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Terry Pratchett - Charlie's Diary

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2015/03/terry-pratchett.html

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How effective are vaccines at stopping deadly bird flu from spreading? - ABC News

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2026-06-25/avian-influenza-h5n1-vaccine-effectiveness/106831626

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Seeing Other People, by Diana Reid

https://publishing.hardiegrant.com/en-au/books/seeing-other-people-by-diana-reid/9781761151705

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The NDIS’s original sin

https://insidestory.org.au/the-ndiss-original-sin/

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No, 1 in 6 People Do Not Have Long COVID

https://gidmk.substack.com/p/no-1-in-6-people-do-not-have-long

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Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir

https://andyweirauthor.com/#project-hail-mary

Andy Weir is the New York Times bestselling author of The Martian, Artemis, Project Hail Mary, and Cheshire Crossing.

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You Probably Don't Need To Stress About Hantavirus

https://gidmk.substack.com/p/you-probably-dont-need-to-stress

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Added 2 months ago

Deciphering Glyph :: Adversarial Communication

https://blog.glyph.im/2026/06/adversarial-communication.html

Deciphering Glyph, the blog of Glyph Lefkowitz.

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Added 1 month ago

Part One: Carl Schmitt: The Mind Behind Modern Fascism - Behind the Bastards | iHeart

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-one-carl-schmitt-the-mind-276486999/

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Eight Questions About the Maldives Dive Accident

https://www.thehumandiver.com/post/eight-questions-about-maldives-accident

Five Italian divers died in a cave at 55 m. Before anyone delivers a verdict, here are the questions Just Culture demands we ask first — and why their sequence matters.

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The Operational Trap

https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-operational-trap/

Like Imperial Japan before us, the United States has substituted tactical and operational planning for strategic thinking.

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What if It’s Not the Phones?

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/07/phones-haidt-play-gray/687846/

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Where It All Went Wrong: The Case Against John Howard, by Amy Remeikis

https://www.simonandschuster.com.au/books/Where-It-All-Went-Wrong/Amy-Remeikis/9781761822117

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The Age of Extremophiles

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/the-age-of-extremophiles-331674257/

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Added 1 month ago

Part One: Jimmy Savile: Britain's Unending Nightmare

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-one-jimmy-savile-britains-unending-330154698/

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My Ordinary Life: Improvements Since the 1990s · Gwern.net

https://gwern.net/improvement

A list of unheralded improvements to ordinary quality-of-life since the 1990s going beyond computers.

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Added 2 months ago

Elon Musk alone isn’t responsible for Belfast's racist pogrom

https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/elon-musk-belfast-pogrom-lee-hurley

The violent response to an attempted murder would have happened regardless of Musk, Lee Hurley writes.

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Added 1 month ago

The stubborn scarcity of female breadwinners

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/07/13/the-stubborn-scarcity-of-female-breadwinners

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What one country's experiment says about attempts to boost birth rates

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yzdr4ygdno

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The last continent: how deadly bird flu travelled the world before landing on a remote Australian beach | Bird flu | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/28/bird-flu-travelled-world-remote-australian-beach?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

The H5N1 virus has now reached every continent on the planet. What does it mean for some of the world’s unique species?

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We used to be able to buy things in this country

https://dannykatch.substack.com/p/we-used-to-be-able-to-buy-things

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The Ruiners, by Ellena Savage

https://www.simonandschuster.com.au/books/The-Ruiners/Ellena-Savage/9781761638817

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Added 2 months ago

Grit — If Books Could Kill

https://www.buzzsprout.com/2040953/episodes/19100483-grit

In 2013, education reformers tried to help poor students the using the best tool at their disposal: The 16th most popular Ted Talk.Special thanks to Marcus Credé! Where to find us: Our PatreonOur merch!Peter's newsletterPeter's other podcast, 5-4Mike's other podcast, Maintenance PhaseSo...

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I was afraid to make a submission to the antisemitism royal commission. But silence has consequences too | George Newhouse | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/06/australia-antisemitism-royal-commission-submissions-racism-human-rights-ntwnfb

I work in a sector that speaks out on racism and human rights, yet on this issue I have felt the boundaries of acceptable speech narrow around me

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