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Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall, by Zeke Faux
https://zekefaux.com/
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What Felt Impossible Became Possible | dansinker.com
https://dansinker.com/posts/2025-02-23-dale/
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The Job Market Is Frozen - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/jobs-unemployment-big-freeze/681831/
Unemployment is low, but workers aren’t quitting and businesses aren’t hiring. What’s going on?
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Servants: A Downstairs View of Twentieth-Century Britain by Lucy Lethbridge – review | Society books | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/mar/29/servants-downstairs-view-lethbridge-review
<strong>Kathryn Hughes</strong> enjoys a richly textured account of what it was like to spend the decades of high modernity on your knees with a dustpan and brush
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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 Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions - and How The World Lost its Mind, by Dan Davies
https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/books/9781788169547
James Harrison: Australian whose blood saved 2.4 million babies dies
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y4xqe60gyo
Known as the 'man with the golden arm', James Harrison's blood contained a rare antibody that saved millions of lives.
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Hayden Youlley's Handmade Ceramics - Designed & Crafted in Australia – | Hayden Youlley
https://haydenyoulley.com/
Hayden Youlley's handmade ceramics are crafted to surprise and delight. From ceramic cups, dinnerwear to personalised keep cups, his original designs are the perfect gift for your loved one or to refine your homewear collection.
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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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Claiming the summit without reaching the top
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/sports/tallest-mountain-summit.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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Gisèle Pelicot, person of the year
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/68918/gisele-pelicot-person-of-the-year
By insisting that her mass rape trial was held in the open, Pelicot has gifted others with real hope for change
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The sound of three hands clapping: Further comments on why we need to rid ourselves of two-party politics
https://tdunlop.substack.com/p/the-sound-of-three-hands-clapping
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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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My name is Patrick. Don’t you dare call me Pat
https://www.smh.com.au/culture/comedy/my-name-is-patrick-don-t-you-dare-call-me-pat-20250224-p5lenh.html
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Elon Musk Is Totally Wrong About Population Collapse | WIRED
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-population-crisis/
Tesla’s outspoken CEO thinks the biggest threat facing the planet is people not having enough babies. Demographers disagree.
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Political Parties Are Illegal in the United States – J. W. Mason
https://jwmason.org/slackwire/political-parties-are-illegal-in-the-united-states/
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True Crime Mystery: Solving a 50-Year-Old Murder Case in New York
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/true-crime-mystery-murder-the-scene-new-york-1235156741/
The Scene was the hottest club in New York. After it closed, a teen girl’s remains were discovered inside, leaving authorities with a puzzle to solve.
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Want to sell a book or release an album? Better start a TikTok. | Vox
https://www.vox.com/culture/2024/2/1/24056883/tiktok-self-promotion-artist-career-how-to-build-following
How self-promotion became the new networking.
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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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Was Jeanne Calment the Oldest Person Who Ever Lived—or a Fraud? | The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/02/17/was-jeanne-calment-the-oldest-person-who-ever-lived-or-a-fraud
Some researchers have cast doubt on the record of the celebrated supercentenarian, Lauren Collins writes.
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Shop — Ruby Pilven
https://www.rubypilven.com/shop
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Midnight In Chernobyl: the Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster, by Adam Higginbotham
https://www.adamhigginbotham.com/#midnight
Bad shape
https://www.wrecka.ge/bad-shape/
The idea I keep coming back to is that the big platforms, like Dickens' Marley, were dead to begin with, and are now something particularly bad, which is dead on their feet.
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