Filmmaker, musician, producer and media comms educator of Ukraine/Austrian descent. Co-founder post-punk fusion trio Rat Kangaroo.
https://linktr.ee/andrewgarton
Andrew Garton
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The cruel insanity of this continues with impunity.
The Guardian is increasingly on the nose but this literal whitewashing of an offensive unfunny public figure who out to be in decline is a nosedive I hadn't seen coming.
"artistic activity" can now get you killed.
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In my 20’s I wrote pages and pages in my journals on the attributes of individualism. I was wrong.
“We mistake the sophistication of our arguments for the health of our thinking. We are not thinking clearly. We are thinking elaborately. Those are not the same thing.“
Portrait of Putin by artist, WEFAIL, known for "painting monsters". #UkrainianView
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The race to build superintelligence isn’t about replacing jobs—it’s about REPLACING HUMANITY. Transhumanism, longtermism, accelerationism, and the other Silicon Valley ideologies want to create a new species of “posthumans” to rule the world. This will not end well for us.👇
Truly though: why is this a war? What is the rush? Why scramble madly to suffer the socialised harms of a building where the benefits are both offshored and privatised?
None of this makes any sense, it's just 3000 CEOs yelling because the people around them are yelling
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I don't know how effective some of these petitions are but Getup has ramped up of late and seems to be making a serious dent, along with many other groups and independent media, in the rise of the far/extreme right.
getup.to/JznOzWs7Cqm3ca
As I said earlier, Australians shouldn’t believe the bullshit our body politic pushes that we’re leaders of anything
We’ve been outpaced by many countries who have grabbed the future while political leaders here drown us in parochial mediocrity and keep us in the past
Andrew Garton
Andrew Garton
A comprehensive analysis of Silicon Valley pro-extinctionism.
“We can’t live a full dignified life — with the ability to question authority, have different relationships with people, test ideas [and] blow off steam — if we don’t have private communication.”
Andrew Garton
Rightwing operatives have registered fake progressive parties to steal votes and funnel preferences to One Nation in Victoria. But there’s a fix already on the table – and Victorians have a chance to ...
The president of the encrypted messaging app says autonomous AI agents, device scanning and digital advertising are converging into a new architecture of surveillance.
"China replaced an entire bus network — 16,000 diesel buses in one city — with electric ones in under three years.
Shenzhen, China's technology manufacturing hub across the border from Hong Kong, completed the world's first fully electric public bus fleet in 2018. #ActOnClimate #ClimateActionNow
Russia set fire to the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra overnight—the monastery where Yuriy Dolgorukiy, the prince who founded Moscow, lies buried.
A UNESCO site older than Moscow itself, now burning.
"Most Holy Mother of God, stop Herod!" Metropolitan Epiphanius, head of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine
Bookmark this textbook rehabilitation profile:
• imposing a wayward narrative to reframe a life of privilege
• diminishing the opposing view in one out-of-context caricature
• curious “gracefully” defence
• written by a climate, environment and science journalist
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A Russian strike ignited the Dormition Cathedral; officials say it likely scored a direct hit
