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Thu, 29/06/2023 - 14:53

ARTISTS in the Garden, the free, public art participation project taking place once a month in the North Coast Regional Botanic Garden in Coffs Harbour, is building a tower at its next meeting. “There was always going to be a constructed form at some stage of Artists in the Garden,” co-director James P Gilmour told...

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Thu, 29/06/2023 - 14:49

MID NORTH COAST homeowners wishing to help others with affordable rent are building granny flats or other self-contained accommodation on their properties. “My criteria was for a woman who was eligible for ‘social housing’,” Melissa Murano told NOTA of her move to take on a tenant. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth...

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Thu, 29/06/2023 - 03:00

The hunt begins at birth; the mission becomes clearer and clearer. But no man can act alone. By cross-referencing Google Flights, Kayak, Expedia, Hopper, and Delta’s Twitter bot, you should be able to secure and execute your destiny: a $650 ticket from Denver to Minneapolis via Kansas City.

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I went down a river once when I was a kid. There’s a place in the river—I can’t remember—that must have been a gardenia plantation or flower plantation at one time. It’s all wild and overgrown now, but for about five miles, you’d think heaven just fell on the earth in the form of gardenias. For the voyage, I packed one native pelt, a pound of water buffalo jerky, and my machete. That should suffice for your six days at Disneyland Paris.

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I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That’s my dream; that’s my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight razor… and surviving. My other nightmare was when my Uber took a wrong turn on my way to LAX, and I missed my flight to Hanoi by ten minutes.

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Thu, 29/06/2023 - 02:57

Earlier this month, the Tyneside popstar Sam Fender headlined two huge sell-out shows at St James’s Park in Newcastle: a remarkable breakthrough for a working-class musician from England’s most deprived region. At a time when the arts are dominated by the wealthy, the well-connected and the well-located, Fender’s success story—a sort of real-life embodiment of […]

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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 […]