i'm sorry but the possibility that jeffrey epstein scored an awesome deal on seo reputation management has k*lled me www.theverge.com/report/82231...

Hahaha eat shit, dickhead!

The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.

Yesssss finally!! www.smh.com.au/technology/g...

PLANNERS: Economists shouldn’t comment on housing markets, they don’t understand the nuances and it’s outside their area of expertise ALSO PLANNERS: Hold my beer while I reason from a price change

Wrote about the teen social media ban, specifically Reddit www.theguardian.com/media/commen...

there’s all kinds of stuff (transportation, education) you need tons more of than you did 100 years ago to live a remotely welfare comparable life. /fin

Left-wing NIMBYism is the most depressing NIMBYism. After guns and drugs, housing is the #3 most tightly regulated market in Australia. To look at the current pile of policy failures and blame “the free market” takes a huge amount of motivated self-delusion

I've long criticised the dehumanising and patriarchal partner income test embedded everywhere in the Australian welfare state. The tax on love really does hurt families, and has a real impact on relationship formation or termination. www.reddit.com/r/Centrelink...

This is quite brilliantly written. A far better piece of journalism than anything you will find in the NYT

💖 When the Gruaniad’s Blind Date people pash, it means you’ll have good luck for the rest of the week ✨ www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

This ridiculous post (the answer is clearly his own tariffs) made me learn about “Boxed Beef”, a fascinating turn in intensive beef production that reminds me of what has happened to poultry. Sci-fi authors who thought we’d be eating vat protein got it wrong.

the message that people should take away from sandwich guy is that getting blackout and picking fights with cops always ends well. I am a lawyer* and this is legal advice** *this is disputed by the bar, whose legitimacy I do not recognize **for the court of life, before which all are plaintiffs

Betoota Advocate, open your comments 😇 flatkopi.substack.com/welcome

This is one of those LLM results which on the surface looks amazing but, when you look at it closely, is in the “no shit” category. (The _hidden states_ are invertible, not the output tokens.)

These jobs are an instance in which people would be typically interacting face-to-face, so there’s a peer relationship there (despite power imbalance). This puts a mask over that interface, so only one of the participants is human. The other can’t really communicate and is swapped out as needed

Ad Rock: Look upon my works, ye mighty and All : DESPAIR Mike D: nothing remains but a wreck, boundless and All: BARE MCA: there’s nothing left here but round All: DECAY Ad Rock: the lone and level sands stretch far All: AWAY

“What if the entire game was LadderGoat?”

how it feels explaining early 2000s hipster history to young people

You love to see this. Extra taxes on investors + fewer restrictions on building = cheaper housing. It’s not rocket science www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Anthony Albanese made a big show (and good on him) for heading to Jakarta asap after winning the election this year. This post from Tempo made me realise Prabowo has gone literally everywhere BUT Canberra lol

I’ve got to hurry up and finish my bracket for this year’s October Madness

This is not true. Reckless driving in an F150 is much more dangerous than reckless driving in a small car. I don't think I'll ever get used to the idea that it is good journalism to repeat such bullshit without any effort at qualification. "He falsely claimed" would have fit a word count.

A reporter from the Australian is one of the group of signatories to the Pentagon's new press corps rules which prompted a universal walk-out from credible news outlets.

That’s spot on. Australia needs broader and higher taxes to fund the generous welfare state and boring social democracy we deserve. If your main goal is that “the rich [or ‘the corporations’] should just pay their fair share” then you’re not being honest with yourself

Classic literature has no relevance to contemporary readers. Even novels published last month are full of outmoded conventions. Only fiction that is written literally right this instant can capture the zeitgeist of the present moment

I loved this book. If you enjoyed The Calculating Stars then you will too.

Just realised how unsafe this worksite is. What the hell are these dudes doing!? They could just fall out that door at any time

I spoke at the Victorian Liberal Party State Conference on housing policy. I argued that the push to allow more housing should be bipartisan. Here’s my speech: www.spectator.com.au/2025/09/aust...

This is really good. If it was up to me, I’d give it one (1) Miles Franklin Award

These two things are opposite and contradictory goals. You cannot have both, you must pick one! Implying that you can have both of them isn’t seriousness and Serious Reform Agenda, it’s just stupid!

No wonder Musk is impressed, the London march stretched all the way to the Arc de Triomphe

Interesting question

big win for the Norwegian left marked by a campaign defending the existing wealth tax from an attack by the populist right

There should be consequences for the kind of prosecution mischief that leads to *all* of the charges for Hannah Thomas being dropped. Everyone could see what was going on. Some prosecutor for the NSW Police needs to be reminded they've got obligations to the Courts.

over time I believe this will end up being one of the most unpopular things the administration ever does a death sentence for many hobbies and all the average consumer sees is that you’re taking away all their bargains one of the few policies that has a direct negative effect on almost everyone

University execs could justify their huge salaries—running an organisation that large is hard!—if there were clear goals and KPIs they were accountable for, and if they got fired for failing to meet them. This type of reform is urgently needed. One of our biggest export sectors is drifting

This is deranged, and doesn’t even make sense on its own terms. If I was a self-interested property owner and $27m of public money was about to be spent on sprucing up my local neighbourhood and making it as fancy as these mockup pics show, surely I’d be overjoyed?!

😮 www.smh.com.au/national/i-m...

Will the absence of reliable automatic metro service in the United States mark the moment its citizens notice how far behind their country has fallen?

GoodReads is dogshit now; and despite years of trying, none of the replacements has got "it"; I guess I'll just post book stuff here, please unfollow me now, thanks

I have tried my very hardest to make this read about Indonesia's last 48 hours as accessible and easy to digest as possible. The goal here is that there is NO assumed knowledge (except for Jokowi, i think I always assume him sorry) darimulut.substack.com/p/indonesia-...

The way millennial parents involve their kids in the workplace is so wholesome

everyone loves to quote Krugman on productivity growth being almost anything. strangely they never mention his view that productivity is a great mystery, one that is unresponsive to sweeping changes in government policy and ideology, and something that no one knows how to sustainably increase