A mid-morning Mad Hatter's tea party, but the pond didn't invite Our Henry or the Lynch mob ...

 

Shattered.

Here was the pond expecting to spend a pleasnt Friday dalliance with Our Henry, enjoying a dash of Zionism or abuse of the ABC, or a denunciation of Al Gore, and "climatism", but instead the old rogue decided to unleash his inner transphobe.

This entirely suits one form of reptile jihad ... but the pond rarely goes there, not least because it gets the pond's TG friends agitated. (Have any of these reptile bigots ever met a TG person, or spent some time in their company?)

On the other hand, there's no reason to deny the hole in bucket man's foray into the arena ...wherein he invokes Julia Gillard, Judith Butler, Michel Foucault, JL Austin, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, and Tickle v. Google.

So here's the intermittent archive link ...

Self-defined gender fantasy is flawed theory and law
A fatally flawed theory has become a part of Australian law. Tickle v Giggle is, unfortunately, not its last word. It is its first.
By Henry Ergas
Columnist

The pond tends to take a more Sam Rockwell view of life ...

Apologies, anyone who bothers to watch might find that a little out there, but the pond had decided to run Sam the next time the pond saw the transphobia jihad reared its ugly head in the lizard Oz, and Our Henry just happened to be the next cab off the rank.

Ditto the pond decided not to invite the Lynch mob to this morning's late breaking tea party.

The pond is always to defame the University of Melbourne's long ago faded reputation by featuring the Lynch mob ... but this day he proudly strode into Tommy Robinson turf ...

Still, there's no reason to hold back an intermittent archive link for the benefit of those with stronger stomachs ...

Will multiculturalism and migration end the Irish Troubles?
These gruesome episodes in Southampton and Belfast reveal, in different ways, new faultlines in Western multiculturalism.
By Timothy Lynch
Contributor

Spoiler alert. As a teaser trailer, this is how the Lunch mob wrapped up his outing ...

...The political realignment that began in the US, but has echoes in Australia and the UK, saw the parties of the left abandon the workers and embrace the wokers. The Democrats have become a party of the American campus, of the managerial elite.
Parties of the right, not least Donald Trump’s Republicans, saw an opportunity in this. “I will be your voice.” With that simple pitch, he tempted working-class men and women into his camp. He adopted, in short, a new vocabulary of class.
The divided right, in Australia and the UK, can take encouragement from this. Rather than construe the murders in Southampton and Belfast as evidence of DEI failure, they need to amplify the impacts of illegal immigration on working-class people.
The left has lost the language of class. As Southampton and Belfast roil, it will insist on better racial diversity training and more hospitals. The centre-right needs to revitalise that class-based vocabulary and speak for workers and their interests.
Timothy J. Lynch is professor of American politics at the University of Melbourne. His first book was Turf War: the Clinton Administration and Northern Ireland (Routledge, 2004).

No doubt so that workers can riot against twats of the campus Lynch mob kind.

Enough already with the defamation and the promotion of an ancient tome of the campus kind.

Some might suspect banning the jihadi bigots might have limited the pond's options. 

But the reptiles are always full of jihads ... and this morning the war on renewables jihad was top of the "news" section ...

The canny Cranston's piece was full of graphs and charts and despair at the way that the reptiles' most beloved - clean, virginal, dinkum Oz coal - had been treated ..

Renewables and green spending drag down productivity, PC warns
Australia’s falling productivity levels have been driven down by the replacement of coal plants with billions of dollars in renewable energy projects, the Productivity Commission says.
By Matthew Cranston

It was too tedious to indulge, but the lizard Oz editorialist chimed in ...sounding like a little Sir Echo, as the editorialist is inclined to do...and that provided more than enough renewables bashing for the day:

At least there were no graphs or any other signs of the canny Cranston's dressing up of the timeless anti-renewables jihad.

This gave the pond a great excuse to do a segue, or a pivot if you will ...

A few might recall that last Monday, Major Mitchell was in his usual climate science denialist funk, and the pond would just like to place on record Graham Readfearn's response in the Graudian ...

When is rare good news on climate science actually bad? When News Corp misrepresents it

The entirety is delicious, but the wrap up in the final gobbet was particularly appealing ...

Now the pond is standing by to see if the Major takes the bait next Monday.

And in turn all that led the pond to Dan 'the man' Tehan ...

The header: Nuclear is still the answer if we want to power the future; Nuclear has advantages no other energy source can match. Instead of recognising this, Chris Bowen and his merry band of technological Luddites put our nation at risk of losing the AI race

The caption: Energy Minister Chris Bowen at the COP31 presidency press conference in Bonn. Picture: Lara Murillo

The reptiles had treated Dan in a shocking way. 

He'd been quickly flung aside like a used rag, the layout was all askew, and he'd only been given one snap, the one of his mortal enemy. 

Not even one of Dan himself, perhaps standing next to some kind of nuke thingie! Perhaps even some kind of SMS, of the sort the pond is planning to instal in the mighty 'Gong, cockies permitting...

