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Thu, 29/06/2023 - 01:40
Jason Collins discusses a paper by Milkman et al. that presented “a megastudy testing 54 interventions to increase the gym visits of 61,000 experimental participants” … Collins’s discussion seems reasonable to me. In particular, I agree with his big problem about the design of this “mega-study,” which is that there’s all sorts of rigor in the […]
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Thu, 29/06/2023 - 01:12
Attention conservation notice 1 – a long read about a simple idea. When reading trolls, focus on the anodyne-seeming starting assumptions rather than the obnoxious conclusions. Attention conservation notice 2 – This is also available via my Substack newsletter, Programmable Mutter. I’ll still be writing on CT, but I have a book with Abe Newman […]
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Wed, 28/06/2023 - 23:01

Paisley Rekdal’s work is urban, the poetry an explosion of language, the ranging cast of mind in the spirit of Albert Goldbarth or Linda Gregerson. Like these poets her lines are made of long hypotactic sentences, linking image and language on a string of wondrous beads, leaping in and through those long lines like C. K. Williams. Rekdal infuses them with a vibrant grace, a cultured smoothness, a voracious reading. She grew up in Seattle, studied medieval literature in the prestigious University of Toronto program, abandoned those studies to give herself over to writing poetry, carrying through all of it, meanwhile, an abiding interest in nonfiction, and an interest in writing about things you weren’t supposed to write about, like bad sex. She carried also an interest, always, in unclassifiable media. So there’s a fundamental genre-restlessness to Rekdal’s passions, but she doesn’t equate esoteric with experiment.

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Wed, 28/06/2023 - 20:55
Open Rights Group has responded to an opinion piece in the Telegraph by the Home Secretary, Suella Braverman MP that claims that: “The government, tech experts, and wider industry partners have demonstrated that it is technically feasible to detect child sexual abuse in environments which utilise encryption whilst still strongly maintaining user privacy.” All the evidence […]
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Wed, 28/06/2023 - 19:27

Fifty years ago patrons at the Stonewall Inn, a popular New York City gay bar, fought back against abusive police, and in doing so launched the modern lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender movement. It’s undeniable that we’ve come a long way from a time when cops routinely raided gay bars, and being outed virtually guaranteed a person would be labeled a […]

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Wed, 28/06/2023 - 19:00
Splinter Cell Wins the Grand Prix Nova! I’m delighted to announce that the BBC audio drama I co-wrote with Sebastian Baczkiewicz, which was produced and directed by Nadia Molinari, Lorna Newman and Jessica Mitic, with genius sound designers Sharon Hughes & Steve Brooke won First Prize in the Binaural category at the Grand Priz Nova […]
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Wed, 28/06/2023 - 17:00
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Wed, 28/06/2023 - 16:32
Today (June 28, 2023), the Australian Bureau of Statistics released the latest – Monthly Consumer Price Indicator – which covers the period to May 2023. On an annual basis, the monthly All Items CPI rate of increase was 5.6 per cent down from 6.8 per cent. There is some stickiness in some of the components…