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Housing affordability crisis - Saving for a deposit forever - The Australia Institute

https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/housing-affordability-crisis-saving-for-a-deposit-forever/

The dream of saving for a deposit on a house is now so far beyond most poeple that even if you have a high paying job, you still can never save enough.

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Added 2 weeks ago

Ian Gent's Blog: The Petrie Multiplier: Why an Attack on Sexism in Tech is NOT an Attack on Men

https://blog.ian.gent/2013/10/the-petrie-multiplier-why-attack-on.html

articles:rec feminism gender

Added 3 days ago

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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Added 1 month ago

What Felt Impossible Became Possible | dansinker.com

https://dansinker.com/posts/2025-02-23-dale/

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Added 1 month ago

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 […]

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Added 3 months ago

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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Added 2 months ago

LGBTQ+ People Are Not Going Back

https://jude-doyle.ghost.io/lgbtq-people-are-not-going-back/

On identity politics and unreasonable demands.

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Added 2 months ago

TERFs, Trans Mascs, and Two Steve Feminism

https://jude-doyle.ghost.io/terfs-trans-mascs-and-two-steve-feminism/

In which A Man has an Opinion about Feminism, with Mixed Results.

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Added 2 months ago

Political Parties Are Illegal in the United States – J. W. Mason

https://jwmason.org/slackwire/political-parties-are-illegal-in-the-united-states/

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Added 1 month ago

XX- Risk: What's more threatening - autonomous AI, or autonomous women?

https://lauriepenny.substack.com/p/xx-risk

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Added 1 month ago

Blind and Sighted People Understand Color Similarly - Arts & Sciences Magazine

https://magazine.krieger.jhu.edu/2021/10/blind-and-sighted-people-understand-color-similarly/

Krieger School researchers have found that like any sighted person, those born blind understand two bananas are likely to be the same color and why.

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Added 2 months ago

The A.I. backlash backlash: Against "A.G.I."

https://maxread.substack.com/p/the-ai-backlash-backlash

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Added 3 weeks ago

The Bleak Spectacle of the Amber Heard-Johnny Depp Trial

https://michaelhobbes.substack.com/p/the-bleak-spectacle-of-the-amber

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Added 3 months ago

They Cannot Conquer For Ever | Goldwag's Journal on Civilization

https://nathangoldwag.wordpress.com/2024/11/07/they-cannot-conquer-for-ever/

American Indian Movement flag, Wounded Knee, 1988 (Source) I have not talked much about the election on here this year because I had very little of interest to say. I was hoping Harris would win. I think Trump was a bad president before, and will be a worse one now. I had a very bad…

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Added 2 months ago

How Did Silicon Valley Break Bad?

https://paulwaldman.substack.com/p/how-did-silicon-valley-break-bad

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Added 3 weeks ago

The Pithiest Critique of Modern Conservatism Keeps Getting Credited to the Wrong Man

https://slate.com/business/2022/06/wilhoits-law-conservatives-frank-wilhoit.html

“Wilhoit’s Law” was coined by a different Frank Wilhoit.

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Added 3 weeks ago

Neil Gaiman, Justin Baldoni: What these men reveal about a particular celebrity obsession.