![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Saturday's presentation for the Linux Users of Victoria Beginners workshop on supercomputers went well. Approximately half way through the Advanced Linux and HPC User's Guide for work, so much of that material will be available online soon as well - perhaps as early as the end of the week. Afterwards was a committee meeting which adopted the plans for the new LUV library collection. Also there is an interesting rumour circulating that LUV is about to have another chapter in regional Victoria (and maybe even beyond).
The evening witnessed the Isocracy meeting on West Papua, with Louis Byrne presenting and several other members of West Papua Australia in attendance. The numbers from the Isocracy side of things was a somewhat lower than what I hoped, but nevertheless it was a long and fruitful discussion and we'll be doing what we can to support the Freedom Flotilla, along with working with politicians for an implementation of a self-determination process; and we'll side with the need for UN blue helmets on the ground, too. A very exciting decision of the Isocracy Network has been to allow all members to have their own 'blog on the group's website. Should spur debate, commentary, and involvement.
Aprops, last night was a meeting of the Kooyong ALP FEA and campaign committee. It was optimistic as it could be for being in a safe Liberal seat, although I do wonder how I can be expected to work for ALP (or LNP, if I was that way inclined) given that almost the entire parliament voted (and contrary to ALP policy) to excises the entire mainland from migration zone, in yet another hateful attempt to punish asylum seekers.
Rupert Murdoch recently showed his (creepy) hand on Twitter, hoping for a quick end to the Federal Labor government, and hoping that people have "tuned out" of political discussion (when it comes to deliberately promoting low standards, Murdoch's media is the bottom of the pit). With excellent timing, state Liberals argue that the ABC and SBS should be privitised. We can be reminded that Murdoch is also opposed to an NBN with FTTP; and from the perspective of a monopolist, it makes sense. The idea that people can have television on demand is bad enough; the idea that they could be effective content-producers themselves is an anathema. How can this be prevented? Well, in the Murdoch way - destroy the public content providers and make people pay for Internet content.
The evening witnessed the Isocracy meeting on West Papua, with Louis Byrne presenting and several other members of West Papua Australia in attendance. The numbers from the Isocracy side of things was a somewhat lower than what I hoped, but nevertheless it was a long and fruitful discussion and we'll be doing what we can to support the Freedom Flotilla, along with working with politicians for an implementation of a self-determination process; and we'll side with the need for UN blue helmets on the ground, too. A very exciting decision of the Isocracy Network has been to allow all members to have their own 'blog on the group's website. Should spur debate, commentary, and involvement.
Aprops, last night was a meeting of the Kooyong ALP FEA and campaign committee. It was optimistic as it could be for being in a safe Liberal seat, although I do wonder how I can be expected to work for ALP (or LNP, if I was that way inclined) given that almost the entire parliament voted (and contrary to ALP policy) to excises the entire mainland from migration zone, in yet another hateful attempt to punish asylum seekers.
Rupert Murdoch recently showed his (creepy) hand on Twitter, hoping for a quick end to the Federal Labor government, and hoping that people have "tuned out" of political discussion (when it comes to deliberately promoting low standards, Murdoch's media is the bottom of the pit). With excellent timing, state Liberals argue that the ABC and SBS should be privitised. We can be reminded that Murdoch is also opposed to an NBN with FTTP; and from the perspective of a monopolist, it makes sense. The idea that people can have television on demand is bad enough; the idea that they could be effective content-producers themselves is an anathema. How can this be prevented? Well, in the Murdoch way - destroy the public content providers and make people pay for Internet content.
