Hanson's 'monoculture' own goal should have been a free kick for Taylor
ANALYSIS: Hanson's Socceroos own goal should have been a free kick for Taylor
Pauline Hanson has chosen one of Australia's most popular national sporting brands and visible expressions of cultural diversity in her pitch for a "monoculture".
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approximately 7 unregulated tech companies have turned us all into goddamn content sharecroppers
News sites are the new newspapers: People are abandoning them for social media
Facebook for news is on the rebound, impartial news isn't dead, and other findings from RISJ's 2026 Digital News Report
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Masterful & sickening reporting on the Tate brothers by Heidi Blake: A Web of Abuse www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Andrew Tate’s Empire of Abuse
How the defining figure of the manosphere built a fortune—and became a political force—by systematically exploiting women.
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Woke up this morning wanting to swallow your own tongue? Here, then, I wrote this for you!
I Profile Celebrities for a Living. Nothing Prepared Me for Tilly Norwood.
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INVESTIGATION: 🚨 A Polymarket exec used a personal PayPal account to pay major political influencers like Riley Gaines and Brian Krassenstein, who then hyped how "accurate" Polymarket is at predicting outcomes. We uncovered $350,000+ flowing to influencers this way www.politico.com/news/2026/06...
‘Unbelievable how accurate’: How paid influencers hype Polymarket’s odds
The company’s chief marketing officer, Matthew Modabber, used a personal PayPal account to send money to content creators, according to records reviewed by POLITICO.
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Great journalism here from Ariel and Nino! www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Revealed: the ‘less lethal’ weapons Australian police don’t want you to know about
Launchers that shoot ‘bullet-like missiles’, chemical irritants and stinger grenades: experts say these weapons can cause serious injury or even death. But they are deployed by police against crowds w...
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Autopsies show how hard doctors tried to save babies who died after not getting a vitamin K shot: tubes inserted in their airways, blood transfusions. They’re excruciating to read because they underscore how preventable these deaths could have been.
What I Can’t Forget About the Babies Who Died After Not Receiving a Vitamin K Shot
Babies have died after not receiving the vitamin K shot at birth. Their autopsy records underscore how preventable their deaths could have been.
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I got to interview David Szalay and he was great!
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 2mo agoThe Interview: David Szalay on why AI won't be able to replace authors
I honestly enjoyed the viral 'post-literate society' essay but this piece from James Ley, which interrogates some of the assumptions it was based on, is really worth reading www.themonthly.com.au/may-2026/ess...
Canon fire
The decline of literary studies, and reading in general, is really about a mistrust of intellectual curiosity
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I sort of blindly accepted programmatic ads as a necessary evil to fund many models of journalism but this is interesting. The American Prospect decided to do away with them and a month later, people are spending nearly twice as much time on the site. www.cjr.org/analysis/dep...
The American Prospect decided to do away with programmatic ads. A month later, people are spending twice as much time on the site.
The American Prospect decided to do away with programmatic ads. A month later, people are spending nearly twice as much time on the site.
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This is cool! Journalists from ABC's Parliament House bureau are answering questions about the budget on Reddit rn www.reddit.com/r/australian...
From the australian community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the australian community
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A deeply good and deeply curious broadcaster. What a great tragedy and loss. Vale.
Guardian Australia@australia.theguardian.com · 3mo agoFriends and former colleagues of James Valentine mourn death of much-loved ABC Sydney radio presenter
She spoke out about Gaza. Now she can't use a credit card. The UN investigator for Palestinian territories is facing U.S. sanctions and accused of antisemitism by the State Department.
She Spoke Out About Gaza. Now She Can’t Use a Credit Card.
After accusing governments and corporations of complicity in Gaza, the U.N. investigator for Palestine territories now finds herself in Washington’s crosshairs.
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A newly published study of how college students interact with chatbots and human strangers showed talking to a random person offers more connection than an LLM.
Texting a Random Stranger Better for Loneliness Than Talking to a Chatbot, Study Shows
A newly published study of how college students interact with chatbots and human strangers showed talking to a random person offers more connection than an LLM.
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Really great update on where the social media ban is at. A lot of insidery bits sprinkled throughout.
Crikey@crikey.com.au · 4mo agoThree months into Australia’s teen social media ban, FOI documents, government sources and industry insiders paint a picture of a policy under pressure from all directions — including from within. @cameronwilson.bsky.social reports. www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/30/t...
A country built on losers: I reviewed two books on sports betting and wrote about gambling, the vile vice that's eating the world, for @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/2073...
How Gambling Ate the World
In less than a decade, betting apps swallowed sports. And now they’re doing the same to the news.
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Really interesting study that found AI use is concentrated in opinion articles (rather than straight news) at top newspapers arxiv.org/pdf/2510.18774
Some amazing photos around from the No Kings protests - this one taken near the Metropolitan Detention Center in LA. 📸Credit: Etienne Laurent / AFP / Getty www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
Such a useful lecture at this moment in time
London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · 7mo agoAdam Tooze gave the inaugural 𝘓𝘙𝘉 Autumn Lecture, ‘Electrostates, Petrostates and the New Cold War’, at the New School in New York City on 27 October 2025. Watch the lecture in full here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLnx...
Exclusive | The leadership of the National Anti-Corruption Commission will for the first time be grilled on its work by a major parliamentary inquiry. www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/26/f...
First major probe of NACC will allow MPs to 'drag body into the light'
Long-standing gripes about the NACC's lack of public hearings will form part of a parliamentary inquiry into the body.
crikey.com.au
I took a closer look at the ProPublica union’s vote to strike, including their demand for protection from AI-related layoffs. The vote marks the first time a major U.S. newsroom has authorized a strike, at least in part, over AI protections. www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/prop...
ProPublica’s union authorizes the first U.S. newsroom strike over AI protections
The Guild has voted to walk off the job if ProPublica doesn’t agree to a ban on AI-related layoffs, as well as “just cause” for firings, seniority provisions during layoffs, and wage increases.
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“A veteran of Iraq like Mr. Hegseth should know better. The enemy always gets a vote, and even after a victorious campaign, the effect of war on a population may have complex, unwanted and sometimes catastrophic consequences” I wrote about Iran for @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/03/22/o...
Opinion | Trump Has Made a Fundamental Miscalculation about Iran
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"If Labor merely manages, does it win the short-term while sacrificing the long term, steering the country through one crisis while steering it into another?" www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
Only one party can defang One Nation, and it’s not the Libs
The political circumstances for the government are treacherous right now. But that’s why opportunity knocks so loudly for Anthony Albanese.
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Israeli settlers have carried out a series of attacks across the occupied West Bank, setting homes and vehicles on fire and wounding several Palestinians in what witnesses described as coordinated raids on communities. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
Israeli settlers carry out series of West Bank attacks as security forces stand by
Witnesses describe coordinated raids in which homes and vehicles were set on fire and several Palestinians injured
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