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Elon Musk, Apartheid, and America’s New Boycott Movement – Mother Jones
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/elon-musk-apartheid-boycott-tesla-doge-trump/
If you think mass protests can’t combat evil, remember what we did in the 1980s.
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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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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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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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The War on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion | The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-war-on-diversity-equity-and-inclusion
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor writes about what people get right and wrong when they criticize D.E.I., or diversity, equity, and inclusion, initiatives in the workplace.
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Are LLMs making StackOverflow irrelevant? - The Pragmatic Engineer
https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/are-llms-making-stackoverflow-irrelevant/
Fresh data shows that the number of questions asked on StackOverflow are as low as they were back in 2009 – which was when StackOverflow was one years old. The drop suggests that ChatGPT – and LLMs – managed to make StackOverflow’s business model irrelevant in about two years’ time.
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The End of Children | The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/03/03/the-population-implosion
Birth rates are crashing around the world. Should we be worried? Gideon Lewis-Kraus reports.
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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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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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Buried Deep and Other Stories, by Naomi Novik
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/723828/buried-deep-and-other-stories-by-naomi-novik/
A thrilling collection of thirteen short stories that span the worlds of the New York Times bestselling author of the Scholomance trilogy, including a...
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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BLACKWOOD CERAMICS
https://www.blackwoodceramics.com/
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XX- Risk: What's more threatening - autonomous AI, or autonomous women?
https://lauriepenny.substack.com/p/xx-risk
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The Tomb of Dragons, by Katherine Addison
https://torpublishinggroup.com/the-tomb-of-dragons/
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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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Population projections are shaping conversations about having kids and climate change. But how do they really work? | Vox
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/396708/world-us-population-projections-estimates-2050-2100
Experts were wrong about overpopulation before. Could they be wrong about underpopulation now?
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The coming battle between social media and the state
https://www.ft.com/content/917c9535-1cdb-4f6a-9a15-1a0c83663bfd
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The 1998 waterfront dispute pitted workers against each other. Recruits from the wharves share their stories - ABC News
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-14/waterfront-dispute-pitted-workers-against-each-other-recruits/105007704
The 1998 waterfront dispute was one of the most significant industrial disputes in Australia, but what happened to those who were recruited to keep the wharves running?
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How To Become The Dark Lord And Die Trying, by Django Wexler
https://djangowexler.com/writing/how-to-become-the-dark-lord-and-die-trying/
Groundhog Day meets Guardians of the Galaxy in Django Wexler’s laugh-out-loud fantasy tale about a young woman who, tired of defending humanity from the Dark Lord, decides to become the Dark Lord herself. Davi has done this all before. She’s tried to be the hero and take down the all-powerful Dark Lord. A hundred times she’s rallied humanity and […]
The Cuddled Little Vice (Sandman) – Eruditorum Press
https://www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/the-cuddled-little-vice-sandman
Previously in The Last War in Albion: Alan Moore wrote Watchmen, which, for complicated reasons involving William S. Burroughs and the weak nuclear force, ended the Cold War and replaced it with a magical one with Grant Morrison. That story continues in Book Three. This, meanwhile, is a new epilogue
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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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Neil Gaiman, Justin Baldoni: What these men reveal about a particular celebrity obsession.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/01/neil-gaiman-end-of-male-feminist-baldoni.html
This ignominious crew of famous men seemed to align with women against sexist oppression in public as they mistreated women in private.
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NYT Hypocrisy: Outlet Criticizes Trump's Attacks On Trans People That They Helped Usher In
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/nyt-hypocrisy-outlet-criticizes-trumps
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Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear, by Seanan McGuire
https://torpublishinggroup.com/adrift-in-currents-clean-and-clear/