James Hanover

“We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns,” according to the document from Meta’s Reality Labs, which works on hardware including smart glasses.

At least one Meta employee thinks it's a good time to add facial recognition technology to glasses because we're too distracted by fascism to effectively protest www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism

"No Nazis" does not seem too high a bar for a tech company to clear yet it usually is
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

Board of Peace - Season 1

…a humble puddle celebrates the dawn light.

I’m not sure to what degree citizens of the UK truly grasp the esteem in which your BBC is held, across the globe?

In times when nations are looking for ways to build soft power, it’s quite shocking to see the enemies within seek, so actively, to undermine it.

Who could ever have imagined when I played a fictional rebel who joined the Resistance to oppose a criminal Authoritarian & wannabe King, it would be happening in real-life?

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PBS 'not on the table' to escape concerning pharmaceuticals tariff Treasurer Jim Chalmers reaffirms the government will not bargain on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme in order to escape a "concerning" proposed 200 per cent tariff on pharmaceutical exports to the U...

…very same play underway here in Australia, where our pharmaceutical benefits scheme - public health medicine - is in the firing line.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

Seven countries currently get 100 percent of their electricity from renewable energy. Norway and Costa Rica are at 98 percent

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

Why? You’re being overbearing.

Moving. And a life lesson for us all.

"Hell is empty and all the devils are here."

William Shakespeare

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“Madness is the need to be believed.” D.W. Winnicott

A three-year-old brought me a bit of black paper. "Look", she said, "I found a piece of night!"

We're all born poets, but slowly we forget.

Sincere congrats to everyone, Jim 🍾 Love your words re your focus. The media types keep talking about the gov now having an opportunity to take risks, but that’s all about the games they want to witness, commentate on & ultimately critique. The rest of us just want the above, and no ‘mini me’ Trumps

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Big time fan and supporter of TeamUSA

Lovely, heartwarming, piece 🎬 👏

“Reward us for a job well done”? The America I knew and admired (I’m writing from Australia) was not a nation seeking or needing a “pat on the head”.

The moon sets behind the Railway Hotel, dawn.

It’s the strangest thing (writing from Australia here) to contemplate. A bit corny, I know, but around the globe, Air Force One is a key element of ‘brand America’; a symbol of America’s strength, sovereignty, dignity. No more. Now a sky high symbol of a great country being corrupted; owned.

"We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever."

- Carl Sagan, Cosmos

If you’d just flown into the country, flicked on your hotel TV, to watch the national broadcaster’s premium political program, you’d think the ALP government had lost last week’s federal election.

New Labor MPs. Same mission.

Helping with the cost of living and building Australia’s future.