Plumettes of Norm (2025)

13/10/2025

The morning news lead with a video of Trump announcing that everyone in the world is dancing in the streets. Thanks to him. Cut to Gaza. Devastation. The screen shows aid trucks being overwhelmed by the desperate and starving. Next. A Gazan is interviewed about her hope for water food and a tent. There is no dancing in Gaza. Cut to Israel....

The morning news lead with a video of Trump announcing that everyone in the world is dancing in the streets. Thanks to him. Cut to Gaza. Devastation. The screen shows aid trucks being overwhelmed b…

07/10/2025

So it seems that Donald Trump realised that international support for the Israeli genocide is deteriorating. His dogged support for the Jewish nation is eroding his prospects of a Nobel Peace Prize, but he still retains the delusions of his own immaculate decisions and a sycophantic press that takes his dribble seriously ignoring the facts. With the atrocities in Gaza drifting into a third year Mt Trump took the opportunity of Bibi slinking into the USA to deliver a belligerent address to an empty United Nations....

So it seems that Donald Trump realised that international support for the Israeli genocide is deteriorating. His dogged support for the Jewish nation is eroding his prospects of a Nobel Peace Prize…

04/10/2025

Another expert, extremely pleased with themselves, that their smug self-proclaimed expertise was being recognised as the talked around the subject of their self-acclaimed expertise as if anyone interested in the topic had not heard it all before. He was only reading this article, because the last in-depth expert, last week had concluded that he would have to wait and see, rather than giving any insight as to what their expertise predicted....

Another expert, extremely pleased with themselves, that their smug self-proclaimed expertise was being recognised as the talked around the subject of their self-acclaimed expertise as if anyone int…

27/09/2025

In a test of the ability of Artificially Intelligent intercommunication it was surprisingly found that AIs speak the language of numbers. That is if an AI is trained to recognise owls; another AI using the same model can do the same. That model being a set of numbers forming a pattern that informs the model. Researchers tried to disrupt this communication by eliminating the numbers that they believed identified the owls, but this had little affect....

In a test of the ability of Artificially Intelligent intercommunication it was surprisingly found that AIs speak the language of numbers. That is if an AI is trained to recognise owls; another AI u…

18/09/2025

The protesters protest. The horrendously inconvenient disruption by inconsiderate maniacs is reported everyday, but what seems to be lacking is clear details of what this epidemic of inconvenience is about. A simple summary of what is wanted and the data that justifies the demand would help. There are the anti-migration protests. Thousands on the streets, but no-one seems exactly sure why....

The protesters protest. The horrendously inconvenient disruption by inconsiderate maniacs is reported everyday, but what seems to be lacking is clear details of what this epidemic of inconvenience …

13/09/2025

“Do as I say not as I do.” OK Boomer recalled often hearing the maternal edict issued to justify a frustrated explanation. Every parent was united in the doctrine that children were to be seen, not heard. Otherwise “what would your father say” carried the unspoken pain of corporal punishment where Boomer would be challenged to “grin and bear it” in defiance....

“Do as I say not as I do.” OK Boomer recalled often hearing the maternal edict issued to justify a frustrated explanation. Every parent was united in the doctrine that children were to be seen, not…

06/09/2025

Boomer was sitting resplendent at his sun-drenched throne in the best spot in the cafe when the Lycra lads came in. Their boisterous cleated footwear clattered in cacophonous competition with their boisterous and jovial banter. All the customers pretended to not notice, but their inward groan was palpable. Boomer detested these cafe racers that had taken over the extended Sunday brunch....

Boomer was sitting resplendent at his sun-drenched throne in the best spot in the cafe when the Lycra lads came in. Their boisterous cleated footwear clattered in cacophonous competition with their…

30/08/2025

Productivity needs growth. Growth needs innovation. Innovation is stifled by taxes. The business submissions to the Productivity Commission are united in their cries for Growth. Growth is a rebadging of the divine right of the privileged to manage the fortunes of others. It is a rebrand of the myth of trickle down economics that after thirty years no longer works as a pacifier for the masses....

Productivity needs growth. Growth needs innovation. Innovation is stifled by taxes. The business submissions to the Productivity Commission are united in their cries for Growth. Growth is a rebadgi…

23/08/2025

I have, and I decided to write an explainer to explain my curiosity to the world. When reading about crises in the Middle East that may affect the shipping of crude oil to the world supply I noticed that the Straits of Hormuz are often mentioned. A simple internet search revealed that there are many explainers about the geo-political significance of the Strait, but apparently none on the Straits....

I have, and I decided to write an explainer to explain my curiosity to the world. When reading about crises in the Middle East that may affect the shipping of crude oil to the world supply I notice…

16/08/2025

The modes of interaction and discourse are changing. Does the digital revolution herald some new form of orality, a swing back to the visual and aural storytelling and away from the written form? Text Neck, the posture caused by excessive use of mobile phones, is cited by more literate older generations raised on the limited fare of black and white TV, as a physical symptom of the decline in reading books, and hence the decline literacy....

The modes of interaction and discourse are changing. Does the digital revolution herald some new form of orality, a swing back to the visual and aural storytelling and away from the written form? T…

09/08/2025

Personal Superintelligence What the f**k is that! Intelligence is personal. Zuckerberg is a superoxymoron thought the highly intelligent O K Boomer. Intelligence is something that science struggles to explain and measure, simply because it is innate to the individual and subject to the personal observervations of others. The boffins are always making up different form of intelligence and debating how to measure them, but intelligence was an opinion about another individual that defied definition....

Personal Superintelligence What the f**k is that! Intelligence is personal. Zuckerberg is a superoxymoron thought the highly intelligent O K Boomer. Intelligence is something that science struggles…

02/08/2025

Little white Albo threw a soft toy for little white Toto. He was having a secret fag behind the lodge away from the prying eyes of his cabinet. It had been a hard first session of parliament for the little big man, keeping up the pretence of humility was hard work. Especially when encumbered with the delusion that his life was easy just because he had thrashed the opposition with his landslide....

Little white Albo threw a soft toy for little white Toto. He was having a secret fag behind the lodge away from the prying eyes of his cabinet. It had been a hard first session of parliament for th…

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