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‘We gotta act white’: how voice recognition tech fails for Aboriginal English speakers
https://theconversation.com/we-gotta-act-white-how-voice-recognition-tech-fails-for-aboriginal-english-speakers-270983

Voice-operated technology can’t cope with non-mainstream varieties of English.

 
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So You Want To Abolish Time Zones @ Things Of Interest
https://qntm.org/abolish

Laudable! Let's take a look at some of the changes that arise from this, through a simple case study: making an international phone call to a relative.

Before abolishing time zones I want to call my Uncle Steve in Melbourne. What time is it there? Google tells me it is currently...

 
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The Birth Keepers: I choose this – episode one | Childbirth | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/audio/2025/dec/10/the-birth-keepers-i-choose-this-episode-one

The Free Birth Society was selling pregnant women a simple message. They could exit the medical system and take back their power. By free birthing. But Nicole Garrison believes FBS ideology nearly cost her her life. This is episode one of a year-long investigation by Guardian journalists Sirin Kale and Lucy Osborne

 
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How did the CIA lose a nuclear device?
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/13/world/asia/cia-nuclear-device-himalayas-nanda-devi.html
 
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England ruthlessly privatised cricket – Australia embraces it with constant public displays of affection | Ashes 2025-26 | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/jan/09/england-ruthlessly-privatised-cricket-australia-embraces-it-with-constant-public-displays-of-affection

If there is one takeaway for England from this Ashes tour it should be how cricket thrives in a nation where it is readily and freely available as the dominant summer pastime

 
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Australia’s red and yellow beach flags can be dangerously confusing. Is it time to change them?
https://theconversation.com/australias-red-and-yellow-beach-flags-can-be-dangerously-confusing-is-it-time-to-change-them-266772

To international visitors, red and yellow beach flags may look like a warning.

 
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Wikipedia volunteers took down a gunman. It’s not the only threat they’ve faced.
https://slate.com/technology/2025/10/wikipedia-editors-conference-gunman-culture-war.html

An armed man at a gathering of the website’s volunteers is just the latest reminder: Editing the internet’s encyclopedia has never been riskier.

 
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The moment I knew: in his hospital bed, he ripped off his oxygen mask and said he loved me | Life and style | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/jun/23/the-moment-i-knew-in-his-hospital-bed-he-ripped-off-his-oxygen-mask-and-said-he-loved-me

<strong>Heather McCormack</strong> was trying to play it cool with Rhodri. Then, 24 hours in a hospital waiting room showed her life was too short

 
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He set out to walk around the world. After 27 years, he’s nearly home. - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2025/12/05/karl-bushby-walk-around-world/

his focus to that once he’s home.

His main takeaway from his adventures is how people along the way have treated him. He said he hopes to pay it forward in the ways he can.

“The world will wrap itself around you and help you achieve things and keep you moving,” he said. “It’s been absolutely astounding.”

 
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Face transplants promised hope. Patients were put through the unthinkable | Science | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/nov/27/face-transplant-patients-results-outcomes

Twenty years after the first face transplant, patients are dying, data is missing, and the experimental procedure’s future hangs in the balance

 
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No, SARS-CoV-2 is not reducing our intelligence
https://marcveldhoen.substack.com/p/no-sars-cov-2-is-not-reducing-our
 
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What Was the Girlboss? And how did she become feminism's problem?
https://moiradonegan.substack.com/p/what-was-the-girlboss
 
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There are three kinds of antisemitism – each needs to be dealt with differently
https://www.smh.com.au/national/there-are-three-kinds-of-antisemitism-each-needs-to-be-dealt-with-differently-20251225-p5nq1t.html
 
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After the Bondi attack, all Australians must support the right of Jews to live without fear | George Newhouse | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/14/after-the-bondi-attack-all-australians-must-support-the-right-of-jews-to-live-without-fear

Long before the shocking killings in Sydney, the threat of antisemitic violence was often left unchallenged. That must change

 
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A Grave Condition Caused by C-Sections Is on the Rise
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/health/placenta-accreta-c-sections.html
 
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The Guardian view on Gaza’s winter: the world must take heed as Palestinian suffering deepens again | Editorial | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/02/the-guardian-view-on-gazas-winter-the-world-must-take-heed-as-palestinian-suffering-deepens-again

<strong>Editorial:</strong> Families are struggling to survive amid the devastation. Israel’s ban on international NGOs will worsen this disaster

 
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“Cat Person” by Kristen Roupenian draws specific details from my life.
https://slate.com/human-interest/2021/07/cat-person-kristen-roupenian-viral-story-about-me.html

Since I first read Kristen Roupenian’s viral story, I’ve wondered: How did she know about me?

 
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A headless mystery: archaeologists find evidence that a wave of mass brutality accompanied the collapse of the first pan-European culture
https://www.science.org/content/article/headless-bodies-hint-why-europe-s-first-farmers-vanished
 
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Elon Musk
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2040953/episodes/18320499-elon-musk

A biography that dares to ask: Is a lifetime of worker abuse and narcissism worth it to experience robot butlers?Where to find us: Our PatreonOur merch!Peter's newsletterPeter's other podcast, 5-4Mike's other podcast, Maintenance PhaseSources:What Elon Musk Gets Wrong about South AfricaElon ...

 
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Elon Musk Discovers What Hierarchy Actually Means
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/22/elon-musk-discovers-what-hierarchy-actually-means/
 
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Added 2 months ago
James Watson: From DNA pioneer to untouchable pariah | STAT
https://www.statnews.com/2025/11/07/james-watson-remembrance-from-dna-pioneer-to-pariah/

The complicated story of James Watson, whose landmark DNA discovery with Francis Crick was later overshadowed by his deeply offensive remarks

 
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First Shape Found That Can’t Pass Through Itself
https://www.quantamagazine.org/first-shape-found-that-cant-pass-through-itself-20251024/
 
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