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  1. Gig review: Massive Attack at Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne 11th August, 2026

    Anyone who knows me well knows how much I love Massive Attack.

    Not only is their music timeless and ageless, they have left an imprint on the souls and hearts of so many people. Mezzanine is their seminal album of 1998 that contained the worldwide hit song that most people will recognise – Teardrop.

    https://youtu.be/u7K72X4eo_s?si=s7pzy1P0AccYkafT

    Who is Massive Attack?

    Before the gig I went to get my hair done and the Zoomer lass doing my hair had no idea who Massive Attack was. This was a rude awakening that such a band is no longer well-known and it also made me feel old (which is a relatively new feeling and one I am still grappling with). Asking her what music she liked and she told me country music and Ed Sheeran. This was a level of deep cringe I wasn’t prepared for, but I tried to not show it in my face.

    If you don’t know who Massive Attack is then this is a great introduction into why they are completely unique. Their music is an iconoclastic blend of dark Dub, Reggae, Hip-hop and Ambient – in other words – Trip-hop. When I was young, I loved a lot of the Trip-hop, Rap, Techno, Trance, House and Drum & Bass and these tastes continue even now.

    https://youtu.be/Owog55voMcs?si=20n5V9PMXHeSYGSZ

    Anyway about the gig itself. It was bewitching and hypnotic and did not disappoint at all. It was just as sonically satisfying as their albums Blue Lines, Protection and Mezzanine are, but with added layers of complexity to the intensity of the music. The visual storytelling of the live experience was a powerful addition to their already complex, velvety and haunting sound.

    The visual display was not simply a background jumble of randomness but was the real centrepiece. Visual storytelling and messaging were spot-on in capturing the Zeitgeist of our muddled and deeply troubling times.

    Whenever an artist delivers a political message at a concert, I am unclear of the cut-through with other people. I wonder if they feel it as profoundly as I do?

    Massive Attack’s political messaging is strongly anti-capitalist, anti-fascist, anti-colonial, anti-racist, anti-Zionist stance. They have a pro creativity and a brutal pro-reality stance instead. This adds texture and depth to their mesmeric iconic music.

    On looking out at the vast sea of people in Melbourne, I wondered do they care or are they indifferent to Massive Attack’s political provocations? Are they happy to simply go to an event, not think and go home?

    With Massive Attack this was never going to be an option. This is music to make every single person there stop and think deeply about their extremely vulnerable position in our emerging, very real and quite frankly terrifying world of hyper-surveillance, hyper-corporatisation, militarised violence and hyper-concentrated media landscape. Yes – all of those fucked up topics that nobody ever wants to discuss, not in polite company and certainly not in the media.

    Shoring up a collective response to the level of power-grabbing, corruption and fuckery is also hard for many face (grown lazy as we are on a Western diet of wealth and ease combined with fear) to stomach: underground resistance and revolt.

    Before today, I don’t think anyone has accurately summarised the future we all stand to inherit as a result of the increased AI corporatisation, AI militarisation and AI surveillance – death, chaos and destruction, there I fucken said it! Terrifying innit!

    Massive Attack and their awesome audiovisual storytelling have managed to encapsulate all of the above and infuse the whole experience with a disturbing, signal-smashing, restless energy. Bringing terror, awe, beauty and wonder into a live show is no small feat. And so it was a true masterpiece of immersive art.

    When listening to a Massive Attack album, especially Mezzanine, one gets the sense of entering through a mirror darkly, into a hyper-real, often brutal reality of the world.

    In saying how truly amazing it was, I feel so sorry for those who couldn’t get a ticket. This amount of algorithmic gymnastics my partner had to go through to get the tickets was an absolute miracle.

    The big irony: the event was a algorithmically complex and hyper-surveilled

    There is an enormous irony to this event that I would like to unpack for you. Massive Attack’s gig showcased the terror of surveillance, as the detailed faces of people in the crowd were tracked and projected live onto the big screen.

    The venue, Rod Laver Arena employs extremely detailed and intricate facial recognition and data services courtesy of Palantir (yes those c*nts, the global techno-military complex used quietly and precisely to kill children in Gaza and elsewhere).

    Back to cosy little Australia – this facial recognition software captures every pimple and pore on the faces of music-lovers who come to the event.

    This, Rod Laver Arena claim in their privacy policy is used and then disgarded if someone is not on their banned list. However, there is no auditing or ability to tell whether or not this is actually the case.

