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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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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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Types of Fun

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

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Deciphering Glyph :: Adversarial Communication

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

Deciphering Glyph, the blog of Glyph Lefkowitz.

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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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Bit Rot Doesn't Always Increase Entropy – A Story from the Archives - Google Bug Hunters

https://bughunters.google.com/blog/bit-rot-doesnt-always-increase-entropy

This blog post takes us back to 2010, retracing and incident where a statistical anomaly led to the discovery of a subtle flaw in the way we were using a security-critical library.

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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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AI Isn't Management. Try Explaining That to Matthew Prince

https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/ai-isnt-management-try-explaining

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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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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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The Ability To Play As Bowser Has Made Our Society More Evil – Clickhole

https://www.clickhole.com/2015/01/05/the-ability-to-play-as-bowser-has-made-our-society-more-1825123963/

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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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Brainstorm, by Richard Scolyer with Garry Maddox

https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/Richard-Scolyer-Brainstorm-9781761471490