Michael Harris
@michaelsharris.bsky.social
I play the guitars, I do some economics, I have the dogs, I make some music. [Sydney, 🇦🇺]
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The man who tackled one of the Bondi Beach shooters is a Muslim fruit store owner named Ahmed Al Ahmed. He risked his life to end the attack on Jews celebrating Hanukkah on the beach. May the Most High protect and heal him and bless him abundantly for his righteousness.
December 14, 2025 at 2:06 PM
The man who tackled one of the Bondi Beach shooters is a Muslim fruit store owner named Ahmed Al Ahmed. He risked his life to end the attack on Jews celebrating Hanukkah on the beach. May the Most High protect and heal him and bless him abundantly for his righteousness.
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This is an excellent piece: embryo selection isn’t necessarily eugenics but the founder of Herasight is openly advocating for eugenics, largely without pushback from academics or academic societies
I wrote about the bizarre case of Herasight, the embryo selection company going all in on eugenics.
Embryo selection company Herasight goes all in on eugenics
...
open.substack.com
December 14, 2025 at 11:55 AM
This is an excellent piece: embryo selection isn’t necessarily eugenics but the founder of Herasight is openly advocating for eugenics, largely without pushback from academics or academic societies
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Solidarity to the Australian Jewish community. No one should die for practising their faith.
And respect to all those who engaged in big and small acts of heroism when it counted. You are the best of us.
And respect to all those who engaged in big and small acts of heroism when it counted. You are the best of us.
December 14, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Solidarity to the Australian Jewish community. No one should die for practising their faith.
And respect to all those who engaged in big and small acts of heroism when it counted. You are the best of us.
And respect to all those who engaged in big and small acts of heroism when it counted. You are the best of us.
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The worst people in the world are going to milk this one for all it's worth (general and specific)
December 14, 2025 at 9:30 AM
The worst people in the world are going to milk this one for all it's worth (general and specific)
Remember, everyone.
December 14, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Remember, everyone.
WTF is happening in Bondi, peeps?
December 14, 2025 at 8:28 AM
WTF is happening in Bondi, peeps?
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Zoe Weissman survived the Parkland shooting. Now she’s at Brown, and it happened again.
“Honestly, I'm really angry that this is happening to me all over again, and I'm just in shock.”
We’re failing our kids. A gun-sick nation. 🇺🇸 www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
“Honestly, I'm really angry that this is happening to me all over again, and I'm just in shock.”
We’re failing our kids. A gun-sick nation. 🇺🇸 www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
December 14, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Zoe Weissman survived the Parkland shooting. Now she’s at Brown, and it happened again.
“Honestly, I'm really angry that this is happening to me all over again, and I'm just in shock.”
We’re failing our kids. A gun-sick nation. 🇺🇸 www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
“Honestly, I'm really angry that this is happening to me all over again, and I'm just in shock.”
We’re failing our kids. A gun-sick nation. 🇺🇸 www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
The Heckler’s Veto this opens up is wide enough to float a fully laden barge through.
From the Oklahoma U student paper: the school is now saying it will automatically suspend faculty (with pay) in response to student complaints
www.oudaily.com/news/ou-poli...
www.oudaily.com/news/ou-poli...
December 14, 2025 at 5:55 AM
The Heckler’s Veto this opens up is wide enough to float a fully laden barge through.
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The same people who think we need to bring back real standards to academia also want to give all students a “suspend my professor” button if they don’t like how things are going
From the Oklahoma U student paper: the school is now saying it will automatically suspend faculty (with pay) in response to student complaints
www.oudaily.com/news/ou-poli...
www.oudaily.com/news/ou-poli...
December 13, 2025 at 10:52 PM
The same people who think we need to bring back real standards to academia also want to give all students a “suspend my professor” button if they don’t like how things are going
One day, I’ll have a properly tailored pair of trousers, and it will be all over for you britches.
One day, all the roads will be smooth, and it will be all over for you ditches.
One day this mandatory fire ban will expire, and it will be all over for you birches.
December 14, 2025 at 5:47 AM
One day, I’ll have a properly tailored pair of trousers, and it will be all over for you britches.
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The repeated pattern (see also Washington Post) is that these choices to veer rightward are not economic decisions: they turn off the core audience. Editorial choices are loss leaders for bigger corporate goals.
Major advertisers appeared to sit out a new CBS News town hall telecast Saturday, moderated by Bari Weiss and featuring an interview with Erika Kirk.
Lack of Madison Avenue support could challenge the viability of the format, which Weiss wants to expand
variety.com/2025/tv/news...
Lack of Madison Avenue support could challenge the viability of the format, which Weiss wants to expand
variety.com/2025/tv/news...
Big Advertisers Appear Wary of CBS News’ Bari Weiss Town Hall Format
Many major advertisers appeared to sit out a new CBS News town hall format moderated by Bari Weiss and featuring a conversation with Erika Kirk
variety.com
December 14, 2025 at 4:35 AM
The repeated pattern (see also Washington Post) is that these choices to veer rightward are not economic decisions: they turn off the core audience. Editorial choices are loss leaders for bigger corporate goals.