    There is a clause in the Privacy Policy about ‘obtaining sensitive information’: you know like someone’s racial or ethnic identity, political leanings, sexual preference, and whatever else they fucken feel like.

    If you’re not outraged about it, then you obviously don’t understand the gravity of that sort of omnipresent power yet. A true Orwellian nightmare I am sorry to say. However the fact still remains, what is to be done to stop it?

    If people are surveilled to that degree by Palantir and other shadowy “security” organisations, then it effectively weakens and atomises resistance movements before they even begin.

    Media concentration effectively negates and paints those who resist as being ‘trouble-makers’ or ‘anarchists’ – as though a just, private, dignified, healthy and environmentally abundant world is a crazy thing for human beings to need and want!

    Anyway I’ve gone really deep on this one, but this is effectively a brain dump of my deepest concerns for the future we all face, masterfully captured into a two hour long sonic journey by Massive Attack.

    Like the good little consumer I am, I bought two overpriced Massive Attack T-shirts. I had my face and body analysed for my ethnicity, age, class, gender, political views, union affiliations.

    I submitted to the unknowable, all-knowing algorithms of the ether to be ranked as a ‘material risk to civilisation’ or as ‘placid, peaceable human livestock’. I’m still not sure where I fit on that spectrum.

    Encircled by facial recognition surveillance, I thanked myself silently that I didn’t wear my Keffiyeh to the gig and I felt a little bit ashamed that I didn’t wear it proudly at the same time.

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  2. Gig review: Massive Attack at Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne 11th August, 2026

    Anyone who knows me well knows how much I love Massive Attack.

    Not only is their music timeless and ageless, they have left an imprint on the souls and hearts of so many people. Mezzanine is their seminal album of 1998 that contained the worldwide hit song that most people will recognise – Teardrop.

    https://youtu.be/u7K72X4eo_s?si=s7pzy1P0AccYkafT

    Who is Massive Attack?

    Before the gig I went to get my hair done and the Zoomer lass doing my hair had no idea who Massive Attack was. This was a rude awakening that such a band is no longer well-known and it also made me feel old (which is a relatively new feeling and one I am still grappling with). Asking her what music she liked and she told me country music and Ed Sheeran. This was a level of deep cringe I wasn’t prepared for, but I tried to not show it in my face.

    If you don’t know who Massive Attack is then this is a great introduction into why they are completely unique. Their music is an iconoclastic blend of dark Dub, Reggae, Hip-hop and Ambient – in other words – Trip-hop. When I was young, I loved a lot of the Trip-hop, Rap, Techno, Trance, House and Drum & Bass and these tastes continue even now.

    https://youtu.be/Owog55voMcs?si=20n5V9PMXHeSYGSZ

    Anyway about the gig itself. It was bewitching and hypnotic and did not disappoint at all. It was just as sonically satisfying as their albums Blue Lines, Protection and Mezzanine are, but with added layers of complexity to the intensity of the music. The visual storytelling of the live experience was a powerful addition to their already complex, velvety and haunting sound.

    The visual display was not simply a background jumble of randomness but was the real centrepiece. Visual storytelling and messaging were spot-on in capturing the Zeitgeist of our muddled and deeply troubling times.

    Whenever an artist delivers a political message at a concert, I am unclear of the cut-through with other people. I wonder if they feel it as profoundly as I do?

    Massive Attack’s political messaging is strongly anti-capitalist, anti-fascist, anti-colonial, anti-racist, anti-Zionist stance. They have a pro creativity and a brutal pro-reality stance instead. This adds texture and depth to their mesmeric iconic music.

    On looking out at the vast sea of people in Melbourne, I wondered do they care or are they indifferent to Massive Attack’s political provocations? Are they happy to simply go to an event, not think and go home?

    With Massive Attack this was never going to be an option. This is music to make every single person there stop and think deeply about their extremely vulnerable position in our emerging, very real and quite frankly terrifying world of hyper-surveillance, hyper-corporatisation, militarised violence and hyper-concentrated media landscape. Yes – all of those fucked up topics that nobody ever wants to discuss, not in polite company and certainly not in the media.

    Shoring up a collective response to the level of power-grabbing, corruption and fuckery is also hard for many face (grown lazy as we are on a Western diet of wealth and ease combined with fear) to stomach: underground resistance and revolt.

