As far as I know Iraq was the only team at this world cup whose manager had coached in Rugby League

I don't care about Neil the seal and don't think he should be in the world section of the wires

There's lots of dirty laundry but I don't feel like washing it. This is what policymakers refer to as a "wicked problem"

you do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to the Society of St. Pius X, but I will say that hat fucks severely

Reading some Raymond Carver and I have to say it's a faithful window into the heyday of the baby-boomer generation (every single character is divorced or divorcing, they all drink-drive constantly, his narrators use ethnic slurs that I have to google, etc)

I came upon this incredible author bio while browsing at a second-hand bookstore today

I've been playing around with the World Values Survey data and some of it has been surprising me. Here's who people in various countries say they wouldn't want to have as neighbours: (thread)

In 2006 I was in the crowd for a dull 0-0 draw involving the Paraguayan national team, so I was at least mentally prepared for today

SHOOT FARKEN

Slightly jarring to see auspol on the USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST account

This nonsense claim from this paper is making rounds on Twitter, claiming fertility & gender (in)equality correlated at .81. But the Gender Inequality Index includes adolescent fertility as part of the measure! When you rebuild the index without circular reproductive outcomes correlation cut in half

The Guardian's Dining Across the Divide series has surpassed itself with this one

I think, in the end, that the various Reasons people give for why it's good and fine that they are very aggro on this here internet and actually this is upholding the true and the good and the beautiful are always a bit less persuasive than: no you're not, you're just being weirdly mean, stop it.

It seems this news hasn't reached this platform yet, but Phil Magness has some striking notes on how @quinnslobodian.com quotes sources, which I'll simply reproduce here 1/

The AFR published a graph which included two completely hallucinated political parties yesterday. Not ideal, you'd hope someone would pick that up.

If the apparent rise of far right parties across the industrialised world has taught us anything, it is that my prior policy preferences are more important than ever

The last legal dart will be punched some time in 2029

oh god I've completely lost it at this

You used to be able to google the time of the sunset, and Google would give you the exact time right on top every single time. Thankfully, with artificial intelligence, you can now ask Google what time the sun will set and it will conveniently tell you "I don't know."

Tony Blair has been more successful than generations of professors in getting people to produce response essays overnight.

If my eternal soul ends up stored as JSON I’m gonna be so mad

This is surprisingly widely believed but completely false - falling total fertility rates in the west in recent decades is a story about tanking fertility among women in their twenties, partially offset by higher 30+ fertility. Here's the data for Australia but it's similar everywhere

It's common to note that First Past the Post is a terrible electoral system - because it is - but it's also a terrible name since there's no post to get past. It's more like....closest to the post where the post is 100 per cent? Bad stuff all round

Some ominous graffiti has appeared in Belconnen. Not sure what it's supposed to mean exactly but I don't think it's good

BURRADOO, 139km from Central, is a quiet station that feels rural but actually has plenty of houses around it. It has two basic platforms and a pedestrian level crossing, but there's no access from the west side. The northbound platform has one of Canberra's iconic bus shelters. I think it's lost!

I wrote about Golders Green. And Kenton. And Finchley. And Hendon. Are you getting the picture yet? Because if not, I can draw you a map. www.newstatesman.com/politics/soc...

Australia's cyber security co-ordinator just dropped what I think will be a very useful reaction meme

Them: why do you keep calling yourself a “statistician” instead of a “data scientist” Me:

www.bbc.com/sport/cricke... we should not sell BBL franchises to these people

I've never found a politician so relatable

I assume this pub is similar to SMH's Good Weekend where the feature is invariably pitched to them by a PR firm, but they continually are taken by surprise that their puff piece comes out the same week a scandal about the subject occurs

Normie libs are correct!

in a heating climate, it’s obviously ridiculous to forbid workers from weather-suitable attire (shorts). creates discomfort for no reason and drives up energy use.

Throw back to when I explained to Huberman that searching "New York Times" in a grants database just gave him all grants that included the words "new" "york" and "times".

It’s called ‘vs code’ because the code is an enemy you are fighting

This should receive the same consequence as if this police chief has sat down and consciously fabricated a fictitious event to justify a policing decision. It should be career ending These people are adult professionals using software, and without consequences this will get keep getting worse

historically accurate☑️

You know, I wouldn’t even know writers festivals existed if it weren’t for their regular paroxysms of weird unit behaviour.

A few months ago I went to a discussion on rising antisemitism in Australia – and how it relates to but is distinct from in both form and response from Islamophobia, First Nations hate and other forms of hate. It was a very insightful and important discussion. But something after struck me.

The best scene in Jaws is when the boat guys sing a traditional sea shanty and Jaws pops out of the water and everyone is terrified but Jaws starts singing as well. There's this unspoken promise in the air that no one will eat anyone until the song ends.

𝔊𝔲𝔶 𝔴𝔥𝔬 𝔲𝔰𝔢𝔰 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔨𝔱𝔲𝔯 𝔞𝔰 𝔞𝔫 𝔄𝔫𝔱𝔦-𝔑𝔞𝔷𝔦 𝔞𝔣𝔣𝔢𝔠𝔱𝔞𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫

I heard there was a secret cord. You plug it in and you meet the lord. But you don't really care for Christmas, do you?

these ARE made they should ALWAYS be made i WILL make them i WILL help you make them

type of guy who only eats icelandic food because it's the world's least problematic cuisine

This has a warm glow of nostalgia around it, before the replication crisis, before Gelman would ask annoying questions about how many models you tried, before data colada would check if your data existed. When you could come up with 20 hypotheses and 19 papers before 10 am.

it's a huge indictment of this place that The Archers regularly trends globally

Honestly for the most part knowledge is actually justified true belief and you can sorta not worry about the counter-examples. It's fine.

Mark Parton is the new leader of the Canberra Liberals, which means 44 per cent of the current party room members (4 out of 9) have now served as leader