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The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 36m

When any one person anywhere in the world today is looking for car parts, they are pulling on strands of this incredibly chaotic web of possibilities.
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AI playing its part

Does a New Zealand start-up hoping to revolutionise the car-parts supply chain demonstrate how best to use AI?

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The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 4h

Indeed, the Partly story is about finding replacement car parts, a subject I didn’t previously know I cared about but now find fascinating.
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AI playing its part

Does a New Zealand start-up hoping to revolutionise the car-parts supply chain demonstrate how best to use AI?

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The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 9h

Partly’s product uses AI, but not because they want it to do everything that humans do – they want it to do something that only AI can do.
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AI playing its part

Does a New Zealand start-up hoping to revolutionise the car-parts supply chain demonstrate how best to use AI?

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The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 14h

Products such as ChatGPT regularly produce plausible sounding nonsense. The Partly model’s output is highly accurate.
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AI playing its part

Does a New Zealand start-up hoping to revolutionise the car-parts supply chain demonstrate how best to use AI?

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The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 20h

The problem that Partly now seeks to solve had been obvious to Fawcett since he was a teenager. “Why is it that I can recondition an engine in six hours,” he says, “but it takes me two weeks to find the parts?”
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AI playing its part

Does a New Zealand start-up hoping to revolutionise the car-parts supply chain demonstrate how best to use AI?

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The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 1d

St John succeeds in teasing apart the contradictions that vined around McKenna’s varied personas: a hippie esotericist barely interested in Eastern religion or non-drug-induced altered states; a habitually stoned but unfailingly punctual ragamuffin.
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Altered statesman: Graham St John’s ‘Strange Attractor’

The life and ideas of psychedelic philosopher Terence McKenna, who advocated a return to humanity’s ancestral relationship with psychoactive plants

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The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 1d

Michael Robinson chose the route of sycophancy to elevate himself – a more conscientious poet might, on occasion, feel the need to speak truth to power and tell our leaders things they don’t want to hear.
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Poetic conviction

Remembering Australia’s first poet laureate, a convict transported for a poetic blackmail who ingratiated himself with the colony’s governors

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The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 1d

Conversation, regardless of how well intentioned the aspiration might be, is in many ways the most fraught of modes of public speech. That’s what I love about it – genuine conversation is a place of uncertainty and friction, disagreement and discovery.
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Conversation stoppers

Institutional obsession with public conversation is too rarely matched by an appetite for genuine debate

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The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 2d

Conversation, regardless of how well intentioned the aspiration might be, is in many ways the most fraught of modes of public speech. That’s what I love about it – genuine conversation is a place of uncertainty and friction, disagreement and discovery.
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Conversation stoppers

Institutional obsession with public conversation is too rarely matched by an appetite for genuine debate

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The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 2d

Set in 1930 and reportedly the end of the long-running franchise the finale film delivers cosy capers for its dedicated fandom
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‘Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale’

Set in 1930 and reportedly the end of the long-running franchise, the finale film delivers cosy capers for its dedicated fandom

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The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 2d

In the ’70s, the tobacco heavyweight partnered with the National Gallery of Australia to buy a collection of “aggressive” art by emerging talent.
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The shop of the new

Does cosmetics giant MECCA’s collection of female artists’ work break the norm for corporate patronage and feminist branding?

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The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 3d

As the days turned into weeks on board with no phones or internet, I began noticing that the strangeness of the continent was onboard too. People were unravelling. mnth.ly/KjUKeZp

‘The odds are good, but the goods are odd’

When the author finds solitude and inspiration onboard a ship in the Antarctic, they realise they’re at home among the unusual crew attracted to such isolation

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The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 3d

Set in 1930 and reportedly the end of the long-running franchise the finale film delivers cosy capers for its dedicated fandom
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‘Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale’

Set in 1930 and reportedly the end of the long-running franchise, the finale film delivers cosy capers for its dedicated fandom

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The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 3d

As the days turned into weeks on board with no phones or internet, I began noticing that the strangeness of the continent was onboard too. People were unravelling. mnth.ly/ZAnhGHc

‘The odds are good, but the goods are odd’

When the author finds solitude and inspiration onboard a ship in the Antarctic, they realise they’re at home among the unusual crew attracted to such isolation

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The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 3d

In the ’70s, the tobacco heavyweight partnered with the National Gallery of Australia to buy a collection of “aggressive” art by emerging talent.
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The shop of the new

Does cosmetics giant MECCA’s collection of female artists’ work break the norm for corporate patronage and feminist branding?

