Actor Sam Neill had that idea when he played an Australian astronaut in the film "Event Horizon" (1997) set in 2047. He asked for that design, saying he thought by 2047 Australia would celebrate its Indigenous history. #InvasionDay
Clare Corbould
@clarecorbould.bsky.social
Historian 🗃️| Associate Professor. Books: Harvard UP; 2026 The New Press. Bylines: Conversation; WaPo; Guardian. She/her 🌈 | Personal account
Unpaywalled until Monday! A review (of sorts) of Michelle Obama’s visit to Australia in May. For a mere $195-895, it was possible to see her “in conversation”— with Annabel Crabb or Leigh Sales—along with 5,000 other people. I had thoughts. www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-contribu...
Clare Corbould
Historian Clare Corbould is Associate Head of School (Research) in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Deakin University. She is the au...
australianbookreview.com.au
Me on patriotism, presidential-style: theconversation.com/the-us-is-tu...
The US is turning 250 – and Trump is making it all about him
Trump is not the first president to lean into an exaggerated patriotism at a time of crisis. But the vanity of his actions signals something perhaps unique.
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In May, Michelle Obama visited Australia for four "in conversation" events. Annabel Crabb hosted in Melbourne; Leigh Sales in Sydney. I found the evening underwhelming, but most of the people I spoke to at the Melb Convention Centre loved it. www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/c...
‘The price of hope: An evening with Michelle Obama’ by Clare Corbould
The clatter of sensible heels accompanies the walk from Southern Cross train station to the Melbourne Convention Centre. Mothers are with young-adult daughters; groups of middle-aged friends and white...
australianbookreview.com.au
The thing about social media age restrictions is that it treats today’s internet as an inevitability we all just have to deal with. The internet (and the WORLD) wasn’t like this until like four dudes were allowed to own & monetize as much tech real estate as they wanted. Fix THAT problem.
Ha! I’m saving season 2 of this dumb but completely watchable show until I hit a truly rough patch.
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · last mo.there’s a jon hamm show on apple tv that’s literally about nothing and somehow i’m on season 2
A federal judge has just ordered DOJ to turnover five categories of items from the Epstein Files that it previously failed to disclose by July 2 in a lawsuit brought by Katie Phang. Read the details here: joycevance.substack.com/p/finally-a-...
Some Democrats think the party has gone too far left and needs to readjust towards the “center.” Rubbish. Where’s the center between democracy and oligarchy, and why would Democrats want to be there?
two consulting companies are named in today's news reports about the University of Wollongong corruption inquiry. One of them is a small, Sydney-based outfit whose website highlights its recent work in DEI. Here's the team:
it fucking rules that new york city politics have become what outsiders assumed they already were
This last name is cursed
Marc Elias@marcelias.bsky.social · last mo.Dolezal said he and “a number of friends” deliberately submitted mail-in ballot applications with altered signatures — including forms signed by children — and then used the fact that they received ballots to argue that Georgia’s system facilitates fraud. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Transatlantic slavery was the gravest crime against humanity in history, Juneteenth marks its end
Transatlantic slave trade gravest crime against humanity, Juneteenth marks its end
Americans are commemorating Juneteenth months after a UN resolution on the transatlantic slave trade being the gravest crime against humanity.
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Trump signs a historically disastrous surrender to Iran at Versailles and the first thing Vance does is "look, trans people!"
2003: Republicans get trolled by Ali G. 2026: Republicans get trolled by Algae youtu.be/kEaef07rD6c?...
Ali G - Newt Gingrich
YouTube video by tigerlilja1
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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo agoReuters has a livestream of working trying to remove algae from the reflecting pool 😆
Nobody used the term "arms race," but that's what they're describing: enormous pressure, including from some professors, to use AI or fall behind those who are. Many say they hate it, don't want to use it, but they feel like now it's submit or fail. 5/
Interestingly, the models themselves offer pseudo-mathematical explanations for this effect, claiming that women authors are simply “less salient.”
When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.
For all of Australians' pride (smugness) about a generally excellent federal election process, overseen by an independent statutory body... poll numbers on the east coast are released long before people on the west coast have finished voting. That's always struck me as less-than-ideal.
Mark Joseph Stern@mjsdc.bsky.social · 2mo agoThis is because the DC Board of Elections is waiting to release results until everyone has voted, and there were lines of late-arriving voters at some election sites when polls closed. Josh could have easily learned about this (entirely reasonable) policy because the board publicly announced it.
It seems a good day to remind people that in the UK 3 times as many people work in Indian restaurants or for McDonalds as in the whole coal and steel industry. 5 times as many are academic staff at universities. If Labour does not understand its electorate, there is no way to appeal to it.
Holy historical erasure batman. Oh no, nothing to see here, just the WHITE HOUSE site pretending history began in 1776, jumped to Jan 2017, had a little hiatus 2021-Jan 2025, and then resumed.
The official website of the semiquincentennial is selling this 354-page “comic book” about the Constitution that features a bunch of white guys who look vaguely like specific founders surrounding an unidentified Black man who is holding the document. Bizarre stuff.
Yet another data set illustrating which party actually opposes gerrymandering. The Republican number only spikes in 2025, when Democrats respond to Trump’s escalation by fighting back
Lindsey Cormack@dcinbox.bsky.social · 3mo agoover the past 16 years Democrats in Congress have written to constituents about gerrymandering a lot more that Republicans have.
Since Trump is out here denying he is a rapist, a reminder that a judge said he absolutely was one
Judge in E. Jean Carroll Case: Yes, Donald Trump Is a Rapist
A judge rejected Trump’s semantic attempt to throw out the case.
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Sheesh, it's a travesty we feels obliged to applaud when a newspaper manages to run a truthful headline
Brendan Nyhan@brendannyhan.bsky.social · 4mo agoProps to the NY Times editor and reporter who refused to sanewash this www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...
