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The End keeps on not coming, but the delay has produced yet another opportunity for...

The time is now to prepare for the cosmic object that could spell our end.

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Why Black people are poorly represented in neuroimaging studies—and how science can do better.

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It just sounds insulting. We don’t know why. Matt Lewis at the Daily Beast has some thoughts: For Donald Trump, the first step is always to label his victim. Indeed, assigning a good bad nickname appears to be a sine qua non in the Trump playbook. Once he gets that part right, the job is half-done. For example, “Crazy Joe” (which gave way to the superior “Sleepy Joe”) never resonated the way “Crooked Hillary” (or Lyin’ Ted, “Low Energy Jeb,” and Lil’ Marco) did. And now that “Meatball Ron” has become his leading moniker for Ron DeSantis, Trump might have landed on another keeper. Back in 2016, when Trump first started gaining traction, a few outlets dug into why his nicknames were working. Some people saw it primarily as a symptom of the coarsening of discourse and dirty political fighting he reveled in; but others spotted an evil genius at work.

"The price of tyres is up 800% and kids in Switzerland are taking mangoes to school".

The Potential Outcome framework starts by defining the potential outcomes with reference to a manipulation. In doing so it makes a distinction between attributes or pre-treatment variables which are fixed for the units in the population, and causes, which are potentially manipulable. This is related to the connection between causal statements and randomized experiments. The […]

He’s mad because of the windmills. It’s as petty as it gets. But it’s also clear that he intends to make transgender people a major target of his campaign and it’s just sick. These are some of the most vulnerable people in the world, especially the kids, and these pigs are going to bully them on a national basis and try to literally ban them from American life. It’s heartbreaking. But Trump always has his finger on the pulse of right wing media culture war obsessions and this is one. He’s not going to let DeSantis and the rest of them get to his right.

Since attaining the dubious honour of Liberal Party Leader, Peter Dutton has really taken that mantle to new depths. read now...

Embarrassed troopers have admitted they released the notorious Ned Kelly gang from captivity after being fooled into thinking they were a group of baristas on their way to open a pop-up cafe in Glenrowan. “They all had big bushy beards... Read More ›

Influence peddlers have taken key congressional jobs.

The post Bank Lobbyists Hired by Congress to Oversee Banking Regulations appeared first on The Intercept.

Facing pressure to act, America’s chief rail regulator now insists he is “constrained.” He’s not.

A smart political promise People made fun of Biden for putting so-called Junk Fees on his agenda but it turns out to be a very smart move. People hate them: Democrats and Republicans don’t agree on many things but paying less for concert tickets or to switch cable TV providers is one of them. During his Feb. 7 State of the Union speech, President Joe Biden called on Congress to pass the Junk Fees Prevention Act, which would limit extra fees or surcharges across the travel and entertainment industries, including early termination fees from cable TV or internet providers and service fees often attached to tickets for concerts and sporting events. Biden previously called out companies like Live Nation Entertainment Inc.’s Ticketmaster to lower the “huge” service fees it places on many events and to be more transparent with consumers about a ticket’s full costs. The ticketing platform has been under Congressional scrutiny since November for its disastrous handling of presales for Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour, which renewed accusations that the company is monopolizing the live event industry.

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I bet you could use a creative way to increase your income by a mere 10 to 30 percent to get through this inflation-wrecked year. Maybe you need some extra dough for that ever-growing percentage of your finances going toward keeping a roof over your head. Or perhaps you need to buy a dozen eggs. Not to worry. I’ve discovered the secret to scraping through late-stage capitalism: simply take anything that sparks a modicum of joy and turn it into a capitalist enterprise. Because nothing says bootstraps like turning something you love into twelve dollars before taxes.

Say, for example, you like to unwind with a craft—maybe you knit while watching your brother’s Netflix account? Great! Let’s get your Etsy shop up and running and start you producing macramé plant hangers or crocheted snoods on a level that will net you forty bucks a month and also debilitating carpal tunnel syndrome.

While you’re at it, get yourself a Medium account and hustle for enough followers to pay you a couple cents for your thoughts on, I dunno, Pilates, or train travel, or beagle breeding.

How might the renown mid-20th century linguist Ludwig Wittgenstein have addressed the current defence strategic review? As the perceptive mid-20th century Cambridge based English/Austrian linguist Ludwig Wittgenstein explained, the answer you get to a question depends on how the question is formed. The same wisdom could have been conveyed to military planners in the past Continue reading »

What motivated the Australian government when it announced that it would get rid of CCTV cameras on public buildings because they were Chinese devices? They are to be discarded not because they malfunction but because they function all too well. The contention is that, if a Chinese firm produced them, they are bound to relay Continue reading »

Katy Gallagher’s recent rejection of an ATO supported pay increase was entirely justified if the Government is to move away from agency-based remuneration to an APS-wide approach. The problem is that achieving an APS-wide approach which delivers the remuneration necessary to attract, develop and retain the skills the APS needs will not be easy and Continue reading »