Link Roundup: 27 August

The Delta outbreak’s impact on the unemployed, and how the AUWU is fighting back.

On the limits of hard lockdown in NSW, and how economic liberalism makes it harder to contain workplace transmission.

A housing crisis in Bozeman, Montana and the gentrification of the American West.

How the military frontier of the American empire gets a high-tech makeover through Silicon Valley’s connections with Israel. “The colonies could become “a veritable Eden’’ that could afford each resident five acres of cosmic land.”

A journey through the world of alternative comics in 1970s New York.

What’s the go with the red-throated caracara? “They’re dirty birds,” she said with a half smile. “Bad falcons.”

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Photo by Alexander Schimmeck on Unsplash