Josh Nicholas
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  • “publishers now think of libraries as customer service departments for their database products” www.nytimes.com/2023/08/1…

    → 6:40 AM, Aug 14
  • A pandemic is not just a disease – it’s a political, social and economic crisis fuelled by inequality www.theguardian.com/global-de…

    → 7:09 AM, Aug 8
  • Iran is shutting down for two days because of the heat www.nytimes.com/2023/08/0…

    → 1:50 PM, Aug 2
  • “[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…

    → 8:52 PM, Aug 1
  • Why plastic recycling doesn’t work informationisbeautiful.net/visualiza…

    → 8:42 AM, Aug 1
  • More than 137k applications for parent visas stuck in the pipeline in Australia, and its grown enormously recently www.theguardian.com/world/202…

    → 11:49 AM, Jul 31
  • “history is an edit war. Truth, factual and moral, hangs in the balance” www.wired.com/story/one…

    → 8:25 AM, Jul 26
  • Interesting profiles of some of the last internet cafes, and how important they were as third spaces restofworld.org/2023/inte…

    → 5:46 AM, Jul 26
  • 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

    → 8:44 AM, Jul 25
  • Math That Lets You Think Locally but Act Globally www.quantamagazine.org/math-that…

    → 5:48 PM, Jul 23
  • A new study finds that 47,000 Russian combatants have died in Ukraine www.economist.com/graphic-d…

    → 9:19 AM, Jul 19
  • Is Tennessee a Democracy? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/arc…

    → 8:41 PM, Jul 18
  • The Complicated History of Pointy Hats daily.jstor.org/the-compl…

    → 6:58 AM, Jul 18
  • Orange Is the New Black Signalled the Rot Inside the Streaming Economy www.newyorker.com/culture/n…

    → 8:34 AM, Jul 17
  • This is a great feature on Sri Lankans that have travelled to Australia by boat. Written by Sri Lankans. watchdog.team/article/t…

    → 2:29 PM, Jul 14
  • The rains in India are horrific www.economist.com/graphic-d…

    → 8:06 AM, Jul 14
  • Unbelievable 😂 https://www.vulture.com/2023/06/streaming-industry-netflix-max-disney-hulu-apple-tv-prime-video-peacock-paramount.html?utm_source=pocket_reader

    → 4:06 PM, Jun 27
  • Stingy RSL Pours Wine With Full Centimetre Of Air At Top www.betootaadvocate.com/breaking-…

    → 11:30 AM, Jun 14
  • “Argentinian Soccer Fans Decry a New Bronze Statue of a Former Club Coach for Its Comically Large Cojones” news.artnet.com/art-world…

    → 8:27 AM, Jun 2
  • The IRS has “quietly built its own prototype system to allow Americans to file tax returns digitally and free of charge”. It will be available to a “small” group by… January. Almost every day now I wonder what decade America is in www.washingtonpost.com/business/…

    → 7:43 AM, May 16
  • Posted without comment www.economist.com/graphic-d…

    → 8:07 AM, May 5
  • “if wood burning were mostly a working class habit, it would probably have been banned already” www.theguardian.com/commentis…

    → 1:53 PM, Dec 28
  • Incredible they created an encryption in the 1600 hundreds that took experts (and computers) 6 months to crack. www.theguardian.com/world/202…

    → 6:48 AM, Nov 25
  • Nails the issues with previous Star Wars shows www.theguardian.com/tv-and-ra…

    → 5:10 AM, Nov 24
  • Really like this point: why does one website (usually Twitter in the Anglo press) have to be the town square? Why isn’t the whole internet the town square? stratechery.com/2022/narr…

    → 7:20 AM, Nov 15
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