Boardgames & Blasphemy

News

• Anneliese van Diemen, Victoria’s Deputy Chief Health Officer has been cleared of wrongdoing, after tweeting a comparison between Captain Cook and COVID-19.
• George Pell bad.
• Universal Basic Income good.

Ms. Monopoly

• The Not Good Pod crew are big boardgame nerds (Mitch is a metalhead, Evie is cool).
• Ms. Monopoly is here to save capitalism from the boys.
• Monopoly was originally invented by a woman, Elizabeth Magie, as a teaching tool called the Landlord’s Game, intended to demonstrate that capitalism is miserable.
• The game was pirated by a man and rebranded as Monopoly, who sold the rights to Parker Brothers.
• In Millenial Monopoly, no one can afford property and buy experiences instead.

Unions are good, this Union is bad

• The Shoppies union has fucked over workers again, cutting penalty rates for part time worker.
• The Shoppies union has a long history of screwing over their members.
• Sally McManus, secretary of the ACTU has agreed with Labor Senator Kristina Keneally’s racist anti-immigration stance.

The App is Not Good Enough

• Thanks to open source digging, we know the app is much worse than we originally though.
• Due to poor design, it’s possible for the app to incorrectly tell people they have be diagnosed with Covid.
• According to a dissection of the the app source code, it shows that the app violates open source software licences. Whether it allows you to violate the Geneva Convention, we do not know.
• The government spent $416k over ten days developing the prototype.
• Footballer’s wife Bec Judd is berating people for not downloading the app.
• The Government is marketing the app as if it keeps individual users safe, not as a tool for society-level modeling.
• Retailer Harvey Norman are trying to sell phones off the back of the CovidSafe app. Gerry Harvey has previously called the Coronavirus pandemic an “opportunity”.

Actions

• Live on a lag, don’t go out. Don’t play Monopoly.
• If you’re part of the Shoppies Union, join the Retail and Fast Food Union or Hospo Voice.
• Listen the the Mandatory Redistribution Party podcast.