Links
Add
Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni's Hollywood feud allegedly involved a smear campaign and 'astroturfing' - ABC News
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-27/blake-lively-justin-baldoni-astroturfing/104761210
In a social media ecosystem already rife with misogyny, racism and aggression, experts say it's remarkably easy to shape the narrative around a public figure through "astroturfing".
Added 2 months ago
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?
Added 2 weeks ago
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space, by Adam Higginbotham
https://www.adamhigginbotham.com/
Midnight In Chernobyl: the Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster, by Adam Higginbotham
https://www.adamhigginbotham.com/#midnight
The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions - and How The World Lost its Mind, by Dan Davies
https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/books/9781788169547
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.
Added 4 weeks ago
BLACKWOOD CERAMICS
https://www.blackwoodceramics.com/
Added 2 months ago
Added 2 months ago
Eli Burnstein | Freelance Writer & Editor — Book!
https://www.eliburnstein.com/book
Added 2 months ago
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
Added 1 month ago
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
Added 1 month ago
Shop — FELDMARK POTTERY
https://www.feldmark.com.au/shop
Added 2 months ago
The coming battle between social media and the state
https://www.ft.com/content/917c9535-1cdb-4f6a-9a15-1a0c83663bfd
Added 2 months ago
13 Things I Learned Reading a 225 Page Report About the Gaming Industry
https://www.infinitescroll.us/p/13-things-i-learned-reading-a-225
Added 1 month ago
You Don't Have to Monetize The Things You Love
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/you-dont-have-to-monetize-the-things-you-love/
My office is overrun with indie comics. Small press runs, hand-stapled zines, hardbound collections, beautifully risographed art books from creators who might never make another comic again. I buy them at small conventions, from Gumroad pages, from artists’ websites, and through Instagram DMs. Each represents a moment in time, a
Added 1 month ago
The Banality of Zionism
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-banality-of-zionism/
Zionism is just 19th century nationalism, and its conflicts are ordinary nationalist conflicts.
Added 1 month ago
Broken
Sleeping Women
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n24/sophie-smith/sleeping-womenue
Added 2 months ago
No One Knows How This Will End (But I Do Not Think It Will End Well for Them)
https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/no-one-knows-how-this-will-end-but-i-do-not-think-it-will-end-well-for-them/
I can sum up the Trump/Musk/Vance theory of power in five words: "We have power; you don't." Alternative version in six words: "we can do anything we want." They seem to believe that nothing is really connected to anything else and nothing should be. This is why they're
Added 1 month ago
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.
Added 1 month ago
Was Jeanne Calment the Oldest Person Who Ever Lived—or a Fraud? | The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/02/17/was-jeanne-calment-the-oldest-person-who-ever-lived-or-a-fraud
Some researchers have cast doubt on the record of the celebrated supercentenarian, Lauren Collins writes.
Added 2 months ago
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.
Added 5 days ago
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.
Added 1 month ago
Broken
Mark Zuckerberg Has a Funny Idea of What It Is to Be a Man
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/opinion/zuckerberg-masculine-energy-rogan-trump.html
Added 1 month ago
Claiming the summit without reaching the top
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/sports/tallest-mountain-summit.html
Added 3 months ago