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We Found The Guy Behind Australia's Greatest Ever Meme
https://www.buzzfeed.com/markdistefano/seriously-john-howard-djs-like-a-mad-cunt
If you remember when Howard DJ'd like a mad c*nt...this story is for you.
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Do viruses trigger Alzheimer’s?
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2025/03/17/do-viruses-trigger-alzheimers
A growing group of scientists think so, and are asking whether antivirals could treat the disease | Science & technology
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It’s time for Dolly to record that long-lost Prince song. - Anil Dash
https://www.anildash.com/2025/04/10/dolly-prince-rescue-me/
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
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Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?
https://velvetshark.com/ai-company-logos-that-look-like-buttholes
A humorous exploration of the uncanny resemblance between AI company logos and human anatomy. Discover why circular, gradient-based designs dominate the AI industry, and what this design convergence tells us about branding in tech.
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Peter Dutton is being tested for the first time, and he doesn’t seem to be passing
https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politics/australian-politics/federal-election-2025/2025/04/05/peter-dutton-election-test
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2025 election: The Murdoch media no longer matters
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/03/31/2025-election-murdoch-media-news-corp-no-longer-matters/
The 2025 Australian federal election could be the first in decades where Rupert Murdoch's News Corp doesn't have much influence.
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Why Movements Fail
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/why-movements-fail/
Horizontalism and its discontents
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Buried Deep and Other Stories, by Naomi Novik
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/723828/buried-deep-and-other-stories-by-naomi-novik/
A thrilling collection of thirteen short stories that span the worlds of the New York Times bestselling author of the Scholomance trilogy, including a...
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Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism, by Sarah Wynn-Williams
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250391230/carelesspeople/
Population projections are shaping conversations about having kids and climate change. But how do they really work? | Vox
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/396708/world-us-population-projections-estimates-2050-2100
Experts were wrong about overpopulation before. Could they be wrong about underpopulation now?
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Ian Gent's Blog: The Petrie Multiplier: Why an Attack on Sexism in Tech is NOT an Attack on Men
https://blog.ian.gent/2013/10/the-petrie-multiplier-why-attack-on.html
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Vivian Jenna Wilson on Being Elon Musk’s Estranged Daughter, Protecting Trans Youth and Taking on the Right Online | Teen Vogue
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/vivian-jenna-wilson-elon-musk-trans-youth
In Teen Vogue’s special issue cover story, the estranged 20-year-old daughter of Elon Musk talks about the “cartoonishly evil” Trump administration and being a young trans woman today.
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The End of Children | The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/03/03/the-population-implosion
Birth rates are crashing around the world. Should we be worried? Gideon Lewis-Kraus reports.
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Why Tech Bros Overestimate AI's Creative Abilities
https://www.aaronrosspowell.com/p/why-tech-bros-overestimate-ai-s-creative-abilities
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Housing affordability crisis - Saving for a deposit forever - The Australia Institute
https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/housing-affordability-crisis-saving-for-a-deposit-forever/
The dream of saving for a deposit on a house is now so far beyond most poeple that even if you have a high paying job, you still can never save enough.
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The Tomb of Dragons, by Katherine Addison
https://torpublishinggroup.com/the-tomb-of-dragons/
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Faster than Usain Bolt at the same age: The Ipswich schoolboy turned $6 million man
https://www.smh.com.au/national/faster-than-usain-bolt-at-the-same-age-the-ipswich-schoolboy-turned-6-million-man-20250116-p5l4xq.html
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The Most Unsettling Inscription I've Ever Found on the Inside Cover of a Used Book, Bar None
https://thechatner.com/p/the-most-unsettling-inscription-ive
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The 1998 waterfront dispute pitted workers against each other. Recruits from the wharves share their stories - ABC News
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-14/waterfront-dispute-pitted-workers-against-each-other-recruits/105007704
The 1998 waterfront dispute was one of the most significant industrial disputes in Australia, but what happened to those who were recruited to keep the wharves running?
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How Did Silicon Valley Break Bad?
https://paulwaldman.substack.com/p/how-did-silicon-valley-break-bad
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The Pithiest Critique of Modern Conservatism Keeps Getting Credited to the Wrong Man
https://slate.com/business/2022/06/wilhoits-law-conservatives-frank-wilhoit.html
“Wilhoit’s Law” was coined by a different Frank Wilhoit.
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The A.I. backlash backlash: Against "A.G.I."
https://maxread.substack.com/p/the-ai-backlash-backlash
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I adore my children. I’m also scared that one day my son will kill me | Femicide | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/mar/08/i-adore-my-children-im-also-scared-that-one-day-my-son-will-kill-me
In the UK, more than 170 women have been murdered by their sons in the past 15 years. An anonymous mother reveals what it is like to be frightened of your child while desperately wanting to support him
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They wanted to save us from a dark AI future. Then six people were killed | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/global/ng-interactive/2025/mar/05/zizians-artificial-intelligence
How a group of Silicon Valley math prodigies, AI researchers and internet burnouts descended into an alleged violent cult
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