Sydney-based writer and director of films about silly things like 4WDs, spiders and talking cars. I also tend to run in pro-science and skepticism circles.
Sydney, New South Wales
Joined May 2019
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Jonathan Adams retweeted
The American people electing Trump after he staged a coup attempt 5 years ago today was a nail in the coffin of our democracy. You can rationalize it all you want -- But inflation! But wokeness! -- but ultimately it was a societal suicide attempt and probably the dumbest collective voting decision ever made.
Jonathan Adams retweeted
INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE! From @DanaKippel comes the #Spiritual thriller REFLECT. TIX HERE: bit.ly/3xAkcic At @cinemanova Fri 24/2 from 6.30pm + World Premiere of @thefriendlyDOPE Australian short THE BEGINNING. #sciencefiction #fantasy #Melbourne
Jonathan Adams retweeted
All this stuff we knew about long before COVID came along. We’ve seen it wrt global warming, alt. & holistic medicine, and many other more niche topics — a chasm opens up between reality, & what a large % of the population believe. Even so, it manages to surprise and disappoint.
Jonathan Adams retweeted
7️⃣Finally, as I've said many times, it's much easier to believe that we ACTUALLY have a global pandemic with a FUNCTIONING vaccine with CHANGING science and variants... than it is that we have a GLOBAL conspiracy spanning the globe that everyone in healthcare has agreed to.
Jonathan Adams retweeted
One of the clearest signs of learning is rethinking your assumptions and revising your opinions.
21 things I rethought in 2021: a thread...
Jonathan Adams retweeted
Many of the problems plaguing present social media are caused by indiscriminate mixing of people at different levels of communicative competence and with different interaction goals and contexts. It's like putting a symphony, a wrestling match and a preschool on the same stage.
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For tedious reasons, I've been spending time around a few anti-vaxxer, QAnon types lately, which has been a confronting, exhausting and often bewildering experience. A few observations.
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NOMINATIONS FOR THE 2021 @SydSciFiFest
AWARDS - BEST SHORT FILM
MAYA
DAILY DRIVER
HIRAETH
FREYA
REMOTE VIEWING
EINSTEIN TELESCOPE
@AuroraFilms @hiraeth_short @JorduSchell @RhonaR #shortfilm #nominations #sydneyfilmfestival @ActorsCentreAU
Jonathan Adams retweeted
The plane is going down it could crash at any second.
They are handing out parachutes.
They offer you a parachute. It's a good parachute. You can put it on now and be safe but if you want to wait a few weeks they can get you a slightly better parachute.
What do you do?
Jonathan Adams retweeted
The "why didn't Gladys stop this virus that even Dan couldn't contain or stop from leaking out of Melbourne with the strictest and harshest lockdown?" line is getting pretty redundant
The moment Delta found its way to Bondi Westfield, we were all screwed. Look after each other – at Sydney, New South Wales
Jonathan Adams retweeted
Quick thread on the ANU modelling being reported this morning that has some scary numbers of deaths being projected if we 'open up' at 70% vax coverage.
It looks very scary.
But it's not a model that resembles the reality of what any authority in Australia is proposing. 1/
Jonathan Adams retweeted
Law prof Jason Kilborn - banned from the UIC campus for having "n*****" on an exam about employment discrimination (!) - tells me that his inquisitors have restored him to polite society. It was because normal people shouted to the heavens. KEEP IT GOING!
Jonathan Adams retweeted
I was put in Twitter timeout for 12 hrs for spreading coronavirus disinfo. The tweet in question was me being sarcastic & saying it's always a good idea to focus on fringe scientific views, just like with climate change & HIV-Aids denialism. Which, to be clear, I don't believe.