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White winters across regional NSW towns now a fading memory

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-06/blue-mountains-snow-drought-reaches-record-four-years/106982612

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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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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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You're Doing It Wrong: Notes on Criticism and Technology Hype

https://peoples-things.ghost.io/youre-doing-it-wrong-notes-on-criticism-and-technology-hype/

By Lee Vinsel

I'm reposting this essay I wrote in 2021 because the online blogging platform Medium has apparently changed its policies and people are having trouble accessing the original. Hopefully, I'll find a better, more durable solution soon. I'm reposting it unaltered, even though I would unsurprisingly do some

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A Philosopher’s One-Word Theory to Explain Why the World Feels So Weird

https://www.derekthompson.org/p/a-philosophers-one-word-theory-to

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The Kaiser and a "Mediocre Man" Theory of History

https://www.deadcarl.com/p/the-kaiser-and-a-mediocre-man-theory

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Types of Fun

https://www.thechatner.com/p/types-of-fun

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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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What if It’s Not the Phones?

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

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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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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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Half the truth: defending public education requires more honesty, not less | Pearls and Irritations

https://johnmenadue.com/post/2026/03/half-the-truth-defending-public-education-requires-more-honesty-not-less/

Criticism of public schools is not entirely wrong – but by ignoring unequal conditions, it misdiagnoses the problem and misplaces responsibility.

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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 Age of Extremophiles

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

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Skill nostalgia

https://aeon.co/essays/the-radical-reasons-why-you-dream-of-making-things-by-hand

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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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The Ruiners, by Ellena Savage

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

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The A.I. Giants Weren’t Prepared for This

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-jasmine-sun.html

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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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Know Your Enemy: Joan Didion, Conservative, with Sam Tanenhaus - Dissent Magazine

https://dissentmagazine.org/blog/know-your-enemy-joan-didion/

Why did Joan Didion love Barry Goldwater but hate Ronald Reagan? Historian Sam Tanenhaus helps make sense of Didion's conservatism.

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Life at the end of the metaverse

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/technology/73949/life-at-the-end-of-the-metaverse

Mark Zuckerberg built a future that nobody wanted. Tech bosses are repeating his mistake

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Introducing — Autistic AF With Grace Tame

https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/ladies-we-need-to-talk/introducing-autistic-af-with-grace-tame/106723584

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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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Seeing Other People, by Diana Reid

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

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