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Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?
https://velvetshark.com/ai-company-logos-that-look-like-buttholes
A humorous exploration of the uncanny resemblance between AI company logos and human anatomy. Discover why circular, gradient-based designs dominate the AI industry, and what this design convergence tells us about branding in tech.
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Deciphering Glyph :: I Think I’m Done Thinking About genAI For Now
https://blog.glyph.im/2025/06/i-think-im-done-thinking-about-genai-for-now.html
Deciphering Glyph, the blog of Glyph Lefkowitz.
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Why Tech Bros Overestimate AI's Creative Abilities
https://www.aaronrosspowell.com/p/why-tech-bros-overestimate-ai-s-creative-abilities
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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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Ruth Coker Burks, the cemetery angel - Arkansas Times
https://arktimes.com/news/cover-stories/2015/01/08/ruth-coker-burks-the-cemetery-angel
In the darkest hour of the AIDS epidemic, Ruth Coker Burks cared for hundreds of people whose families had abandoned them. Courage, love and the 30-year secret of one little graveyard in Hot Springs.
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Russell T Davies–David Tennant Does a Podcast With… – Apple Podcasts
https://podcasts.apple.com/ke/podcast/russell-t-davies/id1450005207?i=1000698585806
David Tennant sits down with his longtime friend and collaborator, Russell T Davies, the acclaimed writer behind Doctor Who, It's a Sin, Queer as Folk, and more
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
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Why I Find It Hard to Write About Being a Widow
https://www.dataandpolitics.net/why-i-find-it-hard-to-write-about-being-a-widow/
Why is it so hard to write about being a widow? My story has no redemptive arc. No community rallied, no family came together, no strength was discovered. Just sudden loss and ongoing adaptation without resolution. These are the widowhood stories we don't want to hear but need to tell.
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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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Australian journalist shot in LA. Why's it being reported passively?
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/06/10/australian-journalist-shot-los-angeles-protests-media-reporting/
When a US officer shot Australian journalist Lauren Tomasi with a rubber bullet in LA, it was big news. But why is the coverage so passive?
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Faster than Usain Bolt at the same age: The Ipswich schoolboy turned $6 million man
https://www.smh.com.au/national/faster-than-usain-bolt-at-the-same-age-the-ipswich-schoolboy-turned-6-million-man-20250116-p5l4xq.html
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‘I came out as autistic. Everyone said: That explains a lot’ | The Observer
https://observer.co.uk/news/first-person/article/laurie-penny-autism
An autism diagnosis helped Laurie Penny make sense of their experiences, but its real value was in helping them understand the rest of society
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The good times in tech are over
https://www.seangoedecke.com/good-times-are-over/
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ANU honours Australia's first female neuroscientist Rose Mason
https://reporter.anu.edu.au/all-stories/finally-telling-her-story-trailblazer-in-science-recognised-with-honorary-degree
Australia's first female neuroscientist, Dr Rose Mason, has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science by ANU.
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Selective school fail: Why NSW has lost control of the beast it created
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/selective-school-fail-why-nsw-has-lost-control-of-the-beast-it-created-20250523-p5m1qm.html
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Why Movements Fail
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/why-movements-fail/
Horizontalism and its discontents
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How To Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS, by David France
https://www.davidfrance.com/books
One Nation's Senate victories show the 2016 electoral reforms were right - ABC News
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-30/one-nation-s-victories-are-a-vindication-of-the-senate-reforms/105358914
One Nation's success affirms the 2016 Senate reforms in ensuring that Senate elections were decided by voters, not the opaque deals of preference traders.
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Measles cases are surging globally. Should children be vaccinated earlier?
https://theconversation.com/measles-cases-are-surging-globally-should-children-be-vaccinated-earlier-257942
Vaccination is key to protecting against measles – but the question of when exactly is best to give the vaccine is not black and white.
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How Murdoch's News Corp Still ... - Lamestream - Apple Podcasts
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/how-murdochs-news-corp-still-has-influence-the-sports/id1810214465?i=1000710321070
Has Rupert Murdoch's News Corp lost its ability to influence Australian politics and society? Os and Scott debate how powerful the right-wing media empire reall
Georgia Tennant - David Tennant Does a Podcast With… - Apple Podcasts
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/georgia-tennant/id1450005207?i=1000702537041
Hear David Tennant as you have never heard him before... The tables are turned as David sits in the hot seat, interviewed by none other than his wife Georgia Te
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I Asked My Haters to Critique My "Worst" Outfit
https://www.cartoonshateher.com/p/i-asked-my-haters-to-critique-my
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Do viruses trigger Alzheimer’s?
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2025/03/17/do-viruses-trigger-alzheimers
A growing group of scientists think so, and are asking whether antivirals could treat the disease | Science & technology
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We Found The Guy Behind Australia's Greatest Ever Meme
https://www.buzzfeed.com/markdistefano/seriously-john-howard-djs-like-a-mad-cunt
If you remember when Howard DJ'd like a mad c*nt...this story is for you.
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