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Ian Milliss
@ianmilliss.bsky.social
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artist, activist, writer, unionist, woodworker, atheist, member of the Kandos School of Cultural Adaptation, to the left of left.
I'm also over on mastodon for longer posts @[email protected]
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Following on my recent essays about the AGNSW failure and the Irish basic income funding success I thought I should briefly outline what infrastructure I think will evolve for cultural activity. Never say I’m just negative, I’m the very opposite.
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Beyond the Ruins
Building Post-Institutional Cultural Infrastructure in the Digital Commons
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November 25, 2025 at 7:05 AM
My life has been one long search for "the bigger picture", the wider context.

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Conspiratorial Design. Information design for the bigger picture
Carlo Bramanti finds the connections between design and conspiracy theory so compelling that he coined a term for the common ground that they share: Conspiratorial Design
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November 25, 2025 at 4:33 AM
The fear being spread by Zionist bullies.

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'No pride in genocide': Aboriginal musician and Department staffer walks out of Parliament gig following proposed censorship
A young Aboriginal musician and advocate is under investigation and has been told he could lose his job within the NSW Premier's Department after he tried to perform at a Parliament House dinner with ...
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November 23, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Whatever they will do to Palestinians they will eventually do to all of us.
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The Palestine Laboratory: Exporting Occupation Technology (w/ Antony Loewenstein) | The Chris Hedges Report
Gaza has become a testing ground for Israeli and Western weapons and surveillance tools — technologies that will inevitably be used to target populations across the globe.
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November 20, 2025 at 4:05 AM
South Korea to phase out coal, ramp up renewables, in new blow to Australian exporters reneweconomy.com.au/south-korea-...
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November 19, 2025 at 12:57 AM
A second issue of Labor Art Review is out with an excellent interview with Martha Rosler laborartreview.net/lar-intervie...
Lar Interviews Martha Rosler - Labor Art Review
Artist Martha Rosler examines how dominant ideology operates through the seemingly disparate realms of consumer culture, gendered labor, militarism, and urban development—refusing the single-issue foc...
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November 18, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Given my recent annoyance about the mass media portrayal of so many events as competitions I decided to ask the World Wide Union of Robots about ideology in journalism and whether robots to be more objective than humans.
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Journalism Beyond Competition
Mainstream journalism never mentions collaboration. Can we reverse that to a journalism that never mentions competition?
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November 14, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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The first honest American president
Trump's shameless corruption is not a deviation from American history but its fulfilment.
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October 31, 2025 at 12:50 PM
AI could be the solution to corporate corruption.
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The Whistleblowing Robot
AI is spying on corporations, not only on humans
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October 26, 2025 at 6:29 AM
They Tell Us To Fear Muslims While The US Empire Terrorizes The World
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They Tell Us To Fear Muslims While The US Empire Terrorizes The World
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):
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October 25, 2025 at 6:14 AM
This is really interesting. As one of my Chinese friends said, as long as you aren't interested in politics China is a great place. And the people think so. I'll say what the article doesn't, socialism is better than capitalism.
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Support for government in China: is the data accurate?
Some have questioned the survey results. Are the skeptics right?
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October 18, 2025 at 8:38 AM
His buffoonery knows no end. Perhaps he intends to declare victory the wind the country up. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
Trump's plan to build Paris-style arch next to Lincoln Memorial
The arch would stand at the Washington end of Memorial Bridge, which spans the Potomac River from Arlington, Virginia.
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October 17, 2025 at 6:36 AM
The US rogue state can’t collapse soon enough.
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The US rogue state can’t collapse soon enough. https://open.substack.com/pub/the307/p/trump-orders-cia-war-on-venezuela?r=mpiu&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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October 17, 2025 at 6:04 AM
For years I have pushed for basic income for artists as a far superior solution the the hideous dysfunctional and biased project funding model. The Irish having been running a pilot which has proven so successful it's now been permanently implemented. ianmilliss575982.substack.com/p/get-rid-of...
Get rid of arts funding!
There is a proven better solution.
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October 14, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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"“I write to confirm arrangements for Chris Hedges to appear at the National Press Club of Australia on 20 October 2025”.
grogsgamut.bsky.social Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · Oct 7
The NPC has absolutely shamed itself.
slackbastard.bsky.social Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · Oct 7
~ ermahgerd ~

Seems v much like the NPC was not truthful about its cancellation of Hedges' scheduled appearance on OCT 20.

'Statement on Cancellation of Chris Hedges’ confirmed appearance at the National Press Club of Australia'

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October 7, 2025 at 4:40 AM
What is “Human”? The Paradox of a Fragile Word
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What is “Human”? The Paradox of a Fragile Word
As “human” teeters between exclusion and erasure, its meaning shapes futures.
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October 7, 2025 at 5:54 AM
AI could do a far better job than our current fake media.
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AI, the journalist that can't be bribed or threatened
Is AI the Way to a More Truthful and Objective Media?
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October 6, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Miranda Vidak (@mirandavidak)
Zionism’s monstrous, Orwellian attempt at global censorship has failed on a scope we cannot even begin to grasp yet. The movies, books, radio shows, podcasts, and documentaries about the Gaza Holocaus...
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September 29, 2025 at 5:02 AM
It’s Milan Fashion For Rich People Week, let’s get that into perspective.

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The invention of American clothes
And the forgotten designer whose ideas we're still wearing today
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September 29, 2025 at 4:59 AM
There is particular sort of idiot that spams facebook with whining about recycling EV batteries. This is for them.
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Powerful lithium batteries in written-off EVs now hot property at salvage auctions
Demand for secondhand electric vehicle batteries is surging across Australia, as buyers repurpose them for everything from solar storage to off-grid energy
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September 28, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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Alon Mizrahi (@alonmizrahi)
On the eve of the last presidential election in the US I argued that a Trump presidency would be better for the world than a Harris one. I believed, and still believe, that the open irrationality, imm...
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September 23, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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Jack Waterford: If I were drafting astrology advice for Anthony Albanese, I would be hinting that it was worst possible time for international travel, and that serious bout of diplomatic flu might be the best way to secure his (and Australia’s) long-term interests.

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The stars suggest Albo should stay at home
If I were drafting astrology advice for Anthony Albanese over the next few weeks, I would be hinting that it was the worst possible time for international travel, and that a serious bout of diplomatic...
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September 23, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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Conservatives love to darkly say stuff like “you aren’t prepared for what’s next, we’re not going to be moderate anymore, you have no idea what you’ve unleashed” and then cry like babies when you call them fascists
September 23, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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It is extremely unconventional (ie against a political convention that exists for very good reasons) for an opposition leader to make foreign policy commitments, but it can be seen as a marker of desperation from a party that is most likely never going to be in government again.
September 23, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Billion dollar boondoggle. This is what corruption looks like and our political system is riddled with it.
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Billion dollar boondoggle
A preliminary view
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September 19, 2025 at 4:04 AM