    Before today, I don’t think anyone has accurately summarised the future we all stand to inherit as a result of the increased AI corporatisation, AI militarisation and AI surveillance – death, chaos and destruction, there I fucken said it! Terrifying innit!

    Massive Attack and their awesome audiovisual storytelling have managed to encapsulate all of the above and infuse the whole experience with a disturbing, signal-smashing, restless energy. Bringing terror, awe, beauty and wonder into a live show is no small feat. And so it was a true masterpiece of immersive art.

    When listening to a Massive Attack album, especially Mezzanine, one gets the sense of entering through a mirror darkly, into a hyper-real, often brutal reality of the world.

    In saying how truly amazing it was, I feel so sorry for those who couldn’t get a ticket. This amount of algorithmic gymnastics my partner had to go through to get the tickets was an absolute miracle.

    The big irony: the event was a algorithmically complex and hyper-surveilled

    There is an enormous irony to this event that I would like to unpack for you. Massive Attack’s gig showcased the terror of surveillance, as the detailed faces of people in the crowd were tracked and projected live onto the big screen.

    The venue, Rod Laver Arena employs extremely detailed and intricate facial recognition and data services courtesy of Palantir (yes those c*nts, the global techno-military complex used quietly and precisely to kill children in Gaza and elsewhere).

    Back to cosy little Australia – this facial recognition software captures every pimple and pore on the faces of music-lovers who come to the event.

    This, Rod Laver Arena claim in their privacy policy is used and then disgarded if someone is not on their banned list. However, there is no auditing or ability to tell whether or not this is actually the case.

    There is a clause in the Privacy Policy about ‘obtaining sensitive information’: you know like someone’s racial or ethnic identity, political leanings, sexual preference, and whatever else they fucken feel like.

    If you’re not outraged about it, then you obviously don’t understand the gravity of that sort of omnipresent power yet. A true Orwellian nightmare I am sorry to say. However the fact still remains, what is to be done to stop it?

    If people are surveilled to that degree by Palantir and other shadowy “security” organisations, then it effectively weakens and atomises resistance movements before they even begin.

    Media concentration effectively negates and paints those who resist as being ‘trouble-makers’ or ‘anarchists’ – as though a just, private, dignified, healthy and environmentally abundant world is a crazy thing for human beings to need and want!

    Anyway I’ve gone really deep on this one, but this is effectively a brain dump of my deepest concerns for the future we all face, masterfully captured into a two hour long sonic journey by Massive Attack.

    Like the good little consumer I am, I bought two overpriced Massive Attack T-shirts. I had my face and body analysed for my ethnicity, age, class, gender, political views, union affiliations.

    I submitted to the unknowable, all-knowing algorithms of the ether to be ranked as a ‘material risk to civilisation’ or as ‘placid, peaceable human livestock’. I’m still not sure where I fit on that spectrum.

    Encircled by facial recognition surveillance, I thanked myself silently that I didn’t wear my Keffiyeh to the gig and I felt a little bit ashamed that I didn’t wear it proudly at the same time.

    #BigTech #electronicMusic #futureTech #globalPolitics #History #inspiration #intelligence #MassiveAttack #Melbourne #Music #musicReview #Philosophy #rebellion #resilience #resistance #storytelling #surveillance #tripHop #UndergroundResistance
  3. 🌱 Important read for anyone interested in food, farming & ag.

    This piece asks a pretty fundamental question: what if feeding the world wasn’t just about producing more food, but about building food systems that actually work for people?

    Drawing on small-farm systems in India, Bosnia and the US, it looks at how biodiversity, local markets, mutual aid and public infrastructure can make food systems more resilient — while strengthening communities at the same time.

