for the ages

My lengthy theory why this is worrying is in essence “design by research” tends to highlight contradictory spatial information in a kind of suspended informational space - whereas architectural design requires decisions to be made and asserted and you can’t do everything

I was incredulous when a bunch of academics/designers (full-time studio cult leaders) were brought into the masters course where I taught and all insisted that a final year project doesn’t have to be a building design - and now it’s all MAPS MAPS MAPS. I hate it but this is also an aesthetic?!

Neil Young is still the goat, I see

SMH article on the decline of Australian universities

2nd half of article on the decline of Australian universities

Depressingly accurate account of modern Australian #universities. Reform is long overdue #auspol

Statement by the Editorial Board of Historical Materialism - Historical Materialism As the editorial board of Historical Materialism, we would like to express our condemnation, indignation and anger regarding the unprecedented forms of censorship and ideological silencing with which ...

A statement by the Historical Materialism Editorial Board on the censorship and ideological silencing with which the Historical Materialism Paris Conference has had to deal.

Don’t try to tell me that a Democratic president wouldn’t have done this days ago

The idea that a brutalist architecture offers a more authentic experience of material and labour than, say, a glossy Apple Store is just bananas. How is the former not just as much an aesthetic of consumption than the latter? Just a bizarre claim to make in 2025

San Diego neighborhood makes ICE agents retreat