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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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The good times in tech are over
https://www.seangoedecke.com/good-times-are-over/
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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 group chats that changed America | Semafor
https://www.semafor.com/article/04/27/2025/the-group-chats-that-changed-america
A loose private network on Signal and WhatsApp helped usher in the new alliance between Silicon Valley and Donald Trump’s new right.
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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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Taylor Swift buys back the rights to the master recordings of her first six albums | Taylor Swift | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/may/30/taylor-swift-buys-back-master-recordings-taylors-versions
After her former label sold her catalogue in 2019, Swift embarked on her lucrative album rerecording project – but now owns the originals for the first time
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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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The rise and fall of Adam Bandt: the Greens leader who embraced a different approach to politics | Paddy Manning | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/10/adam-bandt-rise-and-fall-of-greens-leader-who-embraced-different-approach-to-politics
The outgoing member for Melbourne understood if the Greens genuinely want to be a party of government they have to win lower house seats
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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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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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Bonus: The Lab Leak Goes Mainstream
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2040953/episodes/17282956-bonus-the-lab-leak-goes-mainstream
By popular demand we are releasing last month's Patreon bonus episode on the main feed! We chart the transformation of the lab leak from an unfounded theory promoted by right-wing cranks to an unfounded theory promoted by liberal journalists.Where to find us: Peter's newsletterPeter's other ...
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...
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
Against Life Extension
https://www.persuasion.community/p/against-life-extension
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The Most Unsettling Inscription I've Ever Found on the Inside Cover of a Used Book, Bar None
https://thechatner.com/p/the-most-unsettling-inscription-ive
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Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism, by Sarah Wynn-Williams
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250391230/carelesspeople/
Saddam Hussein: Erotic Novelist - Behind the Bastards | iHeart
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/saddam-hussein-erotic-novelist-29264138/
It’s time for Dolly to record that long-lost Prince song. - Anil Dash
https://www.anildash.com/2025/04/10/dolly-prince-rescue-me/
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
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My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts · The Fly Blog
https://fly.io/blog/youre-all-nuts/
My smartest friends have bananas arguments about LLM coding.
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The Tomb of Dragons, by Katherine Addison
https://torpublishinggroup.com/the-tomb-of-dragons/
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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
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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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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