    Lots to think about here, especially as we keep talking about food security, climate, farming and the future of #Agriculture

    Worth a read 👇

    resilience.org/stories/2026-08

    #resilience #economics #regenerative #foodsystems

  4. This summer #climatechaos

    This summer, heat, fires, the soon to come winter floods and insurance withdrawals will make #climatechaos harder to treat as something happening somewhere else. For years, climate breakdown was framed as an activist issue, something discussed by environmental groups while mainstream politics carried on with business as usual. That is changing, people are experiencing the consequences: extreme heat, flooding, damaged homes, rising insurance costs, failing infrastructure and growing […]

    hamishcampbell.com/this-summer

  5. People who wade into discomfort and vulnerability and tell the truth about their stories are the real badasses. --Brene Brown
    #mentalhealth #resilience #strengthbased #courage #ymhc

  6. People who wade into discomfort and vulnerability and tell the truth about their stories are the real badasses. --Brene Brown
    #mentalhealth #resilience #strengthbased #courage #ymhc

  7. So delighted to see this issue of Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education come out, and with it our article on effective supervisory systems for coping with COVID-19 restrictions in postgraduate research/doctoral studies.

    emerald.com/sgpe/issue/17/3

    #COVID #postgraduate #research #PostgraduateResearch #highereducation #supervision #Bronfenbrenner #resilience #sgpe #graduatestudies #graduateschool

  8. So delighted to see this issue of Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education come out, and with it our article on effective supervisory systems for coping with COVID-19 restrictions in postgraduate research/doctoral studies.

    emerald.com/sgpe/issue/17/3

    #COVID #postgraduate #research #PostgraduateResearch #highereducation #supervision #Bronfenbrenner #resilience #sgpe #graduatestudies #graduateschool

  9. @arcanechat

    what part is FUD???

    The part where you say:

    Switching from #WhatsApp / #Telegram to #Signal is not a solution if you really care about #privacy, #resilience and #autonomy

    Your only rationale in the comic is that they are hosted on AWS. Which is a problem for a secure private messenger only for a protocol that is not designed to avoid leaking any sensitive data including the shape of the communication graph to an adversary with complete control over the server.

    all of them are centralized services and depend on phone numbers, which makes them easy to censor

    This is misleading. The phone number in Signal is not used for message routing at all. It can be used to make you discoverable to contacts that were previously using the phone / SMS to connect to you. Being discoverable by your contacts is important for a private messenger because it gets you a big anonymity set quickly.

    for a start, there is no single adversary that can observe the whole network, and switching from one relay to another and using several at the same time is easy, without losing your chats & data!

    To take the two parts of this in turn: First, I would suggest you search for the term 'global passive adversary'. It's a core part of how any private messenger expresses its threat model. And, although a perfect global passive adversary doesn't exist, ones that monitor more than an entire country do exist.

    The second part is the real problem. How many people are there on each relay? I don't need to monitor the entire network to see what a person is doing, I need to monitor the servers that they talk to, and who those servers talk to. That's a much weaker adversary (achievable by a huge number of potentially hostile entities). And the way that you defeat an adversary like this is to have a large anonymity set, so that correlations between messages arriving and leaving are hard.

    how does signal, a central observer with access to all users' IP addresses is any better?

    We know, from the results of warrants, precisely what can leak from Signal: the timestamp at which you joined the network and the timestamp at which the client last connected to the network. What can a warrant with your protocol deliver?

    But if you're leaking things to a passive adversary that require an active compromise of another system then it doesn't matter if your system might be more resilient to an active attacker: an active attacker doesn't need to bother if people use your system. Just knowing which relay they talk to is already giving more data than a warrant against Signal delivers.

    But it also highlights the problem with a lot of distributed messaging systems: You can easily turn a single point of failure into a lot of points of failure. If a relay is operated by someone malicious, how much of the network's traffic can they observe?

    But, more importantly: you did not answer my question. You just attacked Signal. There are lots of things I dislike about Signal but you aren't even giving answers that tell me that you have solved the problems that they have solved, and you've got a design that introduces a load of hard problems that they don't have.

    Maybe try talking about how you've actually solved some hard problems with security and privacy, rather than starting off with an attack on other projects and claiming that you're better than them?

  10. @arcanechat

    what part is FUD???

    The part where you say:

    Switching from #WhatsApp / #Telegram to #Signal is not a solution if you really care about #privacy, #resilience and #autonomy

    Your only rationale in the comic is that they are hosted on AWS. Which is a problem for a secure private messenger only for a protocol that is not designed to avoid leaking any sensitive data including the shape of the communication graph to an adversary with complete control over the server.

    all of them are centralized services and depend on phone numbers, which makes them easy to censor

    This is misleading. The phone number in Signal is not used for message routing at all. It can be used to make you discoverable to contacts that were previously using the phone / SMS to connect to you. Being discoverable by your contacts is important for a private messenger because it gets you a big anonymity set quickly.

    for a start, there is no single adversary that can observe the whole network, and switching from one relay to another and using several at the same time is easy, without losing your chats & data!

