Autopsies show how hard doctors tried to save babies who died after not getting a vitamin K shot: tubes inserted in their airways, blood transfusions. They’re excruciating to read because they underscore how preventable these deaths could have been.

I got to interview David Szalay and he was great!

I honestly enjoyed the viral 'post-literate society' essay but this piece from James Ley, which interrogates some of the assumptions it was based on, is really worth reading www.themonthly.com.au/may-2026/ess...

I sort of blindly accepted programmatic ads as a necessary evil to fund many models of journalism but this is interesting. The American Prospect decided to do away with them and a month later, people are spending nearly twice as much time on the site. www.cjr.org/analysis/dep...

This is cool! Journalists from ABC's Parliament House bureau are answering questions about the budget on Reddit rn www.reddit.com/r/australian...

Let’s gooooo 🥰

A deeply good and deeply curious broadcaster. What a great tragedy and loss. Vale.

The Pope is WEAK on crime is so gd funny; I am HOWLING

She spoke out about Gaza. Now she can't use a credit card. The UN investigator for Palestinian territories is facing U.S. sanctions and accused of antisemitism by the State Department.

Oh so now copyright matters.

A newly published study of how college students interact with chatbots and human strangers showed talking to a random person offers more connection than an LLM.

Really great update on where the social media ban is at. A lot of insidery bits sprinkled throughout.

A country built on losers: I reviewed two books on sports betting and wrote about gambling, the vile vice that's eating the world, for @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/2073...

Really interesting study that found AI use is concentrated in opinion articles (rather than straight news) at top newspapers arxiv.org/pdf/2510.18774

Some amazing photos around from the No Kings protests - this one taken near the Metropolitan Detention Center in LA. 📸Credit: Etienne Laurent / AFP / Getty www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

Such a useful lecture at this moment in time

Exclusive | The leadership of the National Anti-Corruption Commission will for the first time be grilled on its work by a major parliamentary inquiry. www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/26/f...

Incredible stuff. Never change Sky News

I took a closer look at the ProPublica union’s vote to strike, including their demand for protection from AI-related layoffs. The vote marks the first time a major U.S. newsroom has authorized a strike, at least in part, over AI protections. www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/prop...

“A veteran of Iraq like Mr. Hegseth should know better. The enemy always gets a vote, and even after a victorious campaign, the effect of war on a population may have complex, unwanted and sometimes catastrophic consequences” I wrote about Iran for @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/03/22/o...

"If Labor merely manages, does it win the short-term while sacrificing the long term, steering the country through one crisis while steering it into another?" www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

Israeli settlers have carried out a series of attacks across the occupied West Bank, setting homes and vehicles on fire and wounding several Palestinians in what witnesses described as coordinated raids on communities. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

"What we are seeing right now in Lebanon is a rapidly deteriorating and large-scale humanitarian crisis.” www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

"Seeing Anderson so full of nerves every time he went on stage really drove home how much the moment meant to him, and just how long he's been waiting for this."

Wired has done such incredible stuff recently!!!

SAM KERR DOING WHAT SHE DOES BEST 😮‍💨

Extremely vindicating for everyone on the editorial side of a news company who has ever had to collaborate with the business side to make any kind of decision news.cornell.edu/stories/2026...

BACA members accompany kids to court, stand guard outside their homes, and provide a sense of safety with burly presences and deeply rumbling motorbikes.

"Are we at war? It's a reasonable question for Australians to ask, given the government is sending one of its most sophisticated reconnaissance planes — crewed by dozens of military personnel — to the Middle East." www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

please let me ghostwrite your substack

passive voice final boss grand champion honorable mention award for turning slurs into a sentient thing that can do actions www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...

Air strikes have never dislodged a regime. And Professor Robert Pape, an expert on the limits of such tactics, argues that such military tactics are more likely to deepen Trump’s Iran problem than solve it.

This doco is great - Australians can now catch it on DocPlay www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

This is a hell of a piece of writing by Sam Kriss

My latest: Happy map

“Democratic consent is lacking. And once again, there are few defined goals by which to gauge success, and no long-term plan.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com By attacking Iran, President Trump “is telling the American people and the world that he expects their blind trust,” the editorial board writes. “He has not earned that trust.”

this is so well done pudding.cool/2026/02/wome...

An ABC investigation has obtained distressing videos and victims' accounts of IS sympathisers hunting and bashing gay and bisexual boys on camera in Sydney.

interesting from @maxtani.bsky.social on the future of the economist ->

The latest cache of documents released by the DOJ reveals that Jeffrey Epstein had an established system for making sure the women in his orbit were tested for STDs, prescribed birth-control pills, and inoculated against HPV‚ including making regular payments to gynecologists.

The Washington Post’s Leaders Missed the Point www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/0... reading this and thinking about the many other culture desks that were gutted over the last year. it's all a shame.

Oscar-nominated co-writer of It Was Just an Accident released from Iranian prison

How The New York Times uses a custom AI tool to track the “manosphere” www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/how-...

At least one Meta employee thinks it's a good time to add facial recognition technology to glasses because we're too distracted by fascism to effectively protest www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

Some children in Dilley were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, parents told ProPublica. They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick.

A new video obtained by ABC NEWS Verify shows the full minute leading up to a man in a white business shirt being punched several times by NSW Police at Monday night’s protest against Israeli President Isaac Herzog. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...