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Here's a link to the text (with more info) if anyone needs it www.wnyc.org/story/breaki...
The Breaking News Consumer's Handbook | On the Media | WNYC
Rampant misreporting following shootings and other breaking news events is so predictable that we unintentionally developed a formula for covering them.
www.wnyc.org
December 13, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Here's a link to the text (with more info) if anyone needs it www.wnyc.org/story/breaki...
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In case you have never seen this.
December 13, 2025 at 10:38 PM
In case you have never seen this.
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No, I agree. Do little govts eventually get kicked out but on the way through leave too much space for populists/racists/etc
December 14, 2025 at 3:00 AM
No, I agree. Do little govts eventually get kicked out but on the way through leave too much space for populists/racists/etc
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You know what? I'm willing to empirically test this as many times as it takes to reach statistical certainty about any conclusions we reach
Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
December 14, 2025 at 12:38 AM
You know what? I'm willing to empirically test this as many times as it takes to reach statistical certainty about any conclusions we reach
Jeju Island is warm and welcoming.
December 14, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Jeju Island is warm and welcoming.
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So, coming from an interesting discussion about how effectively Australia is currently being governed ("an unglamorous but adequate government") and how much scorn and hatred in their direction is warranted compared to the likes of Dutton/Joyce/Hanson, why am I not comforted by the status quo? 1/n
Hmm. I have thoughts, but am about to have dinner on Jeju island so those thoughts will have to wait.
December 13, 2025 at 8:17 AM
So, coming from an interesting discussion about how effectively Australia is currently being governed ("an unglamorous but adequate government") and how much scorn and hatred in their direction is warranted compared to the likes of Dutton/Joyce/Hanson, why am I not comforted by the status quo? 1/n
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“Europe faces an existential choice: build genuine technological sovereignty now, or accept governance by platforms whose architects view democracy as an obsolete operating system.”
Labour needs to wake up (and treat Palantir like the plague).
Labour needs to wake up (and treat Palantir like the plague).
Silicon Valley’s Authoritarian Tech Right is not theorizing this world. They are already building it. The pipelines are operational. The feedback loops are functioning. The sovereignty transfers are completing.
A MUST READ 👇
A MUST READ 👇
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
www.authoritarian-stack.info
December 13, 2025 at 9:14 AM
“Europe faces an existential choice: build genuine technological sovereignty now, or accept governance by platforms whose architects view democracy as an obsolete operating system.”
Labour needs to wake up (and treat Palantir like the plague).
Labour needs to wake up (and treat Palantir like the plague).
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Silicon Valley’s Authoritarian Tech Right is not theorizing this world. They are already building it. The pipelines are operational. The feedback loops are functioning. The sovereignty transfers are completing.
A MUST READ 👇
A MUST READ 👇
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
www.authoritarian-stack.info
December 13, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Silicon Valley’s Authoritarian Tech Right is not theorizing this world. They are already building it. The pipelines are operational. The feedback loops are functioning. The sovereignty transfers are completing.
A MUST READ 👇
A MUST READ 👇
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I find it *incomprehensible* that people can claim they are "fighting for the rights of women and girls" and not apparently acknowledge that - at the very least - many many reasonable women and girls *disagree with them about this*.
Graham Linehan has such little self-awareness he *really* doesn’t understand how totally unhinged he seems in his ‘woe is me’ batshit crazy ranting! 😬
He’s the ‘cautionary tale’ of what obsessive ‘gender critical’ transphobia leads to: no friends, no life, and spaghetti carbonara for one!
He’s the ‘cautionary tale’ of what obsessive ‘gender critical’ transphobia leads to: no friends, no life, and spaghetti carbonara for one!
December 13, 2025 at 9:17 AM
I find it *incomprehensible* that people can claim they are "fighting for the rights of women and girls" and not apparently acknowledge that - at the very least - many many reasonable women and girls *disagree with them about this*.
The “Woke Liberati” invokes in my mind a very flamboyant pianist who finally came out of the closet and embraced queer politics.
The UK far right is increasingly infiltrating the Anglican church so this is bang on trend.
December 13, 2025 at 10:41 AM
The “Woke Liberati” invokes in my mind a very flamboyant pianist who finally came out of the closet and embraced queer politics.
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Can never invoke Godwin’s second law enough times
December 13, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Can never invoke Godwin’s second law enough times
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it's actually kinda funny in a way to get to the finish line of curing cancer and having the government go eh you know what. never mind
A tiny trial in New York has shown that personalized mRNA vaccines can provoke massive, lasting immune responses against pancreatic cancer, even as sweeping federal cuts now threaten the fragile labs required to produce them.
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...
December 13, 2025 at 2:50 AM
it's actually kinda funny in a way to get to the finish line of curing cancer and having the government go eh you know what. never mind
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Robin Ince once more showing what an amazing person he is. It's tragic that we are in a world where opposing transphobia and hate means having to resign, while being transphobic and hateful means getting regularly featured by national media outlets.
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
December 13, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Robin Ince once more showing what an amazing person he is. It's tragic that we are in a world where opposing transphobia and hate means having to resign, while being transphobic and hateful means getting regularly featured by national media outlets.