The Bondi-Sydney-Philippines Nexus
Uncovering the radicalisation pathway of the Bondi mass shooting gunmen and their pro-ISIS links.
A. The Nation’s William Astore asks: Have we normalised nuclear war?
B. YCombinator’s Startup School and the YC Library.
C. Sydney’s Jewish community reacts to the Bondi mass shootings. Why the Bondi mass shootings were ISIS-inspired and the gunmen’s training in the Philippines. The ideological radicalisation role of a pro-ISIS cleric in Sydney. Remembering the Bondi victims. Bloomberg on what the Bondi mass shooting means for Australia’s identity.
D. A mass shooting at Brown University in the United States: a “paired case study” comparatively to understand US versus Australian gun laws.
E. AI stock markets and data centre blackouts: the so-called surveillance capitalist or technofeudalist infrastructure layer is beginning to have problems.
F. The New Republic’s Greg Sargent worries that Stephen Miller is building a “MAGA terror state.” Jean Guerrero’s biography Hatemonger: Stephen Miller, Donald Trump and the White Nationalist Agenda (New York: William Morrow, 2020) covers Miller’s pivotal role in the first Trump administration - and is currently free to read for Amazon Kindle Unlimited subscribers.
G. Today’s MIT OCW free course is on Game Theory for Strategic Advantage created by Professor Alessandro Bonatti.
H. I saw U2 on their 1993 Zoomerang tour. Achtung Baby (1991) and Zooropa (1993) deeply influenced me. Here is a recent video on the tour - which when it came to Melbourne only had a few free to air and cable TV stations for Bono to scroll through.
I. PBS Newshour remembers the life and many memorable films of director Rob Reiner.
J. Science fiction author Isaac Asimov (the Foundation series; I, Robot) on the David Letterman Show about the future - that we are all now in.
K. The nine traits that OpenAI’s Sam Altman looks for in entrepreneurial startup founders.
L. The classic film noir DOA (1949).
M. A16Z’s founders Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz on AI. Andreessen code the NSCA Mosaic browser that popularised the World Wide Web and that was commercialised as Netscape Navigator. Horowitz wrote The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building A Business Where There Are No Easy Answers (New York: HarperBusiness, 2014) which is currently available to read for free for Amazon Kindle Unlimited subscribers.