    To take the two parts of this in turn: First, I would suggest you search for the term 'global passive adversary'. It's a core part of how any private messenger expresses its threat model. And, although a perfect global passive adversary doesn't exist, ones that monitor more than an entire country do exist.

    The second part is the real problem. How many people are there on each relay? I don't need to monitor the entire network to see what a person is doing, I need to monitor the servers that they talk to, and who those servers talk to. That's a much weaker adversary (achievable by a huge number of potentially hostile entities). And the way that you defeat an adversary like this is to have a large anonymity set, so that correlations between messages arriving and leaving are hard.

    how does signal, a central observer with access to all users' IP addresses is any better?

    We know, from the results of warrants, precisely what can leak from Signal: the timestamp at which you joined the network and the timestamp at which the client last connected to the network. What can a warrant with your protocol deliver?

    But if you're leaking things to a passive adversary that require an active compromise of another system then it doesn't matter if your system might be more resilient to an active attacker: an active attacker doesn't need to bother if people use your system. Just knowing which relay they talk to is already giving more data than a warrant against Signal delivers.

    But it also highlights the problem with a lot of distributed messaging systems: You can easily turn a single point of failure into a lot of points of failure. If a relay is operated by someone malicious, how much of the network's traffic can they observe?

    But, more importantly: you did not answer my question. You just attacked Signal. There are lots of things I dislike about Signal but you aren't even giving answers that tell me that you have solved the problems that they have solved, and you've got a design that introduces a load of hard problems that they don't have.

    Maybe try talking about how you've actually solved some hard problems with security and privacy, rather than starting off with an attack on other projects and claiming that you're better than them?

  11. Switching from / to is not a solution if you really care about , and

    all of them are centralized services and depend on phone numbers, which makes them easy to censor, the best services are the one that don't require any personal data at all to register, like

    Keep the safe 💜✨

  12. Switching from #WhatsApp / #Telegram to #Signal is not a solution if you really care about #privacy, #resilience and #autonomy

    all of them are centralized services and depend on phone numbers, which makes them easy to censor, the best services are the one that don't require any personal data at all to register, like #ArcaneChat

    Keep the #family safe 💜✨

    #OpenSource #European #Europe #android #aws #bigtech #amazon #diday


  13. Fossil-based agriculture is doomed because its plants cannot resist big heatwaves. Adaptation could involve sustainable agriculture (such a permaculture).

    In parts losing rain (notably because of AMOC shutdown), people could resort to sustainable agriculture too ‒ inspired from tradition at neighbours'.

    For example: isasat.org/Vol-ii%2cissue-i/AA

    #resilience #agroforestry #permaculture #homegardens #adaptation #India


  14. Fossil-based agriculture is doomed because its plants cannot resist big heatwaves. Adaptation could involve sustainable agriculture (such a permaculture).

    In parts losing rain (notably because of AMOC shutdown), people could resort to sustainable agriculture too ‒ inspired from tradition at neighbours'.

    For example: isasat.org/Vol-ii%2cissue-i/AA

    #resilience #agroforestry #permaculture #homegardens #adaptation #India

  15. @blackforestmesh

    Vgl. die Sendung des Radio DARC vom 2. August 2026,

    Wo ein hybrides Modell des Lkr. Leer vorgestellt wird.

    Feste Anlaufpunkte wie Rathaus, Feuerwehr, etc. mit BOS Besatzung (ggf. Unterstützung von AFU), letzte Meile Informationen und Notruf mit PMR, CB , Mesh.

    Ist zumindest mal ein Konzept.

    Leider nur AI-generierter Bericht ohne Quellen

    darc.de/nachrichten/radio-darc

    #notfunk #resilience #hamradio

  16. @blackforestmesh

    Vgl. die Sendung des Radio DARC vom 2. August 2026,

    Wo ein hybrides Modell des Lkr. Leer vorgestellt wird.

    Feste Anlaufpunkte wie Rathaus, Feuerwehr, etc. mit BOS Besatzung (ggf. Unterstützung von AFU), letzte Meile Informationen und Notruf mit PMR, CB , Mesh.

    Ist zumindest mal ein Konzept.

    Leider nur AI-generierter Bericht ohne Quellen

    darc.de/nachrichten/radio-darc

    #notfunk #resilience #hamradio