2026 “study found that women who submit resumes created with AI assistance are evaluated as less competent & less trustworthy than men who submit identical AI-assisted resumes. To the evaluators, women’s AI use signaled inability, while men’s AI use signaled initiative.”🧪

interesting What to do about mass self-diagnosis culture & online pseudo-psychiatry? Push back & defend rigour? Or decide that diagnostic validity is often weak anyway, and diagnosis is a culture’s healing ritual, so try to give people the labels that make them happy www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

Either knowingly or through ignorance, Services Australia has been failing for years to process social security payments and benefits across 93 separate matters, with some in breach of the Australian Constitution, the national audit office has found www.crikey.com.au/2026/06/30/s...

5yo objects to "baby songs" in music class, notably "baby shark", and refuses to sing

If any other president posted that an entire country “will no longer exist” if they don’t comply, the outrage would be deafening.

A sensible economic policy would recognise that some jobs have a high marginal private product but low (or even negative) marginal social product. The problem is that lobbying and some parts of law and accountancy are such jobs - & they have disproportionate political influence.

“community” is overrated

Overnight, the United Nations has released another report confirming that Israel continues to commit genocide in Gaza. Read our full statement calling for Australia to impose country-level sanctions on Israel at: www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2026/06/jewi...

Doesn't sound great, #Auspol Paraquat will continue to be used in Australia despite 70 countries banning weedkiller over Parkinson’s disease fears

100 items of dumb guff and doesn’t even mention the one substantive anti-poverty policy they did - repealing the two child benefit limit

University regulator TEQSA is broken. Here's how to fix it thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

They are yet to offer the economically disadvantaged a damn thing. They do not consider them their constituency.

nassim taleb has a nice quote “Virtue is when the income you wish to show the tax agency exceeds what you wish to show your neighbor."

Let’s make paying tax sexy. Aspirational in fact. Oh you pay $20k tax. Pffft. I pay $100k tax.

The media's reporting and analysis of this war was so weak, not critical enough of US spin. In April, Iran’s demands were dismissed as delusional. Yet Iran was clearly in a position of strategic dominance for anyone watching objectively, and by June, these demands became the basis of the settlement.

the art of the deal

how loudly can the subaltern speak? tone policing, violence, and the (un)knowing of working class lifeways - JD Vance, Gender Studies Quarterly, 2026

One of the hardest things to accept is “my ideas are correct but unpopular” and it’s particularly tricky for leftists who romanticize “the people”

Making the ceasefire contingent on Lebanon is obviously highly fragile. But for Iran that’s a feature not a bug. It will drive a wedge between USA and Israel.

A lot of people ridiculed Iran’s demands - especially reparations - but it sure looks like they are getting their demands largely met, including a large transfer of money, however you want to badge it. Not only a defeat for the USA, but a complete humiliation.

Contents of the USA-Iran preliminary deal are still uncertain but media reports suggest they are highly favourable to Iran. Big question: how long before Israel sabotages it?

As much as meekly bending the knee to Iran may be unappealing to Trump, what other option does he have at this point? Continuing the status quo would lead to global depression and stratospheric fuel prices on US voters.

"SUV emissions are now so large that, if all SUVs were a country, they would be one of the world’s five biggest CO₂ emitters. The problem with SUVs is not only their tailpipe emissions. It is also their size, weight, cost and the way they reinforce car-dependent lifestyles...

Today I learned that apparently yank tanks pay twice as much to use Melbourne's toll roads. Bourman is right - this is an injustice! We should be charging them five or six times as much.

What a load of crap. Says who! Even our self id as “lucky country” is about our conspicuous lack of desert “Aussie culture has been all about working hard, taking risks, having a crack, and you’re going to be incentivising the wrong sort of people to come here.” www.news.com.au/finance/econ...

get a load of Julian Leeser: “It should not be controversial to say that publicly funded universities should serve Australian students first”. as tho international students are crowding out Australian activities as opposed to subsidising them. what a numpty www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

I know we need more public housing but we also need to improve the public housing we do have. Currently I’ve been a week without hot water I reported my water heater wasn’t working on the 2nd

State government admits police officer battered Hannah Thomas during pro-Palestinian protest

New substack: bond markets aren't a huge constraint on intelligent leftist economic policy; other things are: chrisdillow.substack.com/p/what-bond-...

takeaway from One Nation re Greens prospects isn’t about some generic populist yearning, rather that when: 1 an adjacent mainstream party is viewed as incompetent, and 2 you have popular and potent views you can rapidly displace that major party. never had an analogous situation re greens-labor

confused discourse implies that polarisation means the same voters swing between far left and far right. but usually it’s people radicalising on existing poles. like communists and nazis weren’t fighting over blank slate anti-establishmentarians, distinct groups, distinct grievances

one nation doing more doorknocking

Irish Taoiseach Martin says the ministers have shown 'a desire to see the elimination of Palestinians from Palestine'.

man this has me tripping. when I think about how many of my important relationships grew from tutoring and study - my parents helping me with homework, close friendships from uni study groups, etc. of course i *can* still explain algebra to my son. but i *needed* my dad to do it. my son might not.

“…the first time in NSW a police officer has been held criminally responsible for an Aboriginal death during a police operation” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

one positive of the anti-AI moral panic is it might encourage a bit of idiosyncrasy and grit to come back into language as people try to signal authenticity. kind of like grudge to hair metal. not so many lists of three, enough with the ott stylised parallelisms etc please

interesting - paper finds crossing threshold from almost obese to obese results in markedly worse and more moralising care from doctors. also good use of llm in research

is there any public modelling of anticipated job losses from NDIS cuts? the program is labour intensive and macro-economically material

“Prisons are our new asylums,” Dr Nielssen says. “There’s no two ways about it.”

look at these disgusting decadent rich kid elites www.theage.com.au/national/ric...

This book is extremely good. Robert C Allen is a serious economic historian and examines one of the great "what ifs" in history, the 1920s-30s transformation of the USSR against plausible counterfactuals. Examines everything from living standards to demographics. V much recommend

The ANAO report on ANU is devastating

we have a goofball “retirement income” system www.news.com.au/finance/supe...

remarkable study just came out - in a large, blind randomised experiment, stanford law academics were asked to compare answers to student questions written by fellow academics vs AI. academics rated the AI better than their colleagues about 3 out of 4 times. law.stanford.edu/press/ai-out...

lol we have found the online lefty boomer singularity. adopt MMT... acknowledge battlers... AI is bad... the teals are good... cut immigration to protect the environment. pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/06...

Pauline Hanson, who’s been in politics for 30 years and was/is famous enough that I knew who she was and what she stood for in *primary school*, when I barely knew who the Prime Minister was, is not a blank slate to voters.

Not really happy about Labor repeatedly bragging about tax cuts. Tax is good. Embrace @davidsligar.bsky.social thought.

Folks deluding themselves that racism and anti-immigration sentiment aren’t core drivers of One Nation support. Just little people let down by the system. Mirrors Trump discourse. Cope is a powerful drug.

what works at turning people against one nation? pointing out they’re cringe by association with orange man

Looking at what PHON supporters care about in comparison to other voters... basically it's just immigration! Images below from Redbridge/Accent poll show that the only issue PHON supporters diverge is immigration (dark blue ranks 1st, medium blue ranks 2nd, light blue ranks 3rd, grey = not ranked)