It must be so disappointing to be in the left faction of the Australian Labor Party. First, its guy, the Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, is not being very left of anything. Second, a progressive agenda seems to have popped off the list of anything important. Third (wimps), members of the left faction aren’t criticising their Continue reading »
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One should never feel sympathy for a politician caught in a rule-in rule-out game. Perhaps the period should be after the eighth word, but there is something spectacularly dumb about foreclosing on policy options even when they are not under active contemplation, narrowing the range of debate and allowing its terms to be set by Continue reading »
The All-Ords was in a sideways trading range between early February and early August and then dived. Since then, it has not only rebounded but escaped its former range ceiling and is now trading at a record high. The next chart shows that American S&P 500 index has been on an upward trajectory all this Continue reading »
The parlous physical and mental health of David McBride and disturbing revelations about conditions at the Alexander Maconochie Centre prison in Canberra are a national disgrace. Yet the only media outlet to cover this story is the free Canberra newspaper, City News. When I asked two editors of national newspapers why they won’t investigate McBride’s Continue reading »
It doesn’t matter who the president is, the Deep State is running the USA. If you want to interpret American foreign policy its all about power as the central objective – and hegemony. And they really believe they are doing the right thing. David Sacks and a panel from the All in Podcast speak with Continue reading »
Scientists are making mycelia-machine hybrids that can crawl and roll.
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By now readers are likely familiar with the claim that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio...
Who's taking the biggest hit in the global fast food boycott?
Alright, enough of the doom and gloom. Stumbled across a study on the impact of changing a four lane road in a retail area down to two lanes plus bike lanes. This sort of change is usually resisted by local businesses, who are scared of losing customers, but someone did a study:
We are thrilled to announce that Google Translate has recently added “Deanspeak” to its suite of language-detection tools. In addition to offering translations from Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, and other languages, Google Translate can now render your college administrator’s opaque prose into plain (if terrifying) English.
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Based on dubious carbon accounting, Drax, which runs the U.K.’s biggest power plant, is rapidly expanding its wood pellet operations across America.
The post The Dirty Business of Clean Energy: The U.K. Power Company Polluting Small Towns Across the U.S appeared first on The Intercept.
In the potential outcomes approach to causality, sex and race are often not considered causes since they do not fit within this counterfactual manipulation/intervention framework of causal inference. Sex and race cannot be directly manipulated or intervened on, which is said to make it difficult to conceptualize what the ‘potential outcomes’ would be for individuals […]
In Moving the Bones, Rick Barot’s newest, the project is both catastrophe and praise. But it begins, paradoxically, in “Pleasure,” in a vision of paradise and meditation: “My mind has a slow metabolism, it is slow / to understand what anything means, / but it understands that if you look at something / long enough, it will have something / to say to you.” The collection is the work of a consummate artist at the height of his powers. And so its sensibility encompasses the range from beauty to suffering to queer memory—“Like the boy with a flower behind his ear who’s been interrupted / in his pleasure”—to the disastrous politics of our times. “He saw the tents people lived in / by the park get torched, and I could smell / on him what he had seen.” What he had seen: the book registers anew the vividness and radiant ethics possible in an act of description. The seeing is what begins any remaking, Rick Barot reminds us, and part of the seeing is part of the grieving.
Doctor Who showrunner Russell T. Davies dishes (somewhat) on the mysterious episode "73 Yards," fans' Mad Jack theories, and much more.
Listen, son, when I was your age, I thought I knew everything, and it looks like we have that in common. You think you know what this is all about? You think you understand what it means to be married to someone for over forty years?
I’ve been married since 1977, and let me tell you, it’s been a nonstop fuckfest ever since.
You think marriage is all picket fences and tomato gardens? Well, guess what, when you’re in a monogamous relationship, the erotic pressure doesn’t quit. It builds and builds for decades to the point you think it will break you. You glance in the mirror and don’t recognize yourself, the way lust has warped your features.
Look across the table, and you see the woman you love. She, too, has been disfigured by this carnal addiction you share. You make eye contact as her foot brushes your leg.
Looks like another dinner will be eaten cold.
Oh sure, you’re thinking, Doesn’t having kids slow you down? Yeah, right. Stuck at home with each other 24-7, plus you have to sneak around to make love? Your mother is into that kind of thing. I’ve had to hide from that woman. She is insatiable.
Parts of Britain's media are still parroting dangerous tropes when talking about sexual violence, according to a new guide
The Ministry of Justice has confirmed that 24 projects in the prison service have been halted, and two schemes involving new courts were affected
Hungarians are being encouraged to fix problems themselves at a local level and it is having results
In one of the world’s most valuable fisheries, regulators with conflicts of interest are letting corporations off the hook.
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The favourite to succeed Rishi Sunak as Conservative party leader plans to launch an "air war" with younger voters