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The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 4d

In response to a question from the emergency services operator, I overheard someone on the phone say, “Late 20s, I guess?” And I thought, ‘Christ, I really have done something to my face.’ (I’m 42.)
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Road tripped

A cycling accident leaves the author navigating hospitals, Centrelink and recovery while trying to keep his injured chin up

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The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 4d

In response to a question from the emergency services operator, I overheard someone on the phone say, “Late 20s, I guess?” And I thought, ‘Christ, I really have done something to my face.’ (I’m 42.)
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Road tripped

A cycling accident leaves the author navigating hospitals, Centrelink and recovery while trying to keep his injured chin up

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The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 4d

Some would argue that in the dissolution of the so-called legacy media lies significant opportunity for new voices to find new audiences, but I’m not convinced. A great deal can be smuggled in under an assumption like this.
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Critical mess

As the flood of online content diverts and dissolves our attention, have we seen the end of meaningful, career-long art criticism?

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The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 4d

Some would argue that in the dissolution of the so-called legacy media lies significant opportunity for new voices to find new audiences, but I’m not convinced. A great deal can be smuggled in under an assumption like this.
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Critical mess

As the flood of online content diverts and dissolves our attention, have we seen the end of meaningful, career-long art criticism?

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The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 5d

Might the acclaimed architect’s compact apartment buildings in 1940s Melbourne be a model for addressing housing problems with single-occupancy dwellings? | David Neustein
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Grounds zero: Tony Lee’s ‘Roy Grounds: Experiments in Minimum Living’

Might the acclaimed architect’s compact apartment buildings in 1940s Melbourne be a model for addressing housing problems with single-occupancy dwellings?

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The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 5d

Might the acclaimed architect’s compact apartment buildings in 1940s Melbourne be a model for addressing housing problems with single-occupancy dwellings? | David Neustein
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Grounds zero: Tony Lee’s ‘Roy Grounds: Experiments in Minimum Living’

Might the acclaimed architect’s compact apartment buildings in 1940s Melbourne be a model for addressing housing problems with single-occupancy dwellings?

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The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 5d

Just as the Taliban was turning off Afghanistan’s fibre-optic internet network to isolate the country from the rest of the world, exiled diplomats at the Afghan consulate in Bonn conceded defeat in a months-long tussle with the German government. mnth.ly/OcQCmyi

Diplomacy in exile

As Taliban consular officers are permitted to enter Germany, attention turns to Afghanistan’s embassies-in-exile around the world

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The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 5d

Since the Taliban retook Afghanistan in August 2021, its embassy in Canberra has stayed open, operating in exile with a skeleton staff of diplomats from the former administration.
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Diplomacy in exile

As Taliban consular officers are permitted to enter Germany, attention turns to Afghanistan’s embassies-in-exile around the world

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The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 5d

As Taliban consular officers are permitted to enter Germany, attention turns to Afghanistan’s embassies-in-exile around the world | Karen Middleton
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Diplomacy in exile

As Taliban consular officers are permitted to enter Germany, attention turns to Afghanistan’s embassies-in-exile around the world

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The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 6d

It’s unclear whether other Western governments will follow Germany in officially cooperating with the Taliban regime by accepting its representatives on their soil.
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Diplomacy in exile

As Taliban consular officers are permitted to enter Germany, attention turns to Afghanistan’s embassies-in-exile around the world

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