good but enraging

something like this should be required by law in aus

My argument for more public holidays to be gazetted 👇 #auspol

the way the smh reports on the boscar report which showed that nsw had among the lowest crime rates in the nation and that the only ones areas where this was not true was when the data was in disagreement or not statistically significant

the second (and fifth) most searched topics by australians today are related of the NYT connections puzzle game. i also searched these lol

www.newyorker.com/culture/podc... jad abumrad, ex radiolab producer, has a new 12 part podcast on fela kuti

There’ll be a breakaway for a fifth option, won’t there?

Imagine posing for a photographer friend who sells your image to iStock and a year later, you see this is what The Washington Post has done with the image of you walking on a beautiful fall day

delivery set for 9.20pm on saturday. these courier companies are out of control

interesting how the air force goes all out at supercars events with aerial displays.

As an organiser, I’ve been banging this drum for a decade now — but more and more the data backs my gut up. The AES and Macquarie post-election studies for both 2022 and 2025 have shown just how stark a cleavage housing tenure is.

every time i hear someone from the invasive species council speaking on the radio im struck by how with this group there is like no divergence of interests between this industry group and the public. its a case of full alignment, one of the few that exist

i like how the really big personal finance guru in australia is actually someone who is a good role model and not a delusional freak, which could easily have happened www.news.com.au/finance/mone...

Reuters reached out to everyone that Trump or his subordinates singled out publicly for retribution, and reviewed hundreds of official orders, directives and public records. The result: the most comprehensive accounting yet of his campaign of payback. www.reuters.com/investigates...

With the Progressive Politics Research Network, we have published 8 new research briefs on the politics of housing. What does a progressive agenda on housing look like? Which elements are important? What the hurdles are and how can they be overcome? politicscentre.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/progressive-...

i like the idea that taxing and spending - the things that are constitutive of government, which it couldn't exist without, and which predate the french revolution by thousands of years - is in fact what is "left"

if you steal a cell phone or wallet in paris they kick you out of the french thieve's guild for insufficient whimsy

aus differs from oecd countries in the way interest only loans represent a large share of lending and in not having an LVR cap. apra's move to limit dti>6 lending to 20% of a bank's lending, exempting new dwellings, is pretty curious.

its interesting that the eu parliament's report on age-gating social media, which received majority backing, expressly allows that parental consent can override the ban on youngsters accessing social media. somehow parental consent wasn't a carve-out in aus

This is pretty funny. Why is The Guardian’s political editor endorsing “legitimate concerns” around migration and complaining Hanson is being distracted from trying to address them?

when the *universities* engage in political action to water down a watered-down update to weak environmental laws in a country known for how permissive its environmental laws are you really have an image of the effects the corporatisation project of university governance has had

Grateful to The Verge for publishing my essay on why large-language models are not going to achieve general intelligence nor push the scientific frontier. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

lmao

new nowcast indicator for australian gdp www.westpaciq.com.au/economics/20...

sounds like some good work by the transport workers union

German Views of the U.S.-Germany Relationship Turn Sharply Negative. (Pew Research Center) www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/...

somewhat revealing that the 6pm slot on abc, which is not daytime or a period with low viewers nationally (its primetime), is filled by the bbc’s antiques roadshow - and not original australian content produced by the ABC.

this is so good

one of the worst types of article - absolute gutter journalism - is the genre where you find a handful of random remarks on social media and then generalise it to "aussies" as a story with national stakes

abc did an episode on john cade, the criminally under-recognised australian psychiatrist

third time victim of package theft since living in my flat. i feel like private courier companies deliver packages in a way that transfers risk consumers. eg, rarely ringing the doorbell because this would slow them down fractionally. whereas australia post doesn't do this.

so many ex-player commentators, esp the more recent players, call the game in a way that might called “mindset reductionism”. nearly everything becomes a matter of the quality or differing qualities of the mindsets of the players on the field

6 Suggestions for DSM-6 Making the next DSM look less like a house of mirrors www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/6-suggesti...

Good morning. I've got a banger new post out today that develops a new method for placing voters on the left-right ideological spectrum, and adds a new, "non-ideological"/affordability axis to usual way we chart & think about US voters (esp swing voters). www.gelliottmorris.com/p/not-just-l...

good move. maybe it will help real estate agents move from the very bottom tier of occupations in terms of respect and trust

Hungary’s Orban seemed undefeatable a year ago. Then Peter Magyar broke through with a powerful anti-corruption platform, rapidly consolidated the fractured opposition, and now leads Fidesz comfortably. Anti-corruption defeats authoritarianism worldwide. It will work here, too.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

many ai guys a few months ago: "its too hard to the control the unpredictable output of chatbots so top-down control by people like musk for political isn't something that should be of much concern"

there was a 50k strong petition demanding the qld government enact "arnie's law" to ratchet up jail times. and then it was revealed the car theft was a hoax and the perpetrator was the owner www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

no fta broadcasters to capitulate to - just the afl and nrl

Officer Safety. An 87 year old aged care patient 'wielding' an ornament could clearly have caused a number of monstrous injuries to the ego of the particular officer in question. Why won't the elderly and fragile in aged care homes just comply?

real duopoly vibes coles to trial pricing fruit and vegetables by item instead of weight.

in countries where there is a legal right to education, this typically gets interpreted constitutionally as basically prohibiting homeschooling. so i'm in favour of this part of this otherwise reactionary plan

saudi largesse + silicon valley big streaming = wwe-ification of sport. www.bbc.com/sport/boxing...

New from me this morning, a deep dive on Elon Musk's Grokipedia-- the forthrightness of the white nationalist and eugenic advocacy in many entries surprised me and the experts I spoke to www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

crime harm index (raw offence count x average severity) with tests of statistical significance before pronouncing year to year variation as meaningful change this isn't very hard.

Thinking about how one of the first Epstein victims was trans and got relentlessly mocked in the media when she spoke up www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/07/when...

Right. Hitler's DNA. Brace yourselves for a deluge of misinformation and bad science. I'm in Australia, so do get in touch if you want some expert debunking.

the privatised model of football governance in au hasn't produced results in terms of the professionalisation of the women's game www.theguardian.com/football/202...

"high likelihood" here means something like: "had a 1 in 20 chance compared to a population baseline of 1 in 50 or 1 in 100"