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Tue, 04/03/2025 - 04:55
Peter Dutton deserves a little sympathy as he indignantly denies any conflict of interest or impropriety over his purchases of banking shares and real estate. Many people always believe the worst of politicians, particularly if there is any suggestion of abuse of position, making money on the side, or personal enrichment. Dutton has pointed to Continue reading »
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Tue, 04/03/2025 - 04:51
The recent article by Christopher M. Johnson on Australia’s liquid fuel security risks underscores an urgent reality: our nation remains dangerously dependent on imported oil. As global supply chains face increasing instability, the risks to Australia’s economy and national security are mounting. The solution is clear – electrification of transport, particularly rail, offers a pathway Continue reading »
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Tue, 04/03/2025 - 04:50
Jeff Bezos recently announced that the Washington Post would henceforth dedicate its op/ed pages to “free markets and personal liberties”. His Whole Foods business also asked the National Labor Relations Board to “set aside the results of a union election” that endorsed collective bargaining. The Australian social psychologist Alex Carey explained these interrelated events in Continue reading »
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Tue, 04/03/2025 - 02:43
The relation of knowledge to power is one not only of servility but of truth. Much knowledge, if out of pro­portion to the disposition of forces, is invalid, however formally correct it may be.If an émigré doctor says: ‘For me … is a patological case’, his pronouncement may ultimately be con­firmed by clinical findings, but […]
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Tue, 04/03/2025 - 01:10

Mahra was just 31 years old when she was forced to seek refuge in a camp. A mother of four, and expecting a fifth, Mahra was one of 4.5 million people in Yemen displaced by the Saudi-led war, and one of 21 million people in need of urgent humanitarian aid. Conflict had compounded an already […]

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Tue, 04/03/2025 - 00:10

“Do you mind me shouting at you like this, or would you prefer I let you pass without shouting at you?”

“I’m a medical doctor who just looked at your health records, and good news! You’ll never get cancer!”

“Your parents were wrong to name you that!”

“Your name is NOT my name too! I just like shouting at people I don’t know, because I am a small, empty garbage person! I’m gonna stop right after this!”

“How can I make your life easier!?!”

“What does that song even mean!?! Is it just about two guys with the same name? It doesn’t make any sense! Who’s the main character in the song? You or the person who is singing? Is someone walking with you with that name or does the whole world have the same name as you? You don’t have to answer! These questions are rhetorical!”

“Is it okay if I throw you a bag with enough money in it to pay off all your credit card debt?”

“Hey! I have a picture over here that definitively proves who shot JFK, if you want to come see!”

“I understand how all this constant shouting must be a living nightmare for you!”

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Mon, 03/03/2025 - 22:00

Update 2025-03-21: This blog post is extremely long (if you're reading this, you must already know I'm terribly long-winded). I was in the middle of consolidating it with other posts to make a final, single “wrap up” post of the OSI elections when, in the middle of doing that, I was told that Linux Weekly News (LWN) published an article written by Joe Brockmeier. As such,I've carefully left the text below as it stood it stood 2025-03-20 03:42 UTC, which I believe is the version that Brockmeier sourced for his story (only changes past the line “Original Post” have been HTML format fixes). (I hate as much as you do having to scour archive.org/web to find the right version.) Nevertheless, I wouldn't have otherwise left this here in its current form because it's a huge, real-time description that as such doesn't make the best historical reference record of these event.

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Mon, 03/03/2025 - 19:00
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