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Did anyone think Pauline Hanson was trying to make a legitimate argument about banning the burqa?
November 25, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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And further to this: what are the "legitimate concerns about the rate of overseas migration"???
November 26, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.

www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
November 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Deloitte caught in false claim it owned up to AI in tainted report.

It told finance it had explained the cause of errors to DEWR.

False - initially it used the same snow job it tried on the media "oh just some errors in citation".

www.afr.com//politics/de...
Deloitte caught in false claim it owned up to AI in tainted report
The employment department rebuked Deloitte for claiming it had owned up to artificial intelligence use, prompting correction from consultancy to another department.
www.afr.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Spoke to 7am about the missteps and mismanagement of the NACC, and whether it has any hope of regaining public trust.
The NACC has a trust problem
Podcast Episode · 7am · 26/10/2025 · 16m
podcasts.apple.com
October 26, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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October 16, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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The accelerationists and the doomsayers are two sides to the same coin and neither should be heeded
The new book “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies” aims to explain why superintelligent AI would eliminate humanity. But along the way, the authors “fail to make an evidence-based scientific case for their claims,” Adam Becker argues:
The Useful Idiots of AI Doomsaying
Those who predict that superintelligence will destroy humanity serve the same interests as those who believe that it will solve all of our problems.
bit.ly
September 28, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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boiling the ocean for the chance to have an app not tell you how to make a sauce properly
September 18, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Yeah but “boy mom” culture effectively deputized millions of white moms (but not just white ones) to politically align with this administration’s patriarchal vision. So it did what it was supposed to do.
“Girls have been getting better grades than boys since before women had the right to vote.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...
Opinion | The ‘Boy Crisis’ Is Overblown
www.nytimes.com
July 23, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Decades of mechanistic talk about university degrees as if they were bundles of 'skills' and 'prep' are about to be proved completely wrong (obviously). Want to get a real boost? Do History or English.
July 13, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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Shooting our videos is a little bit different now.
July 8, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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Bill Clinton please endorse my enemies
June 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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Obviously things have got dramatically worse in the US recently, and I don't want to diminish that, but I've been at *so many* conferences in the UK on topics like empire, humanitarianism and development where multiple speakers from the Global South have been denied visas or held at the border
I just attended a conference in the US. We had one speaker detained and two others turned away at the border.
There are great conferences and science in the US, but with the way things are right now, it’s too risky to attend.
April 14, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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these are the dullest people alive
Can’t say I’m looking forward to several years of takes like this.
March 30, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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This is just devastating. The USAID shutdown is projected to kill several million people this year.
Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True.
A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.
www.nytimes.com
March 15, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Something that's been clear to me for some time is that a lot of progressive advocacy and politics has overindexed on finding just the right combination of words to say while ignoring the fact that no media ecosystem exists where people might actually hear you say them. New from @mmfa.bsky.social
March 14, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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And they say Australia has no culture #f1
March 14, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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I spent ten days in a remote indigenous community a couple of years ago. It was blighted by rheumatic heart disease & other chronic conditions. I couldn’t believe cost of groceries (in white-owned store) & poor quality. Spoiled fruit & veg, perishables past use by date amp.abc.net.au/article/1049...
Anthony Albanese promises to lock grocery prices in remote stores to city prices - ABC News
amp.abc.net.au
February 10, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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What is the working class? Many invoke it in this election, but no one defines it. How much is it economic, when a plumber can make 10x as much as adjunct professor? How much is it cultural/an identity, or the kind of labor? Why so many 1930s white-guy versions when so many are women and BIPOC?
November 26, 2024 at 7:13 PM
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ProPublica spoke with 135 people who had experienced "sweeps" of homeless encampments. We also distributed notecards so people could write about it in their own words.

In Portland, Teresa Stratton told us her husband’s ashes were taken in a removal: propub.li/4fW8YIT
November 20, 2024 at 8:17 PM
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Your daily reminder: ChatGPT is not a search engine. It does not "know" anything: it smashes words together in plausible sounding way, but it does not have (and never will have) any ability to check whether something is true or false

Using it for anything beyond "re-word this headline" = failure
November 19, 2024 at 8:30 AM
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Pleased to see the govt has dropped Serco’s contract to run onshore detention centres, after we exposed systemic problems linked to understaffing putting both detainees and guards at risk. One small step in a much-needed overhaul of the entire system.

www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
Australia quietly ditches $4.6b detention contract with Serco
The British multinational will no longer run immigration detention centres, ending a partnership riddled with allegations.
www.smh.com.au
November 14, 2024 at 3:18 AM