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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
How To Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS, by David France
https://www.davidfrance.com/books
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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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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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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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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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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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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Oxford academics drank from cup made from human skull, book reveals | Archaeology | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/apr/22/oxford-academics-drank-from-cup-made-from-human-skull-until-2015-book-reveals
Decades-long use of chalice at Worcester College highlights violent colonial history of looted human remains, says Prof Dan Hicks
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Peter Dutton is being tested for the first time, and he doesn’t seem to be passing
https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politics/australian-politics/federal-election-2025/2025/04/05/peter-dutton-election-test
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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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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
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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Saddam Hussein: Erotic Novelist - Behind the Bastards | iHeart
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/saddam-hussein-erotic-novelist-29264138/
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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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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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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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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The good times in tech are over
https://www.seangoedecke.com/good-times-are-over/
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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 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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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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The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, by Deesha Philyaw
https://deeshaphilyaw.com/
THE SECRET LIVES OF CHURCH LADIES won the 2021 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the 2020/2021 Story Prize, and the 2020 LA Times Book Prize: The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and was a finalist for the 2020 National Book…
The She Made Him Do It Theory of Everything
https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/the-she-made-him-do-it-theory-of-everything-2/
The rhetoric and logic of the abuse of power operates similarly at all scales, which is why I've found feminism such useful equipment for understanding authoritarians in public and political life. Because no matter what abusers take from their victims, they don't want to take the blame. And one of
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