Never mind, on with the nuking of the country to save the world, if only the planet needed saving from anything other than renewables, or so the reptiles say.

To be fair, Dan 'the man' largely avoided saving the world this day, he was more anxious to save the country for AI:

Necessity, they say, is the mother of all invention. The gargantuan energy needs of AI has created a race for energy so fierce that America built a functioning nuclear microreactor in less than a year. Last week, America announced that the Antares Mark-0 microreactor achieved criticality at Idaho National Laboratory.
This is the first advanced reactor to reach this milestone under a Department of Energy program designed specifically to accelerate nuclear technologies.
This announcement is fresh off the heels of news that Kairos Power broke ground on the first small modular reactor in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, to supply Google.
The significance of these events is grasped by industry, although I suspect it is lost on Energy Minister Chris Bowen, whose renewables-only obsession has left our grid unstable and our future precarious.
Before ChatGPT burst into mainstream consciousness, achievements like these would have been impossible to imagine. Now they feel inevitable, everywhere except here.
I visited Idaho National Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory on a study tour last year. Both act as incubators for advanced nuclear technologies in partnership with the private sector. The scale of what I saw was remarkable.
The Americans are incubating dozens of reactor configurations, exotic coolants like liquid sodium instead of water, and designs built for speed and replication. They have a clear, overarching philosophy: more energy is better. They understand that whoever secures the most abundant energy resources secures technological dominance, and they are clear-eyed about what is at stake.
I departed convinced that Australia is dangerously behind the curve. Energy is to AI what shovels were to the gold rush of the 1850s, and Chris Bowen’s renewables-only approach is the policy equivalent of Kodak doubling down on film rolls just as the digital camera was invented.
There is a myopia among the renewables-only crowd that simply refuses to acknowledge that technology, along with the world, is changing, and that we have natural resources that allow us to leapfrog ahead of others and capitalise on this fourth industrial revolution.
When I was in America, the scientists I met were confident the first commercial technologies would be deployed by 2027, and with the recent announcements being only the first of what is to come, they are on track.
What makes this so powerful is that these new reactors can be built using standard production-line techniques, the same methods we use to manufacture cars and trucks. Costs fall rapidly when you industrialise production.
The familiar objections around nuclear’ s cost are fast becoming obsolete, and CSIRO’s GenCost modelling, repeatedly cited by Chris Bowen to kill the conversation, is so systematically biased that it cannot be considered a valid source of information.
Here is what American officials told me, repeatedly, when I visited. They are worried about securing enough uranium to fuel their nuclear ambitions. Every time they raised it, I found myself thinking about the natural synergy between what Australia can offer – our abundant uranium reserves, and what America can offer us in return: the cutting-edge technologies we need to join the AI race on our terms.
But this is bigger than AI, or even quantum if that comes next. It is about diversifying our energy supply chains, restoring affordability and abundance, and building resilience against international energy shocks such as those we are seeing with the conflict in the Middle East.
From a bird’s-eye view, the standard antinuclear objections do not survive scrutiny. “Nuclear would have been great twenty years ago; it is too late now.”
The best time to plant a tree was yesterday. The next best time is today. “It is too expensive.”
Standardised mass production will take care of that, as it always does.
“It is dangerous.”
Nuclear energy is statistically the safest form of large-scale energy generation. We keep invoking Fukushima despite there being no deaths from a commercial nuclear accident since1986.
“We lack the expertise.”
Well, let us build it, then.
When I spoke with Singapore’s energy architects, who also visited Idaho and Oak Ridge, they told me they have a dedicated team inside their energy market operator to evaluate new nuclear technologies. They have formal agreements with both laboratories to train their staff.
Singapore, a city-state with no natural resources, is preparing seriously. What exactly is ourexcuse?
Do we not want high-skilled jobs?
Do we not want to power our datacentres?
Do we not want to give Australian entrepreneurs a fighting chance in the AI race?
Nuclear’ s extraordinary energy density and ability to power facilities entirely off the grid give it advantages no other energy source can match at scale. Instead of recognising this, we have Chris Bowen and his merry band of technological Luddites, with their profound lack of vision, putting our nation at risk of losing the AI race before it has properly begun.
Dan Tehan is the Opposition’s Climate Change and Energy Spokesman.

What need of the Lynch mob or Our Henry's transphobia when you can have that kind of ecstatic futurism?

The pond trembled at the notion of American scientists transfixed by a lack of uranium.

The pond clapped hands with joy at Dan 'the man' smiting the CSIRO.

Oh there was laughter, there were tears.

The almost wept at the way Dan 'the man' Tehan had made the country safe for AI. 

Whether the country can be saved from AI is perhaps best let for another time.

What else?

Well Nick was also out and about but the pond only mentions that to keep John Curtin revolving in his grave.

One Nation’s rise should exhilarate Labor – not terrify it
Hansonism should force Labor to confront the question it has avoided for too long: who exactly is it for?
By Nick Dyrenfurth
Contributor

And so to Golding celebrating the way forward.