Corduroy Academy

( Mostly) radical thoughts, ideas, and links from late stage colonial capitalism.

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    Sydney risks becoming ‘city with no grandchildren’ as housing costs push out families, expert warns

    Sydney is on track to be “the city with no grandchildren” as high housing costs drive young families to the regions and interstate.

    New South Wales Productivity Commission research found Sydney lost twice as many people aged from 30 to 40 as it gained between 2016 and 2021.

    The driving factor for the exodus was unaffordable housing costs, highlighting the need for greater housing density across the city, the research found.

    Something something capitalism death of working class something something.

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    Biden Pushes for Six-Week Fighting Pause in Israel-Hamas Hostage Deal

    US President Joe Biden said he’s pushing for a six-week pause in fighting between Israel and Hamas to allow for the release of hostages, saying those conditions could lay the groundwork for broader peace.

    Such a pause “would bring an immediate and sustained period of calm into Gaza for at least six weeks, which we could then take the time to build something more enduring,” Biden said Monday.

    We need to continue to demand land back.

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    Biden campaign joins TikTok after sources said it wouldn’t

    President Joe Biden’s 2024 presidential campaign has joined TikTok despite sources saying last year that thecampaign wouldn’t formally use the social media platform.

    The account is being run by campaign staff, who will be posting content regularly as the campaign does on other social media such as Instagram, Facebook, X and Threads, campaign advisers said.

    The only good propaganda is your own propaganda.

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    Peter Dutton commits to repealing ‘right to disconnect’ laws if Coalition wins government

    Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has sworn to repeal laws that will give workers the right to ignore unreasonable out-of-hours communications from their bosses if the Coalition wins the next federal election.

    The government agreed to include a “right to disconnect” in its industrial relations bill, which was rushed through the senate last week in a last-minute deal with the Greens and crossbench.

    Drumming away the votes again, Pete? This fanaticism for the worst corporate culture is unsurprising but still, somehow, surprising.

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    Schools to extend extracurricular classes until 8 p.m. for first graders

    South Korea on Monday unveiled plans to extend hours for primary schools’ extracurricular classes and make the classes available at all schools to make commuting parents’ life routines more logistically and financially sustainable.

    The government has allocated a budget of 1.17 trillion won ($879 million) for this year, more than double the amount earmarked for last year, to allow any first grader to register for the extracurricular program later this year, dubbed Neulbom School.

    Up to two hours every day will be provided for free for the first graders, who typically finish school around 1 p.m. Parents will be able to enrol their children in extended classes up to 8 p.m., for a fee.

    Hell.

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    Right wingers trying to block UAE takeover of Telegraph should be dismissed with contempt

    Britain used to pride itself on its openness to foreign investment. For decades it has allowed foreigners to build its infrastructure, provide its services and buy its leading companies. While the French declared yoghurt a strategic sector, Britain boasted of the Wimbledonisation of the City of London in which all the top players were from overseas.

    Yet Britain’s taste for open markets may have finally found its limits in, of all places, the newspaper industry. A bid by an Abu Dhabi-backed entity for The Telegraph newspapers and The Spectator magazine has turned some of Britain’s most fervent free marketeers into frothing protectionists. A ferocious campaign is underway in parliament and the media to convince the government to block the deal.

    It’s only a free market if they say so, else the government should block the deal. Neoliberals contradictions.

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    Voyager 1 may be lost to us forever

    One of the most iconic space probes ever launched could be on its way out the door. The Voyager 1 probe, which has spent the last decade barreling through interstellar space, has been experiencing glitches in its system since the end of last year. Its status remains unchanged, and now, NASA JPL says it will be a “miracle” to get it working again.

    Voyager 1 launched in 1977, shortly after its twin, Voyager 2. The two space probes have since become the longest-running human-made spacecraft, as well as the furthest-traveling human-made spacecraft. Both are iconic. But, a computer glitch could very well be the end of the long-standing mission.

    Good night, sweet prince.

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    Israeli drone attack kills 2 in Lebanon, one of the deepest hits inside the country in weeks

    An Israeli drone strike hit a car near Lebanon’s southern port city of Sidon on Saturday, killing at least two people and wounding two others, security officials said.

    The strike came as tensions across the Middle East grow with the Israel-Hamas war, a drone attack last month that killed three U.S. troops in northeastern Jordan near the Syrian border and attacks by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels on vessels passing through the Red Sea.

    It’s growing. The scope and scale of this war genocidal regime.