“arbitrary nature of the good will of our prime minister threatens to reinforce a well-worn myth of deserving and undeserving migrants” www.theguardian.com/commentis…
“arbitrary nature of the good will of our prime minister threatens to reinforce a well-worn myth of deserving and undeserving migrants” www.theguardian.com/commentis…
“Everything worthwhile we collectively make is complex or, honestly, messy. The cracks are where new people and ideas get in.” This is a great read on the need to ‘rewild’ the internet www.noemamag.com/we-need-t…
A Cycle of Misery: The Business of Building Commercial Aircraft www.construction-physics.com/p/a-cycle…
The young’ns have it too good politicalcalculations.blogspot.com/2024/01/t…
Asking people to “do the research” on fake news stories makes them seem more believable, not less www.niemanlab.org/2024/01/a…
Health inequalities ‘caused 1m early deaths in England in last decade’ www.theguardian.com/inequalit…
We should all be so lucky www.theguardian.com/australia…
Palestinian artist killed in Gaza air strike was a ‘one in a million talent’ www.middleeasteye.net/discover/…
Everywhere needs this law www.theguardian.com/environme…
Might be grasping at straws because I very enjoy the programming parts of my job. But this gives me hope it isn’t going to be automated away in the short term thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/will-ai-r…
If anyone wants to buy soiled plates I will happily part with mine www.theguardian.com/lifeandst…
“30% to 40% of the cost of most one-off street festivals was spent on consultants for local traffic management.” 🤯🤯 www.theguardian.com/australia…
Questions that journalists should also be asking www.theguardian.com/commentis…
“publishers now think of libraries as customer service departments for their database products” www.nytimes.com/2023/08/1…
A pandemic is not just a disease – it’s a political, social and economic crisis fuelled by inequality www.theguardian.com/global-de…
Iran is shutting down for two days because of the heat www.nytimes.com/2023/08/0…
“[Abortion is] the third most commonly performed surgical procedure in Australia but nobody, anywhere, is analysing or even supplying accurate statistical information as to numbers, types or reasons.” insidestory.org.au/tangled-w…
Why plastic recycling doesn’t work informationisbeautiful.net/visualiza…
More than 137k applications for parent visas stuck in the pipeline in Australia, and its grown enormously recently www.theguardian.com/world/202…
“history is an edit war. Truth, factual and moral, hangs in the balance” www.wired.com/story/one…
Interesting profiles of some of the last internet cafes, and how important they were as third spaces restofworld.org/2023/inte…
Hell of a chart in this Bloomberg story on Super https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-24/wall-street-is-partnering-with-cashed-up-fast-growing-australian-pension-funds?cmpid=BBD072423_AUSTRALIA&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=230724&utm_campaign=australia
Math That Lets You Think Locally but Act Globally www.quantamagazine.org/math-that…
A new study finds that 47,000 Russian combatants have died in Ukraine www.economist.com/graphic-d…
Is Tennessee a Democracy? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/arc…